The smartwatch race should be over. Apple should have won, but that hasn’t exactly been the case. While the Cupertino company remains the leading smartwatch maker, shipments of the Apple Watch have fallen and its market share is slowly diminishing due to increased competition from Samsung, Garmin and traditional watchmakers such as Fossil. Apple’s market …
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You might not have heard of phone maker Vivo, but if you’re seriously into your selfies, then its latest phone, the V5 Plus, could be just the thing for you. It packs a 20-megapixel image sensor on the front, and right alongside is an additional 8-megapixel sensor. The smaller sensor captures depth information about the scene, allowing it to create …
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Sure, the iPhone 7 was a bit of a letdown even for die-hard Apple fans. No headphone jack. Same basic design. But according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, that hasn’t really undercut the momentum of the latest iPhones. A new CIRP report reveals — are you ready? — that the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus have garnered the lion’s …
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Now playing: Watch this: Meitu blazing up the app store charts, but the code makes… 1:36 Meitu is a viral sensation. Who wouldn’t want to instantly give themselves or their favorite politicians and celebs a Japanese-anime inspired makeover, and share the hilarious results with the world? That’s why the face-recognizing photo app is currently rocking the charts. But before you …
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Folks on tight budgets may get another Android option to choose from if Google brings a supercheap Android One phone to the US. The report comes by way of tech blog The Information, whose original story lives behind a paywall. With the launch of the $650 Google Pixel and $770 Pixel XL, the tech giant is making a name for …
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Two of Apple‘s apps for musicians and music producers, Logic Pro X for Macs and the iOS version of GarageBand, are getting free updates that add new features. Both updates will be released in time for the 2017 National Association of Music Merchants trade show happening this week in Anaheim, California. Logic Pro X is a professional music recording and …
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As if receiving a text from an ex isn’t bad enough, now there’s a far worse kind of unwanted message to worry about. This one can crash your iPhone. YouTube channel EverythingApplePro highlights a sequence of characters that appear to temporarily freeze an iPhone, which you can send to someone to put their kibosh on their phone. Here’s how it …
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Now playing: Watch this: MacBooks may grow more powerful this year 1:30 Apple’s newly refreshed laptop line may be a hit in stores, but many are still concerned that the MacBook Pros aren’t quite “pro” enough. The electronics giant may assuage some of those concerns later this year, predicts KGI Securities analyst and Apple Nostradamus Ming-Chi Kuo. Kuo, who last …
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Are Apple‘s AirPods already taking down the market share of Beats headphones, their corporate siblings? That was the implication of recent stories — including this one on CNET — that cited data from online shopping analyst Slice Intelligence. The numbers showed that Apple had taken a 26 percent share of wireless headphone sales in December 2016 with its AirPods. The …
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The man who created Android, the most popular mobile software on the planet, is preparing his follow up act and it involves going after his longtime nemesis: Apple’s iPhone and its iOS rival software. Andy Rubin, who left Google more than two years ago after selling his startup to the search giant in 2005, is starting Essential, a consumer hardware …
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