iOS 11 is now available. Nowadays, Apple releases a beta version of iOS months ahead of its official release. So, we’ve already been playing with iOS and compiling how-tos so you can get started, too. Now playing: Watch this: iOS 11 transforms the iPad 2:12 Editors’ note: This post was originally published on June 26, …
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TV’s biggest night is upon us. The 69th Emmy Awards take place on Sunday in Los Angeles. The shows starts at 5 p.m. PT. Stephen Colbert will host. CBS will broadcast (Disclosure: CBS is CNET’s parent company). And you can check out TV Guide’s Emmy Awards guide to see all of the nominees. If you don’t have cable or satellite …
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Talk about making a strong first impression. I’m walking uphill along a curvy concrete path to get to the Steve Jobs Theater at the still-unopened Apple Park campus when a smiling employee, wearing a T-shirt with a fluorescent green version of the company’s iconic logo, asks me, “How are you doing today?” He wouldn’t be the last. The entrance to …
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Tuesday wasn’t just the launch of three new iPhones, an Apple Watch and an Apple TV. It was also the first time Apple welcomed journalists to its gigantic, 175-acre Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. Apple Park is home to several buildings, most prominently a 2.8-million square-foot ring unofficially known as the Spaceship, which boasts four-story curved glass panels, custom aluminum …
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The 256GB and 512GB versions of the iPad Pro cost $50 more now than they did before Apple‘s big Tuesday iPhone event. As is standard operating procedure on big Apple announcement days, Apple’s online store went offline a few hours before the event so it could be fully updated with the new cavalcade of products immediately following their unveiling. But …
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When Apple Senior Vice President of Operations Jeff Williams unveiled the cellular-capable Apple Watch Series 3 in Cupertino yesterday, he touted a fairly impressive 18-hour battery life. Indeed, Apple’s product page says “up to 18 hours,” and that “all day” figure matches the non-cellular Series 3 model, as well as last year’s Series 1 model, which has a slower CPU. …
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Control Center was designed to be your one-stop tool for controlling various aspects of an iOS device. However, it quickly turned into a mess. You had to swipe among three different panels that offered different actions and tools, and using it was more inconvenient than anything else. With iOS 11, Apple has totally redesigned the Control Center. Aside from a …
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iPhone 8 and iPhone X unveiled: Pictures, photos from the Apple event +47 more See all photos The new iPhones are here! The new iPhones are here! Shiny! Fancy! Want want want! Hold on, there, tiger. It’s easy to get sucked up in Tim Cook‘s Hype Machine (TM) — “This is the best iPhone we’ve ever made” — but there …
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It’s been two years since Apple released the fourth-generation Apple TV, complete with more storage, a new remote and applications and games in tow. Surprisingly, the fourth-gen Apple TV was missing one very important feature: 4K. Today, Apple remedied that with the Apple TV 4K. Not only will it stream movies and TV in 4K, it also boasts some pretty …
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The new iPhones, Apple TV and Apple Watch are coming to Asia, and they will arrive the same time as in the US. If you’re living in Bahrain, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan, preorders for the iPhone X (as in “ten”) will begin on Oct. 27 and the device will arrive in stores Nov. 3. The iPhone 8 …
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