It seems more iPhone owners want to go wireless with their earphones than buy a Watch. A US survey from Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research says 12 percent of respondents plan to buy Apple’s AirPods, its $159, £159 or AU$229 completely wireless earphones. Based on the results, AirPods could generate up to $3 …
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Now playing: Watch this: Tick, tock, Apple Watch: Google’s new watches may land… 1:17 Google’s planned revamp of its Android Wear watch software, called Android Wear 2.0, has been pushed back to early 2017. But when it does arrive, compatible smartwatches might start doing a lot more apart from phones. Ahead of next week’s big Google news of what could …
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I’m about to tell you something you probably already know: Smartwatches aren’t a perfected thing yet. I’ve been wearing the Apple Watch Series 2 for a couple of weeks, now. The new hardware combined with improved WatchOS 3 software are a winning combination. It’s faster, now. It’s a better fitness tracker. It’s swimproof and has GPS. It’s easier to use. …
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Verily Life Sciences, a division of Alphabet (the parent company of Google), is making a health watch and has reportedly already built “more than hundreds” of working prototypes. The Verily watch, according to MIT Technology Review, will be equipped with a circular e-ink display, which is the same technology used on Pebble smartwatches and Amazon’s Kindle e-readers. This will help …
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Now playing: Watch this: Feeling ill? Apple Watch may diagnose you 1:16 An Apple HealthKit checkup a day could keep the doctor away. Apple Apple plans to turn HealthKit app bundle into a full-fledged diagnostic tool that interprets fitness and health data in order to offer medical advice, Bloomberg reported Monday. The tech giant has recruited a team of health …
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Are you a proud owner the of the Apple Watch Series 2? Try this: With the screen off, turn the Digital Crown towards the top of the display. Neat, right? With the Series 2, Apple has added a feature called “Wake Screen on Crown Up.” As you just saw, you can turn the crown up to slowly wake the screen, …
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Apparently, Apple’s been sniffing around Samsung’s home turf. The iPhone maker is rumored to be scouting property for its first Apple Store location in the South Korea (and the whole Korean Peninsula), according to the Wall Street Journal. Specifically, in Seoul’s Gangnam neighborhood, which is home to Samsung’s three-story D’light store and one of its main office buildings. (Samsung also …
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The “it’s a dog’s life” phrase is used to describe people that lead a miserably existence. Whoever coined it, though, has never met Coco, an Alaskan malamute whose owner showered her with not one, not two but eight brand new Apple iPhone 7 devices. The owner, Wang Sicong, is the son of Wang Jianlin, China’s richest man. The elder Wang …
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In the event an app on your Apple Watch stops responding, you can force quit the app instead of restarting your entire device. I’ve had to do this a number of times since iOS 10 and WatchOS 3 were released. The next time you find yourself staring at a watch app that won’t load, or is behaving oddly, try this: …
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Now playing: Watch this: Testing Siri and more on Apple’s new MacOS 3:18 Apple’s next Mac operating system, MacOS Sierra, is here. Siri integration headlines the new features Sierra introduces, but the update also features optimized storage via iCloud Drive, a universal clipboard, a picture-in-picture video player, auto unlock via Apple Watch and Apple Pay on the Web. MacOS Sierra: …
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