Something strange is happening in the US, where wireless carriers once sold dramatically different phones, and buying an unlocked handset through a store that wasn’t your carrier was a risky proposition best left for the gadget-savvy. Now, two-year contracts are practically a thing of the past, most-wanted phones appear on all major networks, and phone-makers …
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Missed out on all of the holiday deals for Apple’s first 5G iPhone? Good news: Carriers are still enticing users to switch with discounts on the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro. We’re still seeing some amazing offers from the big three — Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile — with everything from free phones to huge rebates in the form of billing …
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I don’t know about you, but my iPhone’s Photo album is full of random photos and screenshots that I really don’t care about. I have over 97,000 pictures and videos — and I don’t even take countless selfies until I get the perfect shot. Instead of going back and deleting stuff after I’ve shared it, I tend to ignore it …
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Apple is cutting component orders for the iPhone 12 Mini for the first half of the year, Nikkei reported Wednesday. It may reduce production of the 5G device by more than 70% until the end of June, it noted. The company has apparently reduced orders for all iPhones in that period by around 20%, compared to its plans at the …
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Facebook-owned Instagram said Wednesday it’s rolling out a version of the social media app in more than 170 countries that will make it easier for users in rural and remote areas to browse the platform on Android phones. Called Instagram Lite, the app uses “minimal” data and takes up less storage space compared with the regular Instagram app. Instagram Lite …
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It’s been just about a year since anyone went to a concert, let alone walked up to the merch table and bought a T-shirt to commemorate the evening. In the US, Amazon Music will sell merchandise from participating artists from the Amazon Music app, the company said in a blog post Wednesday. That means if you’re listening to Lady Gaga, …
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A new Photoshop feature lets you quadruple the number of pixels in a photo using artificial intelligence technology. The new ability, called Super Resolution, will also soon be built into Adobe’s Lightroom software for editing and catalog in photos, Adobe said Wednesday. With the feature, Adobe closely examines the details of a photo and then predicts how to expand it …
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Adobe on Wednesday released Photoshop for Apple’s M1-based Macs, a key software package for the new family of computers, and it runs 50% faster than on Intel-powered equivalent laptops. “Our internal tests show a wide range of features running an average of 1.5x the speed of similarly configured previous generation systems,” Photoshop Product Manager Pam Clark said in a blog …
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When Apple or Samsung unveils a new smartphone, consumers can preorder the device within days and expect to get it in their hands within weeks. When Motorola introduced the first-ever cellphone, the DynaTAC, in 1973, it took another decade before consumers could actually use one. Talk about delayed gratification. Ironically, it took the team at Motorola just three months to …
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Disney Plus has crossed 100 million subscribers, Disney CEO Bob Chapek said Tuesday. By comparison, that’s about half the number of subscribers to Netflix, the biggest subscription video service in the world, which had more than 200 million global subscribers at the end of the year. Seen another way, Netflix entered the streaming business 13 years ago and took about a decade to …
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