When Apple announced Tuesday that its iPad Pro had ditched the proprietary Lightning port in favor of USB-C, my eyes lit up. Lightning has had a good run, but I’d be happy to toss my collection of Lightning cables into my junk drawer alongside the ones for Firewire hard drives, VGA video and printers that …
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Like group FaceTime calls with iOS 12.1, video chats with multiple people are possible on a Mac with MacOS Mojave 10.14.1. And unlike on the cramped quarters of your iPhone, you’ll have plenty of screen space to chat with up to 32 people. Now playing: Watch this: Apple MacOS Mojave is here, but we’re still waiting for… 2:08 How to …
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Any time a new gadget comes out like the new iPad Pro, it’s exciting. But let’s take a step back and analyze what we saw beyond the slick hardware and snazzy demos. Here’s why you should maybe hold off on getting the new iPad Pro. (There are plenty of reasons to upgrade, of course, but we’ll double back here and …
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If you’re one of those people who actually reads the iPhone user guide, you know there are certain things you should keep your device away from. That apparently includes helium. “Exposing iPhone to environments having high concentrations of industrial chemicals, including near evaporating liquified gasses such as helium, may damage or impair iPhone functionality,” the user guide says. But for …
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Apple’s iOS 12.1 update brought digital eSim support to the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR on Tuesday, but US carriers won’t support the feature until later in the year due to reported technical problems. eSIM is the software-based version of the traditional plastic chip that identifies you to your carrier, and Apple highlighted it and the new iPhones’ dual …
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Blackmagic’s next Apple Mac graphics accelerator, the Blackmagic eGPU Pro, will feature an AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics processor. The unit is designed for Macs with a Thunderbolt 3 port — such the new Apple MacBook Air — and Blackmagic says it has 22 times the graphics performance of a 13-inch MacBook Pro. Blackmagic The tall desktop device was designed in …
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Europe, the continent that gave the world Nokia, Ericsson and GSM networks, did much to build the mobile phone as we know it today. But the continent’s reign as the world leader in mobile technology has come to an end with the advent of the speediest networks the world has ever seen: 5G. Though some carriers in the US, South Korea …
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Sprint is in the midst of a “lame duck” session as it awaits a takeover by bigger rival T-Mobile. And it’s been keeping itself busy with an upgrade to — what else? — 5G . The smallest of the four national wireless carriers, which earlier this year struck a deal to be acquired by T-Mobile to create a larger No. …
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The death of the MacBook Air ($1,400 at eBay) was greatly exaggerated. Instead of folding the MacBook Air into its MacBook ($445 at Amazon) line or MacBook Pro ($575 at Amazon) line, Apple kept the MacBook Air name and introduced a redesigned MacBook Air on Tuesday at its late October product announcement event in Brooklyn, New York. In addition, Apple …
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Editors’ note, Nov. 1: We’ve added hands-on impressions of the new MacBook Air, which starts at $1,199 and features a Retina display, Touch ID and USB-C ports. Apple announced an update to its most popular laptop, the MacBook Air, at a special event in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday. The 13.3-inch laptop now has a Retina display with four times the …
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