So, Wednesday was a big day for Apple news.Apple announced a grand total of three new phones. The iPhone X is now the iPhone XS. We also now have an iPhone XS Max and the “budget” iPhone XR for those that baulk at spending more than a thousand dollars on a phone. In case you weren’t …
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Smartwatches may be having their moment, but basic wearables like step-counting wristbands haven’t yet run out of time. So says market researcher IDC, which predicted on Thursday that shipments of smartwatches will nearly double by 2022, clocking in at 94.3 million units. That’s nearly half the total number of wearables to be shipped the same year, which IDC says should …
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Not everyone is happy about Apple’s new watch. Investors sent shares of Fitbit, which makes competing health trackers, almost 7 percent lower after the consumer electronics giant unveiled its latest Apple Watches on Wednesday. The stock drop suggests investors are concerned the features on the new smartwatches will entice consumers to Apple’s products over Fitbit’s. Among the new features in the Apple Watch Series …
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Starting at 9 a.m. PT today, CNET News Editor-in-Chief Connie Guglielmo and CNET senior editor Vanessa Hand Orellana are leading a Reddit AMA on r/IAMA about everything Apple revealed Wednesday at its fall event. They’ll discuss what they thought after their first look at the new hardware, what the announcements mean for the future of Apple and the tech industry, and anything …
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OnePlus has been one of the few phone companies sticking with analog 3.5mm headphone jacks rather than joining the crowd switching to USB-C-based digital audio. But today, the company announced its first USB-C headphones, the Type-C Bullets, which are perfectly priced for bundling at $20, presaging its move away from the legacy jack in its imminent upcoming phone. The company confirmed …
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Here’s one new feature Apple didn’t share at its product event on Wednesday: the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR will allow users to scan NFC tags in the background, meaning you won’t need to launch an app to pair it with other devices or initiate data transfers between devices. After finding and scanning an NFC tag, a notification will pop up …
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Spotify is letting you download a whole lot more music for offline listening — 6,667 more tracks, to be precise. The Swedish music streaming giant now allows Premium subscribers to download 10,000 songs per device on up to five devices, a considerable jump from its previous limit of 3,333 tracks onto three devices. “At Spotify, we’re always working on improving …
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LG is bringing its next flagship smartphone to the Big Apple. The Korean consumer electronics conglomerate sent out a save-the-date note for its LG V40 ThinQ launch event, to be held Oct. 3 at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT in New York. There’s little to the message beyond the tagline, “Take 5.” Is the smartphone going to be smart enough …
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Apple’s new iPhone XS boasts a 12-megapixel dual-camera that can shoot 4K video with slo-mo and time-lapse modes, and the company is eager to show off its video skills. Apple posted a video to YouTube on Wednesday titled “Shot on iPhone XS” that gives us a taste of what video on the iPhone XS actually looks like. Apple uses ingredients like …
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Apple on Wednesday unveiled its new Apple Watch Series 4 from the Steve Jobs Theater in its Apple Park headquarters. The new watch has a larger face, louder speakers and a faster S4 chip. It also packs an electrical heart sensor that can perform an EKG and detect atrial fibrillation (AFib), while the improved accelerometer and gyroscope can detect if …
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