Welcome to the 2018 Apple September launch event, where the company delivered the long-awaited (well, since this time last year) details on its new iPhones, the flagship iPhone XS Max, its little buddy the iPhone XS and a mainstream replacement for the iPhone X, the iPhone XR. Plus, the Apple Watch Series 4 goes all-in …
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Our big iPhone XR, XS, XS Max, Apple Watch breakdown (The 3:59, Ep. 457)
Now playing: Watch this: Our big iPhone XR, XS, XS Max, Apple Watch breakdown… 4:38 On this podcast, we talk about: Everything Apple announced on Wednesday What wasn’t announced at the Apple event The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by the CNET News team in New York and …
Read More »UK’s mass surveillance violated human rights convention, court rules
Mass surveillance carried out by British intelligence agency GCHQ violated the European Convention on Human Rights, a court ruled Thursday. Judges in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, voted 5 to 2 that some aspects of the UK’s surveillance activities violated people’s right to a private life. These included indiscriminate “population-level” data collection, a lack of oversight …
Read More »iPhone XR, XS, XS Max: Apple’s three new iPhones start at $749, $999, $1,099
Yesterday, Apple announced the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR. These three new iPhones for 2018 officially replace the iPhone X, which Apple pulled from its store after the announcement. So if you’re looking for a new “IPhone X” this year, one of these three will have to be it. While the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max have …
Read More »Apple iPhone XR, XS, XS Max: CNET editors react
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 already aware, premium mobile phones …
Read More »Smartwatches to rule nearly half of wearables market by 2022, says IDC
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 …
Read More »The new Apple Watch may have just deflated Fitbit’s stock
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 …
Read More »iPhone XS vs. iPhone XS Max vs. iPhone XR: What’s the difference?
The iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR are now fully revealed by Apple, and all of those announcements flew by fast. With the iPhone X now out of the Apple Store, your iPhone X choices for the next year boil down to one of these phones (though you could still get the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, or …
Read More »The best cheap Apple Watch 4 alternative: The Amazfit Bip for $80
Today is more of a public service announcement than an outright deal, though it certainly is a deal. As you may know, Apple is expected to take the wraps off the Apple Watch Series 4 in just a few hours. The specs are still a mystery, but the price is not: If it follows the Series 3 model, it would …
Read More »New iPhone XS, iPhone XR names and colors reportedly confirmed by Apple website leak
A leak reportedly confirmed rumors about the new iPhone XS, XS Max and XR names ahead of Apple’s Wednesday event. The company’s product sitemap — a file that lists URLs of a website — includes the two rumored OLED phones, the XS and XS Max, and the cheaper LCD option, the XR, according to Allthings.how. The new iPhone XS and XS …
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