Blink and you might have missed it, but Apple announced Wednesday that its new and relatively inexpensive iPhone XR will come with a feature we’ve been wanting for years — a way to easily turn on the flashlight and launch the camera with a single hand. Instead of swiping to summon Apple’s Control Center and tapping …
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Verizon’s 5G home broadband service, Verizon 5G Home, launches in select areas on Oct. 1 at a cost of $50 for Verizon Wireless customers and $70 for customers who don’t use Verizon Wireless. The company is promising home broadband speeds from 300 megabits per second up to 1 gigabit per second. Where is it available? Verizon 5G Home will be …
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The A12 processors inside Apple’s iPhone XS and XS Max phones are the first to use a new, more advanced chip manufacturing technology that miniaturizes circuitry, the company said Wednesday. The chips use a 7-nanometer manufacturing process, marketing chief Phil Schiller at Apple’s iPhone launch event. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter, and smaller sizes mean more transistors …
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Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT, the world is not only expecting Apple to reveal three new iPhones, but specifically the iPhone XS*. Why so sure? Because 9to5Mac’s noted Apple leaker Guilherme Rambo was the one to bring us the picture you see above — a picture that looks like it could have been pulled directly from Apple’s marketing materials. And because …
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As far as Apple is concerned, the headphone jack is extinct. Apple announced the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR at its event on Wednesday. With the new iPhones coming in, Apple has stopped selling the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, iPhone 6S and 6S Plus and iPhone SE — meaning that the last iPhones to come with a headphone jack …
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Apple’s Sept. 12 iPhone event has come and gone and — no surprise — it was about iPhones. Or mostly anyway. Apple also introduced the Apple Watch Series 4, but what about all those other rumored products that Apple supposedly has in the works? The event was otherwise bereft of product news. Now playing: Watch this: Apple iPhone 2018 event: …
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Apple just announced that the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max will be available for preorder this Friday, Sept. 14, and will begin shipping by Sept. 21. Are you excited to upgrade last year’s iPhone X to a new iPhone? Before you set your alarm to wake up in the middle of the night to ensure you get a preorder, …
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Apple took to the stage today to announce three phones and a brand new smartwatch. Read about the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, Apple Watch 4 here. You can watch (or rewatch) Apple’s livestream here. Today’s the day. The biggest iPhone release ever — both literally and figuratively — is just hours away. Apple will kick the proceedings …
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Google and Samsung are working together to make texting on Android a lot more like Apple’s iMessages. On Wednesday, the duo announced that they have partnered to bring Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging to Android phones. RCS messaging brings new features to standard SMS texting. With RCS you can do things like text over WiFi, see when someone is typing, …
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Apple‘s newest iPhones are using recycled tin in their logic boards, and cover glass that’s 32 percent bio-based plastic, the company said Wednesday during an unveiling event for the smartphones. The news marks the company’s latest attempts to mitigate the effect its products have on the environment. Lisa Jackson, Apple’s executive who oversees environmental issues, made the announcements as she …
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