Apple has a new perk to attract customers in the education business: 200GB of iCloud storage, a major step up from the 5GB ordinary Apple customers get. Apple announced the deal at an event Tuesday at the Lane Tech High School in Chicago, where it also unveiled a new, more powerful iPad in an effort to re-establish …
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Apple’s iPad works with Logitech’s new $50 ‘crayon’ stylus
You could already draw all over the iPad with the Apple Pencil, but how about crayon? Logitech just announced a $49 alternative to Apple’s $99 Pencil called the Crayon, which lets you write and draw as you would with a pencil and paper. The digital pencil promises not to roll off the desk, and claims 8 hours of battery life — …
Read More »Apple Pencil will now work with new iPad, but remains $99
Apple is bringing its Apple Pencil stylus to more of its iPads. On Tuesday, the tech giant said the stylus will now be compatible with a newly unveiled 9.7-inch iPad that starts at $329 for consumers (the same price as the previously cheapest iPad). Previously, the Pencil was only compatible with pricier iPad Pro tablets. Also, Apple won’t be adding Pencil …
Read More »Apple’s Chicago iPad event: What we didn’t get
Apple’s education event in Chicago delivered the expected new (though not exactly cheaper) iPad with support for the Pencil stylus, as well as a slew of education-related apps and services for students and teachers. But that was basically it. Given the education tilt of the event, most of us didn’t expect to see much more. Still, there are plenty of …
Read More »A foldable iPhone? Here’s how Apple can make that good
If all the rumors are right, you won’t be able to escape foldable phones if you try. The latest scuttlebutt is that Apple is on track to join Samsung and Huawei in a growing group of device makers planning to make a foldable phone. While Samsung’s may arrive by the end of 2018, a foldable iPhone is said to be …
Read More »OnePlus 5T is sold out in the US, OnePlus confirms
The Oneplus 6 has been officially revealed. Now, it does have a notch, but also image stabilization on its dual rear cameras. We spoke with OnePlus co-founder, Carl Pei about the new phone and the future of OnePlus. If you’ve been waiting to buy the OnePlus 5T, you’ve just missed your window. The OnePlus 5T is currently sold out in its North …
Read More »Facebook’s app cleanup may be harder than Mark Zuckerberg thinks
Just how difficult is it going to be for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to clean up the world’s largest social network and make sure apps aren’t there waiting to potentially exploit your data? Maybe even harder than he thinks, given what we found after just a quick check of some of the apps linked to our own profiles. Those include …
Read More »Huawei advertises in front of Apple, Samsung Experience stores
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A good idea? Or a touch annoying? Android Authority/Twitter screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It’s not easy being shunned. You can feel hurt. You might even want to protest. This may be what inspired Huawei to place mobile billboards outside Apple and Samsung Experience stores in …
Read More »Apple hid an iPhone X bug on YouTube, and people noticed
Apple has apparently patched an error in a new ad for the iPhone X that appeared on YouTube. In the original video, published March 16 (the same day the rival Galaxy S9 went on sale), a student strides, runs and rolls around her high school unlocking various objects with a glance. At the end of her Face ID jamboree, she …
Read More »A simple fix for the biggest annoyance of iOS Photos
And to think it was right under my nose — and fingertip — the entire time. Thanks to Cult of Mac (seriously, thank you, Cult of Mac), I have been able to remove the biggest annoyance of the stock iOS Photos app. And that is the furious swiping I believed was required to return to the most recent photos at …
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