Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Editors’ note: We recently published our look at the iPhone X, six months after release. Check it out. Not the smartphone of everyone’s future? Justin Sullivan / Getty Images What are people supposed to think? On Apple’s recent earnings call, …
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Are you guys ready for the first Apple Byte giveaway of the year? We are kicking things off with the Apple HomePod, the first smart speaker from Apple. It finally went on sale after a tumultuous prologue that started back in 2016. With an 8.0 overall rating, the bottom line of our review says “Apple’s HomePod won’t slay Amazon Alexa …
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I just set up a new nightstand in my San Francisco apartment, and realized something: My standard-issue phone charger is barely long enough to snake its way from the wall outlet to my bedside. I have two choices: Buy a charger with a longer cable, or get a wireless charging pad. Quick-charge cables are faster, but wireless pads provide much …
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Apple won a Chinese silver medal last year, with the iPhone 7 Plus being the second-highest selling phone in the populous nation in 2017. In 2018, though, the electronics giant is going for gold. In something of an uncharacteristic move, Apple is partnering with Ant Financial, an affiliated company of e-commerce giant Alibaba, to allow for customers to buy products …
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Apple’s smart devices are often criticized for exclusively running within the company’s own ecosystem — but the market doesn’t seem to mind. The electronics giant shipped 8 million Apple Watches in the fourth quarter of 2017, Canalys research shows, which the firm said is a record for wearables sold by a company during a quarter. Fitbit was the previous record …
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Apple in December touted its deal to buy Shazam, the popular music recognition app, saying it had “exciting plans in store.” The tech giant may have to put those plans on hold for a bit. The European Commission said Tuesday it’s reviewing the proposed acquisition. “The Commission considers the transaction may threaten to adversely affect competition,” the EC said in …
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iMovie for MacOS can be daunting to the amateur iPhone ($285 at Amazon) videographer. For a consumer-grade video editor, the MacOS app is fairly complex. Here are some tips and tricks to start you on the road to becoming an iMovie master. 1. Crop to zoom in Your iPhone can capture video at a resolution of 720p, 1080p or 4K, …
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Apple is set to ditch Qualcomm as a baseband chip supplier and to exclusively use Intel chips in future iPhone models, according to a report published Monday. At the moment, Apple uses a mixture of Qualcomm and Intel baseband chips, which power all the iPhone’s antenna functions. It has done so since the iPhone 7, but is set to part …
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Just in time for the big game, the Winter Olympics, the Oscars and everything else, YouTube TV has finally made its way to Roku and Apple TV. Roku makes the most popular streamers and is a perennial favorite of CNET’s streamer and smart TV reviews, which are the best values on the market. Apple TV is more expensive but still highly recommended …
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Apple is said to be reducing its order of iPhone X components. According a report in Business Korea, some components for the current topline iPhone model are “estimated to reach zero in the second half of this year.” The phone’s OLED screens, notably, are sourced from Samsung Display, a division of Apple’s archrival in the smartphone sphere. That reinforces earlier …
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