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Checking the performance level of your iPhone, or any iOS device for that matter, isn’t complicated. In fact, it doesn’t even require a visit to the Apple Store. Keep in mind, Apple isn’t actually requiring your battery to fail its test to make you eligible for the $29 replacement. Checking your battery is more for …

Ten years is a long time in the tech world. In 2007, Facebook was only worth $1 billion — it’s about 500 times that now — and the Motorola Razr was considered the ultimate luxury phone. It was also the year the first iPhone was released. While the design and feature set of the phone has evolved over the past …

Earlier this year, my mom needed a new phone. Her iPhone 6 started running slowly, and the battery drained quickly.  Instead of purchasing a new phone — she couldn’t decide which to get — she had a new battery installed to buy herself some time. I thought she was crazy to not just get a new iPhone. Turns out, she …

It’s still amazing to think that a seeming conspiracy theory was true: On Dec. 20, Apple admitted it’d been secretly slowing down iPhones as their batteries aged. The company’s explanation: The throttled speeds kept those phones from unexpectedly shutting down.  That explanation wasn’t enough for some, who accused Apple of quietly driving people to upgrade their phones to fill the …

Slim bezels. All-screen designs. Portrait photos galore.  The phone world in 2017 made these traits mainstream. Devices got faster, cameras took better low-light photos and more handsets than ever added wireless charging, which will help put public charging stations in higher demand.  Meanwhile, while some top-of-the-line phones pushed prices to nosebleed heights, those propping up the budget end of the …

Apple’s latest iPhone ($285 at Amazon) looks and works differently than any iPhone before it. It lacks home button, ditches the fingerprint sensor, and has a fancy new camera system. But don’t let any of that intimidate you — it’s a slick device, and once you adjust to using gestures instead of buttons to navigate, you’ll be fine. Below are …

For last-minute shoppers and deal-hounds alike, Sprint will give you a free iPhone 8 when you buy the phone using its Sprint Flex plan. Or, if you’d rather take a savings, you’ll be able to knock $300 off the bill of the same iPhone 8 or even an iPhone X when you trade in your old device. Those trade-in savings …

Apple firmware sometimes slows down older iPhones with aging batteries to keep them from shutting down unexpectedly. That’s the recent news that has the tech world abuzz. But we’re checking in on a totally separate, completely unrelated, iPhone battery story. Of the newest 2017 models — the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and iPhone X — which ones have the best …

Even for streaming video, it’s true what they say: You can’t always get what you want.  The top complaint consumers have about streaming-video services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu is lack of content, according to a survey by IBM Cloud Video, which powers streaming for online video providers. Nearly half of those users say video-streaming services rarely or …

So you have an aging iPhone that’s perfectly fine except for one thing: the battery. These days you’re lucky to make it to midafternoon before the power gives out. It’s a common dilemma. Or perhaps you’ve noticed another issue? Does your iPhone seem slower than it was before? Turns out there’s a reason for that: Apple recently admitted that iOS …