Now playing: Watch this: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 2:12 With iOS 11 now upon us, it’s a good idea to know just what you’re in for after you install the latest and greatest Apple has to offer to the iPhone. The new OS is full of small, subtle tweaks, …
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Following its usual ritual, the Apple Store is temporarily offline in advance of the company’s iPhone event, due to start today at 10 a.m. PT at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. Apple is expected to announce three new iPhones — iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus — but no one knows for sure. The …
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Weeks before Apple announced the iPhone X, Samsung threw down its own top-tier challenge: the Galaxy Note 8. The Note 8 is a tremendous phone, powerful and packed with features that include a dual-camera setup, a pretty good portrait mode and the signature S Pen stylus. But it also plays it safe, blending last year’s disaster-stricken Galaxy Note 7 and this …
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Earlier today, Apple announced the Apple Watch Series 3. Starting price: $329 for the noncellular version, $399 for cellular. What does that mean for the Apple Watch 2 ($178 at eBay)? And, for that matter, the Series 1? Let’s take a look at the new pricing for the old models. A brief history of Apple Watch pricing Exactly one year ago, …
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On Tuesday, Sept. 12, Apple invited CNET (and a lot of other journalists) to its new spaceship campus for the very first time. It unveiled a host of hot new products and features, including three new iPhones. And here, in this post, we’re compiling the biggest moments from Apple’s huge event in video form. You can watch exactly what you’d …
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Apple has cut the strings on its smartwatch. At the company’s big product event Tuesday at its new headquarters in Cupertino, California, Apple Senior Vice President of Operations Jeff Williams unveiled the Apple Watch Series 3, the latest in the company’s growing family of wearables. The device will be able to tap into a cellular network, which means you won’t …
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Today marks a new first for Apple. Not only did it break the typical naming pattern, skipping over the iPhone 7S and iPhone 7S Plus altogether, it announced a third phone that overshadowed what would have been its normal flagship models: the iPhone X. The iPhone X casts a very large and noticeable shadow over the iPhone 8 ($162 at …
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It’s been a long time since Apple TV was considered a “hobby.” That’s what it was considered by the company, which saw it as an experiment in the early days of the internet-connected set-top box. But after a big push in 2015 with the introduction of its own software — tvOS — Apple has grown increasingly serious about getting the …
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Say hello to the iPhone X. Now get ready to enter the scrum to actually buy one. Apple on Tuesday unveiled the iPhone X (which Apple execs pronounced “10,” not “ex”), its pricey, super premium phone that’s expected to be in limited supply. That’s a recipe for a phone that’s going to be hard to get — even if you …
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Ten years ago, Steve Jobs stood on a stage in San Francisco and promised, “Apple is going to reinvent the phone.” That turns out to have been the understatement of the decade. Though Apple certainly wasn’t the first to make a mobile phone, or even the first to use touchscreen technology, the iPhone’s blend of slickly designed hardware and software …
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