Apple is liking the early reaction to the iPhone X. “We can see from the initial response, customer demand is off the charts,” said an Apple spokeswoman. Dutiful Apple fans were able to preorder the iPhone X starting at 12:01 a.m. PT this morning, and within 10 minutes, the shipping dates began to slip past …
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You had to be quick to nab an iPhone X. Preorders for Apple‘s newest phone began at 12:01 a.m. PT Friday. A few models of the device were still available online for a Nov. 3 ship date, the day it hits stores, for the first 10 minutes. After that, delays started creeping in. AT&T, for instance, wouldn’t ship for two …
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There’s now even more proof Apple’s new iPhone X will have very limited supply and be very tough to get. The tech titan told manufacturers to lower the accuracy of the phone’s facial recognition system, called Face ID, to speed up production, according to Bloomberg. Apple disputed this report. Also on the podcast, Amazon unveiled a new in-home delivery service called …
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Apple is under the gun to get its flagship iPhone X out the door. The company wanted so badly to produce more iPhone X units that it told manufacturers to lower the accuracy of its facial recognition system, which it calls Face ID, to speed up production, according to Bloomberg, which cited anonymous sources. The story highlights the challenges Apple …
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For Apple, the iPhone excitement just isn’t there. At least, not yet. The tech giant’s iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, both of which went on sale on Sept. 22, have done little to excite consumers, results from the big four US carriers indicate. Over the last week, the carriers have hinted at weaker interest for the phones, but expressed …
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It seems like an eternity since Apple announced the biggest change to the iPhone‘s design we’ve ever seen. Some of the iPhone X’s most striking features include its large screen, no home button, and fancy facial recognition. It’s awesome, but there’s one problem: the iPhone X is probably going to be hard to find for awhile and preordering one will …
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Google Lens is here, and it promises to do no less than change the way you find information about the world around you. Announced in May by the company behind the world’s biggest search engine, Lens lets you find details on different things in the real world by pointing your phone’s camera at them. Take a picture of a book, …
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Apple is working to satisfy lawmakers’ privacy and security concerns over its Face ID facial recognition technology. Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota, said Monday that he appreciates the company’s efforts to answer his questions about how it’s addressing such concerns. Franken, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and Law, sent Apple a letter …
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Apple’s Face ID will make its debut on the iPhone X on Nov. 3, and it looks like the new tech may be here to stay. According to KGI Securities analyst and known Apple commentator Ming-Chi Kuo (via MacRumors), all 2018 iPhones will likely have Face ID. Thanks to Apple’s TrueDepth camera system, the X gets all sorts of new tricks like Face …
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The iPhone X’s most talked about feature, facial recognition, could cause a lot of problems for Apple. According to a report by Nikkei Asian Review, iPhone manufacturers aren’t building 3D sensors for the iPhone’s TrueDepth camera system fast enough to keep up with yield rates. This means that when the iPhone X hits stores on Nov. 3 you’re going to have a hard time …
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