Motorola’s Edge Plus phone will be available on Verizon as of March 24, the carrier said on Monday. Motorola’s new high-end device comes with a 6.7-inch screen and ultrawide cameras and seeks to compete against premium phones like Apple’s iPhone 13 Pro and Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra. Though Motorola originally said the Edge Plus would have a starting price of …
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When I work, I need noise to focus. Sometimes I listen to Spotify playlists, but that can lead me to dance in my chair. Or I’ll turn on a podcast and get too invested in the hidden history of highways. So when I found Background Sounds tucked into the iOS 15 update, it seemed like the perfect solution. Brett Pearce/CNET …
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Following an outage across multiple Apple services on Monday, the tech giant again experienced outages across the App Store, Apple Music and more. Apple’s system status page shows Apple Books, Podcasts, the Mac App Store, Game Center, iCloud web apps, Apple Card and Weather also experienced issues Tuesday afternoon. The service outages hit between 1:45 p.m. and 2:09 p.m. PT and …
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Several of Apple’s online services — including the App Store, Apple Music and Apple Maps — went down for some people on Monday morning. The company confirmed the issues on its app status website, with problems starting around at 9:30 a.m. PT and the last being resolved around 11:40 a.m. PT. Some of the outage notices said people “may be …
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iOS 15.4 rolled out to iPhones last week, bringing with it several new features including mask-friendly Face ID, a general-neutral voice for Siri, Universal Control and 37 new emoji. As seen in Unicode last year, the updated emoji library features seven more smileys and some very specific objects. (Confused about what these emoji actually mean? We help you decipher them …
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The 2022 iPhone SE is here. Apple’s new affordable iPhone made its debut at the company’s event last week, alongside the updated iPad Air. It’s a new-and-improved model of the last iPhone SE, which launched in 2020 and features the iPhone 11‘s A13 processor and an iPhone 8-like body for $399. Apple’s new SE is the same concept, retaining an …
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Apple’s 2022 iPhone SE represents a notable upgrade over its predecessor: It has 5G support, the same processor as the iPhone 13 and longer battery life compared to the 2020 model. But there are still some features we hoped to see that didn’t make it into the third-generation iPhone SE. Apple announced the new iPhone SE during its first product launch …
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Quick show of hands: Who wants to spend $1,000 or more on a new phone? Not everyone, that’s for sure. That’s where devices like the iPhone SE come in, and this week Apple introduced the newest SE, priced at $429. As part of our coverage of the “Peek Performance” Apple event, CNET’s Lisa Eadicicco stacks up the iPhone SE against …
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Alongside the new iPhone SE and iPad Air, Apple also snuck in a new iPhone 13 and 13 Pro color option. Last year, Apple introduced the purple version of the iPhone 12, and this year the company has announced a new green finish for the 13 series. For the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max the color is called alpine …
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An update to the budget iPhone SE arrived at Apple’s first event of 2022 on Tuesday, boasting 5G support and the same Apple A15 processor that the 2021 flagship iPhone 13 series uses. These two upgrades are significant, but the iPhone SE 2022 has several other features worth noting. Aside from minor cosmetic changes, the third generation of the iPhone …
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