Google on Thursday unveiled updates to its Google Fi mobile phone service that could make international travel easier for its subscribers. One of the major updates is that Google Fi now offers Wi-Fi calling to iPhone users. Now, if you’re an iPhone user and you’re out of your coverage area (like in another country), you can make a phone …
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Google has added a new batch of free features for Android phones to help share lots of files at once, warn deaf users about alarming sounds and watch YouTube videos together. Like many other little feature drops, the ones Google introduced Thursday via blog post are a bit of a grab bag, but they’re quality-of-life improvements in several categories. Android …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. It happened to Chuck Noland when the airplane he was on one Christmas Eve for work was caught in a terrible storm and crashed into the ocean. He was the only survivor. For four years, he was stuck, alone, …
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On the same day the iPhone 14 was unveiled, the crowning event of the Code 2022 conference was the announcement of a permanent online memorial to Steve Jobs, Apple’s iconic co-founder and longtime CEO. On Wednesday, Recode’s Kara Swisher led Apple current Apple CEO Tim Cook, former lead product designer Jony Ive and Jobs’ widow Laurene Powell Jobs in a warm …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. Apple’s do-it-yourself repair program lets you fix some of its products yourself with official parts, but it’s always been possible to open your iPhone and do a DIY fix with third-party components. I did exactly that, replacing the old battery …
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The Apple Watch Series 8 is expected to be announced alongside the rumored iPhone 14 at the company’s launch event today, and could mark a couple of milestones for Apple’s popular smartwatch. It might be the first to come in a new “Pro” version for extreme sports and included a temperature sensor. That’s if reports from Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. Apple unveiled its second-generation AirPods Pro at its “Far Out” event Wednesday, and they included one big new detail: controls for adjusting volume right on the AirPods themselves. The touch swipe controls on the stems have been added to the previous …
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Google’s fall hardware event is set for Thursday, Oct. 6, at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT, the company announced via Twitter on Tuesday. The event is likely to feature much of the hardware Google announced at I/O 2022 in May, including the Pixel 7, Pixel Watch and Pixel Buds Pro. It’s all coming together.Join us live for #MadeByGoogle on October …
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The cost of phone ownership seems to only ever go up, but there are ways to try and avoid price hikes. That can often mean looking beyond the three major players in the US market — those being Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile — and scouting out some deals at the lesser known carriers that piggyback on the larger carriers’ networks. …
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Purported renderings of the forthcoming Apple Watch Pro were published on the internet Monday, offering credence to rumors that the device will add a new button. There seems to be an extra button her, but for what? 91Mobiles The renders, obtained by notable leaker 91Mobiles, appear to show an extra button on the left side of the frame near a …
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