It’s hard to review an iPad these days.The last Apple products to cross our review desk, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, were significant upgrades that catapulted the company into the realm of the large-format smartphone, while maintaining the ease-of-use and reliability that made the iPhone so popular to begin with. ...
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Update: The Weekly 119 is now available in super-HQ audio form – your ears will thank you if you download or stream from one of the links below. See you next week!As one brand gets a supersized juice-up, another goes a little quicker to the retirement home – and the rest undulate in uncertain undertakings from the sensational to the soporific.So it goes in mobile as in any other field, and we’re here to cover it in the brief lull between reviews at Pocketnow’s Boston offices! In between talk of the Lollipop-flavored new Nexii and the sandblasting of Nokia logos from ...
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With the release of iOS 8.1, Apple Pay is now live in the US, and if you’ve got an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus, that means that everything’s ready to go for you to start making some contactless mobile payments at retailer terminals. At least, that’s the situation on the new iPhones (above), but it’s a different story for Apple’s latest tablets: right up until launch we were unsure if the Air 2 and ...
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Apple’s launch of iOS 8.1 yesterday marks the completion of Apple’s promise for what iOS 8 should’ve always been since we saw it announced at WWDC 2014. Apple spent a great deal of time announcing products like iCloud Drive, Apple Pay and Continuity, but none of these services worked as they should until this new ...
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Apple’s event last Thursday was mainly about iPads and Macs, but the company did take some time to give us information on its new software updates. One of the major changes Apple is pushing to its mobile devices is iOS 8.1, which includes some very needed bug fixes, and even some new enhancements. Cupertino promised the update would reach iOS ...
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Apple may have not invented the tablet computer, nor may have it been the first company to launch a fully functional product to the world. Still, that doesn’t change the fact that the launch of the original iPad left a dent big enough that almost every competitor has followed in Apple’s footsteps. Love it or hate it, Apple’s iPad lineup remains king in the tablet world, and today we get a glimpse of its future.Today’s event was full of iPads, though we wish we could say that all of them were new. Sadly not everything announced today was hot, and that’s the ...
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We’re still waiting on those new iPads, but Apple’s press event this afternoon continues to deliver announcement after announcement. We just heard that Apple Pay was going live on Monday, and you can’t have Apple Pay without iOS 8.1. So when’s that update going to arrive?Apple has confirmed that iOS 8.1 will also arrive on Monday, October 20.Among the features to look forward to in the release of 8.1 is the return of Camera Roll, following its previous removal from iOS. There’s also ...
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We’re just a week a way from an Apple event that we all assume has to do with iPads and iOS 8.1. We’ve seen some interesting leaks that show iOS 8.1 launching new services like Apple Pay, but it also seems that there could be more under the hood. That same developer that uncovered the Apple Pay leaks has discovered more new stuff to come, and this time it has to do with iPads.At the moment, every single credible source claims that the ...
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Alongside its new iPhone and smartwatch hardware launches last month, Apple also introduced users to a new service it was getting ready to kick off, announcing Apple Pay. Intimately tied to the NFC support present on those new iPhones, Apple Pay is set to go active sometime this month, after not being quite ready for prime time when iPhone 6 and 6 Plus sales first began. But now that October’s here, when exactly can we hope to see Apple flip the switch on Apple Pay and welcome iPhone users into the world of mobile payments? ...
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With the iOS 8.0.1 misfire behind it, Apple’s looking forward to what’s next for its mobile platform. Yesterday we saw some evidence suggesting it wasn’t just prepping iOS 8.1, but also early at work on iOS 8.2 and 8.3. Just what features would all these releases deliver? We’re already getting answers, as Apple makes the first beta of iOS 8.1 available to its developer community.On the surface, there aren’t ...
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