Ever since the iPhone 4, Apple’s smartphones have carried a reputation for having better-than-average cameras. In 2011, Apple’s iPhone 4 rose to become the most popular camera on Flickr – no small feat for any camera, much less a smartphone.And to this day Apple’s last four iPhones crowd the Most Popular Cameras in the Flickr Community chart. In order from first to last, those top five cameras ...
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Two weeks ago Friday, I was sitting up in bed at 2:50 AM waiting on the flood gates to open. The iPhone 6 pre-orders were about to begin and I needed to make sure I ordered an iPhone 6 Plus before the dreaded backorder prompt appeared.Turns out, I was pretty lucky. After refreshing the Apple Store webpage at least four hundred times, I grabbed my iPad mini and opened up the Apple Store app. I added a 64GB Space Gray iPhone 6 Plus to my cart and finally checked out around 3:40 AM. According to Twitter at the time, ...
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This year’s iOS update is one of the best yet. But as with most things, there are two sides to the story.While iOS 8 brings many long-requested features to Apple’s mobile OS, it also brings something most users aren’t used to seeing on the platform – honest to goodness bugs and glitches. In droves.Let’s take a step back for a second.This update, iOS 8, is long overdue and quite nice. It brings many great things. In particular, Apple added third-party APIs, which it calls Extensibility, to ...
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Over the last few years, smartphones have evolved to accommodate for new use cases, primarily multimedia consumption – gaming, watching YouTube videos and movies, and browsing the web. As a result smartphones have grown from less than 4-inches in size to an average rapidly approaching the 5-inch threshold.Apple is one of the very last to jump on the larger smartphone bandwagon. Its last increase in size was from a 3.5-inch display to a 4-inch display, adding only vertical dimension and pixels to the existing panel.That wasn’t enough, though. Other smartphones dwarfed the iPhone 5 ...
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After years of customers begging for a larger iPhone, Apple finally obliged. Just last week, it announced the brand new set of bigger iPhones, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The iPhone 6 comes with a 4.7-inch display while the 6 Plus comes with a rather larger 5.5-inch display.The new iPhones are launching alongside Apple’s newest version of its mobile software, iOS 8. This brings much-anticipated features, like third-party ...
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I’ll admit, I wasn’t at all interested in the idea of an Amazon-made smartphone from the start.To date, I’ve owned two Kindle Fire tablets, and 10 times out of 10, I would recommend a Nexus 7 over anything Kindle Fire-branded.No, that’s not my affinity for Nexus and stock Android speaking, and I have nothing against Amazon as a company. In fact, before I purchase anything … ever, I check Amazon’s price first. I’ve been a paying Prime ...
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This thing is entirely too small.That was my initial impression of the very first iPhone I ever used. It was the iPhone 4 I picked up on Verizon’s off-beat January launch day. Over the course of three years and two different iPhone models, my opinion never changed. I upgraded to the iPhone 4S that fall and later to the “larger” iPhone 5.Even the iPhone 5 was way too small for my tastes. It wasn’t the height of the iPhone display that was the problem, but rather the width.
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Back in April, I covered Link Bubble, Chris Lacy’s third-party Android browser which loads web pages in the background without interrupting whatever it is you were doing when you clicked the link. It’s a chat heads-style floating browser that can be tossed aside. You get to choose when you want to read the pages you load, rather than being jerked around between your Twitter client, a feed reader, and your default browser.But even the developer knows Link Bubble isn’t ideal for every situation, that ...
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Apple released the iOS 8 developer betas back in June, following WWDC 2014. We did a quick hands-on of iOS 8 Beta 1, showing off all the new features and talking about the things iOS 8 would eventually bring to the table. Being a beta release, not everything worked and some things were a little buggy … as expected in an early beta.However, iOS 8 was publicly released today and several changes have been made. Some visual ...
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If you believed all the iPhone rumors and leaks from the last several months, you weren’t surprised when Apple announced not one, but two new handsets last week. You also weren’t surprised when both of those handsets were significantly larger than the 3.5- and 4-inch iPhones of yore.The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus come with 4.7- and 5.5-inch displays, respectively. For the iPhone crowd, phones ...
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The Pebble Steel, first shown off at CES in January, was thought by many to be the best looking smartwatch to date. Anton and I swooned over the stainless brushed steel and matte black finishes in our pre-brief in Las Vegas. It was exactly what the budding smartwatch industry needed – serious hardware to run the increasingly useful software.Pebble’s stainless steel smartwatch didn’t hold the spotlight for long, however. When Google ...
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The purported iWatch was one of the longest running rumors in the mobile space, but it was finally put to rest last week when Apple took the stage at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts last week. It announced the two new iPhones, the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus, and the highly-anticipated watch, simply Apple Watch.Apple covered some of the most intricate details about its upcoming watch in a 10-minute video. It ...
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Last week, Apple announced what is arguably one of its most anticipated iPhone updates yet: the iPhone 6.As expected, though, thanks to month of rumors and leaks, the iPhone 6 comes in two different flavors. The iPhone 6 is a rather large bump in size over the iPhone 5 and 5s – from 4-inches to 4.7-inches – with a respective increase in resolution to 750p. The iPhone 6 Plus is a more dramatic increase in size to a 5.5-inch display with 1080p resolution. Both models come with most of the same hardware upgrades: an A8 chipset with a slightly faster clock speed, larger batteries, a 128GB ...
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Last year, Motorola blindsided everyone by creating an entry-level smartphone that was not only surprisingly great but also extremely affordable. Other smartphones like it had surfaced, but definitely not on Android. The Lumia 520 is a perfect example. But very few Android smartphones before the Moto G were both affordable and worth buying.Last week, while all the attention was on IFA in Berlin, Motorola made some not-so-surprising announcements in Chicago where ...
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A lot of people have always said iPads and other tablets are primarily geared towards entertainment – the consumption of media, no creation. I, on the other hand, have always had a different stance. I’ve always tried do more with mobile devices, to get more out of them, to create content and get actual work done from mobile. It hasn’t always worked out so well for me, particularly when I tried to go tablet-only for a day.However, getting more done with your tablet is entirely possible. One company, ...
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