Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e first to feature own phone-to-tablet messaging continuity

It's a $400 Android tablet that does less than a full-fledged productivity tool, but more than just play pretty movies. It's the Galaxy Tab S5e.

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Mac OS X becomes macOS Sierra

When you talk about “OS X,” Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, ribbed his engineers for going on some “inspired” tour around California. Well, now it’s time to say hello to “Sierra,” but bye bye to Mac OS X. It’s “macOS Sierra”.And there’s no shortage of mobile-related features that will be introduced to the Mac for continuity purposes.Auto Unlock allows Apple Watch owners to unlock their Macs just by having their smartwatch nearby if both machines are on the same network. It’s pretty much an ...

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Continuity gets better for phone calls on iOS 9

The list of features that Apple announced with iOS 9 is quite significant, but there were a ton of hidden features that weren’t mentioned. Just yesterday we discussed some of these really neat features in our hands-on of iOS 9, but even then, there were some things left to include. Today we learn that one of the major features of iOS 8 is also getting a really cool update as well.iOS 8 was extremely famous for ...

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How to use Continuity in iOS 8 and Yosemite (Video)

At WWDC this year, Apple announced a brand new feature for iOS devices and Macs called Continuity. The idea was to streamline the process between switching devices and to make iOS and Mac OS work more closely together.It’s a software feature that lets you use your iPhone, iPad, and Mac interchangeably, for almost any task. Answer an incoming phone call on your iPhone using your iPad or Mac, load the same web page you have open in Safari on your Mac on ...

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Unification: the Microsoft way or the Apple way?

Apple’s continuity is a pretty powerful feature that’s coming to iOS. Actually, a lot of the features in iOS 8 and Mac OS X Yosemite are very powerful. And they’re all designed to make you do one thing – go all in. Apple should do this, there is no question in my mind. But after giving it a couple of weeks to process, it occurs to me that Apple and Microsoft are taking two different approaches to the same end – unification.Microsoft has been beating the unification drum for some time now. Microsoft’s dream is to make all devices – phones, tablets, and computers – run the ...

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