The Google Rumor Roundup: mobile that matters

Posted on by Jules Wang

Well, it was bound to come, right? Tomorrow’s the day that we come and get our love from Google and that event should entail all the rumors we have cluttered around our desks at Pocketnow.And while plenty of these devices, like the long-awaited Google Home and Google WiFi, will definitely take us to the future, there are a couple of things we’d like to focus on for our purposes here.The PixelsWatching these two phones evolve from being multiple codenames to ...

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Sky’s the limit for Lightning EarPods, AirPods, Beats Wireless

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Apple has officially dumped the mini-phonojack — the 3.5mm headphone jack to us humans — and has elected to go Lightning only for any future audio listening.That includes EarPods with a Lightning connector and an adapter in every box to switch between Lightning and 3.5mm.Cupertino has also plopped in some Bluetooth-enabled AirPods, communicating audio wirelessly to individual earbuds. Each has an Apple-designed W1 chip to connect to your iPhone or Apple Watch and switch between them as needed and drive sound. Configurations can be backed up through iCloud. Beamforming microphones ...

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Meet the iPhone 7 camera(s)

Posted on by Jules Wang

The cameras on the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus get optical image stabilization. The regular model gets an f/1.8 aperture on a six-element lens. The Plus model has a 28mm lens on one camera and another camera with a 56mm lens for an effective 2x optical zoom product. Both sensors fire up every time the shutter button is pressed for a software-enabled “zoomed” view when looking at images in the gallery, with a maximum digital “zoom” crop of 10x.A more sensitive, power-efficient 12-megapixel camera comes behind the six-element glass and it is aided with a quad-LED ...

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Apple pulls iPhone 7 Plus tweets showing off black colors

Posted on by Jules Wang

Apple has kept its Twitter account pretty empty for a while now, but it has given its account some life — though in cryptic ways.Michael Kukielka, better known as DetroitBORG on YouTube, has pulled some tweets that were posted and then deleted by Apple today, during its keynote.New iPhone 7 Plus camera revealed early. pic.twitter.com/n2N6ai0rzG— Michael Kukielka (@DetroitBORG) September 7, 2016Love it! pic.twitter.com/W3J8Rte3Js— ...

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Apple Music redesign gets firmed up at keynote

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After opening up the keynote with talk show host James Corden and a Carpool Karaoke segment, — the standalone show will be on Apple Music later this year — Apple CEO Tim Cook opened up this event’s keynote with a bevy of musical updates.The foremost of them is a major update to the user interface of Apple Music app. Most of what we’ve seen at WWDC has been implemented with tweaks since then.Cook touted that Apple Music held 70 exclusives in the past year. Subscribers ...

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Watch Apple’s iPhone 7 (and Apple Watch 2) launch event here

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Samsung’s had its chance(s) to bring out the big guns for the upcoming holiday season, largely spoiled by a series of unfortunate exploding events, companies like Sony, Acer, ...

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Samsung Gear S3 announcement brings Classic and Frontier designs, more technology

Posted on by Jules Wang

Update: This story has been updated with information from the launch event.With all due respect to other companies’ wearables to be showcased at IFA Berlin this year, the only real smartwatch of Note (heh) that’s garnered enough buzz to be watched is

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Apple schedules September 7 event, iPhone 7 top of mind

Posted on by Jules Wang

Bokeh balls hint at the cap of Apple’s iconographic motif on Apple’s events page. When’s the freshly scheduled event happening? September 7.Next Wednesday will be the day that Apple will likely debut the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, as we’ve been calling them. ...

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Watch the Honor event livestream at 8pm Pacific (Video)

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Our Juan Carlos Bagnell is on the ground in San Francisco at Honor’s latest smartphone launch for the US market.We strongly believe it to be the Honor 8 that was launched in China last month, based on visual teasers and the use of a modified infinity insignia that’s been integral to ...

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The Galaxy Note 7’s S Pen — what’s new

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The Galaxy Note 7’s digitized stylus, the S Pen, has gotten sleeker, more durable and smarter.The tip of the S Pen now measures 0.7mm, less than half the size of the Note 5’s pen — it allows for pinpoint wisps. If you’re working with a wide brush for oil paint colors, you can also mix them to generate colors as you would with real acrylic while at the other end of the stylus, you can erase what you need to erase.SVP of Product Strategy Justin Denison also told of more software feature including instant text translation on highlight and “Smart Select,” which ...

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Samsung Unpacked starts with Galaxy Note 7 announcement

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Following an epileptic opening ceremony and a melodious collage of national anthems to follow along with the Olympic spirit, Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Note 7.Company president Dongjin Koh calls it the “world’s most intelligent smartphone” and an entry into the fastest growing category of such phones: the phablet.Big points about the Note 7 were presented before the phone was even announced like the iris scanner, — with applications for keeping parents’ children safe (and vice versa) along with mobile banking — the device’s ...

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Watch the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 announcement here

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Update: Both the 360-degree and “regular” YouTube live video streams are now embedded a few lines down. Enjoy!New York City, London and Rio de Janeiro are in a festive mood today, having been chosen as the illustrious hosts of the latest Samsung Unpacked event. But you can always nab a front row seat at the super-highly-anticipated Galaxy Note 7 introduction for free, no actual traveling ...

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[LIVE] Watch the Apple WWDC 2016 livestream

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Time for another Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, huh?No more wishlists, no more expectations, not even a single thought thread extra. We’re about to get the straight stuff from Apple on where it plans to take its software on all fronts to through 2017. From

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[LIVE] Watch the Lenovo Tech World keynote right here

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There’s plenty of anticipation hanging in the air. Lenovo and Motorola will be dropping plenty of that during today’s keynote for the Lenovo Tech World ’16 conference today. We have on-the-ground coverage in San Francisco, but if you want to get the keynote directly from there (and you’re not there, we assume), this is the place to get it.If you’re in it for the

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Top 5 iPad event 2013 predictions

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Watch our Top 5 predictions for what to expect on Apple’s October 22nd event, where the most probable theme is iPad. That said, we’ve this could be Apple’s last event for the year, and judging from the fact that devices like the Apple TV haven’t seen an overhaul, we could be in for more than just tablets. The biggest question we have is what’ll we get and what’ll we miss from this event. We’re expecting new iPads, but we’ve also heard rumors of an iWatch, a full-fledged Apple TV, meaning an actual television and not just a box, and obviously ...

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