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11 Tips to Keep iOS 8 From Destroying Your Battery Life

While iOS 8 comes with plenty of advantages, upgrading to a new operating system is never without its drawbacks. Maybe battery life just ain’t quite what you’d want it to be, but we’ve got some tips to squeeze the most out of that sucker and stay juiced all day long. https://gizmodo.com/25-things-you-can-do-on-ios-8-that-you-couldnt-do-on-io-1636303912 Many of the features…

Are There Any Non-Terrible iPhone 6 Cases?

Smartphone cases are the devil’s handiwork. We know that. But that still doesn’t change the fact that, until our phones magically become 100 percent scratch proof, we’re more or less forced to wrap our phones in the wretched things. We’ve already looked at the iPhone 6 Plus, and now it’s time to outfit the smaller…

Microsoft’s Former Software Guru Wants to Reinvent Phone Calls

Ray Ozzie, former Chief Software Architect at Microsoft, has decided that voice communication — in other words, the venerable phone call — is broken, and he’s going to fix it. With an app. Talko, his solution, is an iPhone app that basically takes voice calls and voicemail, and gives it all a 21st century spruce-up.…

Watching the iPhone 6 Plus Get Shot With .50 Is Incredibly Theraputic

The pace of iPhone coverage has been a little relentless the last few weeks: first there was the announcement, then the reviews, then the laughing at idiots camping in lines for weeks. Now, the ultimate stress relief: watching Apple products get some .50-cal slow-motion loving. While we’ve certainly seen plenty of other videos of the…

Watch This Madman Fix the iPhone 6’s Biggest Design Flaw With a Grinder

The industrial design of the iPhone 6 is close to flawless… Except for one flaw so weird, so major, that it’s maddening: The fact that the camera protrudes from the body of the phone, meaning it never lies completely flat and gets caught on all kinds of stuff. The perfectionists at PeripateticPandas have a solution,…

Report: Apple Is Shutting Down Beats Music (Updated)

TechCrunch reports that Apple plans to shut down Beats Music, the streaming music service that it acquired earlier this year. The blog’s Josh Constine says that he’s confirmed the news with five sources at both Apple and Beats. And to be honest, it makes sense. (Update: Apple told Re/Code that the TechCrunch story is “not…

8 Videos of New iPhones Getting Dropped, Soaked, and Torture Tested

You knew it was coming. Videos of people torturing the newest rash of iPhones are starting to emerge online, including one by SquareTrade, which shows the new iPhones being tortured in every way imaginable. So how did Apple’s latest crop hold up? Surprisingly well, with a few caveats. Though SquareTrade’s video is clearly motivated by…

Tim Cook: Apple’s New Campus Will Be the Greenest Building Ever

We already know Apple’s new “Spaceship” campus looks cool. And if Tim Cook’s claims are true, it’s going to be cool and the most incredibly eco-friendly building on the planet. Cook talked a big old talk at Climate Week NYC: “We’re building a new headquarters that will, I think, be the greenest building on the…

Animated Music Video Jumps Across 14 iPhones and iPads in One Shot

In a time where everything you see on TV and in the movies could easily be faked with computer graphics, it’s nice when someone goes the extra mile to create something special using old-school techniques. For its new single Knock Knock, the band Brunettes Shoot Blondes created an animation that jumps across 14 different devices,…

The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Have the Best LCD Screens You Can Buy

A key element for a great smartphone has always been a truly innovative and top performing display, and the best leading edge smartphones have always flaunted their beautiful high tech displays. Apple iPhones (and iPads) were up until recently at the leading edge of mobile displays: they were early adopters of high performance IPS LCDs,…

Apple Ended Up Selling 10 Million iPhones in First Three Days

When Apple sold 9 million iPhones in the opening weekend of iPhone 5S and 5C last year, it was assumed that would be the zenith; the cheaper 5C offered more opportunity, and launching in China for the first time offered untold opportunity. And then this year Apple sold 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

This week we’re seeing a lot of updates of existing apps to new shiny iOS 8 alternatives, but the other platforms are getting a lot of love as well. Here’s some of the apps you might of missed during the iOS 8 rush. Android My Maps My Maps isn’t exactly a new app. It was…

What Is the Most Expensive App You Own and Why?

Earlier this week, I stumbled upon a story that made me double take. Apple had apparently approved a 4k video capture app for iOS 7 for the bargain price of $1000. By stitching together 4K images at 24 frames per second, the app provided one of the only ways to get 4K content out of…

The Onion’s iPhone 6 vs Galaxy S5 Is the Only Review You Need to Read

The new iPhones have just hit the streets, and you know what that means: A million reviews comparing the Cupertino fruit stand’s newest smartphone to its toughest competition. Don’t waste your time. The Onion’s hilarious comparison is the only one you need to read. Once again, the internet’s gurus of piercing satire manage to get…

AppleCare repair and replacement costs are out: Under Apple’s protection plan, new screen comes in at $109 for the iPhone 6, $129 for the 6 Plus; out-of-warranty battery replacement is $79; and broken phone replacement runs $299 for the 6, $329 for the 6 Plus. [AppleCare via iMore]

The Reality of the iPhone Line Is a Black Market Nightmare

This week, people camped outside Apple stores for days anticipating the iPhone 6. But those line-waiters weren’t all frenzied Apple fans high on the joy of a new smartphone: As filmmaker Casey Neistat portrays it, many of the line-sitters were buying the new iPhone to immediately resell it on the black market. It’s hard to…

Watch the Evolution of the iPhone in a Single GIF

The iPhone’s design is famous for meticulous attention to detail, and over the years, there have been some pretty major tweaks. A new GIF from GadgetLove captures how the phone’s hardware has changed over the years. Whenever a new iPhone comes out, we compare it to its predecessors. Is the bezel slimmer? The coloring sleeker?…

How to Design for Thumbs in the Era of Huge Screens

After years of resistance, Apple’s iPhone 6 announcement last week officially signaled the Dawn of the Era of Huge Screens. And it’s going to crash into existence in a big way. Just this Monday, Apple announced that they’d sold over four million pre-orders for the phones the opening night of pre-orders. In only one night,…

The Most Enticing Feature a Tech Company Can Offer Now Is Privacy

Apple’s new privacy policy is built specifically to make it impossible for the company to turn over your data to law enforcement, even with a search warrant. This isn’t some bleeding-heart benevolence wrought from Tim Cook’s dark night of the soul. It’s a shrewd business move reflecting demands from users, and we’re going to see…

23 iPhone Shipping Crates Filled With Anything But iPhones

Earlier in the week, we got a (supposed) glimpse inside one of the many iPhone 6-laden cargo planes that just finished making its way across the Pacific. But since you can’t actually see any iPhones in the original photo, we asked you to fill in the blanks. These are your champions. First place above goes…