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Apple Pay Could Finally Make Mobile Payments Happen

Apple wants to destroy your wallet and kill your credit cards with Apple Pay, its new mobile payment system. With a new iPhone or the Apple Watch, you’ll be able to ditch your cards and pay for stuff at more than 220,000 merchants by tapping your device. That is, as long as you trust Apple.…

The New iPhone Has Burst Mode For Selfies

Okay, this is kind of hilarious. The new iPhone 6 has burst mode for selfies. Hello narcissists! Burst mode, for the uninitiated will take several photos with one push of a button. This joins a number of other features that make the iPhone 6’s camera better than ever. The lens is the same with an…

The iPhone 6’s New M8 Chip Makes It a Truly Badass Fitness Tracker

Amongall the other goodies being packed into the brand new iPhone 6 and6 Plus, the phone comes bearing the newest generation of Apple’s M chip—the M8. And it might finally turn the iPhone into the fitness tracker we’ve been waiting for. The new sensor should be able to know whether you’re running, riding your bike,…

The iPhone’s WiFi Handoffs Make Internet Calling Better Than Ever

You’ll be able to call people using your WiFi connection on the iPhone 6, so when your WiFi is working better than your reception is (all the time?) you’ll have an alternative. And Apple’s WiFi received a speedy upgrade: 802.11ac WiFi in the iPhone 6, or three times faster than the previous generation. But that’s…

Thebigger, badder iPhone is finally here. But don’t worry, it does indeed have a mode for your itty bitty baby hands. In other words, you should be able to use all 5.5 inches just fine.

iPhone 6 Guts: A Screaming Processor and a Better Camera Than Ever

The new generation of iPhones isn’t only increasing in size but speed as well. Apple just announced its next-generation A8 processor that will be baked into the iPhone 6 and most likely future iPad Airs. Apple confirms rumors that the A8 has over 2 billion transistors and is 13 percent smaller, 25 percent faster, and…

​iPhone 6: A Little Bit Bigger, A Whole Lot Better

This is it. Apple just announced the iPhone 6—andthe iPhone 6 Plus—a sleek sliver of aluminum that comes in two sizes. The screen on the smaller of the two measures 4.7-inches diagonally, and depending on the nature of your needs (and the size of your hands) it might just be the perfect phone for you.…

iPhone 6 Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know (Updated)

It’s iPhone time of the year again! Apple will reportedly show off the eighth generation of its flagship device today. If you believe the rumors, iPhone 6 will be one of the most dramatic updates to the iPhone line in quite some time. Will it be bigger? Will it be faster? Will it be tougher?…

Supposed iPhone 6 Benchmarked: 1 GB RAM, Dual-Core 1.4GHz A8?

The same guys that posted a seemingly legitimate video of the next iPhone have just published the results of a series of benchmarking tests they’ve performed on the device. If they’re accurate, they suggest that the phone could be in for a modest spec bump—but a noticeable jump in performance. The tests, published on Weibo,…

This Could (Maybe, Possibly) Be the iPhone 6

Ahead of tomorrow’s announcement by Apple, a video has been posted online which claims to be a short review of the new iPhone 6. It’s in Mandarin, it’s far from definitely being real—but this could, maybe, possibly be the phone that Apple announces tomorrow. Obviously there’s no way of telling for sure that this is…

The 5.5-Inch iPhone Could Run Apps In an iPad-Like Landscape Mode

If we get a massive 5.5-inch iPhone 6 this Tuesday, wouldn’t it make sense if the apps that ran in landscape mode had dual panes, just like on an iPad? The ever-reliable Mark Gurman of 9to5 Mac thinks they just might. Gurman has posted some screenshots sent to him by developer Steven Troughton-Smith, who altered…

Got your eye on a new Moto X or Moto G smartphone? Motorola will give you up to $300 on a cash card when you trade in your old smartphone. Hypothetically, that means you could buy a subsidized Moto and make money, if you trade in a desirable phone in perfect condition. [Motorola via Cnet]

Reminder: Stay Skeptical About iPhone 6 Leaks This Weekend

The tech blogging world was alight this morning with purported images and video of a leaked iPhone 6. That’s not surprising—in the run-up to Apple’s iPhone 6 event on Tuesday, leaks and rumors are inevitable. But as always, it pays to have a skeptical eye. Today’s leak, at face value, seems pretty convincing: The leaker…

Only an iPhone Was Used to Create This Archive of Backyard Wildlife

This is indeed a different kind of wildlife photography. Instead of going to exotic corners of the globe, Joshua White combs the foliage of his own backyard in making hundreds of finely-detailed images. White takes a scientific approach to collecting specimens and photographing them for his Photographic Survey of the American Backyard. The collection of…

12 Visions of Apple Products That Were Fantastically Wrong

With only four days to go before Apple unveils a handful of brand-new products, the rumor mill is churning at full speed. Now seems like a good time to recall the various dream concepts, predictions, and leaks we’ve seen over the years—all of which were more artful than accurate. The world of Apple concept designs…

An Inside Peek at How Apple Will Scramble to Fix Early iPhone 6 Bugs

Every new piece of technology has a few bugs. The iPhone 6, when it comes out, will be no different. Apple has a stake in every step of its distribution chain, right up to the retail store. So when customers start returning faulty iPhone 6s, they’ll set off a complex chain of forensic troubleshooters. BloombergBusinessweek…

The Secret Apple Team That Fixes an iPhone’s First Fatal Flaws

Hours after a new iPhone hits retail stores, couriers start putting defective devices on FedEx planes and shipping them right back to Cupertino. There, engineers try to figure out the problem and come up with a solution, which can be relayed to assembly lines in China before they manufacture more faulty iPhones. It’s a fascinating…

NYT Confirms Two iPhones, New iWatch Details

The New York Timesjust published a very authoritative and fairly exciting report on what Apple will be announcing next week. You guessed it: two new iPhones with larger screen sizes and a wearable computer (a.k.a. an iWatch.) But there are plenty of details we hadn’t heard yet. It was already a big day for Apple…

The Silliest Way Apple Could Make an Unhackable iPhone 6

The iPhone 6 is coming out soon. People are already lined up. It’s a big deal. The only thing distracting from Apple’s Next Big Thing is Apple’s recent Big iCloud Nightmare. The real iPhone 6 will do a lot more than let you call your parents, and it will certainly have the iCloud. Still, this…

Our iPhone 6 Liveblog Starts Right Here Right Now

Welcome friends! Today, Apple’s going to take the wrapping off of the iPhone 6, possibly a larger iPhone 6L, and even more possibly the fabled iWatch. We’ll be covering it all live, right here. Join us! The keynote kicks off at 1PM EDT/10AM PDT, but we’ll be firing up the ol’ liveblog machine as early…