Smartphones

Everything Apple Announced Yesterday

This is Apple’s biggest year yet—the line may sound trite, but at least this time, it actually holds some weight. Yesterday, not only did Apple finally give in to a (way) bigger iPhone, but after years of what’s seemed like years of will-they-or-won’t-they, Apple has finally entered the smartwatch game. And at least from what…

11 Wildly Creepy Things People Have Done to Snoop on Smartphones

We’ve all felt the urge to snoop through our loved ones’ phones before—and sometimes that itch is just too strong to resist. For some people, though, that gentle itch is more like a knife wound. And the lengths they’ll go to for a peek are astounding in the creepiest possible ways. Whisper, which is essentially…

This Universal Mount Will Let You Use Any Phone on Your Handlebars

Mounting your phone on your handlebars isn’t a new idea, but this little piece of silicon, known as Finn, is the neatest solution we’ve seen: it simply stretches over your bars and will hold a phone of pretty much any size. Made in Austria from what’s claimed to be ‘high-grade silicon’, the strip loops over…

Sprint’s “iPhone for Life” Plan Gets You A New iPhone Every Two Years

A suspiciously well-timed announcement from Sprint could help put those big, beautiful new iPhone 6s in more pockets: Their “iPhone for Life” plan will upgrade your phone every two years, plus give you unlimited data, starting at $70 per month. And I assume this deal is valid until you no longer have a need for…

This Compact Portable Charger Revives Your Phone With Four AA Batteries

A portable charger can bring your dead smartphone back to life if you forget to plug it in overnight, but what if you forget to charge the charger too? That’s not an issue with the tiny Oivo since it splits in half to accommodate four readily-available AA batteries that have enough charge to completely bring…

How Apple’s Jumbo iPhone 6 Plus Compares to Its Biggest Competition

Just like the rumors foretold, Apple’s iPhone 6 now comes with an extra-large 5.5-inch screen size. It’s Apple’s first foray into the big screen smartphone realm, which means there’s plenty of competition waiting to take it on. How’s the iPhone 6 Plus compare to the competition? Let’s find out. First and foremost, that screen. Unlike…

iPhone 6 Hands On: Getting Up to Size

I hate to be the person to break this to you, but the iPhone 5S in your pocket or purse is tiny. It’s so small by today’s smartphone standards that Sony released a compact version of its flagship that’s still a whole lot bigger than the 5S. It was time to grow up. And the…

iPhone 6 Plus Hands-On: It’s So Big

Say hello to Apple’s 5.5-inch powerhouse smartphone, the iPhone 6 Plus. It’s the largest phone that our favorite Cupertino fruit company has ever produced, and we just got our hot little hands on its big, honking chassis. Seriously, compared to any iPhone you’ve ever held, this handset is HUGE! It’s amazingly thin, and incredibly solid…

How the iPhone 6 Stacks Up Against Its Toughest Competition

The iPhone 6 is here! It’s sleek and rounded, just like the leaked photos we’ve been seeing for months. But now we finally know what’s inside that Jony Ive-designed shell. How’s it measure up to the stiff smartphone competition? Let’s see. First things first, screen size. Apple boosted the iPhone’s screen to 4.7 inches diagonal,…

iTunes Comes With Free Bono

Your iTunes subscription now comes with its very own free Bono (album in which he sings lead vocals). Yep, every single iTunes user (500 million customers total!) is getting the new U2 album absolutely free. What’s more, you won’t be able to get it anywhere else (Beats Music and iTunes Radio not included) until mid-October.…

Apple Just Gave iOS 8 a Few New Tricks

We’ve long known that iOS 8 was a powerful (mostly under-the-hood) upgrade. But on its official launch day, Apple announced a few new features that really take the operating system to the next level. And you won’t even have to hunt very hard to find them! Pro Tip: iOS 8 will be available on September…

Apple Watch Comes With Its Own Terrifying, Animated Emoji

Sure, the highly anticipated Apple Watch may come packing lots of “features” and “practical functions.” But let’s focus on what really matters—the tiny, colored icons that say all the things we cannot. And apparently, in Apple Watch land, all those things are going to be impossibly creepy. Emoji already have a tendency towards unsettling in…

Apple Watch: Everything You Need to Know

It’s finally here. The shadow of an “iWatch” has already spawned an army of smartwatches but now Apple’s first wearable is here in the flesh. It’s beautiful, it’s called the “Apple Watch,” and you control it by using that little watch knob. Design Considering that Apple’s been making a ton of fashion-world hires, it’s no…

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 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,…

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 Plus: Everything You Need to Know About Apple’s Jumbo Phone

The 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus is Apple’s biggest iPhone to date. It’s one of two new iPhones the company is introducing today, and the Plus means, obviously, that this is the biggest iPhone 6. Here’s what you need to know about Apple’s massive smartphone future. iPhone Finally Goes Big Apple’s original iPhone was a groundbreaking…

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?…