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Today we got our look at the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. They’ll be available at exactly the same prices as last year’s models. Here’s the breakdown. First the two-year contract prices (then full price). iPhone 6s: 16GB: $200 ($650) 64GB: $300 ($750) 128GB: $400 ($850) iPhone 6s Plus: 16GB: $300 ($750) 64GB:…
When the iPhone 6S goes on sale, the cheapest model you can buy will be 16 gigabytes. Does it mean you should buy it? Hell no! Apple shouldn’t even sell it. A 16 GB iPhone in 2015 is the hand job of the iPhone world. It still works, it’s relatively easy to come by, but…
I don’t know if a car stunt can get any crazier than this. Car on fire? Check. Man jumping out of the car on fire? Check. Car plunging into a lake while the man is jumping out of the car on fire? Check. It is totally spectacular and also just plain nuts. Also, it has…
Apple’s big announcement today has everyone fired up for a new Apple TV device. An App Store! Casual Gaming! Artificially intelligent Siri! But one rumored service was noticeably missing: Apple’s streaming TV service. We’ve known for a while that the service keeps getting delayed, apparently due to behind-the-scenes deal-making conflicts between Apple and Fox, CBS…
Last month, we brought you a first look at Warpo’s cool, old-school advertising for its 12” Cthulhu action figure. Now the Great One is back, and this time he hungers for the minds of his action figure subordinates. Can Cthulhu be stopped? Find out in this exclusive look at a new TV spot! https://gizmodo.com/a-first-look-at-warpos-spectacularly-retro-legends-of-c-1723108329 Warpo’s…
The iPhone 6 Plus changed the way people used the world’s finest smartphone. Now, Apple is making the jumbo phone even better with a faster processor, newfangled 3D Touch capabilities, and a revamped camera. This is the iPhone 6S Plus, and it looks predictably terrific. Design The new iPhone 6s Plus looks just like the…
Here we are: Apple just announced the ninth version of the iPhone, the thing that every ad will be compelling you to buy for the next year. It’s the same 4.7-inch aluminum sliver that makes up the 6, but with a way better camera, and some touchy-feely tricks. Design Visually, it’s going to be a…
The iPhone’s App Store is the virtual marketplace that launched a thousand think pieces. Apple called it “revolutionary” (as it does every product) and many tech sites called it world–changing. And now, eight years after it launched, the Apple TV will finally get its own App Store too. Apple announced today it’s opening up the…
Just when you thought the Apple TV was just another set-top box, everything has changed. The Cupertino company just announced the biggest Apple TV upgrade in recent memory, one that transforms the little box into a whole new platform for your home. Design The Apple TV hardware looks largely the same but bigger. It’s a…
Right on the heels of today’s iPad Pro announcement, Apple also quickly revealed iPad Mini 4, which has all the power of the iPad Air 2 but in a “mini enclosure.” Although Apple didn’t say, previous rumors suggest this may be the last mini ever. The new iPad Mini 4, out today, costs $399, weights…
This afternoon we met the iPad Pro, a giant iPad that’s aimed at professionals. With it comes the Apple Pencil: A stylus that Phil Schiller called “one of the most advanced technologies we’ve ever created.” First things first, though. This is a direct contradiction to the warning of Steve Jobs, who when he presented the…
We knew that the iPad Pro was on the way to help Apple contend with super tablets like the Microsoft Surface. We just didn’t know exactly how far the Cupertino company would go to make it’s big new tablet look more like a laptop. Apple went pretty far. The new iPad Pro works with a…
Apple kicked off its iPhone event by diving straight into the Apple Watch. Although they didn’t have much to say aside from what was already revealed at WWDC in June, we will be getting some new colors options and, more importantly, a firm date for the Watch OS 2 update—September 16. Aside from getting new…
It’s time folks, the splendid iPad Air is getting an older beefier sibling. It’s everything you loved about the iPads of yore, just bigger and badder. Meet the iPad Pro. Design The iPad Pro has a 12.9-inch retina display, which is considerably larger than the 9.7-incher on the iPad Air 2. This is a big…
Does this tweet from a former art director at advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy in Portland show us the first look at a functioning version of Nike’s long promised Back to the Future II powerlace shoes? Hopefully! Wieden+Kennedy is the agency that made Nike famous. And in the interest of full disclosure, they used to be a…
Just like you, we weren’t invited to the Apple Day frenzy at San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. So we’ve got a completely candid liveblog of the keynote, bringing you Apple without the Kool Aid. It’ll be right here at 12:30 PM ET/9:30AM PT. Also, be sure to watch the livestream! Contact the author at…
The smell of baking bread is like the universal language for neck-breaking, nose-enlightening deliciousness. It’s impossible not to smile to yourself at the idea of fresh bread. It’s everything good in the world, it’s possibility, and it’s just damn good to eat. And watching bread bake in a timelapse? Who knew that your eyes could…
Pandora is 10 years old and to celebrate, it’s holding “Listener Love Day.” Don’t worry, it just sounds creepy—it’s actually only a free pass to try out Pandora without commercials for a day. The no-commercial listening day has already started and will be over at 12AM Eastern Time Thursday. But starting tomorrow, if you pay…
You’d like to think products as critical as network infrastructure are rigorously tested before they hit the market. Not always! A few years ago, Cisco was forced to issue a warning because of a serious design flaw that’s so dumb I almost can’t believe it ever shipped. In October 2013, Cisco published a “Field Notice”…
It’s been a long time coming, but the prophets appear to agree: Apple is finally ready to reinvent TV. But! Instead of a releasing a long-rumored Apple television set, which would be a longshot, the Cupertino company will likely showcase a radically improved version of its stodgy set-top box. It’ll be great for gamers, and…
