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Explainer alert! Here’s what the iPad Pro’s embedded Apple SIM means for you

Explainer alert! Here’s what the iPad Pro’s embedded Apple SIM means for you

When Apple introduced its new iPad Pro 9.7″, one of the small technical specifications the company touted prompted the most questions from readers: the new embedded Apple SIM. For context, with the iPad Air 2, Apple introduced its Apple SIM, a programmable version of a regular SIM card that allowed people to choose between dozens of carriers […]

The 9.7-inch iPad Pro is slightly slower than the 12.9-inch iPad Pro

The 9.7-inch iPad Pro is slightly slower than the 12.9-inch iPad Pro

Apple doesn’t like to talk about specs. But it turns out my boss Matthew Panzarino already has review units of the new iPad Pro and iPhone SE. So nobody is going to stop us if we want to run Geekbench on these new devices. The result is both interesting and unsurprising. While the 9.7-inch iPad […]

Here’s everything Apple announced today

Here’s everything Apple announced today

The 9.7″ iPad Pro Dig the feature set of the iPad Pro, but don’t like that big ol’ 12.9″ screen? The original iPad Pro now has a 9.7″ baby brother — roughly the same size as the iPad Air 2, but with support for things like Apple Pencil, Apple’s Smart Keyboard, 4K video recording, and more. Here’s what […]

Review: The iPad Pro And The Death Of A Metaphor

Review: The iPad Pro And The Death Of A Metaphor

What Is It? Never has the cry of ‘it’s just a bigger Apple thing’ been more applicable than it has with iPad Pro – this is literally a bigger iPad. But that approach to thinking about it is also reductive. The Microsoft Surface has blazed a sort of hybrid path – for people that don’t […]

Annotation And Document Management App LiquidText Releases New Features For IPad

Annotation And Document Management App LiquidText Releases New Features For IPad

LiquidText, the annotation and document reader app developer for iOS (and a critical darling that has been one of Apple’s selected apps in its store nearly since its launch), has launched a new version with features for the new iPad Pro. There are new features for navigating through documents that make use of the new Apple […]

Review: Google’s High-End Pixel C Tablet

Review: Google’s High-End Pixel C Tablet

Until now, the Pixel brand was all about Chrome OS laptops.  But in September, the company surprised us all when it announced its Surface competitor, the 10.2-inch Pixel C Android tablet with its optional Bluetooth keyboard. Unlike its Nexus line of tablets, this is the first time Google has built its own tablet. If you’re willing to […]

Apple’s iPhone Grows 0.4% Yearly With 75 Million Units Sold In Q1

Apple’s iPhone Grows 0.4% Yearly With 75 Million Units Sold In Q1

Apple today reported sales of 74.8 million iPhones, 16.1 million iPads, and 5.3 million Macs in its Q1 earnings report today. Apple’s first quarter includes holiday sales, as the three-month period ends December 31, 2015. As such, it was supposed to be one of Cupertino’s best quarters of the year. Plus, the iPhone 6s and […]

March 21st Apple Event For iPad, Small iPhone, Some Apple Watch Stuff Is A Go

March 21st Apple Event For iPad, Small iPhone, Some Apple Watch Stuff Is A Go

Update: The date of next month’s Apple event has been pushed forward to March 21st from an earlier date of March 15th. News that the date had shifted was reported by Re/Code and Buzzfeed earlier today and we’ve independently confirmed that the event’s date has been moved up about a week. It lands on a Monday, […]

Tablets Are Dead

Tablets Are Dead

In 2010, tablets were supposed to be the new hot thing. Apple released the first iPad, Samsung was working on the Galaxy Tab and countless others were about to flood the market with Android tablets. Six years later, there weren’t any tablets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Companies and consumers have moved on. Tablets are […]