A Live Photo before and after stabilization with Google’s Motion Stills app. Image: Google It’s now much easier to share Live Photos from the current generation of Apple’s iPhone, thanks to a new app from Google. The company has released Motion Stills, an app that will smooth out shaky Live Photos and convert them into […]
Xiaomi Mi 5. Image: CNET Which smartphones do you think would top the list of the fastest smartphones? If you thought that the iPhone 6S or the Samsung’s Galaxy S7 would be atop the list then you’d be wrong. So very wrong. See also: iOS 10: Ten features it needs to stay ahead of Android […]
Apple currently carries out a major revamp of the iPhone every two years (hence the “iPhone X” and “iPhone XS” releases). However, Nikkei Asian Review is reporting that Apple could be getting ready to switch to a three-year cycle. What would be the effect of switching to a three-year cycle? See also: iOS 10: Ten […]
The latest Internet Trends report by Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker contains some very bad news for Apple and some exquisite news for Amazon, all in a single slide. Here’s the slide: Mary Meeker/Kleiner Perkins On the left is the prediction that iPhone unit shipments will fall by around 11 percent during 2016 (actual figures […]
Clicking on Find your Phone will display a list of Android and iOS phones and tablets from which you have signed into a Google account. Image: Google Google has rolled out an update to its My Account privacy settings hub which includes a new feature called Find your Phone, designed to help users search for […]
Inside the iPhone 6S iFixit Apple will drop the 16GB base storage option for the iPhone 7, and introduce 32GB as the minimum storage option, claims IHS Technology analyst Kevin Wang (first spotted by 9to5Mac). See also: How to save money when buying iPhones, iPads, Macs and other Apple hardware and accessories Wang expects RAM […]
Update for iOS and watchOS released Apple released iOS 9.3.2 and watchOS 2.2.1 this week with a few new features along with bug fixes. As is becoming more common some users are reporting problems with the new version of iOS. Source: ZDNet iOS update bricking some iPad Pros Problems with iOS updates are becoming frequent, […]
(Image: CNET/CBS Interactive) It’s now a lot tougher for the government to access an iPhone or iPad with a fingerprint. iPhones and iPads equipped with a Touch ID fingerprint sensor will now ask for a passcode if it hasn’t been unlocked with a fingerprint in the past eight hours. This adds to existing security rules […]
iOS updates are shipping with more and more show-stopping bugs. Once upon a time, I would encourage people to download and install iOS updates as soon as they were released. But that was before Apple started shipping iOS updates that contained show-stopping bugs that killed vital features, broke apps, or bricked devices. Nowadays I encourage […]
The great buying pause ahead of Apple’s iPhone 7 launch is on, according to Canaccord Genuity. That reality means that Apple will continue to see sales fall until the iPhone 7 replacement cycle gets the company back to the 230 million units sold in 2015. T. Michael Walkley, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity, said in […]