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What’s the best way to charge your iPhone 8 Plus?
The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus brought more new ways to charge up than any iPhone before them. This year
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How much extra space does the iPhone X’s screen get you?
There has been some minor confusion about how much benefit the iPhone X’s 5.8 inch display will actually
podcast
The BirchTree Podcast #34: Siri, Alexa, and Google
I've been using the 3 major voice assistants constantly for the past year, and took today as a
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4k 60fps and 1080p 240fps video from the iPhone 8 Plus
If you were wondering what footage looks like from the iPhone 8 Plus’s new camera, below are a few
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Beginning to test iPhone 8 Plus charging speeds
I’m preparing a week of serious testing of the many ways you can charge the iPhone 8 Plus. I
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Studio Lighting on the iPhone 8 Plus is really something else
One of the coolest new features of the latest iPhone (Plus model only) is that we now have “studio lighting”
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Slow Sync Shutter on the iPhone 8 Makes the Flash Suck a Little Less
I’m not an expert at this stuff so bear with my simplified explanation, but the iPhone 8 and 8
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The BirchTree Podcast #33: iPhone 8 First Impressions
My thoughts after a couple days with the iPhone 8 Plus.
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Comparing the iPhone 8 Plus camera to last year’s iPhone 7 Plus
Yesterday I compared the speed of the iPhone 8 Plus compared to last year’s iPhone 7 Plus, and the
Just how fast is the iPhone 8 Plus?
I got my iPhone 8 Plus yesterday, and as any good techie, I wanted to see how much faster it
Why does the Samsung Galaxy S8 even exist?
I hope it is painfully obvious, but this post is satire. Obviously it makes sense for Samsung to make more
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What happens when you setup an LTE Apple Watch on T-Mobile
Because carriers are weird, and things are easy to screw up, here’s a very quick explanation about what happens
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The LTE Apple Watch is a glimpse into the not-so-distant future
Almost one year ago I wrote this tweet:
https://twitter.com/mattbirchler/status/803715181645856768
The Amazon Echo Dot made me
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A questionable watch band
I picked up my Apple Watch band last night from my local Apple Store and eagerly brought it home, giddy
Links
Austin Mann’s iPhone 8 Plus Review
Austin Mann has done another amazing review of the newest iPhone’s camera:
While the iPhone 8 Plus looks essentially
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watchOS 4: The BirchTree Review
Last year's watchOS 3 was met with glowing reviews as it was a jam-packed release that drastically improved
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The BirchTree Podcast #32: watchOS 4 Review Preview
Why watchOS reviews are fundamentally different from iOS reviews, and 3 of the features in watchOS 4 that I think
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Apple’s removal of the App Store from iTunes screws over users, publishers, and developers
Removing the iOS App Store from iTunes makes a lot of sense. iTunes needs to slim down and become the