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2017 iPhone Rumors Roundup
I thought it would be fun to look back on calendar year 2017 and judge all the iPhone rumors now that we know what the new iPhones actually are. I used only rumors that made it to MacRumors since it was the best “pulse” I think is out there for this sort of thing.
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Should you force quit your iOS apps? Let’s look at the data
Please note that this article only addresses the merits of closing your apps to save battery life. If you close your apps because you just don't like apps in the app switcher, then you do you.
Ah, the perennial debate between people who force close their apps on iOS and those who don’
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The iPhone is the camera I’ve used to capture my life.
Austin Mann wrote his own unique blog post about 10 years with the iPhone, and he summed up the importance of this line of phones very nicely as "the camera I've used to capture my life."
I think that's a very powerful statement, and is not something most people
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A $150 Android phone's camera challenges the $769 iPhone 7 Plus
The iPhone 7 Plus is widely regarded to have one of if not the best cameras in any smartphone out there. Meanwhile, the Nextbit Robin was released last spring and cost $399. At the time it was described as having a decent, but not amazing camera, and at about $150-200 in most places now,
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The most evolved representation of the iPhone
iPhone 7 is the most singular, most evolved representation of this design.
Jony Ive said this in the design video for the iPhone 7 last September, and the line struck me at the time as an indication that this was the ultimate form of the original iPhone design. Like any truly great design, they'
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Is this the first iPhone 8 leak?
We've made it all the way to April without so much as a peep from the supply chain on any leaked parts from this fall's new iPhone. That may have changed this morning as a someone posted what could be the schematics for the new phone to Weibo.
There has been
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10 years of iPhone
I think the iPhone will go down as the single most important consumer tech product released in my lifetime. The personal computer likely gets the edge for those a bit older than me (the Macintosh came out just over a year before I was born), but the impact of the smartphone can not be overstated,
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Concept: Touch Bar on the iPhone
This is out there, but indulge me for a minute.
We can all agree the Touch Bar is going to be on more Macs than just the MacBook Pros that just came out. It will likely be a staple of all Macs from 2017 on, but what if Apple's aspirations for the Touch
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Criticizing the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Screens is a Fools Errand
I was reading The Verge's review of the Moto Z Play, Lenovo's latest phone in the Moto line, and got this this bit about how the phone was able to achieve such impressive battery life:
Lenovo found an approach that allowed the company to make a phone you can charge up
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The iPhone 7 Plus Gets Shots I've Never Seen from a Smartphone
Yesterday I wrote about breaking the iPhone 7's portrait mode, but I actually really love the camera and felt it only fair to share a few of the nicer photos I've gotten from this incredible lens. I'm only scratching the surface of what is possible, but I'm
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Purposely Breaking the iPhone 7 Plus's Portrait Mode
Apple shipped the iOS 10.1 beta this week with it's much anticipated "portrait mode" on the iPhone 7 Plus. Lots of people are sharing the beautiful pictures this feature can create. Here are a few of my favorites:
https://twitter.com/oliverames/status/779689241999802368
https://twitter.com/imyke/status/779484838910910464
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Initial Impressions of the iPhone 7 Plus
I just got my iPhone 7 Plus delivered last night so I'm a week late to the party, but I felt I had to share some thoughts on the first 12 hours with the phone.
The first thing that jumped out to me was how nice the display looks. Colors are richer than
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Shipping Lightning Headphones with the iPhone Would Confirm Apple Skeptics' Worst Assumptions
We are just 3 days away from seeing the iPhone 7, and the smart thinking is that this new iPhone will indeed remove the headphone jack. There's a lot os smoke at this point, and I'd be shocked if we do see that round port on the new iPhone. I'
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The iPhone 6 Design is Defined by Compromises
Fashion is different for all people, and what I like may be hideous to you. Taste is impossible to quantify, but on the internet everyone likes to speak in absolutes, so debates tend to devolve into "no, you're wrong!" shouting matches. Even debates over semantics turn into both sides digging in
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If You Still Think Samsung Phones Suck, You Have To Admit You Just Don't Want to Like Samsung
Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 7 this week the narrative online has been the same as it has for years whenever Samsung releases anything. Apple fanboys have grabbed onto everything about this phone that is less than the iPhone, and Android fans have generally approved of the device due to its exhaustive feature list (something
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Should You Install the iOS 10 Beta on Your iPhone or iPad?
No
You might be tempted to install the iOS 10 beta on your iPhone or iPad, but trust me when I tell you it's not worth the risks or headaches yet. We're not even to the public beta yet, and by then I would expect things to be in better shape,
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The Watch-ification of iOS
I watched the Apple keynote yesterday and thought the new features of iOS 10 looked good, but it wasn't until I installed it on my iPhone that I realized just how eerily similar a lot of these new features feel to what I enjoy everyday on my Apple Watch.
Raise to wake looks
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No One Will Ever Need More Than 16GB of Storage
You know how we always hear those quotes from people saying "who would ever need more than ___ of XYZ?" and just laugh? Did somebody at Apple say that once and it's treated as fact? 9to5Mac has some rumors on the new iPhone 7 Plus.
What’s notable, though, is that the