While most Apple products don’t offer a lot in the way of aesthetic variety, the Apple Watch is understandably a completely different beast. Despite housing a myriad of advanced and complex technologies, the Apple Watch remains, at its core, a piece of jewelry.

Apple, to its credit, understood this from the very beginning. As a result, the Apple Watch was introduced in an assortment of styles, not to mention two different sizes. Yet because the range of fashion styles is somewhat endless, not to mention prone to ebbs and flows in popularity, Apple has wisely chosen to allow third-party manufacturers to develop their own watch bands for the Apple Watch.

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Launching a new flagship smartphone on the same day Samsung released its new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge handsets seemed like a fool’s errand for HTC, and now that the numbers are in, it appears safe to say our assumptions were spot on.

While there’s no question that the HTC One M9 is a fantastic phone, most Android fans didn’t view it as a significant upgrade compared to last year’s One M8. As a result, the new phone hardly provided the sales boost HTC was hoping for, and the company’s revenue plummeted in April.

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With no shortage of rumors suggesting that Apple is working on a massive Apple TV refresh, the New York Times reports that Apple is also planning to introduce a completely re-designed remote for its beloved set-top box.

The new Apple TV remote will offer expanded input options in the form of a touch pad.

“The touch pad can be used for scrolling around and there will also be two physical buttons,” the Times writes.

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As recent quarters have shown, Apple’s tablet sales aren’t as spectacular as they used to be, yet the company is still selling millions of iPads each quarter. And sales aren’t expected to pick up anytime soon, a new report from Digitimes says. According to sources from Apple’s supply chain, iPad shipments will be down over 20% in 2015 compared to last year, even though Apple is expected to launch new tablet versions this year, including a “revised” 7.9-inch iPad mini 4 and a bigger 12.9-inch iPad Pro.

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Smartphone buyers looking to score a great deal on a top-tier Android flagship handset should check out Motorola’s new special Moto X offer that’s valid only for a day. Android Central says the company revealed in an email its 2014 flagship handset will be available for $225 off the regular price on May 5th starting at 11 a.m. CT, through May 6th at 11 a.m. CT.

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Apple says there already are more than 3,500 apps ready for the Watch, but don’t be surprised if some of them don’t work very well just yet. Developers and users alike are still learning what can be done with the Watch when it comes to iPhone apps extending some of their functionality to the smaller screen, and it’s likely that apps will get much better in the future.

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Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen both AT&T and Verizon get into hot water for slowing down customers’ data speeds despite the fact that they had signed up for “unlimited” data plans. However, it looks like T-Mobile is now also slowing down its own customers who have “unlimited” LTE data plans in some situations, although the carrier insists that what it’s doing is different from straight-up throttling.

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