For the first time ever, Apple will unveil iPhone models that will match the size of many competing products, including a 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and a 5.5-inch iPhone 6. While many people can’t wait to get their hands on an even bigger smartphone running iOS, some customers might worry that they’ll lose one feature they love about their device, and that’s one handed operation.
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Unless you’ve been paying close attention, you might be convinced that Destiny is a PlayStation 4 exclusive. This couldn’t be further from the truth — in fact, Bungie’s highly anticipated FPS is launching on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One next week, but because of an advertising deal between Activision and Sony, Microsoft has been prohibited from promoting the game for its consoles. But rather than accept its fate, Microsoft has found a clever way to let everyone know that Destiny will be coming out on Xbox One as well.
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Ah, the miracles of GoPro cameras and their ability to give us first-person views of things we’d never otherwise experience. This latest GoPro video comes to us courtesy of the Marum Volcano Expedition, which sent some of its people to the tiny island of Vanuatu located in the South Pacific Ocean to film some very-up-close footage of an active volcano.
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One of the downsides of so many celebrities using your devices is that you’ll share the blame when anything privacy-related affects them. Apple’s iCloud services have been blamed for the hack that resulted in multiple celebrities having their nude pictures leaked all over the Internet, although Apple later revealed that it wasn’t a widespread iCloud hack that’s actually to blame for the huge personal data leak, but rather other factors that are independent from Apple’s iCloud security measures.
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Apple is getting ready for its biggest iPhone launch yet, but, just like with any other product, some people may not be completely happy with their upcoming iPhone 6 purchases and will return their units for various reasons. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Apple has a special team for that kind of customer experience that is ready to handle returned devices as fast as possible, a procedure that could save the company millions of dollars on the long run.
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The Moto 360 is a great looking device and is easily the prettiest smartwatch we’ve seen to date. However, one theme has come up in early reviews of the device that should give anyone preparing to shell out $250 for it pause: It apparently has subpar battery life.
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Chicago’s historic Merchandise Mart was at one time the largest building in the world, occupying more than five acres of land and housing roughly four million square feet of floor space. Built in 1930 and owned for a period of time by the Kennedy family, the building has seen hundreds of businesses pass through its doors over the past 84 years.
But none of the building’s tenants have put the space to use quite like Motorola.
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Motorola on Friday unveiled a variety of new products, including the new Moto X flagship smartphone, the bigger but still affordable second-generation Moto G handset and the gorgeous Moto 360 smartwatch that’s probably one of the most coveted Android Wear devices out there.
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While Apple is in the process of finalizing iOS 8.0 for a release to consumers in the next week or two, we have been told by sources that the company is already preparing to seed a new version of iOS to testing partners. iOS 8.0.1 is currently planned to be seeded shortly and should contain further enhancements to iOS 8.
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One of the never-before-seen iPhone features that the iPhone 6 will be able to deliver is NFC-based wireless payments. As many reports have detailed, Apple has already inked deals with major card providers including American Express, MasterCard and Visa. But that’s not the only kind of deals Apple made ahead of its wireless payments attack, as Bank Innovation reveals that the iPhone maker has already reached deals with five major financial institutions including American Express, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Capital One and Bank of America to lower card transaction fees for the upcoming iPhone 6 feature.
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