You don’t need a high-end flagship phone to have a good experience — in fact, it turns out you can be perfectly happy with a dirt-cheap device. Engineer Abhishek Anand writes about his recent experience downgrading from a flagship Sony Xperia ZL smartphone to a $75 Moto E that he bought on Flipkart. The bottom line is that he’s much, much happier overall with his dirt-cheap phone than he was with his flagship device.
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Soon after the Galaxy S6 was launched, I pondered which Galaxy S6 features this year’s iPhone 6s handsets might also enjoy, including processor technology, RAM and memory storage type. Now, a new report seems to indicate that I got at least one detail correct.
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Apple Maps has had its fair share of issues over the years, but one of the most disappointing aspects of the service is its lack of directions for those of us who regularly use transit systems to get around. As a resident of New York City, Apple Maps just isn’t a feasible option for me at the moment (even if it did function properly), but according to 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman, transit support is finally coming to Apple Maps alongside the iOS 9 update next month.
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We’re finally starting to get a steady stream of leaks about Apple’s fall lineup of products, thanks once again to 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman. It seems that Apple is actually working on two different 12-inch iPad models that are now codenamed “J98” and “J99.” However, Gurman says that both devices aren’t yet far along enough to nail down a concrete release date because Apple is still working on their software and apparently hasn’t lined up sufficient hardware components to produce the device at the appropriate scale.
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There’s more to online security than scanning for viruses and spyware once in a while. Safeguarding important information like your credit card numbers, passwords, phone number, and email address should be a top priority. The first step: grab a lifetime subscription to Blur’s premium online privacy plan for $49.99 at the BGR Store.
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Apple is going to unveil iOS 9 at WWDC next month, and the first details about are slowly coming in. A new report shares info about a brand new iOS application you might find on your iPhone and iPad as soon as iOS 9 is rolled out this fall.
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Michael Bay is the butt of plenty of jokes these days thanks to his excessive use of special effects and explosions. In fact, in many of Bay’s most recent movies, it might be impossible to find any 5-minute period where at least one thing doesn’t explode. Bay’s big-budget blockbusters like the Transformers series certainly do well at the box office though — so what would happen if Bay’s Transformers made their way into some other movies we know and love?
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Every month, at least a few of the contracts between Netflix and its content providers expire, which means that some of your favorite shows and movies will vanish from the streaming service. Want to know what’s being removed in June? Read on to find out.
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True story: a little over a year ago, a friend of mine asked me to help him pick out an Android phone because he was tired of his iPhone. For a few hours spread out over the course of a week, we chatted off and on about what he didn’t like about the iPhone and what he was looking for in a new phone. We finally landed on the HTC One, and he went out and bought one the day his contract was up. But then just three days later, he switched back to his iPhone.
“I can’t live life as a green bubble,” he told me.
There is indeed something addictive about those little blue bubbles. But truth be told, iMessage is hardly a full-featured messaging platform. Its feature set is barebones at best, and now there’s a new feature in the BBM for iOS beta app that iMessage users will be jealous of.
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Summer has finally arrived, and along with it comes a whole new slate of shows and movies streaming on Netflix. Some of the highlights this June include The Aviator, The Butler, Nightcrawler and Transformers: Age of Extinction (if you’re into that sort of thing).
A few Netflix originals are either returning or debuting on the service this month as well, most notably Orange is the New Black and the new show from the Wachowskis, Sense8.
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