We recap all of the news from Cupertino, offer analysis of the iPhone X, and give you advice about which iPhone to buy.
Daily Archives: September 12, 2017
Apple today announced the digital equivalent of a singing telegram, a perversion of the emoji concept that embodies the worst of both the company’s exclusionary philosophy and the worst of CG animals and excreta. Animoji are dumb and I loathe them. Here’s why. Read MoreAnimoji are dumb and I detest them
Robots are going to have to work together if they want to destroy us, their soft, fallible masters. But the current paradigm of having a Skynet-like (or rather, Zerglike) overmind control a set of semi-autonomous drones is too easy to beat — take out the brain and the rest fail, right? Not if they’re all the brain, which is the idea demonstrated in a wonderful new paper in Nature. Read MoreModular, self-healing robot swarms are definitely a great idea
Apple’s Series 3 smartwatch may look the same on the outside as the previous generation (albeit with a new ceramic gray options and contrasting red-tipped digital crown) but what they have inside might help kick the somewhat sleepy wearable category into high gear. To be clear, Apple isn’t the first to put cellular connectivity into a smartwatch – but it is the first to put… Read MoreApple’s LTE-enabled Watch could be a wearable watershed moment
After spending a few minutes with iPhone X, I understood what Tim Cook meant when he called it "the future of the smartphone."
Hands-On with the iPhone X: Our First Look at Face ...
It's not all iPhones: Apple showed off a brand new Apple Watch, upgrades to Apple TV, and a host of other features coming to Apple's ecosystem.
Everything Apple Announced: iPhone X, iPhone 8, Face ID, Animoji, ...
Testing cameras is what DxOMark does, but while many DSLRs and mirrorless systems have remained more or less the same for the last decade, one can hardly say the same for mobile phones. Dual lenses, optical zoom and more are now marquee features and as such need special testing setups and scoring benchmarks — which is what DXOMark just added to the mix. Read MoreZoom, artificial bokeh and other phone camera features now figure ...
Apple’s September event is always a big one. And this year is no different. There were new iPhones, a new Apple Watch and even a new Apple TV. Surprisingly, Apple announced not one, not two but three different iPhone models — including a mysterious iPhone X.
In case you missed it, here’s everything Apple announced today. Read MoreEverything Apple announced at its iPhone X keynote
Steve Jobs said “Simple can be harder than complex”, so it looks like Apple is taking the easy route. Customers will now have to choose between 8 different iPhones with today’s addition of the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and X. That’s a tons of specs and options to compare, and we’re not even talking about color or storage size. Now there’s: The cheap and tiny… Read MoreThe iPhone lineup just got really compleX
The Apple TV 4K is here, and it has both 4K resolution (as the name implies) and HDR support, which means it can work with the latest TVs, projectors and content formats for better picture, brighter colors and generally improved visuals. But neit...