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Introduced in 2007 by Steve Jobs, iPhone is Apple's flagship iOS device and easily its most popular product around the world. The iPhone runs iOS and includes a large collection of mobile apps through the App Store.

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Introduced in 2007 by Steve Jobs, iPhone is Apple’s flagship iOS device and easily its most popular product around the world. Software wise, it runs iOS and includes a large collection of mobile apps through the App Store.

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Since its introduction, Apple has released at least one new phone every single year. In recent years, that has typically been in the fall. iPhones are sold through multiple retail channels including Apple Stores, cellular stores, Best Buy, and other major electronic retailers. iPhones can be bought with a single up front payment, financed through the iPhone Upgrade Program, or financed through a cellular carrier.

Apple’s smartphone has become much more than just a phone since its debut. The iPhone can act as your primary camera, music player, GPS device, email client, mobile banking system, messaging device, movie player, and much more.

Current Lineup for 2019:

Discontinued Models:

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Comment: A Bixby button is Samsung’s worst ever smartphone idea; Apple should copy it

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy Feb 22 2019 - 6:21 am PT
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Bixby button

If you thought Siri had its haters, that’s nothing compared to the comments many owners of Samsung smartphones make about the Korean company’s voice assistant, Bixby. Samsung then compounded the problem by introducing a dedicated Bixby hardware button on several devices.

That was quite possibly Samsung’s worst ever smartphone idea: take a feature many of your customers hate, and then use up space on your devices to activate it. Oh, and position it directly beneath the volume rocker, where it’s almost guaranteed to be pressed accidentally …


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Galaxy Fold ‘the main challenge’ for Apple; Samsung may withhold OLED tech

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy Feb 22 2019 - 4:09 am PT
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Samsung Galaxy Fold is 'the main potential challenge' for Apple

The Samsung Galaxy Fold, the foldable smartphone the Korean company unveiled yesterday, is ‘the main potential challenge’ for Apple, says Goldman Sachs.

The bank – which is partnering with Apple in the launch of a new credit card later this year – believes the Fold could prove troublesome for Apple in two ways …


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Apple’s iPhone financing focus continues with new Alipay China plan to bolster sales

Avatar for Peter Cao Feb 21 2019 - 10:22 am PT
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With Apple’s ongoing efforts to generate more sales of the latest iPhones, the company is now advertising another deal for users in China. According to WSJ, Apple has teamed up with Alipay, a popular mobile-payments network in China, to offer an interest-free loan for users looking to purchase an iPhone through Apple’s online store.


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Comment: Samsung’s Galaxy Fold may be premature, but I still see a foldable iPhone in our future

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy Feb 21 2019 - 7:52 am PT
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Foldable iPhone Samsung Galaxy Fold

We got one step closer yesterday to a foldable iPhone when Samsung’s real-world folding smartphone was unveiled on stage: the Galaxy Fold.

Samsung first promised a foldable smartphone way back in 2013, when it was complete fiction. It followed this by teasing a prototype device in November last year. We didn’t get much of a look at it, and I had my own suspicions about the timing of that preview.

But yesterday, Samsung announced that the Fold will go on sale in April …


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With four estimates of Q1 iPhone shipments now out, Gartner is the most pessimistic

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy Feb 21 2019 - 4:24 am PT
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iPhone 11 2020 OLED

Apple didn’t reveal its fiscal Q1 iPhone shipments or sales this time around. We know from its revenue of $84.3B that sales must have been significantly down year-on-year, but we’re dependant on market intelligence companies to provide estimates of the actual numbers for the holiday quarter.

We’ve previously seen estimates from Counterpoint, IDC and Strategy Analytics – and now Gartner has completed the set with the most pessimistic view of the four …


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How to check if your iPhone is unlocked

Avatar for Peter Cao Feb 21 2019 - 12:01 am PT
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There are a few ways to check whether or not your iPhone is unlocked. For those out of the loop, if your iPhone is unlocked, this means that it is able to be used with most carriers around the world. If your iPhone is “locked” this means that you can only use it with the original carrier it was intended for.

Typically, a locked phone means that you’re still making payments with the carrier, or an iPhone purchased from a carrier as opposed to one purchased directly from Apple.


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4G speeds

US average 4G download speeds ranked 47th among 77 countries in large-scale study

Avatar for Michael Potuck Feb 20 2019 - 9:21 am PT
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A new report from Opensignal today takes an in-depth look at global 4G network performance across 77 countries. As it highlights the shortcomings of 4G, the report shares how 5G should solve many of the pain points like network congestion and widely variable network speeds. Among other interesting points, it also ranked the countries it tested with the US coming in 47th out of 77 for average download speed.


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How should iPhone 11 wireless power sharing work? [Poll]

Avatar for Michael Potuck Feb 18 2019 - 12:20 pm PT
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Among the exciting predictions that Ming-Chi Kuo shared for Apple’s 2019 hardware lineup yesterday was the iPhone 11 arriving with “bilateral wireless charging.” This could allow an iPhone to seamlessly juice up AirPods, other iPhones, or potentially any Qi-enabled device. Does this sound like a useful feature to you? How do you think it should work?


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iPhone 11 rumors predict ‘frosted glass casing’, something Google’s flagship already features

Avatar for Zac Hall Feb 18 2019 - 10:51 am PT
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frosted glass iphone 11 rumor

Reliable supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo dropped a treasure chest of Apple hardware rumors for 2019 over the weekend, including the first mention of a possible iPhone 11 design change. According to Kuo, Apple plans to use a “frosted glass casing” on the new flagship iPhones later this year — a design that would be totally new for iPhones.


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iPhone cellular speed comparison

Test compares cellular speeds for top iPhone models, difference between the iPhone 5s and XS, more

Avatar for Michael Potuck Feb 15 2019 - 7:11 am PT
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A new study from OpenSignal published today looks into the cellular performance of the most popular iPhones going back to 2013. While there’s nothing too surprising in the findings, it does nail down exactly what average speeds each model sees, how much owners of older iPhones are missing out, how much iPhone cellular speeds have grown over the years, and a few other interesting details.


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Hands-on: SliceCharge Pro, an AirPower-style multi-coil charger for $69

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy Feb 13 2019 - 7:05 am PT
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SliceCharge Pro review AirPower multi coil iPhone charger

Update: We’ve now received a number of reader complaints about this company, suggesting the company has not fulfilled crowdfunded orders ahead of public ones, and difficulties exchanging faulty products.

It’s now almost a year-and-a-half since Apple first teased AirPower, a multi-coil charger that lets you place your iPhone, Apple Watch or (as yet also fictitious) wireless AirPods case anywhere on the charging mat. We’re still no closer to knowing when it will actually be available.

Hard Cider Labs created a kind of poor man’s version last year, in the form of SliceCharge. That one didn’t have AirPower’s USP – overlapping coils that let you put your phone anywhere on the mat – but the new version does …


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