Category: WATCH

Google made several jokes about Apple and the iPhones at its event to show off the new Pixel 2. The search giant repeatedly took aim at the iPhone’s dual lenses, colors, storage space, and other features.
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Early reviews of the Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE found a critical bug with its cellular connection that prevented it from working as advertised. The problem was actually related to WiFi, Apple representatives told Business Insider during a briefing.
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You may have thought that when watchOS 4 arrived, that would be that. After all, it was a stable, solid release and almost everything that had been promised had been delivered, such as the Toy Story animated Watch face and exceptional, detailed heart rate …
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9to5Toys Lunch Break delivers the best deals every day of the week at 12:30PM EST. This includes price drops on all sorts of Apple products from iPad to MacBook and everything in between, as well as HomeKit gear, accessories of all kinds and so much more.
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Apple’s moves in the space, plus supply chain reports both suggest that the upcoming micro LED display technology is an obvious choice for a future Apple Watch —with recent production equipment breakthroughs suggesting that Apple’s purchase of LuxVue in …
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Last week I splashed into an underground university pool with an Apple Watch Series 3. As the company’s wearable has matured, Apple has marketed it more and more as a fitness device, one that’s, thanks to a partnership with Nike, particularly well-suited …
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Apple, Fitbit, and Samsung may be competing for smartwatch sales, but the companies have similar issues when it comes to health advancements in their wearables: too much red tape. Now the three companies are part of a new government-run pilot program that …
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The Apple Watch Series 3, unveiled on Sept. 12, arrived with some compelling fitness features, along with an LTE cellular connection in some versions that lets users receive calls and text messages without having to carry a smartphone. The Apple Watch …
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In preparation of this week’s release of the Nike+ version of Apple Watch Series 3, Nike on Monday updated its Nike+ Run Club app with a new Audio Guided Runs feature, a social networking function called Cheers and other features highlighted during the …
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Major League Baseball on Monday announced the Oakland Athletics recently trialled a contactless ticketing system that relies on Apple NFC assets to let customers enter the stadium with the tap of an iPhone or Apple Watch. The pilot, which ran for six home …
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Apple is ramping up the orders ahead of Christmas. Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Mac The holiday season is always good for Apple, and this year is no exception. Along with the iPhone X’s possible record pre-orders and better-than-initially-thought iPhone 8 …
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Digitimes says a number of Apple suppliers of the wearable products are all predicting strong growth in Q4. Quanta Computer, Inventec as well as the ASE group’s Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) and the Foxconn group’s Shunsin Technology and …
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After years of flailing mediocrity, smartwatches have gotten good enough to be mainstream. Two devices released in the last month, the Apple Watch Series 3 and the Fitbit Ionic, are the best we’ve seen. Not only are they both very, very good at telling …
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Last week, excited new Apple Watch owners tried to activate their new cellular wrist devices on networks such as AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. Unfortunately, many were not able to make calls or receive messages. The problems were especially prevalent on AT …
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Certainly Apple has attempted to address this with the inclusion of the new LTE version. This attempts to make the Apple Watch Series 3 a more independent device, capable of operating without the continually attendant iPhone smartphone. LTE is supposed to …
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The Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE is getting middling reviews. That’s not about the Apple Watch, which is terrific. The problem is the LTE. With that tiny Apple Watch battery, it only has about an hour of talk time. I’ve been thinking a lot this week about …
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