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Belkin’s wireless charging station juices up your iPhone XS and Apple Watch 4 – but it costs $159
It’s the time of year that my inbox fears the most: New iPhone Launch Day is customarily the day that accessory manufacturers choose to release all their new cases and cables and cords …
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Report: Apple Stores are having problems with iPhone and Apple Watch pickups worldwide
According to MacRumors readers and social media users around the world, Apple Stores have been having technical issues with completing in-store pickup orders for customers. People with reservations for iPhone and Apple Watch devices have …
Business
T-Mobile says its 5G network will bring home broadband to half the country
The regulatory discussion over the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint is chugging along at the usual speed of government bureaucracy, but new details about T-Mobile’s plans post-merger are slowly leaking out. In a …
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AT&T has a fantastic $30-a-month, totally unlimited data plan – but you need an Airstream to buy it
While all four major carriers all offer “unlimited” data plans these days, every one of them comes with more strings attached than something called “unlimited” should reasonably have. They’re all subject to deprioritization …
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Report details how fake Apple products end up sold by Amazon
Apple sees nothing wrong with charging $19 for a single Lightning-to-USB cable and $9 for the privilege of using your headphones with your $1,000 phone, so it’s no real surprise that the trade …
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FCC leak suggests Google’s Home Hub display is about to be released
Google is holding an event on October 9th, at which we’re expecting to see the new generation of Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL. But an event revealing just a new pair of …
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The first iOS 12.1 public beta with Group FaceTime is available right now
iOS 12 was released to the masses last week, so as per Apple’s tradition, we’re getting our first look at the next version of iOS 12 this week. Although decimal-point versions of iOS …
Business
Undercover report details how Ticketmaster is shadier than you could possibly imagine
Ticketmaster is one of the few companies that can compete with Comcast or payday lenders in the stakes to be America’s most-hated company, and a new report really isn’t going to help. Canada’s CBC sent …
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That Apple wireless AirPod charging case is delayed, so Huawei is making one instead
One of the minor new products that we were expecting to see at Apple’s fall iPhone event last week was a new wireless charging case for Apple’s signature AirPods. Given that Apple is …
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Report: Apple expects the iPhone XR to sell more than the iPhone XS and XS Max combined
Reviews of the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max are starting to flood in, and while the phones get top marks across the board, there’s one other common theme in most reviews: Just …
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AT&T is already dreaming up ways to milk 5G for every possible cent
After literal years of breathless hype, 5G is finally set to arrive. Verizon is rolling out the first sorta-5G network in a handful of neighborhoods starting October 1st, and AT&T will be following …
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Smart speakers might be popular, but the HomePod sure isn’t
Five years ago, “digital prophets” were predicting that the future would be made up of digital villages and brand mindshare. Even the more grounded technologists were predicting that by 2018, we’d all be …
