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iPhone 6 better in every way: display, performance, photos, videos, battery life, and network speed — The iPhones 6 — The Big Picture — A few days into testing the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, I accidentally left my personal iPhone 5S on a desk next to the iPhone 6 Plus.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
iPhone 6 Plus Review: The First Truly Well-Designed Big Smartphone — Apple is launching not one, but two premium smartphones today, and the iPhone 6 Plus is the one many probably were skeptical even existed just a few short months ago. With a screen size measuring 5.5-inches across the diagonal … | Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
iPhone 6: a great upgrade for iPhone owners, and the best smartphone you can buy — iPhone 6 Review: It's a Winner — After stubbornly resisting for years, Apple has finally joined the big-screen smartphone movement with its two latest models, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which go on sale Friday.
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Thanks:@sidharthdassani| Bonnie Cha / Re/code: |
SwiftKey, Swype and QuickType keyboards on iPhone 6 make typing easier, faster — New Keyboards Bring Faster, Easier Typing to the iPhone 6 — Imagine a smartphone keyboard that was intelligent enough to predict what you were going to type next. One that could save you from pecking letter …
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus: A tale of scale — I've been using the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus for the last week, since Apple's big event on Sept. 9. You can read my full review on Macworld—it's my final byline there. You can also listen to episode 1 of my new podcast, Upgrade …
Tweets: @counternotions, @reppep and @nnnnnnnn
| David Pogue / Yahoo Tech: |
Reviewed: iPhone 6 is a Thin, Sexy Phone with a Killer Camera — When Apple unveiled the iPhone 6 last week, it made the front pages of newspapers. It dominated Google Search and Twitter. It triggered an avalanche of sniping and worshiping on the Web's comment boards. — About a phone?
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple iOS 8 Review: A New Phone Without Buying One — The Updated Operating System Might Not Look Very Different, but Will Give an Older iPhone a New Lease on Life — Forget the iPhone 6, Apple's newest software upgrade brings big changes as well. WSJ Personal Tech Columnist Joanna Stern dives …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Initial Apple Watch thoughts: gold version could start at $5K, stainless $1K; unclear how Apple and the market will deal with its technology growing old fast — Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations — Consider Vertu, the company that sells $6,000 Android phones (and which, back in the day, sold $6,000 Symbian phones).
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Thanks:@sidharthdassani| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Foxconn struggles with iPhone 6 demand despite 200K workers making 540K phones/day — Foxconn Struggles to Meet New iPhone Demand — Apple fans may have to wait for weeks to get the new iPhones as Apple's major assembler Foxconn appears to be struggling to boost its production to meet strong demand.
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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Material design screenshots leaked for Google Play Store 5.0 update — An Exclusive Early Look At The Google Play Store's 5.0 Update — A couple of months ago, we shared an early look at an impending Play Store update that saw more “materialized” content listings, but the rest of the interface remained largely unchanged.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Sony's inability to sell smartphones is costing it $1.7 billion — Sony has just revised its annual earnings forecast with the addition of a major 180 billion yen (roughly $1.7 billion) “goodwill impairment charge.” This relates to Sony's Mobile Communications (MC) business … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Codenamed “Moments”, Facebook Has Built An App For Super-Private Sharing — Facebook has failed repeatedly to get us to use complicated lists and privacy settings to share intimate moments with just our closest friends and family. It's clumsy and confusing doing that with the same composer for blasting News Feed updates to everyone.
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| Ravi Grover / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook adds label cohorts and retention charts to app analytics for developers — Introducing improved analytics tools for app developers — Today we're excited to announce that we're launching new tools within App Insights to let you better measure the performance of your app among specific groups …
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Microsoft raises its dividend by 11%, adds Kraft and Visa execs to board as Dave Marquardt and Dina Dublon retire — Microsoft announces board changes and quarterly dividend increase — Teri List-Stoll of Kraft and Charles W. Scharf of Visa to join board; Dave Marquardt and Dina Dublon …
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| Andy Pasztor / Wall Street Journal: |
Jeff Bezos's startup Blue Origin joins Boeing to ferry NASA astronauts from the international space station — Amazon Founder's Startup Part of Bid to Deliver Astronauts — Jeff Bezos's space-exploration startup Blue Origin is part of a team led by Boeing that is expected to soon garner …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Launches Guide for Android Users Switching to iPhone — Ahead of the launch of the large-screened iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, Apple has released a detailed support document that walks Android users through moving data from their Android devices to the iPhone.
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Official Apple Support, iMore, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Electronista, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Redmond Pie, iLounge, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Lisa Eadicicco / Business Insider: |
Google's rumored Android Silver program put on hold after departure of senior VP Nikesh Arora — Google Might Postpone Its Radical Plan To Change The Way Android Phones Are Sold — Google might delaying its rumored Android Silver program, a re-branding effort that would give high-end Android smartphones …
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The Information, Phandroid, The Verge, Droid Life, Greenbot, Pocketnow, Android Police, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, Pocket-lint and Gizmodo
| Cherlynn Low / Laptop Mag: |
ZTE ZMAX hands-on: 5.7" HD screen, 3,400-mAH battery, available Sept 24 at T-Mobile for $250 unlocked — ZTE ZMAX: Huge 3,400-mAH Battery, 5.7-inch Screen for $250 — NEW YORK - Apple wants you to pay an extra $100 for the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus, but ZTE is giving you a bigger screen for less.| Ahmed Ghappour / Just Security: |
Justice Department Proposal Would Massively Expand FBI Extraterritorial Surveillance — A Department of Justice proposal to amend Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure would make it easier for domestic law enforcement to hack into computers of people attempting to protect their anonymity on the Internet.
Tweets: @freebarrett_, @juliaharte1, @mala, @kashhill and @trevortimm
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Round two of Microsoft layoffs coming September 18: Sources — Summary: Microsoft will continue with its planned layoffs of 18,000 with job cuts across nearly all divisions of the company with its second wave of cuts later this week. — Later this week, Microsoft will lay off another group …
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| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Automatic Labs partners with Ford, adding Siri and IFTTT to SYNC-enabled vehicles — Who needs CarPlay? Ford brings Siri to the car dashboard now with the help of Automatic Labs — Ford and Automatic have figured out a way of shoehorning Apple's Siri personal assistant into older model vehicles.
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The Next Web, media.ford.com, Automatic Blog and SlashGear
| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Rackspace no longer exploring sale, names current president Taylor Rhodes CEO, falls 17% after hours — Rackspace No Longer for Sale, Names New CEO — Rackspace, the cloud computing player that has been for sale since May, ended that process today, saying it intends to remain independent.
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