iPhone 6s Plus beats best camera on DxOMark in photo and video tests
Recently crowned as the top camera on DxOMark, Sony’s Xperia Z5 smartphone had appeared to be the current gold standard for smartphone cameras. But a recent comparison between the iPhone 6s Plus and the Xperia Z5 seems to indicate that Apple’s new phone might be even better than Sony’s best smartphone camera for a number of reasons.
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Apple’s brilliant decision to drop its HDTV plans in favor of a new Apple TV
After nearly a decade of research, development, and prototyping, Apple not too long ago decided to completely scrap its plans to release an HDTV. Instead, the company regrouped and decided to go all in with a multipurpose set-top box, the fruits of which were unveiled last month with the introduction of the fourth-gen Apple TV.
Though Apple may have abandoned its HDTV plans, it still has its eyes firmly set on the living room. In fact, the company’s new Apple TV is much better positioned to infiltrate the living room than an HDTV would have ever been. What’s more, going the set-top box route will also prove to be much more lucrative for Apple in the long run. In short, Apple abandoning its HDTV plans and going all-in with a completely revamped Apple TV was a stroke of genius.
Here’s why.
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Amazon sale: 3 deals that will take care of all of your phone charging needs
If there’s one thing that can be said of any smartphone, it’s this: the battery never lasts as long as you want it to. Even if you have a giant phablet with a huge battery that packs more than a full day of power, you’re still going to find yourself in a situation at some point where you’re running out of juice and you’re nowhere near your home or office to plug in. Well, you should be packing chargers on the go, and today we have three deals that will accommodate all of your charging needs.
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What an ex-Tesla employee thinks about Elon Musk ripping Apple
Tesla CEO Elon Musk caused a big stir late on Thursday when he said that Apple’s automotive project was a “Tesla graveyard” filled with engineers who weren’t good enough to hack it at his company. A former Tesla employee named Victoria Ernestine has taken to Quora to explain why Musk felt the need to bash former employees who left for Apple and she goes a long way toward explaining what it’s really like to work for Tesla.
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How to learn all the best things you can ask Siri
Siri got off to a rocky start in the early days. Apple decided to launch its voice-powered digital assistant as a beta and as a result, many people had bad experiences with Siri from the get go. Now, Siri remains an afterthought for a huge percentage of iPhone and iPad owners. Even people who do use Siri likely only use a small fraction of the service’s capabilities.
The truth is that Siri has grown to become an outstanding and comprehensive service with more features than any one user will ever discover. While it’s certainly impressive, Siri’s broad range of functionality also poses a problem: How are users supposed to know what Siri features might suit them best if it’s so difficult to even discover all of the things Siri can do?
Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.
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Here’s every new Star Wars, Marvel and Pixar movie coming between now and 2020
Disney has bold plans for the next 4+ years, and the company has now announced every single movie it plans to release through 2020. Hotly anticipated new Star Wars, Marvel and Pixar titles are in the works, and below you’ll find a complete list of Disney projects along with all of their tentative launch dates.
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The 10 wealthiest people in the history of the world, according to TIME
Extreme wealth, in more recent times, has tended to accumulate in the hands of individuals who have been at the forefront of either industrial and technological revolutions. From the wealth Cornelius Vanderbilt amassed building railroads in the 1800s to the impressive fortune Bill Gates amassed as the CEO of Microsoft, many of the world’s richest men over the past two centuries or so are likely familiar names.
But if we take a step back and look at the richest individuals to have ever lived, the list becomes a whole lot more interesting. While more recent manifestations of wealth can be seen in the realm of industry and technology, more ancient manifestations of wealth arose in contexts of sheer power and, at times, old-fashioned military domination.
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Hurry: Anyone can buy the OnePlus 2 without an invite beginning at 3PM today
We had some great things to say when we published our OnePlus 2 review back in August. For as little as $329 with no wireless service contract, the OnePlus 2 delivers design and build quality that surpass smartphones that cost twice as much money — or even more. The phone also packs a nice big display and performance that can easily keep pace many top phones on the market in real-world use. Finally, the OnePlus 2 offers an Android experience that is as close to pure as you can get without using stock Android.
The problem, of course, is that it’s very difficult to actually purchase a OnePlus 2 because you need to score an invitation first. At least, that’s usually the case…
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BlackBerry might finally stop making phones
The day of reckoning is almost here for BlackBerry fans still clinging to their BlackBerry 10 devices. Per VentureBeat, BlackBerry CEO John Chen told the Code Mobile conference this week that the company is planning to merge BlackBerry 10 with Android in the near future, while saying that he’ll maintain BlackBerry 10 for at least another year presuming the shift over to Android goes as planned. The idea behind the BB 10-Android merger is to bring all of BlackBerry’s top security features over to Android, which would presumably make Android more attractive to enterprise customers.
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Last chance: These 5 Amazon tech deals expire today
BGR readers tend to love the roundups that the BGR Deals Team puts together from time to time, so we’ve got a nice one for you today. We do have some bad news along with this little tech deal roundup, however: each one of the five deals listed below ends today. That still gives you plenty of time to jump on anything that looks appealing though, and you’ll be happy you did because these prices can’t be beat.
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