Looking for the cheapest place to preorder an iPhone 6? Don’t go to Apple!
On Friday, Apple and its partners in various countries will start taking preorders for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones that will hit stores a week later – in typical Apple mid-September iPhone launch fashion – and while the new devices will be available both for full and subsidized prices, you shouldn’t order you iPhone straight from Apple just yet, as better offers will be available from Walmart and Sam’s Club, CNET reports.
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WOW: $220 worth of paid iPhone and iPad apps you can get for free right now
Dollar value and app quality definitely don’t always correlate, but there’s no question that today’s batch of paid iPhone and iPad apps gone free marks our biggest single-day total ever in terms of the combined value of the apps on the list. We comb through iOS app sales each and every day in order to highlight the best of the bunch for you, and there are seven apps we’d like to share today that can all be downloaded for free is you act fast.
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HUGE WINDOWS 9 LEAK: This is the Windows 9 leak we’ve been waiting for
At long last, Windows users, the Start menu will be coming back. A new series of leaked pictures provided by German website ComputerBase give us our best look yet at Windows 9, including the newly redesigned Start menu that users have been begging for since the release of Windows 8 in 2012.
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Which new iPhone 6 model is right for you? Here’s the easiest way to find out
Is 4.7 inches too small? Is 5.5 inches too monstrous? With insanely high demand and preorder availability that is fast approaching, Apple fans who want to have a new iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus in their hands on launch day have a tough decision to make: Which new model should they purchase?
The iPhone 6 is clearly the more manageable model, but the 6 Plus has a full HD display and optical image stabilization. Decisions, decisions…
While you can’t get your hands on either new iPhone to try until next Friday, September 19th, there’s now a wonderfully simple way to determine which new Apple handset is the proper size for you.
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Switzerland shouldn’t fear the Apple Watch right now… but that will soon change
It’s safe to say that executives for Swiss watch companies slept soundly last night after seeing the debut of the Apple Watch. While many were hoping for a piece of luxury craftsmanship that would leave Switzerland scrambling, what Apple actually delivered was a square-shaped device that looks very bulky on your wrist. That said, this is no time for Swiss execs to get complacent — after all, that’s what Nokia and BlackBerry did just after the launch of the first-generation iPhone.
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Good luck, Apple fans: The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus might be impossible to find at launch
To say excitement is mounting for the launch of Apple’s newly announced iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus handsets is a massive understatement. Apple fans around the world are busy devising their strategies for getting their hands on Apple’s new iPhone models as soon as possible once they become available, and it looks like Apple is expecting record demand for its new models this year. In fact, you won’t believe how many new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus handsets Apple is planning to ship this year, according to a new report. The apparent timing of Apple’s new iPhone shipments is raising some red flags though, and it looks like the new phones might be almost impossible to find at launch.
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Security researcher finds Facebook Messenger is loaded with ‘spyware type code’
As if you didn’t already have enough reasons to hate Facebook Messenger, now you have another one. Security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski tells Motherboard that he spent some time picking apart Facebook Messenger earlier this week and found that it’s positively loaded with “spyware type code” designed to track everything you do.
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SHOTS FIRED: I watched Samsung’s horrible new anti-iPhone 6 ads so you don’t have to
Unsurprisingly, Samsung has come out with anti-iPhone 6 ads, and it happened remarkably soon after the phone’s official announcement. But unlike previous Samsung hits at Apple, which were often pretty funny or at least somewhat clever, the new ads are just terrible.
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‘Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call’ review: Take a bow
It’s not easy to build a critically successful series around fan service, but that’s exactly what Square Enix has done with the Theatrhythm games. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy was a well-received rhythm game for the Nintendo 3DS that featured dozens of songs to play along to and plenty of characters to level up from the entirety of the Final Fantasy series. Curtain Call is it sequel, and although not much has changed, the additions should be more than enough to entice fans of the original.
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Amazon could have released an awesome smartphone… but then AT&T got involved
Amazon’s Fire Phone is hands down the biggest bomb of 2014 and it turns out we have AT&T to thank for it. The Information reports that Amazon and HTC started collaborating on a budget smartphone last fall but that AT&T stepped in to kill the device by saying it wouldn’t support Amazon’s higher-end Fire Phone if it didn’t get an exclusive on the budget phone as well.
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