The new 3D Touch feature of the iPhone 6s is getting all the attention on release week, as it should, but there’s another major addition that has Apple fans excited: 4K video recording.
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Exclusive interview: Linux creator explains why a truly secure computing platform will never exist
Twenty-four years ago this month, a Finnish developer with a sharp tongue who’s regarded by some as one of the most influential programmers alive today released version 0.01 of the Linux kernel to the Internet.
Creator Linus Torvalds introduced it by posting a message in the days before its release to a Usenet newsgroup that famously began: “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu).” Since then, the code base has of course expanded — from 10,000+ lines of code to millions — and it helps power everything from TVs to tablets to smartphones, routers and more.
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Sprint boasts that no one is lining up to buy the iPhone 6s at its stores
Sprint’s marketing team might want to rethink its latest tweet. On iPhone 6s launch day, Sprint’s Twitter account sent out a picture of two men happily holding up their new iPhone 6s models along with the caption, “Sprint delivers the hottest phone AND rescues you from lines.”
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10 awesome iPhone 6s apps with 3D Touch support
The iPhone 6s is finally here with a host of new features, not the least of which is 3D Touch. As we detailed previously, 3D Touch is one of the more important and exciting innovations to grace the iPhone in quite some time.
While Apple’s implementation of 3D Touch on its own apps looks great, developers are also starting to get in on the action. Below are 10 apps which are already putting 3D Touch to good use.
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Save 71% on a Chromo Android Tablet from Amazon
Do you have an old tablet? Need a new one? Check out this hot deal on Amazon for a Chromo Google 7″ Tablet with touchscreen for only $49.95 (that includes shipping). That’s a 71% savings as this tablet is normally priced at $120!
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Gameplay footage: Hands-on with Halo 5’s Arena multiplayer mode
It’s been ages since an entry in the Halo series lured me in with its multiplayer. I played Halo 2 obsessively with friends a decade ago, and custom modes in Halo: Reach’s Forge ate up several weeks of my life, but I’ve never had any real interest in playing Halo competitively for months after release.
That might change with Halo 5: Guardians.
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iPhone 6s: The real reason you should be excited about Apple’s 2GB RAM bump
We finally know how much RAM the iPhone 6s will have. Rumors have long claimed that Apple will use 2GB of RAM on the iPhone 6s series, and reports following Apple’s announcement event reinforced them – yet the iPhone maker never acknowledged this detail.
Meanwhile, iPhone 6s launch day arrived and the fearless team at iFixit tore through the new models almost immediately after the Australian Apple retail stores opened up for business on Friday. One of the team’s revelations concerned memory, but iFixit also revealed one more significant detail about it the new iPhone’s memory.
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iPhone 6s vs. iPhone 6s Plus: OIS 4K video recording shows the true potential of Apple’s new camera
Apple has excelled over the years at making the iPhone’s camera one of the most important assets of its smartphones, as only Samsung’s high-end flagship devices regularly rival the quality of Apple’s iPhone cameras
The iPhone 6s will be no different. Apple has significantly upgraded the camera performance of the handset, upping its megapixel count for the first time in years. In fact, the following video shows you the real potential of Apple’s camera tech… although it’s not going to be necessarily visible to customers choosing the 4.7-inch handset over the phablet-sized version.
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3D Touch: The first ‘killer feature’ we’ve seen on the iPhone in years
Somewhere along the way, the public started demanding that new smartphones come with killer new features. After a certain point, incremental upgrades, no matter how impressive they might be, simply weren’t enough to get anyone excited.
We see this dynamic play out in reviews all the time: a device will be highly praised but will lose a few points for not having a killer new feature. Now given that the current smartphone market has for quite some time been saturated with an endless array of new and gimmicky devices, it’s easy to see why handset manufacturers have been trying to come up with killer new features for years on end.
Only thing is, killer features, as a general rule, are few and far in between. The new 3D Touch feature on the iPhone 6s, however, is an exciting exception to this rule. In fact, 3D Touch is arguably the first ‘killer feature’ to grace the iPhone in years.
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The 5 most important iPhone innovations of all time
Apple doesn’t always come up with new smartphone innovations first — in fact, it’s often followed behind flagship Android phones in several different areas, most notably in the realm of bigger screen sizes. That doesn’t mean Apple hasn’t produced anything innovative since releasing the first iPhone, however. Below we’ll go through the five key innovations that Apple got to first and discuss their impact on the smartphone industry as a whole.
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