“The iPhone 6 Plus may bend in your pocket,” Opower’s Barry Fischer wrote in a blog post on Thursday, “but it won’t bend your energy bill higher.” We’ll forgive him for that one-liner, though, because it was written alongside a very interesting post that shares the results of Opower’s study examining how much it costs to charge the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus regularly for a year. Neither phone has class-leading battery life, and all that charging must add up, right?

Don’t worry, it’s actually much cheaper than you might think.

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It’s likely hard to assign fault for a botched software update to one person in a company as big as Apple, but a Bloomberg report seems to indicate that one of the same people responsible for the flawed 2012 Apple Maps rollout is also involved with the iOS 8.0.1 update that bricked iPhone 6 models earlier this week.

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If there’s one thing Apple seems to have nailed down as well as anyone else in the industry, it’s how to make an introduction. We still have plenty of questions about the practicality of the Apple Watch, but very few of us doubt that Apple is going to find a way to sell its first wearable device when it launches next year. In fact, the most vocal detractor of Apple’s smartwatch so far appears to be one of its former employees.

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Apple was quick to issue a fix for its botched iOS 8.0.1 release that bricked iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models, as the company rolled out iOS 8.0.2 on Thursday night. The latest update seems to have fixed most iOS 8.0.1 problems, enabling HealthKit apps in the process, but it looks like not all of the major issues in iOS 8.0.1 are gone.

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Another week is drawing to a close, but we can’t let our readers start their weekends without one last round of paid iPhone and iPad apps that are currently available for free for a limited time. Beyond the few apps from yesterday’s post that can still be downloaded at no charge, we have a fresh batch of seven apps worth a combined $41 that are all absolutely free for a limited time.

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Although there’s been a lot of coverage this week on whether or not the iPhone 6 Plus bends too much, we should recall that this isn’t the first time Apple has been hit with a “scandal” after the launch of a new flagship device. In fact, the last three non-“S” iterations of the iPhone — the iPhone 4, the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 6 — all drew scrutiny for flaws that generated a firestorm of media attention.

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Last Friday, we covered the first in a six-part series where CNET’s respected product reviewer Tim Stevens began the painful process of trying to decide whether or not to ditch his beloved Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and switch to Apple’s new iPhone 6 Plus phablet instead. Stevens explained how fond he has grown of his Galaxy Note 3 over time, and detailed many of the reasons why. The stylus and related software suite are big pluses, according to his column, and the phone’s excellent battery life is one of the things that drew him to the Note 3 in the first place.

Apple’s new iPhone Plus doesn’t ship with a stylus and its battery doesn’t last quite as long as the one in the Galaxy Note 3, but did it still manage to win Stevens’s heart?

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Let this be a lesson to all brands out there: if you’re going to publicly mock another company, make sure the social media guru-ninja-experts you hire don’t use that company’s products. Apple has had a rough week following the release of a horribly botched iOS software update, the revelation that the iCloud hack that led to the nude celebrity photo leaks should have been prevented, and the widely covered complaints that Apple’s new iPhone 6 Plus phablet has a tendency to bend.

Of note, the botched software update was fixed on Thursday night with the release of iOS 8.0.2, but there’s one huge bug that update doesn’t address:

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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4 is easily one of the most hotly anticipated smartphones of 2014, though there’s no question that Apple’s new iPhone 6 Plus stole the spotlight when it debuted earlier this month. There are still millions of people waiting to get their hands on Samsung’s latest and greatest handset, of course, and many of them in South Korea now have their chance. The rest of us will have to wait until sometime next month to check out the Note 4, but Samsung posted a video on Friday that should help tide us over just a bit.

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Many have laughed at Apple’s iPhone 6 #Bendgate misfortune, including various rivals that took hits at the iPhone maker on social media while promoting their unbendable handsets in the process. So it’s really no surprise to see Conan O’Brien do his own bit on Apple’s PR problem – after all, this isn’t Conan’s first time making fun of Apple products.

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