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If you are looking for the latest iPhone at an affordable price, Apple has good news for you. The company has now started selling the refurbished iPhone 8 for $499, a $100 discount off the starting price. Apple has been selling refurbished iPhones since 2016, starting with the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. The refurbished iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are available for $380 and $480, respectively. Other refurbished devices currently available on Apple’s online store include several of MacBook versions, iPads, Mac computers, Apple TVs and the iPod touch. “We test and certify all Apple refurbished products and include a 1-year warranty. All refurbished iPhone models also include a brand new battery, new outer shell and a new white box.  Supply is limited and availability is guaranteed once we receive your full payment,” Apple says. Is a refurbished iPhone 8 worth buying? The handset is powered by the A11 Bionic chip, which also powers the iPhone X, and thus, it has a ...

The shortage of a commodity or a facility is not always a problem. Very often, we face issues due to the availability of too many choices that often lead to indecisiveness; an abundance of to-do list apps for smartphones, present the perfect example of this case. Like, once a user opens the app store, he/she is bombarded with apps that promise to manage their lives in a well-coordinated manner. And, here begins the real confusion, what to opt and what to not. Well, iPhone users are lucky as they have more systematic apps to organize their routines in a real sense. Let’s have a look at these 4 best to-do list apps for iPhone that one must consider for kick-starting a disciplined life. OmniFocus 2 On an honest note, the best features of OmniFocus2 are not free. But, users who are serious about their lives and want to reach their destinations, must use OmniFocus 2. The app enables managing of the daily basis and even monthly basis tasks. It facilitates users to outline short-term a...

What a week! Maybe you, like us, are clinging to your wallet with all your strength, trying to save up 100,000 pennies (or a few less) for one of the new iPhones announced this week or you are probably trying to figure out when to download the most anticipated software IOS 12 on your device —think no far! After months of public betas, the final version of iOS 12 is now available and ready for download. It comes with new features like Screen Time, a revamped Photos app, new Animoji and Siri Shortcuts, grouped notifications, an AR app called Measures, as well as major performance improvements that increase the speed and responsiveness of your devices. And later this fall, you"ll be able to FaceTime with up to 32 people at once. (Which sounds pretty overwhelming, but OK.) First, make sure your device is capable of running iOS 12. Like iOS 11, iOS 12 is only compatible with 64-bit devices — which means 32-bit devices like the iPhone 5 won’t be able to run the update. Here ...

In a move designed to drive iCloud storage subscription upgrades, Apple is now promoting free 200GB of iCloud storage space on a trial basis for 2 months to customers upgrading to a new iPhone—By offering 200GB of storage space on iCloud, Apple is hoping to make it easier for users switching from an Android device to an iPhone to easily move their data to Apple’s ecosystem. By default, an iCloud account comes with a measly 5GB of free storage space. As this offer will be presented to iPhone upgraders, the idea behind this marketing move is that customers can use this 200GB bucket to ensure their current phone data is safely backed up. Then, you can simply sign into iCloud on the new phone and have everything get sucked up. Note that the financial value of this offer isn’t that fantastic. Since May, Apple started offering 30 day free trials for all new subscriptions to iCloud paid tiers . So, in reality, what customers get for free here is an additional month, which usu...

Apple shareholder and investors went to bed knowing that a trillion dollar valuation was within reach but what we didn’t know was the way. Well that say is today as Apple became the first company ever to hit the coveted one trillion dollar market capitalisation mark and yes you heard right, the twelve zeros milestone has been reached by the iPhone maker. This is a Wall Street history indeed. It briefly hit the $1 trillion mark when earlier today it share price was $207.05 and it was made official when Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices said “Apple has gone where no company has gone before.” Apple shares have been up nearly 20 percent since the year began as the American stock market has continued to soar. Other companies looking to hit the milestone include Amazon whose market capitalisation is now about $877b with Google and Microsoft following closely behind at $858b and $817b respectively. Read more: Apple Races To Become The First...

The race to become the first-ever trillion-dollar company just intensified as The Cupertino giant Apple posted its Q3 earning report —which shows a strong earning numbers and again managed to beat market estimates—with a revenue of $53.3 billion, surpassing its investor’s projection by $1 billion. The report is the strongest third quarter for the company ever, despite the slow iPhone sales as consumers prepare for new smartphone announcements in the fall. The Cupertino, California-based company forecast fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of between $60 billion and $62 billion, which is again ahead of expectations from Wall Street — which come in at $59.47 billion. Meeting that estimate would put represent a hefty 15 percent increase over the same quarter last year. Apple Inc. sold 41.3 million iPhones in its fiscal third quarter, just shy of analysts’ estimates for 41.6 million. On a year-over-year basis, that represents unit growth of 0.7 percent. The average s...

Even if you buy the most high-tech smartphone that’s easily available in the today’s market, there is another product in the market that may be introduced the next month. Since the grass always remains green on the unachievable side, our want for the new hottest smartphone always remains ravenous. If your love for the mobile phones is higher than that the love for new clothes or diamonds, then you surely requires a cost-effective solution for the hi-tech philandering. Since you can or cannot move to the cheap counterparts for your clothes, you can switch towards refurbished smartphones to quench your thirst for the latest technology. This is the favored option for all the high-end tech geeks. Why Are Refurbished Phones Trending Now? The customers have shifted towards buying refurbished phones more than ever because of the peripheral changes in design and slowing innovation in the new models. So, why buy a new flagship product when a cheaper option with good functionality is...

Google is taking a step in the right direction to protect Android users from being bothered by unwanted and potentially harmful calls. The tech giants has rolled out "caller ID and spam protection" on its Phone app with which the app itself would be able to filter out calls that it detects to be spam, eliminating all notifications and alerts for those calls as well. Some apps, such as Truecaller, have been around for a while to help users block unrequested contact, but some Android users can now benefit from the filter without any additional software. "You"ll still see filtered calls in your call history and be able to check any voicemail you receive," the search engine giant wrote in a support post . Back in April, the Mountain View company kicked off a beta program for the Google Phone app, which would test exactly this feature. Now, the app"s support page has been updated to reflect the new changes, which apparently have already been activated on many d...

Apple is reportedly launching newer, larger iPhones in September, and what’s more is that they could possibly arrive in an assortment of colours. According to Newsweek , Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the rumoured 6.5-inch OLED iPhone will launch in black, white and a new gold colour, while the rumoured 6.1-inch LED iPhone will debut in grey, white, blue, red and orange. The grey and white colour options for the LCD iPhone are likely referring to space grey and silver. Ming-Chi Kuo is also expecting this entry-level model to start at $700. It will likely have Face ID but only have a single lens camera on the back. Kuo states the larger iPhone will come in black, white and a gold colour — and the smaller of the two releasing in grey, white, blue, red and orange. Red is not an unusual move for Apple — the company recently released a red colour for the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus in April 2018, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in 2017, and an iPod Nano in red in 2016 — all for ...

In this post, I am going to tell you about the Best Apple Type C Charger for Phone, MacBook and More. The product name is TATTU 45W USB Type C wall Charger and it comes with power capacity of 45W. The best thing about the charger is its fast charging speed as it comes with high-speed reversible type C output. The charger comes with latest Type C USB Connector which is reversible and carry more current at blazing fast speed. Price of the charger is at deal 17.99$ which is very cheap. Following are the features of the Tattu Charger: Large 45 W Power: The charger comes with Type – C and Output power up to 45W. Compatibility: The device is compatible with almost all USB-C enabled devices. Best Design: The devices comes with Reversible Type C Plug that offers simple charging. It also features soft Led light for the indication of the charger when it is plugged in. Portable: The charger is portable and perfect for your travel days. It has a very compact design and comes with folda...

Apple touted a massive number of updates at its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote this week, but the AirPods-centered feature was left out of the presentation. The company’s industry-leading fully wireless headphones will be getting a small but interesting software update, one that allows them to act like a low-budget set of hearing aids. As first noted by TechCrunch , Live Listen is coming to the AirPods with the iOS 12 update, letting iPhone users position their iPhones as a directional mic and have the audio relayed through the AirPods. Apple in 2014 introduced a Live Listen feature that"s designed to allow the iPhone to pair with hearing aids and then serve as a remote microphone that beams the audio the iPhone picks up to the hearing aids. Debuted in 2016 as part of Apple"s Made for iPhone program, Live Listen is a Bluetooth-based solution that grants supported hearing aids streaming access to an iPhone"s microphone. With the IOS 12 software, Live Listen will...

iOS 12 is here. Apple announced the latest in its iOS mobile operating system series at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2018 in San Jose, California today. Apple also announced version of tvOS. The new iOS 12 will run on devices that support iOS 11 The iOS 12 for the iPhone and iPad has been released in developer beta and here’s what to expect; Apple says iOS 12 doubles down on performance iOS 12 will be supported on all iOS 11 devices Apps launch 40% faster, keyboard can appear 50% faster, and slide to take photo can be up to 70% iOS 12 can make share sheet and apps launch twice as fast CPU performance can ramp up instantly when needed, then ramp down to preserve battery life Apple working with Adobe, Autodesk, others for new 3D object features with AR iOS 12 includes a new ARKit-powered Apple app called Measure Feature icons for performance, ARKit 2, Photos, Siri, an unknown icon, Voice Memos, iBooks (Apple Books?), Apple News, Stocks, Do Not Distburb, ...

One of the most frustrating things about being an iPhone owner is the lack of expandable storage. Once you have gotten the model of your choice, be it 32GB, 64GB or 256GB, you’re stuck with that storage until you buy a new phone. And Of course, you can also compensate the non-expandable storage with iCloud, but Apple only provides 5GB of cloud storage for free. If you want an amount that you can actually use, you’ll have to pay a monthly fee of $0.99 or more in order to access it. Most iPhone users are already familiar with the word “You do not have enough space in iCloud to backup your iPhone” message, which seems to pop up most times as a reminder. And users have long complained about the lack of free iCloud storage but now the company appears to be taking one step in the right direction. However, the recent development is that when users choose to upgrade from the 5GB free tier, they will receive the first month of their new tier for free.  As first noted...

Many of today’s smartphones arrive out of the box with encryption functions. While that may mean privacy protections for smartphone users, it also means plenty of controversy over the use of encryption when it comes to hiding data from the government. Here’s why encryption is making headlines. What is Encryption? Encryption refers to scrambling digital information on phones, laptops, servers, or other electronic devices. On most smartphones, encryption means your photos, texts, emails, and other information are not readable unless you make them so by entering a password or code. Have you ever forgotten your password or mistyped it, only to have your phone or tablet lock itself for minutes or longer? The idea behind encryption is that it protects your data from unauthorized use. Unfortunately, that does not seem to make law enforcement officials happy. Encryption in Court While most people are probably more concerned with keeping their photos and text messages private for pe...

Google News a real-time, “360 degree view” of news stories and topics. Announced as part of the Google I/O conference last week, the company made its plan known of the removal of the Google play newsstand app and replace it with Google News app . Google News app utilises real-time artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to analyse and organise breaking news. The new version of its News app is now available for iOS and Android devices in 127 countries. The app opens with a "For You" section that offers a brief overview and like other curation-based apps, it brings you a brief look at five stories based on your past reading interests; this is a combination of top headlines, local stories, and topics that Google has detected an interest in on your part. Using machine learning capabilities, the app helps analyse the headlines and puts stories about the same subject matter together into "newscasts." This helps you quickly get up to date about a particular stor...

YouTube"s high-dynamic range (HDR) video has already been available on select Android phones for a while now, including the Galaxy S8, Pixel, LG V30 and Xperia XZ Premium. So now Apple smartphone users can check out HDR videos on their iPhone X too which has been confirmed to support the feature. As noted by users  forums like Reddit . HDR videos provide a broader range of colours and luminance compared to sub-HDR content, and the format also supports quality video playback on a wide variety of screen sizes. For iOS users, YouTube videos in HDR can be viewed on the iPhone X, but the feature does not yet appear to be working on the latest iPad Pro models. YouTube has many HDR-supported videos on its site, with dedicated channels like The HDR Channel providing videos for you to watch in HDR on iOS. To make sure of the quality of playback find a video to play, then tap anywhere on the video itself, tap the three dots in the top right-hand corner of the screen, tap "Quality,...

It"s has indeed been a rosy year for the iPhone maker on some fronts The first generation of Apple’s iPhone was introduced in 2007, bringing innovative features such as a touch screen interface and a virtual keyboard to a broader audience. Considered by many as a revolutionary product, the Apple iPhone drove growth for the smartphone market. Since its introduction to the consumer market, Apple has released eleven generations of the product, along with new features and updates. The iPhone runs on Apple’s own mobile operating system iOS, the second most popular smartphone operating system in the market. In 2017, the iPhone made Apple the second-largest smartphone vendor in the world, with a global market share of almost 15% percent. The iPhone has changed Apple’s business dramatically. iPhone sales have risen strongly over the years, from around 1.4 million iPhones sold in 2007 to more than 216 million units worldwide in 2017. In total, Apple has sold more than one bill...

  If you’ve been looking out for a gold iPhone X, you may be in luck as iPhone fans might be in for a real special treat.  The amazing news is that a filing from Apple at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revealed images of an unreleased gold version of the iPhone X . The filing from Apple at the Federal Communications Commission reveals the images of a gold iPhone X that has yet to be released. The 180-day confidentiality period on the photos has now lapsed, offering a clear view of an iPhone X with a glass backplate featuring the same gold tone as the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus released in September. MacRumors first spotted the now-public photographs. The stainless steel sides are also a shade of gold. The Federal Communications Committee (of all places) has published several photos of what appears to be a gold-coloured iPhone X – a shade of Apple"s smartphone that hasn"t been announced or released yet. Leading up to last year’s iPhone event, it ha...