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Apple apologizes for iPhone slowdown controversy, will reduce out-of-warranty battery repl...
One thing I haven't seen anyone address - as far as I know, shutdown issues were never a problem with previous iPhones, so what was it about the 6 and especially the 6S batteries that made this happen?
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Super fast, big bionic glass: iPhone 8 Plus Review
Judging from the drop tests people have done, it looks like a return to the 4/4S days where everybody had spiderwebbed back glass. Just yesterday I dropped my 7 on its back onto concrete and thought that an 8 probably wouldn't survive even with the case. You're gonna need an Otterbox-level casket for it.
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Inside iPhone 8: new 29 watt Fast Charging like iPad Pro, using USB-PD
I've been a big fan of Anker's 5-port desktop USB-A chargers and was planning on buying one of their USB-C ones, but their site says that it's not compatible with USB-C/Lightning cables even though they're capable of charging USB-C MacBooks. I'm puzzled over what the technical limitation is.
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Spotify app prompts hint at $20 lossless audio subscription
Double blind testing has shown that even audio professionals listening on super high-end equipment cannot differentiate lossless from a 256k mp3. But the placebo effect is strong and people want to believe that they have superpowers.
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'iPhone 7' might replace 3.5mm headphone jack with second speaker, analysts say
Separation aside, having stereo speakers would reduce intermodulation distortion because the speakers aren't having to work as hard to reproduce disparate frequencies.
