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In just a few days, Apple will hold its annual iPhone event in San Francisco.

And although we’re not expecting any announcements on the scale of the Apple Watch, don’t get it twisted: This is still Apple’s biggest event of the year.

Starting with the venue, Apple is signaling big announcements from this event. Thanks to the plethora of leaks and well-sourced rumors, Wednesday’s event should help Apple cap off a massive 2015.

The sure bet: iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus

Last year, Apple capitula

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HIGHS

  • Android 5.0 Lollipop is beautiful and useful
  • As powerful as phones come
  • Gorgeous AMOLED screen
  • Fantastic speaker sound
  • Decent battery life

LOWS

  • Tough to hold due to large size
  • Screen discolors at angles
  • No MicroSD support
  • Double the price of last year’s Nexus

The Nexus 6 is the best overall Android phone we’ve used thanks to Android Lollipop, but it is big and no bargain.

For half a decade, Google’s Nexus phones have shown phone makers and regular folks exactly what it

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Android Lollipop 5.0 will reportedly start rolling out on November 3.

The launch date for the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system was apparently revealed in a note to app developers obtained by Android Police. The note tells developers that the Software Development Kit for Android 5.0 is now available. Google further advises developers that they can start developing and testing their apps via the Android 5.0 platform and publish apps that target the latest version to the Googl

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Google has launched a host of new devices all running its new Android 5.0 operating system. Initially teased under the name Android L, the preview version has now matured to become Lollipop, a name only now made public. Google has teamed up with Motorola and HTC to launch two new devices – the Nexus 6 smartphone and the Nexus 9 tablet respectively. Here’s all the Google news you need to know right now.

Android 5.0 Lollipop

Google puts the importance of Android 5.0 best when it calls the ne

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Don’t start looking for any connection between the new Huawei Ascend Mate 7’s name and previous Huawei hardware, because there really isn’t one. Yes we’ve seen Mate series phones before, but the last one was the Mate 2. Think the number 7 relates to the screen size? Think again — it measures 6 inches. Go figure.

But wait, what’s that? You read right: The Ascend Mate 7 has an enormous 6-inch display.

It makes the phone a bit of a monster, but it’s nowhere near the size it could have been

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Apple will be unveiling its new iPads in an event on Oct. 16 based on new reports. The new iPads, the iPad Air 2 and the iPad mini 3, will be unveiled alongside new iMac computers and OS X Yosemite.

The event will also be much simpler than the one held last September to unveil the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. While that event was held in the Flint Center for the Performing Arts, where the late Steve Jobs unveiled the first Mac computer 20 years ago and amid a mysterious structure and on

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Apple sold a record 4 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units in the first 24 hours of their availability. On Monday, the company followed that announcement by saying it sold a record 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units over the opening weekend.

The iPhone 6 sales shattered the earlier record of 9 million units sold during the first weekend of availability that was set by the iPhone 5S and 5C. It also blew past sales of the iPhone 5, which amounted to 5 million units sold in the first t

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Everyone seems genuinely excited about the larger iPhone 6 since Apple’s announcement last week. But I have to ask, why exactly is there an iPhone 6 Plus again? For years, Apple has sworn off phablets. Its CEOs and executives have publicly insulted them and it made claims that human hands aren’t built for them. But now, without explanation, Apple is an unapologetic phablet manufacturer.

It isn’t bad that Apple’s making phablets, but it is a sign that the company is willing to sacrif

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APPLE IPHONE 6 PLUS REVIEW

Beautiful design (wish it was waterproof)

Year in and year out, the iPhone is always the best-looking, best-built phone available. Nothing has changed with the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus. Aside from the HTC One M8, nothing out there comes close to its design quality.

Notable design features:

  • An insanely thin 7.1mm body (the thinness should help if you use a case)
  • A brushed-aluminum frame (silver, black, or champagne “gold” available)
  • Less plastic than last year around the top and bottom
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Ready, set … go!

The hotly anticipated iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are available today for preorder.

The phones officially went on sale at midnight on Apple.com and on the websites of various wireless carriers. Apple fanatics can also place their orders in-store at big-box retailers, including Best Buy, Walmart and Target.

Customers who visited the online Apple Store Friday were met with a message: “We’ll be back,” the message reads. “We’re busy updating the Apple Store for you and will be ba

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After squirming through 1,000 of my closest friends and a battery of Apple reps to the iPhone 6 demonstration models on display after Tuesday’s unveiling, I was disappointed.

I thought they were fakes, with printed plastic screens simulating the iPhone experience until working units could be cobbled together. I confess, I was fooled.

The new screens are real, and they’re spectacular.

It’s not just the larger bodies on the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus that will impress iFans, nor the slew

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Apple’s iPhone 6 was perhaps the most highly anticipated device of 2014. Now, after a long, suspenseful year full of rumors and contradictory reports, the next iPhone is finally here. As expected, Apple will sell two different versions of the iPhone 6: one with a 4.7-inch screen and another with a 5.5-inch screen, called the iPhone 6 Plus.

Here’s everything we know so far about both iPhones:

Bigger, beautiful screens

The smaller iPhone 6 features a 4.7-inch screen with a pixel resolution of 13

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A sales assistant holding Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy 5 smartphone (L) and Apple Inc’s iPhone 5 smartphone (R) poses for photographs at a store in Seoul July 16, 2014. (CREDIT: REUTERS/KIM HONG-JI)

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is losing smartphone ground not only to cheaper Chinese rivals but also at the high end to Apple Inc (AAPL.O), a survey showed, in an ominous sign for the South Korean giant as Apple readies to launch its next-generation iPhone 6.

Samsung last week gave second

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News of the new iPhone is what the gadget world has been waiting for with bated breath. Can we all breathe a sigh of relief after its manufacturers let slip about a potential release date? Source: Getty Images

APPLE plans to release its new iPhone in August, a month earlier than expected, after sales were hit by new big-screen models from its rivals, a major Taiwanese newspaper reported Friday, citing supply chain sources.

The Economic Daily News quoted unnamed sources as saying Apple had ac

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There's very little doubt that Apple is developing a new iPhone, and a new version of iOS, but today The Next Web claims to have seen the very first sketchy evidence of Apple's next handset and mobile operating system. According to the publication, one iOS developer discovered that a device named "iPhone 6,1" running iOS 7 was making requests from an IP address within Apple's Cupertino campus itself.
Now, it could be that the company that promised to "double down on secrecy" is merely to
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