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43 minutes ago
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The Apple Watch Series 7 is on sale at an incredible price with 4G LTE and a stainless steel case
Would you ever consider something as old as the Apple Watch Series 7 for your next big smartwatch purchase with the Apple Watch Series 11 presumably just a few months away from a commercial debut? Before you dismiss that question with a clear and resounding no, let me ask you something else. How much would you be willing to spend on a super-premium cellular-capable Apple Watch with a robust stainless steel body? $500? $400? Well, what if I told you one such model can currently be had for a measly $219.99... in brand-new condition... with a full 1-year manufacturer warranty included? $529 off (71%) GPS + Cellular, Dual-Core S7 Processor, Always-on Retina Display, ECG, Fall Detection, Blood Oxygen Sensor, Third-gen Optical Heart Sensor, Always-on Altimeter, Compass, Emergency SOS, Sleep Tracking, WR50 Water Resistance, IPX6 Dust Resistance, Graphite Stainless Steel Case, Blue Band, New, 1-Year Manufacturer Warranty Included Buy at Woot GPS + Cellular, Dual-Core S7 Processor, Always-on Retina Display, ECG, Fall Detection, Blood Oxygen Sensor, Third-gen Optical Heart Sensor, Always-on Altimeter, Compass, Emergency SOS, Sleep Tracking, WR50 Water Resistance, IPX6 Dust Resistance, Gold Stainless Steel Case, Abyss Blue Sport Band, Renewed Buy at Amazon Oh, now I have your attention? Good, because Woot's latest killer Apple Watch Series 7 deal certainly deserves to be on a lot of bargain hunters' radars, and if you fit that description, you might want to hurry and cough up the aforementioned 220 bucks. Technically, this is a promotion scheduled to run through June 4, but given the 4G LTE connectivity, graphite stainless steel case (in a large 45mm size), and life-saving ECG technology offered by the ultra-affordable Series 7 variant on sale here for a limited time, that time could prove to be even more limited. After all, Woot can't have many brand-new, unused, unopened, and undamaged units in stock nearly four whole years after the Apple Watch Series 7's original release, so there's really no telling when this deal will actually end. The only half-decent Amazon alternative I've been able to find, mind you, has a 41mm cellular-enabled Apple Watch Series 7 model with a gold stainless steel case and abyss blue sport band listed at a few bucks under Woot... in "renewed" condition, which should tell you everything you need to know about the appeal of this amazing new offer. Keep in mind that the Apple Watch Series 7 is still supported by the latest watchOS version, and that's likely to remain true for another year or so. From a hardware perspective, you're looking at a remarkably "current" device here too, at least as far as screen quality and even processing power are concerned. Obviously, the Series 8, Series 9, and Series 10 are all better, but at a monumental $530 discount from an original list price of $750, this thing can be a very smart buy as well.
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an hour ago
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The 512GB iPad Air M2 gets an epic $350 discount in Amazon's latest sale
512GB iPad Air M2, 11-inch: Save $350 $350 off (33%) The cellular-ready iPad Air with an M2 chip and an 11-inch display has just dropped to its lowest price on Amazon. The tablet sells for a whopping $350 off, but only in its Blue variant. Get yours and save big before it's too late. Buy at Amazon Receive the latest mobile news Subscribe By subscribing you agree to our terms and conditions and privacy policy Did you miss your chance to save $200 on the 512GB 11-inch iPad Air M2 ? Don't worry — Amazon has prepared an even sweeter deal for you! Right now, the same storage configuration with cellular support is a whopping 33% off. For context, that's a massive $350 in savings and the kind of unicorn-rare promo you definitely don't want to miss.A $350 discount on an iPad is eye-popping for sure, so we had to check if Amazon has ever offered such a generous. As it turns out, this is the 512GB iPad Air M2's best price ever, at least at the e-commerce giant. Act fast if you want to save, as this promo is exclusive to the Blue colorway and might expire any 2025, Apple released a new iPad Air with an M3 chip , but the M2-powered model remains a solid choice for users seeking the iPadOS experience and insane horsepower. For one thing, it's way more powerful than its predecessor. You can see just how capable it is on the performance front from the benchmark tests featured in our iPad Air M2 review Beyond the impressive performance, the smaller iPad features an 11-inch display with 1640x2360 resolution and excellent color accuracy. That said, it's a 60Hz LCD panel, so while it's respectable, the display certainly isn't top-of-the-line. If you're looking for an OLED touchscreen with a 120Hz refresh rate, you'd have to cough up a lot more for the iPad Pro M4 Aside from that, you get great battery life, loads of storage with the 512GB variant, and cellular support. All of that can now be yours for just under $700, easily making this Amazon deal one of the best iPad promos we've seen in a again, we'd like to point out that this bargain doesn't spread across colors — it's only available on the model in Blue. So, there's no way of telling just how long it'll remain live on Amazon. Act fast and save $350 before this epic deal expires.
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an hour ago
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Multi-billionaire owns company with a $20 billion stake in T-Mobile
Here's an interesting fact about T-Mobile that you might not know. Japanese investment holding company SoftBank, founded and run by Masayoshi Son (number 60 on the list of billionaires with $28.8 billion to his name) holds $20.4 billion worth of T-Mobile shares. As of this month, SoftBank owned 85.4 million T-Mobile shares or 7.64% of the carrier making it the second-largest stockholder of the company after the 51.54% owned by Deutsche Telekom. After T-Mobile closed on its purchase of Sprint on April 1st, 2020, all of SoftBank's Sprint shares were converted into 24% of T-Mobile , or 277.2 million shares. SoftBank received an additional 48.8 million shares of T-Mobile when a condition related to T-Mobile 's stock price was met in December 2023. The shares were to be given to SoftBank if T-Mobile 's shares hit $150 or above for a sustained period of time before the end of 2025. T-Mobile 's shares stayed above $150 for a sustained period around December 2023 triggering the release of the additional 48.8 million shares to SoftBank. The Japanese holding company has since reduced its stake in T-Mobile over time. As for Charlie Ergen, he finally got his wireless business. When T-Mobile bid $26 billion to acquire Sprint in 2018, it had to get regulatory approval from the FCC and the Justice Department. Both wanted another carrier to replace Sprint as the nation's fourth largest. A deal was made and T-Mobile sold all of Sprint's pre-paid assets including 9.3 million customers, Boost's retail network, employees, and plans to Dish Network. Dish also signed a seven-year MVNO deal with T-Mobile allowing its customers to use T-Mobile 's 5G network while Dish built its own standalone 5G network. At the end of 2023, EchoStar bought Dish giving that company control of Boost, which is still struggling to get traction as a major U.S. wireless provider. In a very competitive business, Boost has yet to generate excitement among consumers. Meanwhile, it seems likely that Deutsche Telekom will continue adding to its T-Mobile stake by buying more shares from SoftBank. In 2024, Deutsche exercised all of the call options on T-Mobile it had obtained from SoftBank and added 44.9 million shares to its holdings. Switch to Total 5G+ Unlimited 3-Month plan or Total 5G Unlimited and get a free iPhone. We may earn a commission if you make a purchase This offer is not available in your area.
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an hour ago
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iPhones should follow iOS into year-based naming: The case for iPhone 26
Overnight, the rather surprising news broke out that Apple will go against tradition and not call its next update iOS 19, as it should be, but rather go with an annual denominator and call it iOS 26. A peculiar and startling at first, this rumor becomes more and more believable the more you think of it. Previous iOS versions did a good job of indicating the logical order of iOS versions, but that was only sufficient until a certain threshold. As we are nearing 20 years of the iPhone and iOS in extension, the iOS naming scheme becomes a bit too convoluted and complex. How are we supposed to remember that iOS 15 launched in 2021? No way of knowing that if you're a regular person and don't rely on the usual Google crutch. There has to be a better way to indicate what iOS version launched in a particular year, and the easiest one is to use the last two digits, just like most vehicle manufacturers do to indicate that they have new models rolling down the conveyor belts. This way, in a decade from now, you wouldn't have to calculate what iOS version got launched in, say, 2027––you'd immediately know it should have been iOS 27. It's simple, but super-effective. It's so effective that a fairly dim lightbulb went off in my head. Shouldn't Apple apply a similar naming change to its iPhones as well? Currently, things are pretty solid on the iPhone lineup: we are expecting the iPhone 17 range, which would happen to be the 17th distinct iPhone generation. That naming is fine as we've largely grown accustomed to it with time, but as iPhone generations keep growing in numbers with each passing year, it will inevitably become relatively cumbersome to follow which iPhone is fairly new and which one's already an older one. That'd mostly be true for consumers out of the loop and outside the techy circles. Even if you wake me up at the wee hours of the night, I'll be able to tell you that the iPhone 13 was released in 2021 because I bought one back then, but anything newer or older than that will have me scratching my memories for a moment or so, calculating years and generations in my head. Now imagine a person who doesn't really pay that much attention to mobile technology: they'd be pretty much lost without . A possible solution? Simply adopt the upcoming iOS naming convention. If Apple wants to keep things tidy and logical from now on, the iPhone 17 generation wouldn't exist. In its stead, we'd get the iPhone 26 range, which will be Apple's flagship through the majority of 2026. Next year, we'd get the iPhone 27, which would be the flagship for 2027. I know, it's not pretty, and sounds like a pretty drastic change to just about anyone who has been following Apple and the iPhone for years now, but at the end of the day, the pros of this name change outweigh the illusionary cons. If Apple does that, then we'd have a much more logical and easy to follow iPhone naming going forward. This could also make things easier for the second-hand market, as discerning between older and newer devices could be slightly easier and more logical. But Apple isn't really concerned about the second-hand iPhone market which is gnawing at its profits, so the change could only be beneficial to regular customers. Who knows, after sunsetting the iPhone Plus name in favor of the iPhone Air one, which would go magnificently well with its thinner body, Apple could finally go ahead and end the "Pro Max" lineage in favor of a more coherent "Ultra" one. So, instead of an iPhone Pro Max, we'd get an iPhone Ultra, which at this point has been a long-time coming. But imagine what would happen if Apple actually employs both changes, so this or next year we get an iPhone 26 Ultra or an iPhone 27 Ultra? Until yesterday, such an idea would have sounded out of the ordinary, but today, when iOS 26 is most certainly happening, there might be a chance. But honestly speaking, should Apple change anything at all? The answer is no. Whatever you call them and regardless of whether we like it or not, iPhones will sell like hotcakes. However, seeing how Apple could be keen on shaking up such well-established traditions like the sacred iOS naming scheme, we might get treated to some intricately named devices in the following years.
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5 hours ago
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Pixel 10 Pro images leak
Sometimes you stumble on to something big like, say, a commercial being shot for a big-name flagship phone that won't be released until August. As it turns out, someone managed to walk by an ad being filmed for the Pixel 10 Pro. The lucky guy, known as @MarksGonePublic on X, took photos of a commercial titled "Ask more of your phone," which certainly sounds like a Googlesque title for a Pixel ad. A storyboard for the commercial shows what looks like the Pixel 10 Pro (not the Pixel 10 because it includes the temperature sensor). A storyboard shows a shot-by-shot breakdown of a commercial to give those working on it an idea of what to do while filming the spot. Storyboards aren't limited to commercials since they are used to help create cartoons, movies, and television shows and more. @MarksGonePublic took photos of the storyboard and some of the commercial shoot. We'd normally include the video sideshow that @MarksGonePublic posted on X, but his account has been taken down and we assume that Google had something to do with that. Storyboard for a Pixel 10 Pro commercial. | Image credit-MarksGonePublic As expected, the Pixel 10 Pro looks very much like the Pixel 9 Pro although what you can't see is that inside the former is the first application processor (AP) that Google has designed from scratch. Not only did Google not build the Tensor G5 around Samsung's Exynos AP, it also stopped having Samsung Foundry build the component. Instead, Google turned to TSMC, the world's largest foundry, to manufacture the AP using its second-generation 3nm node (N3E). Another photo of the storyboard used for the Pixel 10 Pro ad. | Image credit-MarksGonePublic It will be interesting to see if designing the Tensor G5 from the bottom up allows Google to build some truly drool-worthy new features exclusively for the Pixel 10 series. This is important because now that new Pixel phones get seven years of system updates, there might be less of a rush to upgrade without some killer application available for the Pixel 10 series. Member of the crew shooting Pixel 10 Pro ad gets some hands-on time with the star of the show. | Image credit-MarksGonePublic The Pixel 10 series could be unveiled in August during a Made by Google event. Besides the Pixel 10 , Pixel 10 Pro , and Pixel 10 Pro XL, we could see Google introduce its third foldable, the Pixel 10 Pro Fold.
