iPhones and Androids in the United States will receive an emergency alert on Wednesday, but it's not anything to worry about. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos )
https://www.cultofmac.com/832744/feds-test-nationwide-phone-emergency-alert-system-today/
Debates over the relative merits of iOS versus Android can go on forever, but there’s always been one area where Apple was way ahead: offering years of operating system upgrades. Not anymore. S...
https://www.cultofmac.com/766161/samsung-copies-one-of-iphones-biggest-advantages/
Google plans to make its latest Pixel and Wear OS devices more compelling alternatives to iPhone and Apple Watch by ripping off some of Cupertino’s most popular software features — including...
https://www.cultofmac.com/762896/google-rips-off-more-iphone-features/
I wrote recently about the shameful squalor of my previous “setup” — basically a borrowed PC laptop perched on a pile of junk — and my effort to build something worthwhile around a gleami...
https://www.cultofmac.com/758830/part-2-from-pc-pigsty-to-prim-m1-pro-macbook-workstation-setups/
A new video for the Google Pixel 5a pokes fun at the ones Jony Ive used to make gushing about the smallest details in designs of Apple products. While an homage, the video also exhibits a cutting...
https://www.cultofmac.com/751075/google-hilariously-mocks-jony-ive-apple-product-videos/
Samsung’s long-delayed Galaxy Fold folding smartphone will finally go on sale on September 6. This comes five months after it was originally made available for preorder. The troubled handset, w...
https://www.cultofmac.com/649518/samsungs-galaxy-fold-finally-launches-on-its-home-turf-this-week/
Samsung seems pretty triggered (as the kids say) by people dissing its green Android text message bubbles, compared to the blue bubbles of Apple’s iMessages. So much so, in fact, that it’s cr...
https://www.cultofmac.com/647086/samsungs-greendontcare-gifs-are-the-weirdest-apple-diss-ever/
Samsung will finally ship its delayed Galaxy Fold smartphone in September, around the same time as Apple’s next-gen iPhones. No exact release date has been announced. However, this comes around...
https://www.cultofmac.com/640950/samsungs-delayed-galaxy-fold-will-finally-ship-in-september/
Apple placed third in worldwide smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2019, suggest new figures from Gartner. Samsung came in first place, with 71.6 million units sold in the three month perio...
https://www.cultofmac.com/627762/samsung-and-huawei-beat-apple-in-q1-smartphone-sales/
Samsung’s boss Koh Dong-jin says that his company will announce its conclusion about the future of the Galaxy Fold this week. Samsung has reportedly “reviewed the defect” highlighted in ear...
https://www.cultofmac.com/624474/samsung-will-reveal-new-shipping-date-for-galaxy-fold-this-week/
Samsung has reported its weakest profits in two years as first quarter earnings suffered from weak smartphone and memory chip sales. While Samsung said that it expects things will be get better i...
https://www.cultofmac.com/622534/samsung-reports-its-weakest-profits-since-late-2016/
Having pushed back the launch of its Galaxy Fold folding smartphone, Samsung is now supposedly retrieving all units it sent reviewers — without issuing replacements. While there’s disagreemen...
https://www.cultofmac.com/621102/samsung-retrieving-review-units-for-its-botched-galaxy-fold/
The massive rise of the smartphone is coming to a close, and Samsung is bearing the brunt of it. As well as a manufacturer of its own handsets, Samsung also provides memory chips and display pane...
https://www.cultofmac.com/617450/slowing-smartphone-sales-hit-samsung-profits-hard/
You’d think that most of the subscribers to Apple Music would be firmly locked into the Apple ecosystem. That may be true, but new figures suggest that there are quite a few listeners on Androi...
https://www.cultofmac.com/614890/40-million-android-users-have-downloaded-apple-music/
Apple’s AirPods have been a massive smash hit since they launched a couple years back. It’s therefore unsurprising that rival companies would be keen to get themselves some of the sweet wirel...
https://www.cultofmac.com/605378/take-a-peek-at-samsungs-airpods-alike-galaxy-buds/
In its quest for minimalist perfectionism, Apple loves shaving ports off its products wherever possible. But even it has stopped short of creating a phone like the Meizu Zero. Promising no button...
https://www.cultofmac.com/603648/meizu-zero-goes-up-for-pre-order-with-eye-watering-price-tag/
Imagine letting a friend connect to your Wi-Fi network just by tapping a hockey puck-sized chunk of wood. That’s the promise of Wifi Porter, an accessory from Ten One Design that saves guests f...
https://www.cultofmac.com/602062/wifi-porter-makes-sharing-your-wireless-network-a-breeze/
Apple may not be planning to release a 5G iPhone until at least 2020, but don’t expect rival Android handset makers to be willing to hold on for so long. According to Qualcomm president Cristia...
https://www.cultofmac.com/594566/android-will-have-a-big-advantage-over-iphone-in-2019/
When Apple wants to show off the camera quality of its latest iPhone, it mines social media for user photos by searching the hashtag “Shot on iPhone.” Apple then has plenty of actual iPhone i...
https://www.cultofmac.com/571103/samsung-tweets-misleading-stock-photos/
Palm, once considered a darling of innovation, disappeared from hands thanks to a series of ill-fated mergers and game-changing smartphones, including the iPhone. Now Palm, or least the name, is ...
Samsung continues tyring to sell smartphones with advertising that gives more airtime to Apple. Three more commercials in Samsung’s “Ingenious” campaign went public today with a belief in a...
Chinese smartphone manufacturer and occasional Apple tribute act Xiaomi has made its debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange — officially making it the world’s third largest phonemaker. Xiaomi ...
https://www.cultofmac.com/560339/one-time-apple-copycat-xiaomi-goes-public/
An iPhone with a third lens is in the pipeline, rumor has it. But why just three, when you can have a smartphone with nine lenses? Light, maker of a futuristic camera with 16 lenses, reportedly p...
https://www.cultofmac.com/559041/nine-lens-smartphone-light/
A Malaysian man perished in a fire in his bedroom, but his family and his company say he was actually killed when the phone charging near his bed exploded. “He had two phones, one Blackberry an...
https://www.cultofmac.com/556791/exploding-phone-killed-malaysian-venture-capitalist/
T-Mobile and Sprint promised the FCC today that their proposed merger will lower costs for consumers and create more jobs. They also launched a website laying out the advantages of the New T-Mobi...
https://www.cultofmac.com/556419/new-tmobile-fcc-filing-media-campaign/
Square provides cash registers for small businesses. For years, these were built around iPads, but the company now makes Square Register, its own Android-based point-of-sale terminal. It hasn�...
https://www.cultofmac.com/556217/square-register-alternative-ipad-pos-stand/
With its smartphone sales in sharp decline, LG takes aim at the iPhone in a television ad that seems desperate to drum up excitement for its new flagship handset. The commercial for the new LG G7...
Apple and Samsung are both supposedly working on foldable phones. The Korean company will get its out first though, but hold onto your wallet, it’s going to be shockingly expensive. An analyst ...
https://www.cultofmac.com/555887/samsung-galaxy-x-folding-phone-price-release-date/
Verizon just created a new top tier to its unlimited data plans. It was designed for “super users who want the most,” according to the carrier. The Above Unlimited plan offers 75GB of unthrot...
https://www.cultofmac.com/555495/verizon-unlimited-plan-above-unlimited/
A Twitter redesign will put breaking news and sports events at the top of your timeline. Expect updated iOS and Android apps to emphasize current happenings over casual chat. Apparently being bru...
https://www.cultofmac.com/555295/twitter-redesign-doubles-down-on-news/
Neural machine translation (NMT) has made the online version of Google Translate more accurate for years. Today, this AI feature was added to the iOS and Android apps so it can be used offline. N...
https://www.cultofmac.com/555057/nmt-makes-google-translate-app-smarter-more-accurate-while-offline/
Anyone who’s used an iPhone X already knows how to navigate around in the next version of Google’s mobile operating system. The company showed off Android P at its developer conference today,...
https://www.cultofmac.com/546907/google-borrows-iphone-x-navigation-system-for-android/
Apple has rolled out its new music video-oriented Apple Music app update for Android. Now available to download in the Google Play store, the Apple Music 2.4.2 update boasts the same “music vid...
https://www.cultofmac.com/539013/apple-music-videos-make-the-leap-to-android/
Nintendo is slashing 50 percent off Super Mario Run to celebrate Mario Day on March 10. New players will be able to unlock the full game, which includes six different worlds, for just $4.99 — ...
Apple ramped up its spending on semiconductors by more than a quarter in 2017, a new report from Gartner claims. In the past 12 months, Apple spent a massive $38.754 billion on chips, making it s...
https://www.cultofmac.com/525939/gartner-memory-chip-2017-spending/
iOS increased its market share in the U.S. over the most recent quarter, a new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners reveals. The newly published research claims that iOS devices ac...
https://www.cultofmac.com/523545/iphone-lost-ground-android-2018/
Apple’s not the only smartphone manufacturer having PR issues involving its phone batteries. Some owners of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 are reporting that their handsets refuse to charge or turn ...
https://www.cultofmac.com/521175/samsung-note-8-battery-issue/
The China sales head of Huawei Technologies’ smartphone division has been arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes. According to an internal memo sent to staff, Teng Hongfei was detained for, ...
The “failure rate” of Android devices is nearly double that of iOS device, although iOS apps crash 7x more frequently than Android apps. Those are two of the findings from respected mobile di...
Apple and Google have removed a total of 330 binary trading apps from their respective app stores, following intervention from the Australian Securities & Investments Commission. Australia’s se...
https://www.cultofmac.com/495478/apple-google-remove-330-apps-linked-trading-scams/
Google has hired away veteran chip architect Manu Gulati from Apple, with the goal of building its own custom chips for future Pixel phones. Gulati has been working on chip development at Apple f...
https://www.cultofmac.com/486868/google-snatches-apple-chip-architect-work-future-pixel-phones/
Windows can no longer claim the crown as the most popular operating system on the internet thanks to the rise of smartphones. During the month of March, Microsoft finally saw its share of worldwi...
https://www.cultofmac.com/474709/android-squeaks-past-windows-become-internets-popular-os/
There’s more room to rage the next time you reply to a Tweet from President Donald Trump. Twitter made a yuge change to replies so that @usernames won’t count toward the 140-character limit. ...
https://www.cultofmac.com/474253/twitter-replies-no-longer-burn-character-count/
The gap between Apple and Samsung is narrower than it has ever been, according to J.D. Power’s 2017 smartphone satisfaction rankings that have the iPhone-maker in the lead by just one point. Ap...
https://www.cultofmac.com/473143/samsung-nearly-tops-apple-j-d-power-smartphone-rankings/
Apple’s five year reign as the world’s most valuable brand has come to an end. For now. Even though the iPhone-maker reported historic revenues and profits during its Q1 2017 earnings call ye...
https://www.cultofmac.com/465065/google-most-valuable-brand/
It was a pretty bold move for the pioneering but fading photography icon Kodak to launch a smartphone dedicated to serious photographers one month after Apple’s release of the highly anticipate...
https://www.cultofmac.com/462988/kodak-still-trying-reach-photographers-smartphone/
The de-facto head of Samsung faces arrest on charges of bribing South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye and a confidante. The call for Lee Kun-hee, Samsung’s vice chairman and the only son of i...
https://www.cultofmac.com/462618/samsung-chief-faces-arrest-for-bribing-south-korea-president/
Apple may be releasing its biggest iPhone refresh since 2014 this year, but Samsung isn’t taking the news lying down. Instead, it’s apparently planning to unveil foldable smartphones in the t...
https://www.cultofmac.com/462100/samsung-foldable-phone-2017/
Sorry Android, it seems that iOS got the better gifts this Christmas! According to the latest Kantar Worldpanel ComTech sales figures, iOS gained market share at Android’s expense in the United...
https://www.cultofmac.com/461930/iphone-triumphs-in-u-s-while-android-declines-to-decline/
Samsung threw away millions of dollars and took a hefty PR hit thanks to its exploding Galaxy Note 7, which it wound up recalling at great cost last year. However, it seems that Samsung’s not r...
https://www.cultofmac.com/460940/galaxy-s8-could-use-same-battery-supplier-as-explosive-note-7/
With 2016 coming to a close, Nielsen has ranked the year’s most popular mobile apps in the U.S. and — wouldn’t you know it! — Facebook takes the top two spots with its Facebook and Facebo...
More iPhones and iPads were activated over the festive season than any other company’s handsets and tablets, according to data published by analytics firm Flurry. Analyzing data about phone and...
https://www.cultofmac.com/460028/apple-beat-samsung-on-device-activations-this-christmas/
Instagram’s move to adopt features similar to SnapChat seems to have paid off for the globally popular photo-sharing network. On its blog Thursday, Instagram sent a thank you note to its commun...
A Canadian man says he’s lucky to still have his eyes after a Samsung Galaxy S7 exploded in his hands. Amarjit Mann told a local news station that he felt something in his pocket getting warm w...
https://www.cultofmac.com/454124/samsung-galaxy-s7-explodes-mans-face-can/
iPhones fell to just 12 percent of worldwide marketshare in Q3, claims a new report from Strategy Analytics — totting up the figures for what it claims was the fastest growth period for smartph...
https://www.cultofmac.com/452456/cheapo-androids-erode-iphone-market-share-globally/