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iPhone XS smacks iPhone 11 Pro in app launching speed test

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 22, 2019

Apple’s annual iPhone unveiling typically includes the introduction of an all-new SoC with modest speed improvements, with this year’s focus being the A13 Bionic chip. At the Keynote, Apple’s vice president of silicon manufacturing Sri Santhanam said that all mechanisms of the A13 Bionic chip would be nearly 20% faster than its predecessor; but is this the case?

Now that the iPhone 11 Pro is readily available to those who pre-ordered or tried their luck at local retail stores, it should come as no surprise that these numbers are being put to the test. In one example, YouTube personality EverthingApplePro compared the app launching performance of the iPhone 11 Pro to the previous-generation iPhone XS with astonishing results:

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Roundup: first impressions of the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro

Cody Lee ∙ September 10, 2019
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Following today's big iPhone event, Apple allowed attending journalists and guests into a special area to go hands-on with their new products. As usual, a number of them took the time to create videos of their first impressions of the new iPhones, and we thought it'd be a good idea to roundup some of our favorites.

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Rhino brings powerful media downloading tools to the Instagram app

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated December 20, 2021

If you frequently use the Instagram app on your free time and you have a jailbroken handset at your disposal, then you might want to turn your attention to a newly released jailbreak tweak dubbed Rhino by iOS developer Michael Lema.

Rhino is a powerful extension for the official Instagram app that lets users download images, videos, and even live videos from anything that appears in the News Feed. As you’ll notice in the screenshot examples above, the tweak adds a new Download button just to the left of the native Bookmark button.

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Watch an expert jeweler transform his AirPods into an 18-karat gold AirGolds [video]

Christian Zibreg ∙ August 30, 2019

Many people decorate their AirPods with creative skins for the charging case (those have been going particularly strong in South Korea). But if you want something more sophisticated, more premium and more luxurious than that, you need to be prepared to burn hundreds of dollars on pricey modding services provided by accessory customization companies, like Caviar.

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What’s on my iPad: Harris’s favorite apps

Christian Zibreg ∙ August 30, 2019

If you've enjoyed watching our hands-on walkthroughs, reviews, tutorials and other useful videos that are available on our YouTube channel, you're probably familiar with our video guy Harris Craycraft who has been extensively using his eleven-inch iPad Pro, Apple Smart Keyboard Folio and Apple Pencil combo for college, work, fun and everything in between.

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Video: 5 reasons Apple Card is special

Christian Zibreg ∙ August 29, 2019

Apple Card is here and it seems to have hit the ground running if early reviews are an indication. Apple's latest product has all the hallmarks of its trademark simplicity and ease of use, ranging from how payments are made, tracked and managed to that minimalist titanium card. We've asked our video editor Harris Craycraft to put together a quick hands-on clip laying out five reasons we think Apple Card is a truly special product from Cupertino.

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FlixRatings for Netflix augments the Netflix app’s rating system

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated January 13, 2024

If you’re a cable-cutter or you simply enjoy having access to a massive library of movies and TV shows, then you probably have a subscription to Netflix. The Netflix app for iOS is particularly intuitive, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t do with some improvements.

Enter FlixRatings for Netflix, a newly released jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Joshua Seltzer that augments Netflix’s in-app rating system and integrates a legacy forward skip feature for those who miss how it used to work in a previous version of the app.

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New Disney+ details: 4 simultaneous streams, 7 profiles, free 4K and HDR — all at no extra cost

Christian Zibreg ∙ August 25, 2019
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Disney's upcoming video service looks to be a far better deal than many (all?) of the existing services because its base $7 per month subscription has been confirmed to include such perks as up to four simultaneous video streams, the ability to manage up to seven user profiles on a single account, as well as 4K resolution and HDR color — all at no extra cost whatsoever.

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