Here's how to check if your iPhone 6s / iPhone 6s Plus has a TSMC manufactured A9 chip or Samsung manufactured A9 chip.
Well, it had to happen. Apple's iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus handsets have only been with us officially for less than a week, but we've already seen the hardware subjected to a number of destructive tests. We've seen the standard waist height drop tests designed to simulate an actual real-life dropping of the handset, followed by the slightly more farfetched test of seeing what happens when the iPhone is doused in liquid nitrogen and then annihilated with a sledge-hammer. Now, we see just how well Apple's latest hardware performs against a .50-Cal round fired from a high-powered Barrett M82A1 sniper rifle.
A while ago we told you about an app called Power which was one of the first for the Apple Watch which aimed to keep people apprised of how full, or likely how empty their iPhone's battery is. It was one of our favorites at the time and Power found a home on many Apple Watches as well. Now though the app's developers are back with a big update, and it's quite the update indeed.
Today sees the Google Maps app receive a new update, which adds some new features and fixes old ones but, most importantly, brings Google Maps to Apple Watch.
It's that time of the year again. Apple will release final version of OS X El Capitan for download to all the Mac users tomorrow free of charge from the Mac App Store.
Apple's introduction of the fourth-generation Apple TV and all of the underlying potential that comes attached to it, was a breath of fresh air for developers who have been dealing with a stale iOS App Store ecosystem for a number of years. The availability of tvOS and the Apple TV SDK now allows developers to come up with new and interesting app ideas that will be executed on the big screen in living rooms across the world. It also allows developers to have a little fun and see exactly what the Apple TV 4 is capable of; something that developer Kevin Smith has done, as demonstrated by his MAME Emulator port running on the new set-top-box.
With 3D Touch, iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus allow you to turn the keyboard into trackpad for easier text selection. Here's a step-by-step tutorial on how to use this feature.
Here's a detailed camera comparison between iPhone 6s and every previous-gen iPhone, with photos from each placed side by side for several scenarios.
Here's a iOS 9 tip on how to stop or fix increase in mobile / cellular data usage on your iPhone after you have updated to iOS 9.
It's sometimes extremely difficult to keep up with the lightning fast pace of the consumer technology market, and in particular, the ever evolving smartphone market. Apple's iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus handsets may have only been officially available to the public to purchase since Friday gone, but we're already starting to witness the surfacing of speculation pertaining to Apple's next-generation iPhone, which is expected to be named the "iPhone 7".
