Samsung may still be one of the largest smartphone vendors out there at the moment but the company undeniably has a lot of improvement to make after suffering its seventh consecutive early loss in profits. After pinning its hopes on the Galaxy S6, Samsung is now hoping that the soon-to-be-released Galaxy Note 5 will make a worldwide impact on its profits. In addition to that, the company has also taken the opportunity to introduce the extremely stylish and new Galaxy A8 smartphone in China today.
Along with the announcement of a brand new iPod line for 2015, Apple has pushed out iOS 8.4 firmware for the new iPod touch 6 to keep it in line with rest of the iOS device lineup. The firmware file is now immediately available for download.
As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, Amazon proclaimed today to be "Prime Day"; a one-day sale serving up deals galore that the company has promised will be bigger than Black Friday. In an effort to reward loyal and returning consumers, and probably claw a few new ones in the process, the online retailer is serving up thousands of fantastic deals. If you love a good deal and happen to be an annual Prime subscriber then keep on reading for some of the best tech deals being offered.
Speculation regarding Apple's upcoming iPhone 6s is starting to come through thick and fast. We now well and truly find ourselves in the middle of that exciting, and sometimes frustrating, period where new visual and technical specification leaks come out of the woodwork from those who claim to have "familiarity with the situation." We can already be fairly confident that Apple's iPhone 6s will come with Force Touch capabilities, as well as being offered in a new color option that has been described as either Rose Gold or Pink, so naturally, those Chinese clone manufacturers have jumped immediately onto the bandwagon and produced a $200 clone of the iPhone 6s complete with the speculated new color option.
One of the surprise aspects of the Apple Watch has turned out to be its rather unexpected water resistance, if not waterproofing capabilities. Apple has cautiously given its first wrist worn gadget an IPX7 water resistance rating and warns users against submerging the Watch completely in water. But as it turns out, Apple's wrist-slapped contraption goes well beyond that, at least as far as its physical aspects are concerned, and one developer is already exploring these possibilities for tracking water based activities.
Amazon will be turning 20 on the 15th of July, and in celebration of its anniversary, will be observing a sale day which is supposed to be bigger than Black Friday. Dubbed "Prime Day", the retail giant is already teasing us with a taste of things to come at its one-day-only super saver deals.
As part of the continuation of the current-generation Mac OS, Apple has just released the first OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite beta to registered developers. This latest progressive seed of OS X Yosemite comes just two weeks after Apple made OS X 10.10.4 available to the general public and follows hot on the heels of the latest developer preview of OS X El Capitan. In terms of OS X development, this could be the last update for Yosemite that we see before the next-generation of OS X, El Capitan, hits the Mac App Store with global availability.
Apple has just released iOS 8.4.1 beta 1 download to registered developers of Apple Developer Program. This release comes nearly two weeks after Apple released final version of iOS 8.4 with Apple Music to public.
If you're looking to treat yourself this year with a new smartphone then it may be worth looking beyond the usual considerations. Sure, we already know we will be getting the iPhone 6s this September. We also know that it's extremely likely that Samsung will attempt to spoil Apple's party by launching its fifth-generation Galaxy Note 5 a month earlier in August. But if you want to step away from the iPhones and Galaxy phones of this world and try something new, why not consider the new Turing Phone, the world's first smartphone with a fully liquidmetal shell.
Great news ladies and gentleman of the United Kingdom. Apple Pay is now officially live in the UK. If you happen to be the proud owner of one of Apple's modern devices, namely an iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, or an Apple Watch, there now exists the ability to pay for goods and services in specific places without the need to whip out a debit or credit card or cold hard cash. After waiting patiently for nine months for it to actually enter the UK market, consumers will be able to use Apple Pay in more than 250,000 stores, including supermarkets Waitrose and Lidl, as well as popular food establishments Nando's and Wagamama.
















