tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42448240653231667422024-03-12T22:43:27.599-07:00The History of Apple iPhonesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244824065323166742.post-70441591588101747512017-09-27T16:12:00.000-07:002017-09-27T16:12:48.681-07:00iPhone 8/8 Plus vs iPhone 7/7 Plus - Worth Upgrading?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244824065323166742.post-78509172303600446872017-06-26T08:49:00.001-07:002017-06-26T16:56:00.956-07:00Automatic Setup in iOS 11<a href="https://youtu.be/RJdsuUVuzgg">https://youtu.be/RJdsuUVuzgg</a><br><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="_muoc">Published on Jun 19, 2017</span><span class="_mvoc" style="word-wrap: break-word;">In iOS 11 it is now possible to use an existing iOS device to set up a new one. Here is Automatic Setup in iOS 11!</span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244824065323166742.post-17702834524947269772017-05-19T13:57:00.001-07:002017-05-19T14:11:22.168-07:00iPhone 7 is the Future of Tactile Accessibility<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBhscrjVZWLtyiC3jScohkGdh4H-FJ_n7Dq64TDX_uMbNoqtvOZy3dP0VsJj1eLqgFD1r7CGfB03G2qJUJvNLH9W3qe5-uAFp41lWwv4gDhjxtSxLWILaOuXy0UqVP4HwLEN7UDLyzt90/s640/blogger-image-400162636.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBhscrjVZWLtyiC3jScohkGdh4H-FJ_n7Dq64TDX_uMbNoqtvOZy3dP0VsJj1eLqgFD1r7CGfB03G2qJUJvNLH9W3qe5-uAFp41lWwv4gDhjxtSxLWILaOuXy0UqVP4HwLEN7UDLyzt90/s640/blogger-image-400162636.jpg"></a><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Display'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">The iPhone 7 may go down in history as The One That Didn't Have The Headphone Jack. But there are other reasons for it to be considered a memorable part of the iPhone's lineage.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Display'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">Here's a great example of Apple's prior haptic success: </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Display'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">(</span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Bold'; font-weight: bold;">Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Vibrate</span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">). What this will do is give you tactile feedback that someone's calling </span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay';">in addition to</span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;"> hearing the ringer. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Display'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">Yo may not always </span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay';">hear</span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;"> your phone ringing, but You more likely to feel it</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Display'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">With the"tactile" interface Apple has make the iPhone more accessible. With the iPhone 6s and especially the iPhone 7, Apple has further utilized its Taptic Engine in various ways across iOS that make using the device an even more pleasant and enriching experience.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Display'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">The iPhone 6s last year introduced 3D Touch. With Quick Actions and Peek & Pop, users could use their favorite apps more quickly and efficiently, all with a subtle buzz from the Taptic Engine. But <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/2983642/ios/what-3d-touch-could-mean-for-accessibility.html"><span style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);">3D Touch also was interesting from an accessibility point of view</span></a> as well: Not only is 3D Touch convenient, it can save users from eye strain and/or muscle fatigue due to excessive searching and tapping. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Display'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">With the iPhone 7 and iOS 10, Apple has expanded both 3D Touch's scope and how haptic feedback responds throughout the operating system. You can now use 3D Touch on certain icons in Control Center, as well as manage the status of downloading apps. On the iPhone 6s and 7, you </span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay';">feel</span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">Control Center or Notification Center being invoked with a quick thud as you slide the pane up or down; on the iPhone 7, the date picker in the Clock app registers bits of feedback as you move through time. Even enabling or disabling setting toggles now include a physical tick.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Display'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">The effects of the iPhone 7's Taptic Engine are pervasive and add another layer of interaction. This can bring complexity, yes — but for many people with disabilities, being able to literally feel your way through the OS means a lot. To see the green "on" indicator for iOS 10's settings switches is one thing; to see green </span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay';">and</span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;"> feel the status change </span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay';">as you slide it over</span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;"> is a horse of a different color. If you, like me, can't see so well, that literal feeling of reassurance makes all the difference.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Display'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">It isn't just Apple's internal apps, either: The Taptic Engine API for iPhone 7 gives third-party developers the power to enhance their apps to make them even more engaging and accessible than they already are.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Display'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">The Home button really is a "button" in name only: Unlike the physical buttons of yore, the iPhone 7's Home button no longer works mechanically. Instead, Apple uses its Taptic Engine to render "clicks" of varying degrees. (Users can determine which degree they prefer — 1, 2, or 3 — in a way similar to how 3D Touch is configured.) It reminds me a lot of the Force Touch trackpads on the 12-inch MacBook and the MacBook Pros.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Display'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">Although it does take some getting used to, and there are reasonable arguments for keeping the old mechanism, the new Home button does have real advantages when it comes to accessibility. For one thing, not having to physically press the button should make life easier on users with limited range of motion and/or low muscle tone in their fingers. This is exactly why motor-centric accessibility features like AssistiveTouch or Switch Control exist; for many people, it's easier to tap and touch than it is to press with even the tiniest bit of force. What's more, the granularity Apple provides for adjusting the Home button's sensitivity should go a long way in helping users figure out which setting works best for them. (I'm still figuring this out myself.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Display'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">Another advantage is the haptic feedback: When you press the button to go back to Springboard, invoke Siri, or whatever else, it "buzzes." Again, it's all about multi-sensory output: Not only do users </span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay';">see</span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;"> the UI switching back to, say, the Home screen, they also </span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay';">feel</span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;"> a little buzz that lets them know the action (returning Home) has been triggered. That extra cue is a huge win for accessibility and key to the bimodal experience. If you can't see well, the Taptic Engine is still there for you, saying "Yes, you pushed the button. Something will happen now."</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 33px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Display'; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;">It should be noted that, because needs and tolerances vary widely, not </span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay';">everyone</span><span style="font-family: '.SFUIDisplay-Semibold'; font-weight: bold;"> with a disability will reap benefit from haptic feedback. Someone with autism who may be sensitive in terms of sensory motor development likely won't appreciate the iPhone 7's ticks and buzzes. But that's why you can disable System Haptics: You can configure the best experience for your needs.</span></p>
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One of the major enhancements in iOS 10 is the development of <a href="https://developer.apple.com/sirikit/" sl-processed="1" style="color: #0c090a;">SiriKit.</a> Specifics aren’t really known about this exact functionality just yet, as SiriKit-enabled apps are only being released alongside the public version of iOS 10. However, what we do know is that there are many potential benefits to SiriKit. For example, if Uber were to implement SiriKit, one could simply tell Siri, “book an Uber for me to go to Central Park”. In theory, at least, Siri should now be able to carry out that exact action. According to <a href="http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/08/31/ios-10-siri-third-party-integration-hands-on/" sl-processed="1" style="color: #0c090a;">this article,</a> apps that will utilize SiriKit the day iOS 10 is released are WhatsApp, LinkedIn, WeChat, Pinterest, Vogue Runway, Pikazo, Square Cash, Monzo, Slack, Looklive, Lyft, Fandango and The Roll. It’s not possible to know how each app will utilize Siri Kit remains, I’m sure someone will cover it in great detail by the time you are reading this article.</div>
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Another major change is that iOS will now attempt to add automatic image descriptions to your photos. According to a presentation as part of the <a href="http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2016/" sl-processed="1" style="color: #0c090a;">World Wide Developer Conference,</a> iOS performs eleven billion calculations per picture to determine what objects are in your photos. It cannot only detect objects, but also facial recognition which can then compare pictures in your lists of contacts to tag people automatically. Indeed, it is now included as part of the information on each photo in my library. While Apple indicated that your photos are not sent to a server for recognition—meaning that it’s all done on your device—it’s not clear to me how long it takes for these descriptions to show up.</div>
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In iOS 10, you can now unlock your iDevice simply by pressing the Home button. While this was always possible on Touch ID-equipped devices, it is now possible on non-Touch ID devices as well. If you do not have a passcode set up, pressing the Home button, waiting for a second, and then pressing it again will now land you on the Home Screen of your device. If you find that you prefer the older way of unlocking your device, you can still do this. Head over to Settings>General>Accessibility>Home Button>, and turn “rest Finger to open” on.</div>
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Another new feature in iOS 10 is the introduction of Voice Mail transcription. For those who can’t hear their voice messages, or for those who just don’t want to listen to the phone, it’s no longer mostly required. It is, however, necessary, to play the message to make the transcription show up. You will find the transcribed text next to the “More Info” button. The transcription is fully accessible with VoiceOver and braille, but comes with the same caveats any automatic transcription does: it’s not 100% accurate, and any kind of noise or accent will greatly decrease accuracy.</div>
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There is a new feature in iOS called “raise to Wake” which wakes up your phone each time you pick it up. It also sometimes will wake up when unwanted. While this may be a welcome feature for many, especially for VoiceOver users utilizing speech, it may be annoying. You can turn “raise to Wake” off if you would like. You will find the ability to turn this on and off under Settings>Display & Brightness.</div>
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When you get to your Home screen with iOS 10 and VoiceOver is enabled, you will now hear that there are Rotor actions available; these options relate to moving apps. Rotor over to the "Actions" item, then flick up or down to the "Arrange app" action and double tap. This puts you in “Screen Edit” mode, just as if you had used the old "double tap and hold" method to begin editing apps. Next, find an app you wish to move, then flick up or down once to specify your desire to move this app. (You can also perform a two-finger double tap on an app to mark it as being ready to be moved.) Now, you can freely move around your home screen, even changing pages if you prefer, until you find exactly where you would like to move the app you chose. Once you locate the place where you would like to put the app, flick up or down to see different options: you can move it to the right of the app VoiceOver currently has focus on; move it to the left of VoiceOver's current position; create a folder with those 2 apps; or cancel the move entirely. Canceling will place you on the page you are currently editing, and the app you chose to cancel the move for returns to its original place. (Pressing the Home button to exit Screen Edit mode will also cancel any app move you had in progress.) Even better still is the fact that this system works great with both Bluetooth keyboards and braille displays!</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Chelsea Ann Stark: Hotmail And iPhone4s Frenzy</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If you have a Hotmail email account you probably went through this Tuesday, November 22, 2016.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">To read this post please go to</span><a href="http://chelseaannstark.blogspot.com/2016/08/hotmail-and-iphone4s-frenzy.html" style="color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> http://chelseaannstark.blogspot.com/2016/08/hotmail-and-iphone4s-frenzy.html</a><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244824065323166742.post-91570354329494525722016-11-02T15:19:00.001-07:002016-11-02T15:19:37.724-07:00Apple Pay: help people who are blind or vision impaired to be more
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Why are all the other banks with in Australia taking longer to follow suit?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bringing apple pay to all banks can make a big impact on peoples lives, particularly those who have disabilities. Using one device instead of keeping track of several cards makes paying easy for everyone.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Apple pay makes paying Simple, secure and private. Gone are the days of searching for your wallet and the wasted moments finding the right cards which are not accessible for people who are blind or vision impaired due to the pore font size and the colour contrast of the cards which are issued to us by our bank providers.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The other good thing about apple pay is your card details are never shared when you use Apple Pay. In fact, they aren’t stored on your device at all!</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With your signature, your not only helping people who are blind or vision impaired. 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I forgot how good it feels to hold 4 inches of magic in my hands.</div>
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Spending the past year and a half with the luxurious 5.5-inch screen of the iPhone 6 Plus and 6s nearly convinced me that bigger really is better. But after using the iPhone SE, I’m starting to rethink everything I love about iPhone.</div>
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The moment I clasped the iPhone SE it was like reconnecting with an ex-lover. Everything is familiar and yet it has somehow improved in nearly every single way. I’ve been re-captivated by its beauty, brains, and brawn all over again, even though on the outside, it looks like such a boring device.</div>
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How can an iPhone that looks so old feel so right?</div>
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Iconic design</h3>
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If you like the classic design of the iPhone 5 and 5s you’ll love the iPhone SE. The chamfered edges don’t change the feel much. While the curved body of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s is elegant, the design of the iPhone SE is perfectly iconic.</div>
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The first thing I noticed when picking up the SE is how much I’ve missed the flat edges and it’s sturdy build. Having the power button back at its rightful place at the top is nice. I also love the round volume buttons, which are more distinctive than the set on the 6/6s that sit more flush with the case.</div>
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The very best thing about the iPhone SE design though is that it fits in my Donald Trump-size hands. Typing with one hand feels so damn good. The SE body also doesn’t come with a camera bump, which might become a rarity. I also realized this could be the last iPhone Apple makes with a headphone jack.</div>
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Oh yeah, and it comes in pink!</div>
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Grunt</h3>
<figure aria-labelledby="figcaption_29" class="wp-caption post-body-image alignnone" id="29" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 1em 40px 1em 0px; width: 780px;"><img alt="iPhone SE box" class="wp-image-420709 size-full" height="218" src="http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/iPhone-SE-box.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 780px;" width="320" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="figcaption_29" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(41, 128, 185); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Museo-500, sans-serif !important; font-size: 16px !important; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 1.25rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Unboxing the iPhone SE feels like a blissful reunion.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Museo-300, sans-serif !important; font-style: italic; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac</span></figcaption></figure><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">
The iPhone SE is screaming fast. The only iOS device that’s markedly faster is the iPad Pro, which is utterly remarkable given its small size and budget-friendly price tag.</div>
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Cheap phones are usually underpowered, but with the A9 processor powering the iPhone SE, it can handle practically anything apps throw at it. It’s the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Mouse" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #008cba; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Mighty Mouse</a> of iPhones.</div>
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Along with the faster processor the iPhone SE has a couple other internal improvements over the iPhone 5s that make it a more modern device. Apple added faster WiFi and LTE speeds. It also packs Bluetooth 4.2, NFC and Touch ID, bringing Apple Pay support.</div>
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There’s something amazing about having a small phone that’s wicked powerful. Since reviewing the iPhone SE I haven’t had any problems with apps freezing. Multitasking has been a breeze. Editing pictures and playing games has been just as fast as on my iPhone 6s, and I’m starting to find that I prefer to do most tasks on the smaller device.</div>
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That screen</h3>
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No other company makes a decent smartphone with a 4-inch screen anymore. The iPhone SE isn’t just a decent phone though, its a great iPhone, and the tiny screen is actually a delight. Sure, you won’t really want to read a novel off it like the iPhone 6s Plus, but I find it’s perfect for everything I want to do on my iPhone.</div>
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The smaller size means most people will be able to reach from the bottom corner to the top without contorting your hands into some franken shape. I’m always dropping my iPhone 6s when trying to use it one-handed. The iPhone SE hasn’t slipped from my grasp once.</div>
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There are some drawbacks to the little screen though. The contrast-ration is slightly worse than the iPhone 6s. There’s also no 3D Touch, but that’s not much of a loss. I’m also not going to be able to turn it into a VR headset, and some websites and apps don’t display as nicely. However, I feel like it’s a less-distracting device.</div>
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My attention doesn’t get swallowed up by a giant screen that begs me to watch just one more YouTube video. I pull it out, check my apps, send messages, take a picture, and then it’s back in my pocket. It’s so small I almost forget it its there, unlike the 6s Plus which causes some pinching in the trousers.</div>
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The camera</h3>
<figure aria-labelledby="figcaption_29" class="wp-caption post-body-image alignnone" id="29" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 1em 40px 1em 0px; width: 780px;"><img alt="The iPhone SE is a perfect point-and-shoot camera." class="size-full wp-image-421030" height="1068" src="http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/iPhone-SE-Camera.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 780px;" width="1600" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="figcaption_29" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-color: rgb(41, 128, 185); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Museo-500, sans-serif !important; font-size: 16px !important; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 1.25rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The iPhone SE is a perfect point-and-shoot camera.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Museo-300, sans-serif !important; font-style: italic; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Photo: Sam Mills/Cult of Mac</span></figcaption></figure><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.125rem; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">
If you’re upgrading from an iPhone 5s or lower, the camera alone on the iPhone SE is worth the price tag. For $399 you essentially get a great point-and-shoot camera, that is also a kickass smartphone.</div>
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One reason I love the iPhone SE design is it feels so much better using it as a camera than the iPhone 6/6s. Now that Apple has added a 12MP rear-camera sensor to the 4-inch device, it seems like it could be a favorite among photographers.</div>
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The only drawback to the iPhone SE cameras is the front-facing Facetime camera. Instead of bumping up the sensor to 5 mega-pixels, Apple kept the same 1.2 mega-pixel sensor from the iPhone 5s, so your selfie-game will take a serious hit.</div>
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The pictures coming off the iPhone SE iSight camera though are just as good as the snappies you’ll get on the iPhone 6s. Low-light photos are still pretty grainy and pixelated, but it also shoots 4K video and LivePhotos. The SE actually fits comfortably in my running shorts too, so I’ll be more likely to take it with me everywhere, and pull it out more.</div>
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Amazing battery life</h3>
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Smaller size doesn’t mean weaker battery life. In my brief testing I’ve found the iPhone SE has way better battery life than my iPhone 6s, even though I’m using it just as much, if not more.</div>
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The iPhone SE’s pared-down features allow it to sip battery life slower while giving essentially the same performance. I can actually make it through a full day of heavy usage without needing to recharge it.</div>
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Friendly price</h3>
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For the first time in my life, I bought a new Apple product without having to worry about it destroying my bank account. The $399 starting price is great for people on a budget, teens or anyone who just wants an affordable phone. The 64GB model is pretty much a no-brainer $499 upgrade though if you do anything more than surf Safari and Facebook.</div>
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Secret loves</h3>
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I don’t know if I’m going to go back to my iPhone 6s.</div>
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Despite its diminutive stature, the iPhone SE is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0nqZii2RjI" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #008cba; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">a good size</a> with a lot of power and a perfect design that will make you fall in love all over.</div>
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The iPhone SE’s greatest feat is that it will make you question whether or not you really need an iPhone 6s. Sure the 6s is bigger. It’s got a sleeker body, and a couple new tricks. But the iPhone SE is a classic reincarnated for a farewell tour that demands your attention.</div>
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And I can’t let go.</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">News broke yesterday that a United States magistrate judge in California ordered Apple to comply with the FBI’s request for <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/02/16/u-s-judge-orders-apple-to-help-fbi-access-data-on-san-bernardino-gunmans-iphone-5c/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">assistance in bypassing the passcode lock</span></a> of the San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone. Hours later Apple <span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/02/17/apple-posts-public-letter-in-response-to-fbi-iphone-unlock-demand-an-unprecedented-step-which-threatens-the-security-of-our-customers/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">published an open letter by </span></a><a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/02/17/apple-posts-public-letter-in-response-to-fbi-iphone-unlock-demand-an-unprecedented-step-which-threatens-the-security-of-our-customers/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Tim Cook</span></a></span> </span>explaining that creating a tool to bypass this specific iPhone would jeopardize the security of all iPhones.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The battle between personal privacy and information gathering as it relates to Apple and security has been building up for years now, and the government narrowing it down to one specific iPhone used by a terrorist in the U.S. has caused the debate to reach new levels. This <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/02/17/apple-vs-fbi-court-order/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">may be Apple’s battle to lose</a>, but it will be a very public one nonetheless.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since Apple’s response to the FBI and court order, the White House has <a href="https://twitter.com/ReutersTech/status/700021613564207106" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px none; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">stood by the Department of Justice</a> and argued that it’s not about a backdoor for all devices but just a single device, which Tim Cook’s argument already addressed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Tim Cook’s open letter is on Apple’s homepage and headlines about the government’s demands are all over the news. From my view, Apple customers seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of Tim Cook’s position, while presidential candidates are unsurprisingly siding with the FBI. Where do you weigh in? Here’s what we know so far.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">iPhones with passcode locks are currently disabled after multiple failed attempts to guess passwords. Try too many incorrect passcodes on an iPhone and you’re temporarily only allowed to place emergency calls for 1 minute. Try again after that and it extends to 5 minutes, then 15 minutes, and so on. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Optionally, iPhones can be set to erase all data after just 10 failed attempts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic;">The government would have us remove security features and add new capabilities to the operating system, allowing a passcode to be input electronically. This would make it easier to unlock an iPhone by “brute force,” trying thousands or millions of combinations with the speed of a modern computer.</span></div>
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<a href="http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Technology/HT_iphone_5C-colors_thg-130910_16x9_992.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" src="http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Technology/HT_iphone_5C-colors_thg-130910_16x9_992.jpg" height="225" width="400" /></a>Apple's new iPhone 5s will feature Touch ID, a fingerprint sensor whcih will be used for security and authentication. This new feature will greatly aid blind and visually impaired users who currently struggle with or ignore the passcode ID security feature on the iPhone. Also, buying Apps from the App Store and music and videos from iTunes will no longer require users to enter their passwords if they have an iPhone 5s. Simply place your thumb over the home button and your transactions will now be authenticated and executed. NICE!!!<br />
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Since this year’s <a href="http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2014/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; color: #b00a0f; text-decoration: none;">WWDC keynote</a> ended, the focus of any analysis on iOS 8 has been its<a href="http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; color: #b00a0f; text-decoration: none;">features</a> — things like Continuity, Extensions, and iCloud Drive. This is, of course, expected: iOS is the operating system that drives Apple’s most important (and most <a href="http://parislemon.com/post/74792148262/the-iphone-company" style="background-position: 0px 0px; color: #b00a0f; text-decoration: none;">profitable</a>) products, so it’s natural that the limelight be shone on the new features for the mass market.</div>
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As I’ve written, however, the <a href="https://www.apple.com/accessibility/ios/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; color: #b00a0f; text-decoration: none;">Accessibility features that Apple includes in iOS</a> are nonetheless<a href="http://stevensblog.org/apple-accessibility-innovation/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; color: #b00a0f; text-decoration: none;">just as important and innovative</a> as the A-list features that Craig Federighi demoed on stage at Moscone. Indeed, Apple is to be lauded for their year-over-year commitment to improving iOS’s Accessibility feature set, and they continue that trend with iOS 8.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;"><u>Alex.</u></span> Apple is bringing Alex, its natural-sounding voice on the Mac, to iOS. Alex will work with all of iOS’s spoken audio technologies (Siri excepted), including VoiceOver, Speak Selection, and another new Accessibility feature to iOS 8, Speak Screen (see below). In essence, Alex is a replacement for the robotic-sounding voice that controls VoiceOver, et al, in iOS today.</div>
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<u><span style="font-weight: 600;">Speak Screen.</span> </u>With Speak Screen, a simple gesture will prompt the aforementioned Alex to read anything on screen, including queries asked of Siri. This feature will be a godsend to visually impaired users who may have issues reading what is on their iPhone and/or iPad. It should be noted that Speak Screen is fundamentally different from Speak Selection, which only reads aloud selected <em>text</em>. By contrast, Speak Screen will read aloud <em>everything</em> on the screen — text, button labels, etc.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;"><u>Zoom.</u></span> Apple has made some welcome tweaks to its Zoom functionality in iOS 8. The hallmark feature is users now have the ability to specify which part of the screen is zoomed in, as well as adjust the level of the zoom. In particular, it’s now possible to have the virtual keyboard on screen at normal size underneath a zoomed-in window. What this does is makes it easy to both type <em>and</em> see what you’re typing without having to battle the entirety of the user interface being zoomed in.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;"><u>Guided Access.</u></span> The big addition to Guided Access is that Apple is leveraging its own new-to-iOS-8 Touch ID developer API to enable users to be able to exit Guided Access using their scanned fingerprint. This is a noteworthy feature because it effectively guarantees that students (or test-takers or museum visitors) can’t leave Guided Access to access the Home screen or other parts of iOS.</div>
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As well, Apple has added a time limit feature to Guided Access, thereby allowing teachers, parents, and the like to specify the length of time Guided Access is to be used. Especially in special education classrooms, features such as Touch ID to exit and the timer can be extremely powerful in ensuring an uninterrupted learning experience, keeping students on task yet still set the expectation that a transition (i.e., “You can play games now”, for instance) will take place in X minutes. In terms of behavior modification, Guided Access’s new features are potentially game-changing, indispensable tools for educators.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;"><u>Enhanced Braille Keyboard.</u></span> iOS 8 adds support for 6-dot <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille" style="background-position: 0px 0px; color: #b00a0f; text-decoration: none;">Braille</a> input system-wide. This feature involves a dedicated Braille keyboard that will translate 6-dot chords into text.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">“Made for iPhone” Hearing Aids.</span> Apple in iOS 8 has improved its <a href="https://www.apple.com/accessibility/ios/hearing-aids/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; color: #b00a0f; text-decoration: none;">Made for iPhone Hearing Aids</a> software so that now users who use hearing aids and have multiple devices now can easily switch between them. Moreover, if a hearing aid is paired with more than one device, users will now be able to pick which device they’d like to use.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Third Party Keyboard API.</span> This topic (as well as QuickType) is worthy of its own standalone article, but the accessibility ramifications of iOS 8’s third party keyboard API are potentially huge for those with special needs.</div>
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Anecdotally speaking, I hear from several low vision iOS-using friends who lament the default system keyboard, which is essentially the same keyboard that shipped with the original iPhone in 2007. The problem, my friends say, is that the key caps are too small and the glyphs too hard to read. With the new API, though, third party developers such as the team at <a href="http://fleksy.com/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; color: #b00a0f; text-decoration: none;">Fleksy</a>can create entirely customized keyboards that users can use instead of the stock one. This means developers can control key spacing and size, color, and so forth in an effort to create keyboards that accommodate for a wide array of visual — and motor — needs.</div>
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They really believe the new Fleksy will benefit <em>a lot</em> of people with special needs.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Miscellany.</span> iOS 8 brings with it a few housekeeping changes to Settings.app, where the Accessibility options are located. For example, the Subtitles & Captioning option — which previously was found under Hearing — has been moved to a new Media section, right next to a new Video Descriptions toggle. Furthermore, the Physical & Motor pane — home to such features as Switch Control and AssistiveTouch — has been rechristened Interaction.</div>
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The excitement of the rumor mill, the titillation of every leaked photo led to higher than ever levels of expectation for the iPhone 5, and while the announcement was greeted with some derision at the lack of perceived headline improvements, the record sales tell an entirely different story.</div>
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Given the underwhelming changes to the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/iphone-4s-1031754/review" style="border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone 4S</a>, the iPhone 5 really needed to re-energize customers to prove Apple can repeat the game-changing trick it managed with the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/iphone-4-694980/review" style="border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone 4</a>.</div>
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We'll begin in the traditional manner: how the thing actually feels in the hand. With the iPhone 5 there were many types of prospective buyers: the upgrader from the 4 (or more-money-than-sense iPhone 4S upgraders), those tired of their Android handset and those taking their first steps in the smartphone market and want to get one of them iThingies their friends has.</div>
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Well, all of those picking up the iPhone 5 will have the same reaction: this thing is amazingly light. You've probably heard the numbers by now (20 percent lighter than the predecessor, as well as beating most of the opposition too at 112g.)</div>
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It's an odd sensation, but it actually detracts from the experience when you first pick it up. We've praised the weighty feel of the iPhone in the past, lending it a premium feel in the face of toy-like phones, and it's almost disappointing that Apple decided to join that clan.</div>
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However, through extended use this problem quickly disappears, as the overall effect of the phone is still a chassis designed for strength, it just sits more anonymously in the pocket.</div>
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You'll obviously see the change in height, too – the iPhone 5 stands 4.87-inches tall to allow for the larger 4-inch screen. In truth, those not familiar with the iPhone 4S probably wouldn't notice the difference, which is why it's a good move from Apple to include the larger screen if it's not going put people off that hate larger phones.</div>
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The decision to stick at 4-inches is Apple's admission that while it recognizes people are all over the idea of having more screen real estate to play with it doesn't want to move away from the thumb-friendly nature of the device.</div>
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Through a mixture of moving the centre of gravity slightly as well as repositioning the screen within the bezel, it's still possible to scroll your thumb mostly around the whole display one-handed, which Apple is clearly keen to keep hold of.</div>
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However, we're not convinced of that argument any more, and the power button was still a little out of reach when using the phone normally, as was anything in the top left-hand corner of the screen.</div>
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This was no issue in reality, as scooting the phone down a bit in the palm is a natural action. But if that's the case, then why not offer a 4.3-inch screen at least?</div>
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There's more to a phone than a screen these days (although increasingly less and less) and the general construction of the iPhone 5 is excellent to say the least.</div>
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We've tested both the ceramic white version and the anodized black, and the two-tone effect on the back of the phone is stunning, both visually and under the finger.</div>
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The two sections of pigmented glass at the top and the bottom of the phone add a pleasant effect, and the sapphire glass is meant to be thoroughly durable, to complement the Gorilla Glass on the front.</div>
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Apple knows consumers get furious when they drop an iPhone, and is clearly seeking to stop the smashes before they happen with a tougher exterior - although it seems the anodized black version is more prone to scratching, which means, sadly, you'll have to think about getting a cover for that beautiful frame.</div>
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The same industrial band around the outside is in effect again as on the iPhone 4 and 4S, with small sections removed where the antenna joins.</div>
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Apple has gone for a more advanced form of antenna here, meaning the days of lost signal are gone, and generally increasing the power of your call connection and GPS lock on, too.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5;">zYou can buy an adaptor, but it's going to be pricey: $30 when it lands in October. And unless you want to keep it permanently attached to the bottom of your iPhone 5 you'll need to buy a few, which is far from ideal.</span></div>
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However, let's not harangue Apple too much for this: a smaller connector is not only easier to use (you can plug the smaller cable in either way round, and the connection feels more solid), but you're rewarded with a thinner and more compact phone to boot.</div>
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The decision to move the 3.5millimeter headphone jack to the bottom is an odd one, as while it allows you to slip the phone into the pocket head-first when listening to music, which is a more natural action, it's a real pain in the posterior for some apps that will only work in landscape a certain way up.</div>
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Using it this way means your headphones experience will be one of having to jiggle the jack around two fingers.</div>
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It's not the most comfortable way to hold a phone, and even when using the phone in portrait mode, the jack gets in the way somewhat.</div>
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There are other smaller design changes to the iPhone 5 too, such as the iSight front-facing camera moving to the middle and the home button being noticeably more robust to help reduce instances of a broken portal to your home screen.</div>
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But enough about what the phone looks like - the killer question is how the thing feels in hand. We'll sum it up by saying this: smooth. It's a little slippery, and we were always worried we would drop the darn thing.</div>
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But that's the only negative thing about the design (apart from the low weight initially) as it sits in the palm nicely and allows you to do it all with one hand, including hitting the top-mounted power/lock button with ease.</div>
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That lock button is actually still loose, as it was on the iPhone 4S, meaning when you shake the phone around you can hear it clicking away, which undoes a lot of the premium feel Apple is going for.</div>
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Make no mistake, the iPhone 5 is one of the most beautifully crafted phones out there - but when you're paying $199 up front for the thing, we'd hope this would be the very minimum Apple would do.</div>
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And while it looks nice, from the front it doesn't really add much to the design of the iPhone - it's certainly not the same as the jaw-dropping design of the iPhone 4 compared to the 3GS... it's just another evolution in the iLine. It's not bad, but for those that hoped the iPhone 5 would be another big change there's a good chance they'll be disappointed about the look... until they feel the lovely back.</div>
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There was a real chance here for Apple: remove the bezel and give the front of the screen a look that's similar to the OLED TVs from the likes of Samsung or LG… but instead we're treated to the same lines as before.</div>
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You always get the feeling that Apple saves what it can for the next iteration of the iPhone, and while there's nothing wrong with the current construction we can see the edge-to-edge screen becoming something amazing on the <a href="http://www.techradar.com/us/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/iphone-6-what-you-want-to-see-1099865" style="border: 0px; color: #0099cc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone 6</a>.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I would like to think <a href="http://www.imore.com/iphone-4s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I More.com</a> For this wonderful article.on the iPhone 4S.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Nothing about 2011 was normal for Apple. Tim Cook had introduced the Verizon iPhone 4 at the beginning of the year and Apple had finally shipped the white iPhone 4 by spring. But unlike previous years, WWDC 2011 came and went with nary a mention nor a glimpse of a new iPhone. Steve Jobs went on medical leave again, and in August resigned as CEO. He passed away on October 5, 2011. Just the day before Apple's new CEO, Tim Cook, SVP of Marketing Phil Schiller, and other executives valiantly took the stage at a special media called "Let's Talk iPhone". There, under tremendous emotional strain, they introduced the most amazing iPhone yet. The iPhone 4S.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The iPhone 4S, codename N94 and model number iPhone4,1, for the second time, kept the same basic design on the market as the iPhone before it, concentrating instead on improving the internal components. It was the first indication Apple was following a "tick tock" product cycle with the iPhone. For the iPhone 4S, it meant the same 960x480 326ppi Retina display and IPS LED panel. It also had the same composition, with two layers of chemically hardened glass sandwiched on either side of a stainless steel antenna band.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The antenna band itself, which had proven problematic on the iPhone 4, was improved. It had the same configuration as the Verizon iPhone 4, but Apple split it into two components and enabled it to intelligent switch between transmit and receive to avoid attenuation and detuning both. Even while on a call. While CDMA EVDO Rev A data speeds had already been maxed out - given slow it was to begin with - Apple boosted the UMTS/HSPA speed to 14.4mbps. (They refused to humor the idea that there were "4G" speeds, however.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The new Qualcomm RTR8605 chipset was dual-mode, however, so even the Verizon (and later Sprint) CDMA models could work on GSM internationally, making the iPhone 4S Apple's first "world phone".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Wi-Fi stayed the same at 802.11 b/g/n on 2.4Mhz, but aGPS was augmented by Russian GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System), and Bluetooth jumped to 4.0 with support for both high-speed (HS) and low-engery (LE) modes. Typically radio-conservative Apple was making a big bet on the future of Bluetooth, and none at all on NFC (near-field communications).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">As was becoming the pattern with S-class upgrades, the processor got a significant boost - a version of the Apple A5 system-on-a-chip (SoC) that debuted with the iPad 2 earlier in the year. The A5 featured a dual-core Cortex A9 central processing unit with Imagination's dual-core PowerVR SGX 543MP2 graphics processing unit. Apple claimed a 2x general speed improvement and a 7x graphics improvement.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Apple stuck with the same 512MB of RAM, however, but did introduce a new 64GB storage option. The battery got a slight improvement as well, up to 1430mAh, but it resulted in 8 hours of usable battery life for 3G talk, but a reduction in standby time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">An infrared sensor was added to enable Siri's raise to speak feature, but otherwise the sensors remained the same.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The front-facing camera retained the same, paltry VGA sensor. The rear-facing camera, however, got a lot of attention. It was increased to 8 megapixels and 1080p. The backlit sensor was improved, the aperture brought to f2.4, and made wide angle to capture more of a scene. They also added a 5th piece of glass to the assembly to increase sharpness, and an infrared filter to improve colors. The bigger news was the ISP (image signal processor) in the Apple A5 processor. It took the images captured by the camera and provided facial recognition for more specific automatic focus, and post-processing for much better white-balanced, stabilized, photos and video. It did, however, seem to find macro focus more of a challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Pricing again stayed the same, starting at $199 and $299, with the new, larger capacity model sliding in right on top at $399.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The iPhone 4S launched on October 14, 2011 in the U.S., Australia, Canada, the U.K, France, Germany, and Japan. It reached 70 countries and 100 carriers by the end of 2011. It sold 4 million units the first weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Steve Jobs was gone, but his greatest product, Apple, remained. The iPhone 4S entered a market facing greater, more relentless, and savvier competition than ever before. Still, it established the iPhone as Apple's new holiday product, and it once again sold more than any iPhone before. It was a painful, combative, heartbreaking year for Apple, but they endured. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Steve Jobs returned to the WWDC keynote stage on June 7, 2010. He'd introduced the iPad earlier in the year, and kicked things off with an update on how it, and the App Store had been doing. Then he turned his attention to iPhone, and after recapping Apple had done to date, he began on what would come next. It had over 100 new features. It has an all-new design, an all-new camera, and an all new screen resolution. It was hot. It was the iPhone 4.</span></div>
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iPhone 4: 4 times the pixels, 2 times the face</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The iPhone 4, codenamed N90/N92 and model iPhone3,1, for the first time, offered significant improvements to the display. Apple went with optical lamination and an inter-plane switching (ISP) panel with light-emitting diode (LED) backlighting that made images look as if they were painted just beneath the glass, and greatly improved the viewing angle. Moreover, instead of matching competing display sizes of the time, they leap-frogged over them. To boost pixel count yet maintain compatibility with existing apps, Apple doubled both horizontal and vertical counts, while keeping the physical size constant at 3.5-inches. They went from 480x320 to 960x640. That brought the density up from 163ppi to 326ppi, and Apple made the argument that, at that point, the pixels disappeared. They called it a Retina display.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The cellular radio stayed pretty much the same, at least at first, though Apple did switch from mini to microSIM for the carrier card. Bluetooth stayed the same as well. The Wi-Fi radio went to 802.11 g/b/n, though only on the 2.4Mhz band. The kicker was, the stainless steel band around the iPhone was the antenna for all these radios. The top left contained Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and aGPS, and the rest contained UMTS/HSPA. Steve Jobs said it had never been done before. Unfortunately, it hadn't been perfected yet either (see below). Dual mics were also added for noise cancelation and better noise quality.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Again, we had a full model number increase, which meant a full processor increase. In the case it was the custom-designed system-on-a-chip, Apple A4. It was still an ARM Cortex A8 processor, though clocked higher at 800Mhz, and the same PowerVR SGX535 graphics chip, but it would set the stage for some truly impressive work over the next few years. Storage options stayed the same at 16GB and 32GB, but RAM was increased to 512MB. Like every first generation Retina device, however, it was barely enough to support all those additional pixels. The battery was the sole exception. It jumped to 1420mAh, which meant that, even with Retina, Apple actually managed to increase useful battery life as well.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In addition to the previous accelerometer and compass, Apple added a 3-axis gyroscope to the iPhone 4, with pitch, roll, and yaw, as well as rotation around gravity. Working together they provided 6-axis motion detection. It was a huge leap forward when it came to precision control, especially for gaming.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Apple took the iPhone 4's rear camera to 5 megapixels and 720p video, but at the same 1.75 micro pixel size, and added a backside illuminated sensor (BSI) and LED flash. There was, however, one more thing. For the first time, Apple also added a front camera, VGA resolution, and while it was a boon to the profile pics and "selfies" that were growing in popularity, it also allowed Apple to launch FaceTime video calling.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Price once again stayed the same, $199 and $299 on contract.</span></div>
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iPhone 4: Leaps... and stumbles</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white;">As innovative and exciting as the iPhone 4 was, it was also a painful year in many ways for Apple and for the product line, starting well before the launch. On April 19, 2010, it was revealed that an iPhone 4 prototype had been separated from an Apple engineer at a Redwood City bar. That prototype eventually made its way online, resulting in Apple biggest product leak ever. While other sites got photos, the site that got the phone was Gizmodo.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The color white also provided Apple with considerable challenges. They had to prevent UV rays from yellowing it over time, and they had to prevent the opacity of the paint from interfering with the internal sensors. That took longer than they anticipated. Short term it meant the white iPhone 4 would not ship on time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">It would take until April 28, 2011 to hit the shelves.</span></div>
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iPhone 4: The Verizon iPhone</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white;">We wouldn't have to wait a full year for a completely new iPhone generation to get the redesigned antenna, however. We only had to wait some six months, at least for the announcement. On January 10, 2011 Apple's then-COO Tim Cook took the stage at another, separate event and announced the iPhone would, at long last, come to Verizon. It launched on February 10, and included a new antenna array that not only minimized detuning but supported CDMA and EVDO Rev A networking. It was nowhere nearly as fast as GSM HSPA, nor could it handle simultaneous voice and data, but thanks to Verizon's network, it greatly increased the reach and customer experience in the U.S.</span></div>
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The best iPhone ever. Again.</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The iPhone 4 launched on June 15, 2010. It would hit 88 countries and 185 carriers by the end of the year. Apple also launched iOS 4 along with it. Despite an initial rollout of only 5 countries, and considerable supply constraint, they still sold 1.7 million that first weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The competitive market saw BlackBerry and Microsoft continue to struggle in the dark, Palm continue to struggle in the light, and Google's Android continue to come on like a freight train. The iPhone 3G was gone, the iPhone 3GS remained, and the iPhone 4 once again took Apple to greater numbers than ever before. Nothing, however, could prepare the world for what would hit Apple next...</span></div>
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Now that you’ve taken your first step into the iOS world with multitouch gestures, it’s time to learn how to navigate your device. We’ll go over where your apps are stored, how to organize them, search for them, and delete them.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Home screen</strong>: When you first turn on your device, you’re brought to the Home screen. Here, you’ll see an assortment of icons grouped into rows, and several more icons grouped in the silver Dock along the bottom of the screen. The Home screen is where your apps live, and where you can launch them. Because only 16 apps will fit on one Home screen (20 on the iPad), you can have multiple app pages or screens for organizing your apps (up to 11). Above the Dock, you’ll see a series of dots, with one highlighted in white; these dots signify the number of app pages you have. Swipe left or right to go from page to page.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Dock</strong>: The silver translucent bar along the bottom of your Home screen is called the Dock. If you’ve tried swiping between app pages, you’ll notice the icons in the Dock don’t change. That’s because the Dock is for apps you most frequently use; instead of having to swipe from page to page to find an app, you can drop it directly into the Dock for easy access. You can store up to four apps in the Dock.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Search in Spotlight</strong>: You can search for every email message, webpage, and app on your device, or search through Google or Wikipedia, by swiping right on your Home screen until you reach Spotlight. (If you're on the first Home screen page, pressing your Home button also summons the Spotlight screen.) To search, just type your query in the text box at the top.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Open and close an app</strong>: Want to launch an app? To open it, all you have to do is tap its icon. Once it’s open, you can return to the Home screen at any time by pressing the Home button.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rearrange and delete apps</strong>: To rearrange the order of your icons, tap and hold any icon on the Home screen. After a few seconds, all your app icons, including the one you’re holding, will start to wiggle, and a small black X will pop up in each icon’s top left corner. Once they do this, you can rearrange any apps on the Home screen, or even drag them into or out of the Dock. If you’ve installed a third-party app you don’t want anymore, you can tap the X to delete it (you cannot delete the apps that came preinstalled on your device). When you’re finished, press the Home button, and your icons will stop wiggling and stay in their new location. You can also rearrange your icons and Home screen pages through iTunes when you connect your device to your computer.</div>
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Note that you’re not able to delete the built-in apps that come with your iOS device. These include Camera, Photos, YouTube, Clock, Weather, and the all-new Newsstand folder, among others. You’ll be able to tell which apps you can’t delete—they don’t sport the black X. You are able to move around these built-in apps to your liking, however.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Use folders</strong>: Having a bunch of apps scattered on your Home screen is OK if you don’t have too many, but when you start amassing a collection, you can use app folders. A folder is a group of apps, represented by a single icon, on your Home screen. Each folder sports miniature icons representing the apps inside, along with an overall name. When you tap a folder, the Dock fades and slides down, making room for a view of the folder’s contents. Within, you’ll find the name and icon for each app. Tap any app to launch it, or tap anywhere outside the folder to return to the Home screen.</div>
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To create a folder, start by tapping and holding any app icon to enter edit mode; after the icons begin to wiggle, drag an app on top of another app. When you release the app, you’ll create a folder, which will open and display both apps. By default the folder is named based on the App Store category for one of the first two apps in the folder. If you want to customize this name, just tap inside the field (while still in edit mode) and enter something new. When you’re done, press the Home button to exit edit mode.</div>
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To add another app to the folder, reenter edit mode and drag the desired app onto the folder icon. Repeat until you’ve added all the apps you want (up to 12 per folder on the iPhone or iPod touch; 20 on the iPad), and then press the Home button to exit edit mode.</div>
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To edit the folder itself, its name, contents, or the layout of the apps inside, you can either enter edit mode and then tap the folder, or, while the folder is open, tap and hold any icon inside. You can then tap the folder’s name to change it, drag apps within the folder to rearrange them, drag an app out of the folder to return it to the Home screen, or tap an app’s Delete button to completely delete it from your device. Unlike apps, folders don’t have a Delete button; to delete a folder, you must remove all the apps from it.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Manage folders from iTunes</strong>: iTunes has long allowed users to manage installed apps when syncing, and you can edit your folders too, using your mouse and keyboard. When your device is connected to your computer, the Apps tab in iTunes lets you choose which apps to sync, as well as decide how to organize these apps. Drag an app onto another app and, after a slight delay, a folder is created—just as if you’d performed the same action on your device. You get the same editable folder name, and you can rearrange icons within the folder. Since you’re using a computer, you don’t need to click and hold to enter the jiggling-icon edit mode; you can click and drag anytime. Similarly, to edit an existing folder, just double-click it.</div>
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Opening and closing an app is easy: Tap the app to open it, and then press the Home button to close it. But when you exit, you’re not actually shutting down the app: You’re freezing it in place, or sending it to run in the background. This means you can have multiple active apps running at any one time, and you can even switch between active apps without returning to the Home screen.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Frozen apps versus background apps</strong>: Sometimes you need an app to keep doing something when it’s not in the foreground. For that reason, Apple allows apps to perform tasks in the background using several tools. One of these tools is the push-notification system; another allows music apps to keep playing while the user switches to another app; yet another allows tasks, such as photo uploads, to continue running in the background even if you switch out of the program performing the upload. If your third-party app doesn’t incorporate one of these background features, it will “freeze”, which is to say it will remember whatever you were just doing when you re-open it, but will not process any data in the background.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The multitasking bar</strong>: You can quickly switch between apps by bringing up the multitasking bar. To do so, quickly double-press the Home button; a bar below the Dock will rise up from the bottom of the screen, showing off the apps most recently run. To switch to a different app, tap its icon.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">Sometime ago we did an article on 11 ways to conserve your battery with iOS 7 . Those who were running iOS 7 I hope red that existing article and followed some of those steps. This article expands on things that you can do with iOS 8. If you are new to IOS or did not read the article here are the key things we covered. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">Background App Refresh Location-Tracking Apps Parallax Automatic Updating Turn Off AirDrop <span style="font-family: ProximaNovaCond, serif; line-height: 1.1;">Stop searching for Wi-Fi </span>Turn Down the Brightness Spotlight <span style="font-family: ProximaNovaCond, serif; line-height: 1.1;"> Disable location services (for apps that don't need it) </span><span style="font-family: ProximaNovaCond, serif; line-height: 1.1;"> Go on a push notification diet </span><span style="font-family: ProximaNovaCond, serif; line-height: 1.1;"> Don't push; fetch</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"> If you like Steph I step instructions on each one of the steps please go to </span><a href="http://iphoneandipadappsfortheblind.blogspot.com/2014/01/11-ways-to-stop-ios-7-from-killing-your.html" target="_blank">11 Ways to Stop iOS 7 From Killing Your iPhone Battery</a></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />It's written with iOS 8 in mind, which adds new features to assess your battery usage. And some new fancy features that will guzzle your battery fast if left unchecked.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="Battery usage" src="http://images.pocketgamer.co.uk/FCKEditorFiles//ios8-battery-01.jpg" height="600" style="border: none;" width="450" /><br /><br />First things first, you want to see what is killing your battery in the first place. iOS 8 lets you assess your battery drain on an app-by-app basis so you can easily detect energy hogs.<br /><br />Simply go into the Settings app, choose 'General', tap 'Usage', and go into 'Battery Usage'. From here you can see the time since last full charge and battery usage in the last day and week.<br /><br />If one app is taking up a lot of battery you may want to turn off that app's background refresh or notifications, or stop using it altogether.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="Background app" src="http://images.pocketgamer.co.uk/FCKEditorFiles//ios8-battery-02.jpg" height="600" style="border: none;" width="450" /><br /><br />Background App Refresh, which was added in iOS 7, is a way for apps to get new data when not in use, so they're up to date as soon as you load them.<br /><br />It's a cool feature, but it can be a major battery drain. Either turn off individual apps that you don't need to update continually, or shut off the feature entirely. You can find it in 'General', 'Background App Refresh' in the Settings app.<br /><br />Think about the way you use each app. It takes a couple seconds to grab your latest tweets when you load up a Twitter client - do you need to continuously update your timeline when you're not using it?<br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="Location services" src="http://images.pocketgamer.co.uk/FCKEditorFiles//ios8-battery-03.jpg" height="600" style="border: none;" width="450" /><br /><br />Location Services are another battery hog. Open Settings, go to 'Privacy', and find 'Location Services'.<br /><br />Keep it on for apps where you want it to know your location. If you like to share your location when you Tweet, keep it on for Twitter. But if you never use IMDB's cinema show times feature, revoke its access to your location, here.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="Push notifications" src="http://images.pocketgamer.co.uk/FCKEditorFiles//ios8-battery-04.jpg" height="600" style="border: none;" width="450" /><br /><br />Push notifications can also hurt your battery life. And like background app refresh and location services, you've probably got some turned on that you don't need.<br /><br />To tweak these settings open the Settings app and choose 'Notifications'. Now you'll see a list of every installed app that can send notifications. Go into apps that you don't care about and uncheck 'Allow Notifications'.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="Fetch" src="http://images.pocketgamer.co.uk/FCKEditorFiles//ios8-battery-05.jpg" height="600" style="border: none;" width="450" /><br /><br />You have more options when dealing with the default Mail app. Find 'Mail, Contacts, Calendars' in Settings and tap on 'Fetch New Data'.<br /><br />Push email will send emails from the mail server to your iOS device as soon as they arrive, which can hurt your battery. You may wish it to turn this setting off and use a fetch schedule.<br /><br />This only looks for emails every 15 or 30 minutes, or every hour, or only when you go into the Mail app and refresh your inbox. Use whichever suits you best.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="Kill apps" src="http://images.pocketgamer.co.uk/FCKEditorFiles//ios8-battery-06.jpg" height="600" style="border: none;" width="450" /><br /><br />A couple tips from ex-Apple Genius Bar staffer Scotty Loveless, who has got a huge and exhaustive <a class="releaselink" href="http://www.scottyloveless.com/blog/2014/the-ultimate-guide-to-solving-ios-battery-drain" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_new">guide to battery drain</a> if you want even more information.<br /><br />First, stop manually closing all your apps. For starters, it's unnecessary: iOS is automatically juggling memory, putting apps in suspended animation, and killing unused memory hogs all by itself.<br /><br />But more importantly for this article, constantly having to load and unload apps from your phone's random access memory is bad for battery. "All of that loading and unloading puts more stress on your device than just leaving it alone', says Loveless.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="Airplane Mode" src="http://images.pocketgamer.co.uk/FCKEditorFiles//ios8-battery-07.jpg" height="600" style="border: none;" width="450" /><br /><br />Another tip from Loveless: using your iPhone when you're in an area with crappy service can also kill the battery as the phone puts strain on its antenna to try to keep receiving phone calls and text messages.<br /><br />If you're in the middle of nowhere (or inside a building that cuts off phone signal) and you don't need to use the phone right now, turn on airplane mode.<br /><br />Plus, you can actually turn wi-fi back on after you enter airplane mode to continue using the web.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="Brightness" src="http://images.pocketgamer.co.uk/FCKEditorFiles//ios8-battery-08.jpg" height="600" style="border: none;" width="450" /><br /><br />Changing your screen brightness can have a massive impact on your phone's battery life. Keeping it at the highest setting is a sure fire way to drain your battery (and destroy your corneas).<br /><br />Set it to about 60 percent. You'll soon get used to it, and you can squeeze many minutes of battery out of your device.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Go to the </span><strong style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Settings</strong><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> app on your phone. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Inside the app, scroll down, and choose the </span><strong style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">General</strong><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> setting. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Among the numerous options available under the </span><strong style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">General</strong><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> option, we are only looking for the</span><strong style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Accessibility</strong><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> option. This is the hub for many settings which improve the usability of the device. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">inally, turn on the</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><strong style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Grayscale</strong><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">option which can be found under the</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><strong style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Vision</strong><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">section. As soon as you activate the feature, your device’s screen will turn to grayscale mode. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is impressive to see the consistency (or is it stubborness) that Apple </span><a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://gizmodo.com/5851674/iphone-vs-android-who-aged-better" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" x-inset="1">has had with the iPhone home screen</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">. Reddit user </span><a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.ianatomija.info/" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">iKurac</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> cooked up this graphic* to show the gradual additions and slow evolution of iOS over the years. Up until iOS 7, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The dimensions of the iPhone 3G were slightly larger than those of the original iPhone. It was 116 millimetres (4.6 in) high, 62 millimetres (2.4 in) wide, and 12 millimetres (0.47 in) deep, compared to its predecessor, which was 110 millimetres (4.3 in) high, 61 millimetres (2.4 in) wide, and 12 millimetres (0.47 in) deep (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVGA#HVGA_.28480.C3.97320.29" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="HVGA">HVGA</a>) resolution at 163 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_density" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pixel density">ppi</a>, with scratch-resistant glass sitting on top of the display. The capacitive touchscreen was designed for a bare finger, or multiple fingers for multi-touch sensing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The device featured the same sensors as its predecessor. The proximity sensor (which deactivates the display during calls when the face is near) was repositioned to save battery power and to prevent inadvertent inputs from the user’s face and ears. An ambient light sensor was included to adjust the display brightness for different lighting conditions, which helps save battery power. A 3-axis <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerometer" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Accelerometer">accelerometer</a> was included to sense the orientation of the phone and change the screen accordingly, allowing the user to easily switch between portrait and landscape mode.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #252525;">On the rear of the device, the iPhone 3G featured the same fixed-focus 2.0 </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megapixel" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Megapixel">megapixel</a><span style="color: #252525;"> camera of its predecessor. It had no optical zoom, flash, or autofocus, and did not support video recording (though various applications became available to allow video recording on the device). The iPhone 3G's operating system also now supported the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Geotagging">geotagging</a><span style="color: #252525;"> of photographs.</span>Apple iPhone 3G adds support of 3G HSDPA fast data and GPS. It has the same screen, camera, OS and memory (8 or 16GB) as the first one, and almost the same design but now will accept any 3.5mm headphones. It will run on the new software version which support third party application thanks to the official SDK.<span style="color: #252525;">The iPhone 3G came preloaded with the latest version of iPhone OS to offer users the newest and most capable software. The device continued to receive updates to its software for over two years, with major iterations released on an annual basis. However, the phone had access to a decreasing proportion of new features with each update as its hardware became superseded by later models.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At launch in July 2008, the iPhone 3G came preloaded with <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_OS_2.0" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="IPhone OS 2.0">iPhone OS 2.0</a>. This introduced the App Store, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support, Apple’s MobileMe service, and push email support, along with other new features and bug fixes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In June 2009, iPhone 3G users received the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_OS_3.0" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="IPhone OS 3.0">iPhone OS 3.0</a> software update, which introduced the long-awaited <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Multimedia Messaging Service">MMS</a> feature, copy and paste, landscape support for more applications, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bluetooth">Bluetooth</a> stereo support, and other improvements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In June 2010, users received the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_4.0" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="IOS 4.0">iOS 4.0</a> software update. Unlike owners of its successor models, users of the iPhone 3G did not gain access to important features included with iOS 4.0 such as multitasking, the ability to set a home screen wallpaper, or Bluetooth keyboard support. However, it did provide access to a unified mailbox feature, homescreen folders to better organise apps, playlist creation, and other enhancements. This update was widely criticized by users of the iPhone 3G for slow performance, though an updated iOS 4.1, released September 2010, improved this problem. However, unlike more modern iOS devices, this update again did not provide iPhone 3G owners with access to important features, in this case the Game Center application.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On November 23, 2010, the iPhone 3G received the iOS 4.2 software update, which included new features such as YouTube voting, and security fixes. However, the iPhone 3G was unable to use many features included in this update, such as AirPlay and Safari Text Search.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The last release of iOS to support the 3G model was 4.2.1, released on November 22, 2010. iOS 4.3, released on March 11, 2011, did not support the iPhone 3G, with Apple discontinuing further updates.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-iPhone_3G_launch_countries_12-1" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_3G#cite_note-iPhone_3G_launch_countries-12" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A key enhancement introduced with iPhone OS 2.0, and therefore an important feature of the iPhone 3G, was the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="App Store (iOS)">App Store </a>, an iconic way to find and install third-party applications on users' devices. Before this feature was introduced, the only way to install custom applications on the device was via jailbreaking, which is strongly discouraged and unsupported by Apple. There were 500 applications available for download at the launch of the App Store, though this amount has grown dramatically since then.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">To see more on the future of the Apple iPhone </span><a href="http://thehistoryofappleiphones.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;" target="_blank">click here</a><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Alright Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Apple unveiled its first smartwatch on Tuesday. The move was hotly anticipated, as Apple enters a competitive and rapidly expanding market. </span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">People have been speculating about it for over a year, but Apple has finally unveiled its first foray into wearable technology. The Apple Watch (yep, not the iWatch), is an </span><span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">Apple-made smartwatch that was shown off during</span><span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;"> </span><a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/iphone/iphone6-event-how-to-watch-apple-video-2014-3534896/" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1689c4; font-family: AktivGrotesk-Regular, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Apple's 9 September iPhone 6 event</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">,</span><span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;"> with a new dial called the crown, close integration with iCloud and Siri and a flexible sapphire display. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Alright Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">The new watches will be available starting in early 2015,</span><span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; line-height: 1.5;">"Apple introduced the world to several category-defining </span><span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; line-height: 1.5;">revolutionary product that can enrich people's lives. </span></span><span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; font-size: x-small; line-height: 1.5;">products, the <a href="http://www.apple.com/mac/" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mac</a>, <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipod/" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">iPod,</a> <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">iPhone</a> and <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">iPad</a>," </span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"> Apple announced the <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus,</a> the Apple Watch, and a brand new ApplePay tap-to-pay system to replace credit cards. Separately and together there are enormous accessibility implications for these announcements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;">Firstly, I’m not going to list everything that was announced – for that you can</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4244824065323166742" style="border: 0px; color: #6699cc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">watch the recording of the lifestream</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;">or read</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"> </span><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6107091/apple-watch-iphone-6-most-important-things" style="border: 0px; color: #6699cc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The 15 Most Important Announcements From The Apple Watch iPhone 6 Event</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;">. I’m just going to talk about the things that are relevant to accessibility in some way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Lastly we have the</span><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://www.apple.com/watch/" style="border: 0px; color: #6699cc; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple Watch</a><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">, not due for release until early 2015, and a device that has left us with more accessibility questions than accessibility answers at the moment.</span></div>
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On the bonus side of the equation is “tactic” feedback via gentle vibrations on your wrist. This could be a really enormous bonus for many users, and the webpage also describes a “subtle audio” alternative for those who don’t want or can’t use vibrations.</div>
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Control via a “<a href="http://www.imore.com/how-digital-crown-brings-flexiblibility-apple-watch" style="border: 0px; color: #005b9a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">digital crown</a>” – the button an analogue watch uses for setting or winding it – as well as a button on the side and touch-screen controls are both a plus and a minus in accessibility terms. Having a physical control mechanism makes things easier to use for some users but makes them completely inaccessible for others – users who can only use a stylus or mouthstick to access their iPhones and iPads won’t be able to manipulate a digital crown.</div>
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The Apple Watch will let you use Siri simply by lifting your wrist, or alternatively trigger Siri by pressing and holding the digital crown. None of the videos showed Siri responding verbally but since an Apple Watch can only be used in combination with an iPhone, verbal responses through the iPhone should be possible I would think.</div>
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Just having the Watch on your wrist is an accessibility bonus too – as I was writing this my phone rang and I dropped it as I struggled to get it out of my pocket fast enough to answer it. Being able to accept a call by touching my wrist would remove the urgency, and Apple says that the iOS 8 Handoff feature means I can still transfer that call to the iPhone as soon as I wrangle it out of my pocket if talking to my wrist isn’t my style.</div>
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Pulse monitoring is a big accessibility plus for me personally, too, since I have a disorder that frequently messes up my pulse rate and requires lots of pulse checking. I would think there are medical possibilities here too.</div>
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The watch bands look to be fairly good for physical accessibility in terms of taking the watches on and off – there are several options but mostly of them use magnets for closure so they are a lot less fiddly than a traditional buckle-up watch clasp.</div>
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On the big negative side, the Apple Watch is water resistant but it isn’t waterproof. For users who have memory or cognition problems that would prevent them realising they need to take it off, or users who have physical impairments meaning they can’t remove the watch and put it back on independently, this could be a big deal – especially since dunking a watch could set you back more than $350!</div>
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Everything else is still fairly unknown – will the watch be accessible to blind users? Will there be assistive touch alternatives for those who can’t manipulate the physical buttons? Will there be guided access alternatives? Low vision access options? My experience with Apple tells me that these things will all probably come over time, but they might not be there from day one, which is a big deal for disabled users who are as enthusiastic as anybody about Apple products and want to experience new technology. I sincerely hope that Apple informs us about these things as soon as possible, and has good answers!</div>
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But notably absent was any mention of how often you'll have to juice up your watch. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Battery life has been a big issue among the smart watches on the market. According to the </span><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6127785/apple-watch-battery-life-mystery" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6699cc; font-weight: 600; image-rendering: optimizequality; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Verge</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, the charges among the smart watches on the market have ranged from a few hours to a week long. However, the longer-lasting ones have been more rudimentary than the Apple Watch: black-and-white displays that aren't touch screens, for example.</span></div>
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A glance at the newest competitors shows what the Apple Watch will be up against when it comes out in early 2015. Sony's latest offering, the SmartWatch 3, can last two days on one charge, according to the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/03/sony-google-android-wear-gps-smartwatch-3" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transition: all 100ms ease; background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6699cc; font-weight: 600; image-rendering: optimizequality; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;" target="_blank">Guardian</a>. Meanwhile, Motorola's Moto 360, was <a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/moto-360-review-beautiful-outside-ugly-inside/" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transition: all 100ms ease; background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6699cc; font-weight: 600; image-rendering: optimizequality; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;" target="_blank">lambasted</a> upon its release for its disappointingly short battery life. Gizmodo found that it <a href="http://gizmodo.com/moto-360-battery-life-test-so-far-not-as-bad-as-you-h-1631839974" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transition: all 100ms ease; background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6699cc; font-weight: 600; image-rendering: optimizequality; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;" target="_blank">lasts</a> "24 hours plus."</div>
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Consider it the Apple Watch's own system of Morse Code. The watch will do turn-by-turn directions, but instead of making you listen to Siri's voice or stare at your watch screen to know where to go, it will simply tell you by feel. One type of vibration will let you know it's time to turn left. Another will tell you it's time to turn right.</div>
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<span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">People have been speculating about it for over a year, but Apple has finally unveiled its first foray into wearable technology. The Apple Watch (yep, not the iWatch), is an </span><span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">Apple-made smartwatch that was shown off during</span><span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;"> </span><a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/iphone/iphone6-event-how-to-watch-apple-video-2014-3534896/" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1689c4; font-family: AktivGrotesk-Regular, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px; outline: none;">Apple's 9 September iPhone 6 event</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;">,</span><span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; font-size: 19px; line-height: 28px;"> with a new dial called the crown, close integration with iCloud and Siri and a flexible sapphire display. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Alright Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">The new watches will be available starting in early 2015, </span><span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; line-height: 1.5;">"Apple introduced the world to several category-defining </span><span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; line-height: 1.5;">revolutionary product that can enrich people's lives. </span></span><span style="font-family: AktivGrotesk-Light; font-size: small; line-height: 1.5;">products, the <a href="http://www.apple.com/mac/" target="_blank">Mac</a>, <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipod/" target="_blank">iPod,</a> <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/" target="_blank">iPhone</a> and <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/" target="_blank">iPad</a>," </span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"> Apple announced the <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/" target="_blank">iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus,</a> the Apple Watch, and a brand new ApplePay tap-to-pay system to replace credit cards. Separately and together there are enormous accessibility implications for these announcements.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Here’s what I’ve put together sofar </span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">…</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;">Firstly, I’m not going to list everything that was announced – for that you can</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4244824065323166742" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">watch the recording of the lifestream</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;">or read</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"> </span><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6107091/apple-watch-iphone-6-most-important-things" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">The 15 Most Important Announcements From The Apple Watch iPhone 6 Event</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;">. I’m just going to talk about the things that are relevant to accessibility in some way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Lastly we have the</span><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://www.apple.com/watch/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple Watch</a><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">, not due for release until early 2015, and a device that has left us with more accessibility questions than accessibility answers at the moment.</span></div>
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On the bonus side of the equation is “tactic” feedback via gentle vibrations on your wrist. This could be a really enormous bonus for many users, and the webpage also describes a “subtle audio” alternative for those who don’t want or can’t use vibrations.</div>
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Control via a “<a href="http://www.imore.com/how-digital-crown-brings-flexiblibility-apple-watch" style="border: 0px; color: #005b9a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">digital crown</a>” – the button an analogue watch uses for setting or winding it – as well as a button on the side and touch-screen controls are both a plus and a minus in accessibility terms. Having a physical control mechanism makes things easier to use for some users but makes them completely inaccessible for others – users who can only use a stylus or mouthstick to access their iPhones and iPads won’t be able to manipulate a digital crown.</div>
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The Apple Watch will let you use Siri simply by lifting your wrist, or alternatively trigger Siri by pressing and holding the digital crown. None of the videos showed Siri responding verbally but since an Apple Watch can only be used in combination with an iPhone, verbal responses through the iPhone should be possible I would think.</div>
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Just having the Watch on your wrist is an accessibility bonus too – as I was writing this my phone rang and I dropped it as I struggled to get it out of my pocket fast enough to answer it. Being able to accept a call by touching my wrist would remove the urgency, and Apple says that the iOS 8 Handoff feature means I can still transfer that call to the iPhone as soon as I wrangle it out of my pocket if talking to my wrist isn’t my style.</div>
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Pulse monitoring is a big accessibility plus for me personally, too, since I have a disorder that frequently messes up my pulse rate and requires lots of pulse checking. I would think there are medical possibilities here too.</div>
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The watch bands look to be fairly good for physical accessibility in terms of taking the watches on and off – there are several options but mostly of them use magnets for closure so they are a lot less fiddly than a traditional buckle-up watch clasp.</div>
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On the big negative side, the Apple Watch is water resistant but it isn’t waterproof. For users who have memory or cognition problems that would prevent them realising they need to take it off, or users who have physical impairments meaning they can’t remove the watch and put it back on independently, this could be a big deal – especially since dunking a watch could set you back more than $350!</div>
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Everything else is still fairly unknown – will the watch be accessible to blind users? Will there be assistive touch alternatives for those who can’t manipulate the physical buttons? Will there be guided access alternatives? Low vision access options? My experience with Apple tells me that these things will all probably come over time, but they might not be there from day one, which is a big deal for disabled users who are as enthusiastic as anybody about Apple products and want to experience new technology. I sincerely hope that Apple informs us about these things as soon as possible, and has good answers!</div>
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Users will be able to charge an Apple Watch by connecting a cord magnetically to the back of the watch body.</div>
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But notably absent was any mention of how often you'll have to juice up your watch. <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Battery life has been a big issue among the smart watches on the market. According to the </span><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6127785/apple-watch-battery-life-mystery" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; image-rendering: optimizequality; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Verge</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, the charges among the smart watches on the market have ranged from a few hours to a week long. However, the longer-lasting ones have been more rudimentary than the Apple Watch: black-and-white displays that aren't touch screens, for example.</span></div>
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A glance at the newest competitors shows what the Apple Watch will be up against when it comes out in early 2015. Sony's latest offering, the SmartWatch 3, can last two days on one charge, according to the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/03/sony-google-android-wear-gps-smartwatch-3" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transition: all 100ms ease; background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; image-rendering: optimizequality; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;" target="_blank">Guardian</a>. Meanwhile, Motorola's Moto 360, was <a href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/moto-360-review-beautiful-outside-ugly-inside/" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transition: all 100ms ease; background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; image-rendering: optimizequality; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;" target="_blank">lambasted</a> upon its release for its disappointingly short battery life. Gizmodo found that it <a href="http://gizmodo.com/moto-360-battery-life-test-so-far-not-as-bad-as-you-h-1631839974" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transition: all 100ms ease; background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; image-rendering: optimizequality; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;" target="_blank">lasts</a> "24 hours plus."</div>
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Consider it the Apple Watch's own system of Morse Code. The watch will do turn-by-turn directions, but instead of making you listen to Siri's voice or stare at your watch screen to know where to go, it will simply tell you by feel. One type of vibration will let you know it's time to turn left. Another will tell you it's time to turn right.</div>
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IPhone 5C, iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, plus, iPhone 6</div>
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