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Apple Smart Battery Case launches - Business Insider
Apple has made an iPhone case that improves battery life to 25 hours
Apple has released a battery case, called the Smart Battery Case, that improves the iPhone's battery life to as long as 25 hours.
Third-party vendors, such as Mophie, already produce various battery cases that plug into the iPhone's Lightning port and provide extra power beyond the built-in battery.
The case comes in black and white versions and is designed for the iPhone 6 and 6S.
Apple says simultaneously charging the Smart Battery Case and iPhone yields over 25 hours of talk time, 18 hours of internet use, and over 20 hours of video playback.
The case costs $99 in the US and £79 in the UK.
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I like seeing an official product from Apple designed to address the battery issues, and I am OK with how it looks. I have had 2 third party cases for my 6 Plus - the first one had flaky charging, it would not charge the phone while it was in the case, and then finally stopped working, the 2nd one is by Alphatronix and is doing a fine job. I will probably just stick with that for now, since it's working. If I have trouble in the future I'll get the Apple version.
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I like seeing an official product from Apple designed to address the battery issues, and I am OK with how it looks. I have had 2 third party cases for my 6 Plus - the first one had flaky charging, it would not charge the phone while it was in the case, and then finally stopped working, the 2nd one is by Alphatronix and is doing a fine job. I will probably just stick with that for now, since it's working. If I have trouble in the future I'll get the Apple version.
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Have had six of them over the years, never broke. Have sold to others, still going. I've dropped them many times, have chunks missing, scraped to hell, still work. Many friends no problems.
I did have a friend have one break within weeks of owning one, that when they change the opening to the bottom. When she pulled to take phone out of case, , it snapped opened, everything came out. Mophie replaced with no issues.
I did have a friend have one break within weeks of owning one, that when they change the opening to the bottom. When she pulled to take phone out of case, , it snapped opened, everything came out. Mophie replaced with no issues.
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Have had six of them over the years, never broke. Have sold to others, still going. I've dropped them many times, have chunks missing, scraped to hell, still work. Many friends no problems.
I did have a friend have one break within weeks of owning one, that when they change the opening to the bottom. When she pulled to take phone out of case, , it snapped opened, everything came out. Mophie replaced with no issues.
I did have a friend have one break within weeks of owning one, that when they change the opening to the bottom. When she pulled to take phone out of case, , it snapped opened, everything came out. Mophie replaced with no issues.
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iOS 9.2 is out!
Omg FINALLY!!!!
Omg FINALLY!!!!
USB Camera Adapter - With iOS 9.2, iPhones are now able to support Apple's USB Camera Adapter and related accessories for importing pictures from a digital camera or DSLR. Previously, only iPads supported the USB Camera Adapter. The iPhone 5 and later appear to work with the USB Camera Adapter/iPad Camera Connection Kit. The iPhone 4s and the iPod touch do not support it.
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This update contains improvements and bug fixes including:
- Apple Music improvements
--You can now create a new playlist when adding a song to a playlist
--Your most recently changed playlist is now listed at the top when adding songs to playlists
--Download albums or playlists from your iCloud Music Library by tapping the iCloud download button
--See which songs have been downloaded with the new download indicator next to each song in My Music and Playlists
--See works, composers, and performers while browsing Classical music in the Apple Music catalog
- A new Top Stories section in News so you can stay up to date with the most important news of the day (available in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia)
- Mail Drop in Mail for sending large attachments
- iBooks now supports 3D Touch to peek and pop pages from the table of contents, your notes and bookmarks, or from search results inside a book
- iBooks now supports listening to an audiobook while you browse your library, read other books, or explore the iBooks Store
- iPhone support for the USB Camera Adapter to import photos and videos
- Improved stability of Safari
- Improved stability of Podcasts
- Fixing an issue that caused mail attachments to be inaccessible for some users with POP email accounts
- Resolving an issue for some users that caused attachments to overlap text in mail
- Fixing an issue where Live Photos could have turned off after restoring from a previous iCloud backup
- Addressing an issue that could cause search in Contacts to display no results
- Resolving an issue that could have prevented Calendar from displaying all seven days in week view
- Fixing an issue where Camera screen on iPad could be black when attempting to capture video
- Addressing an issue that could cause instability in the Activity app when viewing the day of Daylight Savings Time transition
- Fixing an issue that could prevent data from appearing in Health
- Fixing an issue that could prevent Wallet updates and Lock screen alerts from displaying
- Addressing an issue where updating iOS could prevent an alarm from going off
- Fixing an issue where some users were unable to login to Find my iPhone
- Fixing an issue that prevented some manual iCloud Backups from completing
- Addressing an issue where using the iPad keyboard could unintentionally trigger text selection mode
- Improved keyboard responsiveness when using Quick Reply
- Improved punctuation input on the 10-key Chinese (Pinyin & Stroke) keyboards with new expanded view of punctuation symbols and better predictions
- Fixing an issue on Cyrillic keyboards where caps lock would be enabled when typing in URL or email fields
- Siri support for Arabic (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates)
- Accessibility improvements
--Fixing issues with VoiceOver when using Camera face detection
--Adding support for VoiceOver to wake up the screen
--Adding support for VoiceOver to invoke app switcher with 3D Touch gesture
--Fixing an issue with Guided Access when trying to end phone calls
--Improved functionality for Switch Control users when using 3D Touch
--Fixing an issue with speech rate of Speak Screen
- Apple Music improvements
--You can now create a new playlist when adding a song to a playlist
--Your most recently changed playlist is now listed at the top when adding songs to playlists
--Download albums or playlists from your iCloud Music Library by tapping the iCloud download button
--See which songs have been downloaded with the new download indicator next to each song in My Music and Playlists
--See works, composers, and performers while browsing Classical music in the Apple Music catalog
- A new Top Stories section in News so you can stay up to date with the most important news of the day (available in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia)
- Mail Drop in Mail for sending large attachments
- iBooks now supports 3D Touch to peek and pop pages from the table of contents, your notes and bookmarks, or from search results inside a book
- iBooks now supports listening to an audiobook while you browse your library, read other books, or explore the iBooks Store
- iPhone support for the USB Camera Adapter to import photos and videos
- Improved stability of Safari
- Improved stability of Podcasts
- Fixing an issue that caused mail attachments to be inaccessible for some users with POP email accounts
- Resolving an issue for some users that caused attachments to overlap text in mail
- Fixing an issue where Live Photos could have turned off after restoring from a previous iCloud backup
- Addressing an issue that could cause search in Contacts to display no results
- Resolving an issue that could have prevented Calendar from displaying all seven days in week view
- Fixing an issue where Camera screen on iPad could be black when attempting to capture video
- Addressing an issue that could cause instability in the Activity app when viewing the day of Daylight Savings Time transition
- Fixing an issue that could prevent data from appearing in Health
- Fixing an issue that could prevent Wallet updates and Lock screen alerts from displaying
- Addressing an issue where updating iOS could prevent an alarm from going off
- Fixing an issue where some users were unable to login to Find my iPhone
- Fixing an issue that prevented some manual iCloud Backups from completing
- Addressing an issue where using the iPad keyboard could unintentionally trigger text selection mode
- Improved keyboard responsiveness when using Quick Reply
- Improved punctuation input on the 10-key Chinese (Pinyin & Stroke) keyboards with new expanded view of punctuation symbols and better predictions
- Fixing an issue on Cyrillic keyboards where caps lock would be enabled when typing in URL or email fields
- Siri support for Arabic (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates)
- Accessibility improvements
--Fixing issues with VoiceOver when using Camera face detection
--Adding support for VoiceOver to wake up the screen
--Adding support for VoiceOver to invoke app switcher with 3D Touch gesture
--Fixing an issue with Guided Access when trying to end phone calls
--Improved functionality for Switch Control users when using 3D Touch
--Fixing an issue with speech rate of Speak Screen
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You live in a big shitty. 
Both of my parents, actually all 4 love their 6's way better than the 5's they had before, by a long shot. I thought my HTC EVO 4G was huge when I got it, and the same with the 6+. Only takes a day or so to figure out it's not. 6 is a perfect sized phone if you want something on the smaller side..
it's great because the old folks can actually operate it without their readers.
Both of my parents, actually all 4 love their 6's way better than the 5's they had before, by a long shot. I thought my HTC EVO 4G was huge when I got it, and the same with the 6+. Only takes a day or so to figure out it's not. 6 is a perfect sized phone if you want something on the smaller side..
it's great because the old folks can actually operate it without their readers.
I picked up a 64GB Space Gray 6S+ yesterday, replacing my 16GB 5S, and I love it. Yeah, the size is taking some getting used to, but I certainly don't mind it. I especially like having more memory to have my entire iTunes library (~25GB) with me instead of picking certain playlists, albums, etc.