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Early iPhone hit SpellTower gets reimagined a decade later

January 30, 2020

In 2011, designer Zach Gage decided to try something different: make a game in a genre he hated. The result was SpellTower, a mashup of word games and puzzlers, which went on to become one of his most popular titles to date, with more than 1 million downloads. Its approachable nature reached a varied audience, including everyone from traditional gamers battling for a high score to grandparents who…

Latest Apple Watch clone on the way from Chinese smartphone maker Oppo

January 30, 2020

The latest Apple Watch clone is on the way from Chinese smartphone maker Oppo. A render of an upcoming smartwatch was posted by a noted leaker. Oppo itself teased the watch in December, though it only showed a silhouette at the time… spotted the tweet by @UniverseIce…

Report: Huawei surpassed Apple to become 2nd largest smartphone vendor in 2019 despite sanctions

January 30, 2020

According to a new report, Huawei has surpassed Apple to become the second-largest smartphone vendor globally for 2019, as Samsung retains top spot yet again. The report comes from and shows the volume of smartphone shipments actually declining by 1% across the entire…

Can the iPhone survive a nearly 4,000 mph tethered spin? This kinetic space launch company tested it

January 30, 2020

I have to admit that this has never occurred to me as something to test in an iPhone review, but it’s reassuring to see someone has apparently tried it. According to a new profile on the kinetic space launch system firm SpinLaunch, Apple’s iPhone can survive rotations when physically tethered. SpinLaunch wants to create a launch system that uses kinetic energy to deploy payloads like…

Siri: How to add location-based Reminders on iPhone, Apple Watch, more

January 29, 2020

Want to become more efficient with Reminders on your Apple devices? Read on for how to use Siri to set location-based Reminders on iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and HomePod. Using the Reminders app to alert you about your to-do items at a certain time can be helpful, but…

Google highlights 62 new emoji coming to Android 11 ‘later this year’

January 29, 2020

The Unicode Consortium just detailed Emoji 13.0 with 62 new characters, and 55 skin tone and gender variants. Google today announced that the new emoji will be available with Android 11, as well as the company’s five contributions to the 2020 set. For Emoji 13.0, Google…

Here are the 117 new emoji that will come to iPhone and more later this year

January 29, 2020

The new emoji that will arrive in 2020 on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and other devices have been officially set. Additions in Emoji Version 13.0 include “Italian Hand,” ninjas, the Transgender flag, anatomical body parts, smiling face with tear, disguised face, new animals, food, parents feeding baby, and much more. As reported by Emojipedia, the officially approved Emoji Version 13.0 list was…

C’mon Apple, stop making me choose between avoiding Coronavirus and easily unlocking my iPhone in China

January 29, 2020

It’s tough out there, people. Thousands have been infected with the novel Coronavirus in China, millions are under lockdown, airplanes are grounded, and borders tightened. It’s like we’ve gone back to the bubonic plague — or more accurately, gone back to the iPhone…

Calendar app Fantastical switches to a subscription for its Mac and iOS apps

January 29, 2020

Fantastical, one of the oldest and most loved calendar apps on Apple devices, just received its biggest update in years. The most significant change is that Fantastical is now a universal app you pay for through a subscription. As such, you don’t need to purchase…

As iOS and iPadOS 13 near 80% adoption, is the race with Android over?

January 29, 2020

This might not be initially obvious from the numbers, but user adoption of the latest Apple mobile operating systems is actually slow this year. As of the end of January 2020, Apple says that 70% of all iPhones are using iOS 13, and 57% of all iPads are using iPadOS 13, numbers that place the company’s latest OS releases at least two months behind iOS 12’s adoption curve last year. By December…