Get a pre-paid iPhone 6 for only $179 — that’s a savings of $220

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Usually when you think of buying a pre-paid phone, you think of a cheap, no-frills burner like in The Wire. When you think of buying an iPhone, you think “ouch my wallet.” Walmart has been consistently shattering all of our expectations by offering pre-paid iPhones across a range of carriersThis Straight Talk pre-paid phone is now on sale for less than $200 — quite the steal. 

For those who don’t remember the iPhone 6 (come on, it wasn’t that long ago), it was undeniably a great iPhone model. Sure, it’s no iPhoneX, but it still rocks 32GB of storage, a 4.7-inch Retina HD display for awesome graphics, and a 1.2 Megapixel FaceTime camera. And for $179? Unheard of.  Read more…

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Review: iPhone XS and the power of long-term thinking

The iPhone XS proves one thing definitively: that the iPhone X was probably one of the most ambitious product bets of all time. When Apple told me in 2017 that they put aside plans for the iterative upgrade that they were going to ship and went all in on the iPhone X because they thought […]

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Lawsuit alleges Apple might have known about Touch Disease before launching the iPhone 6

Ugh, the iPhone 6’s problems keep coming back to haunt Apple.
Years after the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus made headlines for “Bendgate” and “Touch Disease,” new information made public (via Motherboard) from an ongoing class-action lawsuit on the latter has …

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Apple will replace iPhone batteries for $29 even if they’re technically still ‘good’

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If you have an iPhone 6 model or later, you should probably go replace the battery …

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Apple’s 10 biggest screw-ups, ranked

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Despite what you’ve maybe read, Apple — true story — ain’t perfect. Far from it. Even its fanciest and most expensive phone of all time, the iPhone X, is already getting a decent share of flak from its first buyers (especially those in, uh, inclement weather). 

So goes the kinks Apple fans have had to deal with, including non-optimized apps, the really pretentious name, and that pesky camera notch. 

But nothing we’ve seen from the iPhone X so far can compare to the major screwups we’ve seen from Apple in the past. From the infamous “bendgate” to the recent iOS 11 keyboard glitch, there have been some relatively impressive fails Apple would probably prefer everyone just forgot about.  Read more…

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