Carrying multiple phones for personal and business uses might be over for Verizon Wireless users. The company announced today that it is introducing an app that allows users to add up to four additional numbers to one smartphone. The app is called My Numbers, and it can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or Apple’s App Store. It’s an additional $15 a month per number, but that’s significantly cheaper than purchasing a second, third, or even fourth phone. The app sets up separate voicemail and text messaging boxes for the different numbers as well. There are other apps like Burner, Flyp, and Google Voice that have relieved some of the stress of the business and personal phones dilemma, but this is one of the first efforts from a major carrier. In 2016, T-Mobile launched a similar app called Digits that allowed customers to use up to five different phone numbers on their devices. Traditionally, using multiple phone numbers in the US has been difficult. You would … [Read more...] about Verizon now lets you use up to five numbers on your phone
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2018 iPad Pro review: A fantastic tablet, if not a fantastic laptop
Apple really wants us to believe a tablet can take the place of a MacBook, and it’s spared few resources in its quest to proselytize us with the 2018 iPad Pro. The iPad Pro a beast, one that can hold its own alongside powerful laptops. It’s a stunner, especially with a redesigned Apple Pencil and Smart Folio Keyboard that feel more like essentials than peripherals. It’s versatile, thanks to the new support for USB-C, and it achieves all this while looking both familiar and futuristic.Oh, how I’ve waited for it. I’m one of the loons who willingly used an iPad Pro as my primary writing machine for almost two years, and I loved its portability and the ease of switching between typing and longhand writing. Yet for all that, switching back to a MacBook felt like getting new glasses after months of living with a faulty prescription. Little frustrations vanished. Formerly complex tasks became simple. My productivity skyrocketed. Never again, I figured, would I … [Read more...] about 2018 iPad Pro review: A fantastic tablet, if not a fantastic laptop
3 features from other Apple products that the Mac and iPhone need
Every year, it seems like Apple comes out with at least one significant new implementation of technology. The issue is that it isn't always distributed evenly across the company's product line-up. Even devices that seem like they could benefit from Apple's latest and greatest additions often get left out in the cold.That's particularly frustrating, given that one of Apple's strongest selling points in recent years has been how well all of its technology works together across hardware, software, and services. Bringing that kind of relationship to its devices really emphasizes the idea of the ecosystem being a whole, instead of independent platforms.With that in mind, here are three places where I think Apple could bring one of its technologies to another one of its platforms.Facing up to the MacWith the addition of Touch ID on the new MacBook Air, Apple's firmly brought its Mac laptops in line with the iPhone...circa 2013. Touch ID is a great technology, and it's potentially even more … [Read more...] about 3 features from other Apple products that the Mac and iPhone need
How to use your iPad Pro to replace your laptop (Part 5)
We’re looking at how you can use your iPad Pro to replace your laptop. I thought it might be useful to share some of the many useful utilities that help you get more things done than you knew were possible on Apple's iPad Pro.Episode guide: Part One: iPad Equipment Part Two: Keyboard, Typing, Shortcuts, and Dictation tips Part Three: How to multitask on iPad Pro Part Four: How to use Apple’s Files app and tags There’s an app for thatApple’s new iPad Pro is a foundation platform for future vision and implementation in the tablet space. If you look, you’ll often find that in almost every case you can get your hands on an app that will help you get things done. All the same, there are always a few useful apps you should think about installing on your iPad for when you need them.The following list answers a range of pretty normal user needs.Notes for the rest of us: MyScript NeboApple’s Notes app is good, but if you use Apple Pencil, … [Read more...] about How to use your iPad Pro to replace your laptop (Part 5)
The Nokia 106 feature phone has a 1.8-inch screen that’s perfect for Snake
HMD Global has announced the Nokia 106, an affordable feature phone destined for the global market. The 106 has a 1.8-inch, 160x120 display that’s a perfect match for the built-in Snake game. (You’ll have to pay for others, though demos are included.) The phone can store up to 2000 contacts, and retain up to 500 SMS messages. Yes, these are the highlights advertised for a device like this. HMD says the battery lasts “from sunrise to sunset with one charge,” which is something I’d honestly expect from a feature phone. That all-day battery life — 15.7 hours, to be specific — is for active use; the battery “lasts weeks” on standby. That’s 21.9 days, according to the spec sheet. If you want to use this thing solely as an FM radio, it’ll keep cranking out the tunes, ads, and talk radio for up to 36 hours. The Nokia 106 runs Nokia’s Series 30+ software, is powered by a MTK 6261D CPU, has 4 megabytes of storage, and 4 … [Read more...] about The Nokia 106 feature phone has a 1.8-inch screen that’s perfect for Snake