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Apple's new iPhone SE is a $399 iPhone 8 with the latest chipset and a better camera

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Apple has just unveiled the new iPhone SE, sticking with the rumored date, even if there was no flashy event - just a press release. Despite what its name might have you believe, the new iPhone SE is more of a refresh of the iPhone 8 than of the original SE. You can think of it as an iPhone 8 with the latest chipset and a better camera. Oh, there are new colors too, but that's about it. The new iPhone SE has the iPhone 8's 4.7-inch "Retina HD" screen with True Tone and support for Dolby Vision and HDR10 playback. This is surrounded by large bezels, and below there's a sapphire crystal covered capacitive Touch ID fingerprint sensor like in the iPhone 8. It's powered by the A13 SoC, just like the iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max. Its camera has benefited from the new chipset too. The single 12 MP f/1.8 shooter on the back, features improved Smart HDR photography thanks to the raw power inside that chip. For portrait shots, in lieu of a secondary camera...

Apple announces iOS 11 with new features and better iPad productivity

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Apple CEO Tim Cook just officially announced iOS 11 onstage at WWDC 2017. The next major update to the operating system running on millions of iPhones and iPads will improve on the “core technologies” that power the OS and also introduce numerous new features. Chief among them are new, improved productivity solutions for iPad. The first among new iOS 11 feature demonstrated by Craig Federighi was synchronized messages across iOS and macOS. If you erase a message on your iPhone or iPad, that will now be reflected on your Mac as well. APPLE PAY TAKES ON VENMO Apple Pay is also expanding to include person-to-person payments, positioning Apple to take on Venmo and Square Cash. iOS 11 will introduce a Apple Pay Cash Card, where users will store their received funds from peer-to-peer transactions. This money can be transferred to your personal bank account. SIRI Apple has made improvements to Siri that make the assistant’s voice sound more natural when responding to users. Ad...