Smartphones are the most personal devices we own, keeping us connected at all times and acting as the heart of our tech lives. We may not spend much time actually speaking on them these days, but we use a phone for virtually everything else.
Smartphones today typically fall into one of two categories: iPhone or Android. iPhones are the most popular smartphones overall and offer entry into the much coveted Apple exosystem, where they can be paired with Apple Watches, iPads, and MacBooks for greater inter-device connectivity.
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Forget daily charges – this phone has a 10,001mAh battery for week-long stamina
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Apple really went backwards when it ditched titanium on iPhones
I've already battered and bruised my iPhone 17 from the hard knocks my titanium-sporting iPhone 16 Pro Max would shrug off.
The last iPhone with a headphone jack was released 10 years ago in 2016, and I will go to my grave resenting Apple for it
Removing the 3.5mm headphone jack is Apple's greatest design crime, and 10 years on I'm still feeling the aftershocks.
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