The next time you visit your local carrier asking for an iPhone, don’t freak-out too much if the salesperson doesn’t respond right away – it could be that loud ‘ca-ching!’ sound. Nearly 60 percent of iPhone owners pay more than $100 per month to carriers – 10 percent paying more than $200 each month, according to a new survey released Wednesday. By comparison, 55 percent of Android smartphone owners, 40 percent of BlackBerry owners and 56 percent of Windows Phone users have smartphone bills more than $100 per month, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners…...

There was a lot of buzz about anew Palm phonea couple of months ago. But when it was officially announced in the middle of October, it turned not to be a phone at all. The Palm is a connected device that syncs with your existing smartphone and takes over some of its day to day tasks without you needing to take your handset out with you. It is a wearable you don’t wear, basically....

New photos of an alleged ‘iPhone 6‘ dummy unit surfaced this afternoon. The images depict a device that is noticeably larger and thinner than the current iPhone 5s, with rounded corners, and an overall design that matches up withprevious information. There’s no word on where the physical mockups came from, and there’s obviously no way to determine their validity. But our friends over at Nowhereelse.fr say that the snapshots were published by a long-time member of a well-known Chinese forum…...

When Nintendo launched the Switch in March 2017, it couldn’t have been better timed. Not only did it put to rest any lingering thoughts that the company might be withdrawing from the home console market, after the disastrous sales of the Wii U, it offered an excellent portable alternative to the departing DS series. A two-in-one, portable and home console didn’t just turn out to be a good idea, it turned into a goldmine....

You can unlock dozens of different Technologies in Palworld as you progress through the game, but you’ll learn pretty quickly that there aren’t enough Technology points to go around. This was very much an intentional decision designed to make players think twice before spending their hard-earned Technology points. Having said that, youcaneventually unlock every Technology in the game, provided you’re willing to work for it. In addition to the Technology points you get every time you level up, you can acquire more of them by unlocking fast travel beacons and reading Technical Manuals....

Quick Links Hello, Pal Tamers! Palworld is one of those games that has laws but does not necessarily tell you what all of them are. You will probably break a few of them accidentally when you play the game –stumbling on the Wildlife Sanctuaries is a good example of this. Or accidentally throwing a Pal Sphere at a human when your pinky slips onto the Q button – like mine did in my first twenty minutes of playing the game that led to a shootout between level 20 PIDF soldiers and me armed with nothing but stones....

The great outdoors. The wild beyond. The untamed wilderness, filled with the beauty of nature and the primal struggle for survival! The… endless mud-pits, random boulders, inconvenient trees, and random dips and rises in the terrain. What on Earth has all that random wildlife been doing with its time? The great outdoors is a mess, just a mass of inconveniently chaotic terrain that, true, has incredible majesty when viewed from a properly distant perspective, but the second you need to travel through it the vivid splendor turns into sweaty bug-infested aggravation....

While the fall TV season is still several months away, Fox has been getting a jump on the competition by debutingbrief promos for their newfall TV seriesScream Queens, which is currently in production. Today,Entertainment Weeklyhas the first photos from this upcoming series, debuting sometime later this year, which give us a closer look atNick Jonas' Brad Towery,Emma Roberts' Chanel Oberlin,Keke Palmer’s Zayday andJamie Lee Curtis' Cathy Munsch. Series creatorRyan Murphyalso spoke withEntertainment Weekly, where he first discussed what inspired him and his co-creatorsBrad Falchukand Ian Brennan to create this series....

Less than a month and a half before the release of Spider-Man 2, the latest trailer showcased in the September State of Play reveals how far you can customize both of our heroes in the sequel to the original title. Featuring 65 suits for you to choose from, you can also take another step and customize them in any way you want. This is a huge step up from the previous game, which featured only 28 suits in total....

The 5 Cheapest Hybrid Trucks In The US For 2024 With the surge in popularity in electric vehicles over the last several years, it was only a matter of time before we started getting electric pickup trucks as well. Ford now has theF-150 Lightning, Chevrolet has theSilverado EV, and EV focused companies likeRivianandTeslahave their trucks too. That just scratches the surface of the electric pickup truck market, and it is likely only going to grow as the years move forward....

Canon has given every EOS R5 owner a huge upgrade and it’s done it via a firmware update that they can install at home. The update, carrying the firmware number v1.81, adds pixel-shift capabilities via in-body image stabilization to take the existing 45-megapixel photos and boost them all the way to a whopping 400 megapixels. All from the same hardware thatCanon EOS R5owners always had. One update, lots of pixels The new firmware uses sensor-moving magic to give photographers more pixels to play with, Canon says....

The Mandalorianhas a name. Star Pedro Pascal revealed the name in a new interview promoting the Disney+ series. The first live-actionStar Warsseries premiered earlier this week and fans seem to be enjoying the world that Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have helped bring to life. So far, only one episode has aired, but it seems to have just about everybody hooked and ready to solve the mysteries that the show offers....

All of the Google attention might be on the impending release of thePixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, not to mention the likely unveiling of thePixel Watch 2, but there could be yet more on the horizon as well. Now, it seems that there could be a new version of the popularChromecast with Google TVproduct just around the corner. Google is yet to announce anything officially, but it appears to have accidentally leaked its own Chromecast refresh in the latest build of the Android TV 14 beta....