Does this latest Apple leak show a shorter & narrower iPhone 7?
Apple's next flagship phone the iPhone 7, or whatever it decides to name it
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, is fast approaching - meaning that the rumours and leaks are also gathering
pace and accuracy.
The latest claim comes courtesy of <http://techtastic.nl/> techtastic.nl, with
a spy shot of the rear of the phone posted alongside some schematic dimensions
of the phone in comparison to preceding models.
If right, it appears the larger rear camera that has been strongly
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rumoured will feature. It also sits slightly closer to the top of the phone,
suggesting a considerable internal redesign and improvement.
While the antenna lines have also been curbed and it appears to only offer
Lightning adaptability
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, the biggest takeaway from this leak is the spec sheet, which shows the
iPhone 7 to be shorter and narrower than its predecessor.
The side-by-side comparison to the iPhone 6S has the iPhone 7 lining up
slightly shorter than the current flagship, with it also being a touch
chubbier: 7.15mm compared to 7.1mm.
While this is one of the few rumours suggesting this level of redesign, the
folks planning to reuse their phone case in the next generation will be hoping
the contents of this leak are simply a Photoshop job.
Apple looks set to kill off the iPhone's most annoying feature
It's about time - Apple looks set to ditch the most annoying feature of its
flagship handset, the 16GB version.
That's if
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/its-a-bad-time-to-buy-an-iphone-1467744006> The
Wall Street Journal is to be believed, which indicates the iPhone 7
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will start at 32GB instead of the half-capacity version, which seemingly
filled up after syncing across seven songs and one photo album.
According to the source, the next iPhone will come in 32GB, 128GB and 256GB
models. While this is likely due to the expected camera improvements in the new
phone, Apple has been two years behind Android phones when it comes to minimum
storage capacity.
As with every swirling iPhone rumour, we won't know for certain until Apple
introduces the device. If consistent hints are anything to go by, though, the
company will likely bring smaller changes to the table
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before an overhaul in 2017.
The news will no doubt be welcomed by those looking to upgrade this autumn,
with users set to be able to actually use their phones for fun things like
taking photos, downloading apps and streaming media offline.
Let's just hope this rumour doesn't fall within the pile that proves to be
untrue, and we can finally wave an easy goodbye to the 16GB iPhone.
Here’s why you should delete your birthday from Facebook
No more well wishes for you.
Facebook's personal details section may allow you to quickly check that
friend's birthday you're always forgetting, but it can also cause considerable
harm.
That's according to a new UK security report, which advises removing personal
information from your Facebook account as identity fraud figures continue to
rise.
<https://www.cifas.org.uk/> Cifas has stated that the number of identity fraud
victims rose 57 percent over 2015, and that fraudsters are increasingly looking
to social networks to harvest valuable personal information.
This has contributed to a 52 percent increase in identity theft for 21 to
30-year-olds. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are referenced specifically as a
hunting ground for the dark side of the web to gain important information.
Cifas is raising awareness of the dangers of social networks with the
melodramatic (yet probably still accurate) video, which shows how a social
network sweep can often reveal everything from your phone number to your mum's
maiden name.
So you know what to do if you value your privacy: DELETE EVERYTHING.
9 things you need to delete from your Facebook page RIGHT NOW, from your
location to your boss
It's time for a social media spring clean.
Stop uploading 83 images no one will care about and listen up, it's time for a
serious social media spring clean. Your Facebook page isn't just somewhere to
post endless updates of your running habits, it's an insight into your very
being. An insight that's open to anyone who wants to look.
While you might not think too much about what you upload, those long-forgotten
drunken images and ill-considered comments from 18 months ago are still there,
lurking in the murky depths of your Facebook page just waiting to screw you
over. It doesn't have to be that way though. By deleting this lot, you can once
again live a worry-free online existence.
1. MOST OF YOUR 'FRIENDS'
Come on, you're not fooling anyone, you don't really have 1,832 friends.
Sending friend requests to everyone you've met since 2007 – including that guy
who always serves you at McDonalds – doesn't make you popular. Chances are you
probably talk to less than a tenth of your Facey B chums on any sort of a
regular basis. Actually, scratch that, make that less than ten of them.
By culling the "friends" clutter, you'll get a better Facebook experience.
Sure, you won't be able to do as much "look how much better my life is than
theirs" snooping, but you won't have to put up with all that chatter and
endless pictures of kids you really don't care about either. Trust us, trim the
fat and enjoy a more interesting timeline, it's worth it.
2. YOUR PHONE NUMBER
You grudgingly hand out your phone number to online retailers knowing it's
going to result in six weeks of endless spam calls, but still proudly display
your digits for the world to see on your Facebook page. Why? Well you're
probably hoping that guy/girl you've got the hots for is going to spot it and
decide to drop you a line, right?
Sadly, and we hate to be the bearers of bad news here, but that's not going to
happen. What's more likely is that some dick you went to school with a decade
ago will use it to prank call you, or your number will be skimmed and added to
an endless supply of Satan's children, or PPI salesmen as they prefer to be
called.
3. YOUR BOSS
Sure, Steve might proclaim himself "just one of the lads" and be nice enough to
share the odd post-work bevvie with, but that doesn't mean you should be
Facebook buddies. No good can come from socially befriending your boss.
As well as any publically-shared work-based grumble quickly becoming a fireable
offence and being caught out on that sickie you pulled when your mate tags you
in a Thorpe Park log flume selfie, you'll have to see images of Steve strutting
round the beach in his Speedos once a year, and no working relationship can
recover from that.
4. PICTURES OF YOUR KIDS
It used to be that embarrassing pictures of your wee ones would be saved up in
an album until they finally brought their first serious boyfriend or girlfriend
back to meet the folks. Now they're plastered across the internet for the world
to see from the moment they're pushed into it.
As well as being frustrating for your friends – you made a human,
congratulations, we get it already – it also poses a bit of a privacy dilemma.
As well as your kids growing to instantly resent you when they gain the concept
of privacy, letting the world (and the vast array of people in it) see your
kids in the bath or running around the beach probably isn't the wisest idea.
5. THOSE EMBARRASSING, DRUNK PICTURES
Going for a new job? You can guarantee that as well as reading your CV, your
prospective employer will now be Googling you and even checking out your
Facebook and Twitter accounts, assuming they're marked as public. Think about
it: would you really want the person who's got your career in your hands seeing
pics of you with your head down a loo or your bits out on the dancefloor?
As a rule of thumb, if you're not keen on the idea of your mum seeing the pic,
chances are you're not going to want your future boss eyeing it up
either. Share them with your actual mates via Messenger or WhatsApp instead and
save yourself from a 2012 snap ruining your future.
6. YOUR DESTINATION
Stop 'checking in' to places every time you venture more than 14 feet from your
front door, seriously. Yes, we know you want everyone to know you're living it
up with your endlessly exciting life, but strutting around your hometown's
local hotspots doesn't need to be a social event.
What's more, it's not too smart telling the world that you're not at home. It's
like putting a big poster on your front door that screams "C'mon, Mr Burglar,
we're out." Instead of checking in places, just get your brag on when you're
back.
7. YOUR ENDLESS HOLIDAY SNAPS
Your humblebragging session can wait. Just like checking in at a restaurant or
theatre showing on the other side of town, posting sunny holiday snaps with
captions such as "Day one of two weeks of bliss" is an open invitation to any
nefarious characters that can see your Facebook page to wander around to your
newly vacated home and have their fill.
Yes, we're expecting the worst of people here, but taking a Facebook vacation
while actually enjoying a 'vaycay' might just stop you coming back to an empty
home.
8. YOUR BIRTHDAY
Sure, someone knowing your date of birth might not sound like a major security
inconvenience, not like handing over your password, anyway. But when services
such as banks and doctors use it as a means of identifying you over the phone,
it can quickly become a problematic detail to be sharing with the world and the
wrong'uns looking at your profile.
9. YOUR FAVOURITE TV SHOWS & MOVIES
Chances are, there are elements of your Facebook profile that haven't been
updated since you joined the pre-Twitter social world back in 2007. That could
be a little embarrassing now when, as a fully fledged adult you're still
proclaiming to the world that your favourite TV shows include Hey Arnold, Deal
or no Deal, or Jim'll Fix It re-runs.
It's not just TV shows and movies you either need to update or delete, either.
Telling everyone that Bowling for Soup are still your favourite band or some
obscure, long-forgotten in-joke your favourite quote isn't going to impress
anyone.
8 forgotten Facebook updates we all hated for 48 hours, then quickly forgot
about
I hate it, I hate it! Wait, wasn't it always like that?
Nobody likes change. Not really. In the 12-and-a-bit years it's been since
Facebook first launched though our lives have been full of enforced changes. As
well as bringing us all closer together while simultaneously pulling us apart,
Facey-B has done more than just fill our lives with meme-sharing joy, it's
presented plenty of low points and moments of outrage too - in fact, every
single time a minor update was introduced.
Over the past decade Facebook has changed time and again, adding new features
and radical redesigns. Every time we stamped our feet and threw full-on toddler
tantrums, then quickly forgot what we were outraged about in the first place,
because, hey, change isn't all that bad. Well, unless it's sprung on you like
this lot.
1. Hitting the wall with the arrival of the News Feed
'What do you mean I'm no longer the centre of attention? Isn't that what
Facebook's all about?' When Facebook ditched the wall and introduced the
original News Feed back in 2006, it put our online friends' actions ahead of
our own as the primary focus. There was uproar, there was anger - there was a
seismic shift in social interactions that remains to this day. Now we couldn't
imagine living without it.
2. No more third-person chatter
In the early days of Facebook it was all "Jeff is...", "Alice is...", "Digital
Spy is...". We were a world of douches who could only refer to ourselves in the
third person. When this changed, the first-person freedom was too much for many
to handle. Well, initially. Now we'd point the finger at anyone who talks about
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candidate. Luke is... happy about this.
3. More photos, less filler, continued moaning
'What is this well-designed, heavily stylised nonsense? What happened to our
dense, text-heavy, Facebook profile of old?' A classic case of hating change
simply because it's new and different, 2010's far superior profile update
caused the usual outrage without anyone really knowing what it was they were
hating on. The dawn of a picture-heavy service was upon us and we never looked
back. Well, after that initial 48 hours of angst, anyway.
4. Timeline takeover brings back past embarrassments
Timeline caused its fair amount of day one hatred before quickly settling into
a case of 'what, there was something before this?' forgetfulness. It
resurrected your entire history of social sharing (wait, they were storing
that), and brought your entire Facebook existence into a more accessible form.
A survey showed shortly after the switchover showed that 91% of teens wanted
the changes reversed. Within a couple of weeks though, no-one could remember
what the old site even looked like.
5. Facebook usernames - the forgotten annoyance
Inspired by Twitter, Facebook added usernames back in 2009. Surely there's
nothing to dislike about stylised usernames though, right? Well, with a lack of
warning, the scrum to secure the desired handle of choice and not end up a
'JonnyJones462' caused much frustration. Now, who even cares what your Facebook
username is? All that fuss over a feature that flopped.
6. Killing time in totally the wrong order
Surely showing content in a time-sensitive fashion is the way the social world
works, right? It's done Twitter no harm. Facebook scrapped the chronological
order and started spitting content at us in seemingly random fashion a couple
of years ago
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. Now we take it for standard, but for a while it was more hated than a Piers
Morgan marathon on ITV 2.
7. Every privacy tweak ever
Every time Facebook updates its privacy policy the same thing happens - we get
on our high horse, complain about our personal security, get outraged at the
power this tech behemoth wields and pledge to turn our backs on it in protest.
Sadly, this is always followed by the same goldfish-style memory lapses and
continued addiction to the social giant.
8. Messenger packs its bag and goes it alone
Most of Facebook's changes are forgotten about within days of being introduced.
This one still grates a little though
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– why can't we have Facebook Messenger within the actual Facebook app? Sure,
Mark Zuckerberg's claims of it improving the base Facebook service
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are justified, but that extra button click and brief app-load time is an
ongoing irritant.
