Apple TV Features Review

October 6, 2019 by TechInfoWebs Leave a Comment

Apple TV is a digital media player as well as a micro-console developed and marketed by Apple Inc. it is a small network device that can receive digital data such as videos, music, or the screen display from an iOS or Mac device. And you can stream them on a television set or other video display with the use of an Apple TV device. The latest Apple TV 4K allows you to watch your favorite movies and TV shows in amazing 4K HDR and with Dolby Atmos sound. It offers you great content from apps such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and ESPN. You can now control your Apple TV with just your voice by using Siri. The newest Apple TV is designed with a reimagined Home screen and new experiences so that it is even easier to enjoy streaming TV with more immersive and personal experience.

4K HDR sets a New Standard

You can now get a more attractive picture using four times more pixels than standard HD with 4K. HDR (High Dynamic Range) hands over more realistic and brighter colors and greater details. Whether you intend to watch the hottest new movie or your favorite TV show, everything is more live than ever.

Dolby Atmos – It’s sound, turned up to 360

Apple TV 4K is combined with a Dolby Atmos so that its compatible sound system and you are completely sunk in three-dimensional audio that dispatches sound around and above you with pinpoint precision. No matter whether a torrential downpour erupts or a jet zooms overhead, the accurate sound puts you inside the action. The first streaming player is Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision certified so that Apple TV 4K brings home the perfect cinematic experience. A few examples for great titles in 4K HDR and Dolby Atmos are Rocketman, Pikachu, The Morning Show, See, Spider-Man – Far from Home, Bohemian Rhapsody, etc.

Your favorite Live TV lives Here

Apple TV is connected with some of the world’s biggest TV networks and broadcasters so that they can bring you the most demanding live content. You can find the latest breaking news from apps like CNN and Bloomberg, sports from apps like MLB and ESPN, and your favorite shows from the apps such as YouTube, DirecTV Now, Sling TV. If you are a Charter Spectrum cable customer, you can also watch live channels and many on-demand programs with your Apple TV.

Switch from Dad to Mom to kids and back – Fast

The new Apple TV 4K supports multi-user. So now, all your family members can easily and quickly find the shows that they want to watch from the multi-user option in the new Control Center. Dad gets his shows, Mom gets her shows, and the kids get their shows. It is a whole new family TV experience. You can choose any from video and music collections, recommendations, and many more.

The new Apple TV app – All your TV – All in one app

With just the premium channels you want, you can buy or rent thousands of movies. You can get the most popular streaming services as well as the biggest cable TV providers. All are expertly curated and personalized so that you can discover the best of what is on. On all your screens, it is all in one place. It is very simple, so the Apple TV app is the most happening way to watch TV.

Siri Delivers What You Ask

You no longer have to type to find what you are looking for. You can just ask Siri for a TV show, movie, actor, genre or a song you like. Siri can also shine when you are not sure what you actually want. Just say something to Siri, like “Play the latest episode of GOT”, “Show me the latest action movies”, “What football games are on?”, “Open Netflix”, etc. so the Siri will deliver what you asked.

We are not Playing Games when it comes to Controllers

Now Apple TV is compatible with even more controllers. That includes the Xbox Wireless Controller with Bluetooth and PlayStation DualShock 4 as well. So the games are now more gripping than ever.

Unlike any other, the Apple Arcade will be a game subscription service for you. It has over 100 new games. The gaming experience is all so real on your Apple TV’s big screen with the mythical landscapes to earth-shattering explosions.

Everyone has something in the App Store on the Apple TV. It has entertainment apps like HBO NOW, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and Hulu. And has thousands of top sports, lifestyle, and fitness apps. And for sure, a world full of games.

All your Photos, Music, and Videos are on TV

You can enjoy all your photos, videos, and music stored in iCloud on the big screen of your Apple TV. You can connect Apple Music to your Home theater and let your family and friends enjoy music and videos. And of course, you can share their photos and videos with AirPlay as well.

Apple Watch 5 Specs

October 3, 2019 by TechInfoWebs Leave a Comment

Apple Watch is a series of smartwatches designed and marketed by Apple Inc. As of September 2019, six generations of Apple Watches have been released, and the sixth generation to the Apple Watch is Apple Watch 5. According to Apple, “you’ve never seen a watch like this,” and yes it is proved by the users who have already bought Apple Watch 5. This watch has a display that never sleeps, you can customize it in any way you like, available with different materials you love, and it has apps to keep an eye on your heart. Furthermore, you can track your menstrual cycle, crush your fitness goals, motivates you to move, exercise, and stand, streams your favorite songs, and many other things. Long story short, Apple Watch 5 is a single-small machine that you can do many smart things.

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Design

Apple Watch 5 has an always-on Retina display so that you no longer need to touch the screen or raise your wrist to see the information on the watch. That is because of the fact that the screen never sleeps.
To remain active all day with a remarkable battery life, hardware and software have to work in harmony. The display of the Apple Watch 5 becomes dim when you put down your wrist, though the main features remain visible all the time.
You can personalize any face by selecting apps or shortcuts to features. You can do more with a touch and see more at a glance with what we call complications.
Apple now offers four elegant materials to the Apple Watch 5. I.e. Aluminum, stainless steel, titanium, or ceramic. Each of these materials is engineered to magnify their native qualities and bring out a distinctive beauty.
The sixth Apple watch generation is designed with a variety of band types. It is available with elegant leathers, flexible nylon weaves, high-performance fluoroelastomer, and metal bands.

Health

Apple Watch 5 has an ECG app that generates an ECG similar to a single-lead electrocardiogram. It is an important accomplishment for a wearable device such as an Apple watch to provide critical data for doctors.
Your finger can tell you a lot about your heart. Simply touch the digital crown so that it will generate an ECG waveform within 30 seconds. The ECG app can point out the way your heart rhythm shows the signs of atrial fibrillation.
Irregular heart rhythms and high or low heart rates could be signs of a serious heart condition. With the Heart Rate app in the Apple Watch 5, you can get the alerts to these irregularities, if there is any.
The Cycle Tracking app in the Apple Watch series 5 lets you have a clearer picture of your overall health with an insight into your menstrual cycle. It also ensures that you are prepared, you can track irregularities and talk with your doctor.
The new Noise app can sense the over rising levels of sounds so that you can plug up or step out from the earbuds to give your ears a break.
The Breathe app helps you to be centered by leading you through a chain of calming breaths. It also allows you to focus on your day by merely raising your wrist with the help of the watch face.

Workout

Apple Watch 5 can measure your workouts. You can do yoga, swimming, cycling, high-intensity interval training, etc. And the Apple Watch is capable of set workout goals, summaries the workout you did, and many more. It even works for wheelchair users, with two different wheelchair workouts.
The Workout app has a new display now. You can see the metrics when you are riding a bike, holding a pose, or swimming some laps at every agonizing second.
The watch is water-resistant to 50 meters because it is designed with swimmers in mind. The Pool Swim workout can record splits and sets, and it recognizes your stroke. It visualizes your swimming route on a map, and it tracks distance, active calories, and overall pace.
Pace alerts give runners a gentle tap on the wrist to let him/ her know if he/ she is behind or ahead of the destination. You can see your steps per minute with Cadence and purify your running technique.
Furthermore, you can know exactly where you stand, connect with gym equipment, play well with others, and do many more things with the Apple Watch 5 Workout.

Connect

The Apple Watch series 5 lets you stay connected with every mobile activity even without your phone. You can send a text to a buddy, make a call to the office, check emails, or do whatever you want.
The watch face is always visible in the Apple Watch 5. You no longer have to raise your wrist to see your important information or the time.
The App Store is right on your wrist now. You can discover and download new apps from the App Store while only just lifting a finger.
The sixth Apple Watch generation has a built-in compass, so now you can find your way from your watch face. The updated Maps app shows the directions where you are heading. And the new Compass app lets you know your heading along with latitude, elevation, longitude, and incline.

iOS 13 New Features – iOS 13 Release Date

September 21, 2019 by TechInfoWebs Leave a Comment

Apple has released their latest iOS update for public use. It is iOS 13; the thirteenth major update to the Apple mobile operating system. Just as usual, Apple has added introducing new features and lots of improvements to the system. Speaking of the compatibility of iOS 13, it is only compatible with iPhones and iPod touch because Apple has introduced a separate OS for iPads called “iPadOS”. All the later versions of iPhones and iPod touch are compatible with iOS 13 including the latest iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max. If you wish to update to it, you can go to Settings > General > Software Update, and upgrade to iOS 13.

Dark Mode – Go all in on lights out

You can now have a dramatic new look for your iPhone or iPod touch with the Dark Mode. It makes every element on the screen look easier on your eyes, and is integrated all the way through the system seamlessly. It is simple to turn on from the Control Center, or you can set it to turn on at night automatically.

Photos and Camera

The Portrait Lighting Control lets you change the intensity of light in Portrait Lightning and creates the look you want. You can add an eye-catching monochromatic effect to your photos that are in Portrait mode with the High-Key Mono feature. You have an All-new Photos Tab that gives you a new curated view of your best moments. You can finely tune your photos with the redesigned editing tools’ ability to control adjustments and filter. You can use almost all the tools and effects you use on your photos on the videos as well. I.e. rotate, auto-enhance, and crop.

Privacy and Security

Now there is a simple way to sign in to websites and apps with good privacy. Your most personal data in the HomeKit Video is now more protected with the newly designed end-to-end encrypted system where iCloud is securely keeping your video. So only you can the invitees can view it. You can stay in more control of your data with the new location controls and transparency features. You have more protection from the people that want to track you without your permission.

Maps

You can now look around the cities with an immersive 3D experience. You can move seamlessly down the streets by panning around 360 degrees. The new map is the iOS 13 reveals more details about the places around you. You can create collections/ lists of local places that you want to visit on your next vacation and share them with the loved ones.

Siri

Siri’s new voice sounds incredibly natural with advanced neural text-to-speech technology. This is very useful when speaking longer phrases such as when answering knowledge questions and reading the news. With the built-in shortcuts app, Siri is now more attached with apps. The voices of the family members can be recognized by Siri using the HomePod. Siri can read your incoming messages aloud. You can now pair two sets of AirPods to the same iPhone and enjoy listening to the same song or watching the same movie with a friend.

Memoji and Messages

You can now make unique Memojis with new headwear, hairstyles, piercings, and makeup. The Momojis you create automatically become sticker packs on your keyboard. You can use the created stickers in Mail, Messages, and third-party apps. You can control the name, photo or Memoji that your friends see when you can contact them. With the QuickPath typing feature, you can type by swiping from one letter to the next.

Reminders

Reminders app is now more powerful with the powerful Siri intelligence, smart lists, and more. You can add dates, times, locations, photos, flags, and scanned documents to your Reminders by using the Quick Toolbar. Smart lists help you to organize your reminders automatically and group them by Today, Schedules and Flagged.

CarPlay

You can now have a simplified view of the road ahead with the all-new CarPlay Dashboard. While you are on the go, you can now view your whole day with the new Calendar app. You are just a tap away from getting directions and dialling into a meeting. In the new Apple Music app, you can see the album art of Music so that now you can easily find the perfect soundtrack for your road trip.

Performance

Performance of the iOS 13 is faster than the performance of iOS 12. For example, Face ID can now unlock up to 30 percent faster, you can launch apps up to 2x faster than before.

Augmented Reality

Virtual objects of AR apps can be naturally placed behind or in front of people for a more immersive experience.

And So Much More…

Apart from these mentioned features, Apple Arcade, Voice Control, Text formatting tools in Mail, New and improved Notes, a more personalized Health app, an improved start page in Safari, a more advanced Files app, Text editing and navigation, Font management, Smarter ways to share, etc. all these are improved better than before.

Google Home vs. Apple HomePod

September 19, 2019 by TechInfoWebs Leave a Comment

Google Home and Apple HomePod both are smart speakers that assist you in many things. Apple HomePod was released after the release of Google Home, but they are very much closer in their age. If you want to pick the smart speaker out of HomePod and Google Home, well, that depends on the way you plan to use it. Both these speakers assist you in the same kinds of things such as setting timers, answering questions, controlling smart home devices, streaming music, etc. But the tools they use and the ways they do them can be different. In this article, we are comparing the key features of Google Home and Apple HomePod. You can decide which smart speaker fits you the best after reading this article.

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01) Intelligent Assistant

Google Home

Google Assistant is a powerful and flexible tool that draws information from Google’s vast database. So it is very good at answering questions. It supports third-party apps/ actions as well.
Google Home doesn’t support secondary calendars. If you have more than one device nearly, they can all respond to the “OK Google” launch phrase, and that is confusing.

Apple HomePod

“Hey, Siri” gives the correct device respond when prompted.
When comparing with the Google Assistant, Siri is more limited in accessing information and performing tasks.
You can add third-party apps or skills on HomePod because Apple doesn’t allow you to do so.

02) Streaming Music

Google Home

Is compatible with Google Play Music and YouTube Music, which are not compatible with most of the other smart speakers.
It as the built-in support for iHeartRadio, Spotify, and others.
It doesn’t support Apple Music.

Apple HomePod

Supports for Apple Music.
Can stream other music services using AirPlay.
Apart from Apple Music, deficiency to support other music services.

03) Sound Quality

Google Home

It supports for multi-room audio so that all the Google Home devices in your house play the same audio.
Has a lower-quality sound than the HomePod.

Apple HomePod

Many different tests have verified that HomePod has the best sound quality among all the other smart speakers. Whether the audio volume is high or not, Siri can very well hear you so that you don’t have to shout.
There is no stereo-pair, multi-room, or audio support right now.

04) Smart Home

Google Home

Can control major smart home devices like Philips Hue light bulbs and Nest Thermostat.
Google Home natively supports Chromecast.
When comparing with the Amazon Echo, compatible devices are fewer.

Apple HomePod

Can control major smart home devices such as Nest and Hue lights, using Apple’s HomeKit standard.
When comparing to Amazon Echo, the compatible devices are fewer.

05) Messaging and Calling

Google Home

Can make calls directly from the Google Home.
It doesn’t support text messaging.

Apple HomePod

Sir assists you to read text messages and to send them.
It supports multiple texting apps, such as Apple Messages and WeChat.
You can’t make calls directly with Apple HomePod. Instead, you can transfer called which were started on iPhone to HomePod.

06) Form Factor and Use in the House

Google Home

Is available in three different sizes for different rooms and uses. The Original Home is 6” tall, and the cylinder is available in different colors. Home Mini is like a small lump of pizza dough. Home Max looks like the Sonos PLAY or a larger Bluetooth speaker, has 3 colors.

Apple HomePod

Available in two colors; black and white.
Has an attractive styling.
Super-quality materials and construction.
It has one size, shape, and style.
Available in limited colors. (as mentioned in the first point)

07) Multiple Users

Google Home

Supports multiple users, up to 6 users, and separately recognizes their voices.
Can respond with personalized content, like playlists and calendars.
However, it can’t delete, edit or cancel events by the voice.

Apple HomePod

You can add Reminders, Notes, and other content to the HomePod.
It doesn’t support multi-users.
It only works for the original owner of the iPhone that used to set up to the device.

08) Apple/Google Ecosystem Integration

Google Home

Deeply integrated with Google services and devices, like Chromecast.
It doesn’t have any connections to Apple services.

Apple HomePod

Deeply integrated with Apple services such as Apple Music, iMessage, and iCloud.
There is no connection to Google services.

Google Home vs. Apple HomePod – What is Better?

In the comparison of Google Home vs. Apple HomePod, the Google Home stands out thanks to its advanced features, third-party app support, and multi-user support. Most of all, the Google Assistant is a lot smarter than the assistance of Siri, and that is a significant advantage of the Google Home. If you primarily want to use a smart speaker for music and other audio playback, Apple HomePod is a great device. But if you are looking for a smart speaker that is able to adapt to many different functions or activities, Google Home is the best pick.