If you’re looking to snag an LTE-equipped Apple Watch Series 3, you have a few more choices as to regional U.S. wireless carriers to choose from.

C-Spire announced sales of the LTE Series 3 on Tuesday. The device is available not just online and at the carrier’s retail stores, but even via phone orders. New customers can get three months of Watch data free, after which the cost becomes $10 per month.

C-Spire has also announced that the company is selling the Series 3 for half off in conjunction with the purchase of an iPhone.

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Apple, having long since vowed to create the iPhone as a device that only its owners can open and mired in controversies as to whether to allow law enforcement in, has stated that it is planning an iPhone software update that would effectively disable the phone’s charging and data port hour after the phone is locked. While a phone can still be charged, a person would first need to enter the phone’s password to transfer data to or from the device using the port.

Such a change would hinder law enforcement officials, who have typically been opening locked iPhones by connecting another device running special software to the port, often days or even months after the smartphone was last unlocked. News of Apple’s planned software update has begun spreading through security blogs and law enforcement circles — and many in investigative agencies are infuriated.

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The next-gen iPhone could feature even speedier charging.

According to a new rumor, Apple might team up with new suppliers who can provide higher-powered charging components. The upgrade should finally allow the iPhone to compete with its Android rivals when it comes to charging speed.

The iPhone models have historically beaten out most of their competitors when it comes to battery life, but once that battery is dead and needs charging, Apple devices typically take much longer to reach full capacity.

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A group of leaked schematics may have revealed the size of the next-gen iPhone X. A 6.5-inch iPhone X Plus may be in the works alongside a “budget” 6.1-inch iPhone. The schematics come by way of Forbes contributor Gordon Kelly in collaboration with case-maker Ghostek.

The upcoming flagship iPhone (the iPhone X Plus?) will have a 6.5-inch 19:9 OLED screen in a body measuring 157.2 x 77.1mm. That’s more compact than the current iPhone 8 Plus’ 158.4 x 78.1mm.

The rumor mill also has it that the 6.5-inch iPhone X Plus will use a steel chassis, thereby weighing more than the iPhone 8 Plus’ 202 grams.

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It came from the depths of Rumorville, but there tends to be a nugget of truth to be had there.

Per a new supply chain report published on Tuesday, Apple is said to be redesigning chargers and related interface for its next-generation iPhone and iPad devices, and will likely have its 2019 series of iPhones come with USB Type-C support. The rumor was generated from sources at analog IC vendors.

Apple’s transition to USB Type-C in its MacBook series has already pushed a number of other vendors to adopt the USB Type-C port for its notebooks. Still, sales of their new models that come with a Type-C port have been affected negatively by a general slowdown in the global PC market.

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One of the largest telecommunications mergers of all time has just been approved.

On Tuesday, AT&T received judicial approval to move forward with its $85 billion deal to acquire media giant Time Warner, ending a contentious antitrust lawsuit leveled by the U.S. Justice Department last year.

In a ruling handed down by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, AT&T is allowed to acquire Time Warner and take control of its substantial cache assets with no conditions applied to the sale, reports CNBC.

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The day you didn’t want to come has arrived.

As of Tuesday, June 11th, net neutrality regulations have ended. As such, the Open Internet Order is no longer in effect, opening the door for internet service providers to control access to online content in the United States as they see fit.

The Open Internet Order was enacted by the FCC during President Obama’s administration under then-director Tom Wheeler. The FCC’s rules protected the spirit of net neutrality by blocking ISPs from throttling bandwidth for any content, or preventing any content from reaching end users.

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Apple’s slapped the brakes on cryptocurrency where its iOS and macOS operating systems are concerned.

Following the assorted kerfuffle that’s been associated with cryptocurrency of late, a set of recently published rules released during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference has added new language to its App Store review guidelines related to cryptocurrency. Under the Hardware Compatibility section, Apple now states that “apps, including any third party advertisements displayed within them, may not run unrelated background processes, such as cryptocurrency mining.”

The policy reads as follows:

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This could definitely come in handy.

As outlined on its developer webpage, iOS 12 will include a notable update for handling spam messages and calls. That being said, app makers can now create an app extension that allows users to report unwanted messages and calls as spam.

The documentation cites that the feature will allow developers to build extensions that can add an “Unwanted Communication” feature that could later be enabled by the user in iOS 12’s Settings.

When enabled, users would be able to swipe left on an item in the “Recents” tab of the Phone app to reveal a new “Report” option. In the Messages app, SMS messages can be reported by a similar swipe left on the thread or a long-press on the message itself.

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The next-gen Apple watch could be receiving solid state buttons that don’t move up and down but rather sense the touch of a finger, per a source close to the story.

Apple will stick with the Watch’s current button configuration, with a button and a digital crown situated on one side of the device, but neither will physically click as before. Rather than reacting to the user’s touch by physically moving back and forth, the new buttons will vibrate slightly under the fingertip, using the haptic effect Apple calls the Taptic Engine. The digital crown, though, will still physically rotate to navigate through content.

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