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The pressure at home is mounting from teen #2 about getting ahold of my iPhone 5. His argument has been laid out pretty well, but the card I have in my pocket is that I need to wait until the next iPhone is announced in order to upgrade to a cheaper iPhone 6. But the clock is ticking for me, with rumors of the iPhone 6S or iPhone 7 coming in September.In the meantime, here are the latest findings from the iPhone rumor mill….Apple's voicemail killer Rumor has it that Apple is prepping an iCloud Voicemail service that employs Siri to read your voicemails and convert the into texts that you receive via the cloud. Speculation is that this service won't be available until 2016, so we're most likely talking about this being an iPhone 7 feature.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 


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