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Rumor: Apple to focus on operating system improvements at WWDC, will bring out new iPads, notebooks, Apple Watch models “later this year”

Apple kicks off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference next Monday and the predictions are in as to what to expect via Bloomberg’s well-sourced Mark Gurman: – A series of Digital Health tools in the Settings app on iOS 12 that will help users monitor how much time they spend using their devices and individual apps, […]

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EEC filings hint at upcoming iPhone models for 2018

Sometimes it’s the regulatory filings that hint at the really nifty products en route to the market. Per French website Consomac, a new Russian-language regulatory filing discovered in the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) database pointing towards several unreleased iPhone models that Apple could be launching relatively soon. The new iPhone model numbers running iOS 11 […]

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Newly published patent applications note possible Apple Pencil support on next-gen iPhones

Roughly a year ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned that he had used an Apple Pencil on an iPhone. On Thursday, Patently Apple noted a series of patents describing this, publishing two of them in the process: Today two more patent applications from Apple about Apple pencil working with a smartphone have surfaced. For the […]

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Apple may have something to learn from secretive billionaire as he undercuts the iPhone in Chinese marketplace

Duan Yongping may have figured out how to beat Apple at its own game in the Chinese marketplace. The reclusive billionaire founded both Opposition and Vivo, the twin smartphone brands that dealt the world’s largest company a stinging defeat in China last year. Once derided as cheap iPhone knockoffs, they leapfrogged the rankings and shoved […]

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Samsung to release findings of Galaxy Note7 probe later this month

Samsung will offer a full explanation of the Galaxy Note7 smartphone fires sometime later this month according to South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo. The device, which launched in late August, began experiencing instances in which the devices exploded or caught fire when charging. At the time, the company said the underlying issue was “problematic” batteries […]