Following up on renewed pressure from the National Association of Broadcasters urging Apple to the FM radio capabilities built into the wireless modem of every iPhone, FCC chairman Ajit Pai has stated that he hopes Apple will “reconsider its position” following Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, which have devastated parts of the United States, including […]
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Despite a three year hiatus between the last update, Apple gave the iPod a major overhaul on Tuesday. Among these are the revamped iPod nano and shuffle models, which, like the new iPod touch, come in gold, dark blue, and pink colors. Apart from the new colors, Apple hasn’t upgraded the hardware of the iPod […]
It’s the teardowns that make things interesting. Per iFixit, the teardown of the seventh-gen iPod nano revealed the following interesting components: – The Toshiba THGBX2G7D2JLA01, which includes 16 gigabytes of NAND flash. The Broadcom BCM2078KUBG also includes both the Bluetooth and FM radios. – A touchscreen controller from Texas Instruments identified as 343S0538. – A […]
And now, the reason you were curious about the Apple media event: new iPods. Per Macworld, Apple released dramatically updated iPod nano and shuffle music devices, the iPod nano receiving a touchscreen interface while the shuffle’s buttons were returned to its control scheme. At long last, the iPod nano has shed its Click Wheel interface […]
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Regarding Yesterday
As you may have noticed, there was no news yesterday. Not that there wasn’t news, per se. Things happened, software was updated and announcements were made and covered. From my end, I spent a fair amount of the day at a local glass repair location since someone had decided to put a rock through my […]