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Rumor: Second-gen Apple Watch will enter mass production in Q2 of 2016, Quanta cited as sole manufacturer

The source has a mixed track record, but the rumor is pretty interesting. A new rumor has it that the second-generation Apple Watch will go into mass production in the second quarter of 2016, with Quanta Computer remaining as the sole manufacturer. Apple had apparently considered placing some orders with Foxconn, its main manufacturing partner, […]

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Rumor: Apple Watch rollout slowed by faulty Taptic Engine component

This may be part of the reason for the delay/long shipping time for your Apple Watch. A report on Wednesday claims Apple discovered a serious flaw in certain vibrator mechanisms that power Apple Watch’s Taptic Engine, prompting completed units to be scrapped just prior to launch. Citing sources close to the story, a Wall Street […]

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Rumor: Apple could switch to OLED units for next-gen iPhones

The rumors that Apple will switch from LCDs to thinner, brighter, more power-efficient OLED displays in its iPhones are as old as time. Per 9to5Mac, the latest is a report seemingly originating on Japanese newspaper Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun cited by GforGames via a Chinese site. Earlier reports from back in November that Foxconn was building […]

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Purported ‘iPad Pro’ render image shows additional speakers for upcoming tablet

There’s got to be some truth in here somewhere. Per AppleInsider, a new picture from French web site Nowhereelse.fr, claims to show part of the schematic for a so-called “iPad Pro, complete with a speaker grille space at the top of the device next to the lock button, suggesting Apple’s larger tablet could include a […]

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Rumor: Apple to discontinue iPhone 5c production in early 2015

Apple may be shedding the iPhone 5c in 2015. Per MacRumors and Taiwan’s Industrial and Commercial Times, Apple is slated to discontinue the iPhone 5c in 2015. Production of the handset is said to be stopping in the middle of the year, as Apple suppliers Wistron and Foxconn will look to wind down production of […]