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Hardware iPhone Rumor

Rumor: Apple looking to shift from aluminum to “all glass” enclosure with AMOLED screen for iPhone 7

When KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo offers a research note, people tend to listen. Recently, Kuo offered a report stating that the iPhone will be seeing a major redesign in 2017, dropping the iconic aluminum casing for an all-glass enclosure with AMOLED screen. This corroborates a previous report offering hints of a fairly radical redesign […]

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Hardware News

Microsoft debuts Surface Book hybrid, could give the MacBook notebooks a run for their money

Microsoft has come a long way with its Surface tablet. The Surface Book, which debuted earlier this week, is built more like a traditional notebook and a recent New York press event showed the unit appearing like a variant of the classic 13-inch white MacBook made of metal, not polycarbonate plastic. The hinge is unique […]

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Apple Watch Hardware News Wearables

DisplayMate runs full comparison between glass, sapphire Apple Watch displays

Dr. Raymond Soneira went bananas yet again, this time pulling out all the stops and testing the Apple Watch glass and sapphire displays. The testing seeks to answer the question as to whether there’s a visual difference between a watch that uses sapphire versus glass? If the two were held up side by side, the […]

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Apple Watch Hardware News Wearables

Apple Watch goes through DisplayMate testing, results posted

The Apple Watch is out the door, its display is impressive and seems to hold a terrific resolution, even given its tiny screen. The display itself features a Flexible OLED covered by either a sapphire crystal or Ion-X strengthened cover glass on the Sport model. This being Apple’s first OLED display, Dr. Raymond Soneira over […]

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Hardware iPhone News Wearables

Unbox Therapy video puts Apple Watch Sport Ion-X glass through scratch tests

The Ion-X glass found on the Apple Watch Sport isn’t quite as tough as sapphire glass found on the more expensive Apple Watch models, but it holds its own. Unbox Therapy posted a scratch test video in which the Ion-X glass was exposed to keys, a knife, steel wool and sandpaper. To its credit, the […]