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Apple apparently working on foldable iPhone R&D, receives patent for new kind of hinge mechanism

The folding iPhone of your dreams could be on the way. According to a recently published patent and the cool cats at TechRadar, two foldable iPhone designs have passed durability tests. Apple, in turn, has been granted a patent for a new kind of hinge mechanism: As per United Daily News, these prototypes are just […]

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AT&T, Verizon, stall 5G network rollouts, 5G-compatible iPhone may not surface until 2020

As much as you’re hankering for 5G, it might not arrive quite as quickly as you’d like it to. America’s two biggest U.S. wireless carriers, AT&T and Verizon, are unlikely to have much in the way of true 5G service deployed by the end of 2019, perhaps backing the view that Apple won’t have support […]

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iFixit matches Apple’s $29 replacement iPhone battery price in wake of slowdown controversy

iFixit has now matched Apple’s $29 price for battery replacement kits for older iPhones. The change follows up on Apple’s consolation for its iPhone slowdown policies. Apple itself got in trouble when it fessed up to slowing down iPhones with older batteries and apologized for not being more transparent. “About a year ago in iOS […]

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Updated Apple Watch estimates place unit sales at just under 7 million

The current guesstimate is that Apple has sold almost 7 million Apple Watch units since the device’s launch in late April, thereby trouncing competing smartwatch products from firms like Pebble, Samsung and Motorola. This figure comes from analyst Daniel Matte of Canalys, who said that “After experiencing significant supply chain constraints early on, Apple managed […]

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Hack: User pulls off ROM hack, runs Mac OS 6.0.1 on Amiga 500 computer

This is one of the cooler old-school projects out there. And it seems to have worked. Apparently, Reddit and imgur user “wowbobwow” was able to get Mac OS 6.0.1 running on an Amiga 500 computer. This was achieved by using an emulator called “A-Max” that allowed Mac ROM chips to be run on the Amiga.