Not every iPhone battery is going to behave perfectly. An Apple store in Zurich, Switzerland was temporarily evacuated on Tuesday after an iPhone’s battery at the service desk overheated in the middle of a removal procedure, emitting smoke and burning the worker who was doing the work. The incident caused the technician to burn his […]
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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 […]
As much of a workhorse the mid-2011 Mac mini is, Apple has just added it to its obsolete products list. Mid-2011 models have officially been classified as vintage or obsolete as of November 30, 2017, according to an internal memo distributed to Apple Authorized Service Providers. As such, neither Apple nor Apple Authorized Service Providers […]
Once again, the cool cats at iFixit have gotten their mitts on the new iPhone and published a full teardown of their findings. Some of the highlights of the teardown included the following: Battery: The iPhone X uses a two-cell 10.35 Wh battery. Previous iPhones use a single-cell battery.
Late last week, Apple published a support document explaining how OLEd displays function and that it is normal to see some screen burn-in over time and shifts in color when looking at the iPhone display from an off-angle. The company described the display, when viewed from a side angle, as possibly presenting shifts in color […]