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Apple leads in holiday device activations, down 5 percent year over year

The Christmas gifts have been exchanged, the Chanukah ones are being given this week and it looks like Apple is leading the pack in terms of smartphone activations for the 2016 holidays. This year, 44% of new phone and tablet activations were Apple devices with Samsung seeing 21%. While Samsung is slowly growing in popularity […]

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Apple links iPhone 6s battery/unexpected shutdown issues to overextended air exposure during manufacturing

Apple has apparently figured out what the cause of its iPhone 6s battery flaws and unexpected shutdowns was. The company released a short note linking the issues to mistakes made during the manufacturing process: “We found that a small number of iPhone 6s devices made in September and October 2015 contained a battery component that […]

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Rumor: Apple testing out more than 10 different iPhone prototypes, focusing on OLED displays for the future

The next-gen iPhone prototypes are here. And they are both varied. A number of sources have claimed Apple will launch its first iPhone with a curved OLED display next year. A new report claims an OLED version could be introduced as one of several new iPhone models unveiled next year, but it would have a […]

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Apple possibly throttling data transfer speeds on certain iPhone 7 models

The bad news is that Apple may be throttling the LTE performance on the Verizon iPhone 7 to keep it on par with the AT&T model. According to research conducted by Twin Prime and Cellular Insights, the Verizon iPhone 7 performs about as well as the AT&T iPhone 7, but it does not reach the […]

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Rumor: Apple won’t refresh iPhone SE in 2017

As nifty as the iPhone SE may be, it probably won’t be refreshed in the coming year. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a report to investors state that Apple will prolong iPhone SE’s lifecycle beyond the usual one year rotation in a bid to boost gross margins and minimize cannibalization of high-end flagships like the […]