The European Commission published a short message on social media X, confirming that USB-C has become the common standard for electronic devices in the EU from 2024. The wait is finally over. From 2024, USB-C will become the common standard for electronic devices in the EU. This means better charging...
Apple’s iPhone development plan stretches several years in advance, and the company is constantly working with suppliers on multiple subsequent iPhone models at once, so sometimes rumors about specs and features leak out long before launch. This is exactly what happened with the iPhone 17 series: Macrumors has already received...
Japan is preparing legislation that would require tech giants such as Apple to allow external app stores and payments on their mobile operating systems, Nikkei reported. The legislation, slated to be sent to Parliament in 2024, would limit what Apple and Google can do to keep users in their own...
China’s Gongbei Customs recently confiscated 100 old smartphones that a man tried to smuggle into the country. On December 22 at 20:40, a passenger wearing a black coat tried to enter the country through the “no declaration corridor” at the Qingmao Port tourist inspection point of Gongbei Customs. As the...
Apple CarPlay is about to get much better thanks to the help of the car manufacturers themselves, with Porsche and Aston Martin becoming the first companies to implement these changes. CarPlay can project apps and content onto the center display of a compatible car, but starting next year the feature...
Apple will introduce a fourth-generation version of AirPods in 2024 with a number of new features that will make the headphones more attractive to consumers, as Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes. Two versions of AirPods 4 are planned in different price categories. For now, there’s little difference between the AirPods 2...
Another industrial designer who worked under Jony Ive is leaving Apple, as reported by Bloomberg. Peter Russell-Clark has left his role at Apple after 20 years and plans to join space technology company Vast. Under Ive’s leadership, Russell-Clark worked on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple Park campus....
According to Bloomberg, several state-owned firms and government departments in at least eight provinces have instructed their employees to switch to local smartphone brands over the past month. Workers from Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Anhui, Shandong, Shanxi, Liaoning and Hebei were urged to refuse Apple equipment. Hebei Province is located close...
Apple today announced the expansion of its Self Service Repair Program in Europe and the United States. Now users of all iPhone 15 series models and Mac computers with Apple M2 chips, including the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro, 15-inch MacBook Air, Mac mini, Mac Pro and Mac Studio, can...
Exclusive information published by MacRumors suggests that Apple has already developed several prototypes of the iPhone 16. The internal name for the new line is DeLorean. MacRumors also published renderings of the prototypes created, including the exact colors the company uses for testing. The first iPhone on the left gets...
Apple has released a major update to its mobile software platform. iOS 17.2 brings quite a lot of changes and innovations to devices. One of the most notable was the new Journal application, which allows you to quickly create records of various moments in a user’s life, store records in...
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has announced the winners of its 2023 awards, praising organizations that it believes set an example for others on issues of the environment and animal cruelty. In 2023, Apple was declared company of the year. In a blog post on Sunday, PETA...
Photo hosting site Flickr has published a rating of camera phones. It was compiled based on the number of huskies per photo. In first place is the iPhone 13 Pro, and in general there are seven models of Apple smartphones in the top 10. And the best from the Android...
Chinese insider Ice Universe, who leaked a lot of reliable information about various smartphones, published possible images of the new iPhone. I recently saw an Apple patent that showed us a different flash design. iPhone 16 Pro Max may offer a revolutionary flash design to improve night photography. Ice Universe...
Apple senior executive Steve Hotelling, who oversaw the development of key technologies for the iPhone, is leaving the company, as reported by Reuters with reference to Bloomberg. Steve Hotelling is cited in several patents related to the touchscreen functionality of the iPhone and iPad, and is also one of the...
LG Innotek has begun developing an advanced “under panel camera” (UPC) that has no visible lens hole. According to TheElec, such screens will be designed for full-screen iPhones without cutouts or holes. UPC technology means that the camera lens is not visible when the camera application is not running. In...