Apple Watch Series 2 battery is a full third larger than original model, teardown shows

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

While it’s likely nowhere near as popular as the completely sold-out iPhone 7 Plus, the second-generation Apple Watch, aka Series 2, also launches today, and might be hard to come by in certain colors and configurations at first, currently listed as shipping in several weeks or even months from the official Cupertino e-store.But if you’re only curious to take a quick peek under the hood of a 38mm Series 2, iFixit follows ...

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RIP headphone jack, hello Mario on iPhone 7; LG V20, too | Pocketnow Weekly 217

Posted on by Juan Carlos Bagnell

Two major announcements from two tech companies. Apple had the courage to remove one of the most standardized cable ports ever created from the new iPhone 7. The Apple Watch 2 won’t turn any heads in terms of design, so will people keep buying it? The Air Pods feature some incredible technology, but will people adopt the Trekkie look? Or if Apple isn’t your flavor, we also have this beast of a phone to talk about called the LG V20.Juan, Jules, and Jaime are here to tackle your questions about two of the hottest announcements of the season, so make sure you’re charged and ...

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Apple Watch Series 2 announced with water-resistance, GPS

Posted on by Jules Wang

The second series of Apple Watch has been announced. It runs watchOS 3 and you can literally swim with it.Like most water-resistant watches, the Apple Watch, Apple Watch Sport and Apple Watch Edition are rated for 50 meters of ingress. With any device that has a speaker, this is where the main ingress concerns are as a speaker requires air to propagate sound. Apple has redesigned the speakers to push water out if any gets in. Swimmers also get two workout modes in Apple Health.The Apple S2 system package includes a dual-core processor that’s 50 percent faster and a GPU that provides ...

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Watch Apple’s iPhone 7 (and Apple Watch 2) launch event here

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Samsung’s had its chance(s) to bring out the big guns for the upcoming holiday season, largely spoiled by a series of unfortunate exploding events, companies like Sony, Acer, ...

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Purported Apple Watch 2 parts suggest battery could be amped up without overall bulk increase

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

The original Apple Watch is already relatively slim and lightweight, at 10.5mm and as little as 25 grams with no strap counted in, but knowing Cupertino’s soft spot for progressively thinner designs, an uber-slender second-gen iOS-compatible wearable always felt like a safe bet.Yet everyone can probably agree the greatest weakness of last year’s “iWatch” was meager battery life, an issue that’s bound to be ...

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What to expect for the iPhone 7 event: the Apple Watch 2 and more(?)

Posted on by Jules Wang

On Wednesday, Apple will gather the press together while the rest of us crowd up the event livestream to show off the latest in mobile hardware and software for the company’s ecosystem. In other words, it’s the iPhone, stupid.This year’s iPhone 7, suspected to have come in three flavors and

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September 7 will apparently see ‘selection of Beats by Dre’ products unveiled with iPhone 7

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

A familiar-looking pair of “new” iPhones, mysterious second-gen Apple Watch with built-in GPS but likely no cellular connectivity, and… iPads? MacBook Pros? Probably ...

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Russian regulatory docs see iOS 10, watchOS 2 hardware, AirPods

Posted on by Jules Wang

The FCC has not published any regulatory documents related to the iPhone 7 or the Apple Watch 2 just yet. But, according to at least one Russian tech outlet, the Eurasian Economic Commission has taken a look at those devices and another one that has to do with the lack of a headphone jack on that new mobile phone.Documents dug up by mobiltelefon.ru show up product listings with internal product codes for certain devices running on “

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Apple schedules September 7 event, iPhone 7 top of mind

Posted on by Jules Wang

Bokeh balls hint at the cap of Apple’s iconographic motif on Apple’s events page. When’s the freshly scheduled event happening? September 7.Next Wednesday will be the day that Apple will likely debut the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, as we’ve been calling them. ...

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Apple Watch 2 cellular antennas perhaps just wishful thinking

Posted on by Jules Wang

The success of a first-generation product can be characterized by the hype that’s built around a sequel. That’s been the case for the Apple Watch as we’ve been itching to get our wrists inside of the band of an Apple Watch 2.One thing that we may not look forward to after much ...

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Apple Watch 2 likely coming with GPS in tow this year, iterative upgrade also expected

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Both the watchOS and Android Wear platforms look set to receive extensive bundles of new features this fall, but in lack of fresh and exciting hardware to go along with them, the software updates probably won’t be enough to revitalize a young market already stuck in a rut.

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Second-gen Apple Watch still due out this year, likely alongside iPhone 7 in September

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Is the wearable fad already a thing of the past? Probably not, but Apple, Samsung, Motorola, LG and Huawei have to step on the smartwatch hardware improvement gas to stop the immature ...

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Smartwatch market shrinks, Apple is the main victim

Posted on by Jules Wang

The smartwatch market contracted for the first time in the second quarter and it’s all Apple’s fault.While it retained its top spot in the rankings, the 1.6 million shipments the company made is a big dip from its debut quarter that had 3.6 million shipments. Surprisingly, it was the only vendor out of the top five to lose shipments, meaning that those manufacturers had a lot ...

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Apple Watch 2 expected out ‘late’ this year, 2 million monthly shipments targeted

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

It’s all been quiet on the second-generation Apple Watch gossip front of late, and after a rumored March 2016 introduction of an incremental hardware upgrade proved false, the same predictably applied to far-fetched WWDC launch speculation.What the Developers Conference nonetheless brought to light was a massive overhaul of the ...

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[LIVE] Watch the Apple WWDC 2016 livestream

Posted on by Jules Wang

Time for another Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, huh?No more wishlists, no more expectations, not even a single thought thread extra. We’re about to get the straight stuff from Apple on where it plans to take its software on all fronts to through 2017. From

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