Apple schedules long-rumored March event: bring on the new hardware

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

The first few months of the new year are no fun for Apple fans: Android and Windows enthusiasts get to check out all sorts of new gear at CES and MWC, while everybody goes gaga over Samsung’s latest flagships. But this year, maybe more than most, there’s been hope of some big Apple news in the spring: for months now, we’ve been hearing rumors about a new four-inch iPhone, and now it finally seems ready to launch. Better still, it could be joined by new iPad hardware, bringing Apple Pencil support to a more traditionally sized tablet. But

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iPad Air 3/iPad Pro mini supports Smart Keyboard, rocks four speakers, case leak suggests

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

It seems we’ve entered the age of revealing iCase depictions, as the looming refreshed 9.7-inch iPad shows its… holes protruding from a protective accessory, following similar iPhone 7 and iPhone SE exposés.This is by far the most cryptic leak of the three, letting us in on only two important tidbits of information. Namely, it appears

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Google Photos on iOS grows with Split View and Live Photos

Posted on by Jules Wang

If you don’t have the latest in mobile technology from Apple, you’d still be able to take advantage of the latest update to Google Photos on iOS. But then again, you’d want to have Google Photos on iOS in the first place.While you can now back up your fancy-shmancy Live Photos to the service and also get the app into Split View on the latest iPads and

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Upcoming 9.7-inch iPad Pro tipped to outdo 12.9-inch model in camera department

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Whether Apple plans to hold its next big hardware-announcing press event on March 15 or 21, we’re pretty sure at least a new diminutive iPhone and long overdue iPad Air 2 sequel are in the pipeline. Possibly, a rehashed “iWatch” too, ...

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iPhone SE event now expected later than first thought

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But it’s just a few extra days between friends (and enemies).We’ve kept tabs on Apple as it was rumored that a four-inch iPhone, a smaller iPad Pro and the sequel to last year’s Apple Watch would come with a mid-March event. Some tipsters put ...

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Apple iPad Air 3, iPhone 5se hardware rumors pick up new support for SoC choice

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

In a little over three weeks, Apple’s expected to announced its latest batch of iOS hardware, and unless everyone who’s anyone has been misreading the situation, that means that we’re about to get both a new iPhone and an new iPad. We’ve already heard plenty about what to look for from both the iPad Air 3 and the new four-inch iPhone, which we’re expecting to see launch as ...

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iPads are headed for their worst quarter ever, but Apple will continue to lead the tablet market

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Apple’s best quarter in history in terms of both overall profits and iPhone unit sales will likely be followed by its all-time worst, at least as far the latter is concerned. We’ve known that for a while, and Cupertino no doubt expects it, looking towards the lower-cost 5se and, possibly, a ...

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Apple’s four-inch iPhone and new iPad Air tablet could go up for sale in just over a month

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Sometime in the last month or two, the idea that Apple’s about to announce a new four-inch iPhone passed somewhere from the stuff of rumors to what was starting to feel a lot more like a certainty. And as reports closed in on a possible March announcement for the new hardware, this once-fanciful notion was on the verge of becoming quite real, indeed. Now we’re looking forward to not only the phone we’re hearing ...

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Apple recoups world’s most valuable company title from Alphabet

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Based on Google’s more than healthy recent financial report, and generally gloomy iPhone sales predictions for at least the current quarter, we wouldn’t have been shocked to see Alphabet exceeding Apple’s market capitalization through summer or even fall.But the simultaneous

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Apple March event rumors zero in on specific date

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

No matter which of the major smartphone platforms you call your favorite, you’ve got plenty of reasons to be excited these next few months. Android users are looking forward to some major flagship launches, and MWC will bring more than enough new hardware to usher them into spring. Windows aficionados have the looming arrival of Windows 10 Mobile updates for existing hardware to cheer about. And in the Apple camp, we’ve been hearing a lot about a rumored March event that could bring us not ...

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New iPad Air 3 schematic depicts a tablet ever so slightly larger than iPad Air 2

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Apple’s supposed to have a big launch event in mid-March, and with just a few weeks to go between now and then, the leaks and rumors have seriously been picking up in earnest. A lot of the recent chatter hasn’t concerned the four-inch iPhone 5se, nor the new Apple Watch hardware, but what Apple has in the works for its next tablet: the iPad Air 3. Last year passed us by without a new iPad Air model, but now all indications have been pointing to Apple finishing up work on a new edition, one ...

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Apple iPad Air 3 case leak adds support to recent hardware rumors

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Apple’s rumored March event is shaping up to be one to rival even the annual fall iPhone launch, and we find ourselves getting the four-inch iPhone 5se, some next-gen Apple Watch hardware, and maybe even Apple’s next tablet, tipped to be a new iPad Air model. Reports have recently looked into what changes we could expect from the iPad Air 3, including picking up a few iPad Pro features, and ...

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iPhones and iPads with long-distance wireless charging features in the cards for 2017

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Rumors are swirling about the compact iPhone 5se and super-sharp iPad Air 3 Apple might be unveiling as early as March, plus the iPhone 7 no doubt scheduled for a fall release, but it’s actually next year that we’ll likely see true innovation brought to iDevices.No, we don’t mean just ...

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Apple iPad Air 3 production possibly starting soon with 4K screen and ‘up to’ 4GB RAM

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The first ever gargantuan iPad Pro was probably the main reason Apple prolonged its traditional 12-month 9.7-inch upgrade cycle for the first time in history, but if you feared the iPad Air had become history, there’s reportedly no reason to worry any longer.Several fairly trustworthy sources have been telling us to expect the Apple iPad Air 3 sometime in H1 2016 for a while now, with the ETA just

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Apple’s rumored March event is sounding crowded: iPad Air 3, Apple Watch, and iPhone 5se

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

The smartphone industry’s next big time to shine may be Mobile World Congress in just another month, but for fans of Apple hardware, the date to look forward to is a couple weeks further out still: since early December, we’ve been hearing about Apple’s plans to introduce its latest mobile gear at an event sometime in March. We still don’t have a precise date, but the latest rumors have zeroed-in on a timeframe right in the middle of the month, possibly the week of March 14. But assuming this event does happen, what could we hope to see on the agenda? By the sound of ...

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