Apple’s spring hardware event: how to watch live

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Today’s the day! We’re just a few hours away from Apple’s latest press event. For months now there’s been talk of Apple expanding its current line of smartphone offerings with a new model designed to cater to the taste of users who aren’t quite fully on board with Apple’s move to larger and larger iPhone designs in recent years, and crave a return to more compact form factors. After plenty of leaks, rumors, and talk about a possible springtime launch, just under two weeks back ...

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Evidence piles up in support of iPhone SE name, 16GB storage option

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

The iPhone 6c is coming. No, it’s the 5e. 7c. 5se. Just SE, no numerical prefix. We’ve gone through so many rumored branding changes for Apple’s long-in-the-works 4-incher these past couple of months, and ...

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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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iPhone SE case renders reiterate multitude of probable 5s design similarities

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Unfazed by criticism regarding constant aesthetical repetition, Apple is most likely cooking up a trio of old iPhone clones. The compact SE, aka 5se, should go official in less than two weeks with the same overall form factor, shape, curves and edges as the ancient 5s, while

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iPhone 5se name back on the table with shady leaked photos of retail box

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Apple has never shied away from feeding tipsters false information on unannounced iDevices in order to keep the mystery going in advance of the company’s glitzy press events, and obviously, that’s now the case regarding at least some of the iPhone SE intel.First, the name. Is it SE, 5se, 6c, 5e or 7c? Truly impossible to say, as a new set of pics reinstates the 5se moniker just when we thought we settled on SE, with no numerical prefix.This latest 4-inch iPhone ...

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iPhone SE event now expected later than first thought

Posted on by Jules Wang

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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Apple pulls out iPhone 4s and 5c from India retail to boost local profitability

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As the US market stagnates, and China matures, the second-most populous country in the world is quickly becoming number one in mainstream appeal for both smartphone-producing veterans and rookies.After all, there are now

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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 looking on-track for Indian retail store plan approval

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Right now, India’s got the second largest smartphone market around, so if you’re a manufacturer looking to expand your operation, the country’s users are a prime target. And while Apple may be a huge brand over here in the States, so far the company has yet to make a significant impact on Indian smartphone sales, currently only enjoying about a two-percent share of the market. Recently, though, we’ve seen signs that Apple is interested in seriously stepping up its efforts in the nation,

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How pink of a pink will the supposed pink iPhone 5se be?

Posted on by Jules Wang

We don’t know. It’s a week from Valentine’s Day and the tackiest, but most appropriate color is being talked about once again (and again and again).This year’s four-inch iPhone that will likely come

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37 percent of Apple customers cling to four-inch iPhones

Posted on by Jules Wang

Mixpanel‘s latest tracking survey shows that a healthy contingent of iPhone users don’t want to make an upgrade that will strain their hands. After publicized cases of “texting thumb” making the news and in a stark face-off against the growing trend of the growing phone, data says more than 37 percent of iPhone toters have a ...

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Apple recoups world’s most valuable company title from Alphabet

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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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iPhone 5se may be meant for emerging markets

Posted on by Jules Wang

When Apple introduced the lower-end iPhone 5c, the company looked to be aiming for the cost-conscious consumers who still weren’t on the iTrain just yet. Sales didn’t follow on, partly because of its individual, but uninspiring stature. The other part owes to the rest of the saturated ...

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