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

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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Huawei projected to enjoy highest smartphone sales growth in 2016 among top five brands

It’s no longer a secret the worldwide mobile hardware industry has reached a point of saturation and stagnation, with its two most popular companies in particular feeling the heat from consumers lacking incentives to upgrade on a regular basis.Samsung lost smartphone market share for the first time in years, as the Galaxy S6 family only managed to pull in 40 million unit shipments in 2015, and the Note 5 barely crossed the 10M mark, both numbers falling short of optimistic ...

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Latest iPhone 5se hardware rumors paint the picture of a much more capable handset

It finally feels like the home stretch is nearly upon us, and all the rumors we’ve been hearing about Apple’s interest in releasing a new iPhone that looks back to the smaller sizes of older handsets may finally be coming to fruition. Lately, they’ve settled in on the name iPhone 5se, while describing hardware that might look like the iPhone 5, while performing like the iPhone 6, getting that model’s A8/M8 chip pair. But while that older silicon could be sufficient for some users, ...

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iPhone 5se and iPad Air 3 again tipped for H1 2016 launches, but little success

There’s been a steady stream of rumors coming in with regard to Apple’s alleged first 4-inch iPhone in close to three years, but it’s all turned to a furious avalanche now, as the name changesagain, and multiple sources claim to have seen the 5se, 5e, 6c or 7c in ...

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This may just be our first real look at the iPhone 5se (not 6c) next to the iPhone 5

It’s no longer a question of “if”, but rather “when” and, well, “what”. Also, “why”, for some people, although many feel there’s definitely still a market for a diminutive iPhone, especially if priced significantly below the 6s and 6s Plus.At only 4 inches in diagonal, you’d think that would absolutely be the case, yet it’s possible the iPhone 5se will borrow a number of features from the 6s duo, thus needing to charge compact handheld lovers an arm and a leg.Then again, anything’s possible at the ...

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Four-inch iPhone name-roulette continues: how about iPhone 5se?

It used to be that iPhone naming was so simple: once we got past that whole G/GS business, we had number, number+s, number, number+s. Easy, right? And sure, that iPhone 5c oddball ended up breaking the pattern a little, but it was the exception that proved the rule. But now with this new four-inch iPhone that everyone’s expecting … all bets are off. Dubbing it the iPhone 6c seemed like a safe enough bet, but over the months we’ve been inundated by rumors of names like the iPhone ...

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