Apple has just announced the new MacBook (2016), a refresh that comes short of what we were expecting in almost everyway. The design is unchanged except for the new rose gold color option, and on the inside we’ve got some shy improvements. Yes, there is new Core m3, m5 and m7 processors with new integrated …
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HP has surprised us all with its HP Spectre, a laptop that is just a laptop in spirit -no convertible mumbo jumbo here, thank god- but that gives the conventional segment a real spin. First, of course, is design. Last year Apple launched the MacBook, a new concept that was right in several ways -ultrathin …
According to IHS, “the iPhone SE (16 GB version) smartphone costs about $160 to build” whereas the 64 GB version comes at $170. This sales technique that forces iPhone users to jump to the 64 GB versions of its smartphones has been critiziced before, but still: The company still aims to get consumers on the …
This week we’ve been able to see a lot of new products and projects at the Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona. The smartphone is showing its age and the evolution of the latest high-end devices has not been demonstrated on the devices themselves, but on the accesories we can use with them. Virtual …
Last financial results from Apple show how the company is as exposed as the rest of the world to macroeconomic issues. The economic conditions have impacted on its numbers and have pointed out that its greater strenght is also a potential weakness. The number of iPhones sold has grown a mere 1 per cent, but next …
Great monopolies create great antagonists. Apple has become that kind of company: loved and hated equally, with products that usually cause everykind of feelings, but almost never indifference. 2015 was a weird year from Apple, with products that many of us have rendered as unoriginal, beta devices that according to some editors ‘kinda sucked‘. They probably did on …
South Korea’s LG Display Co Ltd and the panel-making unit of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will supply organic light emitting diode (OLED) screens for Apple Inc’s iPhones, the Electronic Times reported on Wednesday citing unnamed sources. According to Reuters, LG and Samsung will be responsible for the future production of OLED screens for those next …
Ming-Chi Kuo has been right in the past on his predictions several times, so when he tells us a new 4-inch iPhone is coming, we should believe him. The move is pretty smart for Apple, that will solve several problems at the same time: There will be a solid iPhone 5s refresh: according to his …
I remember Ken Shirriff’s article about the Apple iPhone charger teardown. On something so seemingly unimportant, Apple showed their capabilities. Design was important, but execution was critical. Something similar has happened with the Apple Pencil. We can laugh about Apple admitting finally that the stylus can be useful on certain scenarios. What we can’t do is …
On May’15 Mark Sullivan wrote his review of the Apple Watch, and he had something to say about the charging features of the device: You can’t sleep with the Watch because you have to charge it every night. If Apple didn’t mean for you to be able to leave your Watch on while you’re sleeping, …