New iPhones incoming! Hooray. During the Apple Special Event 2018, Cupertino company has officially announced coming of two new iPhone smartphones, Xs and Xs Max. Both devices were modestly called the ”best iPhones ever”. The announcement has put many of the rumours and gossips surrounding these two devices to rest. Their specs are supposed to include a 5.8′ display, 1125 x 2436 p (impressive 6.5′ and 1242 x 2688 p in Xs Max), 512GB flash memory, A12 Bionic chipset made specifically for high-quality AR gaming and something called ”the most advanced FaceID ...

South Korean government reportedly considers banning the sales of iPhone 8 and X in the country. The reason for such drastic measure is a patent infringement claim by a company called KAIST; KAIST has reportedly patented a processor technology that Apple then proceeded to illegally use in its A-series processors. Smartphones targeted by the possible patent infringement include iPhone 8, iPhone 8+, iPhone X, iPad 9.7, and 9.7-, 10.5- and 12.9-inch iPad Pro.KAIST has also filed a similiar patent infringement case against Samsung. ...

A few meaningful pictures have leaked online. First there was the one above, put on Facebook by the Chinese operator China Mobile; then there was this graphic, put online by ITHome and credited to another Chinese operator China Telecom. The poster says, roughly, ”New iPhone on the market, dual cards, full network cover. Do not be late”. Wise people on the Internet believe, that these two teasers confirm the long-living rumours of iPhone finally getting a dual SIM variant. The downside is that there is no word on such variants being available outside our communist friend from the ...

Popular YouTuber Marques Brownlee has recently uploaded a video where he shows off dummy models of the upcoming iPhone X smartphone. The video is available here. It depicts all three of the rumoured iPhone X variants: normal, Lite and Plus. Among the details that Brownlee talks about are the fact how the rumoured lack of 3D Touch on iPhone X Lite turns out to be untrue. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Both of these devices have their premiere on September 12th, and yet we still do not know their prices. Until now. According to an unnamed German website, iPhone 2018 is supposed to cost 799 euro or 699 dollars, while the iPhone Xs (Max) will cost 1149 euro. This info is in no way official, so these prices may turn out to be completely different. If they were not, though, how would you feel about them? Too hefty or just right? Tweet Vote on HN ...

If you ever wanted to record a conversation you had on Skype, now you can, as Skype is adding this feature to its macOS and iOS apps (but not to Windows 10. Hmm). Feature will notify the other party of the fact that the call is recorded. Both audio and video will be saved. Recorded calls will be saved in a cloud. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Apple has just sent out invitations for its next event. It will take place on September 12th, and the American giant wants to present a number of its new and upcoming devices during it. According to 9toMac, among these devices will be three new iPhones, iPhoneXS: the blog has provided a render picture of two of these smartphones. Both are supposed to have displays similiar in size to iPhone X’s, facial recognition and a price of roughly $1000. The third one is reportedly a ”budget” device, since it will cost only around $700.Among other products that Apple wants to show ...

The feature, which was already available for iOS 12 and MacOS Mojave betas, has now been removed, with its another release supposedly taking place soon. The reason? Apple did not tell. Possibly there was a hidden issue with the program. Group FaceTime calls will be released once again later this autumn. In case you do not know what am I talking about, Apple’s Group FaceTime calls is a feature that allows – or will allow – up to thirty two people to simultaneously communicate either via FaceTime audio or video. Long story short, it is a group call with video ...

According to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Tim Cook’s company now owns 4 829 926 000 shares. Each one of them is worth 207.5 dollars. When put together, these numbers give us the company’s value of over one billion dollars.Wow. Steve Jobs would be proud, as his company is the first one in the world to have reached this value. It was not sure if Apple would win this unofficial race – Google, Microsoft and Amazon were on its heels. It is interesting to see that the first company in the world to have reached value of one billion USD is not even a company that ...

Before 11.4.1, typing the word ”Taiwan” again into any application would often cause the phone to freeze. Such situation was the result of bad relationship between China and Taiwan mixed with crappy programming. Long story short, China does not officially recognize Taiwan as a country. Due to this, Chinese iPhones do not even have that country’s name in their dictionaries. This change has been accidentally implemented into iPhones outside of China, which caused the crashes. Patch 11.4.1 fixed this ...