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Apple Expected To Launch These Three Colourful iPhones This Autumn

6Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

Tech

Apple Expected To Launch These Three Colourful iPhones This Autumn

Apple, the leading player in the smartphone market, is gearing up to come up and introduce three iPhone lines this autumn. The company is expected to completely change its iPhone platform to OLED screens in the upcoming models. "Apple has decided to put OLED in all new iPhone models in 2019," a source said. "However, if there are more than three new models, an LCD model may be maintained." Out of the three iPhone models, one will be a 5.8-inch iPhone X with higher specifications and a lesser price. This particular model is said to take the $1000 price point from the iPhone X, and therefore, it will be less expensive priced around $700. The second iPhone will be a fresh model of 6.5-inch iPhone X Plus with an OLED screen. And the third one will we a 6.1-inch iPhone along with Face ...

Apple to Bring OLED Panel Feature in these Upcoming iPhones

30May By Gauri SinghNo Comments

Tech

Apple to Bring OLED Panel Feature in these Upcoming iPhones

The multinational technology company Apple is planning to switch to organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays, similar to that of iPhone X, in the upcoming iPhone models. According to the reports, Apple is expected to launch the three new iPhones in the second half of 2018, out of which two models will feature the OLED display. Apple from the very beginning has been using the LCD display in its models but now, it will make use of a superior quality OLED display. These displays are more power efficient and also, they provide powerful contrast, more vibrant colours and higher brightness. One of the models with come with 6.5-inch and 5.8-inch display-variants and the one is expected to feature a 6.1-inch OLED panel. It is being co...

Apple may Introduce Three New iPhones this Year

15Feb By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

Apple may Introduce Three New iPhones this Year

Apple's $999 iPhone X may soon be old! Smartphone giant maker Apple is now gearing up to introduce three new iPhones this year. It is also reported that one of them will be more premium than the other two. The news is predicted by KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo , who along with his team is well known for predicting details about Apple products launch. "We predict Apple will launch three new iPhone models in 2H18: 6.5-inch and 5.8- inch OLED models and a 6.1-inch TFT-LCD model, all equipped with a full-screen design and TrueDepth Camera (front 3D sensing), as with iPhone X," Kuo wrote in Monday's note. It is predicted that Apple is preparing two iPhones which will be targeting "high-end market", in the report. However, the third model will be for the lower-end market which may be pri...

Despite Fall in iPhone Sales, Apple Makes Biggest Ever Company Profit

2Feb By RishabhNo Comments

ANALYSIS

Despite Fall in iPhone Sales, Apple Makes Biggest Ever Company Profit

The quarterly profit results for the most crucial quarter of Apple are out, and those are outstanding! Breaking its own record which was set 2 years ago, Apple posted a revenue of $88.3 billion and net quarterly profit of $20.1 billion. The results come after the launch of its $999 surprise phone- iPhoneX which was launched in November, along with the expected iPhone 8. “iPhone X surpassed our expectations and has been our top selling iPhone every week since it shipped in November,” Cook said. iPhone X introduced a new feature called Face ID which was its stand out feature along with amazing selfie camera. As per the release, Apple sold over 77.3 million iPhone and over 13 million iPad. It generated a total of $88.29 million revenue, thanks to the higher prices of its new handsets...

Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak Sold All His Bitcoins

27Jan By RishabhNo Comments

News

Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak Sold All His Bitcoins

In his recent conference at the Nordic Business Forum in Stockholm, the Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak said that he has sold all his Bitcoins, that he once bought for $700. As per the price, he must have carried out the purchase either in June, or late October-early November of the year 2017. Although, he never revealed the quantity he purchased but he did say, "I remember getting interested in bitcoin some time ago. It was $70 for a bitcoin, man and I went online and you had to have a special bank account at a special bank and I couldn't buy any bitcoin so I gave up. Eventually I got some of them at the $700 stage and it went down to $350. I didn't invest, I did it so I could play with bitcoin," in an interview in June, 2017. He also said that he just wanted to experime...

Is Your iPhone X Secure Against ‘chaiOS’ Bug? Check Here

18Jan By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

Is Your iPhone X Secure Against ‘chaiOS’ Bug? Check Here

'ChaiOS' is the latest bug discovered software developer Abraham Masri, that can cause the messaging app of iPhone to crash, or worse. The bug could even freeze your iPhone or restart it. What triggers it? The alarming 'ChaiOS' bug exploits the fact that iPhone Messaging app preloads the links of web-pages coming through a message. This is where the bug does its job. Masri explained that he created a webpage hosted on Github and stuffed its metadata with a large number of unnecessary characters. Messages crashes as soon as it tries to load all of this irrelevant information(characters), and even sometimes crashes the entire system. ? Effective Power is back, baby! chaiOS bug: Text the link below, it will freeze the recipient's device, and possibly restart it. https://...

Steve Wozniak Slams iPhone X Face ID, Said He Was An Early Investor In Bitcoins

8Dec By RishabhNo Comments

Entrepreneurs Talk

Steve Wozniak Slams iPhone X Face ID, Said He Was An Early Investor In Bitcoins

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]pple co-founder Steve Wozniak (aka "Woz") shared his insights about his experience with iPhone X. Talking about Apple's flagship smartphone which was launched on its 10th anniversary, is something Woz said,"..its not what I would want." He also highlighted the point that digital giants like Google and Facebook are raking in massive profits, at the expense of consumers. Wozniak was one of the speakers at the one day conference at Pivot Summit in Geelong, focused on providing insight about emerging tech. Pivot Summit is held annually aiming to bring Australian and international thought leaders to share their views on future of digital. Speaking at the summit, Steve Wozniak shared some of his college memories where he used to type term papers throughout the ni...

These 5 Companies Dominate China’s Smartphone Market, Samsung Is Not Among Them!

7Dec By RishabhNo Comments

CHINA, Tech

These 5 Companies Dominate China’s Smartphone Market, Samsung Is Not Among Them!

Chinese market is the most popular smartphone maker and market in the world. China is now the world’s largest smartphone market and continues surging forward as its economy and people ramp up their consumption of things to match their already vast production. Kantar Worldpanel shows that now China's top five phone vendors own the market accounting for 91 percent of the overall market. The top five brands are; Huawei Xiaomi Apple Vivo Oppo That’s up from 79 percent a year earlier, extending a lead that now sees companies like ZTE, Meizu, and Lenovo struggling to find a foothold in their home country. Global smartphone leader Samsung is now at a 2.2 percent share in China and deteriorating, according to Kantar’s Dominic Sunnebo. Each of these companies have selected...

Apple Firmly On Course For $1 Trillion Valuation: Analysts

4Nov By reutersNo Comments

ANALYSIS

Apple Firmly On Course For $1 Trillion Valuation: Analysts

Apple Inc’s shares rose to a record high on Friday as more analysts set a trillion-dollar valuation on the company, following a blowout fourth quarter and an upbeat forecast that quashed investor concerns around the iPhone X. The stock rose as much as 3.7 percent to $174.26, briefly breaching $900 billion in market value, amid declines in the broader market. The gains added nearly $32 billion to the company’s market capitalization. The Cupertino, California-based company also forecast a strong holiday quarter ahead, which will include the iPhone X that started selling on Nov. 3. “We see iPhone X unlocking pent-up iPhone upgrades, especially in China, driving more than 20 percent iPhone unit growth and a revenue and earnings beat in 2018,” analyst Katy Huberty on Morgan Stanley said....

Qualcomm Sues Apple For Breach of Software License Contract

3Nov By reutersNo Comments

News

Qualcomm Sues Apple For Breach of Software License Contract

Qualcomm Inc has sued Apple Inc, alleging that it violated a software license contract to benefit rival chipmaker Intel Corp for making broadband modems, the latest salvo in the longstanding dispute between Qualcomm and Apple. Qualcomm said in a lawsuit filed in California state court in San Diego on Wednesday that Apple used its commercial leverage to demand unprecedented access to the chipmaker’s highly confidential software, including source code. Apple declined to comment on the suit. The company started using Intel’s broadband modem chips in the iPhone 7. In its complaint, Qualcomm alleged that Apple was required under its contract to ensure that Apple engineers working with Qualcomm did not communicate details about Qualcomm chips to Apple engineers working on competing chip...

App Developer Access To iPhone X Face Data Spooks Some Privacy Experts

2Nov By reutersNo Comments

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App Developer Access To iPhone X Face Data Spooks Some Privacy Experts

Apple Inc won accolades from privacy experts in September for assuring that facial data used to unlock its new iPhone X would be securely stored on the phone itself. But Apple’s privacy promises do not extend to the thousands of app developers who will gain access to facial data in order to build entertainment features for iPhone X customers, such as pinning a three-dimensional mask to their face for a selfie or letting a video game character mirror the player’s real-world facial expressions. Apple allows developers to take certain facial data off the phone as long as they agree to seek customer permission and not sell the data to third parties, among other terms in a contract seen by Reuters. App makers who want to use the new camera on the iPhone X can capture a rough map of a u...

Apple Could Drop Qualcomm Components In Next Year’s iPhones, iPads: Sources

31Oct By reutersNo Comments

Tech

Apple Could Drop Qualcomm Components In Next Year’s iPhones, iPads: Sources

Apple Inc has designed iPhones and iPads that would drop chips supplied by Qualcomm Inc, according to two people familiar with the matter. The change would affect iPhones released in the fall of 2018, but Apple could still change course before then, these people said. They declined to be identified because they were not authorized to discuss the matter with the media. The dispute stems from a change in supply arrangements under which Qualcomm has stopped providing some software for Apple to test its chips in its iPhone designs, one of the people told Reuters. The two companies are locked in a multinational legal dispute over the Qualcomm’s licensing terms to Apple. “We are committed to supporting Apple’s new devices consistent with our support of all others in the industry,” Qual...