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Apple offers $149 repair price for owners of “Touch Disease” iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus units

Well, this will drive you relatively crazy. Apple has responded to the “touch disease” issue present in some iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus units and has offered a reduced repair price of $149 to resolve the issue. The problem, described in August as “touch disease” by repair guide website iFixit, is characterized by a […]

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Rumor: Apple could see OLED supply constraint prior to inclusion in next-gen iPhone

One popular rumor for the next-gen iPhone is the adoption of OLED screen panels for the handset, especially given that both the Apple Watch and the Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pro now use OLED components. Unfortunately, supply constraints may keep OLED panels further down the road. A new report says that the four main suppliers for […]

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iFixit completes first Touch Bar-equipped 13-inch MacBook Pro teardown, finds interesting new changes in hardware

The cool cats at iFixit have finished their teardown of the new 13-inch Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pro and discovered some neat differences when compared with the MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar. First, both 13-inch models have the exact same dimensions, but the Touch Bar machine weighs 20 grams less, which iFixit puts down to […]

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Some iPhone 6, iPhone 6s units experiencing random shutdowns in Chinese marketplace

A number of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s units have been strangely – and automatically – shutting off over in China. Recently, iPhone customers in the country have been complaining about the problem to the China Consumers Association, the group said in a statement on Tuesday. The shutdowns occur when the phone’s battery charge drops […]

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Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pros sport new AMD GPUs, can drive dual 5K displays

Apple apparently dropped a killer GPU into the 2016 Touch Bar-equipped 15-inch MacBook Pro and it shows. The company, which switched from Intel’s integrated Iris Pro graphics in favor of dedicated AMD graphics, has opted for AMD’s Polaris-based Radeon Pro 450, Radeon Pro 455, and build-to-order Radeon Pro 460 GPUs in the new 15-inch notebooks. […]