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iFixit announces DIY MacBook Pro Retina Battery Fix Kits

This will come in handy. The cool cats at iFixit have come up with a fix to the issue pertaining to Retina display MacBook Pros that have plagued the notebook since their release in 2012: Inordinate amounts of glue holding the battery in place that make it next to impossible to replace. As such, iFixit […]

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battery Hardware iPhone Rumor

Rumor: Next-gen iPhones to feature wireless charging as an option, will continue to include standard 5 watt USB-A power adapter

It looks like there’s some interesting news where the 2017 iPhones and their charging features are concerned. A current rumor has suggested that the iPhone 8 and its companion devices, the “iPhone 7s” and the “iPhone 7s Plus” will all adopt glass bodies with metal frames to facilitate WPC-standard wireless charging functionality. WPC-standard refers to […]

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Rumor: Next-gen iPhone could replace Touch ID with facial recognition

It’s a rumor, but it’s a pretty interesting rumor. Bloomberg has reported that Apple is currently testing using 3D facial detection as a replacement for Touch ID fingerprint authentication. The report also states that the next-gen iPhone could include the ProMotion increased refresh rate displays seen in the new iPad Pros as well as a […]

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Hardware iPad News Processors

2017 iPad Pro marks the first Apple device to use a chip built on TSMC 10 nanometer manufacturing process

This is pretty neat. The pros have gotten their hands on Apple’s A10X Fusion processor that shipped with the new iPad Pro and have confirmed that this is the first chip in a device using TMSC’s FinFET 10nm chip fabrication process. The breakdown, published by Tech Insights, discovered a 96.4 square millimeter die size as […]

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battery Hardware iPhone Rumor

Next-gen iPhone rumored to include faster 10W charging adapter, circuitry

This could be nifty. On Wednesday, Barclays analyst Blayne Curtis stated in a research note said the so-called “iPhone 8” will come bundled with a 10W power adapter with a USB-C connector and an integrated USB-C Power Delivery chip. The Power Delivery chip, which is rumored to be incorporated into both the next-gen iPhone as […]