If you were ever wondering why the iPhone lacked a much-anticipated sapphire coating, the answer comes down to reflectance. Per Raymond Soneira, DisplayMate has published tests results concerning sapphire’s reflectance on assorted devices, the numbers standing for themselves. According to the tests, the new iPad Air returned a result of 2.5 percent screen reflectance, the […]
Month: October 2014
Apple may have gotten a pretty quick leg up in the NFC market. Per AppleInsider and the Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a recent interview today, stated that Apple Pay received more than one million registrations within the first 72 hours. “The early ramp [of Apple Pay] looks fantastic,” Cook said in […]
I purchased a Samsung 4K television (a UN65F9000) for our family room and was super-excited to buy a late-2014 Mac mini (Macmini7,1, model A1347) to complete our entertainment center. The problem is that the Mac mini’s anemic GPU can’t drive a 4K display at a fast enough refresh rate to play smooth video, which is a bummer. I’ve used a Mac mini connected to a […]
The tests have been run, the results have come in and the answer may be a bit of a downer for iPad 3 mini owners. Over on displaymate.com, Raymond Soneira has just pitted Apple’s recently released iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 displays against each other in almost every category imaginable. The tests and […]
Call it a trade blockade of sorts, but you might not be able to use Apple Pay to purchase items at CVS or Rite Aid for a while. Per the New York Times and 9to5Mac, Rite Aid has joined CVS in disabling Apple Pay as a payment method in its stores. Like CVS, Rite Aid […]