Over at its “Wonderlust” media event on Monday, Apple opened the show by announcing its new smartwatches, the first being the Apple Watch Series 8, which offers the first speed bump since 2020’s Series 6, on-device Siri processing, and more. While the Apple Watch Series 9 units brought no visible hardware redesign to the main […]
Apple is apparently looking into the smart ring market, which is another field the company needs to conquer. A newly-granted Apple patent posits the idea of a smart ring that would give Apple Watch-style haptic notifications, and let the wearer press on the surface to respond. The patent, entitled, “Ring Input Device With Pressure-Sensitive Input,” […]
In a letter to the company’s shareholders, Apple supplier Cirrus Logic has ostensibly confirmed that the iPhone 15 will not feature the much-rumored solid-state buttons. Since October, Apple analysts have suggested that the mute switch, volume, and power buttons would be replaced by solid-state components in iPhone 15 Pro models. The change, though controversial, would […]
The rumor mill has recently swirled with the expectation that Apple’s upcoming iPhone 15 Pro will have solid-state volume buttons with haptic feedback, similar to the Home Button introduced with iPhone 7. Now, it sounds like iPhone 15 Pro may not have the solid-state buttons after all due to manufacturing challenges. Apple has reportedly scrapped […]
Apple’s Dynamic Island feature may be entirely standard, no matter which iPhone 15 model you buy this year. According to 9to5Mac and a series of leaked three-dimensional CAD files that supposedly show what the iPhone 15 will look like, the Dynamic Island feature could be present on all versions of the iPhone 15, even though […]