If you’re eager for iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, you don’t have that much longer to wait. Per Apple’s “Wonderlust” media event, the next-gen mobile operating systems will be available on Sunday, September 18th, and offer new features such as Live Voicemail, StandBy mode, and a new Journal app. Other new features include new ways […]
The iPhone X may be having trouble answering phone calls. A recent report states that a growing number of users are unable to answer phone calls with their iPhone X because the display does not wake up while the phone is ringing, thus meaning they can’t access the accept and decline buttons. Since December, the […]
Look at it this way: sonar’s been around for a while. And it’s always been nifty. Per the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an Apple patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday describes a system that may one day replace the infrared proximity sensors deployed in current iPhones with […]
It’s the patents that provide the really interesting hints as to what’s to come in a product line. According to Patently Apple, a new patent suggests that the company will be introducing a near-field communication (NFC) chip into its next-generation iPhone, which will enable users to quickly send iTunes gifts to one another. The story […]
If you’re going to get excited about something today, it might as well be a purported proximity sensor. The SW-Box.com web site claims to have obtained a genuine iPhone 5 proximity light sensor flex cable in advance of the device’s launch, which is expected this fall. The site boasts that its offices are “just a […]