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Early drop tests indicate iPhone 15 Pro’s rounded titanium band may be less durable than the iPhone 14 Pro’s design

The new iPhones have begun to emerge, as have efforts to damage and/or destroy them to see just how durable the new hardware is. Flying to Australia, AppleTrack’s Sam Kohl submitted the first iPhone 15 drop tests via YouTube. Based on the video, it appears that Apple’s nifty new rounded titanium edges are not better […]

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iFixit posts teardown of 10th-generation iPad, notes space constraints that prevent use of second-generation Apple Pencil, other changes

The cool cats at iFixit shared a video teardown of Apple’s 10th-generation iPad, which offered a closer look at its components and an explanation as to why the tablet lacks support for the second-geernation Apple Pencil. The teardown reveals the internal layout of the iPad, including its two-cell 7,606 mAh battery, logic board with the […]

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Leaked icon hints at updated iPad Pro with no Home button, rounded corners, set for announcement at Apple’s media event in Brooklyn on October 30th

Sometimes it’s the small chunks of a beta that reveal what’s to come in the Apple universe. In the case of the fifth beta of iOS 12, a discovered icon showed an iPad with no Home button, rounded corners and no notch, but it was a small icon designed to be used in the battery […]

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Rumor: Apple to debut thinner next-gen iPad, iPad mini with Retina display in 2013

The upcoming iPad could be thinner for the full iPad and feature a Retina display for the mini version. Per Bloomberg, Apple will launch a Retina iPad mini and a slimmed down full-size iPad by the end of 2013. The publication cites sources familiar with Apple’s plans as saying the company will not only debut […]

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Leaked video shows translucent bezel, other changes for fifth-generation iPad

It’s hard to say how legit it is, but the video looks damn cool. Per Mac Otakara and nowhereelse.fr, the following video has surfaced of the fifth-generation iPad bezel: As seen above, the 30-second video appears to show a partially assembled 9.7-inch iPad with design cues taken from the existing iPad mini, including rounded corners, […]