Tag: Iphone

San Francisco: A lawsuit filed in a US court has accused Apple of making false claims about the screen sizes and pixel counts of the displays in its iPhone X series, CNET reported. The suit filed on Friday in the District Court of Northern California alleges that the Cupertino, California-headquartered tech giant lied about the […]

Beijing: Apple has appealed against a Chinese court ruling that banned the sale and import of most iPhone models after granting Qualcomm an injunction against Apple, a stunning decision that comes amid the trade war between the US and China, CNBC reported. Apple accused Qualcomm of playing dirty tricks, including asserting a patent that had […]

San Francisco: The first 5G iPhone is likely to use an Intel modem, the 8161, and it could hit the stores in 2020, according to a report in the Fast Company. If everything goes as planned, Intel will be the sole provider of iPhone modems, said the report. For prototyping and testing the 5G iPhone, […]

San Francisco: Google is reportedly paying Apple a whopping $9 billion in 2018 to remain the default search engine for iPhone’s Safari browser on iOS, the media reported. According to Goldman Sachs analyst Rod Hall (via Business Insider), this number would only continue to grow, potentially leading to a payment of $12 billion in 2019, […]

New Delhi: Chinese tech conglomerate Huawei surpassed Apple to become the second largest smartphone brand worldwide in the second quarter of 2018 as South Korean giant Samsung continued to be the global leader, two reports said on Wednesday. Samsung had 20 per cent share, followed by Huawei at 15 per cent market share and Apple […]

New Delhi: Apple’s special edition iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus in red colour will be available for purchase in India from Friday. The special edition (PRODUCT) RED iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus will be available in 64GB and 256GB variants, starting at Rs 67,940, through Apple authorized resellers. iPhone 8 (64GB) will cost […]

San Francisco: Apple will shut down its last of the three Apple Watch-exclusive stores — located in Tokyo — it built when it launched the wearable in 2015. On May 13, the last Apple Watch-exclusive store will close its doors. Twitter user Shotaro Akiba has shared a photo on the microblogging platform showing the department […]

San Francisco: In bad news for display market leaders like Samsung and LG, Apple is reportedly designing and producing its own device screens, secretly at a facility near its headquarters in California, according to a media report. The Bloomberg report report on Monday said Apple was making “a significant investment” in the development of MicroLED […]

San Francisco: Giving credence to the belief that Apple smartphones can be cracked, a US-based company has claimed that its online tools, available at a starting price of $15,000, can break into any iPhone including the newly-launched iPhone X. According to a report in Forbes, Grayshift is marketing a tool “GrayKey” to police and forensics […]

San Francisco: Apple has confirmed that it was aware of a source code leak that could have compromised the iPhone’s security system and has asked web-based hosting service GitHub to remove the code. An Apple employee told technology website Motherboard that the company knew of the leak before it was posted on GitHub but the […]

San Francisco: Buoyed by iPhone sales in the holiday season, Apple posted a record revenue of $88.3 billion — a 13 per cent increase from a year-ago — for the first quarter of fiscal 2018 that ended on December 30. According to the company, it now has 1.3 billion active installed base of devices globally. […]

San Francisco: As part of its $1 billion Advanced Manufacturing Fund to support innovation and job creation by American manufacturers, Apple has invested $390 million in optical communication component manufacturer Finisar whose technology has made the iPhone’s Face ID feature viable. The fund was awarded to increase the production of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), which […]

San Francisco: Following recent reports that Apple was working with LG on a future foldable iPhone, the company has filed a patent application for a unnamed foldable device which can be “opened and closed like a book”. “An electronic device may have a flexible portion that allows the device to be folded. The device may […]

San Francisco: After the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai asked Apple to activate an FM radio in its iPhones for emergencies, Apple on Friday replied that its iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 devices do not have FM chips. “Apple is the one major phone manufacturer that has resisted (activating the chips). But […]

San Francisco: As Apple gets ready to ship iPhone 8 and 8 Plus before it opens iPhone X for pre-orders, a top analyst with Taiwanese business group KGI Securities has warned that iPhone X will cannibalise iPhone 8 orders. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, the most famous analyst with KGI Securities when it comes to Apple, it […]