The Apple and Qualcomm legal battle took a new turn, this time with Apple taking the loss. After Qualcomm won a court ruling in Germany, Apple has been forced to pull two iPhone models from its stores. Apple has stopped selling the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 from its website and in stores in Germany. The move comes after Qualcomm won a similar ruling in China, but Apple never stopped...
Back in May, MacRumors acquired internal documents from Apple outlining a defect affecting microphones on the iPhone 7 running iOS 11.3 or later. As part of the document, Apple laid out steps to troubleshoot the problem. If the issues persisted, it suggested offering customers a free microphone replacement. However, by the end of July, Apple deleted the internal document and ended the...
Entering the hot stretch of summer means we’re just a couple of months out from the release of Apple’s next iPhones. It goes without saying that if you want Apple’s newest iPhones, you should probably just wait and see what Apple has in store this September. But we also know that people don’t always care about the latest and greatest and sometimes just want an iPhone that works great...
The iPhone X remained the most popular smartphone for a second consecutive quarter. Research firm Strategy Analytics released estimates of smartphones shipped during the second quarter of 2018, and unsurprisingly, Apple’s latest flagship took the top spot. According to the data, Apple shipped an estimated 16 million iPhone X units during the first three months of 2018. That’s the...
Apple has begun selling refurbished iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus models through its online store. The iPhones will come with a sweet 10-percent discount and all the customary Apple warranty perks. Here’s how pricing for the iPhone 7 breaks down: $499 for the 32GB, $589 for the 128GB and $769 for the 256GB. The refurbished iPhone 7 Plus will only be available with two storage options (the...
If you look over the last 30 days of Google searches, there is something super odd going on in the world with which iPhone people are most interested in. According to Google search reports for the past 30 days, the most searched for version of the iPhone right now isn’t the iPhone X, but instead is the iPhone 7. Now a little over a year old, the recent price cut to last year’s...
Apple has been taking baby steps in upgrading the iPhone since 2014. Tweaked antenna lines, new home button, but overall, the iPhone has stayed relatively the same. That’s the lens you need to examine the iPhone 8 with. It’s an incremental upgrade over the iPhone 7, nothing more. But even so, there are people who will buy the iPhone 8 and there are major differences they need to know...
There was a lot of Apple news yesterday. So much so, some minor changes Apple made have been lost amid the shuffle. Chief among those changes is the discontinued PRODUCT (RED) iPhone 7 and 7 Plus that were announced less than seven months ago. Apple has always had a working relationship with (RED) charity, offering cases and other products in available red options. The PRODUCT (RED)...
A lot needs to happen for HTC to stick around. You haven’t bought one of its phones in years. And, frankly, you probably haven’t even considered one. Despite being one of the most popular Android partners for a significant period, the company no longer holds a clear identity. Consumers overlook it every time they’re shopping regardless of what HTC’s latest flagship looks like or how...
A China-based software engineer managed to give the iPhone 7 one of the most important features that’s missing. It might be possible for you, too, to give your phone the headphone jack it always deserved. Plenty have tried, but few have succeeded in creating a working headphone jack on the iPhone 7. Most of the videos you’ve seen online show people drilling holes into their phones and...