News & Reviews: Apple
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Jan 30, 2020
OPPO’s Vice President officially unveiled the first renders of their upcoming smartwatch, which could be unveiled at any moment this year. Based on the renders, the aforementioned smartwatch shows quite a bit of resemblance to the Apple Watch other than the main difference being the two buttons on the right side and a lack of a crown.
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Jan 29, 2020
If you recall, we reported in December 2019 about the Apple iPhone 11 having a weird location tracking issue. The ultra-wideband technology was later identified as the culprit and Apple promised to release a fix for it. Well, that iOS update is out now and is available through the iPhone's settings menu.
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Jan 29, 2020
Apple has closed one retail store in mainland China and reduced operating hours for other retail locations yesterday due to the coronavirus outbreak. Besides, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook also mentioned that the company also began to limit employees traveling to China last week.
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Jan 28, 2020
Looking at the patent image, you are probably wondering why. But Apple may just be thinking of creating a new all-in-one (AIO) iMac, which has its display and keyboard built into a sheet of glass. As you can see, it curved off at some point to allow for space to accommodate a keyboard at the bottom part of the glass sheet. This may be the beginning of an ambitious new design from Apple.
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Jan 23, 2020
The official Twitter of the immensely popular series called The Witcher has recently posted a tweet, stating that the song “Toss A Coin To Your Witcher” is officially available on Spotify and Apple Music. For some odd reason, Spotify only has the aforementioned song listed while Apple Music seems to have to the entire album.
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Jan 18, 2020
How well do you actually know about your smartphone’s location settings? While you thought you have turned off the location access of some apps, they might still be secretly tracking you without your acknowledgement. Earlier, a security researcher discovered the Apple iPhone 11 Pro constantly checks for location even the 'Location Services' has been disabled. To fix that, Apple is testing a new toggle for its 'Location Services' setting and it’s called 'Networking & Wireless'.
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Jan 15, 2020
From all the YouTube ads promoting how secure are Apple’s devices (nope, not skippable), we might already get the idea that the company values privacy very much. However, what we don’t know is the tech giant actually does not have the ability to access data that is being encrypted on an iPhone. From there, they have dissapointed the President of the United States, Donald Trump, as Apple refused to decrypt the data from criminals’ iPhones to assist the government.
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Jan 14, 2020
AirDrop is undeniably one of the strongest features from Apple's ecosystem. When it comes to file sharing, the feature works seamlessly without all the hassles that we encounter on Android smartphones. For that, Google has launched the Android Beam earlier to provide local sharing functionality, but then it has been renamed as Fast Share on Android 10. Now, a source is telling us that the feature is getting its name changed again, this time it will be called Nearby Sharing.
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Jan 14, 2020
Can you imagine the time we used to have 30 types of charging ports back in 2019? If they haven’t been reduced to only three types now which are USB Type-C, micro-USB, and Apple’s lightning port, our living room would be filled with God knows how many cables. For years, the European Commission has been pushing for a single charging method for mobile devices, even for Apple’s devices as well. Now, the commission is planning to propose a new law to unify the charging method in the countries.
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Jan 13, 2020
There are some people who may have felt that smartphones in 2019 lacked innovation but it's not as if there isn't any at all. The Ultra Wideband technology from Apple for its iPhone 11 is arguably one of the more useful ones, and now there's a possibility it might be included in some Android devices this year.
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