News & Reviews:   Apple

Whether you like it or not, it seems inevitable that Apple is going to remove the 3.5mm headphone jack even though it's just a rumour and a popular one. If this really happens, Apple's decision will change the headphone market. In fact, some companies have already designed their own Lightning-connected headphones in anticipation, it could cost a lot too since Lightning adapters aren't common.

With iOS 10 coming soon, Macrumors.com has released a video about the new upgrade and features in the Photos app. As you may know, Siri intelligence is part of the update and it has learned some techniques on advanced facial and object recognition algorithms.

During the WWDC 2016, Apple has unveiled the next successor to its current Mac operating system the OS X 10.11 El Capitan - the macOS Sierra. Sierra promises new window tab support across multiple apps, copy and paste between devices, Siri integration, and more. It's also noted that macOS is a new naming structure so that it's consistent with the rest of the software platforms like iOS, watchOS and tvOS. Anyway, here's what we found out about Sierra.

So WWDC 2016 has kicked off, and oh boy, Apple has a lot of announcements today especially with iOS 10. In this article, we have gathered the top 10 major iOS updates and features in no particular order, read below to find out more!

In just a few more hours, Apple WWDC 2016 will soon go live and iOS 10 is expected to be showcased. There is little information about the new upgrade, but there are several rumours surrounding it and here is what we can find.

With the global economy doom and gloom that is permeating the world right now, one would expect the consumer electronics market will suffer. No, not really. Smartphone sales are actually up by 3.9% when compared to the same time last year, according to Gartner.  

The recent Japan earthquake may impact smartphone manufacturers as Sony's imaging sensor production facility was involved in the earthquake.

If you remember one post we did back last year, there was a rumour going around about Apple ditching the 3.5mm headphone jack for a lightning port setup. Since there was no pictures as evidence, it was easy to put it off as pure rumours, until this leaked image came along from Weibo. 

Apple really makes all kinds of patents, but some just seem to fit with what they're doing at the time like this patent describing a design for flexible batteries. The patent itself was filed in December 2011 but it covers the design of a flexible battery pack which allows the battery to be shaped to fit a form factor of an electronic device. Apart from being perfectly suited for Apple's upcoming iWatch, the isolated cell design allows it to be more reliable in that in case one of the cells fail the other cells will not fail together. While it seems to fit with the iWatch, this flexible battery design could just as well be used in any of Apple's other devices.