By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) Amazon’s month-end AirPods deals deliver the lowest prices on the earbuds, with discounts of up to 46% off.Grab AirPods at the all-time low price.If you’re looking to pick up a new pair of AirPods or are just jumping into the AirPods scene, Amazon has some of the best prices on nearly every model.Pick up the entry AirPods 2nd Generation with a Lightning Charging Case for just $69.99 — a discount of 46% off retail. Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (David Schloss) Passwords, Touch ID, and Face ID could all be a thing of the past, as Apple is working on a future where unlocking your devices is as easy as just holding a future iPhone or letting your Apple Watch sense your unique heart rhythm.While Apple’s patent shows a future iPhone for ECG measuring, the Apple Watch already measures ECG.Everyone’s heart has a unique rhythm, which the Apple Watch monitors through the ECG app. In a recently granted patent, Apple describes a technique for identifying users based on their unique cardiovascular measurements.With this technology, you can unlock all your devices if you keep wearing your Apple Watch. Verifying your heart patterns instead of a password or a fingerprint scan increases security and speeds up your identification. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) The FaceTime camera on a MacBook Pro is famously not as good as one on an iPhone, but new research shows Apple is working on it — and may have decided that the answer involves mounting larger cameras on a rotating display.The notch could be replaced by a protruding camera — but one which could also be repositionedMaybe you don’t give the camera notch on the MacBook Pro a second thought. But even if you loathe it, and believe it’s taking up screen real estate, the one thing you can’t say is that it is thick.It’s quite wide, wide enough that you wonder why it doesn’t include Face ID yet. But it doesn’t add to the thickness of the MacBook Pro lid, and maybe it’s this thickness that limits how good a camera system Apple can fit in there. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely) Synchron, known for its brain-computer interface technology, has set its sights on the Apple Vision Pro after previously testing out similar technology with the iPad and iPhone.A stentrode brain implant | Credit: SynchronSynchron has successfully implanted a brain-computer interface (BCI) into the brain of Mark, a 64-year-old man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). With this BCI, Mark is able to control an Apple Vision Pro — something he couldn’t do before due to the loss of function in his arms and hands.Mark uses the BCI to move a cursor around a screen while he plays solitaire, to pick videos to watch in a theater-like experience, and to send text messages. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Wuerthele) Wi-Fi 7 routers are very expensive right now, but if a rumor pans out that the iPhone 16 Pro will have the fast wireless networking technology, they may not stay that way for long.Renders of the iPhone 16 Pro. It hasn’t been that long since Apple implemented Wi-Fi 6e. Apple first included that technology in the iPhone in September 2024, in the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max.If a supply chain report on Tuesday by DigiTimes is accurate, the iPhone 16 Pro line may get an upgrade. In a discussion more about manufacturer Wi-Fi 7 adoption, the publication says that the iPhone 16 Pro is “widely expected” to get the newer standard, first introduced in 2023, and finalized in 2024. Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Code within Apple’s last macOS Sequoia beta has revealed identifiers for a bunch of new Apple hardware, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the company is working on a lot of new iPhones, iPads, and Macs.Apple’s lineup includes Macs, iPhones, and moreEach model of the forthcoming iPhone 16 range is known within Apple by its code or Stock Keeping Unit (SKU).Newly-discovered code with the latest macOS developer beta lists future ones such as “iPhone17,1” and “iPhone18,1,” referring to an 2024 iPhone 16 and 2025 iPhone 17.Apple just casually leaking the iPhone 16 and 17 models in macOS 15.1 https://t.co/s6x8z4wOCe pic.twitter.com/xqapCabv0a— Aaron (@aaronp613) July 30, 2024 Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple is tapping LG Display to be a secondary producer of OLED screens for the iPhone SE 4, giving it a backup to the often troubled BOE.iPhone SE 4 could look like the iPhone 14The iPhone SE 4 is rumored to be using an edge-to-edge OLED display, with a switch from Touch ID to Face ID also on the cards. While it was thought that BOE was the favorite to produce screens for the model, it may not be the only manufacturer.According to a Tuesday report from The Elec, BOE will be the primary vendor for the iPhone SE 4’s display, but LG Display will be a secondary vendor. As primary vendor, BOE will continue to be the main supplier and have the larger share of orders. Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) Apple will be releasing its earnings for the third quarter of 2024 on Thursday, August 1. Here’s what predicted for Apple’s quarter, and how it is expected to compare against previous reporting periods.Apple CEO Tim Cook at Apple ParkApple will be releasing its quarterly financial results on August 1. As usual, it will be followed shortly after by the conference call with investors and analysts, held at 5:00 PM eastern time, with CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri answering queries.AppleInsider will be listening to the conference call and reporting the financial results in full. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (David Schloss) Amazon and Best Buy are engaged in a price war on Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro outfitted with the M3 Pro or M3 Max processor.Take advantage of this price war to get the 16-inch MacBoook Pro at $500 offThe two retailers are duking it out over the MacBook Pro 16-inch M3 Pro in Space Black. This MacBook Pro has a 12-core CPU, 18-core GPU, 18GB of memory, and a 512GB SSD.Buy for $1,999 Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (Mike Wuerthele) The promised clamshell mode upgrade that allows the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 processor to use two external displays has arrived in Monday’s macOS Sonoma 14.6 update.MacBook Pro 14-inch M3: A great displayThe 13-inch MacBook Air with M3 processor was the first basic M3 processor model to support dual displays in clamshell mode. And now, with Monday’s macOS update, the feature has been retrofitted to the older 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3.While Apple promised in November 2023 that the feature would expand to the MacBook Pro with M3, it took them almost nine months to deliver the feature. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
