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It's that time of the year again - Apple's fall iPhone event, where the Cupertino company to unveil its newest generation family of iPhones. This year's theme is "Wonderlust," and will be the backdrop for the launch of iOS 17 as well as what should be the iPhone 15 series. This year is widely expected to see Apple switch from their proprietary Lightning connector to the newer USB-C connector, in large part to comply with EU phone charger regulations. Besides the compatibility benefits that entails, the Lightning connector itself is coming up on 11 years old – fulfilling Apple's promise for 10 years of support and then-some. And while Lightning is the progenitor to the modern reversible connector, its lower overall pin count is limiting...
Qualcomm Completes Acquisition of NUVIA: Immediate focus on Laptops (Updated)
Today Qualcomm is announcing that the company has completed the acquisition of NUVIA, a start-up company consisting of industry veterans who were behind the creation of Apple’s high-performance CPU...
25 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/16/2021
Qualcomm to Acquire NUVIA: A CPU Magnitude Shift
Today Qualcomm has announced they will be acquiring NUVIA for $1.4bn – acquiring the start-up company consisting of industry veterans which originally were behind the creation of Apple’s high-performance...
78 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/13/2021
AnandTech Year In Review 2020: Flagship Mobile
We’re a few days away from completing the 2020 calendar year, and it’s been a quite a hectic year for everybody. In times of troubles, the smartphone industry had...
57 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/28/2020
The iPhone 12 & 12 Pro Review: New Design and Diminishing Returns
The new iPhone 12’s have been out for a while now, and while we’ve had our hands on them for a few weeks, Apple’s news bombardment of the new...
105 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/30/2020
The 2020 Mac Mini Unleashed: Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
Last week, Apple made industry news by announcing new Mac products based upon the company’s new Apple Silicon M1 SoC chip, marking the first move of a planned 2-year...
683 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/17/2020
Apple Intros First Three ‘Apple Silicon’ Macs: Late 2020 MacBook Air, 13-Inch MacBook Pro, & Mac Mini
As previously announced by Apple this summer, the company is embarking on a major transition within its Mac product lineup. After almost a decade and a half of relying...
49 by Ryan Smith on 11/10/2020
Apple Announces The Apple Silicon M1: Ditching x86 - What to Expect, Based on A14
Today, Apple has unveiled their brand-new MacBook line-up. This isn’t an ordinary release – if anything, the move that Apple is making today is something that hasn’t happened in...
644 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/10/2020
The Apple Fall 2020 Mac Event Live Blog: 10am PST (18:00 UTC)
Today Apple is expected to pull the trigger on new ‘Apple Silicon’ Macbooks. Years in the making, today we should be hearing about a lew of new devices from...
156 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/10/2020
Apple Announces Event for November 10th: Arm-Based Macs Expected
We don’t normally publish news posts about Apple sending out RSVPs for product launch events, but this one should be especially interesting. This morning Apple has sent notice that they’re...
67 by Ryan Smith on 11/2/2020
Apple Announces iPhone 12 Series: mini, Regular, Pro & Pro Max, all with 5G
A little later in the year than usual, but today we finally saw the announcement of Apple’s newest line-up of iPhones. This time around we didn’t get two, or...
174 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/13/2020
The Apple 2020 Fall iPhone Event Live Blog 10am PT (17:00 UTC)
Today Apple is holding its second fall 2020 launch event - only a few weeks after the traditional September launch which saw the unveiling of the a new Apple...
57 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/13/2020
Apple Announces 5nm A14 SoC - Meagre Upgrades, Or Just Less Power Hungry?
Amongst the new iPad and Watch devices released today, Apple made news in releasing the new A14 SoC chip. Apple’s newest generation silicon design is noteworthy in that is...
127 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/15/2020
Apple Announces new 8th gen iPad with A12, iPad Air with 5nm A14 Chip
This year’s September Apple event has been relatively unusual, not only because of the pandemic and online-only nature of the show, but also because amongst the new hardware releases...
68 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/15/2020
The Apple 2020 Fall Event Live Blog - Starts at 10am PT (17:00 UTC)
Today Apple is hosting its 2020 fall launch event. This year due to circumstances, we'll be going virtual and remote, however we'll still be live blogging the show for...
52 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/15/2020
The Next Phase: Apple Lays Out Plans To Transition Macs from x86 to Apple SoCs
After many months of rumors and speculation, Apple confirmed this morning during their annual WWDC keynote that the company intends to transition away from using x86 processors at the...
241 by Ryan Smith on 6/22/2020
Apple Announces iOS 14 and iPadOS 14: An Overview
Amongst today’s Apple’s WWDC historic announcements, such as the company’s switch from x86 to Arm processor architectures, we also saw the launch of the new iOS 14 and iPadOS...
17 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/22/2020
The Apple WWDC 2020 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)
While COVID may have put a crimp on the tech industry, for Apple the show must still go on. Join us at 10am Pacific/17:00 UTC for our live blog...
78 by Ryan Smith on 6/22/2020
Mobile Flagship Phone Camera Overview 2020 H1: Still Picture Battle
When today you’re picking a flagship smartphone, you generally get more or less the same fundamental formula no matter the vendor you chose. It’s a glass slab with a...
130 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/18/2020
Apple Launches New 13" MacBook Pro: 10th Gen Ice Lake and New Scissor Keyboard
Today Apple is releasing new revamped versions of its 13” MacBook Pro line-up, most notably updating the series with the new scissor-switch style Magic Keyboard, as well as giving...
85 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/4/2020
Updated iPhone SE Camera Testing: Replacement Phone Shows Much Improved Results
Last week we published our initial review of Apple’s new iPhone SE. In the piece, I had remarked that the camera was relatively disappointing and suffered from a lack...
18 by Andrei Frumusanu on 4/30/2020
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