Review: Aukey’s stylish blue fabric adorned 10W Wireless Fast Charger & Graphite Wireless Charger
There are a ton of wireless chargers on the market, with many companies offering more choices as Apple’s iPhone lineup adopted the capability last fall. Aukey has a mix of options, but for this review we’ve tested out two of the company’s $30 offerings, the first has won two design awards and the other offers a unique and sleek aesthetic. Keep reading after the break for our full rundown.
How to create custom vibration pattern ringtones for iPhone
iOS offers a myriad of ways to customize your iPhone and it can be easy to look past some handy options. Follow along for how to create custom vibration patterns for phone calls.
9to5Rewards: Last chance to enter our Apple HomeKit Bundle Giveaway from FIBARO
Thanks to our sponsor FIBARO, there’s still time to enter to win our ultimate HomeKit bundle of accessories.
The bundle includes FIBARO‘s lineup of HomeKit accessories including The Button, its new micro-sized, wireless hardware switch that lets you control Scenes and any of your HomeKit products with a tactile click. Head below to enter and for our hands-on video with the accessories:
FCC appears to leak photos of gold iPhone X
This seems a little too good to be true, but the FCC appears to have published photos of a gold iPhone X. Dated from last September and released earlier in April, these photos show an iPhone X unmistakably in an unreleased gold finish.
The prototype device has rich gold stainless steel frame and a lighter gold glass back, which appears to match the gold shade seen in iPhone 8.
Lawmakers question if FBI was trying hard enough in San Bernardino iPhone case
It’s been a few years since the Apple vs FBI case, where The FBI asked Apple if they could create a backdoor into their operating system for law enforcement to easily access iPhone data.
Apple ramping up effort to stop leaks with legal action, according to leaked memo
Bloomberg has published a new report that includes a memo sent to all Apple employees with a clear message: employees who leak internal information will be fired, face legal action when possible, and risk becoming unemployable at other companies.
The memo specifically references 9to5Mac and the iOS 11 GM leak that we received last fall which lead to discovering the iPhone X name and features, Animoji, and the cellular Apple Watch Series 3 ahead of Apple’s event.
Apple loses lawsuits over independent iPhone repair shop using third-party parts
As the fight for the right to repair your own devices continues, Apple is having some trouble cracking down on third-party repair shops that are using counterfeit parts.
How to check your Mac for 32-bit apps before Apple drops support
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KGI: Apple could sell just 2 million HomePods across all of 2018, company ‘mulls’ low-cost model
A fresh report from Ming-Chi Kuo gives KGI’s take on the recent stories of poor market reception for HomePod. The report suggests that Apple could sell 2-2.5 million HomePods across all of 2018, with a million of those from first month pent-up demand.
Most analysts have predicted sales for HomePod around ten million a year, so Kuo’s prediction is quite pessimistic. He says the high price has cut off a lot of the potential market and that Apple is ‘mulling’ a lower-cost model.