Apple’s next ‘cheap’ iPad might not kill beloved features like Touch ID and the headphone jack

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As fantastic as the new iPad Pros are — we love the slim bezels, powerful performance, and Face ID — some people still can’t stand Apple removing Touch ID and the headphone jack from the tablets.

Well, good news: The next generation iPad (the regular one) is rumored to keep both of these beloved features.

Unnamed sources told the Japanese Apple fan blog Mac Otakara that Apple’s new entry-level iPad, which sells for $329 and was updated in mid-2018, will not sport any exterior design changes.

Touch ID and the headphone jack, two features still available on the iPad but removed from the iPad Pro, will return once again. Read more…

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Apple’s AR glasses might be an iPhone accessory instead of a standalone headset

Now that iPhone sales are slowing down, what’s Apple’s next groundbreaking product going to be? Maybe AR glasses.
Apple’s AR headset was last rumored to be a standalone device powered by its own processing unit. But now it looks like Apple might make…

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AirPods 2 might come with super fast wireless charging

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We’re starting to get a good picture of what Apple’s second-generation AirPods might look like.

A new rumor suggests the tentatively named AirPods 2 might come with a wireless charging case — Apple promised the case along with AirPower way back at the iPhone X launch, but neither has shipped — that might be able to quickly charge from 0 to 100 percent in about 15 minutes.

The rumor comes from leaker Max Weinbach (via 9to5Mac) who made an appearance on a recent EverythingApplePro video to talk about new AirPods features. Read more…

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Rumors are swirling about Apple’s AirPower wireless charging again

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The Abominable Snowman of Apple products — AirPower — is resurfacing. But we’ll believe that the technological monster myth is real when we see it.

The Hong Kong website ChargerLAB reported, via a “credible source,” that AirPower wireless charging mats are already in production. Separately, an app developer mentioned he had heard that Apple overcame its ongoing production problems with AirPower. Taken together, these developments suggest the long-gestating tech might finally become a reality.

Breaking: AirPower is finally coming. We just learned from credible source in supply chain that the manufacture Luxshare Precision has already started producing Apple AirPower wireless charging pad. Luxshare Precision is also the maker of Apple AirPods and USB-C cablespic.twitter.com/UqgWIAh3sx

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Samsung’s Galaxy S10 sounds like it’s gonna be more of everything. That could be a problem.

A whole new year is right around the corner, and you know what that means for Samsung: a new Galaxy phone.
As the company prepares to launch its next flagship Galaxy phone (expected to be called the Galaxy S10) early next year, several reports of lea…

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Whoops! Samsung leak suggests there may be four different versions of the Galaxy S10

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New information keeps leaking out about Samsung’s new Galaxy S10 phone.

The latest leak comes for the XDA Developer blog, which noticed something very interesting hidden inside the Android 9.0 update from Samsung: We may be looking at a total of four different models of the Samsung Galaxy S10.

Earlier this summer, we shared the rumors from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s report concerning three possible versions of the S10. XDA’s findings point to an additional, previously unreported version of the phone.

Here’s what we’re possibly looking at thanks to the the XML files that were found by XDA: Read more…

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