Forget The Next MacBook Pro, Apple Has Something Much More Desirable

Apple will need to introduce a $3,000 MacBook Ultra with an OLED touchscreen to manage rising costs and protect margins without undermining any current MacBooks or iPads.

How Apple Gave Every Smartphone An iPhone Superpower

Apple’s iPhone 12 introduced MagSafe, using a magnetic ring around the Qi coil for auto-aligning 15W charging and a modular ecosystem that birthed the Qi2 standard.

Apple Loop: iPhone 18 Pro Problems, iPhone Duo Release Dates, Mac Mini Price Shock

This week’s Apple headlines: iPhone 18 Pro reboot problems, iPhone Duo release dates, iPhone 18 Pro Max repairs, AirPods 5 options and more…

Android Circuit: Googlebook Questions, OnePlus 16 Appears, Honor X9e Launch

Taking a look back at this week’s news and headlines across the Android world, including Googlebook launch, Clicks Communicator updated specs, Qualcomm’s Agentic AI advanced chipset, OnePlus 16 details, Honor X9e launch and more…

Qualcomm splits its flagship phone chip in two with the 8 Elite Gen 6
Qualcomm splits its flagship phone chip in two with the 8 Elite Gen 6

Qualcomm has split its flagship phone chip in two. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Tuesday, it launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, both built on a 2nm process. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. makes…

Snapdragon Summit: Qualcomm’s 5GHz phone chips, AI earbuds and Linux PCs
Snapdragon Summit: Qualcomm’s 5GHz phone chips, AI earbuds and Linux PCs

Qualcomm used its Snapdragon Summit in Maui this week to pitch its chips as the hardware for AI agents. In three days, it launched two flagship phone chips and a chip for AI earbuds and glasses. It also brought Linux to its X2 laptop processors. Chief …

Why Did Apple Introduce iPhone Photography To Computational AI?

Apple’s 2017 iPhone X ditched the Home button for an edge-to-edge OLED display, introduced Face ID and gesture navigation, and set a new standard for modern smartphones.

Liquid AI puts a personal context layer for AI agents on Snapdragon chips
Liquid AI puts a personal context layer for AI agents on Snapdragon chips

Liquid AI has tuned Liquid Context to run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips. The software builds a picture of the user on the device itself. The company announced the work at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Wednesday. A day later, it released a to…

Deutsche Telekom is replacing phone menus with AI agents, its AI chief says
Deutsche Telekom is replacing phone menus with AI agents, its AI chief says

Deutsche Telekom is replacing the automated phone menus on its customer service lines with AI agents, chief AI officer Kartik Sheth said. The share of customer interactions that never reach a human grows by one or two percentage points every month, he …

Three Reasons Why The iPhone X Changed The World

Unveiled in 2017, the iPhone X redefined smartphones with its edge-to-edge OLED display, swipe gestures, the divisive notch, and secure, ambient Face ID authentication.