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    “Curved Display, No Physical Buttons, True Wireless Charging”                One way to make the iPhone’s screen larger without increasing the size of the device itself is wrap it around all four edges. An artist‘s video imagines how such an iOS handset would look, with no physical buttons and an under-screen camera. This was dreamed up by Kevin Noki for   ConceptsiPhone . The description says “Forget iPhone 11 and take a look on this future 2020 year iPhone XII device with No Buttons, Wireless Charge and Hidden Camera!” Proposed iPhone XII features The designer calls the curved screen the Space Display, and proposes that icons along the edge function a bit like widgets, sliding open when tapped to reveal notifications or controls. The volume and side buttons would, of course, become virtual. Noki would like to see the iPhone’s front-facing camera under the screen, something still in development. ...

Apple Inc declared on Friday that it has fixed a privacy glitch in the video chat application and it was planning to remove bugs in the software. It all happened over reports of software bugs appeared. A teenager and his mother had tried very long to inform Apple, of the bug. The problem was discovered by 14-year-old Grant Thompson, who, along with his mother, Michele, tried to report the glitch to the iPhone maker but said they struggled to get the company's attention until the problem gained traction on social media. "The thing that shocked me was that this glitch happened in the first place," said Grant Thompson, a high school freshman in Tucson, Arizona. "I'm only 14 and I found it incidentally, instead of the people at Apple that are paid to find problems." Grant and his mother also said that they spent one week to get Apple to resolve the issue in its Face-time group-chat. The issue in the feature all...

San Francisco, Feb 2: Apple has apologised for a flaw in FaceTime software that allowed people to eavesdrop on others, even if they never answered a FaceTime call, the media reported. The Cupertino, California-headquartered tech giant said a fix for the bug which will re-enable the group FaceTime feature will be available to users next week, CNBC reported on Friday. Apple Eavesdropping Bug: Here's How You Can Disable FaceTime on Your Apple iPhone or iPad. Apple had originally said that a fix was coming this week. With iOS 12.1 and later versions, Group FaceTime is designed to make it easy to chat with multiple people at the same time. One can start a Group FaceTime right from the FaceTime app or from a group conversation in the Messages app. But the bug allowed people to listen in on, or even see someone, during a group FaceTime call, even if the person receiving the call did not pick up, the CNBC report said. Apple has credited...

Apple announced the addition of FaceTime group calling to iOS at WWDC 2018 earlier this summer. The feature allows users to talk in a group of 32 people at once. It's a nice addition for small business teams who use the feature on the go. After much anticipation, Apple is releasing iOS 12.1 with the Facetime Group Calling feature it promised. FaceTime group calling lets users converse via Apple's video chat in groups of up to 32 people. Aside from this basic function, however, there are some excellent additions to the chat service. First, FaceTime Group Calling detects active speakers and brings them to the forefront of the discussion. Anytime a new speaker speaks, he or she is added to the 'Active' list. Speakers images are enlarged or shrunk based on their participation in the conversation, length of talk time, volume, and motion, Apple says. Other features of FaceTime Group Calling are below. Ringless Notification Have yo...

The 11-inch and 12.9-inch models feature the Liquid Retina display, powerful A12X Bionic chip and Face ID. After being in the rumours for almost a year, Apple has finally introduced the new iPad Pro with all-screen design and next-generation performance, marking the biggest change to iPad ever. The all-new design pushes 11-inch and 12.9-inch Liquid Retina displays to the edges of iPad Pro and integrates Face ID to securely unlock iPad with just a glance. And a new second-generation Apple Pencil magnetically attaches to iPad Pro and wirelessly charges at the same time. A new all-screen designs The iPad Pro features one of the world's most advanced display - an edge-to-edge Liquid Retina display with rounded corners that follow the curves of iPad Pro's unibody enclosure. With precision-milled glass, advanced pixel masking, sub-pixel anti-aliasing and a new backlight design, the new Liquid Retina display is Apple's brightest and m...

Apple Inc. said it will hold a product announcement October 30 in Brooklyn, New York, likely to unveil new iPads and Mac computers. The invitation to media reads, “There’s more in the making,” without specifying what would be introduced. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant is planning the biggest revamp to the iPad Pro since it first went on sale in 2015, as well as a lower-cost MacBook laptop and a new Mac mini desktop, Bloomberg News reported earlier this year. On its  website , Apple said the event will be live streamed. This will mark the first Apple product introduction to take place in New York since the company unveiled its digital textbooks service in 2012. It is, however, the second Apple product launch outside of California this year. In March, the company announced new education software and an update to the entry-level iPad at a Chicago-area high school. The October launch, the month in which Apple has previously debuted new Macs and iPa...

The Apple Watch Series 4 is now up for pre-order in India through authorised Apple re-sellers and Flipkart for a starting price of Rs 40,900 and will be shipped to customers from October 19. The device is available in several versions across four price variations including Rs 40,900, Rs 43,900, Rs 49,900 and Rs 52,900. During its hardware keynote event in Cupertino last month, Apple unveiled the Apple Watch Series 4 with an all-new design and a slew of fitness-centric and health features. The fourth generation of the Apple wearable came with 30 percent bigger screen on the same form factor as the last year’s Series 3, new chipset, an ECG scanner, fall-detection, louder speakers and a more interactive watchface.  The Apple Watch Series 4 is now up for pre-order in India through authorised Apple re-sellers and Flipkart for a starting price of Rs 40,900 and will be shipped to customers from October 19. The Watch Series 4 is available in severa...

NEW DELHI:  Smartphone  sales are set to break records for the festive season this year, shrugging off the effects of a plunging  rupee , say analysts, with some even pegging online to outpace brick-and-mortar stores for the first time ever in the October-December quarter, on the back of aggressive launches and a slew of offers. Smartphone sales are expected to rise 24% in October over last year’s festive month, which is likely propel growth in the three-month period ending December, which typically contributes about a third to annual sales of companies, say analysts.  “Online is growing faster than the offline channel for  smartphones  in October. The online channel is set to grow 30% year-on-year, while offline will grow 20%. Further, there is a 10% jump in overall handset launches over last year,” Anshika Jain, a Counterpoint research analyst, told ET. The expected growth will dispel fears of some that the weakening rupee may force smartphone...

San Francisco, Oct 17: A second patent has been granted to Apple regarding the additions the company intends to incorporate in its originally planned foldable device. The second patent is focused on a flexible hinge and the use of a fabric for its housing, Patently Apple , an Apple-centric blog focused on the company's latest Intellectual Property (IP) developments, reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the description of the second patent claim reads: "An electronic device, comprising a 'flexible hinge' coupled between the first and second housing portions wherein the flexible portion of the housing comprises fabric." The iPhone-maker received its first patent to develop a foldable smartphone from the US Patent and Trademark office in November 2016 that described a display that could be opened and closed like a book, media had reported.  As smartphones continue to introduce larger and larger phablet sizes, there will come a point where intr...

According to the Gartner report, the overall global smartphone sales grew 2 percent in the same quarter to 374 million units. The firm recorded more than 49 million shipments for  Huawei  and more than 44 million units for  Apple  in Q2 of 2018. Google’s Android extended the lead over Apple’s iOS with an 88 percent share compared to iOS’ 11.9 percent.  Samsung  maintained the top spot with more than 72 million shipments in the same quarter, however the South Korean manufacturer recorded a 12.7 percent decline over the same quarter last year. “Samsung faces slowing global smartphone demand and ever-growing competition from Chinese manufacturers,” said Anshul Gupta, Research Director at Gartner.

Something fairly astonishing happened late last month. For the first time ever, an Android-powered smartphone managed to outperform Apple’s latest iPhone in a “real-world speed test.” This new type of speed test was concocted by YouTube vloggers and while it’s not scientific at all, the test is a fairly good way of judging how one smartphone’s performance compares to another in terms of handling day-to-day tasks. Apple’s iPhones have always been models of efficiency, and no Android phone had ever even come close to beating an iPhone until last month. Apple likely isn’t very concerned with the iPhone losing in some vlogger’s speed test, but the company is surely concentrating on continuing to achieve big performance gains with this year’s new iPhones. After all, new iPhones always pack a tremendous power boost compared to their predecessors. Now, a new leak suggests that the next-generation processor coming in the new iPhone 8 features incredible performance that is practica...