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Analysts have been expecting this fall’s iPhone 8 to prompt a so-called ‘super cycle’ for weeks, and now Credit Suisse is the latest to push that expectation. Analyst Kulbinder Garcha at the firm cites ‘pent up demand’ from the iPhone installed base for a very different model than recent hardware updates. For that reason, Garcha has been telling investors to buy AAPL as the firm believes the stock price is currently undervalued....

UBS has shared a new analyst note today describing some of the challenges and opportunities Apple faces as the iPhone hits maturity. In addition to a greater dependency on services for revenue, UBS believes the predictability of Apple’s quarterly performance is noticeably decreasing. After Apple’s Q1 2018 results, UBS says there are many questions up in the air, including: What’s going on with the super cycle? How will we think about iPhone pricing and volume change in the future?...

My first impression diary pieces are usually exactly that: based on just taking it out of the box, setting it up and playing with it for an hour or three. This time, however, my iPhone X didn’t arrive until the end of the day on Friday, by which time I was already out for the evening. So this time I’ve had a weekend of use, and have a bit more to say....

The Apple Online Store and Apple Store app for iOS have come back online, and with them come pre-orders of the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Plus, and Apple Watch Series 4. All three devices are now available, with the first pre-orders arrive next Friday, September 21st. The Apple Watch Series 4 packs a handful of improvements, including a 30 percent larger display and a thinner body design. There’s a new gold stainless steel color, as well as a new Digital Crown with haptic feedback, ECG support, new watch faces, and much more....

First, we heard that we wouldn’t get an AirPods refresh this March, now the rumored 12.9-inch iPad Pro with mini-LED display seems like it’s not ready to launch quite yet, but it could still come as soon as next month. According to a new report by DigiTimes (via MacRumors), the mass production of this new iPad will start in the second quarter of 2021, which begins in April and includes April, May, and June....

Both iPhone and iPad offer a handy feature called Bedtime to help you get the right amount of sleep. Follow along for how to setup Bedtime on iOS. Bedtime doesn’t specifically track the quality of your sleep, but it does offer some useful benefits like giving you reminders before it’s time to go to bed and automatically sets alarms for you. In addition to being able to customize your sleep schedule for certain days of the week, data from Bedtime is automatically imported into the Health app....

Telecoms analyst Michael Cote of the Cote Collaborative made the claims in chat with CNN. A former T-Mobile executive, the media outlet says he has been “extremely accurate with wireless predictions in the past.” Apple – being Apple – refused to comment on Cote’s claims that the computer-cum-iPod-cum-iPhone-cum-pro software and education solutions company is seeing “unprecedented demand”. The three million figure is much higher than Wall Street analysts had anticipated, CNN informs....

Our German is more than a little rusty (and so is Google’s) but it appears that five devices that are suspected of being either iPhone 5s or knockoffs were confiscated at the Munster-Osnabruck airport on July 21st. It still isn’t certain if they were real or fake but it is newsworthy that Germans are confiscating iPhones, real or fake, at the Airports since there are so many fake iPhones coming out of China, India and Sears these days....

AndroidCentral reports that the above screenshot is from AT&T’s database and reflects the prices customers pay when in mid-contract for phones. For instance, if you have more than a year left on your contract and want to upgrade to an iPhone, this is the price you pay. AT&T just raised that $50 for iPhone owners. If you think AT&T is screwing you over, they are raising the price $150 for Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Android, if the screenshot is to be believed....

Doom Eternal is a new game, which was recently released and is an online multiplayer game, where you play as the Doom Slayer and your job is to survive and kill the demons on your way. We have previously covered a topic where, just by following some simple steps, you can switch over to third-person camera view withing the Doom Eternal game. You can click here to read that post. The game has picked up success and players are enjoying every bit of the game....

Whether you like to switch up how your iPhone gives alerts and feedback regularly or prefer to set it and forget it, follow along for three ways to customize system vibrations and haptic feedback. Finding where to adjust vibration settings for things like calls and texts on iPhone is straightforward. But did you know there are more places to customize how your iPhone uses the vibration motor and provides haptic feedback?...

iPhone 13 users have taken to forums about the cellular signal keeps dropping after an iOS update. Apple device owners have upgraded the iPhone from the previous generation, and they had zero bad signal complaints in the past. It’s a frustrating scenario for the iPhone 13 users who are on a contract, and it’s not easy to get out of the system without deducting some money from your savings. I’m going to show you how to resolve the cellular signal issues in the iPhone 13 series, and I won’t be using any third-party tools in the process....

A CNBC report claims that Apple has received more than 3.4M pre-orders for the iPhone SE through retailers in China. The report says that gold was the most popular color, accounting for 1.3M orders, with rose gold close behind at 1.2M. If the numbers are correct, adding in orders direct from Apple and in other countries could see some very impressive sales numbers … The report says that Apple’s decision to push sales through pre-orders was partly to reduce the huge queues that have been seen outside retail stores for previous launches....

Earlier this week Bloomberg reporting backed up Ming-Chi Kuo’s prediction about a second, larger OLED iPhone model this year. Now a new concept video gives us a look at how much bigger bigger really is… Published by the appropriately named ConceptsiPhone on YouTube, the video takes a similar introduction style to the original iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus duo unveiling by showing the current 5.8-inch iPhone X in front of the new rumored 6....

The iPhone XS Max has beat all of Android smartphones that YouTuber PhoneBuff has put it up against so far. But we haven’t seen the Mate 20 Pro square off against the XS Max. After Huawei previously claimed its Kirin 980 chipset would be faster than Apple’s A12 Bionic, the Mate 20 has suffered a defeat in the latest smartphone speed test. Back in September, Huawei came out and said that its in-house Kirin 980 chip would be speedier than Apple’s A12 Bionic....

It looks as though Iron Man is beginning to develop a new super-power. The last decade has seen Tony Stark, aka the invincible Iron Man, become Marvel’s premiere superhero. In large part that’s been because of the success of the MCU, with Robert Downey Jr. winning fans over with his iconic portrayal of the armored Avenger. Tony Stark isn’t technically a superhero; rather, he’s simply a billionaire playboy genius philanthropist, an inventor who can cobble together a suit of armor from scraps in a cave....

The embargo has lifted and the iPad Pro review fest has begun. Apple gave a bunch of websites and publications four days to test the 2018 iPads, and the early verdicts are in. What’s interesting to me in reading them is that Apple has made its marketing job very much harder by positioning the device so strongly as ‘a computer.’ Most reviews judged the device in that light, and found it wanting....

In a video today from YouTuber DChannel we’ve got an early teardown of the iPhone 11 Pro Max that shows off the internals of the new device. As previously rumored, the iPhone 11 Pro’s logic board has changed back to a rectangular design, we get a look at the larger battery, Face ID and camera modules, and more. We learned details last night about the increased battery capacities of the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and Pro Max from Chinese regulatory documents....

The iPhone 5 has gained the proper network verification from The Ministry of Industry and Technology of the People’s Republic of China today, finally readying it for sale in the country where the device is made. Following rumors earlier this month, Wall Street Journal first noted the news this morning, and such verification sets-up for the mid-December launch as pre-orders are already kicking. Apple has gained WCDMA and CDMA-2000 verification, according to the filings, lining it up to be on China Unicom and China Telecom — China’s second and third-largest carriers, respectively....

Ever since the iPhone 5c launched along with a specially-designed case, people have compared the case’s design to a the game Connect Four. Now a new app has arrived on the App Store that takes that observation and turns it into a real game. The app is called Flipcase, and the idea is pretty simple: you put your iPhone 5c case on backwards, so that the holes on the back are on top of the screen, and then take turns tapping the columns to try to connect four colored dots....