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From 9to5Toys.com: Today only, Walmart offers Apple’s iPad mini (non-Retina) in new condition either Space Gray or Silver for $199 shipped or ship to store. That’s $50 off Apple’s current price (though Walmart mistakenly says $100 off last year’s price) and tied with the lowest price we’ve ever seen. A nice pickup for the same price as the iPod touch. Features: 7.9-inch LED-backlit display A5 chip 5MP iSight camera with 1080p HD video recording FaceTime camera Up to 10 hours of battery life * Built-in Wi-Fi (802....

Luxury automotive company Bentley is the latest to take advantage of the filming capabilities of the iPhone 5s and iPad Air with a new short film entitled “Intelligent Details”. The four-minute film largely aligns with Apple’s values of design, performance, and technology coming together as it profiles the Bentley Mulsanne (MSRP from $298,000). As the film concludes, it is revealed that it was captured by the camera on Apple’s iPhone 5s and arranged in iMovie on an iPad Air… The latter portion of the film even shows the process and equipment used by the filmmakers with Apple’s technology and additional equipment....

A WSJ piece on Foxconn ramping up production of the iPhone 5s to meet demand provided an interesting glimpse at some of the numbers involved. Foxconn operates 100 production lines, which are now operating at maximum capacity 24/7 to turn out 500,000 iPhones 5s handsets per day according to the report. Each iPhone represents the combined work of around 600 people. The unnamed Foxconn source said that this amounted to 100 people more than for the iPhone 5c due to the increased complexity of the high-end phone … While the relationship between Apple and Foxconn is a crucially important one to both companies, each side is reportedly looking to reduce its reliance on the other – Apple looking to diversify its supply chain, and Foxconn keen to retain capacity for other clients....

As the clock begins to turn to Friday, September 16th around the world, people are slowly getting their hands on Apple’s new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. As is usually the case with product releases, customers in Australia and New Zealand are first to receive their preordered Apple products and images have slowly been trickling in… A variety of customers have taken to Instagram and Twitter to share their excitement of their new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus arriving....

NYU Grad student Dejian Zeng last month gave us an inside view of the life of an iPhone factory worker when he took a summer job at Pegatron, and now Business Insider has asked him about the security measures taken to try to guard against leaks … He talked before about the way that production of new iPhones is screened off from other workers, so only those working on the new model get to see it....

We’ve spoken about Apple’s continuing gains in the education sector, and as its Macs grow more popular the company’s educational teams are also pushing forward the message that its mobile devices – the iPod touch and the iPhone – could play a critical part in the future digital classroom. It’s no great stretch of the imagination – companies like Studywiz and others have been creating, developing and selling solutions to educators that bridge the gap between classroom and home on the back of the iPod for years now – and the feedback from schools and administrators is that making education interesting, relevant and fun actually generates results....

Notifications are possibly the oldest accompanying aspect of any phone. It exists since the time when the smartphone was not even a thing. Now with smartphones and numerous apps, the quantity of notifications is quite high. Back in the days of basic GSM phone days, all we would get is notifications for missed calls and messages. Later in a few of the GSM phones that I used had social media apps pre-built into it....

We got our own hands-on look at some iPhone 11 dummy models back in July, giving us a good sense of what to expect next week. iPhone case-makers Nood, Totallee and Olixar give us another sneak preview, with a good set of photos showing the dummy units in (of course) each company’s own cases. The square camera bump has been the subject of a great deal of discussion, many expressing distaste for the design, and especially with the asymmetrical triangular camera arrangement within it…...

Apple has finally released the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and that means tons of new buyers are now becoming sellers—of their old phones. While it probably would have been best to sell that device a month ago to maximize its value, some people just didn’t have that luxury. The good news, though, is that many merchants are still offering very decent trade in values. My good condition 16 GB iPhone 5 falls between $150 and $200 depending on where I look....

iPhone assembler Foxconn has reported profits of T$17.49B ($567M) for the second quarter of the year. That represents its second quarterly fall … Reuters reports that it was also below analyst expectations. While Apple is a major client, it seems unlikely that iPhone production was to blame. Apple recently reported sales of 41.3M iPhones for the quarter, marginally up on the 41M in sold in the same quarter in 2017....

The Irish tax ruling expected tomorrow will determine whether or not Apple owes the Irish government €13B ($14.8B) in underpaid taxes. But a new report today says that the Irish government fears that it will lose out no matter which way the decision goes … Background We summarized the background to the case when the court hearing was first scheduled. Apple Irish tax ruling due tomorrow Independent.ie says ministers fear both possible verdicts....

Fast forward a year and we are now in the run-up to the festive season once again. Nearly two years into living with the Covid pandemic there is a lot of apprehension and excitement - will Christmas 2021 be cancelled? Will we go back to some sort of normality? Or are we living in the new normal? Is Christmas Cancelled? How To Navigate Marketing Plans This Holiday Season : Tradition is Back After the craziness of last year, it’s great to see that Christmas is back for 2021....

The most important improvement will probably be a quad-core chip, SIRI and 4G LTE (I hope). Several Android tablets on the market already have most of these new features including the Asus’ Transformer Prime. Apple will no doubt work to catch up with the market and release something amazing no one has really thought of before. The new iPad will also sport an HD screen, the best one in the range so far....

Market intelligence firm Counterpoint is out with its latest report on the global tablet market, which shows that the iPad market share increased in Q1, year-on-year. Apple had already enjoyed 33% more iPad sales in 2020 than in 2019, and the data shows that the good news continued into the first quarter of this year … Counterpoint says that Apple’s share of the global tablet market grew from 30% in Q1 2020 to 37% in the same quarter this year....

Tired of videos autoplaying while you’re checking out what’s new in the App Store? Follow along below for how to quickly turn autoplay off. The App Store revamp that came along with iOS 11 brought along a variety of changes. One of those is more prominently featured video content, and notably the default is set to “on” for autoplaying videos. iPhone & iPad: How to turn off Video Autoplay for iTunes and App Store Open Settings Swipe down and tap on iTunes & App Store Tap Video Autoplay Select Off Alternatively, you can opt to only have videos autoplay in the App Store when you’re connected to Wi-Fi....

We’re not huge fans of the 3:01 a.m. ET pre-order that Apple has put up but it is a good way to make sure the hardcore get the first swipe at the iPhone 4S. For the first time, US iPhone users will have a choice of three carriers with which to choose from. Obviously, the number one concern is if the carrier has good service in the area. There are some differentiators however:...

Following preorders going live on September 9 and an initial launch in 28 countries on September 16, Apple’s new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus today launch in an additional 30 countries around the world. Apple is also launching its new Apple Watch Series 2, Apple Watch Edition, and updated Series 1 models in 20 additional countries today as its new special edition Apple Watch Hermès models become available for the first time....

The iPhone’s market share in Europe fell 17% year-on-year in Q2, according to today’s Canalys data. Apple did, however, hold its third-place position, behind Samsung and Huawei and ahead of Xiaomi and HMD Global. The market intelligence company says that iPhone European shipments fell from 7.7 million in Q2 2018 to 6.4 million in the same quarter this year… That 17% drop in sales saw Apple’s share of the European smartphone market fall from 17% to 14....

Steve Jobs told Apple employees before the introduction of the iPhone that they will get to tell their children and their children’s children that they worked (long and hard) on a device that will go down in history as one of the milestones in technology evolution – then he hooked them all up with an iPhone. You have to admit, he might be right – as well as generous. And this isn’t just pure fanboyism talking....

Directed by Taika Waititi, Jojo Rabbit takes place during World War II and features none other than Adolf Hitler as a main character. Even though the central narrative addresses painfully real events, the focal story is fictional and fantastical, strange as that may seem. In Jojo Rabbit, the titular protagonist (Roman Griffin Davis) has an imaginary friend named Adolf Hitler (Waititi). Jojo is a member of the Hitler Youth, which unfortunately informs his worldview....