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iPhone 7 Plus Survives 13 Hours in Russian Icy River

by Alan Spencer

Apple’s iPhone 7 is only officially classified as surviving immersion at a depth of one metre (3.3 feet) for 30 minutes. However, an incident occured during an ice fishing trip in Russia that showed …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 04| Waterproof Displays

WiFi Interference Issue with LG Ultrafine 5K Displays

by Alan Spencer

In some case. the new LG Ultrafine 5K Displays that LG launched to go with the new Apple Mac Book Pro (More News of LG’s Macbook Monitors) appear to be affected by interference caused …

Tags:Apple| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 04| Wi-Fi

Google Will No Longer Let Apple Users Enjoy YouTube in 4K Quality

by Alan Spencer

In the future, watching UltraHD on YouTube will require support for Google’s VP9 codec, which Apple has so far not supported. For a decade, content providers have used MPEG4 (and its sub-classes such as …

Tags:Apple| Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)| Vol 24 - Issue 04| VP9| YouTube

Apple Sues Qualcomm Over Licensing & Contracts

by Bob Raikes

Apple has filed a suit against Qualcomm that claims that the firm’s policy of charging royalties based on the value of the item being sold is unfair. Apple believes that this penalises its own …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 03

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Apple Rumours Point to Three iPads in 2H 2017

by Bob Raikes

US and Asian sources have reported on three new iPads due from Apple in 2017. These are forecast to be a 9.7″, 10.5″ and a Pro version at 12.9″. Production may start on the …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Apple to get into VR? Watch out for Fake News!

by Bob Raikes

Well, it’s been a busy week and we’ve been beavering away on our CES report and we had hoped to get it finished by today, but it looks as though it won’t be done …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

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Apple Rumoured to be Working on Original Video Content

by Bob Raikes

Normally, we wouldn’t bother with a rumour about Apple – there are so many, but in this case, the source is the Wall St Journal. The paper said that Apple is planning to create …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Touch Supplier for OLED iPhone Identified

by Bob Raikes

We have seen reports in the Taiwanese press based on un-named ‘sources in the supply chain’ that Samsung Display will be the only supplier for AMOLEDs for Apple’s adoption of the technology. It identifies …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Apple Re-Aligning MacBook Panel Supply

by Bob Raikes

IHS said in its blog that Apple will maintain sales of the existing ‘legacy’ MacBook Pro for those that cannot afford to upgrade to the new version, which has a touch OLED bar and …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 51

Apple’s Warranty Reserves Decline

by Bob Raikes

Warranty Week made a detailed analysis of Apple’s warranty and extended warranty programs and pointed out that Apple has become a leading global supplier of extended warranties. However, sales of protection plans has declined …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 01| warranty