A rumored 5.5-inch-class iPhone could come with a sapphire screen cover. Apple; screenshot by Brooke Crothers/CNET Sapphire production for future Apple products jumped five-fold in April, according to a report from UBS Securities. The research note (via Barron’s) from UBS Securities’ Steven Chin on Wednesday is centered on GT Advanced Technologies, which is a sapphire …
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iPhone 5S home button with Touch ID. Apple A fresh research note from KGI Securities says all future iPhones and iPads will get Touch ID. Apple is planning to put Touch ID in “every non-iPod iOS device launched this year,” including both iPhone 6 versions, the second-gen iPad Air and an updated iPad Mini with Retina display, KGI Securities analyst …
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Intel’s Moorefield processor powers KDDI’s LTE-capable Asus MeMO Pad. It runs Android 4.4. KDDI Intel is now very serious about getting both its processors and LTE into tablets. And its latest 64-bit chip, codenamed Moorefield, is expected to make a high-profile appearance at the upcoming Computex conference. Moorefield, aka the quad-core Atom Z3560/Z3580, is designed for devices 8 inches and …
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The 12-inch Surface Pro 3 Microsoft The Surface Pro 3 won’t be available until June 20, but consumers can try it out before then. Demo units will land at Microsoft stores on June 6, about two weeks before the first units are slated to ship. Despite Microsoft’s announcement of the Pro 3 on Tuesday, stores don’t have it yet. The …
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Microsoft and Intel “spent tireless hours together” working on the silicon, says Microsoft’s Panos Panay, general manager of the Surface team. Microsoft The Surface Pro 3 is a snapshot of state-of-the-art Intel technology as much as it is a Microsoft tour de force. On Tuesday, Microsoft’s Panos Panay, general manager of the Surface team, had a lot to say about …
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Google Project Ara ‘Phonebloks’ Google Toshiba will power Project Ara, so says Japan’s largest business daily. The Japanese electronics company will supply three types of processors that will control, among other things, the flow of data and electrical signals between the modules and the phone, the Nikkei report said. The electronics maker is the only Japanese company to become a …
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Surface Pro 3: No Mini to see here. Microsoft After weeks of rumors that Microsoft’s Tuesday event was all about a Surface Mini, it wasn’t. What in the world happened? What happened of course is that Microsoft announced the Surface Pro 3 , a full-fledged 12-inch laptop that can function as a tablet. “The Mini would have been a tablet-only …
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The Surface Pro appears set to get new Intel processors. Brooke Crothers Signs point to Microsoft updating the Intel internals of the Surface Pro on Tuesday. And Windows Phone Central is claiming it has more details. The site lists a variety of models — or possibly just different SKUs — based on a range of Intel Core series processors and …
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Intel powers the Android-based Samsung Galaxy Tab 3. Samsung Intel has managed to get the cost of Android tablets that run its chips competitive with the price of ARM-based systems, as it continues to pour money and resources into spurring growth, according to Digitimes Research. “Android-on-Intel tablets’ costs are already lower than those of the same level Android-on-ARM models,” Digitimes …
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The 5.5-inch Apple phone could be a feature-packed device at the apex of Apple’s mobile lineup. Apple screenshot by Brooke Crothers/CNET Rumors of the 5.5-inch-class “iPhone 6” — or whatever Apple would choose to call it — are getting more intriguing by the week. A widely cited report from Taiwan’s United Daily News/Economic Daily on Friday said that out of …
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