Apple starts selling refurbished MacBook Neo, bringing the price down to its pre-hike level‎

Yesterday, Apple hiked the prices of all of its products except for iPhones, and the MacBook Neo didn't get spared - its price went up by $100 in the US. Today, Apple has started offering the MacBook Neo in its refurbished store, and the price for the entry-level model with 256GB of storage and no Touch ID is now back to $599. That used to be the price for the new laptop pre-hike, now you can get a refurbished one for the same amount. If you want the one with 512GB of storage and Touch ID, you'll have to pay $679, which is $20 less than this variant used to go for new before...

iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e now rumored to have a surprising amount of RAM‎

Apple is rumored to be launching the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e next spring, and today a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has revealed some intriguing details about them. Let's start with the oddest bit of information Kuo has shared today: both the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e are allegedly going to ship with 9GB of RAM. That's not a typo. They will apparently be using six 1.5GB dies, compared to the iPhone 17's four 2GB dies. That's a weird configuration but hey, it's a RAM increase compared to the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17e, even though it's not a big one. And in case you were wondering -...

Samsung gets sued by another patent troll trying to make a quick buck‎

Yet another patent troll wants to get paid by Samsung. Tau Ceti Ventures LLC has filed a lawsuit against Samsung in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that the company infringed upon ten of its patents relating to making displays brighter, preventing screen burn-in, improving battery life, and reducing manufacturing costs. Samsung allegedly used the infringing display technology in the Galaxy S25, Galaxy Z Flip7, Galaxy Watch8, Galaxy Tab A9+, Galaxy Book4, and a whole range of smart TVs and monitors. Tau Ceti claims that Samsung was aware of the patents or...

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Apple to skip the M6 Pro and Max chips and focus on boosting AI for the M7 generation‎

According to a report from Mark Gurman, Apple is planning a shift in its chip release strategy. The upcoming M6 family of chips will skip the Pro and the Max variants in favor of expediting the M7 series. That means we will only see the base M6 chip running inside iPads and entry-level Macs. Due to the increased demand for AI-capable devices, Apple is forced to change its roadmap and will try to make a quick transition from M6 to the AI-focused M7 series. The M7 chips are also said to offer considerably more powerful GPUs. As a result, the standard M7 chip will likely debut in early...

Samsung Galaxy A27 launched in the US, and it costs more than the Galaxy A37‎

The Samsung Galaxy A27, unveiled yesterday, will go on sale in the US starting July 14 with a lone 6GB/128GB configuration, one color option (black), and a price tag of $349.99. That’s $50 more than the launch price of the Galaxy A26, which isn’t too different from the Galaxy A27. [#InlinePriceWidget,14606,1#] Not just that, the Galaxy A27 also costs more than the superior Galaxy A37, whose base model with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage launched at $449.99 and is currently available for $329.99 (without trade-in) on Samsung's US website, with two color options - Awesome Lavender and Awesome...

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 series roadmap surfaces revealing new 3nm chips‎

We've heard rumors that Qualcomm will launch two 2nm chips under the Snapdragon 8 Elite series this year, called the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 (SM8950) and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro (SM8975). But now we learn that Qualcomm has two more Snapdragon 8-series chips on its roadmap. The word comes from reliable tipster Digital Chat Station, who claimed that Qualcomm is working on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5XX version and a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Pro. Both of them are 3nm chips, but the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5XX has part number SM8850Q, while the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Pro has part number SM8845...