Screenshot by Barbara Krasnoff / The Verge The other day, I was going through a bag full of old tech — I mean, really old tech — trying to convince myself to finally get rid of phones that I hadn’t used for 10 years or so when I came across a battery. One of the batteries that I used to carry around in case my phone ran out of juice. You see, once upon a time, smartphones had replaceable batteries. Instead of having to carry around a portable charger or search desperately for a wall socket so you could charge up your failing phone (assuming you had a power cord with you), you could pull off the back of your…

The Mac Studio remains the top choice for professionals who need a powerful but compact desktop computer. There is a new Mac Studio. It looks almost exactly like last year’s Mac Studio — so similar, in fact, that I have had to put Post-it notes on the two units we have in our office in order to tell them apart. It remains a remarkably compact, very Apple-looking pro-level workstation. It also remains effectively not upgradable at all, which means you need to be very careful about what you select at purchase. It has basically the same ports that the last one had: a pair of USB-C ports (Thunderbolt 4 on the Ultra) and an SDXC reader in the front, and…

Macworld When iOS 17 arrives this fall, it’ll bring a slew of new features to your iPhone, including personalized contact cards, live voicemail, and so many stickers. But not every iOS 16 phone will get it. As announced at WWDC, Apple is only supporting iPhones going back to the XS, which means the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, announced in 2017, have reached the end of the line and will only receive security updates going forward. If you own one of those phones you’ll probably want to upgrade—and you’ll probably want to get as much as you can for your old phone. If that’s the case, you probably want to sell it as soon as possible. According to a report…

After bringing a 48MP camera to the iPhone 14 Pro lineup, Apple may be looking to expand the powerful camera system to the entire iPhone 15 family.iPhone 14 Pro camera bumpThe latest rumor surrounding the iPhone 15 camera comes from ITHome, from a broader report on Sony reaching out to TSMC to help handle more demanding orders. Specifically, due to "the lack of production capacity," Sony's reached out to TSMC to handle color filter film for its camera units, among other needs. Read more...

After bringing a 48MP camera to the iPhone 14 Pro lineup, Apple may be looking to expand the powerful camera system to the entire iPhone 15 family.iPhone 14 Pro camera bumpThe latest rumor surrounding the iPhone 15 camera comes from ITHome, from a broader report on Sony reaching out to TSMC to help handle more demanding orders. Specifically, due to "the lack of production capacity," Sony's reached out to TSMC to handle color filter film for its camera units, among other needs. Read more...

After bringing a 48MP camera to the iPhone 14 Pro lineup, Apple may be looking to expand the powerful camera system to the entire iPhone 15 family.iPhone 14 Pro camera bumpThe latest rumor surrounding the iPhone 15 camera comes from ITHome, from a broader report on Sony reaching out to TSMC to help handle more demanding orders. Specifically, due to "the lack of production capacity," Sony's reached out to TSMC to handle color filter film for its camera units, among other needs. Read more...