iPhone Duo 2 could arrive in 2027 with a refined design, upgraded cameras, better battery life, and other major foldable improvements.
iPhone Duo Budget: The Four Costs Apple Has Not Priced Before You Pay $1,999
Apple has published the price of the iPhone Duo, its two cases, two ways to pay for it and the three months of Apple One that come with it. It has not published what AppleCare+ costs on this phone, what any repair to it costs, what a carrier will offer for it, or what your…
iPhone Duo Comes With Three Months of Apple One: What $1,999 Includes, and What It Does Not
Apple’s iPhone Duo release says buyers get three months of Apple One, the subscription bundle, rather than the list of individual services Apple’s store normally advertises with a device purchase. Apple has not published the same Apple One offer for any other product in this launch. Siri AI on iPhone Duo, part of the iOS…
Apple Watch Series 12 Reads Your Heart Every Five Seconds: What Apple Publishes About That Data
Apple says the Apple Watch Series 12 “measures heart rate every five seconds, all day long”, with 60x more frequent background heart rate readings and 24x more frequent HRV readings than Series 11. What Apple publishes about the handling of all that data runs to two sentences: health and fitness data in the Health app,…
iPhone Duo Monthly Prices: Five of Apple's 10 Storefronts Publish One, and Each Is Just the Price Divided
Apple’s headline monthly figure for iPhone Duo is $83.29 for 24 months, and it is the $1,999 price divided by 24 rather than a finance quote. Multiply it back out and you get $1,998.96, four cents short of the cash price. iPhone Duo in night sky and star white, the two colours offered at every…
Your Apple Watch Will Not Get watchOS 27: What Changes on Monday, and What Does Not
If your Apple Watch is a Series 8 or older, an Apple Watch SE (2nd generation) or the original Apple Watch Ultra, Monday brings you nothing. Those five models ran watchOS 26 and none of them appears on Apple’s watchOS 27 list, which stops at Series 9, SE 3 and Ultra 2. Series 12 ships…
iOS 27 First, Then watchOS 27: The Update Order for Monday, and Where Apple TV Fits
There is a fixed order to Monday’s updates, and Apple publishes it in a footnote rather than an instruction. watchOS 27 requires a paired iPhone already running iOS 27, so the phone goes first and the watch cannot go at all until it does. watchOS 27 installs only after the paired iPhone is on iOS…
visionOS 27 on an M2 Vision Pro: What Arrives Monday, and the Two Features Apple Keeps for the M5
visionOS 27 arrives free on Monday, September 14, and an original M2 Apple Vision Pro gets almost all of it, including the Siri AI beta. Two features are held back for the M5 headset: Siri voice customization and Apple’s improved on-device Dictation model. Apple announced no new headset at its September 9 event. Image: Apple…
watchOS 27's Four Off-Stage Features: Find My, Wallet Passes, Call Context and Kids' Setup
watchOS 27 arrives free on Monday, September 14, and four of its changes were never mentioned on stage: a single Find My app, Wallet passes made by scanning a plastic membership card, Call Context on your wrist, and a setup path for a child’s Apple Watch. None of the four needs an Apple Watch Series…
AirPods 5 vs AirPods Max 2: $420 Apart, and Only One Has a Full Spec Sheet
AirPods 5 costs $129 and AirPods Max 2 costs $549, a gap of $420 inside the same product family. The odd part is that their total rated listening times with noise cancellation are almost the same, at up to 20 hours each. AirPods 5 at $129 sits $420 below the top of Apple's range. Image:…