Today a set of specifications has leaked giving the dimensions of the next big iPhone. This iPhone 8, as it's being called, could also be referred to as iPhone OLED, iPhone Pro, or iPhone Edition - whatever you want, since no real confirmation of its existence has been made by Apple as of yet. What we've got today, thanks to these dimensions, is the ability to compare this generation's iPhone to the next.
As you've likely heard by now, rumors have foretold that we can expect a few different models of iPhone to release later this year. One of them is said to be a special anniversary edition iPhone - perhaps named the iPhone 8. Among other features, numerous reports have said that this phone will have an OLED display.
If you count yourself as an Apple fan, then you may have noticed that there's one device that hasn't really gotten any love in a while: the iPad Mini. The last update the iPad Mini line received was back in September 2015 with the introduction of the iPad Mini 4, and even then, it was announced without much fanfare as a footnote to a larger iPad Pro presentation. If it seems to you like Apple is beginning to shift away from the iPad Mini, you may not be wrong - new rumors claim that Apple is looking to discontinue the iPad Mini line altogether.
Now that the Galaxy S8 has officially landed, we've wasted little time in turning out attention to Samsung's next handset. Most years, that would be autumn's Galaxy Note entry - the Galaxy Note 8 in this instance - but we could very well have another Samsung phone to look forward to before that. As you've likely already gleaned from the title, that phone is the Galaxy Note 7R, which could be landing in Korea shortly.
Apple is always rumored to be thinking about dipping its toe into different industries, but this newest one might make some degree of sense given the services Apple already offers. As an extension of Apple Pay, Apple is reportedly looking to break into the peer-to-peer payment systems. This would put Apple in a position to compete with existing services like Venmo or Square Cash.
Nintendo has been in the news a lot lately for its rather wacky decision to cancel the popular NES Classic Edition. Thus far, Nintendo hasn't given an exact reason for this decision, only saying that the NES Classic was never intended to be a long-running product. Today, though, we're hearing a rather interesting rumor that could have something to do with the demise of the NES Classic: Nintendo may want to make way for an incoming SNES Classic Edition.
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that this year marks the iPhone's 10th anniversary. Apple is largely expected to do something big for this milestone, and thus far a lot of the rumors have pointed toward a special anniversary edition iPhone that could cost as much as $1,000. Today we're hearing more about this anniversary iPhone, and just what Apple will do to make it stand out from the more standard offerings launching alongside it.
We're a week out from the launch of the Galaxy S8 and already reports of hardware variants are starting to pick up steam. Today the topic of discussion is the Galaxy S8 Active - the next installment in Samsung's line of rugged smartphones. We're hearing reports today that the Galaxy S8 Active does indeed exist and has a model number of SM-G892A.
Longtime Nintendo fans have been wondering about the fate of Pokemon ever since the Switch arrived on the scene - does Nintendo keep making Pokemon games for the 3DS, or does it shift the series to the Switch? Today we're getting an indication that the long-running series could be heading to the Switch, thanks to a new series of job listings for positions at Game Freak.
The Galaxy S8 will apparently have more security options than any of its predecessors, according to new reports today. Rumors out of Korea claim that Samsung will include facial recognition technology in the Galaxy S8 and its larger brother, the Galaxy S8 Plus. This would be in addition to fingerprint and iris scanners we've already seen in previous Samsung devices.
Get ready for another report about the iPhone 8, because The Wall Street Journal has published a doozy today. According to the paper, the next iPhone will sport a curved OLED display, though we've heard some kind of variant of that claim frequently over the past few months. What's really surprising about the WSJ's report is the claim that Apple will ditch Lightning with the iPhone 8 in favor of USB-C.
Samsung and LG are gearing up to officially reveal their flagship devices for 2017 in the next few weeks, and while we already know a lot about these handsets, there's one important detail about both that's still a mystery: release dates. New reports are painting a clearer picture in that regard, leaking out the South Korean release dates for both handsets.
