The next generation Apple Watch may add the ability to measure blood pressure, blood glucose, and blood alcohol levels, reports The Telegraph. The report bases this conclusion on the fact that Apple is the biggest customer of the British electronics start-up Rockley Photonics. Rockley Photonics s
In a note to clients as noted by MacRumors analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple will launch an eight-inch foldable iPhone in 2023. The Sellers Research Group (that’s me) has been dubious that the tech giant would ever launch such a product, but Kuo’s predictions are usually on target.
Plus, Apple has been granted numerous patents for foldable iPhones (and even foldable iPads). For example, patent filing number 20200313111 for “electronic devices with flexible display cover layers” that hints at foldable iPhones with “self-healing’ displays.
Here’s what Kuo has to say on the matter:
Based on our latest industry survey, we forecast that Apple will likely launch a foldable iPhone with an 8-inch QHD+ flexible OLED display in 2023, with SDC as the exclusive display supplier and Samsung Foundry as the exclusive DDI foundry provider. Based on Apple’s requested capacity plan, we predict that the foldable iPhone shipments will reach 15-20 million units in 2023. W
Apple will announce a new high-fidelity audio streaming tier for its Apple Music + service in the coming weeks at the same $9.99-per-user price point as its standard plan, reports Hits Daily Double, quoting unnamed label sources.
The article says the announcement is expected to coincide with the launch of the third-generation AirPods, although “whether these will be compatible with the new, improved audio offering is unknown.” Hits Daily Double says that speculation within the industry suggests Apple’s move is to provide a more aggressively priced, higher-quality option after Spotify announced this week it was raising prices.
The Sellers Research Group (that’s me) thinks there’s a 99.9% chance this will happen (and that the next gen AirPods and AirPods Pro will support this). It seems only natural as one criticism of Apple Music+ is that there’s no lossless audio streaming option.
In a note to clients as noted by AppleInsider analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says we’ll see the rumored “Apple Glasses” (an augmented reality/virtual reality/mixed reality headset) and an iPhone with a 48-megapixel camera in 2022.
The Sellers Research Group (that’s me) thinks he’s right on both counts though I think Apple will offer some tantalizing glimpses of the AR/VR headset at June’s Worldwide Developer Conference. As for an iPhone with a 48-pixel camera, that sounds about right as Apple is always beefing up the photography features on its smartphone.
When it comes to Apple Glasses, depending on which rumor you believe, it will be a head-mounted display. Or may have a design like “normal” glasses. Or it may be eventually be available in both. The Apple Glasses may or may not have to be tethered to an iPhone to work. Other rumors say that Apple Glasses could have a custom-build Apple chip and a dedicated operating system dubbed “rOS” for “reality operating sys
Apple has applied for a patent (number 20210118238) for “registration between actual mobile device position and environmental model.” It involves the rumored “Apple Glasses,” a virtual reality/augmented reality/mixed reality head-mounted display (HMD).
This patent involves the use of an iPhone with such a device. In other words, the HMD would use the Apple smartphone as its engine.
The iPhone may be mounted on the side of the Apple Glasses that is opposite of the side on which the device’s display is placed. Enhanced reality applications would capture the contents currently within the view of the camera in real time and present those contents on the HMD display.