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Amazon is offering discounts and no-cost EMI options on select Apple products this-week Amazon India has kicked off a week-only Apple Fest sale with deals and offers on a number of Apple products. The Amazon sale was started on December 8 and will run from until next Saturday, December 14. The seven-day Amazon sale will offer deals on Apple's smartphones, laptops, tablets, accessories and more. Amazon Apple sale offers Amazon claims it is offering discounts worth up to Rs. 16,000 on iPhones along with no-cost EMI options. The  iPhone X  is available at Rs. 74,999 (MRP Rs. 79,999) along with a no-cost EMI option for up to 9 months on major credit cards. This is similar to the deal we saw during festive season sales earlier this year. Similarly  iPhone 6S  is available at Rs. 24,999 (MRP Rs. 29,900) and  iPhone 6  at Rs. 21,999 (MRP Rs. 23,750). Both the phones are available with no-cost EMI options as well. Apart from these, the  iPhone X...

Amazon's Echo smart speakers already support a variety of music services, including Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn. And  starting on December 17 , Apple Music will join this little cohort. Apple Music users will be able to ask Alexa to play their favourite songs, artists and albums as well as any of the streaming service's curated playlists and radio stations. Echo owners will simply need to enable the Apple Music skill in the Alexa app, link their account and they'll be good to go. Making Apple Music available on Echo devices might seem like it's running counter to Apple's usual strategy of using services as qlure for hardware (and vice versa), but the company can apparently see the sense of making its streaming service available on the most popular home speaker platform out there. It also to be happier about appearing on Amazon's platform recently. Earlier this month, it struck a new deal with the e-commerce gaint to sell iPhones, iPads and ot...

Apple Inc. disclosed a pair of issues affecting two of its more popular products: the iPhone X and the 13-inch MacBook Pro. The technology giant Apple said, the screen on some iPhone units doesn't respond or responds intermittently when touched. The company also said some units could have displays that react even when they aren't touched. The iPhone X went on  sale last November and was discontinued when the iPhone XS and iPhone XR  were introduced in September. Users have reported the touch screen issues online for several months. Apple also said a “limited number” of 13-inch MacBook Pros  have “an issue that may result in data loss and failure of the drive.” The laptops were sold from June 2017 to June 2018 with 128 gigabytes or 256 GB of storage and no Touch Bar, Apple said in a note to customers. The company recommends affected users have their laptops “serviced as soon as possible.” In the case of the iPhone X, Apple is offering free screen replacements for t...

Apple’s been rumoured to be  working  on a pair of its own over-ear headphones for a while now, but details on the rumoured product have been pretty slim beyond the basic concept. A newly granted patent, titled “System and method for automatic right-left ear detection for headphones ,” may hint at what Apple is planning, though. It describes a pair of headphones that would be reversible, automatically adjusting which ear cup is the right or left based on how you put them on,  via9to5mac . The patent claims describe a system where each ear cup would have five microphones on it to be used to determine which ear cup is which through a variety of complicated methods involving comparing relative microphone inputs. Never Spend Time Figuring Out Which Ear Is Which Again Once the headphones have determined their placement, the patent also describes how the headphones could use those mic arrays to pull off a similar beamforming trick as the HomePod, using one mic to cap...