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💵 iPhone Ultra pricing has leaked

📰 Vodafone Australia briefly published a pricing page for Apple's first foldable iPhone and pulled it down almost immediately. But screenshots have already spread online:

• 256 GB – A$3699 (~$2660)
• 512 GB – A$4199 (~$3020)
• 1 TB – A$4699 (~$3380)

🧮 Prices in Australia typically run about 30% higher than in the US, so recalculated, that puts the US starting price around $2100-2300. That lines up with forecasts from Mark Gurman and TrendForce analysts.

⚠️ If the leaked page is accurate, pre-orders start September 12. Keep in mind this is unofficial: Apple hasn't confirmed any of it, and even the name iPhone Ultra isn't final.

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👂 Apple’s Foldable iPhone Ultra by Tom's Guide and Mark Gurman

📱 Fresh intel from a Tom's Guide interview gives us more details on Apple's first foldable iPhone:

• MagSafe support is expected despite the 4.5mm thickness – the iPhone Air already proved magnets can fit in a slim body
• No room Face ID hardware, so Touch ID will handle biometrics
• 5.5" cover display with a front camera, 7.8" inner display with an almost invisible crease
• Passport-style form factor that is wide, but reportedly comfortable to use
• A20 Pro chip, C2 modem
• Dual rear cameras (wide + ultrawide)
• Camera Control returns, but no Action Button
• A reinforced, extra-durable hinge
• Apple has invested heavily in seamless app resizing as you switch between the two displays
• Announcement expected September 9, with launch either alongside the iPhone 18 Pro or slightly staggered

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⚙️ Next up: the engineer

👋 Say hello to Apple's new CEO, John Ternus — the guy who's spent the last several years running hardware: iPhone, Mac, iPad, all of it his call.

• There's something fitting here: Cook was about operations and supply chains, Ternus is about engineering and product. One built the system, the other builds the things you actually hold in your hand.

• And there's basically no time to settle in. September 9 brings the big iPhone event, where the first foldable is expected. So Ternus steps into the job literally a week before one of the most important dates on Apple's calendar.

• Analysts are split on whether this was the right call. Some argued software chief Craig Federighi made more sense, given how far Apple is lagging in AI. But Carolina Milanesi of Creative Strategies pushes back: people buy hardware first, and only later figure out what AI is actually good for. So betting on a hardware engineer tracks.

🤝 Then there's China and Trump. Cook spent years threading the needle between Beijing and the White House, dodging tariffs through personal dealmaking and US investment pledges. For Ternus, that geopolitical balancing act is completely new territory. Cook himself isn't going anywhere, as of the same day, he becomes executive chairman of the board, and his mandate is specifically to keep working the policy relationships worldwide. Neatly arranged.

🔜 So Ternus inherits a solid foundation and a supply chain that's already humming – plus 8️⃣ days to get ready for what could be the release of the decade.

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👋 Pikachu visits Apple Park to say goodbye to Tim Cook

🔔 Starting, tomorrow September 1st, Cook is no longer Apple's CEO – John Ternus takes over.

Today's agenda at Apple Park: Introduce the Pokemon team to John, talk gaming, and politely ask Pikachu to stay out of the pond. Two out of three were accomplished.

– Tim Cook wrote on 𝕏.

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🔌 Apple's new charger has a retractable plug that pops out at the push of a button

📰 Apple's 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with a retractable Europlug is now rolling out across 19 European countries plus Vietnam. Folded up, it's smaller than a bar of soap as the prongs tuck flush into the body when not in use, making it a lot more pocket/bag-friendly than a standard fixed-prong charger.

🔋 Specs: it delivers a sustained 40W with bursts up to 60W.

💶 In the EU, the Europlug version is priced at €45.

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🤧 New & cheaper Apple Polishing Cloth

📰 The new Polishing Cloth still works on any Apple surface or display, as stated in the instructions. The size hasn't changed, but it's a bit darker, much softer, and thinner. Crumple the old one and it snaps back into shape fast — crumple the new one and it stays wrinkled, that's how soft it is. Early buyers describe it as closer to a glasses-cleaning cloth, or very similar in lightness to the Vision Pro's cloth.

📦 The packaging has changed too: the box is now thinner, and the opening seal is longer. The amount of text on the back of the box also varies by region.

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🚨 Apple's foldable iPhone – September 9

📆 Apple has confirmed its fall event: Wednesday, September 9, 10 AM PT. Theme: "Surprise and Shine." This will be the first major keynote under new CEO John Ternus.

Expect:
• iPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max
• Apple's first foldable iPhone (rumored: iPhone Ultra), starting around $2,000
• Apple Watch Series 12

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🆕 Apple unveils new Mac mini and Mac Studio

🙂 Mac mini gets the M6 chip: Apple's first 2nm silicon, packing 12 cores and graphics with memory bandwidth up to 160 GB/s. The base model with 16GB RAM and M6 starts at $899, while M5 Pro configurations start at $1,699.

🙂 Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips offers up to 36 CPU cores, 80 GPU cores, and up to 512GB of unified memory with bandwidth up to 1.2 TB/s. Pricing starts at $2,499 for the M5 Max version and $5,499 for M5 Ultra.

🔎 Both machines feature the new Apple N1 chip with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 support, plus storage speeds up to 15 GB/s (twice as fast as before). Mac mini comes standard with 2.5 Gbit Ethernet, upgradeable to 10 Gbit.

📅 Both devices launch September 22, running macOS 27 Golden Gate.

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🆕 Foldable iPhone: first impressions

📰 According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, testers who've gotten hands-on time with Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone say it feels comfortable to hold and slips easily into a pocket. The hinge is reportedly quiet and barely noticeable when open, and the inner display runs an iPad-style app layout.

😐 But the premium price tag comes with trade-offs. The device is expected to ship with Touch ID instead of Face ID, and the camera setup won't include a telephoto lens.

💵 On pricing, there's actually some good news: Gurman now expects the foldable to launch around $2,000 which is lower than the $2,400 figure floated in earlier rumors.

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💭 ChatGPT can now text people for you

📰 OpenAI gave ChatGPT the ability to read, write, and send iMessages on your behalf. You can ask it to dig through your chat with your boss to find a deadline, or — per OpenAI's own demo — have it "write a poem about soup and send it to a friend." Yeah, that's apparently the bar for useful use cases right now.

ℹ️ To do any of this, it needs to hoover up your entire message history first. That means your bank's SMS notifications, financial details, inside jokes, personal stuff with friends and family, all of it gets fed in, presumably so that when you ask "what should I get my friend for their birthday," it can hallucinate something halfway decent.

🤖 OpenAI says the bot won't just start firing off messages to random people without your permission. Whether that holds up in practice is something users get to find out themselves.

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🎧 AirPods with built-in cameras spotted in macOS 26.7 RC beta

🔎 A short clip found in the pre-release build of macOS 26.7 shows someone holding a book close to their face at just the right angle for the cameras built into the upcoming AirPods.

🤪 Siri's voiceover explains that all you need to do is ask her to remember something you've seen, and she'll save it. The assistant will also be able to read the surrounding environment through the cameras — for instance, giving an accurate weather forecast based on what it sees. And if your hair covers the earbuds, Siri will politely ask you to move it.

📷 The firmware also contains references to a codename, B790 which is reportedly the internal name for the upcoming camera-equipped AirPods.

🔜 The announcement is expected as early as September, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra.

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📍Apple's next Mac mini will be built in Texas

🤝 Less than a year after Tim Cook's meeting with Trump at the White House, Apple has already opened a factory in Houston, set up production lines, and started assembling Apple Intelligence servers there.

🙂 Next up: production of the new Mac mini, kicking off before the end of 2026.

📰 Cook shared these plans while opening Apple's Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston — an education hub attached to the factory that will train the next generation of American engineers. Right now it's mainly for Apple employees learning new processes, but the company plans to open it to local college students too, with lectures on PCB design and hands-on access to real equipment.

🇺🇸 Overall, Apple aims to invest up to $600B in the US economy and support 450,000 jobs nationwide. This is the pledge Cook made to Trump last year.

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😐 Leaked screen protectors for the foldable iPhone's outer display just surfaced online

📸 The photos reportedly match the device's real shape: asymmetric bezels (square on the left, rounded on the right) and a front camera tucked into the right corner, not centered or left-aligned as earlier rumors suggested. By the way, Mark Gurman recently pushed back on doubts about the "iPhone Ultra" name, saying that's simply what Apple calls it internally.

📆 On the release side, Australian outlet ChannelNews claims Apple will unveil the foldable iPhone at its September 8 event but hold off on selling it alongside the iPhone 18 Pro. Citing supply chain sources, they say production hiccups mean the U.S. will get it first, with China and Australia following later, echoing the staggered rollouts of the original iPhone and Vision Pro.

⬆️ Worth treating with some skepticism though, since the carriers and retailers may just be echoing other analysts' guesses rather than confirmed plans.

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