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"Apple’s smallest desktop computer, the Mac Mini, has undergone a major redesign and now truly lives up to it’s name - measuring just 5 by 5 inches. It could be the best product that Apple have released in quite some time. In fact, given it’s low price point, this could be one of their most important products for taking market share from the PC segment."
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Market Info November 2024
"Apple have snuck out an update to the iPad mini, which is now in its 7th generation. The previous was first introduced back in 2021, so the mini has certainly been due an update.
The 7th generation iPad mini gets the A17 Pro chip from the iPhone 15 Pro line of phones and will also gain access to Apple Intelligence. However, those features are yet to be released, something that had many cancel their pre-orders for the iPhone 16, and brand it the “most incomplete iPhone release ever”."
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Market Info October 2024
"Apple’s most anticipated event each year that launches the latest iteration of the iPhone announced the 16th generation.
I’m beginning to wonder whether or not it’s time for Apple to rethink the naming of their devices. In 20 years’, time are we still going to be talking about iPhone 36? Surely there is a better way. There has to be, but for the moment Apple have introduced iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro, Apple Watch 10 and Air Pods 4."
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Samsung have held their latest Unpacked event, announcing their new folding phone; a new watch; and the long anticipated Galaxy Ring. Let’s take a look at everything announced!
The latest flagship folding phone, the Galaxy Z Fold 6, is of course, like all new devices these days, teeming with AI- powered features. On the hardware front though, the new model is a minor upgrade. The processor is a new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, with a promised seven year security update. Overall robustness has been improved and the phone now features an IP48 rating over the IPX8 of the previous model These new phones could be more susceptible to dust, with the omission of the ‘X’.
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BeValued Market Info July 2024
"Apple have just held their annual developers conference and there was a lot discussed. Of course we are seeing the usual updates with iOS18, iPadOS18, watchOS 11, and macOS Sequoia, but this year there is also an update to a new operating system with visionOS 2, adding new features to Apple Vision Pro. Year on year, Apple seem to be giving customers more and more ways to personalise their experience and the iOS, and the other related operating systems take this further, with more options for users to further customise their devices more so than ever before.
The event also saw Apple announce Apple Intelligence, which works across all of Apple’s operating systems, and they say, “sets a new standard for privacy in AI”. There are also some additional updates for iPods Pro as well as tvOS 18 introducing some new features to improve the viewing experience and updates to the Home app.
Let’s take a more detailed look at what was announced during the event".
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BeValued Market Info June 2024
"Google have held their annual I/O event for developers, which focused heavily on AI features coming to Android. However, on either side of the event were a couple of small hardware launches; the Google Pixel 8a and a new relaunch of last year’s Google Pixel Tablet.
The new Pixel 8a is a cut down mid-priced smartphone. The same cameras from the previous Pixel 7a are featured with a 64MP with an f1.89 lens, and an ultra-wide 13MP with f2.2 aperture lens. The front camera is also 13MP with an aperture of f2.2. The 8a contains the feature ‘Magic Eraser’ for the first time in their budget line and also has advanced features like ‘Best Take’ and Magic Editor that can fill in backgrounds using generative AI, and Photo Unblur to up-res blurry parts of an image".
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BeValued Market Info May 2024
"Apple have held the new iPad 2024 event and there’s quite a bit to unpack. From a new iPad Pro (which we knew was on its way) to the new iPad Air. It looks like predictions were right regarding the Apple Pencil, as well with a new and more advanced version launching alongside. There’s also a cheaper entry point into iPad, with the previous design now being discontinued. For the most part nothing has radically changed on the new iPads. They don’t fold, they're not transparent like sci-fi movies keep teasing, but they are improved, especially the Pro, so let's dive in."
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A new AI Pin has just hit the market “to solve problems that don’t really exist” and in some reviewers words. The release of the new device has caused some ripples on the internet, but not in the way you would expect. The reviews have not been stellar, and one reviewer in particular is being accused of potentially sinking the new startup based on his criticism. His YouTube video titled “The worst product I have ever reviewed”, but what is the Humane AI Pin, and what are the reasons for this?
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BeValued Market Info April 2024
This is a time of year where we start to see things filtering out from Apple, and whilst there has been nothing big so far, other than the US launch of Vision Pro, they have just updated the MacBook Air line of laptops.
The couple of older M2 equipped MacBook Air’s still remain in the range as a cheaper alternative, but Apple have introduced new models equipped with the M3 chips. The new Mac with M3 is going to be 1.3x faster than the M1 equipped models and 13x more than previous Intel-based models, according to Apple. A recap on the M3; it features an 8-core CPU, and 10-core GPU with this offering a 60% improvement in games over the M1 models, and supports ray- tracing. M3 also features a 16- core Neural Engine. Models can still be configured with up to 24GB of unified memory.
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Market Info March 2024
Legendary Swedish camera maker, Hasselblad, known for their very high priced cameras and lenses, as well as
providing the cameras that NASA used to take pictures from space and on the moon. The famous picture ‘Earthrise’ taken in 1968 was captured with a Hasselblad and still looks incredible to this day! Well, they are back and they have a new camera that caters for both the new, but also the old, so lets take a look.
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BeValued Market Info February 2024
"Almost right after CES wrapped, Samsung held their Unpacked 2024 event to launch their latest Galaxy smartphones to market; the S24 Ultra, S24+ and S24.
On the surface the biggest change, like the iPhone 15 Pro, is that Samsung have opted for Titanium to construct their latest top of the range model. Their reasoning for this change being its increased durability over aluminium. The use of titanium has allowed Samsung to slim down the device whilst making it more damage resistant than the previous S23. Samsung have also gotten rid of the curved edges to the screen in favour of a flat screen design. The S24 Ultra still has a slight curve whilst the S24 Plus and S24 have got completely flat screens".
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Market Info January 2024 - Issue 2
"A new year always begins with tech companies descending on Las Vegas for CES; the world’s largest show for all the new technology that we will see in the year and beyond.
It’s probably not a surprise but AI is everywhere at this year’s show. From cars with ChatGPT integration, devices that use your phone apps for you, televisions utilising AI to improve picture quality, AI powered grills and even AI powered toothbrushes, companies are betting everything on AI."
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Market Info January 2024
"Another product launch from drone manufacturer DJI occurred in November, in the form of their small Pocket line
of vlogging cameras.
The new Osmo Pocket 3 includes a number of improvements over the previous model, the most obvious being the much larger 2.0-inch OLED screen that can also rotate between portrait and landscape formats. Its resolution has also been increased to 314x556 with a brightness of 700 nits. An almost 50% improvement on the previous model."
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Market Info December 2023
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