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Apple and its partners might make some pretty excellent iPad covers, but few of them offer more than basic protection and added style. Today though, Apple was granted a patent for a rather more exciting iPad Smart Cover, which includes a built-in display and a Wacom-like tablet for drawing.
The Surface Book is one of the coolest Windows laptops ever, and given its strong critical reception a follow-up was never in doubt. Today, we’ve received the first indication that a successor is coming soon, via GSMArena.
You heard it here first: modular phones are in. From early prototypes like Google’s Project Ara to more mainstream options like LG’s G5, there seems to be a growing trend towards phones that you can take apart and reassemble with new hardware and features. The next big modular phone? It’s going to be the new Moto X.
The iPhone 7 has been the subject of excited speculation for months, but recent rumours have been pretty dull. According to schematics sourced by @OnLeaks, the iPhone 7 will almost exactly copy the iPhone 6 and 6S, rather than adopting a new design as we’ve seen every two years.
Xiaomi announced the MiMax today, a few days after the phone was leaked by a Chinese government agency. The phone is something of a curiosity, with a titanic 6.4-inch screen yet a super-slim 7.5mm metal body.