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  • Apple Releases iPhone SE With New A13 Bionic Chip

    Apple Releases iPhone SE With New A13 Bionic Chip

    Apple has released a new iPhone model, incorporating its newest, fastest chip.

    The new iPhone SE sports a 4.7-inch screen. Apple describes the SE as packing “our most powerful chip into our most popular size at our most affordable price. It’s just what you’ve been waiting for.” The chip in question, the A13 Bionic is the same chip powering the larger iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro models.

    The new models come in 64, 128 and 256GB configurations. Notably, especially for those not sold on Face ID, the iPhone SE has Touch ID instead. The phone also includes a 12MP camera, with a 7MP front-facing camera.

    “The first iPhone SE was a hit with many customers who loved its unique combination of small size, high-end performance and affordable price; the new second-generation iPhone SE builds on that great idea and improves on it in every way — including our best-ever single-camera system for great photos and videos — while still being very affordable,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “iPhone SE features the industry-leading performance of A13 Bionic that enables great battery life, takes stunning Portrait mode and Smart HDR photos, shoots amazing videos with stereo audio, is great for games and super fast web surfing, and is built with the same industry-leading security features our customers expect. We can’t wait to get iPhone SE into customers’ hands.”

    Overall, the iPhone SE is a solid phone at a reasonable price. Give the uncertain economic times, it represents a good option for individuals who need to upgrade but don’t want to pay the price of the iPhone 11 or 11 Pro. Starting at $399, the SE gives people the features they need and want the most, in the most pocketable size available.

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  • Apple Explains iPhone 11 Frequent Location Checking

    Apple Explains iPhone 11 Frequent Location Checking

    Apple has finally explained behavior that lead some to believe new iPhones or iOS 13.x had a privacy bug.

    Security researcher Brian Krebs discovered that the iPhone 11 Pro “intermittently seeks the user’s location information even when all applications and system services on the phone are individually set to never request this data.” He originally contacted Apple on November 13 to report the problem.

    Earlier this week, Apple responded to Krebs by simply saying: “It is expected behavior that the Location Services icon appears in the status bar when Location Services is enabled. The icon appears for system services that do not have a switch in Settings.”

    Needless to say, this vague response is not what people want to hear from a company that has planted its flag on respecting user privacy. Fortunately, Apple has since issued a statement to KrebsOnSecurity, along other venues, providing more information.

    “Ultra Wideband technology is an industry standard technology and is subject to international regulatory requirements that require it to be turned off in certain locations. iOS uses Location Services to help determine if iPhone is in these prohibited locations in order to disable Ultra Wideband and comply with regulations. The management of Ultrawide Band compliance and its use of location data is done entirely on the device and Apple is not collecting user location data.”

    Ultra Wideband is used by AirDrop to enable users to share files from one iPhone to another. The technology gives iPhones “spatial awareness.” This is what makes it possible for users to “share a file with someone using AirDrop simply by pointing at another user’s iPhone.”

    While Apple does plan on allowing users to turn the feature off in the future, it is unknown when this will happen, especially since it involves working with government regulation.

    In any event it’s reassuring to know there is no breach of privacy in play. However, Apple could have saved itself—and its customers—a lot of headache by being more transparent in its initial response or, better yet, by documenting the feature before it became a concern.