Michael Burkhardt

Belkin is now offering two new semi solid state batteries for your iPhone. There’s one 10,000mAh offering with a USB-C port for charging. The second is a 5,000mAh MagSafe offering, which offers 15W Qi2 charging. Both come in much lighter than you’d expect, and both offer premium aluminum builds that are cold to the touch.

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.

If you want more of a nostalgic video feel from your iPhone footage, Flipcorder is a great app to check out. It’s optimized for iPhone Duo, though the app also works on all other iPhone models.

Yesterday, I picked up my iPhone Duo at Apple Fifth Avenue, and it’s been a wonder to use. Of course, the phone isn’t perfect, but after my first day of usage, I’m looking forward to daily driving it – even if it has a couple quirks.

iPhone Duo preorders just begun, and iPhone 18 Pro has been on the market for about a month. Of course, iPhone Duo is backordered through January right now, so whether or not you’re considering buying these phones – it makes it really easy to think about what’s coming next.

After pre-orders for iPhone Duo opened, Apple uploaded an EU regulatory document that finally revealed the true battery capacity for iPhone Duo: 4883mAh. Here’s how that compares to other iPhones.

Apple Watch Series 12 has been a marvel of an upgrade, at least for me. I’ve written about it many times, and personally – I have found that the Apple Watch Series 12 is a competent replacement for the WHOOP. That said, in my past month testing it, there’s one WHOOP feature I’ve found myself missing.

After over a decade of not adopting touch displays on its Mac notebook lineup, Apple will finally be releasing its first touchscreen MacBook as early as November 6th, after announcing it as early as October 27th.

Apple just announced its long awaited smart home display: HomeView, and it’s available for $299. That said, the product has been in development for quite some time, being held back by all of the delays with developing a smarter Siri.

Now that it’s on the market, some customers have had concern about the fact that you have to move the HomeView around yourself if its on a table with multiple people surrounding it. According to the Power On newsletter, it might not be too long before Apple has a solution.

According to a new report from MacRumors, Apple employees are being told to warn customers that iPhone Duo likely won’t be available for purchase on launch day if you didn’t already place a pre-order.

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.

If you’re someone who collects tons of varying Apple products, Hoardware is your one-stop shop for keeping track of it all. Hoardware lets you track all of your hardware, as well as the software versions, model numbers, and anything else that might be relevant.

Last month, UGREEN introduced a new Qi2.2 25W 10000mAh MagSafe battery bank for iPhone. There have been plenty of these, but this one has an interesting new twist: liquid cooling.

As part of its iPhone Duo preorder announcement, UK carrier EE has announced pricing details for iPhone Handoff – making it the first carrier in the UK to do so. Here are the details.

iPhone Duo is just about a week away from launching, and now that preorders have opened, Apple’s official iPhone Duo accessories have started to hit stores for early purchases. After purchasing, some users have noticed that the silicone case has a little bit of a caveat.

In just a couple days, Apple should be unveiling its long-awaited new lineup of new Home products. That includes an updated HomePod mini, Apple TV 4K, the brand-new smart home hub called ‘HomeView’, as well as a new lineup of smart home accessories, in collaboration with LG. Here’s what to expect with the HomePod mini 2.

iPhone Duo is just about two weeks away from releasing, and according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple has big retail plans ahead for its first foldable iPhone, to make sure every customer gets to see it to the fullest.

Earlier this year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman revealed that Apple has a new M7-powered entry level MacBook Pro in the pipeline for spring 2027. This isn’t an ordinary MacBook Pro refresh though. It’ll bring the upcoming redesign down to the entry level, something that previously wasn’t expected.

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact.

Milepost turns your roadtrips into more of a journey. It lets you record all of your drives, and journal all of the key moments that happened along the route, so your roadtrips become a lot more memorable – rather than just a blip of time.

This week, Amazon unveiled a new lineup of Alexa Tablets. They no longer run a proprietary OS with a custom App Store, and instead embrace Android with a stock feel – while offering the Play Store. It’s a big shift in direction for Amazon. The tablets also look quite beautiful, while previous Fire tablets have felt cheap. I think these have the opportunity to do quite well.

Today, Amazon’s Ring subsidiary is announcing its first ever smart lock. It solves a key problem that looms over many smart lock owners: dead batteries. Ring has a clever solution to negate that problem, and it’ll be available in Q1 2027. Additionally, the company is announcing a few new security cameras with improved low-light performance.

Since the unveiling of iPhone Duo, the idea of all major interface navigation elements being accessible from your thumb has been really interesting. Apple re-invented the idea of smartphone navigation with the outer display on iPhone Duo, and now it feels quite wrong that every smartphone puts things at the top.

AirPods are one of Apple’s most interesting products. The demand for them was largely invented by the fact that the company removed the headphone jack 10 years ago, and now most of us carry this almost magical pair of earbuds that do so much more than just play audio. AirPods offer best-in-class noise cancellation, and also serve as a hearing aid. They get better and better almost every year.

Despite everything that AirPods do so well, I have one annoyance with them, and it’s particularly annoying because it could be such an easy software fix.