AirPods 3 teardown uncovers a mystery

November 05, 2021

A teardown of the new AirPods 3 has uncovered a mystery.

Apple's newest earbuds have smaller batteries than the AirPods Pro, but deliver longer battery life. How did Apple do it?

In other news:

  • Why does an old iPhone prototype have a Death Star logo instead of an Apple one?

  • Talking of teardowns, iFixit says a pesky screen chip in the iPhone 13 is exhibit A for better right-to-repair laws.

  • A new audio interface from Rode turns your iPhone into a fully functional recording studio. This looks very handy if you ever make recordings on the road.

  • Notable game releases this week include a new version of the insanely popular FarmVille franchise.

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

Apple’s recently released earbuds boast a longer battery life than either AirPods 2 or AirPods Pro. Why?

Watch a just-released video of this rare device to find out how it differs from the smartphone Apple actually released.

The teardown experts at iFixit confirm that unauthorized display replacements break Face ID on iPhone 13, which they say has “huge implications for the professional repair industry.”

This soft, absorbent Apple Watch band will keep up with your most intense workouts (and the resulting perspiration).

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With just the small audio interface, headphones, mini microphones and some apps, your iPhone, iPad or MacBook becomes a mobile audio powerhouse.

Trying to find tweets posted by a certain user has long been a complicated process. But it just got a lot easier on iPhone and iPad.

Super Mario Kart became an instant success after it debuted in 1992 on the SNES. So, naturally, other game developers tried to replicate it on other platforms. Emora Kart, launched in 1994, is the closest we got on Macintosh.

The new Apple Arcade addition lets players assemble a team of their favorite characters to battle in a real-time person-versus-person strategy game.

It's the newest version of the strategy simulation game series, which first broke out as a hit on Facebook in 2009 with FarmVille.

From time to time, as you work on making your computer setup all it can be, you order new equipment. And maybe it takes a long time to arrive. Perhaps “supply chain” issues intervene. And if that piece of equipment is your workstation’s visual centerpiece — the magnificent display, placed just so for graphical and ergonomic bliss — then what do you do, when you have no external monitor?

Make your AirTag infinitely more useful by combining it with an Elago Case keychain and attaching it to almost anything.

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One more thing ...

"That's the moment that an artist really decides who he or she is. If they keep on risking failure, they're still artists. Dylan and Picasso were always risking failure. This Apple thing is that way for me. I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I tried my best.

What makes you become conservative is realizing that you have something to lose. Remember The Whole Earth Catalog? The last edition had a photo on the back cover of a remote country road you might find yourself on while hitchhiking up to Oregon. It was a beautiful shot, and it had a caption that really grabbed me. It said: 'Stay hungry. Stay foolish.' It wasn't an ad for anything -- just one of Stewart Brand's profound statements. It's wisdom. 'Stay hungry. Stay foolish.'" -- Steve Jobs

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