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  • Brand:Microsoft
  • Capacity :8030mAh 60.8Wh
  • Voltage :7.57V
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Replacement Battery for Apple A1661 A1784 A1785 A1786 iPhone 7 Plus Part NO 616-00249 616-00252

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Class Action Lawsuit Over Broken iPhone 4, 4s, and 5 Power Buttons Finally Proceeding to Trial

A class action lawsuit originally filed against
Apple in 2013 over broken iPhone 4, iPhone 4s, and later iPhone 5 power buttons
is finally set toproceed to jury trial in San Diego
state court beginning October 25, 2019. 
The lawsuit alleges that Apple knowingly sold theaforementioned iPhone models with “defective” power buttons andrefused to properly remedy the issue. For this, Apple is accused of
“deceptive” or “fraudulent” business practices, breach of
warranty, and violating multiple California consumer laws. 

The proposed class includes California residents
who purchased an iPhone 4, iPhone 4s, or iPhone 5 from Apple or a third-party
retailer:

iPhone 4 and 4S Class: 

All California citizens who purchased one or more iPhone 4 or 4S smartphones
from Apple or a third-party retailer, from June 24, 2010 through October 10,
2011 for the iPhone 4, and from October 11, 2011 through September 20, 2012 for
the iPhone 4S, and whose sleep/wake (power) button stopped working or worked
intermittently during a one year period from date of purchase.

iPhone 5 Class: 

All California citizens who purchased one or more iPhone 5 smartphones from
Apple or a third-party retailer prior to April 1, 2013, and whose sleep/wake
(power) button stopped working or worked intermittently during a three year
period from date of purchase.

In April 2014, Apple initiated a programoffering free repairs of a “small
percentage” of iPhone 5 models with power buttons that may “stop
working or work intermittently,” but the lawsuit alleges that the program
went “unnoticed” and began “ten months after the initial complaint
in this matter.” 

The class action lawsuit seeks damages in anamount to be proven at trial, plus restitution, injunctive, and declaratory
relief. Apple denies all of the allegations in the complaint, and denies that
it did anything improper or unlawful. 

As with any class action lawsuit, proposed
members can do nothing to remain part of the class, or opt out to retain the right to sue Apple
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iPhone XS and XR review: Six months in, here’s how they’re holding up

Over
the last few months since the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR arrived,
I’ve been cycling through them all. But the phone landscape has been crowded
with  much sexier stories recently: 5G is beginning to rear its head, wild new transforming folding phones are
capturing people’s imaginations and there are phones studded with more cameras
than you can keep track of.
The iPhones from late 2018 are not so interesting in comparison.
But that’s also to their credit. After all, when Verizon launched its 5G
network it turned out to be spottier than expected,
Samsung’s Galaxy Fold phone is already breaking, and some of those
camera-studded phones don’t do quite as much as
you think.
The iPhones, meanwhile,
feel pretty flawless, which is quite un-newsworthy. They’re clearly Apple’s
most polished and perfected products right now.
But that doesn’t mean they couldn’t use improvements. The phone
industry is accelerating so fast that Apple’s phones are inevitably going to
change with it. But where they are now is a very solid, stable place — if not
an exciting one.

Which
iPhone should you have gotten?

Good news: Whatever iPhone you picked last year, if you picked one
that is, you’re just fine. (You’re also fine if you have the iPhone X or iPhone 8 or iPhone 7,
too!) Each model has its advantages and drawbacks. My favorite is still the
iPhone XR. It has the best price-to-value pick, its battery life is great and
its smaller size is ideal for me. And the iPhone XR’s LCD screen, while
technically not as good as the iPhone XS’ OLED, isn’t perceptibly different in
everyday use.
But I appreciate the added antennas, durability and, in
particular, the dual rear camera of the iPhone XS models. I use the 2x zoom for
on-location shoots and closeup shots of my kids all the time. A dual camera
iPhone XR this year seems like an inevitability, especially if the new premium iPhones
get three rear cameras. The XS and XS Max still feel too expensive (not as
expensive as a folding phone, though).

Camera:
Good, but could definitely be better

The iPhone XS and XR do a great job in everyday use, and their
cameras are really good. Video capture is particularly excellent too. But there
are other phones that can do things the iPhone can’t.
The newest Samsung Galaxy S10,
for example, has three rear cameras, offering an ultra wide-angle lens that the
iPhones don’t have. It’s a common trend,
and the more lenses you have, the more framing options you have.
Although some phones edge out the iPhones in
photo quality based on CNET tests, it’s really one specific feature from one specific phone I
envy the most — Night Sight on the Pixel 3. After trying Google’s low-light mode on the Pixel 3, I
immediately loved what it did for my photos. The iPhone can handle well without
flash most of the time, but Night Sight is on a different level. It’s the sort
of feature that either iOS 13 or the next iPhone should have.

Face ID
stands alone

There are other phones that have face unlocking, and others have
in-display fingerprint scanners, like the Galaxy S10 and OnePlus 6T.
But Face ID remains the smoothest and best implementation of facial biometrics
I’ve seen. Even though I’m still not wild about how many times I seem to still
need to enter my passcode because my face is at the wrong angle, Face ID in
general works well and works invisibly. It’s even more useful when it reads my
face to pull up my app passwords and help with logins, which is something I’ve
become hooked on.

Let’s
talk AirPower (and charging)

The AirPower wireless charging mat was a looming promise since
2017, and it suggested that charging for the iPhone and its accessories would
be vastly improved. Now that Apple canceled AirPower though, what’s the
alternative?
The iPhone still uses Lightning to charge, and a too-slow 5-watt
charger bundled with the phone. The iPhone should have fast charging right out
of the box, but in the meantime you could buy larger chargers and adapters for
USB-C chargers at an extra cost.
And while wireless Qi charging is nice to have, iPhones still
charge as fast with wireless Qi as other phones do. Moving to USB-C and faster
Qi charging need to happen in 2019.
In addition, it’d be cool if the iPhone could wirelessly charge
other accessories too. This would be cribbed directly from Samsung, whose
Galaxy S10 phones can cleverly charge Galaxy Buds and the Galaxy Watch right throughtheir back. The Apple Watch could use that type of convenience when
traveling and you wouldn’t have to bring an extra charger.

The
iPhone is a stable buoy in a changing world

The iPhone is still a really great phone, but it continues to feelfamiliar in a world of increasingly changing tech. It’s almost, dare I say, the
comfort choice? It’s the device that connects to all my things, and it powers
the connections to most of the tech I test and wear. It’s a cornerstone device
and it does a good job at being exactly that. It’s the product Apple makes that
feels the most recommendable. And yet, as the shape of phones (figuratively and
literally) begins to transform to farther-off possibilities, the iPhone remains
the familiar, stable — almost boring — device, not the more exciting wild new
one.
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Goldman Sachs: Apple’s iPhone sales this year will disappoint, causing stock decline

Goldman Sachs underscored its lukewarm thesis on Apple and said it believes the company
will ship fewer iPhones in late 2019 than the 67 million the rest of Wall
Street expects.

Analyst Rod Hall reiterated his neutral rating Tuesday, telling
clients that it’s increasingly likely that Apple falls short of unit sales and
average selling price estimates later this year.
“We believe consensus is assuming a steep recovery in China, with
little change in demand trajectory for other [geographies],” Hall told clients
in a note. “We note that iPhone shipments in the U.S. and Japan cycled up in
CY18 [calendar year 2018], with U.S. shipments growing 8% year over year in
CY18.”
“A better consumer environment for the most part of 2018 combinedwith compelling products later in the year helped drive iPhone growth in theseregions,” he added. “For CY19, however, we note that U.S. consumer sentiment is
down year over year and an end to subsidies in Japan could create volatility.”
Apple shares were slightly higher in premarket trading Wednesday.
The equity is up more than 27% over the last 12 months to $207.48 a share
through Tuesday.
Goldman Sachs increased its price target on Apple to $182 on
Wednesday, which still represents a 12% decline from here.
Apple has in recent years incorporated more luxurious features inits phone production, hoping to combat a decelerating replacement cycle with a
higher average selling price (ASP). New generations include facial recognition
and wireless charging, more storage capacity and larger screens.
The tactic has had mixed success across the globe. iPhone
shipments in France, the United Kingdom and Spain declined 12%, 11% and 3%,
respectively, in 2018 despite the deluxe offerings. Units fell 23% year over
year in China over the same period, including a 44% year-over-year decline in
the fourth quarter, Goldman’s Hall added.
“It is too early to assume a recovery on units in China to
pre-2018 levels given increasing local brand traction and ongoing consumer
weakness that may suggest a “new normal” level of demand for the country,” Hall
wrote.
The analyst estimates 61 million iPhone sales in the December 2019quarter, 8% below FactSet consensus. His average selling price estimate for
fourth-quarter 2019 is $806, or 4% above consensus.

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  • Capacity :3300mAh
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Chanel’s President Of Fashion On The House’s Latest Exhibition And Life After Karl

Sitting down with Chanel’s President of Fashion, Bruno Pavlovsky, only a matter of months after the passing of the house’s
legendary creative director Karl Lagerfeld and the subsequent appointment of his second-in-command
Virginie Viard, could well be a slightly fraught affair. After all, this is one
of the world’s most revered – and lucrative – luxury brands, and it has just
lost the man who ensured its sustained success throughout his over 30-year
reign. In fact, so profound has his impact been on the brand that today
Lagerfeld’s name is almost as interwoven with the Chanel narrative as that of
Coco herself. But in the sticky Shanghai heat, amidst the opening celebrations
surrounding the latest and largest iteration of Chanel’s travelling Mademoiselle Privé exhibition,
Pavlovsky is resolutely calm. “Nobody is eternal,” he smiles. “The brand is
stronger than that.”
The 6000 square feet that comprise Mademoiselle Privé are, in manyways, testament to the fact. “If you understand Mademoiselle Privé, you understand
the brand,” explains Pavlovsky. “We are not talking about product – we are
talking about Mademoiselle Chanel: her posture, her vision.” An enormous
exploration of the house’s three core pillars – haute couture, high jewellery
and fragrance – it showcases the profound confidence of a brand whose codes are
set in stone. Where Karl Lagerfeld excelled was in modernising them: in
enlisting the couture ateliers to turn their hand to fabrics like concrete or
neoprene; in dressing his cool girl muses in astonishing diamonds; in
maintaining the legendary renown of Chanel No. 5. If CocoChanelestablished what is now the world’s longest-standing
couturier, then Karl was responsible for ensuring she retained contemporary
relevance.
The most remarkable aspect of the exhibition is the couturetableaux installed behind the door of Shanghai’s very own 31 Rue Cambon: 33silhouettes taken from six couture collections, from Spring/Summer 2013 to Autumn/Winter2018. But even more impressive than the hundreds, sometimes thousands, of hours
of labour that go into each of the looks – the extraordinary laminated lace,
the hand-painted pencil shavings that appear as wooden ruffles, the laser-cut
tweed suits that technically reinvented Chanel’s most renowned designs – is the
idea that each has an impact that reverberates beyond the lucky few who can
afford them.
While the garments that comprise Chanel couture might only be
acquired by the most privileged elite, their astonishing creation significantly
informs the rest of the house – both in terms of luxury branding and technical
finesse. Lagerfeld was famously obsessed with both the present and the future –
after all, as he told Suzy Menkes for Vogue before his passing, “Fashion is about change – and I
like change. I do it like I breathe.” The innovation he introduced to
couture and ready-to-wear was first explored through the laboratories staffed
by his petits mains, who would develop never-before-used fabrics and techniques
to add to their repertoire: “Haute couture is a kind of research and
development,” explains Pavlovsky.

When, in 1997, the Chanel subsidiary Paraffection was set up to
purchase Paris’s couture ateliers in order to sustain their craftsmanship,
it ensured the safety of that strategy: a set of dying industries were
revitalised anew, powered by the strength of Chanel financing (and the apparent
equity of the deal: there’s no monopoly on their expertise, and every métier is
permitted to work for other houses). When last year, for the first time in its
118-year history, Chanel released its figures, they proved the success of that
mechanism: fashion, rather than fragrance or beauty, is what drives the
business (those figures also indicated that the company’s growth is
significantly indebted to the Asian market). “Everything we’re doing at Chanel
is [preparing] for the next 20 years,” says Pavlovsky of the initial decision
to invest in the company. Two decades on and those ateliers “are the key to our
product,” says Pavlovsky. “We need to have that know-how.”
Inviting the public to immerse themselves in that savoir-faire,
then, is a smart marketing move: you’d be hard pressed not to wander among some
of these looks and become entirely convinced by the strength of the Chanel
message: phenomenal clothing made with exquisite elegance. Then, there’s the
high jewellery: Chanel’s equivalent of diamond-encrusted couture. On show are
recreations of Coco’s 1932 designs, alongside the sort of contemporary pieces
that ought require an army of security: a 307 carat rutilated quartz mounted on
a 32.98 carat diamond; a golden plastron starring a 18-carat gold plastron
starring a 6.52-carat stone. Presented against a backdrop of lacquered screens
created by Chinese artist Wu Guanzhen, and amidst a gallery of Karl Lagerfeld’s
muses wearing his understanding of Coco’s codes, it makes for arresting impact.

“We have a lot of fans here in China,” reflects Pavlovsky. “And
need to give them the opportunity to better understand what Mademoiselle
Chanel, and what the Chanel of today, is about… What you see here is the future
of the brand, because these pillars will continue to incarnate what is so
special, what is unique at Chanel.” During a time when speculation surrounding
the brand’s future is, understandably, at an all-time high, saturating one of
their most important markets in the luxuriant essence of its allure makes
perfectly-timed sense. From the array of gowns to the displays of diamonds; the
walls of Chanel No. 5 to the cinema-scale screening sessions of Lagerfeld’s
films, you can imagine the fans will find plenty to sate them.
But perhaps more importantly, Shanghai’s Madmoiselle Privé is a reminderthat Chanel’s codes, and the infrastructure that has been built around them,ought long survive a single designer. “The job done by Karl over the past ten
years was in preparation for the next step,” says Bruno. “What you see here is
the future of the brand, because these pillars will continue to incarnate what
is so special, what is unique at Chanel […] Virginie is the same but she is
different. She will probably bring some femininity to the Chanel look, but it
will stay the Chanel look. We are enthusiastic for the future. Let’s see the
Cruise collection in two weeks…” We’ll be waiting.

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A week with the Samsung Galaxy Fold

I will say this about the Galaxy Fold, however: it hasbeen a hell of a conversation piece. I’ve had a LOT of dialogues with strangers
since I started using it as my day-to-day. And let’s be honest, that’s a big
part of being an early adopter.
The Galaxy Fold is also the most polarizingdevice I can recall to have used. Everyone who sees the thing wants to play
with it, but reaction has been very mixed. I was at a FedEx store the other day
and ended up handing it off to two of the four employees during the five
minutes I was waiting to get a package.
Interestingly, they all seemed to be awareof the screen issues. Foldables have captured the public imagination like few
recent consumer electronics. That’s going to be a mixed bag for Samsung. On the
upside, it means a larger potential user base. On the downside, more people are
looking on as the company figures out what to do with a malfunctioning product.
On the whole, people at the FedEx store and
the various TSA/airline employees I’ve interacted with have been impressed by
the product. One said it was smaller than she expected, which took me back a
bit, after so many have commented on how bulky it is. I suppose she was
expecting me to unfold an iPad.
I’ve fallen somewhere between the two. The
fold is undoubtedly an impressive bit of engineering when it’s working. For
now, it seems our early suspicions that the device wasn’t ready for prime time
appear to have been on the mark, as the company has shifted from “a limited
number of early Galaxy Fold samples” to pushing back the launch indefinitely.
It opens up the field to a number of otheralready announced foldable devices (assuming they don’t experience similarproblems). Of course, Samsung’s product lines, it should be noted, have bounced
back from worse.
Anyway, this marks the end of my daily
notes. I still plan to have a review this week, in spite of, well, everything.