Apple should reelase the tentatively named "iPhone SE 3" in Spring 2022 as its cheapest 5G phone, with the device ostensibly scheduled to enter trial production soon.
Trial production of iPhone SE 3 commencing soon ahead of Spring 2022 launch
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Some iPad parts now allegedly used in iPhone 13 production as the chip crunch worsens
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Apple now facing potential iPhone 13 shortages during the lucrative holiday period
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Mass production of Apple Watch Series 7 starting right after the iPhone 13 unveiling?
Apple Watch Series 7 mass production should start following the iPhone 13 unveiling as suppliers have resolved manufacturing challenges caused by the device's updated design.
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Samsung reportedly starts production of 120Hz screens for iPhone 13 ahead of schedule
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The M2 chip allegedly enters mass production ahead of new Apple silicon Macs later this year
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One in a million: Someone resold this iPhone 11 Pro with a misaligned Apple logo for $2,700
Photographs recently shared on Twitter show a fun little production mistake with one of the iPhone 11 Pro units exhibiting a misaligned Apple logo on the back of the device.
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Images show an iPhone with a misaligned Apple logo. This is said to be an extremely rare misprint. It could be rarer than one in a million. Surprise, production mistakes do happenShared by Internal Archive on Twitter, the images show a single iPhone 11 Pro unit with an Apple logo on the back of the device at an angle rather than being centered. That's not the only production mistake because the logo is also too close to the right edge of the device.
This imprint is said to be extremely rare, the poster notes.
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“I'd say one in a million or possibly even rarer,” they wrote. That's certainly a curious error to occur during production. When manufacturing issues with Apple gadgets do happen, they usually affect a certain batch of units made between very specific dates, not a single unit.
The original owner who bought the phone at an Apple Store was smart enough to keep it because the one-off mistake didn't stop someone from purchasing the unit for $2,700.