HomePod arrives in Spain and Mexico, could expand to Italy in the near future
With today’s launch in Spain in Mexico, the Siri-driven smart speaker is now available in a total of eight countries.
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HomePod is scheduled to arrive in Spain and Mexico on October 26
The Siri-powered wireless speaker is scheduled to launch in Spain and Mexico on Friday, October 26, according to both Apple’s online store and a recent press release.
iTunes carrier billing expands to UK’s EE, Germany’s Telekom, Orange in France & Spain
Customers in Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Spain can now take advantage of iTunes carrier billing as more carriers now support this handy feature.
Apple Pay support in Spain extended to CaixaBank and ImaginBank
Credit cards issued by Spain’s local bank CaixaBank and its mobile banking brand ImaginBank can now be used with Apple Pay.
Apple Music’s 3 month trial has gone from free to paid in some countries
Apple has changed the terms of Apple Music’s three-month trial, which nor requires a small payment in some countries.
32GB iPhone 6 now available in Spain, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Denmark & elsewhere
Retailer Media Markt is now offering a special-edition iPhone 6 in the previously unavailable 32-gigabyte capacity following the handset’s relaunch in China, Taiwan and Belarus.
Apple Pay launches in Spain
Apple Pay today launched in Spain, the thirteenth market for the mobile payments service since its inception more than two years ago. According to Apple’s website and the official Apple Pay support document, the service is available in the 46 million people country with launch support for debit and credit cards from Banco de Santander, Carrefour, Ticket Restaurant and American Express.
Pokémon Go is now available in Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK and Germany
Nintendo’s tremendously successful Pokémon Go is expanding in more countries across Europe. In addition to releasing on the App Store in Germany and the United Kingdom a few days ago, the augmented-reality game which requires people to go out hunting for pokémon is now available for download in Italy, Spain and Portugal.
“Trade Up with Installments” iPhone program expands to France, Italy and Spain
MacRumors is reporting that Apple’s trade-up program for the iPhone, dubbed “Trade Up with Installments”, has expanded to an additional three countries today: France, Italy and Spain.
Customers in these countries can now trade in a used iPhone, Android or Windows Phone smartphone and put the value of that device towards a new iPhone based on a 24-month payment plan.
Personal Pickup now available in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden
Personal Pickup, a handy option which makes it easy for customers to order an Apple product online and have it delivered a few hours later to a specific retail store for pickup, is now available in the following major markets within the European Union: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, as first reported by German blog Macerkopf.de.
iPhone 6s in-store reservations open in Italy, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland & Netherlands
As Apple gears up to launch the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus in an additional 40 countries this coming Friday, October 9, in-store reservations for the new handsets have gone live through Apple’s Reserve and Pickup program in Belgium, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands, MacRumors reported this morning.
These six European countries are part of Apple’s second wave of iPhone 6s launch. Apple has said that the new iPhones will be available in a total of over 130 countries by the end of the year.
Two-step Apple ID authentication launches in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Spain
Following a flurry of reports which criticized various security holes allowing hackers to break into people’s Apple ID accounts, Apple in March of 2013 finally stepped up account security by rolling out two-step verification for Apple IDs in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand.
Two months later, the feature launched in nearly a dozen additional countries: Austria, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland and Russia.
And now, as part of the third wave of expansion, the firm is enabling stronger account security for Apple ID users located in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Spain…