Ahead of Apple's event on Wednesday, September 9, where it is expected to unveil its first-ever foldable iPhone, Taiwanese research firm TrendForce today outlined the device's estimated price range, features, and some other key details.


In the U.S., TrendForce estimated that the foldable iPhone will have a starting price of $2,099 to $2,299 and said the highest-end configurations could surpass the $3,000 mark. In other words, the foldable iPhone would easily be the most expensive iPhone ever, coming in well above the iPhone 17 Pro Max's starting price of $1,199.

The foldable iPhone will be named iPhone Ultra, according to a previous report from Macworld's Filipe Espósito, who now writes for Engadget.

TrendForce expects the foldable iPhone to have the following specs:

• 5.5-inch outer OLED display


• 7.8-inch inner OLED display with ProMotion for up to a 120Hz refresh rate


• Touch ID


• A20 Pro chip manufactured with TSMC's 2nm process


• 12GB of RAM


• 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB storage capacities


• 24-megapixel front camera


• 48-megapixel rear Wide camera


• 48-megapixel rear Ultra Wide camera

With just six more days until Apple's event, the foldable iPhone will finally be revealed soon.
This article, "iPhone Ultra's Very High Price and Features Revealed in New Report" first appeared on MacRumors.com

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It is apparently not a good day for AI chatbots, as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are all down or experiencing issues for many users.


OpenAI's status page acknowledges issues across ChatGPT and Codex, while Grok's website notes that it is currently experiencing issues as well. Likewise, Anthropic's status page indicates Claude is experiencing elevated errors.

All of the companies are investigating the outages.

Update: The chatbots are in the process of coming back online.
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Apple reportedly plans to release MacBook Pro models with OLED displays by early 2027, and Omdia analyst David Hsieh has predicted that the laptops will have an M5 Ultra chip option.

Given that these MacBook Pro models might actually be branded as "MacBook Ultra" models, it would be fitting if there were configurations with the M5 Ultra chip available. But keep your expectations low, as there has never been a MacBook with an Ultra chip, and a previous report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman only mentioned M5 Pro and M5 Max chips for these laptops.
This article, "'MacBook Ultra' Rumored to Have M5 Ultra Chip Option" first appeared on MacRumors.com

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