Report: Apple's AirPower charger delayed for a September release

A report from Mark Gurman of Bloomberg delves on why Apple's long anticipated AirPower has been seen as AirVapour. Announced in September last year, many expected the AirPower charger, which can triple charge an iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods with a special charging case.

AirPower (which should have been called Apple Juice, in my opinion) offers an elegant solution to multi Apple device users which need to be charged nightly. Creating a multifunctional wireless charger, it seems, is harder than many expected. Specially since AirPower aims to cater to three devices simultaneously. Apple will use the Qi wireless charging standard, but with a lot customization and possibly an Apple processor.

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Apple's watchOS 2 update delayed indefinitely due to critical bug

Apple has announced that it is delaying the release of the Apple Watch watchOS 2 operating system due to a critical flaw. watchOS 2, which brings new features including the ability to run native apps, was slated for a September 19 release, Apple hasn't given a definite date for when the operating system would be available.

Beta testers running the recent watchOS 2 build say that while sluggish, they haven't experienced anything dramatically worrisome with the OS. Apple's statement regarding the delay.

We have discovered a bug in development of watchOS 2 that is taking a bit longer to fix than we expected. We will not release watchOS 2 today but will shortly.

Google: 16GB Nexus 7 tablets to ship in 1- weeks

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

If you pre-ordered the 16GB Nexus 7 tablet soon after it was revealed on June 27, Google says you'll have to wait a few more weeks to get your device. This news after various reports of Nexus 7 tablets appearing in retail outlets such as Staples and NCIX. It seems there are some distribution issues  which is a blow to customers who thought that by pre-ordering, they would be able to get their devices first.

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Apple: White iPhone 4 delayed until 'later this year'

Seems like people pining for the white variant of the iPhone 4 will need to wait a little longer. Following up a statement that the white iPhone 4 was challenging to manufacture, Apple today released the following statement.

CUPERTINO, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — White models of Apple's new iPhone® 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected, and as a result they will not be available until later this year. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.