Thanks to various rumors and part leaks, we have long known that the iPhone 5 would likely have a new connector. Called Lightning, it immediately drew criticism, particularly over the fact that it'll ...

Feel like you don't have enough cables in your desk drawer? To better fit small devices and to make them easier to use, Apple just introduced a whole new cable. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s all but certain that the next iPhone will have a USB-C port. But the future of charging may be no port at ...

Apple is not sentimental. When the company wants to move on it cuts ties with the past, whether people like it or not. And now, following in the footsteps of the Dock Connector and headphone jack, ...

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Just as iPhone owners have finally upgraded all their old 30-pin accessories to Lightning compatible hardware, a report in the Wall Street Journal suggests that Apple is getting ready to drop the port ...

Today marks 10 years since Apple introduced the iPhone 5 with an all-new Lightning connector, which replaced the previous 30-pin dock connector that originated on the iPod. Apple's former marketing ...

Negative headlines haven't suppressed consumer interest in the iPhone 5, which is seeing "unprecedented" demand, according to the latest survey from ChangeWave Research. The poll of 4,270 primarily ...

Before the iPhone, iPod was Apple’s only portable device, and it had a proprietary 30-pin connector that was first introduced with the 2003 iPod (the first two generations had a FireWire connector ...

Apple's MagSafe connector that it popularized on the MacBook Pro could make a return in the future, with Apple researching the use of a revised version as a replacement to Lightning as it potentially ...

Apple’s latest iPhone, iPod touch and iPod nano ushered in a new era, at least for accessory manufacturers: they ditched the old 30-pin Dock Connector in favor of the new Lightning standard. With a ...