Apple Pay Now Supports Five Major Banks in Singapore

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Apple has added Apple Pay support for credit and debit cards from five major banks in Singapore – POSB, DBS Bank, OCBC Bank, United Overseas Bank (UOB) and Standard Chartered Bank.

Straits Times reports the five banks account for more than 80 per cent of the Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards issued in Singapore. Jennifer Bailey, Apple Pay Vice President, told The Straits Times “Now, almost everyone can leave their wallets at home. Apple Pay will be a natural extension of what users have been doing at payment counters.”

Apple had launched Apple Pay in Singapore last month, but it was limited only to American Express card holders. Apple Pay will be accepted at over 30,000 retail points including FairPrice and Cold Storage supermarkets, Guardian, Starbucks and Uniqlo outlets. Citibank, HSBC, ANZ and Maybank are yet to support Apple Pay.

There is a $100 cap for most transactions, but UOB Bank has lifted the limited merchants, such as Singapore Petroleum Company, Caltex, Metro and The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. They’re promoting Apple Pay with $1 deals.

In the last six months or so, Apple has expanded Apple Pay to many regions outside of the US. This includes the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and China, with many more countries in the pipeline.

Apple Pay is available on the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPad Pro and the Apple Watch.

If you’re based in Singapore, do let us know what has been your experience with Apple Pay.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Apple Pay Now Supports Five Major Banks in Singapore started by Caiden Spencer View original post

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Apple Acknowledges ‘Error 56’, Recommends Affected Customers to Contact Apple Support

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Today, Apple has acknowledged the iOS 9.3.2 update bricking the 9.7-inch iPad Pro for a small number of iPad Pro users who have been greeted with a “Error 56” message after installing the update.

The company has provided an official statement to iMore about the issue, where it says that affected customers should contact Apple support.

“We’re looking into a small number of reports that some iPad units are receiving an error when updating the software,” an Apple spokesperson told iMore. “Those unable to restore their device through iTunes should contact Apple support.”

The ‘Error 56’ support document on Apple’s website points to this being a hardware issue, though its clear here that Apple engineers messed something up with the iOS 9.3.2 update that has led to perfectly working iPad Pros to display this error.

It remains unclear for now what Apple is recommending customers who are contacting their support team do. Most customers are reporting that Apple has set up a Genius Bar appointment with the affected customers who reported about the problem.

Has your 9.7-inch iPad Pro been affected by the Error 56 problem? If yes, did you try contacting Apple support regarding it?

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Google has released a big update to its Google Translate app for iOS that brings offline translation support for 52 languages, instant camera translation between English and Chinese, as well as, support for 13 new languages.

Features:
* Type to translate 90 languages
* Use your camera to translate text instantly in 26 languages
* Two-way automatic speech translation in 40 languages
* Draw with your finger as a keyboard alternative
* Star and save translations for future reference
* Take pictures of text for higher-quality translations or for languages not supported by instant camera translation

Translations between the following languages are supported:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sesotho, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu

What’s New In This Version:
Offline translation in 52 languages
Instant camera translation: English to/from Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
13 new languages

You can download Google Translate from the App Store for free.

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