Apple Event 9/12

[The Dude]

I know a lot of people here are big apple fans.

I'm about to bite the bullet and get the iphone 5 almost assuredly, so I'm curious to see what comes out of this. Will be my first mac product since the 90s!

Predicting 8-10 million units sold 4th quarter '12.

Supposedly io6 and ipad minis to be revealed as well. But I don't know much about what's gonna happen as I don't keep up that much. All I know is I need a new phone as my last one broke and I'm on an old crappy one and have waited for 2 months.

[eric]

I may get it, depending on how different it is from the 4S. I have an upgrade so why not?

[fstarcstar]

Im planning on getting a Nokia Lumia 920, no thanks.

[Kane]

My contract is up this month....so yeah, I'm waiting for this phone.

[Boris Johnson]

[fstarcstar]

"7 inch tablets are dead on arrival"

-Steve Jobs

"You could make a really big smartphone that doesn’t have this problem — some of these guys are making Hummers now — so big you can’t get your hand around it."

-Steve Jobs

[Sazari]

The iPhone 5 in a nutshell
New size: At 7.6mm in depth and 112 grams, the new handset will be 18 percent thinner and 20 percent lighter than the predecessor.

Bigger screen: A taller (but not wider) 4-inch Retina Display at 1136 x 640-pixel resolution, which allows for additional row of app icons on the homescreen.

4G/LTE: Across all the carriers — Verizon, AT&T and Sprint. We don’t yet know what kind of pricing or surcharges may be involved however. Also on board: Support for HSPA+ and DC-HSDPA networks. Also dual-channel WiFi, with support for 802.11a/b/g/n routers and 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency spectrums.

A6 processor: Apple reports it is twice as fast as the previous A5 (which incidentally is being put into the newest iPod touch).

Camera: On the rear camera, there’s the same number of megapixels as the iPhone 4S — 8MP — but it now comes with panorama mode, faster photo capture, sapphire crystal lens, backside illumination, hybrid IR filter, a five-element lens, f/2.4 aperture, spatial noise reduction and a dynamic low-light mode. Notably, the new phone will allow for simultaneous image and video capture, just like many Android devices do.

iOS 6 (of course), plus Siri support for launching apps

FaceTime over cellular networks

New dock connector: Enter “Lightning,” Apple’s newest connection standard that’s 80 percent smaller than the previous 30-pin version. (The company will also be offering adaptors so the new device will still work with old accessories.)

Colors: White with an aluminum backing, and a black version with an anodized rear panel.

Better battery life: 8 hours of talk time (3G), 8 hours of web browsing over 4G/LTE, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music playback and 225 hours of playtime.

Dates: Pre-orders start this Friday, 9/14, and devices will ship on September 21 in the U.S., Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. More countries will join in the availability list on the 28th, with a total of 100 countries getting it by the end of the year.


I WILL BE GETTING THIS ON RELEASE DAY

[eric]

[Winchester]

[The Dude]

no ipad mini mention, might not exist?

Anyway, the new ipod touch look great but the price is ridiculous. $299 for it. Of course, I don't need one, just sayin'.


So iphone 5 seems pretty good. New earbuds (sorry, not calling em earpods) and a reversible chord are nice. Well, it was this or the S3 for me and now I am guessing it's this. $199 is a good price point and I don't need more than 16GB with clouds.


White or Black?