UPDATE: 10/11/11- Pictures of an actual iPhone from a customer in Germany.
UPDATE: 10/10/11 - (Reuters) - More than a million people placed early orders on Friday for Apple Inc's latest iphone development, the last product that the company debuted before the death of its co-founder Steve Jobs.
UPDATE: 10/10/11- Below is a video of an actual iPhone 4S in use.
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UPDATE: October 8, 2011- SOLD OUT. ALL Carriers & the Apple Store are now sold out of the 16gb version. We'll have to wait til Oct. 14 to get in stores or order on-line.
UPDATE: 5:16pm edt -
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UPDATE:11:49am RECAP Today, October 4, 2011, in Cupertino,CA Apple announces the Iphone 4S. NOT an Iphone 5. They told us all along, if they were going to call it the 5 they would have announced it on OCTOBER 5! Here is the features that will be on the iPHONE 4S Also available on the SPRINT NETWORK!
The iPhone 4S will cost $199, $299 and $399 for 16, 32 and 64 gigabyte versions, respectively. The 8-gig
iPhone 4 goes to $99 and the 3GS will be free, all on 2-year contracts. The date? October 14th, with a pre-order on October 7th.
IPHONE 4S FEATURES
- Apple-designed A5 Processor
- Dual-core graphics, up to 7x faster than the iPhone 4
- 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours 3G browsing, 9 hours on WiFi
- Intelligent antenna switching to fix the “antennagate” problem
- HSDPA data, for up to 14 mbit download speeds
- CDMA and GSM in 1 device makes it a “world phone”
- 8 megapixel camera
- 1080p video recording
- Screen mirroring, akin to the iPad
- Siri intelligent voice assistance
WHO'S DISAPPOINTED?
UPDATE: 11:37am Pre-orders on the iphone 4S October 7th, and then launching on the 14th.
So that’s the iPhone 4S. Black and white, 16GB for $199, 32GB for $299, and 64GB for $399. 64GB is the first time in an iPhone.”
“The iPhone 4S is not the only phone in our lineup. The iPhone 4 will now be available in Black and white for just $99. The phone 3GS in 8GB: free.”
UPDATE: 11:27am Apple brings us Siri voice control, not available until the spring.
“Compose and dictate email right to Siri. Set timers. Look up contacts, create notes, search the web, search Wikipedia. It’s absolutely blow-away. Well, who is Siri? Just ask!” Siri: “I am a humble personal assistant.”
UPDATE: 11:20am With the announcement of the iphone 4S from Apple...Stock PLUMMETS over 3% on the Nasdaq
UPDATE: 11:12am The
Iphone 4S has TWO antenna's in case you hold it wrong!
UPDATE: 11:06am New camera on the iphone 4S.
“What’s the new camera on the iPhone 4S like? It starts with an 8 megapixel sensor.”CMOS backside illuminated sensor — gets 73% more light than the iPhone 4 sensor, and 1/3rd faster. On top of that, we place a high-end IR filter for greater accuracy and uniformity.”
“We have an amazing lens system, five lens elements. It’s now a really wide f2.4. Compared to most point and shoots we can let in a lot of light.”
UPDATE: 11:00am APPLE ANNOUNCES THE iPHONE 4S....BIG Disappointment “You’d think if you put a CPU like that you’d sacrifice battery life.” Increased to 8 hours talk time, damn! “Fantastic battery life.” Data can now download up to 2x as fast. Theoretical max performance used to be 5.8 up and 7.2 down — now doubles to almost 14.4Mbps down.
UPDATE: 10:56am Finally, THE iphone...
“Of course it starts with the Retina Display. But inside it is all new. The A5 chip is now making its way into the iPhone.” “Dual-core CPU, 2x as fast at CPU tasks. Also dual-core graphics. Up to 7x faster in the previous iPhone. One area you really see it scream is in games.”
UPDATE: 10:53am Updates to the ipod - It comes in 7 colors, now the iPod nano is 8GB for $129, and 16GB for $149. Available today.
Next: iPod touch. “It’s our most popular iPod, and it’s incredible.” Phil Schiller
UPDATE: 10:46am Reviewing iTunes Match service. BORING!
UPDATE: 10:41am Eddie Cue is up to talk iCloud now. Talking about docs in the cloud, edits in Pages on the iPhone updated across devices.STILL in Apple pat themselves on the back of stuff they ALREADY told us!
UPDATE: 10:37am STILL talking about the ios 5...
Mail enhancements. Next up: PC-free. “We have a lot of customers who want to use the iPad or iPhone as their only device.” Well, now you can, and it ain’t too shabby. “These are just ten of the new features in iOS 5.”
iOS 5 will be available October 12.
UPDATE 10:33am STILL NOTHING on the iphone. Talking about
“We’ve integrated Twitter into many of our built-in apps. Tweet photos, web sites, videos, locations from maps. Deep integration from Twitter.”
UPDATE 10:23am iOS has 43% of the mobile market. 500,000 apps in appstore. 140K made just for ipad. 18 billion apps downloaded in 3 years. 1 billion apps downloaded per month
UPDATE 10:20am Now talking ipad. Steve Cook giving us a Apple Company inventory pat on the back.
UPDATE 10:17am Wow, iPhone 4 accounts for more than half of all iPhones ever sold. Cook says iPhone is the #1 selling iPhone. 93% of fortune 500 co's testing iPhone. People love their iPhones. 70% are very satisfied. iPhone has 5% of the Worldwide Mobile Phone market.
UPDATE 10:12am 1:11PM The Mac platform has grown by 23 percent since last year. The PC? Four percent.
UPDATE: 10:10am Steve Cook: You have Downloaded over 6 million copies of Lion
UPDATE. 10:06am Sprint logo on Apple's site right now! You know what that means: Sprint iPhone basically confirmed.
UpDATE: 10/4/11 10:00am Here we go...
UPDATE:10/4/11 9:58am. Crowd ready
UPDATE: 10/4/11- Reports have it that it will be called the iphone 4S
JOIN ME for a "LIVE" blog (BELOW) and ALL the news coming out of the event at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, CA. at 12:30pm est.. 9:30am pst. You can also follow me on Twitter @ubtalkin for the latest updates!
Tim Cook,
Apple's new CEO, will attempt to fill
Steve Jobs' shoes by unveiling Apple's latest gadget to the technology world.
But what will it be?
ALL indications and reports suggest it will be the iPhone 5.
It's been about 16 months since the last iPhone came out on
AT&T, and nine months since it hit
Verizon Wireless.
Some say that Apple will be unveiling not one but two iPhones, a future-leaning iPhone 5 with slimmer body, larger screen and better everything, and a new $99 variant of the iPhone 4, made with cheaper parts.
Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. wireless carrier, reports say that they will be getting the iphone as well. Also it has been reported that they will be offering "unlimited data" plans, something Verizon and AT&T have done away with.
Still other reports say that Sprint will get the iphone 5 "EXCLUSIVELY" and that Verizon and AT&T will get the iphone 4S
Sprint is making a multibillion-dollar gamble that access to the iPhone will be the ticket to a turnaround. Sprint has committed to buy at least 30.5 million iPhones, even though it would likely lose money on the deal until 2014.
ENOUGH with the RUMORS!
Again come back tomorrow at 12:30pm est.....9:30am pst for LIVE coverage and the latest FACTS coming out of the event being held at the companies headquarters in Cupertino, CA.
Or maybe we should wait for the iphone 6?
