It’s 6pm on Tuesday the 4th of October 2011. Tim Cook, the new boss of Apple is on-stage about to announce the new iPhone.
We’re all patiently waiting for the news to filter in from the US – and we’ll be updating this post in real-time as we hear anything!
We’re currently watching a live blog from Engadget, and their site seems to have crashed – D’oh. Now watching Twitter. Here’s what we’re hearing:
iOS 5 Update
Old news, as the update for the operating system has been announced before, but as a reminder:
- Improved notifiation system
- iMessage – Messaging between iOS users
- Location-aware Reminders
- Take a photo from the standby screen
- Tabbed web browsing for iPad
- Greater use of the iCould (Camera roll and docs) – Launched 12 Oct
- Find My Friends (a bit like Google Latitude?)
The new version of iOS5 will be released on Wednesday the 12th of October 2011, apparently.
iPod Nano
- Improved fitness (no Nike Shoe dongle needed)
- New clock faces (wear it as a watch)
iPod Touch
- New one – in white (8, 32 and 64GB versions)
iPhone 4S
OK – So there is a new iPhone. It’s not the iPhone 5, it’s an iPhone 4S. Here’s what’s new:
- Looks the same
- Uses an A5 processor (going to be 2 x faster)
- Dual core graphics (7 x faster graphics)
- Better call quality, using “wireless system”
- Uses two antennas – 2 x faster download on HSPDA
- 8 Megapixel camera, backlight illumination – 73% brighter photos, face detection
- 1080p video recording
- Airplay Mirroring (games on TV)
- Siri – Voice recognition / intellegent hands-free lookup
- Dictation (speech to text)
Available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions. iPhone 4S Release date – October 14th in the UK
Now you know!!