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Apple CEO Tim Cook took to the stage Wednesday to announce a new iPhone and, if rumors are true, a few new iPods as well. He was joined by Phil Schiller to launch the iPhone 5.
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Made from?aluminum and glass20 percent lighter than the iPhone 4S -- 112 grams. Thinner too. As the rumors suggested, it looks like a taller version of the iPhone 4S.
Apps run at the same size as they did in the previous iPhone, centered in place.
The screen is more saturated, and the sensors in it are integrated right into the screen, for better viewing.
There is LTE cellular data connectivity, as predicted. It's a single chip that can deliver, theoretically, up to 100 megabits per second. (Generally, for now?Verizon delivers 15 or so in ideal situations, so expect that.) AT&T, Verizon and Sprint will all support the LTE data link.
There's a brand new chip: the Apple A6 chip. Twice as fast in?CPU and graphics performance. You get 1.5 to 2 times better performances launching Pages,?saving images in iPhoto, and loading music.?
Battery life is better than the iPhone 4S, says Schiller.?You can expect 8 hours of 3G talk and?browsing; 8 hours LTE browsing; 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing and 10 hours of video. There will be 225 hours of standby. How many days is that? 9 and change?
The camera is similar in specs to the 4S -- 8 megapixel, f/2.4 aperture -- but made it smaller, and leveraged the processor to jack up the performance. There's a Panorama app that smart-stitches together beautiful, huge pictures.?
There's 1080p HD?video on the main camera, like before,?but now the front camera can do 720p. Schiller mentions that FaceTime will now work over cellular (but check with your carrier about that).
An?EA exec introduced "Real Racing 3" a game with such realistic detail, you can actually see what's in your rear-view mirror. It has a cool feature called time-shifted multiplayer, where you race, and someone else can race against you later. It's coming out "later this year."?
Cook began, as he often does, discussing retail. Particularly, the?launch of Apple's Barcelona store.
"We've had a very busy summer for the Mac," says Cook, discussing the sales of new Macs, including the MacBook Pro with Retina display. Apple is Number 1 in laptop market share in the U.S., he?says. The Mac has outpaced PC growth for the past six years.
As for the iPad, "We sold more iPads than any PC maker sold of their whole PC line," says Cook. That's 84 million units to date.
There are now 700,000 total apps in the App Store, including 250,000 tailored for iPad. And the?total number of iOS devices sold? 400 million.
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We're here at San Francisco's Moscone Center to witness Apple unveil a new iPhone ? what we expect to be?the first new design for the?iPhone in nearly two and a half years. Will it be called the iPhone 5??Will it be a slightly elongated version of the current iPhone 4S? Or will it look completely different? We'll soon find out who wins in this epic?battle of leaks vs. Apple secrecy.
What else will Apple have in store? The best bet is on some new iPods, and perhaps a revamped iTunes and App Store experience. Apple will no doubt also walk us through many features of iCloud and iOS 6 that will become available in the coming weeks.?(According to the best rumors, a mini iPad will see daylight in October, not now.)
I'll be inside the event, covering it?live here in this story, and with real-time news nuggets on Twitter at @wjrothman. Follow me and?keep refreshing this page for the news you've been craving.
Wilson Rothman is the Technology & Science?editor at NBC News Digital. Catch up with him on Twitter at @wjrothman, and join our conversation on Facebook.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/live-apple-announce-new-iphone-994043
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