September’s been a pretty crazy month of announcements, and now HTC are trying to impress us with their showing in New York. New Windows Phone 8 devices are expected, although an updated One X is also rumoured. Whatever happens, we’ll bring you the latest news here!
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While some of us were frantically liveblogging proceedings from Apple’s San Francisco event, the guy behind the hilariously accurate Twitter account @NextTechBlog did things a bit differently. In the space of 12 tweets, they said more about the world’s reaction to the iPhone 5 and new iPods than a thousand word blog post ever could. If you are a tweeter and not following them, you’re seriously missing out.
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It’s iPhone time again! We’ve been through what we expect from the event, but there’s always the chance that Tim Cook will spring a few surprises on us, so check back here from 1PM EDT/5PM GMT/6PM BST for all the latest news!
All times given are BST. This liveblog has now ended.
16:50 Hello all. I am ready.
16:55 Things should kick off in just over an hour.
17:00 Liveblogging today we have Xavier Voigt-Hill and maybe Henry Hunt.
https://twitter.com/LaughingStoic/status/24591741298422988817:29 Just over half an hour to go now. What do we all want tonight?
17:44 Nobody’s inside the Yerba Buena Center yet, so things might be a bit late.
17:50 Theoretically my internet connection could be faster, but Community needs to download. Community > iPhone.
17:52 And everyone is inside! This could start on time after all.
17:56 My mouse is dying, but I will plod on.
17:59 About to get going…
18:00 And here’s Tim Cook!
18:01 Introducing the Barcelona Apple Store.
18:03 Video of more Apple Stores selling more stuff.
18:05 Now Tim is talking Mac and Mountain Lion.
18:06 7 million Mountain Lion upgrades so far.
18:07 Now onto the iPad.
18:08 17 million iPads sold April to June. Last year Apple had 62% tablet marketshare.
18:09 That figure is now 68%. iPads count for 91% of all tablet web traffic.
18:10 700k apps in the App Store. 250,000 designed for iPad.
18:12 400 million iOS devices sold up to June.
18:13 Phil Schiller is here to talk iPhone.
18:13 ‘Today we’re introducing iPhone 5.’
18:14 It rose out of the stage. It’s rotating. It’s tall. It looks leaked.
18:15 Entirely glass and aluminium. It is the thinnest and lightest iPhone at 7.6mm. The world’s thinnest smartphone. Eat that Razr.
18:17 1136 x 640 4″ display, as rumoured. 326ppi.
18:18 Why did Apple do this? So you can see more emails. I DON’T WANT TO SEE MY EMAILS.
18:19 Black bars on either side for existing apps that haven’t been updated for the 16:9 screen.
18:20 The display looks better apparently. Perfect aspect ratio for video and 44% more saturation.
18:21 HSPA+ and LTE. Single chip for voice, data and radio.
18:22 LTE for Sprint, Verizon and AT&T in the US, Rogers, Telus and Bell in Canada. EE in the UK!
18:25 A6 chip has 2x faster CPU and 2x faster graphics than A5.
18:27 Rob Murray from Firemonkeys is showing off Real Racing 3.
18:30 Longer battery life than the 4S.
18:31 There’s a sapphire crystal in the 8MP camera. Why the fuck not?
18:33 A photo from the camera. It looks awesome.
18:34 Built-in panorama mode lets you take 28MP images.
https://twitter.com/hamburger/status/24593812270418739218:37 New dock connector is very small. 3 microphones for noise cancellation. 720p FaceTime HD camera on the front.
18:38 80% smaller ‘Lightning’ dock connector. It’s reversible and durable.
18:41 Here’s a dock connector adapter. This thing is tiny.
18:42 Scott Forstall on stage with iOS 6. Not much new to see here.
18:43 Demoing the new non-Google maps. We’ve already looked at what this all means.
18:44 You can tap to tweet or share on Facebook in Notification Center. Fullscreen mode in Safari too.
18:47 Now Forstall is showing off Passbook and Siri stuff. No sign of NFC though.
18:51 My internet just died, but I’m alive. Siri can tell you sports scores, good movies and Facebook for you.
18:53 And now we are wrapping up with a Jony Ive video. It comes in white too.
18:54 Bob Mansfield is doing the Bob Mansfield and talking about internals.
18:59 American contract pricing is the same. 16GB = $199, 32GB = $299, 64GB = $399. iPhone 4 is now free on contract. 16GB 4S is $99. Pre-order Friday for the September 21st launch.
19:02 iOS 6 coming to iPhone 4 and later on September 19th for free. iPod Touch 4th generation is included in this.
19:03 Let’s talk about iTunes. New look store with Facebook EVERYWHERE.
19:06 iTunes 11 is coming too. It looks fantastic.
19:11 New mini player looks great too.
19:14 iCloud is now built into iTunes for syncing film positions and stuff.
19:15 New iTunes coming October for Mac and PC.
19:16 New iPod Nano is 38% thinner at 5.4mm and has a widescreen multitouch display, physical buttons and a Lightning connector. And a home button.
19:26 The 5th generation iPod Touch is 6.1mm, 88g and has the same display as the iPhone 5. It also has the A5 chip. YOu get 40 hours of music from the battery.
19:28 5MP rear iSight camera actually takes good photos. I might need one of these things.
19:29 iPod Touch Loop now…
19:30 Push something on the bottom and a lanyard strap holder thing appears, like on cameras and some phones.
19:31 720p FaceTime HD camera and Bluetooth 4.0, just like the iPhone 5. AirPlay mirroring is also coming to iPod.
19:32 Siri is also coming to the new iPod Touch!
19:33 Five colour choices too, each with its own loop thing.
19:34 Shut up and take my money and give me an orange one!
19:34 These are white, black, cyan, yellow and red. I want the cyan.
19:34 New EarPods. They’re futuristic earbuds that have taken 3 years to design.
19:38 iPod pricing. New ones are coming in October.
19:41 High resolution iPhone 5 for you via TNW. Click for a bigger view.
19:42 And that’s that. Playing us out are the Foo Fighters.
19:45 To follow Apple’s lead, here are the Foo Fighters.
19:47 That wraps things up. It’s been a massive night, and I hope you’ve enjoyed it. Goodnight!
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Tomorrow morning at 9am, the ExCeL centre in London will open its doors and play host to Nokia World. We know from Microsoft’s Andy Lees that Nokia’s long awaited Windows Phone handsets (plural!) will be unveiled. We have seen the teasers showing an N9 body, multicoloured tiles and a Windows soft key. We have seen leaks of the Sea Ray and Sabre. Hell, today we even saw more of these devices with the names Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 and maybe even 900. The Mangoes are coming, and Henry and I am liveblogging here so click past the break to see the fruits of Elop’s labour.
P.S. There might also be some QWERTY Symbian action, so it might not all be good!
Nokia World begins in London next Wednesday and last night at AsiaD Andy Lees, president of Windows Phone, had a few things to say about Nokia’s plans for the event. Bearing in mind that we all love Windows Phone here at Digixav (with the possible exception of Bada-mad Chris), this is great news for us so head past the break to read what he had to say.
Well today is the day that Samsung and Google are set to hold a delayed keynote in Hong Kong. We’ve seen the Ice Cream Sandwich Android on the invite and plenty of Galaxy Nexus leaks, including on Samsung’s own site. But Chris, Henry and I will be liveblogging on this very page at 3am BST to let you know what is happening – if you are awake. We have Pepsi and chocolate to get through this so here goes!
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