Apple Product Event Highlights

samzenpus writes: The Apple product event just finished, read below for the highlights.

• Apple Watch:
• Adding Facebook Messenger.
• iTranslate — speak into the mic and hear translations in over 90 languages.
• Physician app AirStrip can monitor vitals.
• New band options, two new finishes gold and rose gold.
• Watch OS 2 comes out September 16.

• iPad:
• iPad Pro announced: Screen is 12.9 inches, 5.6m pixels, A9X chip, with 2x memory bandwidth, storage and graphics performance, 10-hour battery life, 8MP camera, 802.11ac with MIMO, 150Mbps LTE modem, TouchID, 6.9mm thick and 1.57 pounds.
• Smart Keyboard connects magnetically.
• The Apple Pencil stylus: "Highly responsive sensors built into the tip of Apple Pencil sensor pressure, tilt, and stroke."
• Corporate VP from MS Office, Kirk Koenigsbauer talks Microsoft Office for iPad.
• New suite of Adobe apps.
• Apple Pencil is $99 and Smart Keyboard is $169, all available in November.
• New iPad mini 4 $399.

• Apple TV:
• New remote with glass touch surface. 10mm tall, A8 chip, Bluetooth 4.0. Built-in accelerometer and gyroscope, 3 months per charge, charges over lightning. 32GB for $149, 64GB for $199.
• iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and Showtime are searchable.
• New cleaner looking UI with Siri integration.
• New OS: TV OS.
• new games and game collections for the family, using your iPhone or iPod Touch as a controller.
• MLB app, NHL Game Center live in 2016.
• tvOS developer beta available today, available to consumers in late October.

• iPhone:
• iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, Silver, gold, space grey, and new Rose Gold. 4.7-inch 6S and 5.5-inch 6S+.
• 3rd-generation A9 chip 70% faster CPU than A8, 90% faster GPU than A8.
• New pressure-sensitive 3D Touch.
• New Taptic Engine
• New Siri feature allows you to speak to your iPhone whether you're powered on or not.
• New 12 megapixel iSight camera. 50% more pixels and 50% more focus pixels for faster autofocus.
• 4K video
• 5MP FaceTime HD Camera.
• Retina Flash, display can light up 3X brighter than usual to be a flash for the front-facing camera.
• Live Photos: Press with 3D Touch and pictures will move.
• iPhone 6 $199-$399, iPhone 6 Plus $299-$499 all on two-year contracts.
• New iPhone Upgrade Program for a new iPhone every year, choose your carrier, unlocked phones, 24-month installment plan starting at $32/month.
• preorder Saturday, Sept 12. Available September 25th.
• iOS 9 available September 16th.
• New iCloud storage pricing: 50GB for 99 cents a month, 200GB for $2.99/mo, 1TB for $9.99/mo.

Comments

This was a pretty exciting photographer release

[SuperKendall]

Let me tell you why the 6s is the first iPhone "S" update I'm not skipping over:

* Higher res camera sensor, but not just higher res- also has improved photosite separation.

* 4k video (hopefully for slo-mo too?)

* Significantly faster performance ("up to" 70% faster than old model iPhone 6).

* Force touch (useful for quicker multi-tasking and other actions).

* Live Photos - anyone who likes photography is pretty excited about this, especially as it captures just a bit before you press the capture button...

* Motion coprocessor is always-on now so using that feature heavily comes with no battery penalty.

* Taptic hardware on device for better user feedback than mere vibration (as a developer I'm particularly excited about that).

* Front screen brightness can increase 3x normal for short period of time to act as a flash.

Also faster WiFi support and more LTE bands, but I can't seriously so those are features compelling enough for me to upgrade - it's really the ones above, especially related to photography... the newer sensor alone would not have done it, it's the conjunction with other features.

Re:iBore 6.0

[SuperKendall]

Force touch: What happened to long-press?

That takes, well, too long... once you get used to force touch it's more instance.

How much margin on broken screen repairs?

That is laughable, on my existing iPhone 6 Plus there is no way you could press hard enough to break anything with just a finger. You finger would break well before the device.