Apple refreshed all of its small devices on Wednesday as well as giving us an official date for the launch of iOS 6.
The new iPhone 5 will come out on September 21, and will feature a taller screen, LTE connectivity, better camera and a new A6 processor. The new iPod touch will match the iPhone’s screen size and come out in October. The touch will also be able to use Siri for the first time. The iOS 6 update gives Siri to the new iPad as well.
The taller iPhone and iPod touch will have more vertical screen space that can be used by the interface and apps. Older third-party apps will still work on the new phone without utilizing the extra pixels. The improved camera can be used along with a special panoramic shooting mode to take even larger photos.
The new iPod nano also has a larger screen, and will give the iPod line back the ability to show pictures and video. It will not run iOS 6, but remain a simpler device like the previous iPod nano’s that came before it.
The Wednesday event was full of other surprises, like new in-ear headphones called EarPods, a new smaller dock connector on all devices, new iTunes 11 software across all platforms, and new colors for the iPod shuffle.
New iPhone 5, iPod touch and iPod Nano
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Any news on iMac updates?
No announcement of anything iMac -- this was all about iPhone and iPod.
Samsung said they are going to sue Apple if it had the 4G LTE Technology. This is going to be another circus act in the courts. If it gets there.
I looked at this chart and Samsung has a much bigger share than Apple in patents. Their is also another company involved thats got patents in this area too.
I thought it was really stupid when it said Apple had the patent for the Oblong,and the rounded corners,and Samsung`s phone looked like an iPhone. The comments on the Gizmondo site were flying about on this topic. The comments used to compare this case were TV`s, Monitors,and the list went on and on. I think something has to be done about this issue,It`s ridiculous.
When will IOS6 be available? Apple site says "coming soon".
In the announcement they said September 19.
Will the iphone 5 be able to play online movie streams?
What do you mean, exactly? The iPhone can stream movies now through many apps.
Currently, FaceTime utilizes wifi in order to work. With ios6, how is FaceTime over cellular going to work? How much data will be used to complete a FaceTime call?
Also, does LTE gobble more data than 3G or is it the same amount of data, just faster?
Thanks.
The amount of data will be variable -- FaceTime adjusts and does the best it can. So a faster, steadier connection will use more data to provide a better stream of video.
LTE is faster, of course. But as for more data -- well, it depends what you are doing. If you want to download a 1MB file, then you are using 1MB of data no matter how fast the connection. But if you watch streaming video and the app you are using gives you a low quality video stream for 3G, but a high quality one for LTE, then watching 10 minutes of high quality video is going to use more bandwidth than 10 minutes of low quality.
And if you have 5 minutes to "surf the web" and with 3G can manage to load and view 10 web pages, but LTE lets you load and view 20 web pages, then LTE will use more bandwidth (but be more useful in doing so).