The long awaited Apple iPhone Event is finally over. Apple had published the video to the event. If you rather save time and just jump into a text-based information, look no further. In this post, i will do a summary of what was covered in the event.
Earning & Revenue
Hong Kong Apple Store [Newly opened] sold more Macs on opening day then Apple did in any store in the world. Shanghai Store garnered 100,000 visitors in the first weekend. [LA took one month to get to that number of visitors]. There are currently 357 Apple Stores in 11 countries.
OS X Lion was downloaded 6 million times over the course of 2 weeks. [Windows 7 took 20 weeks in terms of install base]. MacBook Pro and iMac are the #1 best selling notebook and desktop in the US. Macs outgrew the PC market by almost 6 times. There are close to 60 million Mac users now. In US retail stores, Macs are now selling in about 1/4 PCs in the store.
Currently, 300 million iPods had been sold around the world. [Sony took 30 years to sell 230 thousand Walkman cassette players]. 45 million iPods were sold in the last year. Apple had acquired 70 percent of the portable music player market. Already, 16 billion songs downloaded. 20 million songs on sale in Apple’s music library. iTunes store is the number one in music store in the world. iPod Touch is the most popular iPod. It is the number one music player and portable game player.
250 Million iDevices in the world currently. iOS owned 43% of the Mobile Installed Base [making it number one.] iOS MobileSafari accounts for 61% of the market. There are already more than 500 thousand apps in the app store. [More than 140 thousand of these are made specifically for the iPad]. App Store is the number one store for mobile apps. Customers had downloaded more than 18 Billion applications. [customers are downloading apps at a Billion per month]. Apple paid developers more than 3 billion dollars.
iPad garnered 95% score in a recent customer satisfaction ratings. Every state in the US now has an iPad deployment or pilot in place today. 3 out of 4 tablets sold in the US are iPads. Apple has passed a quarter billion unit sales mark for the iPad.
The iPhone 4 is the number one Smartphone in the world. iPhone 4 has sold over half of Apple’s total iPhones sold in the entire time Apple has been selling iPhones. iPhones owned 5% of the handset market. [not smartphone market].
iPod
iPod Nano even easier to navigate. The fitness experience updated as well – making it work right out of the box. Costs $129 for the 8GB Model. $149 for the 16GB Model. Comes in 7 color and available today.
iPod Touch will be arriving in Black and White. 8GB Model costs $199, 32GB Model costs $299 and the 64GB Model costs $399. It is available on October 12th.
iOS
Create cards via your iPhone or iPod Touch. It’s printed on high quality 100% cotton paper [push notification on mail delivery through USPS]. It will be printed and mailed to you. It will cost $2.99 in the US, $4.99 anywhere else. Available from Oct 12th.
Apple already seeded more than 100 thousand developers for iOS 5. Newstand has GQ, Allure, Vanity Fair, The New York Times. [basically all those big companies], it supports background downloading of publishes. Game Center 67 million users. It is updated to add photos of friends, achievement points, friend recommendations. [Basically, it’s what been covered in WWDC 2011 about iOS 5.. I’ll only type this here if there are any new stuff.] iCloud will be available to app developers on October 12th. Backup will be done daily.
iOS 5 will be released on October 12th.
Find My Friends App [NEW on iOS!]
You can allow your friends to share your location for a few hours. You can set location sharing blocks of time [For example, at the end of the day, location sharing stops automatically] Simple privacy control and parental restrictions as usual. It is all part of iCloud – Free.
iPhone
The iPhone 5th Generation will be called iPhone 4S. It has the same processor as the iPad 2 – A5 chip, it has the same retina display. iPhone 4S has Image Signal Processing designed by Apple.
Battery life had been increased to 8 hours of 3G talktime, 14 hours of 2G talktime, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 9 hours of Wi-Fi Browsing, 10 hours of video playback and 40 hours of music playback.
The iPhone 4S can now intelligently switch between two antennas for both transmit and receive to make even better call quality. Data can now download up to 2 times faster – up to 7.2Mbps upload and 14.4Mbps download [Most people called it the 4G network].iPhone 4S is now a world phone. It supports both CDMA and GSM.
Camera now will have a 8 megapixel sensor. Resolution up to 3264 x 2448. It has now 60% more pixel. It captures 33% faster. It has backside illumination sensor and can gather 73% more light per pixels! In addition to that, there’s hybrid IR Filter [In high end DSLR], allowing you to get better color accuracy and more color uniformity. It has five custom lenses. A wide f2.4 lens. There are also face-detection and auto-white balance. It takes 1.1 seconds to capture the first picture, and a half-second for the second. [iPhone 4S takes 3 pictures before the Galaxy S II take one.]
Video recording will now capture 1080p HD video recording. It has real-time temporal noise reduction [Helpful in low light scenarios] and video image stabilization.
AirPlay is enabled on the iPhone 4S. It can now do wired or wireless mirroring [When i say wireless, i mean AirPlay via Apple TV].
iPhone 4S will be priced at $199 for the 16GB Model, $299 for the 32GB Model and $399 for the 64GB Model, two years contract. iPhone 4 8GB model will cost $99, iPhone 3GS 8GB model will be free with a contract.
It will be on Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, T-Mobile [For the US Carriers]. Pre-orders will be available on the 7th October, it will be released on October 14th and it will start with the US, Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany and Japan. iPhone 4S will be released in 28 Countries by the 28th of October, and 70 countries by the end of the year.
Siri Integration
You should be able to talk to it as if it was a regular person.
You can ask about the time and weather. You can also book a restaurants [information from yelp, check for currencies, count the days[information pulled from wolfram alpha], ask for a definition, search wikipedia. You can even compose a text message or an email, play a song [now by speaking the name of the song], call anyone, set a calendar appointment [you will be alerted if it clashes with another appointment], ask for directions [currently US Only] and even set an alarm! When you receive a text message and you’re on your headset or bluetooth headset, hold the headset button and speak the command ‘Read the message’. Your message will be read out to you. You can reply to it just by your voice. You can set reminders. You can ask it ‘Who are you’ and it will reply ‘i am a humble personal assistant.’.
All these just from your voice. Your contact information will be pulled from your phone contacts app too. There will be a new mic icon beside your space bar on your virtual keyboard. It currently works for US, UK and Australian accent, plus French and German. It’s beta to start with and more languages and services coming. It learns your voice. It will be an iPhone 4S only feature.
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