If the improved camera in the iPhone 4S is one of the features that might just tempt to you to upgrade, you will probably be interested to see some of the photographs taken with it – Apple have posted eight examples on their website, and while I’m not a professional photographer, I think they look pretty impressive!
I’ll be honest, I haven’t had chance to watch the one hour 36 minute video of last night’s iPhone media event in full yet. By all accounts it took a while for Tim Cook and team to get to the juiciest announcements – the new iPhone 4S and its Siri assistant. Thankfully though, Apple have since posted three short videos featuring last night’s biggest news to their YouTube account.
One of the most impressive features of the new iPhone 4S is undoubtedly the built-in assistant, Siri. Sprung from a company that Apple acquired last year shortly after it debuted an app, also named Siri, on the app store. What that version of Siri did was a sort of embryo of what we now see built into the very core of iOS. You could give natural speech commands, but what you could do with them was much more limited than this upgraded Siri.
The wait is over, folks. Apple’s Phil Schiller finally announced the company’s fifth-generation iPhone and put months and months of rumors and speculation to rest. As expected, the new device is called the iPhone 4S, and while it’s identical to the iPhone 4 on the outside, on the inside “it’s all new.”
The nano wasn’t the only iPod to get an update today, Apple also announced that their most popular portable music device – the iPod touch, is now available in white. The price of the entry level 8GB iPod touch has also been reduced from £189 ($229) to £169 ($199).
At today’s iPhone media event Apple announced updates and a price reduction to the iPod nano. The new version of the Cupertino company’s smallest touch-screen device now has an improved interface featuring bigger icons – which should make it easier to use, 16 new clock faces for those who wear it as a watch, and built-in Nike+ functionality for tracking walks and runs.
At its iPhone media event in Cupertino today, Apple finally announced the release date for its long-awaited iOS 5 software. The release has been in beta since its unveiling at WWDC in June, but on October 12, it will finally be available to the public.
Those of you who never owned an older iPod may not be aware that there was once a section in Apple’s iTunes store dedicated to games for click wheel devices. It launched back in 2006 alongside the Cupertino company’s iPod classic, but today, Apple closed up shop – putting click wheel games to rest.
Members of the UK tech press won’t have to travel to California to watch next Tuesday’s iPhone media event live. They can watch Tim Cook and co unveil the next iPhone from the comfort of the Covent Garden Retail Store, where Apple will be providing a live stream of the event.