We are pretty sure that we will see an Apple media event being held in September, part of which will be dedicated to introducing the world to some new hardware. As things stand at the moment, it looks nailed on that Tim Cook and his colleagues will take to the stage to announce and show off the next-generation iPhone in all its glory, but apart from that, the jury is still out on whether or not they will use the same forum to tell us about a couple of new iPods we are expecting, as well as the baby iPad, commonly dubbed as the iPad Mini.
The San Jose leg of the ongoing, worldwide battle between Apple and Samsung is really heating up, with pivotal members of both companies now taking the stand and offering their take on proceedings. For those of you who've been living in a cave for the past few months, Apple is claiming up to $2.5 billion in damages from Samsung regarding a wide range of alleged patent infringements, mostly circulated around the design of the Korean outfit's Galaxy design and form factor.
Although the Samsung vs. Apple trial has a decent amount of show time left before the jury is sent to deliberate on what they have heard during its entirety, it seems that Apple has a lot to be positive about. Although judge Lucy Koh has been less than happy so far with the behavior of both legal counsels, it has been the Samsung representatives that have taken most of the judicial negativity thus far, but we should know by now that anything can - and usually does - happen in cases such as these.
If you like to keep up with your technology news, the talk of the next iPhone will have been pretty hard to escape. In fact, such is the nature of an upcoming Cupertino product, the speculation regarding the smartphone has featured in most news outlets, tech-orientated or otherwise, and there's a recurring theme with regards to what's on offer.
I don't know about the rest of you, but for me there is nothing more exciting than experiencing the anticipation of waiting for an Apple media event to begin to see exactly they have in store for the technology loving public. As time passes by and the event draws in closer, we generally have a pretty decent idea about what is going to be on offer thanks to numerous leaks and educated guesses, but part of the excitement is the fact that we just never know for sure until Tim Cook takes to the stage and introduces us to the topic of the event.
If you are one of the many who religiously follow the release of any iOS device and are sitting patiently waiting for Apple to announce the next-generation iPhone, then it has been pretty much agreed upon that you don’t need to wait much longer. It is widely expected that the Apple media event that is planned for September 12th will be iPhone-centric and possibly introduce the new device for sale approximately nine days later.
While from the outset, it does appear that Apple and Samsung are fighting over the design of “black rectangles”, newly released evidence from the courts shows just how blatantly Samsung copied Apple’s design ideas*. Check it all out after the jump.
Yesterday, Apple seeded iOS 6 Beta 4 to developers. It features a bunch of tweaks throughout the OS and its included apps, removes YouTube* as a stock app, and now, we’ve learned that Apple has added new cities from North America and Europe to its Maps app’s 3D feature. Check out the details after the jump.
With every passing day we are getting closer and closer to an eventual announcement and release of the next-generation iPhone. With the iPhone 4S being released in October of last year and the traditional Worldwide Developers Conference release date already passed, it looks likely that we can expect a similar launch time for Apple's next iPhone. Although I still expect an October announcement, there are some outlets adamant that we will see some activity during the month of September, but that obviously remains to be seen.
Apple, perhaps more so than any other tech company, tries its utmost to shave as much unnecessary baggage from its product range through generations, and although we've seen some significant downsizes in recent times - the Retina MacBook Pro, for example - sometimes the reductions can only be achieved a little at a time.
