Not long after the official iPhone 5s announcement, an Apple spokesperson discussed the iPhone 5s Touch ID capabilities in a little more detail, focusing specifically on the type of data that the biometric scanner will be capturing when in use. A few days have passed and we are now seeing additional information emerging, regarding one of the other new components that will be making an appearance in the seventh-generation iPhone. Information regarding Apple's A7 chipset and its' associated M7 Motion Coprocessor has been unveiled, and it's once again another feature that will split opinion.
It seems that black and white just doesn't cut it these days when it comes to smartphones and other portable gadgets. At one point, it would have been almost unheard of that Apple would even consider releasing hardware with multiple color choices, but here we are with the iPhone 5c available in five different vivid options. The iPhone 5s’ colors have also changed, with Silver, Gold and Space Gray options being available at launch time next Friday. That new Space Gray option is likely to be extremely popular, and it has even managed to make itself at home on one of Apple's iPod nano personal music players.
Some analysts and Mac users expected Apple to use Tuesday's iPhone event to announce the availability of the OS X Mavericks 10.9 Gold Master seed for registered developers. It didn't happen. The general acceptance is that the Cupertino based company applied all of its collective efforts and resources into ensuring that iOS 7 and the two new iPhone models were launched without issue. We now expect OS X 10.9 to land next month at some point, but for those who simply can't wait for new stuff, Apple has today pushed out a point version of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 that fixes a number of niggling issues.
Specific feature sets of announced smartphones will always be extremely polarizing and appeal to one user while managing to entirely bore another. What we all care about is price. How much cash we will have to part with to have that device in our lives. Apple has done a pretty great job of keeping the cost of the new iPhones down, but if that isn't enough for some, then Walmart will be offering a discount on the devices when they eventually go public.
When Apple introduced the iPhone 5s at Tuesday's Cupertino event it didn't come as any surprise that the new hardware included biometric detection embedded within the home button. The inclusion of this technology, officially called Touch ID, had long been speculated about before Tim Cook took to the stage and had also been all but confirmed by the discovery of biometric framework logs in a teardown of iOS 7. iPhone 5s Touch ID is definitely a polarizing feature but Apple has now released some additional information regarding the technology that should answer a few questions.
While we might have been entirely engrossed in the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c launch, and while the keynote yesterday would’ve made it sound like these are the only two Apple devices in existence that are worth any mention, that doesn’t mean that the company itself has forgotten its other lineups altogether. Earlier, we reported that new Apple TV iOS 7 update will be available Sept. 18, just alongside iOS 7, and now, thanks to a tweet from MG Siegler, it appears that the set top box itself will be seeing a new iteration next month.
All the talk right now is understandably centered around the two new smartphones that Apple will be unleashing to the world on September 20th. The iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c were officially unveiled by Phil Schiller at Apple's Cupertino Campus yesterday, and the two will no doubt be hugely popular with buyers next week. While the hardware is certainly catching the eye, the new handsets are more than just some new specs or fancy plastics. There's iOS 7, too.
So, the iPhone 5s and 5c have finally been revealed after months of speculation, and with the latter available to pre-order in just a couple of days, Apple fans have a bit of a decision to make. The iPhone 5s has certainly pushed the boundaries with a plethora of new features, but while the iPhone 5c may be distinctly similar in terms of hardware to the iPhone 5, its funky design and range of color options will surely render it a hit among consumers. But which will you choose?
Just prior to Apple's announcement of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, it was revealed that Apple TV would be getting some kind of upgrade. While there wouldn't be any new hardware added to a little black box that has seen very little by way of physical change since inception, the set-top would, it was revealed, be getting a significant software update at some point after the keynote. Now, it has been revealed that the Apple TV iOS 7 update will be coming next week on September 18th, the same day iOS 7 will be released to the end user.
Well that didn't take long. Just hours after Apple announced the new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, some of its competition is already beginning to launch the first attacks aimed to poke fun at the devices.
