Apple iPhone Event 2013 – Live Notes and Details

These are lives Notes on Apple’s 2013 iPhone event. They will be updated and filled in as information becomes available.

Talking Points:

• iTunes Festival – Music festival online

• Apple Store Update:

• 700 millionth iOS device next month

iOS 7 and Siri:

• Presented by: Craig Federighi

• Parralax Effect (3D springboard)

• Can figure out commute time based on traffic

• Pulldown universal search

• Tabs in Safarai

• Siri can now be male or female – can also read tweets

• Remastered alerts sounds

• iOS built-in live camera effects

• built-in square photos for instagram

• Airdrop for iOS – could have used this when I lost power during a hurricane

• Over 200 new features – the usual ambiguity over what those are

• Available September 18th

• Works on: iPhone 4 later and iPad 2 and later and the 5th gen iPod touch

• iWork for iCloud – still excited about this – any platform

• iWork, iPhoto, iMovie now free (there goes $100 down the toilet for me) 🙁

iPhone 5C Specs:

Replacing the whole (lower the price of last year’s). iPhone 5 and below Gone for good. Schiller presents:

• processor – A6

• display

• COLOR: 5 Colors – Plastic- green, white, blue, pink and yellow – cheapens the brand? – Unibody design -entire back – at least the screen is glass

• Steel-reinforced

• 4 inch Retina Display

• Special cases so color shines through

• camera – Facetime HD Front – 3x Zoom Back with increased lowlight performance – 8 MP

• design

• Battery Life: Higher Capacity Battery

• 100 MBpS dual band Wifi – finally

• ONLY $99 – a great value  (16GB). 32 GB 5C is $199

special features:

iPhone 5S Specs:

• Black, Gold and Silver

• Aluminium

• M7 – new chip/part – “motion co-processor” – deals with compass, accelerometer, gyroscope to read data while processor works on other things – keeps track of activities, like Jawbone UP (my review)

• processor SOC A7 is 64 bit – twice as fast on tasks and graphics

• Fast like LIGHTNING

• 40X faster than first iPhone

• A billion transistors

• “Console level graphics”

• FAST

• display

• Camera: F2.2 aperture camera – that means insane Depth of field and low light performance – Bigger pixels – makes it more of a camera, less “caamera phone”

  • Still 8 MP – respectable

  • Auto white balance – key

  • 2 LEDs for better flash performance

  • Auto Stableization – also key – maybe I would have been able to get a clean photo of air force one while my wrists were shaking, with this

  • 10 pics per second burst mode! Better than DSLR cameras

  • Slow Motion Video Camera – sick awesome – 120 fps HD (slowed 400%)

  • 28 MP adjustable Panorama

  • TouchID – for those who hate passcodes – Fingerprint scanner under home button – 70 microns thin, 500 pixels per inch – insanely great – first time I’ve been able to use that phrase in years

  • What if you break your home button?

  • Also replaces iTunes password!

  • 50% of people don’t lock their phone

  • What if a friend needs to access it? Option of passcode?

  • Saphire button, so it won’t break

  • encrypted

  • 16 GB $199, 32 GB $299

  • Dyed leather case = $39

  • 4S 8GB still around

  • 5S and 5C due to arrive September 20th in 100 countries

  • Still looks like an iPhone 5 – just like 4S and 4

• design

• battery: 10 hours of talk time, 250 standby, 10 browsing – excellent

special features

OSX Mavericks: No info

Mac Pro Specs and Features:

No info

• Processor

• Hard Drive

• Design

• Power Consumption

• Other Special Features:

AND ONE FINAL QUOTE FROM Elvis  Costello: “New Song. Costello: “It’s from an album we’re releasing…See I’ve got product announcements.”