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For the first time in the history of the iPhone product line, Apple today unveiled two entirely new products: the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. Naturally, they’re pretty well differentiated, which may make the decision to pick one up (or not) that much more challenging. So, we leave it to you, dear reader: are you planning to equip yourself with one of Apple’s newest phones here in just a few weeks? If so, which one? If not, why? Of course, those who’ve found little to love about iOS have some fairly fantastic options coming their way this holiday season as well. Leave your vote and note below, won’t you? And, please, keep it civil — internet comments are forever, after all.

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The iPhone 5s was expected. The iPhone 5c, on the other hand, was merely rumored. Now that Apple has taken the wraps off of two new iPhone products, it’s the newest range that strikes us as the most curious. For months, pundits have wondered if and when Apple would attack two obvious markets: the large-screen market — which Samsung is lapping up in supreme fashion at the moment — and developing markets. The iPhone 5c addresses neither of those, which begs the question: who exactly is Apple targeting?

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Apple’s media events often follow a pattern. The company usually talks about numbers and retail stores first before jumping on to announce new devices. That’s exactly what it did today as well, at its iPhone event. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced during the keynote that the 700 millionth iOS device is set to be shipped by October, while not discounting the possibility that it might actually be shipped sooner than that.

Cook claimed that based on the sheer number of iOS devices out there, when iOS 7 is released on September 18th, it will become the “most popular operating system” in the world, literally overnight. While the claim might be a tad optimistic, there’s no doubt about the fact that Apple’s iOS devices are some of the most popular devices that are coveted by customers all around the globe. Since Apple is the only company that manufactures these devices, we don’t see high fragmentation of iOS like we see with Android. Google announced last week that it has activated over 1 billion Android devices, but a large number of them are still running OS versions that are over two years old, that’s because Android devices are developed by a wide variety of manufacturers and every device isn’t capable of running the latest OS version.

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Expected Apple to officially kill the the 30-pin connector today? Not so fast — the company left the 4s clinging to life as a freebie. The big reveals today, however, were the all new iPhone 5s and lower-cost (and brighter-hued) 5c. You won’t be able to get your hands on the latest iDevices until September 20th, so catch up on all of the news from today’s event in our roundup after the break.

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As of this week, Apple has discontinued the iPhone 5 entirely, focusing instead on the iPhone 5S, the iPhone 5C, and the iPhone 4S. While it was widely expected that Apple would take the smaller display of the iPhone 4S out of the equation entirely, it would seem instead that the company opted for ease […]