Oct 04

AirPlay Mirroring coming to iPhone 4S, not just for iPads

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That snazzy AirPlay Mirroring feature Apple showed off at WWDC earlier this year is back for an encore, and now it’s strutting its stuff on the iPhone 4S. Previously we saw AirPlay piping an iPad 2 to the big screen by way of Apple TV, but the upcoming iOS 5 features seems to have broadened it horizons — letting Apple handsets get in on the HDTV mirroring love. AirPlay not your thing? Don’t worry, you can still score high-def mirroring action using a wired dongle. Skip on past the break for a peek at the accessory that will make your next $2,000 Halloween costume that much easier to build.

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Oct 04

iPhone 4S officially announced: lands October 14th starting at $199 in sizes up to 64GB, coming to Sprint

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iPhone 4S

What’s this? The second coming of the iPhone 4? Sure enough, Tim Cook just pulled the covers off of the hotly-anticipated iPhone 4S here in Cupertino, making 2011 the first year in the company’s current stint in the smartphone business that it chose to launch three new handsets (Verizon’s CDMA iPhone 4 included, of course). On the outside the 4S looks exactly like its predecessor, but on the inside it’s “all new.” Apple has jammed a dual-core A5 CPU inside alongside a new dual-core GPU that supposedly boosts graphics performance by up to 7x. Up front is the same 3.5-inch Retina display we’ve all come to know and love, and around back is a glass plate. Those antennae around the sides (which caused many users so much trouble) have been revamped and iOS will intelligently switch between two different sets on the fly to avoid dropping calls no matter how you hold it. Those antennae are connected to a dual-mode GSM and CDMA radio that will let Apple’s handset roam the globe while enjoying either 14.4Mbps HSPA+ or EV-DO Rev. A.

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Oct 04

iPod touch still maxes out at 64GB / $399, available in white October 12th

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While the iPhone 4S takes the headlines with its dual antennas and upgraded processor, we also have a new white iPod touch joining the family. Pricing for the “#1 portable game player” (Apple’s words, with some numbers to back them up) still starts at $199 for the 8GB version, going up $399 for a 64GB. All will be available in black or white October 12th. There’s no hardware changes to speak of, so hopefully all those sweet iOS 5 upgrades are enough to hold you. Check out the full details in our live blog or in the press release, conveniently available after the break.

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Gallery: New iPod Touch available in white October 12th

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Oct 04

Apple announces Find My Friends feature for iOS 5

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Apple spent a fair bit of time recapping some already announced iOS 5 features during its keynote today, but it also got around to announcing a new one: Find My Friends. That will let you easily find friends in the real world who have opted to share their location with you, and you’ll also be able to invite friends to share their location for a limited time — when they’re driving to your house, for instance, so you can give them directions. Naturally, there are also some parental controls and other “simple” privacy settings.

Gallery: iOS 5 landing October 12

Apple announces Find My Friends feature for iOS 5 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 04

iOS 5 will be available October 12, iCloud launching the same day

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Mark your calendars, kids. Scott Forstall’s on stage here at “Let’s Talk iPhone” and just gave a hard date for iOS 5’s arrival: expect it to hit next week, on October 12th, with Apple’s iCloud service launching that same day. Though developers have been playing with it for four months now, this will be the first time the general, non-tinkering public gets to taste its 200-plus new features — a list that includes Newsstand, Reminders, iMessage, WiFi sync, Find My Friends, split keyboards, AirPlay mirroring for the iPad 2 (and iPhone 4S!) and the Notification Center. (And, you know, greeting cards, if you’re into that sort of thing.) iOS 5 will be free for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, while iCloud’s standard 5GB of email / storage will come gratis to folks already using iOS 5 and Lion. Take note that if it’s iTunes Match you’re after (and you live in the states), you’ll have to sit tight a few more weeks yet.

Gallery: iOS 5 landing October 12

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Oct 04

Cards app for iPhone sends snail mail best wishes, for a price

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We’ve got at least one completely unexpected announcement from Apple’s Let’s Talk iPhone Event: a new app that sends out greeting cards. For $2.99 within the US and $4.99 internationally, sending a greeting card the old fashioned way is just one click away on your mobile, complete with notifications when your card is mailed. Taking shots at PC makers and Android’s apps are a given, but a bomb dropped on Hallmark? Welcome to the Tim Cook era. Check the liveblog and gallery below for more details.

Gallery: New iOS 5 feature: Cards

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Cards app for iPhone sends snail mail best wishes, for a price originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 04

Apple: 250 million iOS devices sold, 18 billion apps downloaded

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250 Million iOS Devices Sold
Among the glut of numbers coming out of the Apple keynote today, delaying the reveal of your next iPhone, was a particularly impressive one: 250 million. That’s the number of iOS devices sold. That’s 250 million iPhones and iPads in the wild worldwide, running a grand total of 18 billion apps between them, which have netted developers a whopping $3 billion. That ladies and gentlemen, is nothing to sniff at.

Apple: 250 million iOS devices sold, 18 billion apps downloaded originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 04

Tim Cook: Macbook Pro and iMac are the best selling notebook and desktop in the US

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Tim Cook kicked off today’s ‘Let’s talk iPhone‘ event by the numbers, mentioning that “the MacBook Pro and iMac are the number one best selling notebook and desktop in the United States.” Apparently the Mac platform grew by 23 percent over the last year, versus a four percent growth from the PC sector. Brandishing a chart tracing the trend back five years, Cook says that Apple is now pushing 60 million Mac users worldwide, leaving Cupertino just shy of owning a fourth of the personal computer market. “There are still 77 percent of people who are buying something else,” Cook said, “We have an incredibly high ceiling here. We have a long way to go.”

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Oct 04

Apple’s ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ keynote liveblog!

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Oct 04

iPhone 4S landing on October 14th according to Apple Store page in Japan

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Ginza Apple Store Event

Well, Tim Cook has yet to even take the stage and already the leaks are starting to pour in. It started with a pair of images buried in the Apple store’s HTML code. But, perhaps more telling, was the page for the Ginza, Japan store listing the launch of the iPhone 4S as a featured event starting at 8am on October 14th. While that doesn’t necessarily mean the tweaked iPhone 4 variant will launch everywhere on the same day, it seems a safe bet that the US and UK will be getting in on the action that Friday morning.

Update: Well, that was short lived. The text is gone… for now.

iPhone 4S landing on October 14th according to Apple Store page in Japan originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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