SAN FRANCISCO -- Even with all the anticipation surrounding a
potential smartwatch, the next generation of the iPhone will still be
the star of Tuesday's Apple show, as well as the main source of Apple's profits for at least the next year.
Here's some consensus views of what will be unveiled:
1. The new phone, likely to be called the iPhone 6, is expected to feature a screen spanning at least 4.7 inches diagonally, up from the 4-inch display on the previous models released during the past two years. Some analysts have speculated Apple may also offer an iPhone model with a 5.5-inch screen.
Any significant increase in the iPhone's size would make the device more competitive with smartphones made by Samsung Electronics and other rivals, and virtually ensure that Apple would have one of the holiday season's hottest selling items. "There is incredible pent-up demand for a larger-screen iPhone," Bajarin said.
2. Besides a larger screen, the new iPhone is expected to include a near-field communications chip that would enable the device to transmit payment information wirelessly to receivers at store check-in stands.
3. This wireless technology is expected to be accompanied with a mobile wallet feature that taps into the more than 800 million credit card account numbers that users store on Apple's remote servers to buy songs, video and apps from its iTunes stores. The mobile wallet could be secured with a fingerprint reader that Apple introduced last year on the iPhone 5S.
The mobile wallet conceivably could also work on a smartwatch or high-tech bracelet.
4. Apple's latest mobile software for the iPhone 6 and other recent models, iOS 8, also includes two features called HealthKit and HomeKit that represent the next step in the company's to play an even bigger role in the lives of the people tethered to its devices. The tools are designed to turn Apple's products into a suite of digital servants that do everything from monitoring a person's eating habits and exercise routines to turning on the coffee maker in the morning to turning off the lights at night.
If Apple follows its recent traditions, the free iOS 8 software will be released shortly before the iPhone 6 goes on sale later this month.
5. Also Tuesday, Apple is expected to rouse the still-slumbering market for wearable computers with a smartwatch or bracelet equipped to monitor health, help manage homes and even buy merchandise.
Apple is a late arrival to this relatively new niche: several other companies already sell smartwatches that are being greeted with widespread indifference.
If any company can transform the landscape, it's likely to be Apple Inc. after the company shifted the direction of digital technology with the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Other MP3 music players, smartphones and tablet computers were first to market, but the devices didn't enthrall consumers until Apple imbued them with a sense of elegance, convenience and wizardry.
"It means more to us to get it right than to be first," Apple CEO Tim Cook explained to analysts earlier this year.
Source: iPhone 6? Latest rumors before Tuesday's Apple event
NO company in the world receives as much fanfare when it announces a new product as Apple.
The gadget makers have consumers on the edge of their seats and is putting together the finishing touches as it prepares to open the doors of its invitation-only event for the iPhone 6. Sadly, only a select few can personally attend this event but for those journalists, Apple execs and key members of the media they’ll know only too well the familiar sights of these exclusive grand unveilings.
Woo!
It’s inevitable as much as it is embarrassing. When that new shiny product is whipped out on stage by Tim Cook you’ll hear the Apple audience explode into whooping more frantic than an Ellen audience who’ve just been exposed to a picture of Ryan Gosling’s abs. Expect to hear lots of this at the upcoming event.
Laptops
The audience at the live unveiling, while sitting like disciples waiting for the messiah to speak, always have shining bright lights on their laps. The question: ‘is your wi-fi working?’ bounces around the auditorium as their computers are open, poised for the owner to hurriedly type away a story to appear on the web. Thankfully, the cacophony of clacking keys as the keynote unfurls almost drowns out all that whooping.
Cargo pants
It isn’t exactly an exhibition of haute couture from the journalists and bloggers at Apple events. Among the bad blazers and geek T-shirts accompanied by the obligatory messenger bag, for some reason cargo pants are a common choice of legwear among attendees. Other than the mega Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you won’t see a bigger gathering of the multi-pocketed attire. Maybe they’re for hiding their lanyard or complimentary mini muffin in or more likely they’re for the multitude of gadgets the tech heads are packing.
Lanyards
Oh so many lanyards. These dorky pieces of plastic with your name on it dangle from the necks of every single body allowed through the doors. Some people even try to smuggle them out as a memento.
Banners galore
There’s no risk you’ll walk into the wrong building as banners the size of buses are slapped up around the place. No expense is spared on these bad boys. Before the crowd ushers in you’ll find small groups of journos and bloggers straining out small talk by trying to decipher the graphics Apple used in an attempt to crack a hidden message.
The stats no one cares about
Ever the showmen Apple likes to keep the audience in suspense. You know you’re here for that grand unveiling but you’ll have to sit through a bunch of pie charts and bar graphs showing off how sales have been the last quarter, where iTunes numbers have increased yadda, yadda, yadda. Just show us the goods!
That guy no one really cares about
Twenty minutes in and just when you think you’re going to get your peepers on the new product Apple wheels out their head of iMovies to run you through how he turned his ‘holiday’ clips into a movie for the family. Sorry mate but, yawn.
The iThing
After the keynote finishes the excitement doesn’t end there. Sometimes, but not always, the curtain is literally lifted to reveal the very product that was being paraded on stage for the invitees to get their clammy hands on. There’s always a bunch of suspiciously cheery staff in Apple T-shirts ready to talk you through their rehearsed features and to make sure you don’t slip it into one of your cargo pants pockets. People nudge and neck their way around the product tables and there’s always that guy with the selfie stick and over-sized backpack in the way.
Source: iPhone 6 launch is days away, here are eight things you’re guaranteed to see
Here's some consensus views of what will be unveiled:
1. The new phone, likely to be called the iPhone 6, is expected to feature a screen spanning at least 4.7 inches diagonally, up from the 4-inch display on the previous models released during the past two years. Some analysts have speculated Apple may also offer an iPhone model with a 5.5-inch screen.
Any significant increase in the iPhone's size would make the device more competitive with smartphones made by Samsung Electronics and other rivals, and virtually ensure that Apple would have one of the holiday season's hottest selling items. "There is incredible pent-up demand for a larger-screen iPhone," Bajarin said.
2. Besides a larger screen, the new iPhone is expected to include a near-field communications chip that would enable the device to transmit payment information wirelessly to receivers at store check-in stands.
3. This wireless technology is expected to be accompanied with a mobile wallet feature that taps into the more than 800 million credit card account numbers that users store on Apple's remote servers to buy songs, video and apps from its iTunes stores. The mobile wallet could be secured with a fingerprint reader that Apple introduced last year on the iPhone 5S.
The mobile wallet conceivably could also work on a smartwatch or high-tech bracelet.
4. Apple's latest mobile software for the iPhone 6 and other recent models, iOS 8, also includes two features called HealthKit and HomeKit that represent the next step in the company's to play an even bigger role in the lives of the people tethered to its devices. The tools are designed to turn Apple's products into a suite of digital servants that do everything from monitoring a person's eating habits and exercise routines to turning on the coffee maker in the morning to turning off the lights at night.
If Apple follows its recent traditions, the free iOS 8 software will be released shortly before the iPhone 6 goes on sale later this month.
5. Also Tuesday, Apple is expected to rouse the still-slumbering market for wearable computers with a smartwatch or bracelet equipped to monitor health, help manage homes and even buy merchandise.
Apple is a late arrival to this relatively new niche: several other companies already sell smartwatches that are being greeted with widespread indifference.
If any company can transform the landscape, it's likely to be Apple Inc. after the company shifted the direction of digital technology with the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Other MP3 music players, smartphones and tablet computers were first to market, but the devices didn't enthrall consumers until Apple imbued them with a sense of elegance, convenience and wizardry.
"It means more to us to get it right than to be first," Apple CEO Tim Cook explained to analysts earlier this year.
Source: iPhone 6? Latest rumors before Tuesday's Apple event
NO company in the world receives as much fanfare when it announces a new product as Apple.
The gadget makers have consumers on the edge of their seats and is putting together the finishing touches as it prepares to open the doors of its invitation-only event for the iPhone 6. Sadly, only a select few can personally attend this event but for those journalists, Apple execs and key members of the media they’ll know only too well the familiar sights of these exclusive grand unveilings.
Woo!
Ahmagad! It’s the new iPhone.
Source: Supplied
It’s inevitable as much as it is embarrassing. When that new shiny product is whipped out on stage by Tim Cook you’ll hear the Apple audience explode into whooping more frantic than an Ellen audience who’ve just been exposed to a picture of Ryan Gosling’s abs. Expect to hear lots of this at the upcoming event.
Laptops
The audience at the live unveiling, while sitting like disciples waiting for the messiah to speak, always have shining bright lights on their laps. The question: ‘is your wi-fi working?’ bounces around the auditorium as their computers are open, poised for the owner to hurriedly type away a story to appear on the web. Thankfully, the cacophony of clacking keys as the keynote unfurls almost drowns out all that whooping.
Cargo pants
Bad fashion and beyond!
Source: Supplied
It isn’t exactly an exhibition of haute couture from the journalists and bloggers at Apple events. Among the bad blazers and geek T-shirts accompanied by the obligatory messenger bag, for some reason cargo pants are a common choice of legwear among attendees. Other than the mega Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you won’t see a bigger gathering of the multi-pocketed attire. Maybe they’re for hiding their lanyard or complimentary mini muffin in or more likely they’re for the multitude of gadgets the tech heads are packing.
Lanyards
If you haven’t got a lanyard, you’re not getting in.
Source: News Limited
Oh so many lanyards. These dorky pieces of plastic with your name on it dangle from the necks of every single body allowed through the doors. Some people even try to smuggle them out as a memento.
Banners galore
There’s no risk you’ll walk into the wrong building as banners the size of buses are slapped up around the place. No expense is spared on these bad boys. Before the crowd ushers in you’ll find small groups of journos and bloggers straining out small talk by trying to decipher the graphics Apple used in an attempt to crack a hidden message.
The stats no one cares about
A slice of bore.
Source: Supplied
Ever the showmen Apple likes to keep the audience in suspense. You know you’re here for that grand unveiling but you’ll have to sit through a bunch of pie charts and bar graphs showing off how sales have been the last quarter, where iTunes numbers have increased yadda, yadda, yadda. Just show us the goods!
That guy no one really cares about
iDon’t care.
Source: Supplied
Twenty minutes in and just when you think you’re going to get your peepers on the new product Apple wheels out their head of iMovies to run you through how he turned his ‘holiday’ clips into a movie for the family. Sorry mate but, yawn.
The iThing
iWant.
Source: AFP
After the keynote finishes the excitement doesn’t end there. Sometimes, but not always, the curtain is literally lifted to reveal the very product that was being paraded on stage for the invitees to get their clammy hands on. There’s always a bunch of suspiciously cheery staff in Apple T-shirts ready to talk you through their rehearsed features and to make sure you don’t slip it into one of your cargo pants pockets. People nudge and neck their way around the product tables and there’s always that guy with the selfie stick and over-sized backpack in the way.
Source: iPhone 6 launch is days away, here are eight things you’re guaranteed to see
