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 Added on September 11, 2013  Alan Smithee   , , , ,

Apple’s iPhone Keynote – All You Need to Know

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In case you live under a rock, I’m looking at you Patrick Star, you probably heard more than you ever wanted to know about the new iPhone 5S and 5C models and the services therein. We bring you a condensed version of the dog and pony show that was Tim Cook’s iPhone keynote.

There’s a bunch of information that has come out and there will be likely more as the speculation festival continues, but here is what we absolutely know.

  • – New iPhone 5S and 5C

The new iPhone 5S is an updated version of the 5S with a faster A7 processor, a new M7 motion co-processor, fingerprint scanner in the home button, dual LED flash, better resolution camera, and will come in three colors: silver, “space gray”, and gold. Available in the US starting on September 20. The price for contracted phones starts at $199 for the 16GB model up to $399 for the 64GB one. However if you want it free and clear unlocked it starts at $649 for the 16GB up to $849 for the 64GB behemoth.

The iPhone 5C is available for pre-order right now through the Apple store and will run you $99 for the 16GB model and $199 for the 32GB model…however if you want the unlocked version it’s considerably more expensive at $549 and $649 respectively. For those wondering about the device itself, it is essentially an iPhone 5 with a steel reinforced plastic case.

  • – iWork Suite will come pre-installed on iOS devices

All of you other people will still have to pay $5-$10 for each of the apps, Pages, Numbers, iMovie, Keynote, and iPhoto.

  • – iTunes Radio launches September 18

Think of it as Pandora with better algorithms.

  • – iOS7 rollout on September 18
  • – iPod touch, nano, and shuffle now will be available in ‘space gray’ as well
  • – iOS7 introduces iBeacons

Too bad that doesn’t count towards alliteration, but with iOS7 comes support for Bluetooth Low Energy that could very easily be a contender to undo NFE dominance as it would broadcast on a localized Bluetooth radio that would be able to do the same work.

  • – iPhone approval for China’s 700,000,000 customers imminent

That’s a shitload of potential customers.

  • – Apple touts 700 million iOS devices shipped by the end of October

I’m responsible for at least 9 of those.

I know that’s a ton to take in, and if you need a ton additional information, I suggest you head over to one of the giants of tech to get all of the 1s and 0s of specs, weight, and software changes. I am not biased in any way, but I did make the swap from iOS to Android this year. I don’t quite see enough yet to bring me back…but if the rumors of them working on a 6″ phablet (phone/tablet hybrid like my GNoteII) are true, I might have to rethink my life a bit.

Alan Smithee

by Alan Smithee

I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for. It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are. I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own. It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.

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