Live Blog 19:40 – And we’re done. So no new iPhone 5, but as many had predicted an iPhone 4s. It does indeed come with the iPad A5 processor, and a new 8-megapixel camera.
You can preorder from October 7th, and will be on sale on the 14th. The handset will come in both Black and White. The prices are: 16GB for $199, 32GB for $299, and 64GB for $399.
It’s going to be available in US, Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany and Japan.
Live Blog 19:39 - Pre-orders on the October 7th, and then launching on the 14th. Coming on Sprint in the US.
Live Blog 19:37 - "The iPhone 4S is not the only phone in our lineup. The iPhone 4 will now be available in Black and white for just $99. The iPhone 3GS in 8GB: free."
Live Blog 19:36 – Phil: "So that's the iPhone 4S. Black and white, 16GB for $199, 32GB for $299, and 64GB for $399. 64GB is the first time in an iPhone."
Live Blog 19:32 – video time, first shots for the new iPhone.
Live Blog 19:25 – Siri in the flesh.
Live Blog 19:22 - "With Siri, you can just ask Siri to read your messages to you." will read your messages and your notification queue, all hands-free.
Live Blog 19:20 – Siri: New voice command search engine. Scott's asking Siri all kinds of stuff. Find me a great Greek restaurant in Palo Alto. "I've found five Greek restaurants, and I've sorted them by rating." Scott: "I've been in the AI field a long time. This blows me away."
Live Blog 19:15 – Airplay Mirroring to make the jump to iPhone 4S.
Live Blog 19:08 – Video capabilities. "We can take stunning HD video, and for the first time, 1080p video." & “1080p, real-time video image stabilisation, real-time temporal noise reduction.”
Live Blog 19:06 – Camera: "CMOS backside illuminated sensor -- gets 73% more light than the iPhone 4 sensor, and 1/3rd faster. On top of that, we place a high-end IR filter for greater accuracy and uniformity."
Live Blog 19:06 – Camera time. "What's the new camera on the iPhone 4S like? It starts with an 8 megapixel sensor."
Live Blog 19:04 - "Our engineering team has worked really hard to advance the state of the art that's never been done in a phone before. It can now intelligently switch between two antennas between send and receive to make even better call quality." They reckon it will be as fast as the current crop of 4G phone.
Live Blog: 19:00 - "You'd think if you put a CPU like that you'd sacrifice battery life Increased to 8 hours talk time”. Significantly better than iPhone 4.
Live Blog: 18:59 – iPhone 4S to Launch Today.
Live Blog: 18:57 – "Of course it starts with the Retina Display. But inside it is all new. The A5 chip is now making its way into the iPhone."
Live Blog: 18:56 – iPhone time. Booo, it's a iPhone 4S. "As you've heard, it's the number one smartphone in the world. People have been wondering, how do you follow up a hit product like the iPhone 4?" The iPhone 4S.
Live Blog: 18:54 - iPod touch: Not only is it the most popular music player in the world, but we're excited to announce it's now also the most popular portable game player in the world."
Live Blog: 18:53 – New Nano comes in 7 colors, now the iPod nano is 8GB for $129, and 16GB for $149. Available today.
Live Blog 18:52 – iPod Nano time. New customisable face – you can now wear it like a watch. "There's a really cool use people have created all their own -- accessories like watch bands. We thought that was really fun, so with the updated nano we've added 16 new clock faces to make it fun for people who like to wear it as a watch. Why not, right?"
Live Blog 18:44 – iTunes Match, Edi Cue: "It scans and matches your library against our 20m songs, we'll upload what we don't find, we'll stream"¦" wait, did he just say stream? Someone made a boo-boo.
Live Blog 18:42 – New location app called Family and Friends. Essentially Foursquare for iOS 5.
Live Blog 18:40 – Edi Cue: "What if you could find your family and friends? Today we're launching a new app called Family and Friends." Foursquare, you ready?
Live Blog 18:38 – iCloud now. Still no iPhone 5 news. Tick, tock, tick, tock. A full WWDC re-cap going on at the moment.
Live Blog 18:38 - Safari. "We've added a number of things, including Reader. We take the story on the page, we format it perfectly on the device, it's all loaded so you can just scroll through and read it."
Live Blog 18:32 – Time for iOS5. New App show: Cards. Now you can create physically mailed cards.
Live Blog 18:27 - All of these together makes the App Store the number one store for downloading apps. Customers have downloaded more than 18b apps. And it's accelerating. They're downloading them at a clip of more than 1 billion per month." That is pretty insane.
Live Blog 18:27 - Forstall: "Already, more than 500k apps in the app store. More than 140k of these are made specifically for the iPad."
Live Blog 18:25 - Scott Forstall is up now.
Live Blog 18:24 - “We have passed the quarter of a billion sales mark” for iOS devices.
Live Blog: 18:18 – "What's amazing is that the iPhone 4 has sold over half of our total iPhones sold in the entire time we've been selling iPhones. It's the number one smartphone in the world.
Live Blog: 18:10 – Cooks’ introduction talks about the continued success of new Apple stores across the world and especially in Asia “At the Hong Kong opening, we sold more Macs on opening day than they have in any other store in the world”
Live Blog: 18:05 – Tim Cook is on stage and declares “I Love Apple”.
Live Blog:18:00 - “Ladies and gentlemen, our presentation will begin shortly.”
Live Blog: 17:58 – The predictions that Apple will be unveiling a iPhone 4S are almost a certainty; Japanese website has spilled the beans with a October 14th release. There’s is also some pictures too – showing a phone that looks almost identical to the current 4th generation model
Live Blog: 17:48 – It’s almost time. Delegates are shuffling in to their seats – everyone is wearing rather fetching media tags.
It’s finally here!!!! Well, not quite but we’re only an hour away from Apple CEO Tim Cook taking to the stage at their Cupertino Head Quarters to unveil the new Apple iPhone.
Speculation is understandably rife at the moment, but Apple has managed to keep the new iPhone under-wraps – so really don’t know what Apple will unveil – the only thing we do know its a new iPhone.
It’s going to be an exciting time for Macolytes across the world. So make sure you check this post periodically as we’ll be updating it on-the-fly with news as it breaks.
Will Steve Jobs be there? Will Apple announce two phones? Will it be a 4S or a full-blown 5? We’ll keep you abreast of all the announcements from today’s Let’s Talk iPhone Event.