MacDailyNews will present live coverage of Apple’s October 4th ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ special event beginning at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern right here on this page.
Apple executives, likely including new Apple CEO Tim Cook, will take the stage to “Talk iPhone.”
iPhone 5? iPhone 4S? Both?
Will iOS 5 be released to the public? And, what about “one more thing?”
One thing’s for sure, we’ll find out soon! Bookmark this page and join us right here starting at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT.
Live notes in reverse chronological order:
• End of event.
• Cook thanks audience.
• Cook: “iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone ever… Now, when you look at each of these, they’re great and fantastic and industry leading in and of themselves, but what puts Apple way out front is how they’re engineered to work together so well. Only Apple could make such amazing hardware & services and bring them together to such a powerful experience. I am so incredibly proud of this company and all of the teams who work so hard to bring all of the innovations you’ve seen today.”
• 70 countries by year end. 100+ carriers worldwide. “Fastest rollout ever.”
• October 28: 22 more countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.• iPhone 4 with 8GB for $99 (2-year contract) available in black and white
• iPhone 3GS with 8GB for free (with 2-year contract)
• iPhone 4S: Available in black and white. 16GB – $199, 32GB – $299, 64GB – $399 with 2-year contract, pre-order October 7, available on October 14. USA, Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany, and Japan. On Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint in the USA.• iPhone 4S video being shown…
• Siri languages: English (US, UK, and Australia dialects), French and German. Works on day one, bets even better as it learns your voice
• Siri also takes dictation, so keyboard in apps can now be replaced by voice. Works with built-in apps
• Siri will call people on the phone, play music, set up meetings, get directions, send and receive text messages, set alarms, manage calendar, send e-mails.
• “How many days are there until Christmas?” Siri replies, “One moment.. 82 days. Also, 2 months 21 days, 11 weeks 5 days, 58 weekdays, and .22 years.”
• “Search Wikipedia for Neil Armstrong.” Boom! Neil’s wikipedia entry is on you iPhone screen.
• “Remind me to call my wife when I leave work.” Siri asks to confirm and makes a reminder. Siri already knows Forstall’s wife and sets up a geofence around work.
• Forstall demos some very detailed and intensive conversation with Siri having it reasd text messages, sending texts, making a calendar appointment…
• “Give me directions to Hoover Tower.” Siri says, “here are direction to Hoover Tower” launched Maps app with the route
• “Wake me up tomorrow at 6am” Siri sets alarm for 6am in Clock app
• “What time is it in Paris?” Siri says, “The time in Paris, France is 8:16pm” and launches Clock
• Forstall demos: “Do I need a raincoat today?” Siri says, “It sure does look like rain today” and launches weather app
• Siri: “Your intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking.”
• There’s another feature all that’s about our voice…• Schiller: iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet.
• Demos including AirPlay Mirroring (wireless gaming on the big screen!)
• Temporal noise reduction
• Video image stabilization
• 1080p HD video recording
• Schiller: “I don’t know what Droid Bionic users do between pictures, maybe go get coffee.”
• Shot to shot times: Bionic: 1.6 seconds, Galxy S II: 1.8, HTC Sensation: 1.3, iPhone 4S: 0.5
• Time to first photo: Droid Bionic: 3.7 seconds, Samsung Galaxy S II: 2.0, HTC Sensation: 2.1, iPhone 4S: 1.1 seconds
• Face detection, 26% bteer auto white balance
• Apple designed ISP (Image Signal Processor)
• Backside illumination, 73% more light, 33% faster capture, Hybrid IR filter, Better color accuracy, more color uniformity
• Five element lens, 30% more sharpness, f/2.4 aperture
• iPhone 4S gets new camera: eight megapixel sensor, 3264 x 2448 pixels
• iPhone 4S is a world phone GSM and CDMA
• iPhone 4S: now can intelligently switch between two antennas (transmit and receive) “Never been done before,” says Schiller
• iPhone 4S; now 8 hours of talk time on 3G, 14 hours 2G talk, 6 hrs. on 3G web browsing
• Impressive graphics ability
• iOS exclusive game: Infinity Blade 2 demo. Available on December 1
• iPhone 4S: The “S” is for speed.
• iPhone 4S: Retina display, A5 chip (same as in iPad), up to 2X as fast, dual core graphics up to 7x faster than iPhone 4
• iPhone 4S: Outside looks like iPhone 4, inside it’s all new• iPod touch – in white and black now – available October 12: 8GB was $229, now $199; $299 for 32GB and $399 for 64GB
• iPod toch: With iOS 5 it can now do iMessage, iCloud, Game Center, etc.
• iPod touch: Now the most popular iPod• iPod nano available today in 7 colors: US$129 for 8GB and $149 for 16GB
• iPod nano: New clock faces for those who wear them as watches – Finally!
• iPod nano tracks weal’s & runs, improved fitness experience
• iPod nano: Now even easier to navigate with full screen icons you can shuffle between
• Phil Schiller takes the stage• iTunes Match due by end of October in the US
• iCloud available on October 12
• Temp. invites – so friends can find you for a limited time (parental controls also included)
• NEW: Find My Friends (like Google Latitude) finds family and friends in proximity to your location
• Find my iPhone
• Cue covers Photo Stream: With iCloud, when you take a photo on one device, it automatically appears on all your other devices. No syncing. No sending. Your photos are just there. Everywhere you want them.
• All of this reiteration is for the assembled captive media in the hopes that they get the information right (for a change)
• iTunes in the Cloud, Backups
• Eddy Cue now on stage to talk iCloud• iOS 5 available to public on October 12
• iOS 5 features review: Notifications, iMessage, Reminders, Twitter integration, Newsstand, myriad Camera improvements, Game Center additions (67 million Game Center accounts to date), Safari improvements (tabbed browsing, etc.), Mail upgrades, PC free (over the air updates).• Cards cost $2.99 mailed in the US, $4.99 outside the U.S. – launches October 12th.
• Forstall highlights Cards app: Apple prints custom greeting cards and mails them for you
• Apple has paid out over $3 billion to iOS developers
• 18 billion apps downloaded – over 1 billion apps downloaded per month
• iOS App Sto now has over half a billion apps, 140,00 iPad apps
• Mobile installed base: iOS 43%, Android 33%, RIM 17%, Other 7% – comScore, July 2011
• Cook intros Forstall to talk iOS• 250 million iOS devices
• 3/4 tablets sold in the US are iPads
• About 1000 colleges and universities in the US have iPad programs
• iPad. Big in schools. Every star has a pilot of deployment with nearly 1,000 schools having a 1:1 program• iPhone holds 5% of Worldwide Mobile Phone Market
• iPhone is the clear #1 is customer satisfaction
• iPhone sales grew 125% YOY• 16 billion songs downloaded to date
• iTunes STore music library now at 20 million tracks• Nearly half of iPods sold are to customers buying their first iPod
• 45 million iPods sold, July 2010 – June 2011
• Over 300 million iPods sold to date
• iPod. The world’s #1 music player
• NPD: iPod holds 78% U.S. market share, August 2011• NPD: 23% U.S. market share for Mac, August 2011
• Mac installed base: 58 million users
• YOT growth: Mac, 23%, Windows PC, 4%
• Mac OS X Lion: 6 million copies downloaded via Mac App Store to date; 80% growth over previous release (Snow Leopard)
• Sold more Macs on opening day in Hong Kong store than at any other store opening in the world
• 357 Apple Retail Stores in 11 countries currently with many more to come
• Cook wearing grey long-sleeved button-down open at collar (on elution) and denim jeans – looks and sounds relaxed
• Apple Retail Store overview, including new stores in Hong Kong and Shanghai
• The original iPod was launched here in Apple Town Hall. The MacBook Air, too.
• “I love Apple and I consider it a privilege to work here – I’m very excited by this new role”
• Cook: “My first product launch since begin named CEO”• Lights dim and Apple CEO Tim Cook takes the stage (applause)
• Phil Schiller is in the house along with most of Apple’s senior execs.
• “Presentation will begin shortly”
• Only about 5 minutes to go!
• There is no live video stream of this event
• 9:40am PDT: Murmurs: No iPhone 5. iOS 5 is main focus with souped up Assistant-capable iPhone 4S. We shall soon see…
• Apple’s ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ special event begins at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern
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– Ars Technica
– Engadget
– Houston Chronicle
– MacNN
– PadStep
– SlashGear
– Techztalk
– The Financial Times
– The Los Angeles Times
– The New York Times
– The Wall Street Journal
– TUAW
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Underwhelming so far.
45 min. and we have Twiter, Find my Friend. Yawn
Ruh Roo, Why would they be showing off games on the 4s if there’s a 5?
the 5 has got to be the ‘one more thing’
If it isn’t a lot of silicone case makers are going to have burn their inventory.
Wow!!!!!! The 4S is JUST as fast as and Android. And IOS 5 has copied some of Android’s features, although it doesn’t do any of them nearly as well. And Rotten Apple has the gall to go around the world suing other phone makers claiming they’re copying Apple. Well, when you’re the thief you have to resort to one of the oldest tricks in the world – diversion.
Your a idiot.
While I agree with your sentiment, two things:
1. steve Knobs is a well known anti-Apple troll;
2. your statement would have had a lot more punch if it read: “You are an idiot” (instead of your a idiot).
Yup; it’s “you’re”.
True dat.
OMG, there really is no iPhone 5.
What a dark day in Apple history.
“iPhone 4s most amazing iPhone yet” well, that’s that
Apple. oh apple i have bad news for you. You disappointed me like 1million times. what im gonna do with your new device? i dont think im gonna waste my money on you. IM GOING WITH ANDROID COZ U KNOW WHY THEY MAKE THEIR PHONE like the way their customer want it. its bigger screen, 4g. BYE APPLE. I HOPE in 3 months your real iphone 5 will come out.
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Best liveblogger quote I’ve seen so far, from TUAW: “My credit card is even now sobbing to be let out of my wallet.”
it aint over till its over..patience…..
Are you guys reading the same feature list I am? The thing is worthy of being called iPhone 5.
• iPhone 4S: Retina display, A5 chip (same as in iPad), up to 2X as fast, dual core graphics up to 7x faster than iPhone 4
7X Faster than iPhone 4 and you’re whining.
• iPhone 4S; now 8 hours of talk time on 3G, 14 hours 2G talk, 6 hrs. on 3G web browsing
• Impressive graphics ability
• iPhone 4S: now can intelligently switch between two antennas (transmit and receive)
• iPhone 4S is a world phone GSM and CDMA
• iPhone 4S gets new camera: eight megapixel sensor, 3264 x 2448 pixels
• Five element lens, 30% more sharpness, f/2.4 aperture
• Backside illumination, 73% more light, 33% faster capture, Hybrid IR filter, Better color accuracy, more color uniformity
• 1080p HD video recording
I mean yeesh, this is a vastly better phone than the current iPhone 4. A major upgrade.
So you just wanted it to be shaped different and have a 5 on it and that would have made you happy, is that what I’m reading?
Yeah, I think you’ve pretty much nailed it on the head, TM.
That’s my take on their reactions, yeah – people seem to be hung up on the name, not understanding just how huge the internal upgrades really are.
I’m disillusioned, I thought Apple customers were smarter than this.
the iHaters disguising themselves as Apple fans are crawling around the Apple blogs today : even if Apple came out with a Star Trek matter transmitter with the phone they will still diss it.
seriously the 4S is a vast improvement over the 4. At least apple is honest by not putting a 5 on it because they have not changed the shape. The other guys tweak theirs a little bit and come up with bonks of different models.
No matter how much you protest with your marginal improvement list (of features that we all already have) you know deep down this has been a less than thrilling presentation.
A moment of silence, please. Steve Jobs really is gone.
And what, exactly, were you expecting?
I see no marginal improvements in that list. I see some major ones though. If you don’t know what the word means, you shouldn’t use it. Also the one thing left out of that shortened list, Siri is fucking amazing. Stop trolling and go away.
To quote the intelligent poster above:
“So you just wanted it to be shaped different and have a 5 on it and that would have made you happy, is that what I’m reading?”
Yes, that’s exactly what I was waiting for. New design.
They’ve had 15 months and all they’ve done is marginally improve some already existing features. Is this really all there is to today’s “big” announcement? Couldn’t they have skipped this dull presentation and just updated us on the specs with a banner on the store page?
If they’d called this exact same phone “iPhone 5”, I don’t think you’d be using the word “marginal”. Why should they change a design that works and looks perfectly fine? They have to make it look different on the outside just to satisfy the whims of those who were expecting superficial changes?
It amuses me that substantive internal changes are apparently valued less than superficial external changes.
Have you seen the presentation? You have no idea if it’s dull or not. stop trolling.
Wow, Praus, there’s like 3,000 people here in Cupertino. Are you the one with the too tight Empire Strikes Back shirt on? Thought so.
Disappointing indeed. If there isn’t a one more thing iPhone 5
announcement I’m sticking with my 3GS. I don’t like the iphone4 or 4 s design period. New features or not.
I don’t like the 4 or 4S design so I stick to my 3G.
However I don’t complain either. Nice new features.
I’m not sure why all the complainers posting here. The iPhone 4S looks pretty darn attractive to me from all the features they’ve listed.
I think y’all are just hung up on the number. If the exact same phone were called iPhone 5, none of you would be complaining.
Anyone that says, intelligently switching between antennas, on a phone that is 7x faster than its predecessor, with a drastically better camera, is only “marginally improves some already existing features” seriously has no freaking idea of what they are talking about, unless I’m missing the sarcasm.
Without Jobs, there’s no point to these events any more. Might as well have just updated the Apple store online at 1pm eastern with these lukewarm upgrades and price changes.
Well, if you were only in it for the cult of personality surrounding Steve, then, yeah, obviously you’d be disappointed.
The only thing I really wanted from an iPhone five was:
bigger screen
Aluminum Back
while the internals of the 4s are nice, I don’t think its fair to criticize people who were hoping for those two changes
If that’s all people were complaining about, that would be fine. But they’re not. They’re calling it an “incremental” update, because they’re apparently not intelligent enough to realize that “looks the same on the outside” “the same inside”.
(…there should be a not equals symbol between “looks the same on the outside” and “the same inside”)
20 year contract huh?
I think it sounds like one hell of an upgrade myself.
Just reading the list of features makes the droid in my hand feel old
Don’t mind the comments from Ballmers Left Nut. Obviously he is disoriented from choking on Ballmers left nut!
P.S. That Zune thing worked out really well didn’t it? I don’t think I ever met anyone who actually owned one. I bet Tim Cook sells more iPhone 4s in the first month than MS sold Zune’s from beginning to it’s death! Ha ha!
“• iPhone 4 with 8GB for $99 (20year contract) available in black and white”
20-year contract? Wow – those telcos are getting desperate…
On the competitive front, the 4S does nothing new that other phones don’t offer. 15 months for incremental upgrades! I haven’t been this disappointed in an Apple event since they introduced that speaker box a couple years ago.
Yes it does offer something new that other phones don’t, Siri. Goggle voice recognition is basically a glorified google search. Siri is actual AI that makes decisions based on what you tell it. Also this phone, based on specs, looks to be much faster and have a longer battery life then most if not all other phones out there.
7 X as fast isn’t an incremental upgrade, stop trolling.
You keep using that word “incremental”. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You’re not really so shallow to conclude that just because it looks the same on the outside, there’s not much changed on the inside, are you? You were paying attention to the rather impressive list of internal improvements they noted, weren’t you?
And tell me, which other phones offer anything remotely like Siri?
Disappointed.
Seriously, what is the ‘one more thing’ about then, unless it hasnt really ended.
The most impressive element of the presentation, in my opinion, is Siri. For one who travels a lot between meetings, this is great. Were it not for that feature, I wouldn’t upgrade. The camera and all that other stuff aren’t important to me. But then again, after I start benefitting from those system upgrades, I just may change my mind about their value.
The small screen is behind the times. They really needed to jump to 4in.
Concur 100%. This was the one single thing that would’ve made me pull the trigger without hesitation. As it is I’m only 75% committed to an upgrade from my 3GS, because I *hate* speaking aloud semi-private stuff in public so Siri, nice as it is, isn’t high on my must-have features list.
All the features improvements are nice, but ironically, the thing that truly gives the biggest visual impact from a short distance (the screensize, not the case design) is unchanged.