At its September iPhone event, Apple
announced the base model iPhone will no longer start at 16 gigabytes —
something users have been wanting for years.
The Apple Senior Vice president said that the iPhone 7 will come in Gold, Silver, Rose Gold, Black and Jet Black.
He went further to talk about the storage size of the iPhone 7, it will no longer be 16GB, 64GB and 128GB but
now 32GB, 128GB and 256GB as shown Below!
Finally After more than a year of
speculation , Apple’s new iPhones are finally here. Predictably named
the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, Apple’s twin gadgets are glass-and-aluminum
reflections of what’s come before. But in the few places where Apple
does makes some changes, it makes some big ones.
For the first
time ever, the new iPhone sticks with a mostly familiar design for three
years running. But despite that exterior sameness, Apple does makes a
gutsy gamble on improving, and completely removing, core features that
have been part of the iPhone for nearly a decade. And yeah, it also
comes in glossy black.
For better or worse, this is the 2016 iPhone.
Design
As is tradition,
Jony Ive delivered a wonderfully psychotic video to introduce the new
iPhone, focusing on the new gloss finish and the redesigned camera
housing. Apple’s Phil Schiller then ran down all the changes live on
stage.
First up was design, Schiller confirmed what we already
knew. Space Grey is out and Black is in. Apple also completely
redesigned the home button, which has been the sole to navigational
button on the iPhone since 2007. Schiller says the new button is more
reliable and customizable. With a new generation taptic engine, the
button is now Force Touch sensitive. There are unique feedback for
messages, notifications, and ringtones. It’s a little vague exactly how
this all works, but we’ll know more soon.
And a much needed feature is also
here—the iPhone is now toilet proof. Apple says its re-engineered the
casing so that the phone can survive much H20 plunges. Many
accident-prone people rejoiced.
Camera
Apple
focused heavily on making the two camera systems in the iPhone 7 and
iPhone 7 Plus. Each phone now comes with optical image stabilization and
f/1.8 aperture lens for muuuuch better low-light photography
(hopefully). Apple also reworked the flash to make it brighter and able
to capture true tones and its image processor for better editing. It can
perform 100 billion operations in just 25 milliseconds.
With
iOS 10, you can finally capture RAW photos and the front-facing camera
comes with a 7-megapixel sensor, an upgrade from 5 megapixels on the
iPhone 6s.
Finally, Schiller gets to the two
megapixel cameras on the iPhone 7 Plus. One is a normal lens and the
other is a telephoto lens. Schiller explains that this new camera system
can build a zoom feature into the iPhone. When in the camera app, a new
button can zoom 2x instantly with just a tap. After 2x, however,
further zoom relies on software. But because of the added telephoto
lens, the images are much clearer than before.
The dual camera can also create an
almost machine learning to create a depth map. After selecting the
camera app’s new “portrait” mode, you’ll immediately see the depth
effect in real time. Of course, we haven’t really get to see the effect
in real time on stage yet, but the photographic results Schiller did
show looked damn good.
This feature will come as a software update to all iPhone 7 Plus users.
Specs
As you’ve
likely guessed, Apple is sticking with an LCD Retina display, though
much like the Apple Watch Series 2, it’s brighter than the screen on the
the iPhone 6s.
Then finally, Schiller got to the giant
elephant in the room—audio. Apple couched the impending bad news by
first talking about improved stereo speakers. Then came the
Lightning-only earpods. Goodbye, headphone jacks.
Schiller made
certain we knew that there were over 900 million Lightning-connected
devices from companies like JBL. But what if I wanted to use my
headphones on not an iPhone, like a Mac for instance. Luckily, Apple
will be including an audio jack adaptor in every box for the iPhone 7.
Get prepared to lose it!
Schiller quickly began to explain the madness:
“The reason to move on comes down to one word—courage,” Schiller
explained. “This is really important, our smartphones are packed with
technologies...it’s all fighting for space. Maintaining an ancient
analog connector doesn’t make sense.”
Apple says its vision for audio will be
wireless. Hence, Apple AirPods. Apple’s new ear gear will work for up to
5 hours on a single charge and it’s included case will brings that
number up to a full day. When you open the case, the iPhone immediately
recognizes the AirPods. All you have to do is press “connect.”
Schiller says this is all possible because of a new chip called the W1.
The AirPods can be set up so one pod answers calls or summons Siri and
the sound is intelligently routed to the right ear. In addition to the
AirPods, Beats will also use the W1 chip in the new Beats Solo Wireless,
Powerbeats 3 Wireless, and a new line called Beats X. The AirPods will
be available in late October, starting at $160. Yes, these are NOT
coming in the box.
Finally, Schiller closed up things with
the new A10 Fusion chip. It’s a 64-bit quad-core processor. Two cores
are high-performance, so they can run 40 percent faster than the iPhone
6s and twice as fast as the iPhone 6. If you want to keep playing this
game, it’s 120 times faster than the original 2007 iPhone. The other
cores are “high-efficiency” to handle lighter applications for better
battery life. The new graphics chip is also 50 percent faster than the
iPhone 6s. Schiller says you can get LTE browsing on the iPhone 7 and 7
Plus at 12 and 13 hours respectively, which is around 2 hours better
than the iPhone 6s. Not bad.
Of course, these are all just
numbers. Hopefully these impressive specs and curated demoes translate
to impressive real-world use.
As for prices, Apple is going
budget—just kidding! It’ll arrive at the same price as the iPhone 6S,
starting at $650 and $770. Apple has also doubled all the storage,
starting with 32GB and going all the way to 256GB. Even old iPhone 6s
models will get the storage upgrades. Orders start this Friday on
September 9th and will be available on September 16th, and iOS 10 will
be pushed out to all devices on September 13.
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Kicking off with a cameo from talk
show host James Corden and Pharrell driving Tim Cook to the event, Apple
took a straightforward approach to promoting its new show: Carpool
Karaoke. Cook segued nicely from Corden’s car to the main stage and
detailed Apple Music’s new look and its 17 million users.
iOS 10
The
latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system has been in beta for
the past couple of months; it’s bringing a ton of new features for
enriching iMessage, improving Maps and making Siri more useful with
extension support. iOS 10 will arrive on September; here’s a roundup of everything new to look forward to.
Apple Music
The
streaming service got a major redesign in iOS 10, and a sorely-needed
one at that. Aside from bold new aesthetics, the personalized playlist
generator called Discovery Mix could make for an easier transition from
Spotify, if you’re in love with the latter’s Discover Weekly playlist (I
am).
You’ll also see lyric integration and a simplified interface that looks, well, a lot like Apple News.
Mario is coming to iOS!
Mobile
gaming never seemed complete without Mario on the iPhone or a
non-emulated Android device. Today, Nintendo creator Shigeru Miyamoto
announced Super Mario Run – an endless runner that fully supports
one-handed play. Miyamoto mused that the one-handed play was so that you
could “hold on in the subway, eat a cheeseburger, or an apple.”
Super
Mario Run will be available at a “fixed price” and it’ll release this
holiday season. Miyamoto said the decision to offer a fixed price was so
that you could enjoy the game without worrying about in-app purchases.
You’ll get some cool new teaser stickers for the game featuring Mario’s mug when iOS 10 drops on September 13.
Education and iWork
Cook took the stage to talk about some
of Apple’s education initiatives, such as the ConnectED grant. ConnectED
aims to deliver 50,000 iPads to students and 4,500 Macs to teachers.
Next Cook invited Susan Prescott, VP of worldwide apps, to the stage to detail what’s coming in the oft-forgotten iWork.
All the iWork apps — Pages, Notes, and Keynote — now offer real-time collaboration
between colleagues. Prescott demo’ed the new feature on stage by
editing a Keynote presentation with five contributors. The live
contribution was underwhelming, and it essentially welcomed Apple to
2006 — or Google Drive.
Apple Watch
The Apple Watch just got faster, thinner
and altogether more exciting. The ‘Apple Watch Series 2‘ — or Apple
Watch S2 — has a better processor, brighter display (1,000 nits — same
as a Galaxy Note 7), and it’s now waterproof-ish.
Possibly past
the heyday of the app, bit still exciting, Pokémon Go is coming to the
Apple Watch. Niantic CEO John Hanke took to the stage to announce the
Pokémon Go Plus — a tool that offers heads-up gameplay — and the port of
the game to WatchOS. We’ll see that later this year.
After criticism mounted that the
first watch wasn’t waterproof — like Sony and Samsung offerings — Apple
met the call and ‘swim-proofed’ the second iteration of its smart watch —
the ‘Apple Watch Series 2.’ The original watch offered IPX7 water
resistance — meaning it was okay to shower with, but you should probably
leave it out of the pool. The new one actually ejects water out of the
speaker grill and is submergible to 50 meters. It even offers pool-based
workouts with lap count, distance and calorie burn.
Another
common gripe was the lack of a GPS chip. Apple previously required the
watch be tethered to an iPhone to use its GPS. Now, it’s loosened its
reliance on the iPhone and baked in GPS capability. The move is a good
one, as fitness is undoubtedly a pillar of the Apple Watch and the
smartphone requirement makes it a much less attractive option than other
wearables from Samsung or even Fitbit.
Apple again partnered
with Nike to announce ‘Apple Watch Nike+,’ a special edition built just
for runners. The Apple Watch Nike+ is available in four cool colors and
is designed to get you out the door with a simple prompt — ‘Are we
running today?’ The device starts with an invitation ‘Are We Running
Today?’ designed to get you off the couch. It also has social features
that let you know when your friends are exercising and how much they’re
kicking your Cheeto-eating ass while you bing-watch Unbreakable Kimmy
Schmidt.
That’s not the only special edition
watch, either. Apple also announced a new ceramic finish. The white
pearlescent finish is completely ceramic and pairs nicely with a number
of existing bands.
The watch body also lost some weight, all
while gaining some additional juice in the form of battery power. While
unavoidably chunky due to all the hardware crammed into a rather small
watch, the new iteration will be slightly thinner with a battery that’s
36 percent larger than the original. This is a good thing, as the GPS
will undoubtedly put the squeeze on battery life.
The Series 2
will be available to pre-order September 9 with a release date a week
later (September 16). Both the S2 and the Nike+ series will run $369,
with the latter coming in late October.
WatchOS 3 releases to the public on September 13.
We’ll
also get a re-imagined first-gen Apple Watch — now called the ‘Series
1’ — with an upgraded dual-core processor (same as the S2) for $269.
That one will also drop on September 16, with pre-orders open on
September 9.
iPhone 7 and 7 Plus
The headliner of
this Apple event is undoubtedly the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. Gone are
the 16 GB version (👍) and the headphone jack (👎) but a handful of new
features and five color options should help ease the pain.
The
biggest news is probably the ‘water resistant’ coating. Apple added IP67
water resistance to the iPhone — a feature similar to the original
Apple Watch. It’s not completely waterproof, but it could prove a life
saver after a quick soaking. To assist in the waterproofing (in part, at
least), Apple removed the physical home button to a completely flush
“button” that offers haptic feedback, mimicking the clicking sensation
much like the touchpad of newer MacBook and MacBook Pro models — the
feature addition that took the spot of the missing headphone jack.
Color
options now include two different shades of black (‘jet’ and ‘black’ —
creative, right?) as well as the current rose gold, gold and silver.
Space gray is no longer of this world.
Both phones, as well as
the Apple Watch Series 2, will support Japan’s NFC-like Felica standard,
so Apple Pay will work in the country when it’s rolled out in October.
As
for storage, the entry-level storage option is now 32GB with options to
upgrade to 128GB or the new 256GB option if you’re willing to fork over
the money. The base model starts at the same price as the 6s/6s Plus —
$649 for the 7 and $769 for the 7 Plus.
The camera system utilizes
‘Lytro-like’ features that allow you to refocus a shot after the photo
has been taken, thanks to two separate 12-megapixel lenses. The two
cameras offer smartphone photographers the option to create their own
bokeh-filled images, something that was only available on higher-end
cameras — or mimicked rather badly on a handful of smartphones.
The
Plus also gets a four-LED array that provides better color accuracy
when using flash. The 7 lacks these features, but offers the
still-amazing 12-megapixel camera from the 6s, with a few iterative
upgrades.
The front-facing camera gets a bump from 5MP to 7MP, better color capture and auto-image stabilization.
AV
is nothing if you improve the V (video) without the A (audio). The new
iPhone will feature dual speakers that create stereo sound — at least in
landscape mode (although they work fine in portrait). The speakers are
located at the top and bottom and aside from creating stereo sound,
they’re also significantly louder.
Both get a spec bump to the
‘A10 Fusion’ processor clocked at 2.4 and 2.45GHZ (7 and 7 Plus,
respectively) as well as an additional GB of RAM in the Plus model
(bringing it to 3GB). The processor also jumps to four cores, and adds a
six-core graphics chip. The A10 is 120x faster than the original
iPhone, while the graphics chip is 240x more powerful.
The 7 and 7
Plus are said to both offer the best battery life of any iPhone. You’ll
get a reported two additional hours of use in the iPhone 7 Plus and an
additional hour in the 7.
Pre-orders start Friday, September 9. They’ll ship September 16. The stellar new iOS 10 will release September 13.
Headphones
Apple’s
new EarPods are chock full of options, as long as ‘chock full’ in this
case means wired or wireless. The new EarPod is completely redesigned to
actually fit in the ear, rather than nestled neatly between your
earlobe and the ear canal. The redesign is a necessary one, as Apple’s
new headphones offer completely wireless playback through Bluetooth.
The
EarPods can also be plugged in, although not in the headphone jack —
that’s gone. Now, you’ll have to plugin via the Lightning port, which
doubles as the port used to sync the phone to a desktop or charge it.
Gone are the days of multi-tasking, as Apple shifts to a one port to
rule them all approach that it previously made with its Macbook and
USB-C connection.
We’ll also see a trio of new Beats offerings later this year.
That moment when we all thought the world's largest indoor theme park
was hard to top, Dubai has proves us wrong yet again. Its latest
jaw-dropping megaproject is a tropical rainforest in a skyscraper hotel
-- another world-first for the emirate.
According to CNN: The 7,000-square-meter
rainforest will be part of the upcoming Rosemont Hotel and Residences
Dubai, one of the properties under Hilton's luxury independent brand Curio -- A Collection by Hilton.
The complex, expecting to welcome its first guests in 2018, consists of
two 53-story-high towers including a 448-key hotel and a 280-room
serviced apartment tower.
Jurassic-inspired marsh:
Dubai's latest megaproject: a rainforest in the desert.
"Our client's concept was to create a
very unique destination for the city of Dubai, and also to create a
project that would be a destination itself, with every possible leisure
and entertainment amenity inside the hotel," says DJ Armin, principal
architect and managing partner of ZAS Architects Dubai.
The firm teamed up with Dubai architects Kieferle & Partner on the design.
Armin says they're hoping to create a family-friendly leisure space that can be used year-round.
"As
the site wasn't a beachfront location, we looked at how we could create
a new type of outdoor leisure space in the city, and also fully
integrate nature into the guest experience," Armin tells CNN.
A rainforest was the answer. "Inside the
rainforest, we've created a landscape akin to a full-scale tropical
environment -- complete with adventure trails, a sandless beach, a
splash pool, waterfalls, streams and a rainforest cafe," says Armin.
There will also be a "prehistoric Jurassic-inspired marsh."
The high-tech hotel will sit in the city's business center, neighboring Dubai Internet City and Al Kazim Towers.
"Technological
features include an advanced sensory rain system that creates a
360-degree experience, simulating the sensation of being surrounded by
rainfall without actually getting wet."
Sensors control where the rain will fall depending on where people are detected.
Water will be collected, stored from condensation and recycled to create a humid environment similar to a tropical rainforest.
The
outdoor rainforest will be located on the top level of the
entertainment podium that connects the hotel and residential towers. The
project is still at an early stage, but it appears the rainforest will
be open to the public as well as hotel guests.
Glass-bottom sky pool:
An infinity pool will be
cantilevered in the middle of both of the 53-story towers. "The hotel
will also offer guests a number of stylish food and beverage outlets,
including three restaurants, a lobby cafe and two bars," Curio's global
head, Mark Nogal, tells CNN.
"Guests will have access to a fully equipped gym, an outdoor pool and a spa where they can indulge in luxurious treatments."
The outdoor pool will be a cantilevered, glass-bottomed infinity sky pool with a bar.
Inside Dubai's $330 million opera house 02:02
Robotic luggage handling, digital waterfalls, kinetic light sculptures are some other highlights of the hotel's interiors.
Each room will be accessed and managed through a smart phone. All rooms will be designed to provide a view of the Gulf.
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