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APPLE HAS SENT out invitations to the press for a product launch event on 9 September.
The event will be held at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California at 10am local-time.
The famously secretive company offered scant clues in emailed invites that showed the date in large numbers over the words: “Wish we could say more.”
It doesn’t take a genius to guess that it’ll be for the new iPhone. But Apple might surprise us by debuting its new wearable computer, the so-called iWatch, as Re/code’s John Paczkowski reported yesterday.
What can you expect from the new iPhone? By now,the reports and rumors are too numerous and consistent to consider them to be anything but the truth. Apple will very likely introduce two new iPhones — one with a 12cm screen and one with a 14cm screen.
These are both larger than the current iPhone 5S which has screen just larger than 10cm. A new iOS8 system is also expected to be debuted along with the new phones.
The new design has leaked out several times. It’ll probably look something like this:
Last year, Apple also unveiled the iPhone 5S and the lower-priced iPhone 5C in a September launch, setting sales records in the process.
- Additional reporting from © – AFP 2014
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The winner of the smartest smart phone will go to whoever makes a battery that can last longer than a day.
Remember the blockias? You’d find one in the pocket of your debs jacket from 10 years ago – going strong with two bars of charge on it.
Oneplus one phones have the best batteries I’ve seen yet. 3100mAh battery, and not too expensive compared to other smartphones. Hard to source though!
I’ve a HTC one M8 and the battery is unbelievable. I’m 40 hours since my last charge and still have 16%
Tara check out the THL 5000 smartphone. Has a 5000 mAh battery.
Just buy one you can swap a battery into.
I think you’ll find that BlackBerry has achieved this with their BB10 devices because my Q10 lasts an entire day with heavy used and is at around 30-40% at around 1am, they deserve a lot of credit for making a phone last so long with such use
The Z2 has the same battery as one plus one, and with the Z3 out in September, could be a better one !!!
It going to have some serious 6 appeal by all accounts. ….
And issues with battery life, power and headphone cables that will fall apart after 6 months
In other words… You want one.
We allll want one! I’m salivating with a hideous dose of first world consumerism! I waaaaaannnnt it!!!!
Kitty, it has a super strong vibrate function.
I don’t know why apple get away with the cables and batteries breaking after 6 months, my earphones are fine though thankfully, but my USB cable broke a few weeks back, I got a really durable one on eBay and not only does it feel more durable but it has stopped my iPhone from overheating when charging it, there were days I couldn’t touch my iPhone while it was charging because it was so hot but couldn’t leave it’s side in case my bed caught fire because it was that hot, but since I got the new cable from a different manufacturer in Dublin my phone hasn’t overheated, the same with my sisters 5s, it used to worry her too
iPhones are like the Porsche of phones.. They all look the feckin same!!
They’re more like the Alfa Romeo of mobile phones. They look great but they’re really a bit sh!t.
That’s what some people think but I’ve had mine the past 7 months with very little problems. There’s a good few things you can do to make you’re battery last longer but most people couldn’t be bothered or don’t know how to do them..
Porsche you say paperboy? All look the same… but drive like a dream??!! ;-)))
I agree with the paperboy, i have had iphones from the first and none have ever let me down. Look after them and they will last for years
I had the 4s for a couple of years. Never had a problem with it.
Have had the Sony Z1 this past year or so. Again, I’ve had no problems with it.
To be honest, they’re all pretty much the same.
You could be right Doc I wouldn’t really know as I’ve only had budget smart phones up until I got the 4s and they were all sh*t.. I paid good money for the 4s so I’m looking after properly and having basically no problems, only problem is that it closed apps by itself but only sometimes. It’s honestly people that don’t know how to use them that give them a bad name…
They all shut down apps every now and again. No big worries there.
And yeah, the budget androids are pretty crap. The 4s is a good phone though. The only thing I didn’t like about iPhones was the small screen but it appears they have remedied that now with the iPhone 6. Might be tempted back next year.
The budget androids are not crap. Sent from my Chinese Cubot x6. Check its reviews out. Had a Samsung s3 before and the phone is just as good if not better. Changed as screen smashed on old phone and 140 euro to fix. Cubot was 150 delivered so couldn’t go wrong. Well happy. Won’t be a sucker for overpriced phones again. Chinese phones from now on.
Tbh I’ve never seen one of the Chinese phones. I’ll check them out. I meant the cheap 80 euro Samsung and Sony type phones when I said budget phones. The ones with the horrible screens.
Their battery lasts about as long as a Lada
I went from the iPhone to the S3 and found it to be very buggy and also the build quality to terrible.After 3 months the phone took on a lot of wear and looked much older than it was. With that said I will be going back to the iPhone despite the heavy price tag!
Pssst… there are other phone manufacturers, Sparky
Will never be as good as Samsung!!!!
Try the htc m8
Looks very like a Samsung galaxy s5 with a round home button.
More like it looks like an iPhone 5 and 5s. Which must mean the new Galaxy looks like them ?
Samsung did steal many of apples patents, so i suppose it did help samsung make a better phone than they could have done by themselves.
Stepehen you’re a man that talks some sense
Ah yes Samdung, the cheap, plastic copy of the iPhone !
I’d take Samsung over apple any day of the week. Hate my wifes iPhone 4s
I love this debate because it’s not actually opinion. The iPhone beats all it’s rivals for reliability and it’s backed up by facts. So you can like an android but you can’t say it’s better.
Samsung? Samdung more like! (Although their TVs kick ass in fairness)
What a stupid comment. Loads of people can and do say android is better. It’s called opinion. IPhone is catching up though with every need release of IOS. In a couple of more releases it’ll be a functional as android.
But it’s still built on Android and it’s not going to be as reliable because Android biggest strength is it’s open source and unrestricted nature but it’s the biggest weakness too.
iPhone is catching up ?? LOL.
Dear apple please make it child proof… The man who repairs my phone every other week will be able to retire early because of my wee mans phone bashing abilities..
Invest in an Otterbox defender, makes the phone virtually indestructible. My antique iphone 4 (not even a 4s!) is still perfect after 2+ years, despite having been dropped on tiles, thrown at walls by smallies and generally abused. They are a little pricey but totally worth it!
Good work … Had a gum drop but he’s well able for it I’ll take a look at the otter, cheers
I’ve been using defenders for years. I’m like a walking advert for them–constantly dropping my phone just to demonstrate the virtues of otter box.
Cheap enough on amazon
The Otterbox Commuter is actually a nicer case imo. Its much more streamline but will still take a serious bashing. There are videos on youtube of a lad chucking a phone with it off a 3 storey building on to concrete and it just bounced without a scratch to the phone.
Control your children
I swapped my iPhone 5 for a htc one mini 2. Swapped back after a week. Any one wanna buy a htc one mini 2 going cheeeeeap
If its a htc one M8, defo take u up .. details please :)
It’s the mini version if the m8
There are few people on this earth more boring than those who get excited about technology.
What about people who don’t get excited about anything ? They’d be fairly boring I’d say.
Or people that don’t get excited at all?
Each to their own. I’m sure you have excitements others find boring.
People in fields looking off into the distance while photos are taken of them.
Can you make and receive phone calls with this forthcoming iPhone 6?
Had an iPhone and switched over to Galaxy S2. Never looked back. Now own Note 3.
Samsung and HTC make superior phones. But that isn’t relevant to iSheep because they don’t have an apple on the back. That symbol is more important than any screen, or flash player, or quad-core processor, or day long battery life, or price advantage, or customisation capability. The iPhone will always win out to them.
Flash player has not been supported on the last number of android releases, where it is it destroys battery life. Quad core is great, but having 4 cores does not always equal performance. The 64bit processor in the 5s out performs many quad ore processors. Plus, any device is only as powerful as the tasks it performs that a particular user needs. ios support for musical equipment integration for instance is something that android users are still waiting for and may never come. Current software updates is another area that apple leaves android in the dust, I bought an android tablet in January, it’s on 4.2 and will never see 4.4. ios 7 supported back as far as the iphone 4. Android is fine. But unless you but a nexus device there is no guarantee of future software support.
Well JJ i’ve an iPhone 5S and on average charge it maybe once every 2 days and maybe every day an a half if i use it heavily. Processor on it is absolutely top notch.Have never had an issue with apps crashing, freezing or causing glitches on the phone. The syncing services on iOS devices are a helluva alot better than what android has to offer. Can take a photo on the phone and it’ll pop up on my ipad in seconds.Messages will pop up on both devices etc. Could go on but think there’s no need to :-) iPhone 5S is my first iPhone after moving from a Samsung which twice wiped my entire phone clean on its own and had an issue with the USB port where it wouldnt charge and if it did manage to charge the battery would last 4 hours. HTC and the new Nokia’s do look like they are pretty good but for now i’m happy with my iPhone ;-)
Ok I’m just gonna say it, I’m an android user. Currently have a HTC One M8 and it’s by miles the best phone I’ve ever had. That said, I always used to look forward to the new iPhone launch because there was always something innovative and new in each model. Sadly not since the 4s has there been an update or new feature worth getting excited about. The 5c and 5s are both dreadfully disappointing I honestly hope there’s something in the 6 to make it worth the hype. Innovate here guys find a USP and work it. Somebody said it earlier, at Apple its litigate not innovate.
What about the first 64bit chip and os to market? Something a year later android still hasn’t matched. Where’s the innovation in the galaxy line? A bigger screen and a poorer implementation of a finger print reader? That’d hardly innovation.
Fair point mick but look what android can do I watched inbetweeners 2 streamed from my brothers samsung last night we watch bt sports sky sports showbox download movies music all for free . My I phone 5s makes calls e mails and talk to other apple sheep like u. My I phone feels nicer looks nicer moves nicer but really does fu:; all else more
iPhone is over priced and your too tied in to apple who think style and marketing is all that needed to flog old technology
So they are copying android screen size wow just wow. About 5 years behind other phone makers and user demand
The sky services are available on the iphone also. Streamed to what? I can stream to an Apple TV. Download torrents? Along with the 95% of mobile malware that attacks android. Apple sheep. Give me a break. Apple makes high quality products, some people like them some don’t. Neither group are sheep.
Tom. All top tier phones are priced around the same off contract. Old tech, bollix, they’re ahead on everything but screen size, and the need for larger screens is subjective. Android was a blackberry knockoff until Google saw the iphone, then it became an iphone knockoff.
It’s scary and wrong how the cult of Apple is so strong (wrote on my I phone)
Motorola moto g ,is worth a punt, I got one after my last I phone 4 bit the dust and I think it’s the best phone I have ever had, it has replaced my iPad for casual browsing since I got it and the android OS is impressive.
And theres a new model out now with SD card slot and 4G ready. Original was/is a great phone anyway.
When can we expect it to go on sale here, though?
Mid October they’re saying, usually about a month after the states.
Grand. My antique iPhone 4 can hold out that long.
OMG it’s only a phone !
My guess is 9.9.14 turn it upside down and it will something like apple 6.6 new iphone with some sort of reference id say but I may be wrong .
It’s been speculated that it’s referring to the two iPhone 6 models, 4.7″ & 5.5″. Also the Apple logo looks like a sundial which could point to the rumoured iWatch.
For battery life u can’t beat the galaxy s5 in ultra power saving mode,
All these comments with people posting love or hate for a particular platform. We’d all be worse off if there was only IOS or only android.
The manufacturers constantly have to work to improve their devices. That’s only good for the consumer.
I prefer one device too. But I’m glad the competition exists. It means each new model of my device has to be better.
Advertorial…
Churnalism…
Seriously Journal! Tell them to buy some advertising like everyone else. At least get some money from Apple, cos they’re going to make a fortune from the iDrones.
Ironically enough, do you know what’s becoming a bit clichéd? Expressions like iDrones, iSheep etc.
I’m more excited about OSX Yosemite. It looks beautiful! & It’s free :D
can’t wait to get an IPhone 6, I’ll be one of the first in line to upgrade from my 5
Have my I pad jail broken. It is such a contradiction buy apple and change it against there wishes to make it better we r being treated like mugs by Apple . Fashion accessories. Fuc;() 2 year contracts (not apples fault) can’t wait to get out of it
*September 9th
Omg. I want one
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