{"id":7737,"date":"2012-09-12T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T17:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T11:46:38","slug":"apple-announce-iphone-5-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/apple\/apple-announce-iphone-5-heres-what-you-need-to-know.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple Announce iPhone 5 &#8211; Here&#8217;s What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago a new Apple\u00a0announcement\u00a0meant very little in the home automation world. \u00a0But now that the smartphone is increasingly\u00a0becoming\u00a0the\u00a0preferred\u00a0interface to our homes, a new iOS device is a more important event. \u00a0Tim Cook and the rest of the Apple generals are on stage right now so here&#8217;s our cheat sheet of hightlights from todays announcement.<\/p>\n<h2>iPhone 5 Hardware<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>New Model <em>is<\/em> Named &#8220;iPhone 5&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>(3GS is now gone) Starter model is 4.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Preorders from\u00a0September 14th &#8211; Shipping on <strong>21st Sept to<\/strong>\u00a0USA, UK, Canada,France, Germany, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan <\/strong>. More countries on 28th<\/li>\n<li>Prices start at \u00a3529 (unlocked without contract)<\/li>\n<li>Made of glass and\u00a0aluminium, available in Black (with anodised back) or White (with raw\u00a0aluminium back)<\/li>\n<li>18% thinner, 20% lighter, 9mm taller than iPhone 4S\u00a0&#8220;The world&#8217;s thinnest smartphone&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>4&#8243; 1136 x 640, 16:9\u00a0Retina display, 326 PPI<\/li>\n<li>44% more colour satuaration<\/li>\n<li>Existing Apps will be\u00a0letter-boxed\u00a0until updated<\/li>\n<li>LTE, HSPA+, DC-HSDPA<\/li>\n<li>Compatible with\u00a0UK&#8217;s New 4G EE Network<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Dynamic Antenna&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Wi-Fi, 2.4ghz and 5ghz on 802.11n<\/li>\n<li>A6 CPU &#8211; 2x Faster CPU &amp; 2x Graphics\u00a0compared\u00a0to A5<\/li>\n<li>Battery Life Better than 4S<\/li>\n<li>Improved Camera f2.4, still 8MP but with &#8220;Dynamic low light mode, precision lens alignment, sapphire crystal lens&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>New &#8220;Panorama&#8221; mode<\/li>\n<li>1080p video, improved video stability, face detection plus ability to take photos while shooting video<\/li>\n<li>FaceTime camera now &#8220;720p HD&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>3 microphones now (up from 2), bottom, front, and back<\/li>\n<li>Improved speaker design<\/li>\n<li>New all-digital 9 Pin &#8220;Lightning&#8221; connector replaces 30 pin &#8211; connects either way round. 80% smaller<\/li>\n<li>Adaptor will be available to convert 30pin to new 9 pin<\/li>\n<li>New &#8216;EarPod&#8221; headphones replace the old buds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>iOS6 Software<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>iOS 6 Available Sept 19th<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Safari Full Screen Mode<\/li>\n<li>Safari iCloud Tabs (a-la-Chrome) shared between devices<\/li>\n<li>Siri improvements<\/li>\n<li>Accessibility\u00a0enhancements<\/li>\n<li>New Apps Store design with Facebook integration<\/li>\n<li>New version of iTunes &#8211; Simplified &#8220;edge to edge design&#8221;, coming &#8220;late October&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>iPods<\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>New 7th Gen iPod Nano returns to stick-of-gum format. Multi-touch screen, Bluetooth, Lightening, Video Playback, 7 colours, From $149<\/li>\n<li>New 5th Gen iPod Touch &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0New 4&#8243; screen, A5 CPU, 6.1mm thck, Siri, 5 colours, From $299<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.apple.com\/iphone\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want More?<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ottomate\">Follow us<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AutomatedHomeUK\" target=\"_blank\">Like us<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook, or subscribe to our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds2.feedburner.com\/automatedhome\">RSS feed<\/a>. You can even get these news stories\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=AutomatedHome&amp;loc=en_US\">delivered via email<\/a>, straight to your inbox every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago a new Apple\u00a0announcement\u00a0meant very little in the home automation world. \u00a0But now that the smartphone is increasingly\u00a0becoming\u00a0the\u00a0preferred\u00a0interface to our homes, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-03-06T11:46:42Z","apple_news_api_id":"99905746-ab85-4518-b5e2-02127c2e0849","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-03-06T11:46:43Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AmZBXRquFRRi14gISfC4ISQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,24],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-7737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple","category-hardware","category-new-products","tag-featured"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ip555.jpg?fit=550%2C358&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7737"}],"version-history":[{"count":78,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35528,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions\/35528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}