Nexus Special #66: Apple September Event 2019
Apple's 2019 iPhone event is here! Services, a new watch, new iPhones, plus a new iPad are here, with Brian Mitchell and Ryan Rampersad.
Links
- First stream on YouTube
- Apparently, it was the lowest latency of all of the streaming options
- Summary video
- $4.99/month
- September 19
- $4.99/month
- 1 year free with the purchase of a new device (iPhone, iPad, whatever!)
- November 1st
- 10.2” Retina Display
- A10 Fusion (iPhone 7 – 2017 era)
- Smart connector
- Still has TouchID and a top/bottom bezel
- 100% recycled aluminum
- $329
- Comparison of iPads
- Three new health studies
- Apple Hearing Study
- Apple Women’s Health Study
- Apple Heart & Movement Study
- Series 5
- Always-On Retina display
- LTPO (low temperature and oxide display)
- 60 Hz to 1Hz
- New display driver, ambient light sensor
- Compass
- Heading in Maps
- Compass app
- Elevation
- Heading
- Compass complication
- International emergency calling (cellular models)
- 100% recycled aluminum
- Aluminum, stainless steel, Ceramic, and a new Titanium option
- New Hermes bands
- Start at $399, cellular for $499
- Available today
- Always-On Retina display
- Series 3 for $199
- Specs
- More colors!
- 6.1” display (like the XR)
- Spatial audio and Dolby Atmos
- New wide camera
- New ultra wide camera (120º)
- Semantic rendering for lighting subjects
- Next gen SmartHDR
- Multi-scale tone mapping
- High key mono portrait mode filter
- Night mode
- Comes on automatically
- Adaptive bracketing, fusing multiple frames together
- 4K60 on both cameras with extended dynamic range
- Tap and hold the shutter button to take a video
- 36% better True Tone flash
- New camera app
- SFCamera font
- New front camera
- 12MP TrueDepth camera
- 4K30 with XDR
- 4K60
- Slow-mo “Slofies”
- A13 Bionic
- Fastest CPU in a smartphone ever
- Fastest GPU in a smartphone ever
- 1 hour better battery life than iPhone XR
- Faster FaceID
- Wi-Fi 6
- Water resistant 2m up to 30 minutes
- $699 – September 20
- Specs
- New colors
- Midnight green
- Space Gray
- Silver
- Gold
- 6.5” and 5.8”
- New OLED panel – Super Retina XDR Display
- 2,000,000:1
- 1200 nits
- 15% more energy efficient
- Display P3
- Spacial sound – Dolby Atmos
- No 3D Touch
- A13 Bionic
- New machine learning accelerators in CPU – 6x faster for matrix multiplication
- 1 trillion operations per second
- Machine Learning Controller
- 8.5 billion transistors
- Most efficient chip yet
- Hundreds of voltage domains
- Thousands of clock domains
- CPU/GPU/Neural Engine up to 20% faster and up to 40% lower power
- Cameras
- Wide, Ultra Wide, Telephoto
- 4x optical zoom range
- Coming this fall, Deep Fusion
- Nine images before taking the shutter button
- One longer exposure photo
- Neural Engine generated photo
- ”Computational photography mad science” – Phil Schiller
- New editing features in the Photos app
- Faster cellular
- Stronger glass
- U1 chip
- Tweet about chip
- The Verge on U1 Chip
- Better battery life – 11 Pro lasts 4 hours longer than XS
- Faster FaceID and from wider angles
- $999/$1099 – September 20
- Apple Watch Experience
- Pair bands and cases together
- Trade in your old phone as credit towards a new one
- Apple 5th Avenue reopens September 20
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- @ryanmr on Twitter
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