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Apple WWDC 2012 Announced for June 11 – Tickets Already Sold Out
Apple has put out the word Wednesday Morning April 25th, that their Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) will be held June 11th – 15th 2012 in San Francisco’s Moscone West. The conference will focus heavily on iOS and OS X app development and give developers a five day workshop on development in relation to Apple products. In addition to the sessions offered will be a scholarship program where students creating apps can apply to attend WWDC at Apple’s expense.
The conference will also showcase the best apps over the last year for iOS and OS X in the Apple Design Awards. The winners last year received a MacBook Air, iPad 2, iPod touch and a trophy. Adding to the perks, publicity for their award winning apps helps the downloads as well. 2011 saw apps like Infinity Blade, Cut The Rope and Pulse News Reader among many others as winners.
If you were planning on attending, you may be saddened to hear that tickets are already sold out at $1600 per ticket. If you’re a student developer however, you can apply for the Apple scholarship program to try and get a seat. The rest of us will have to wait for the sessions videos to pop up online from the event. Maybe we’ll even see a little spot near the end about the sixth generation iPhone as well.
Source – Apple
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New iPhone 5 May Use In-Cell Touch Panel Display
There’s been a few new rumors surrounding the launch of the next generation iPhone (iPhone 5) as of late. We had just heard about the possibility of the next iPhone having a new ‘liquid metal’ casing, which would make the uni-body outer casing thinner and lighter, thus allowing for more hardware to get packed inside without it getting too heavy for one’s mobility. This would keep things consistent from Apple claims with every new iPhone or iOS product that they are ‘thinner’, ‘lighter’ and ‘faster’.
Helping Apple keep those claims for the iPhone 5 launch expected in Q3 2012, the latest rumor coming from within Apple’s supply chain, is that the next generation iPhone will move to a new “in-cell” touch panel display. This new display technology is lighter and thinner than the Retina displays previously used in iPhone models. Again, this will make it easier to pack the inside of the casing with more hardware, without worrying about the overall weight of the iPhone.
The current displays in the iPhone 4 and 4S involves a layer of sensing glass on the outside of an inner LCD screen. This capacitive touchscreen makes it thicker as it has two layers and an extra step in the assembly line. Moving to the single layer in-cell touch panel would remove a step in production as well, speeding up the manufacturing process. When you manufacture 30 million iPhone devices, saving 2 seconds becomes a large amount.
Sources – Digitimes
Image – iMore
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iPhone 5 May Be LiquidMetal Design Update at WWDC 2012
We had heard about there being a redesign to the next generation iPhone, and that it will likely show itself in the Fall 2012. The new design was stated as being a ‘new sleek look’. Apple has also recently been reported working with French Designer Philippe Starck for a “Revolutionary” new product for 2012. Will the two reports be dealing with the new statement found regarding the iPhone 5 redesign?
Korean news site etnews is stating that they have it on good word Apple is going to be using a combination of light sturdy metals to create a ‘liquidmetal’ look and feel to the next generation iPhone (iPhone 5). Not to be confused with the T-1000 from Terminator 2:Judgement Day, the new iPhone 5 casing will be composed of “amorphous metal alloys” as highlighted from the story below;
iPhone5 is likely to take liquid metal, an alloy of zirconium, titanium, nickel, copper and so forth having an outer surface smooth like liquid. The new iPhone is expected to make its debut at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco in June.
Adding to the rumors of a newly designed iPhone 5, there is word that we’ll also get to see this device from Apple at their WWDC event in June 2012. If that’s the case (see what I did there), then we could be looking at a Q3 launch after all.
Source – etnews.com (English translated)
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iPhone 5 Reportedly Coming In Fall 2012 With ‘Sleek Look’
There’s no denying that Apple is on a serious roll when it comes to product launches over the past decade. With Apple (AAPL) trading well over $630 on the NYSE, and the 3rd generation new iPad out on the market for the last month, the next big launch will keep the ball rolling.
Many are questioning what the next iPhone will have in store when it launches later this year. There have been rumors that the next iPhone will sport a much larger screen (some say 4.6inches), but anyone that knows Apple or read the Steve Jobs biography for that matter, knows that Jobs was against a larger screen on the iphone. Steve Jobs was also still very involved with the overall planning of the iPhone 5 just prior to his untimely passing in 2011, so what the iPhone 5 will have in it will be nothing short of another amazing product.
An analyst for Topeka Capitol Markets reported on Monday what he believes Apple will be including with the next generation iPhone to investors. Brian White stated that Apple’s stock price could go over $1000 as well. Regarding the next iPhone, White said it is expected to have a 4inch touchscreen display and a “new, sleek look” pointing towards a unibody case. Apple is known for its ability to create unibody casings for many f its other products including the MacBook line, Man Mini, and Apple TV.
The timing of the launch is one of the many other reasons for rumors around the iPhone 5, and one Foxconn employee went on record stating that the 6th generation iPhone will launch in October 2012. The Foxconn executive stated;
We just got the order,[The release] will be around October.
Other details in specs for the new iPhone include 4G/LTE, 1GB RAM, and the latest Apple dual-core A5X processor.
Article first published as iPhone 5 Reportedly Coming In Fall 2012 With ‘Sleek Look’ on Technorati.
Android 4.0 ICS Still Too Far Behind Gingerbread Installs
It’s been 4 months now since we first heard about Google’s new flagship smartphone, the Google Nexus, with Android 4.0 ICS installed. Since then, we have barely seen a dent in the deployment of ICS updates for Android devices, which is always the bane of Android smartphone owners. Some Android device owners could wait up to a full year before their carrier launches an update to the new operating system. This wouldn’t be such an issue if Google didn’t release at least 1 major version of Android per 9 months.
Currently, in the world of Android, Gingerbread still stands tall at the top of the install mountain, while Android 4.0 and Honeycomb combined only take 6.2% of the Android OS install mix. Android 2.3 Gingerbread has 63.7%. That’s a fair amount of catching up to do for Android 4.0 ICS, which alone accounts for 2.9%, over the last 4 months since it’s launch.
At that pace, it would take another year minimum for Android 4.0 to cover half of the Android devices on the market, and by that time, Android 5.0 Jelly Bean will already have been out for 4 months, as it’s rumored to release this Fall 2012.
The thing that takes the cake here, and really puts a perspective on how long it tales to get upgrades for Android, is that the 2nd highest deployed version of Android is 2.2 Froyo at 23%. That is a sad stat, and one of the main reasons users are flocking back to Apple’s iPhone and iPad. iOS updates are released, and your device, if supported, gets the update. No waiting 15 months, even though a new iPhone is launched every 8 – 10 months.
Source – Android Developers
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