Now that IFA is officially over, the next big thing in tech announcements comes from Cupertino, CA. The spotlight moves from several manufactures over to Apple - and its all about the iPhone for the most part. As Apple preps to unveils the iPhone 6 in 2 sizes alongside their 1st wearable smartwatch (whatever it will be called). We have already shared w/ you all of the notable rumors, leaked photos, as we'll throw in some newer stuff into the mix as well. Here's everything in one central spot for your viewing pleasure. Let's dive in, shall we?
The iPhone 6 is set to arrive in 2 sizes (a 4.7inch & 5.5inch). The body will be super-thin measuring at 6mm and modeled after the most-recent iPod Touch on the design side of things. So expect a more rounder unibody iPhone than we've seen in a while. On hardware side of things it is said powered by a 64-bit A8 CPU alongside 1GB of RAM, new external antenna bands, the Power/Standby button gets moves from the top now to the right, and NFC will finally make it way to the iPhone (more on that later).
Looks like the iPhone will enter 128GB storage size that we talked about it but I don't even want to think bout that pricing.
Apple's new mobile software iOS 8 will be ready for consumption by all. It will bring forth plenty of new features, some big and some small. You now have a QuickType or predictive keyboard as well as support for 3rd-party ones as well, the Notification Center has a quick reply option for messages, do more within single + group messaging threads, Siri goes hands-free and adds Shazam integration, better in-house photo editing, and Time Lapse feature gets added to the Camera app to name a few of the new native features. There is also talks of iOS 8 brings split-screen multitasking to the iPad as well. Now onto the bigger stuff.
Healthkit is one of the bigger features on the software as it focuses on monitoring your health. Helps you keep up w/ everything from glucose & alcohol levels, dietary intake, BMI, blood pressure, calories burned, sleep analysis, and so forth. This will be a much more detailed version of what Samsung was trying to do w/ S Health.
With NFC now on-board, Apple plans to unveil its own mobile payment system. This will be built-into the PassBook app as it is said that Apple has already secured deals w/ American Express, MasterCard, & Visa to be widely supported at launch. Touch ID would also be used to authenticate payments by a touch of a button.