For those interested, a bit of a rundown on the Apple Event from tonight (well,..early morning really)
The Apple event opened with people and how Apple devices have helped or saved their lives. Apple Watch Series 10 gets a new design. Bigger display and smaller design. Wide Angle OLED Display. Up to 40% brighter. More power efficient. Polished Aluminium case - now available in Jet Black, Rose Gold or Silver. Also Polished Titanium available now as well. - Natural, Gold, or Slate Grey colours. 9.7mm thin. Still 50m water resistant. Faster charging. New S10 SIF chip inside. Series 10 can also now track Sleep Apnea. Translate App comes direct to the Apple Watch in watchOS11. Pricing Starts from $649. For more information have a look here. - https://www.apple.com/au/apple-watch-series-10/ Apple Watch Ultra 2 - New finish now available in Satin Black. New bands. Pricing starts from $1399. For more information have a look here. - https://www.apple.com/au/apple-watch-ultra-2/ AirPods AirPods 4 - Redesigned for better fit. H2 chip. New acoustic architecture for better sound. Personalised Spatial Audio. Voice Isolation removes background noise. Head nod to answer or cancel a call. USB-C and wireless Charging and added speaker to case. 30 hours battery life. Noice Cancellation, Transparency modes, and Adaptive Audio available. Two models available. Starting from $219 or $299 with Noise Cancellation. More information available here. - https://www.apple.com/au/airpods-4/ AirPods Max. New colours - Midnight, Blue, Purple. Orange or Starlight. Added USB-C. Personalised Spatial Audio. Same price at $899. You can see more about them here. - https://www.apple.com/au/airpods-max/ AirPod Pro 2. New features for audio prevention, Hearing prevention to help with loud noise. Also Hearing Awareness - now includes a hearing test. (Validated with clinical studies to add this feature). Data saved to the Health App. Can now be “changed” to a Hearing Aid with the new features. Available later this year via a software update. Pricing at $399. For more information have a look here. - https://www.apple.com/au/airpods-pro/ iPhone 16. Designed for Apple Intelligence. New rich colours - ultramarine, teal, pink, white or black. Two sizes - 6.1” and 6.7”. New ceramic shield front glass. - 50% tougher. Customisable Action button. New camera control on right side below on/off button. New A18 3nm chip. Smaller and more energy effecitent. 6core CPU, 5core GPU. Additional memory bandwidth. Show casing new features coming with Apple Intelligence to help make a lot of “day to day” tasks easier, to “get things done”. Siri is more Natural, relevant and more personal to you. Can also type to Siri instead. Apple Intelligence available in Australia in December. New feature - visual intelligence. Point and click on the camera and a lot more information will then pop up to show you things relating to the image. You’re always “in control” of the content and what is used and shared. A lot more camera features moved to the new “Camera Control” button that recognises different “clicks” and taps. 48MP main Camera, 2x Telephoto feature - 48MP “Fusion camera”, Ultrawide camera. Macro photography. - “equivalent to 4 lenses in your pocket”. Can capture Spatial videos and photos to work with Vision Pro. Better audio. Better thermal design. Larger battery and better battery life. Better redesigned Photo’s App with new features in iOS18. Messages via Satellite also coming in iOS18. The iPhone 16 starts at $1399 and the iPhone 16 Plus starts at $1599. More information available here. - https://www.apple.com/au/iphone-16/ iPhone 16 Pto. Designed with Apple Intelligence at its core. New design. Larger display at 6.3” and 6.9”. Thinner borders. ProMotion. Always On. Ceramic Shield front display. Grade 5 Titanium - 4 colours - Darker Black, White, Natural and new Desert titanium. Better thermal chassis. Better battery life. Same great Apple Intelligence features as iPhone 16. New Apple Silicon A18 Pro 3nm chip. 16core Neural Engine (can handle 35 trillion operations per second!). Better memory bandwidth. 6coreCPU, 6coreGPU. Larger caches. “Fastest CPU in any phone” Advanced media features for ProMotion display support and AlwaysOn display. New video encoder and faster data processing. New 48MP Fusion Camera. 48MP Ultrawide Camera. 12MP 5x Telephoto camera with 120mm focal length. New features with Camera Control coming later this year via software update for lock focus and exposure with a half press, and more. New photographic styles to adapt colours and shadows in real time. New “control pad” to adjust colours on the fly. Tap, slide, click, different pressures on the camera control will access different settings and features. “Cinematic slow motion" - 4K120 frames per second, Frame by frame cinematic colour grading in Dolby Vision. 4K120 capture in full HDR and can be used in slo-mo or video mode. Can adjust after capture. Better audio for sound and sound capture. Spatial Audio Capture while recording. New Audio Mix feature - giving the editing of recording as if you’re in a recording studio. More features in Voice Memos also, allowing you to add a track on top of existing recordings. Updates coming to MagSafe ecosystem, with clear and silicone cases, with a sapphire crystal coupled to a conductive layer for the camera control. New 1m and 2m, faster-charging MagSafe charging, plus Qi 2 support. The iPhone 16 Pro starts at $1799 and the iPhone 16 Pro Max starts at $2149. Information on these models available here. - https://www.apple.com/au/iphone-16-pro/ iPhone range is now iPhone SE, iPhone 14, iPhone 15, iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro. Most of the new range available to order from Friday 13th and ships September 20th (Approximately). Hopefully covered most of it. You can watch the event here - https://www.apple.com/au/apple-events/ And no doubt more information will become available on everything as the rumour sites “dig a bit deeper” into it all. Enjoy! Kind regards Daniel (Apologies for any errors or mistakes,..too late to go back and re-read or fix it,…hehe). --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry p : 0414 795 960 e : <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> w : <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. 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