Apple has introduced the A6 chip for their next-generation iPhone 5 hardware this afternoon at the event which also showed off several more impressive bits of hardware and software enhancements. The iPhone 5's A6 chip has been touted as having 2x faster CPU performance than the previous chip and brings on 2x the graphics performance as well. This chip has been shown as bringing on launches of apps at nearly 2x the speed as the previous iPhone on the whole.
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A6 chip introduced for iPhone 5 with fastest-ever performance
Tim Cook notes iPad selling 84 million units since introduction
This week Apple has announced at their big iPhone 5 event that the iPad is doing better than any other tablet on the market and is out-doing every other manufacturer's entire PC lineup. That means that the amount of iPads Apple sells is more than any other manufacturer sells of every PC they've got on the shelves. They've announced that through last year they had a massive 62% market share and that, according to Tim Cook, "almost all of the Fortune 500 are testing or deploying iPads. And they're investing in custom apps. This is something none of them do on the PC."
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iPhone 5 event liveblog starts in 1hr here on SlashGear!
The Apple Store is down, our liveblog is up, and the Apple event that’ll almost certainly be bringing on the iPhone 5 is less than an hour away! We’ve got several portals for you to jump in on the big Apple action for everything from software to various bits of hardware, starting with our liveblog portal at http://live.slashgear.com/. Next you’ll want to jump straight into our Apple portal for big news stories right as they’re announced straight from Apple!
Join our liveblog of the iPhone 5 event in less than 24 hours!
Starting just a bit before 10AM PST on the 12th of September (that’s tomorrow) you’ll be able to check in on live coverage from the Apple event that’ll more than likely show off the iPhone 5 smartphone for the very first time! This press event will have not just a liveblog going on from SlashGear, but instant photos in our live portal as well as full-on news posts in our main news feed! You’ll want to jump in on our Apple portal to see all things Apple – be it the new iPhone, iOS 6 features galore, or a possible collection of other devices and services we’ve had tips on over the past few months!
iPhone 5 pre-event wrap-up
In less than 24 hours we’ll be liveblogging the Apple event that will almost certainly play host to the new iPhone 5 – what we’re doing here is preparing you for the event with everything we’ve seen thus far. What you’re going to see with the iPhone 5 event that commences tomorrow (September 12th) at 10AM PST at the Yerba Buena Center is the smartphone itself, complete with details unknown but tipped and leaked to high heavens – of course there’s no telling if anything we’ve seen yet is real or true without final confirmation from Apple, but let’s have a look anyway!
Apple WWDC 2012 Keynote video available now
In case you somehow managed to not get enough details from our WWDC 2012 liveblog earlier today, in their usual fashion Apple has now posted the full WWDC 2012 keynote video online for your viewing pleasure. They had tons of exciting goodies to announce and we covered anything at everything this year.
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Apple releases entire video of new iPad keynote
Apple has posted on its website the entire keynote video from this morning's new iPad unveiling event. The company is known for not live streaming its announcements, allowing only certain media in on the news first. SlashGear was there this morning and in case you missed our live coverage, you can still catch up on all the announcements here. Or, if you have time to watch the 85-minute video, you can get the details straight from Apple here.
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The new iPad pre-orders up now
The folks at Apple have released their next generation iPad device titled simply "The new iPad" and pre-orders for the $499 device have gone live. This device will not be shipped until March 16th, the same availability date for the device around the world, and full pricing includes both internal memory increases as well as an upgrade to two different kinds of 4G LTE here in the USA, one for AT&T, the other for Verizon. This device has a set of upgrades over the iPad 2, the previous generation iPad, and has essentially the same chassis size as that unit as well.
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The new iPad 3rd Generation event wrap-up
The 2012 version of the iPad has been revealed, and with a Retina Display, 5-megapixel iSight camera with 1080p HD video recording, Voice Dictation, and 4G LTE, all of this backed up by the new A5X chip, we’ve very likely got another winner on our hands. Apple went through the device point by point, letting us know first that the high definition display would blow our minds while the rest of the features would back it up with fantastic media capture, high quality content, and the ability to access that content at high speeds with LTE. Now we’ve just got to set it all out in front of us and decide if this generation iPad is worth picking up!
iPad 2 gets $100 price cut after “The new iPad”
Apple is dropping the price of the iPad 2 by $100 following its announcement of the next-gen iPad, which it’s calling “The new iPad” instead of the iPad 3 or iPad HD. This price reduction of the iPad 2 will help round out Apple’s tablet lineup to cover more market segments.
iPad 3 gets voice dictation but not quite Siri yet
The iPad 3 will not be getting Siri as some had speculated, but it will give a good taste of the voice-controlled feature before a full on Siri implementation sometime down the road. Apple revealed today that the next-gen tablet now offers voice-dictation, a feature you'll notice from the addition of a microphone icon to the software keyboard.
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iPad 4G LTE official with 10 hour battery
This week the folks at Apple have revealed their newest iPad hardware refresh, this device having access to 4G LTE speeds. This iPad is not called the iPad 3, nor it is called the iPad HD, instead it’s just the newest device, having here the ability to work with “LTE for max of 72Mbps. It’s amazing, you’re going to love using it on these new high speed networks” as Apple’s Eddie Cue noted at the big iPad 3rd generation event. What you’ll see here is that LTE is made for many devices, but with Apple it’s all the more special – with a chart below showing how it’s made so.
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