Apple announces iOS 7 at WWDC 2013 Keynote : new look, Siri, multitasking, toggles and more

UPDATED : Not all iOS 7 features will be available at all iDevices especially the older generation. source from GSMArena

Sadly only iPad 2 get the least features which is iTune Radio.

In case you miss out last night keynote from Apple WWDC 2013, fear not! We are here to cover the brand new iOS 7 improvement compare with previous version.

New look

After 6 version on iOS, finally the 7th iOS version revamp a brand new UI. Apple decided to use flat design on both icon and also UI elements. All system icons are redesigned around a standardized grid to unify the look. It also features an animated wallpapers (not a live wallpaper in Android) and there's a dynamic parallax effect between the icons and the wallpaper as you turn and tilt your phone.

Multitasking

Finally a real multitask from iOS! Apple claim the new multitask system allows apps to update much more often, while not wasting battery.

Enhanced Siri

New UI which is card-based UI and new services to provide answers to your questions (Twitter, Wikipedia and Bing, take that Google). The new Siri also capable of controlling your iDevice (increase brightness, turn on Bluetooth) and it offers a new lively voice (both female and male) for English, French and German.

New Notification Center

The notification center seem a total revamped and it offer alot info such as birthdays, weather, upcoming events from the calendar, stocks and even some info for tomorrow. Notification center will show up on the lockscreen and once you dismiss a notification, it goes away on the other devices too so you don't have to see the same notification multiple times. Pretty good!

Toggles

I am very sure Android user familiar with toggles. To access toggles, just swip up from the bottom of the screen. The toggles able to control screen brightness and the music player, the new AirDrop feature, and AirPlay along with some app shortcuts, including a flashlight toggle.

New camera UI

As much as I like simplicity, the new camera UI in iOS 7 is totally simple! Clean and nice. The new camera features four modes – regular stills and video, square photos with color effects (hi, Instagram) and panorama.

New Photos Gallery

The photo gallery has new UI too and provided automatic Geo tagging now. It sort your photos based on where and when you took them with automatically putting a title to the album. Zooming out shows new auto-generated albums for multi-day trips and zooming out even further groups the photos in years.

Updates on Safari

The Safari browser for iOS has new 3D UI for switching tabs and you're no longer limited to only 8 tabs. The browser now features a single smart search filed rather than having two fields - one for URL typing and another one for initiating Google searches. Another features is allowed you swipe from the sides of the screen to go back and forth through your browsing history.

New App Store

Well not visually new but the new app store now allowed automatic apps update and also suggest apps based on your location.

Facetime

The new facetime now available audio only option.

AirDrop

No NFC? No problem. Got AirDrop! It uses a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connection to share stuff with other nearby user.

iTunes Radio

The music player get revamped too to iTunes Radio.

Weather

Looking on the weather very quickly remind me of HTC weather. Anyway the new weather allowed yout o check forecast for the next five days. You can check the weather of one location or all of them at once.

iOS 7 is available for the iPhone in beta today (If you're developer). In the Fall, iOS 7 will be available on iPhone 4 and later, iPod touch 5th gen, iPad mini and iPad 2 and later.

So what do you think the new revamped iOS 7? I like the UI alot. Simple and nice. However I still love something more customizeable especially on my main home screen.

Check out the full promo of iOS 7

Apple announces iPad 4th generation and 7.9-inch iPad mini

Apple event just happen this morning and as we expected we get to see iPad mini as well as new macbook. However we are quite surprise to see iPad 4th generation is ready to replaced the 6 months old New iPad. Lets take a look on the spec

iPad 4 Key Specification :

• 9.7 inches Retina 1536 x 2048 pixel display
• A6X silicon with quad-core graphics
• 5MP Camera with 1080p HD Video Recording.
• 9.4mm thickness.
• 1.4lbs.
• 10 hours of battery life still. 9 hours on 4G.
• Lightning port
• LTE

Basically the 4th generation iPad has similar spec and also physical design with New iPad except it running latest A6X processor that promised twice performance of the New iPad and also new lightning port that appear in iPhone 5.

Pricing stays the same as its predecessor, with a 16GB WiFi version for $499 and a 16GB model with cellular data on board costs $629.

iPad mini Key Specification :

• 7.9-inch LED-backlit IPS screen with a resolution of 1024x768 pixels
• Apple A5 chipset, 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor
• PowerVR SGX543MP2 graphics
• 512MB RAM
• 5MP (iSight) rear camera (1080p)and 720p front-facing camera
• 16/32/64GB
• Lightning port

The iPad mini has exactly same spec with iPad 2 except the camera and latest lightning port.

The Apple iPad mini will go on pre-order next week with market availability scheduled to start on November 2. The base model costs $329, with the 32GB and 64GB version going for $429 and $529, respectively. The Wi-Fi+Cellular model pricing starts at $459 for the 16GB.

So are you excited with this new product? Share with us :)

Apple releases iOS 5.1.1 update

Apple released iOS 5.1.1 today for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

It is just a minor update that focuses on bug fixing rather than adding any new features.

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The New iPad will come Malaysia 20 April!

Finally, the New iPad is coming to Malaysia on 20th April, this friday!



Malaysia is part of 12 new countries that will receive the new iPad on that day which include South Korea, Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, St Maarten, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The actual pricing for the new iPad in Malaysia is not confirm but the press release listed them at RM 1,531 (USD 499) for the 16GB model, RM 1,837 (USD 599) for the 32GB model and RM 2,143 (USD 699) for the 64GB model.

As for the iPad Wi-Fi + 4G model, it will be priced at RM 1,929 (US 629) for the 16GB model, RM 2,235 (USD 729) for the 32GB model and RM 2,542 (USD 829) for the 64GB model.

However, we are not sure whether the Wi-Fi + 4G models will actually be offered to Malaysian consumers since our telcos are yet to activate or fully deploy their LTE network.

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iOS 5.1 available over the air now

Yupz, the new iOS 5.1 is available today via OTA! However do keep in mind that you may experience issues with its download. If you get an error message just keep trying or leave it for tomorrow as the Apple servers are probably having trouble coping with the high initial demand.

iOS 5.1 Changelog

• SIRI support Japan language.
• Enable to delete photos from Photo Stream in iCloud.
• The lockscreen camera shortcut is now constantly visible on the lockscreen.

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The New iPad Officially launch!

UPDATED : The New iPad is official name!

Watching Apple LIVE now for the new iPad (they even don't have name for it, lets call it The iPad now) announcement. It just a minor update in iPad 2.

The New iPad Key Features :

• 9.7-inch Retina Display, 2048 x 1536 pixel with 264ppi.
• A5X processor and quad-core graphics chip.
• 5MP Camera with 1080p HD Video Recording.
• built-in 4G LTE.
• 9.4mm thickness.
• 1.4lbs.
• 10 hours of battery life still. 9 hours on 4G.
• iOS 5.1

There are still alot uncertain spec in The iPad. What are the RAM? What are the battery capacity? What are the front camera MP? Plus, The iPad still come with physical home button. There won't be SIRI in the new iPad too.

Honestly we are pretty disappointed with The iPad. No quad core, quad graphic (which theyc laim better than Tegra 3). Same camera can be found in iPhone 4S except 5MP. There will be microphone built-in in the keyboard, Android Google Voice anyone? There will be personal hotspot available too in The iPad.

Overall, it is everything you can found in iPhone 4S into The iPad. The new iPad will be available March 16th, starting at $499 for the 16GB WiFi model and scaling up to $829 for the 64GB version with 4G. Same price with current iPad 2 and of course, iPad 2 are dropping their price. Malaysia won't be first batch to have it yet.

So, the new iPad anyone?

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iPad 3 will officially announce on 7 March

It is finally official. Apple just send out invites to the unveiling of its next iPad. The iPad 3 will be unveiled on March 7 in San Francisco at 10AM PST, on Wednesday, March 7. That's 2AM, 8 March in our time.



iPad 3 got confirmed spec as well from the invites. It will features a 9.7-inch screen with 2048×1536 pixel resolution, 264 ppi. Don't be surprise if it equipped with quad core processor (possible A6) as well.

In the invites, Apple suggest "We have something for you to see. And touch". Touch? Could it mean the iconic hardware home button in the new iPad? Since There is possible the next iPad don't have physical home button.

This theory came from Gizmodo

…there seems to be NO home button, which explains the mention of the “And touch.” in their invitation. How can we know? First, the photo they are showing is on portrait mode. You can’t achieve that icon spacing in the landscape mode (which is the only explanation for the lack of home button). Moreover, the icon falls right onto the same water drop that the current iPad 2 falls while in portrait mode. It’s clearly a photo of the iPad in portrait mode. And there’s no button to be seen.

So, they'll have some iconic home button like Android 4.0 in Samsung Galaxy Nexus and fully gesture function like Nokia N9? Stay tune with us next week and you will find the answer.

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iPad 3 will launch on February?

There is a rumors deduce that apple special event is likely to take place early next month, welcoming the launch of iOS 5.1 and with it, the arrival of the iPad 3.

Specs are expected to include a 2048 x 1536-pixel HD display, alongside battery life said to double that of the iPad 2 and a slightly thicker case to accommodate it. For the bargain hunters amongst you, the launch will also result in the inevitable price drop of iPad 2s, with each model presumably knocking $100 of its price point.

I believe more rumors will pop out once the date is near. Stay tune to us and we'll update any of the latest news!

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Apple coming iPad rumors

As everyone known, iPad 3 will be coming soon. Naturally, iPad 2 will facing the same fate with it's predecessor.

Rumors iPad 3 will features :

• Retina Display - four times the resolution of the iPad 2.
• 5MP or 8MP camera from iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S module.
• Front camera will get HD Recording.
• Extra 1MM thickness compare to iPad 2.

Meanwhile, iPad 2 price will be slash down as much as $100. In addition, there is rumors that apple will release iPad 2 8GB version thatc ost as much as $299.

Let's wait and see for another month about this rumors shall we?

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Apple A6 Chips coming soon?

Some reliable people have spotted quad-core processor support into the iOS 5.1 beta code, which is A6 chips.

A few months ago other skilful developers discovered the iPhone5,1 reference into the first iOS 5.1 beta code. It might turn out Apple is indeed gearing the next iPhone with a quad-core A6 chip.

So iPhone user, are you happy that coming iPhone 5 or iPad 3 will be running A6 chips?

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Let's Talk iPhone on October 4th

It is official that 4th October will be date for Apple talk about iPhone. Expecting new iPhone on line, either iPhone 5 or iPhone 4s or both.

In addition of launching new iPhone, Apple will announce Facebook for iPad too, finally eh?

So who gonna stay late and watch the presentation?

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iPad iOS 5 vs Windows 8 Slate

Winrumors just compare an iPad iOS 5 with Windows 8 Slate.

Microsoft has done some impressive work with Windows 8 to make it truly slate friendly. Hardware specifications and specifics are still being fleshed out but the core software compares favourably to Apple’s iPad iOS 5 software.

So, which tablet you going? For me i believe in Windows 8 potential and tempted to get one :)

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