Overall, the iPhone 7 Plus camera will offer a 10x zoom, which sounds impressive.
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Apple’s shiny new iPhone 7 has just been given its grand unveiling at a major event in San Francisco.
The iPhone is Apple’s bread and butter.
Water and dust resistance: The iPhone will finally be water resistant with an IP67 rating.
The larger iPhone has two side-by-side12-megapixel cameras. One is wide angle and one is telephoto. If you zoom beyond that, the camera hardware will automatically shift to optical zoom.
Nintendo has long resisted bringing Mario to mobile phones, instead relying on the character to bolster demand for its own hand-held DS gaming systems. The flash has four LEDs and can detect the flickers of artificial lighting to better compensate.
A new force-sensitive home button (rather than mechanical) can judge the amount of pressure that a user applies and act accordingly. It’s also still available in gold, silver and rose gold (yes, pink). Existing iPhones can upgrade to the new mobile OS on September 13. Apple didn’t make any mention of the new model’s battery life. A shiny jet black model will only be available on the 128GB and 256GB models.
Goodbye, headphone jack: Rest in peace, iPhone headphone jack. As expected, Apple has removed the port from the iPhone 7. Apple spun the controversial decision a few ways.
The new camera will make your #foodstagram even better.
To help ease the transition, Apple made an adapter that it will include with all iPhone 7 and 7 Pluses.
The Apple Watch will get a popular new app later this year too.
In the two-hour event that followed, however, Cook and other Apple representatives on stage provided no details on how the latest iPhones are more secure. Built-in accelerometers and infrared sensors detect when they’re in your ears.
The wireless headphones will cost $159 when they come out in late October.
Apple is also allowing developers to build apps for iMessage, although the options so far appear to mostly involve sending payments or ordering food.
The watch update was announced 17 months after the first model came out.
The device is created to be waterproof so it can be worn while swimming. The company says it has designed the speaker to eject water after workouts. The GPS doesn’t sever all ties with the iPhone, but does give the Apple Watch a slightly longer leash. Series 2 will start at $369. Older iPhones will get price reductions, and last year’s models are also getting double the storage. While the Apple Watch 2 and the Apple Watch Nike+ will be available for order in the USA starting September 9, the rollout won’t take place until Sept 16 and late October respectively.
Nintendo debuted a new Super Mario game for iOS called Super Mario Run. You can compete against players around the world. It’s not an Apple Car, but it was a huge crowd pleaser.
A Pokemon Go app is coming to Apple Watch.
Hanke says the game has been downloaded more than 500 million times, and people playing have collectively walked 4.6 billion kilometers (2.9 billion miles). The game will be available on the Apple Watch later this year.
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Apple iWork suite of software, including word processing, processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs, will include real-time collaboration features for the first time.
