Archive for September 12th, 2013

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple has provided us with some more details on a new fingerprint scanner embedded to the iPhone 5S. As it was stated on the media event last Tuesday, your fingerprints won’t be stored by the company from Cupertino or shared with third parties. What Apple says is that the data will be encrypted and secured inside of the iPhone’s new A7 processor.

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According to MacRumors, there’re already some graphics benchmark results for the iPhone 5s on the Internet and I must admit they’re really impressive. Looks like the company from Cupertino did a good job and made the new device incredibly efficient.

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Apple is currently asking its developers to submit iOS 7 compatible app updates to the App Store. This is the email that has been sent by the company from Cupertino:

iOS 7 will soon be in the hands of hundreds of millions of customers. Reimagine your app's interface with the clarity, translucency and depth of iOS 7. Integrate APIs for AirDrop, multitasking, games, and camera, as well as new APIs that take advantage of the powerful new capabilities of iPhone 5s.

To prepare your apps for the App Store, download the GM seed of iOS 7 and Xcode 5, test, and optimize for iOS 7. Submit your apps today.

As you know, iOS 7 GM is now available for all developers. Ordinary users will be able to download it on September 18th.

Apple has posted the keynote video for its September 10th event at which the new smartphones iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C were announced.

You can watch the video here (quicktime is required).

The launch dates for Apple iPhones is September 20 with pre-orders starting September 13. We have recently found out that the iPhone 5S will not be available for pre-order.

Customers will be able to pre-order only the new iPhone 5C via the online Apple Store. The new iPhone 5S will not be available until the launch date.

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Here is one more Jimmy Kimmel's iPhone 5S experiment. He actually gave people on the street an iPad Mini, but told them that it's a brand new iPhone 5S. Let's watch the reaction:

According to WSJ, Apple has obtained the final license essential for the launch of iPhone on China Mobile's network standard.

According to the website of China's Telecom Equipment Certification Center Wednesday, Apple was given a "network access license" for a handset resembling the iPhone that runs on the mobile standards used by China Mobile for third and fourth generation cellular services. Other licenses were given to Apple for handsets running the technology used by both China Unicom and China Telecom.

The approval means that Apple is most likely to introduce the iPhone on China Mobile, the world's largest cellular carrier with 700 million subscribers.

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