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Apple keynote recap: What you need to know (Video)

The day we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. Apple has officially introduced its new iPhone lineup and announced an entirely new product in the wearables department. There was quite a bit of information between most of the major announcements from today, and because of that, we thought it would be helpful to condense the “need to know” information into a short video…

Apple has finally introduced the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and a 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus to fulfill the needs of different users. The iPhone 6 lineup will be available for preorder on Sept. 12, 2014 and will officially go on sale Sept. 19, 2014. The iPhone 6 will be priced at $199 (base model) on contract, while the iPhone 6 Plus will cost $299 (base model) with a contract.

Watch our iPhone 6 and Apple Watch recap video below:

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Apple also introduced “Apple Watch.” This is the iOS-based wearable that the world has been waiting for. Apple Watch will be compatible with iPhone 5, 5s, 5c, 6, and 6 Plus. Apple mentioned that it will start at $349 and be available in “early 2015,” but that’s all we know as far as availability is concerned.

For highlights of the entire event, check out the links below:

What do you think about Apple’s announcements? Are you more excited for the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, or Apple Watch?

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  1. As a success coach, I spend a lot of time on the phone with my clients. The new 24 hour talk time on the Plus, has me sold. I currently use a Lenmar battery pack which doubles the thickness of the phone. Now I will get even better talk time at much less weight. I also wanted to get rid of my iPad mini, and now I can. Another great feature is that when I receive notifications on my phone and I am on a call, I miss them because I can’t take my phone away from my ear if a client is speaking. Now I will get those notifications, and incoming call alerts without interrupting my call. This is going to be amazing.

    Oh, and remember how I said Sapphire was only for the watch, not the phones. Thank you.

    • jorge1170x - 10 years ago

      So quiet today, just this sad troll is around, so I guess will….those two features you will start enjoying in 2015! have been available for a while elsewhere and for much less say on certain phablets with awesome battery life and ever since the pebble came out, wrist notifications became a reality too! I do give Apple some major credit for some things revealed including the magnifier dial, that’s pretty clever and may become the norm, but overall today was a day of Apple mapping out their catch-up strategies. Oh and bravo to them for the overall watch secrecy too, that was really amazing in this day and age.

      • I find it hilarious that Android trolls love to claim they were “first” to certain features… you know, except the whole phone itself. They always neglect the fact that Apple was first to create this whole touch-screen smartphone thing. So really, who’s “first” to certain features really matters not, unless you really want to get schooled, I guess.

      • jorge1170x - 10 years ago

        Uh, no the Palm Treo had a touch screen with a grid of icons an so did a number of windows phones in 2005-2006. Apple just introduced the capacitive screen which was surely awesome but the world was already headed there..Steve Jobs just accelerated the clock by a few years. Besides, what exists today is what’s relevant, and it’s plain to see that the student has outshined the master.

      • vandiced - 10 years ago

        Jorge1170x – Palm Treo – is that why phones now look like the Palm Treo? Or do they look like an iphone. The world could’ve headed anywhere, that is a fantasy., a “what if”. Apple making the iphone and everyone following is a fact. No “what ifs” there. I’m an Apple fan, but is Google doing amazing stuff with Android, and Apple could take notes? Absolutely. It’s about keeping an opening and not blindly following.

      • jorge1170x - 10 years ago

        Why, because the treo had a physical keyyboard, Well ok here were others that didn’t. t-mobile had a pocket-pc phone that lacked any type of physical keyboard…It was a giant slab of a screen. I’m sure anyone holding up to his/her face was mocked and laughed at like i was with my Ben-q P-50. HTC made that slab phone it and it had a grid of apps in the app.dawer not unlike today’s devices. It doesn’t take a nostradamus to know that the pocket computer was heading nowhere other than where it is today, it’s called natural progression. Although, I do credit and thank Steve Jobs for seeing that future and pulling it forward I’d say about five years. Today’s phones might still be shitty like say that blackberry storm had SJ not seen the goose that was about to start laying golden eggs and gone for it with his unique passion/greed.

      • hayesunt - 10 years ago

        I don’t get why people like you feel the need to come here and bash the iPhone and try to convince us Android is better. We love our iPhones and iOS for a reason, and we are not interested in Android’s shit phones. That’s not going to change – you are wasting your breath and our time everytime we have to scroll that much farther past your superfluous trash comments. You’re on the wrong site.

      • jorge1170x - 10 years ago

        Ok I’ll explain it then, people who slavisly devote themselves to ANYTHING, at personal cost to themsleves, don’t just do themselves harm, they do society as a whole harm. For example, they are weak of mind so they often end up voting in politicians who will “take care of them” in exchange of a “little” freedom here or maybe “a few rights” there. It makes them feel warm and fuzzy that something larger than themselves is in control of their destiny. They also, due to their slavish nature, end up over-paying for things too, causing direct financial harm to the others in the marketplace. So, yeah I’m batshit crazy alright but if I can make change ONE mind and have him see the errors of his way, I’ve done society a favor. I’m sure to get banned now, good bye!

      • hayesunt - 10 years ago

        We haven’t “slavishly devoted” ourselves to Apple. We’ve experienced their devices and services – and we enjoy their quality, sophistication, restraint, and all of the things that make Apple the great company it is. And our appreciation makes us fans – who can think for themselves and do still compare others, but we come back to the same choice and same conclusion, because they are better. Apple is doing society, the WORLD, a lot of good, forcing others to compete and innovate and has brought other companies out of lazy stagnation, and leading by example. Some (Samsung) take that too far by directly copying, of course. The people on this site, this “community” is collectively pro-Apple, and your opinions have been judged by this society to be unwanted. You, of course, have a right to speak your mind in any public forum, but it does not mean we have to like it.

      • Criss Contino - 10 years ago

        Most Android users are simply not qualified to comment, especially when their “measuring stick” has something to do with their own dogma that Apple iPhones are somehow “behind” in technology. Here’s the thing, Android lovers, if Samsung, HTC or any one of the other HUNDREDS of manufacturers putting out Android phones were to keep up with and stay competitive with Apple and all of the other devices they just keep on pioneering, then superficial and trivial stuff (like better res cameras, or larger screens) is not just a good idea, it’s required. Why? because if those manufacturers didn’t do that, then they are just copy cats, and no one buys copy cats, they want the “real deal”. In the initial first years that the iPhone came out, all of the former “smartphone” leaders like Blackberry had no answer to the iPhone. They simply scrambled around to come up with something that mimicked the cool stuff that iPhone did, like the iPhone’s superior Safari browser, the “accelerometer, landscape and profile configs, and a non-physical keyboard. What’s hilarious now is that I remember the “competition” and pre-Android smart phone users referred to the digital keyboard and lack of a scroll wheel as a “weakness”, and as “inferior” to the qwerty keyboards they were used to. Now, since Android has managed to catch up to much of that, it’s all about “detail oriented” technology, like “yeah but, we have larger screens, higher pixel cameras, and 4G, and…). They don’t understand that those things are nice, they complete the capstones of pyramids, but they do not have anything like the foundation upon which ALL Apple mobile devices are built, and that my friends, is the major difference. See, Apple was not a mobile phone manufacturer that decided to suddenly enter the mobile phone manufacturing industry to compete with other manufacturers like Samsung, HTC or IG. It’s ALL about iTunes and that specific platform’s components, such as the App store(s) and news stand. It’s all about creating devices that surround iTunes, and iTunes has been in place long before the iPhone. Apple is about seamless software and operating systems that communicate with one another, as well as end user experience. Google Android is not, because in that regard they are still several years behind Apple and any device they come up with is nothing more than a phone or tablet trying to compete with the physical technology of Apple devices while forgetting about the foundation called iTunes. If Android wants to truly compete with Apple, then they need to compete with iTunes, not iPhone.

    • vandiced - 10 years ago

      *meamt to say iphone/ios interface

  2. Jeremy Naus - 10 years ago

    I’m actually not a fan of a bigger iPhone. I know it’s in vain, but I hope they will still keep a 5s type of size available and upgrade it. Not everyone wants a huge screen on their smartphone.

    • aeronperyton - 10 years ago

      The 5C (read: 5) and 5S are still in production and will run iOS 8 & support Apple Watch (so weird not referring to an apple device without typing i). So you’re fully supported for the next year at least. Even if the 5S drops off the face of the Earth in 2015 or doesn’t make the grade for iOS 9 or Watch 2 (that’s even weirder), you’ll be able to use the old pair for a few more years yet before 3rd party software makers start cutting you off at the APIs.

  3. sinth3sis - 10 years ago

    One thing i loved about apple phones was the fact that they where designed to be easily operated in one hand – against this awful trend in the android world of plastic… …for me they fu**** it up totally…

  4. monkey2medic - 10 years ago

    Dom’s video was a great summary over the 120 minute Apple Keynote.

    Iphone 6+ for me. Use it more often as mini-computer than a phone. Surf web, text, music, games, and occasional videos.

    AppleWatch. It’s not for me. Seems interesting, but would rather spend my money or something more useful. I would take it as a gift, but wouldn’t purchase it for myself. It’s geared for health, business, and convenience. But the iphone does its job fine for me. Don’t need an accessory to my phone. The ipad is a stand alone product and was worth investing.

    I have a Garmin watch I run with to track distance, speed, and elevation. Spent $200 on it many years back. The price tag of $350+ seems excessive, but it does offer a lot more than my old Garmin.

    I’m the type who doesn’t mind spending money on quality products I use on daily basis. My car, phone, computer, socks, bed, and food are “premium”.

  5. Nice little recap video.

    Does anyone know what time Pre-orders will go live on the Apple store in the UK? I need to get me a 64GB 6+, but I don’t really want to be up all night refreshing Apple.com.

    When I bought my iPad 3 on the App Store. It went live at about 3AM but that was the same night of it’s announcement. Basically will it be 1 minute past midnight or something more respectable like 8am GMT?

  6. Nycko Heimberg - 10 years ago

    Apple Watch:
    Take time to read the data sheet.
    This Watch has unfortunately nothing of a product 2014.
    It has no integrated GPS(global positioning system). Impossible to use without iPhone.
    Watches Sony 3 and Samsung have a GPS and 4Go of memory, to integrate some music and the GPS maps when we go in for sport.

  7. Kevin Jöhr - 10 years ago

    Are people not upset about the fact that the camera is exceeding the phones body?! I am sure this would never have happened if Steve was still there. I mean what is the point in having a 6.7mm phone if the camera does not fit in? It just looks like a damn HTC of 2009

    • Most of us that have wanted optical image stabilisation have been begging apple for that little bump around the lens (some of us might even have gone for 2mm thicker if it gave us significantly more battery, but that ain’t Apple ;) ).

      Lucky for folks like you, there’s still a slim-for-slim’s sake 6.

  8. capdorf - 10 years ago

    The sad thing is, that for those of us that prefer to stay with the 4 inch phone, we also have to accept it’s lesser ability. That the size is more convenient, is no reason that we should not have the same abilities in the phone.