Live Coverage of Apple's iPhone 5 Media Event PART 3
Bob Mansfield: "It took an incredible cross-collaborative effort" to make the phone thinner.
Video is giving more details on the Lightning connector, sapphire lens on the camera, touts LTE as potentially faster than home Wi-Fi connectors.
The video goes through the special manufacturing process used to make the phone. The video should be posted on Apple's website soon after the event is finished.
Phil is back as the video ends.
Same pricing as iPhone 4S.
$199 for 16GB, $299/32GB, $399/64GB (with two year contract).
iPhone 4S is $99, iPhone 4 is free with contract.
Preorders start on Friday, shipping one week later.
Launching on the 21st in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Launching on the 28th in 22 other countries.
iOS 6 arrives next Wednesday the 19th for the iPhone 5, 4S, 4, 3GS, new iPad, iPad 2 and 4th generation iPod Touch.
Tim Cook is back on stage to talk about "something near and dear to our hearts". Music.
"Music is in our DNA."
"Some exciting changes with both iPod and iTunes."
Eddy Cue is on stage now.
26 million songs on iTunes Store, with 20 billion songs purchased in past 9 years. Now available in 63 countries. 435 million iTunes accounts. More than two-thirds of downloads are coming directly from iOS devices.
Apple has built a new iTunes Store for iPhone and iPad. Redesigning App Store too. New store apps arriving with iOS 6 on the 19th.
Redoing iTunes for Mac and PC as well. 200 million people using iTunes in the Cloud, 15 billion pieces of content served directly from the cloud.
New iTunes is "dramatically simpler". Now he's demoing it.
Click on any album and it expands to show more information, clearly influenced by iOS.
Artists have the ability to share photos with their listeners, showing that some parts of Ping haven't disappeared entirely. Allows users to split screen playlists and the full library, making playlist creation easier.
The changes aren't radical, but streamline and polish everything. There is a new 'Play Next' button to force the next song as a particular choice, without stopping the current song.
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