19:40 GMT
It’s over. No iPhone 5. Aww. Looks like that’s it folks.
19:35 GMT
Fastest release ever, October 14th. Other countries soon. The announcement is wrapping up; hopefully there’s a ‘one more thing.’
19:30 GMT
English, French and German are all covered, more to be added over time. Now showing a white iPhone 4S. Yay. No iPhone 5 though :(
19:25 GMT
Reminders are now location-based. I remember reading a paper about this from ages ago, glad to see it working in a new place. You can also do instant Wikipedia and instant Wolfram Alpha. ‘Define mitosis.’ This is like a Star Trek computer, it’s pretty cool! All of this is adding up into a look of cool stuff that Android will have to replicate, instead of it being the other way around for once. Wolfram Alpha is definitely a great catch, should be brilliant for cheating on exams.
19:20 GMT
In Android there’s a voice input command on the keyboard that shows up on every app. Hopefully Siri is comparably universal. “What is the time in Paris?” Yeah. It can do all kinds of things, rates restaurants, and generally is quite helpful. Looks very very sophisticated. Cool! You can ask it to read your messages. Very awesome. It remembers who you’re talking to as well.
19:15 GMT
‘What we really want to do is just talk to our device!” Assistant time. Let’s see what it’s actually capable of… They are calling it Siri, surprisingly. You can ask it real life questions… “Is the iPhone 5 coming out today?” We can only hope.
19:10 GMT
They’re talking about squirrel pictures. The iPhone 4S will be good for nature photographers, apparently. 1080p video recording. Real time video image stabilisation, noise reduction. Airplay wireless mirroring, so you can watch your phone on the HDTV. Without a cable.
19:05 GMT
They’ve apparently improved the battery life. 8 hours of talk time. Also, it’s got two antennaes, can switch between the two intelligently, and works on both networks. ‘World phone.’ One very cool feature: Use both antennae at once to download things twice as fast, as fast or faster than 4G. That’s really cool. 8 megapixel camera, hurrah. Backlit illuminated sensor. Hurrah. Apparently it’s an f2.4, really wide and excellent for low light sensors. Takes pictures 2 to 3 faster, 0.5 seconds for the second picture, faster than anything else apparently.
19:00 GMT
iPhone 4S. We knew it. It’s the same looking. ‘Design is the same.’ Retina display again, dual core CPU as we predicted, dual core graphics. Games demo starting now. Infinity Blade 2 demo, amazing graphics Apple say. Infinity Blade 2 available December 1st. Yay… but not what we’re here for.
18:55 GMT
Number one portable game player: iPod Touch. iMessage and Game Center are included. iOS 5, of course. There’s a white iPod Touch coming, coo. Available October 12th in 32 GB and 64 GB versions. Next, iPhone.
18:50 GMT
The iPod Nano is apparently being updated. Multi-touch display has been made easier to navigate because it’s got bigger icons. Also, it can now sense fitness activities without external sensors. I actually did some research on that topic, it’s quite fun using your feet to control things. Now they’re saying they’re adding new clock faces to the iPhone Nano. iPod Nano is 8GB for $129, 16GB for $149. Now, iPod Touch.
18:45 GMT
The iCloud page is now up on the Apple site: http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
Now iTunes Match. Apparently releasing at the end of the month for the US, $24.99 a year with 5 GB of storage.
There’s now a video. Something I didn’t post yet: In the US, Apple can send a real-life snail-mail postcard for $2.99, complete with tracking, all handled by Apple.
18:40 GMT
iOS 5 will be released on October 12th. Huzzah. Now someone to talk about iCloud. iTunes in iCloud, Photo Stream (Photos in iCloud). Documents in iCloud. Daily backups. iCloud will be available from October 12th as well. Awesome.
Now there’s a stalker app, similar to Google Latitude. Great. Foursquare app clone as well: Family and Friends.
18:35 GMT
Tabbed browsing in mobile Safari, good to see that they’re catching up to mobile Opera and other enhanced web browsers for iOS. Game Centre is also big, and apparently achievements are being added soon… it worked for Microsoft!
Apparently you can also use the iPhone without a computer now, e.g. no need to connect to iTunes to activate. Good.
18:30 GMT
New notifications, as we discussed before. Twitter integration, ditto. You can now control the camera from the lock screen as well, instead of having to get to the camera app. Also, you can add grid lines, pinch to zoom and auto focus to lock. Pretty standard stuff really.
iMessage was also announced; basically a BlackBerry-alike that sends messages between iPhone users, including text, video and photos. That’s pretty big, actually.
18:25 GMT
250 million devices. Now for iOS 5, hurrah.
18:20 GMT
Now they’re talking about the iPhone… they’re bragging about the iPhone 4 and its sales. 93% of Fortune 500 companies are testing or deploying the iPhone. They talk a bit about it, then say ‘more on that later.’ Aww. Now they’re talking about the iPad.
18:15 GMT
They’re talking about the new Apple stores in China… Now OS X Lion’s being talked about. 23% market share in the US, that’s pretty impressive.
18:00 GMT (10:00 PST)
And it begins… here it goes.
17:55 GMT (9:55 PST)
So it does look pretty likely that the iPhone 4S will be the only phone announced today, as we’ve heard suspiciously little about the iPhone 5.
17:45 GMT (9:45 PST)
The Japanese iPhone site is listing the iPhone 4S for sale on October 14th. Nice.
17:30 GMT (9:30 PST)
This is our coverage of Apple’s ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ event, where I’ll be posting the latest details on the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S and all the rest as it comes. The keynote is due to start in 45 minutes.
I’ve written posts earlier today detailing what I expect to be announced: an iPhone 4S rumour roundup and the iPhone 5 rumour roundup. Essentially, we’re looking for two devices running iOS 5: the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5.
The iPhone 4S will be essentially an upgraded version of the iPhone 4, with a faster processor, more RAM and a better camera. The iPhone 5 looks like it might be released later, but contains much more radical upgrades, including a more expansive screen, curved back and so forth.
We’ve already got iPhone 4S accessories ready to go, and they’ll be announced as soon as that phone is confirmed. iPhone 5 accessories are more of a mystery, but we’ll likely be updating our stock shortly after the presentation as well, including iPhone 5 cases and iPhone 5 covers.
Check back here as we continue to cover the new announcements, which will appear at the top of the page every five minutes (although you will have to refresh, sorry.)