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iPhone 5 launch: live coverage of Tim Cook's speech

The Guardian - 4 Oct, 2011
iPhone 5: what new features will Apple's Tim Cook unveil at the launch event? Photograph: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters 5.45pm: Journalists, commentators and plain-old fashionistas are filing into Apple conference halls in Cupertino and Covent Garden, ...

Apple iPhone event: live

Telegraph.co.uk - 4 Oct, 2011
Live coverage of the Apple event at which the company is expected to announce a new iPhone 5 and set a release date for the iOS 5 operating system and iCloud service. Last week, Apple sent out this invite to its iPhone event. Steve Jobs unveiling the ...

Live coverage at 9 a.m.: Tim Cook poised to reveal Apple's latest product

San Jose Mercury News - Patrick May, Jeremy Owens - 4 Oct, 2011
A new iPhone is expected to have a number of changes, the biggest of which will likely be under the hood: the inclusion of Apple's latest iOS mobile software, iOS 5, which has been slated for release this fall, the Associated Press is ...

With new iPhone, Apple Inc. also unveils a new version of itself

Globe and Mail - omar el akkad - 4 Oct, 2011
The world's most popular smartphone gets a makeover on Tuesday, and so does the company that designed it. Apple is expected to unveil the new iteration of the iPhone at an event in California today (follow our live coverage here). ...

Apple expected to launch iPhone 5

BBC News - 4 Oct, 2011
Journalists have been invited to a "Let's talk iPhone" event at its California campus due to start at 10:00 PDT (18:00 BST). Doubts surround how different the iPhone 5 will be to its predecessor though some do expect big changes. ...

Live: Apple's big reveal

Toronto Star - Mark Lennihan - 4 Oct, 2011
15 months after Apple began selling the iPhone 4, the computer and gadget maker is expected to announce the next version of its popular smartphone on Tuesday. The Tuesday event is anticipated as Apple's first major product unveiling in years that won't ...

Sprint Wagers Big On iPhone, Stock Price Vulnerable

Forbes - 4 Oct, 2011
Sprint will get the right to finally sell the iPhone when Apple introduces its new device in today's event. However, according to a Wall Street Journal report, Sprint has made a commitment to buy at least 30.5 million iPhones in the next four years ...

Apple: Here We Go, Cupertino Set For Liftoff

Barron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - 4 Oct, 2011
Folks, we're just a short while away from Apple's (AAPL) iPhone event in Cupertino, starting at 1 pm. The Wall Street Journal's Geoffrey Fowler today offers an overview of the event, characterizing it as the maiden voyage of newly ...

Will you upgrade to iPhone 5?

Wall Street Journal - 4 Oct, 2011
Apple plans to release the iPhone 5 in the third quarter of 2011. According to some suppliers of components to Apple, the new version of the iPhone is expected to be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4 and sport an 8-megapixel camera. ...

Apple Expected to Unveil New iPhone Tuesday

Fox News - 4 Oct, 2011
| AP Apple invited reporters to an iPhone event Oct. 4, setting the stage for the launch of its latest smartphone. SAN FRANCISCO â€" Apple is unveiling a new, more powerful version of its wildly popular smartphone -- more than a year after it launched ...

Ahead of Tim Cook's keynote, Apple Store is Down

NDTV.com - Sahil Mohan Gupta - 4 Oct, 2011
With less than an hour to go before Tim Cook's keynote address at 10:30pm IST, the Apple Store is down. This has almost become customary with all product launches - the store is ostensibly being updated with new products, in this case hopefully it ...

iPhone 4S Apparently Pops Up on Apple's Japanese Site Early

TIME - Doug Aamoth - 4 Oct, 2011
Well this is mighty interesting. A page for one of the Apple retail stores in Japan is touting the "iPhone 4S" as appearing October 14 starting at 8:00am. Google's translation is a bit rough and there's no telling if ...

Braced for Apple's iPhone assault

BBC News - Tim Weber - 4 Oct, 2011
The days when Apple had a free run for our smartphone hearts and minds are over. As and when the company's iPhone 5 hits the market, for the first time Apple's latest offering will encounter a truly ...

New iPhone Expected from Apple Tuesday

TIME - Rachel Metz - 4 Oct, 2011
(SAN FRANCISCO) â€" Apple Inc. is unveiling a new, more powerful version of its wildly popular smartphone â€" more than a year after it launched the iPhone 4. Last week, Apple Inc. e-mailed invitations to a media ...

Apple Stock Price Lives And Dies With iPhone

Forbes - 4 Oct, 2011
Apple has set the stage for the widely anticipated launch of iPhone 5. The iPhone is the most valuable business for Apple and accounts for over 50% of our $510 price estimate for Apple stock. Hence today's announcement could be an important mover for ...

Live Blog: Apple's 2011 'Let's Talk iPhone' Event

Wired News - Christina Bonnington - 4 Oct, 2011
9:32 am â€" Sadly, the bathrooms are not as cool as I had hoped. Pretty standard, utilitarian. Top marks for cleanliness, however. Rating: A+ 9:17 am â€" An image of the MacBook Air graces one of the upstairs walls as art. Awesome. ...

Live Blogging the Apple iPhone 5 Announcement

New York Times (blog) - Sam Grobart - 4 Oct, 2011
Tech journalists are convening at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., on Tuesday to see what innovations the company has in mind for the iPhone. Logic and history would indicate that the iPhone 5 will be thinner and lighter than ...

Live Blog: Apple Event â€" iPhone Announcement

Wall Street Journal (blog) - 4 Oct, 2011
Apple holds its first major product announcement today at 1 pm ET since Steve Jobs handed the CEO reins to Tim Cook in August. Apple is expected to unveil its next-generation iPhone at the event taking place at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. ...

iPhone 5 Expected to Break Sales Record

PCWorld - Eric Mack - 4 Oct, 2011
Anticipation is always high around the release of a new iPhone, and analysts expect the fifth-generation version of the device to live up to the hype and possibly break sales records. ...

Apple Fans Await New iPhone

The Chosun Ilbo - 4 Oct, 2011
The technology company Apple is expected to announce the launch of a new iPhone Tuesday, but has not said exactly what to expect. The company last week emailed invitations to an event at Apple's Cupertino, California, headquarters. ...

Sprint shares tumble on iPhone cost fears

Reuters - Sinead Carew, John Wallace - 4 Oct, 2011
NEW YORK, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel (SN) shares fell as much as 17 percent on Tuesday as investors worried about the cost of selling the Apple Inc (AAPL.O) iPhone on top of its plans to upgrade its network and its debt obligations. ...

Apple to showcase latest iPhone

Stuff.co.nz - 4 Oct, 2011
HOT PROPERTY: Apple is set to unveil its latest iPhone creation from its headquarters in Silicon Valley today. Apple looks set to unveil a new iPhone today after a 15-month hiatus, hoping to fend off hard-charging rivals running Google's Android and ...

How Many Servers Do the Mobile Companies Need to Support All These iPhones?

The Atlantic - Alexis Madrigal - 4 Oct, 2011
While the big news today will obviously be whatever new gadgets Apple releases, the impacts will fall heavily onto the carriers -- AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint. Because for every 600 smartphones sold, a carrier needs to add ...

Apple talks iPhone 5 â€" live

Financial Times (blog) - Chris Nuttall - 4 Oct, 2011
Steve Jobs may have left the stage, but the device that started a smartphone revolution is in the spotlight again today as Apple is expected to unveil a new version of the iPhone. The putative iPhone 5 is being announced four months later than its ...

newApple readies for iPhone announcement

CBC.ca - 4 Oct, 2011
Beginning of Story Content An advertisement about iPhone is shown before an announcement at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Tuesday. An advertisement about iPhone is shown before an announcement at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., ...

Apple iPhone 5: Live coverage of debut from Cupertino

Los Angeles Times - 4 Oct, 2011
It's been more than a year since the last iPhone came out, and Apple has been working on the iPhone 4's successor. Reporting in real-time from the unveiling at Apple's headquarters, we'll find out what the fifth-generation device looks like, ...

Apple or Google: Who makes the best mobile operating system?

Wall Street Journal - 4 Oct, 2011
As Apple launches the iPhone 5, many smart-phone users are posed to upgrade, while others are evaluating the Android line and seeing a future purchase on that side instead. Which do you think is the better system and smart phone? ...

Apple may only launch an iPhone 4S

CNET - Roger Cheng - 4 Oct, 2011
Apple is expected to show off an upgraded version of its iPhone 4, rather than a radical redesign, according to The Next Web. The iPhone 4S will feature a dual-core A5 processor, an 8-megapixel camera, more definitive GPS features and 1 gigabyte of RAM ...

Why Apple may talk Apple Maps when it talks iPhone

Computerworld (blog) - Jonny Evans - 4 Oct, 2011
Apple [AAPL] seems set to put a lot of things on the map today, quite literally, with some interesting speculation that the company may replace Google Maps with its own Siri/Voice assistant savvy mapping service, one it has been quietly ...

Final iPhone 5 Rumors: Cases for Larger Screens, 3G Speeds?

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 4 Oct, 2011
We're just two hours away from Apple's press event, where it is expected to unveil a new iPhone. But will it be a completely new iPhone 5 or a low-cost version known as the iPhone 4S? And will it be exclusive to Sprint? ...

 

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