Live Coverage of Apple's iPhone 5 Media Event [Event Over]

[FSUSem1noles]

So far the best part of this keynote is the free turn by turn directions and that's in iOS 6...

L-E-T-D-O-W-N..

 

[linkgx1]

Who cares, they never said they were first to anything.. some people are really annoying when Apple announces new stuff

Um.....then what is the lawsuit they filed against Samsung about again?

 

[samcraig]

VIP inbox? Another "amazing breakthrough" ?

 

[lilo777]

Panoramic better be added to the 4S with ios6. no reason to make a silly thing only be iphone 5

Not gonna happen. This feature requires three microphones which only iPhone 5 has

 

[sebastiannz]

Camera looks kinda cool but not the leap I was expecting. Ain't it just matching the S3 now?

I think price is going to be key... if Apple wants to charge an arm and a leg for this there is going to be some...annoyed people out there.

 

[CSpackler]

The way they present it, it's as if every little thing is something revolutionary. But the reality is most of the stuff has been in the real world for years.

It's called marketing.

 

[Icaras]

AAPL almost up a whole 1%. Funny reading the doom and gloom posts earlier.

 

[BoxerGT2.5]

I don't think I recall the phone being placed in landscape mode this much during other events.

 

[Frankied22]

"You see we're able to add a 5th row of icons." - Best quote from the Apple event. lolololol

 

[Raftysworld]

Regardless of how you feel about the iPhone itself, it cannot be denied that this is a FAR more boring and underwhelming announcement/event than Apple is typically known for

 

[pyrotekniks]

No surprises.

Nothing wowing me

That's what happens when you check macrumors every day. Nothing to be surpsied about.

 

[ristlin]

Yes, because this site hasn't done the work. It's lazy journalism. You might happy with slap dash crap but not everyone is.

On the occasions when they have done their own research the stuff has been brilliant - the Retina display for the iPad comes to mind.

So by your own admission they do their own research and sometimes quote other articles, but doesn't plagiarize. That's journalism. Get a grip.

 

[MMOTotal]

Um.....then what is the lawsuit they filed against Samsung about again?

Never looked at any of that as it doesn't matter to me.

 

[cwwilson]

So where's the white iPhone? Are they going to make us wait again like the 4?

 

[pk7]

AAPL is at $666....

 

[hbkslick1016]

Oh look the stock is up .75%... what happened to all the people who were talking about it tanking?

 

[MMOTotal]

So where's the white iPhone? Are they going to make us wait again like the 4?

They will show it at the end.

 

[Dusky600]

OMG so far every rumour has been totally true ! even the shredding machine bit ! Apple is doubling down on secrecy and steve would never have allowed it, but safari looks snapier!

 

[jrswizzle]

Anyone notice Siri uses Yahoo to check scores?

 

[KPOM]

So that's it for the phone's hardware? Well, that was underwhelming.

Hmm. A CPU 2x as fast. A GPU 2x as fast. World-band LTE. A higher resolution screen with better saturation and contrast. An improved camera. Better battery life. 20% lighter. 18% Thinner. Smaller than its predecessor. Yeah, that was underwhelming.

Now if they had just taken the 4S and stuck a 5" screen, that would have been revolutionary!.

 

[mohsy90]

i like the siri updates showing the scoreboard for football games

 

[teknikal90]

just came here from the verge's live blog.
is anyone else underwhelmed? the only interesting fature i see is the A6...wish it was on my ipad 3...

 

[gugy]

people whining again.
The funny thing is this might very well be the fastest selling or most sold iPhone ever.

 

[F123D]

Regardless of how you feel about the iPhone itself, it cannot be denied that this is a FAR more boring and underwhelming announcement/event than Apple is typically known for

I don't know.. last years was pretty dissapointing.

 

[Exio]

It's called marketing.

You can't base your whole marketing campaign off things like that though. Apple always does this.