“Let’s talk iPhone” event: 4th October

With all the rummors about iPhone launching the 5th Gen version of the touch screen device a lot of people are wondering what can they possibly add to this one that will make it worth spending more money upgrading from one of the earlier versions. Truth is no one knows yet, other than the designers and developers and probably a handful of testers, execs, marketing people and so on. Actually the list of people who do know is quite big. But with their careers on the line if something were to be leaked before schedule its safe to say they will be on edge till the release.

Luckily Apple has announced a media event set for today the 4th of October 2011, a day like may before, the event has even been given a slogan Lets talk iPhone. I have a feeling it might be about the new iPhone.

What follows is a list of the potential new features that most likely will be apart of the new iPhone 5.

New Features:

• New Design
  • Most likely the new design will increase the size of the viewable screen while slimming the unusable edge area of the phone. Also rummors have it that because of the gestures control upgrade the home button might become a thing of the past. This could free up more room for the larger screen.

• More Power
  • Hopefully they will be adding the A5 processor that runs the iPad 2 or if were lucky some kind of new advanced super processor that will never need upgrading.

• iOS 5
  • iOS 5 is the new operating system deveoped by apple for the iPad and iPhone
  • Offers notifications pushed to your devices, all located in a single notifications center
  • iMessage will allow users to text any other user on an iOS 5 device, Free.
  • Newsstand is basically a apple book store for your news and magizines subscriptions.
  • Reminders have a new look and a lot of new features.
  • Complete twitter integration, you can tweet from all native apps within the device.
  • PC Free – now when you buy an iPhone or iPad you dont need a PC or mac to activate it. All updates and sync will be done using wi-fi or 3G. (I like this)
  • more info available here: http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html

• iCloud
  • This in my opinion is the greatest leap forward for mobile technology. Mobile technology was designed to allow users to stay connected and work from anywhere at anytime. iCloud offers users exactly that with out the effort of saving files to USB or Emailing docuements. In the words of Apple   Its the effortless way to access just about everything on all your devices. iCloud stores your content so its always accessible from your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, or PC.* It gives you instant access to your music, apps, latest photos, and more. And it keeps your email, contacts, and calendars up to date across all your devices. No syncing required. No management required.
  • More info available here: http://www.apple.com/icloud

Upgraded Features:

• New Camera
  • An 8 MP camera with dual flash on the rear means higher resolution pictures, greater quality and most notably, greater quality in low-light pictures where the red-eye occurs

• Voice Recognition
  • Apple recently acquired a voiced-based virtual assistant platform that integrates a better voice recognition system than previously available. Never really used the voice recognition so dont have much to say about that.
• Gesture Controls
  • With iOS 5 the gesture controls have been upgraded for accessibility and easy of use. Hopefully there will be a few interesting changes.

So some nice possibilities there but we wont know for sure until later today. Keep an eye out here as I update the situation as news is released.