20: 12 MegaPickle FaceTime

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 17, 2019
Clay, John & Vic are back to discuss Apple’s 2019 September iPhone Event

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Topic: Apple September iPhone Event 2019

  • Apple Arcade
    • September 19th 100+ games in coming weeks, 150 countries?
    • $4.99/month Family subscription (1 month free trial)
  • Apple TV+
    • “See” TV Show preview
    • November 1st, first few shows, few additional each month, 100 countries at launch
    • $4.99/month for the Family
    • If you buy an iPad, iPhone, Mac or AppleTV you get 1 year free
  • iPad
    • 9.7” 6th Ten iPad now uses 10.2” Retina display
    • Smart Connector
    • $329 starting price, 30th September
  • Series 5 Apple Watch
    • Always on display
    • LTPO Low Temperature Poly-silicon Oxide Display 1Hz to 60Hz refresh rate
    • 18 hour battery life
    • S5 Chip, 640bit 2x faster, W3 wireless
    • Still only 2.4GHz WiFi b/g/n - no 5GHz
    • Bluetooth 5.0
    • Built in compass, with complication
    • 32GB Capacity
    • New Titanium Model, natural finish with a space grey finish too
    • Titanium Advantages:
      • Not ferro-magnetic
      • Lighter than Steel and stronger by thickness
      • It is softer on Mohs scale of hardness and hence is more scratch prone than Stainless Steel
      • It doesn’t contain Nickel - which is a big problem for a lot of people that wear Stainless Steel, silver or gold jewellery
    • New Nike sport bands
    • New Hermes Colour bands, including Space Black and Black Leather bands
    • Sport / Nike GPS $399, GPS
    • Sport / Nike GPS + Cellular $499 in stores September 20th
    • Sport S3 still around $199 with GPS only
    • Stainless GPD + Cellular $699
    • Edition Titanium $799
    • Edition Ceramic is back at $1,299
    • Hermes Stainless Steel at $1,299 in either Stainless or Space Black Stainless
    • Pricing for the 40mm (formerly known as 38mm)
    • Add $30 USD for the 44mm / 42mm models
    • Apple Watch Studio!
      • Finally you can configure the watch and the band however you like (no extra cost)
  • iPhone 11
    • 6 colours: purple white yellow green black red
    • 64GB, 128GB, 256GB
    • 6.1” Liquid Retina (like xr)
    • Wide and Ultra-Wide lens
    • Night Mode, uses adaptive bracketing to try and capture more light without introducing blur
    • 12MP FaceTime front camera with a wider sensor
    • 4K @60 on the front, including Slow Mo
    • A13 Bionic
    • 1hr more battery than 10r
    • From $699
  • iPhone 11 Pro
    • Three cameras: Telephoto 52mm f2.0, Wide 26mm f/1.8; Ultra-Wide 13mm f/2.4
    • Deep Fusion Photography / able to adjust picture tone, colour etc in video editing on the phone
    • Midnight Green, Space Grey, Silver, Gold Colours
    • 64GB, 256GB, 512GB
    • 5.8” and 6.5” 458 ppi
    • OLED 2M:1 contrast, 1200 nits (so many more nits) 15% more energy efficient
    • Super Retina XDR Display
    • 4 more hours, max 5 more hours over last years, also fast charger
    • $999 Pro, $1099 Pro Max
    • Shipping September 20th
    • $599 iPhone Xr 64GB, 128GB, iPhone 8/8P 64GB, 128GB $449

Hosts

Clay Daly

Clay Daly

CW (aka Clay) the father, husband, photographer, podcaster, human, these are some words that define me. Clay’s other podcast can be found at Cybrcast.

John Chidgey

John Chidgey

John is an Electrical, Instrumentation and Control Systems Engineer, programmer, podcaster and runs TechDistortion and the Engineered Network. John has produced and appeared on many podcasts as well as Pragmatic.

Vic Hudson

Vic Hudson

Vic is the host of the App Story Podcast and cohost of most things BubbleSort.