The iPhone 5s with fingerprint sensor at $199 ,coming September 20th

iPhone 5S -News and features

iPhone 5s is the most forward-thinking smartphone in the world, delivering desktop class architecture in the palm of your hand,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.
Apple today announced the iPhone 5s, its latest smartphone. It runs iOS 7, with Touch ID™, an innovative way to simply and securely unlock your phone with just the touch of a finger, and looks almost exactly same as the iPhone 5 ,comes with different colors silver, space gray, and gold .

Apple iPhone 5s price and  specifications 

Price 

• 16GB -  $199 
•  32GB - $299
•  64GB  - $399 

Specifications

• A7 chip with 64-bit architecture
• M7 motion coprocessor
• Fingerprint identity sensor built into the Home button
• Retina display
• 4-inch (diagonal) widescreen
• 8 megapixels with 1.5µ pixels (ƒ/2.2 aperture ,Autofocus ,Tap to focus ,Five-element lens)
• 1080p HD video recording , improved video stabilization, Face Time -1.2MP photos (1280 by 960) 720p HD video recording Backside illumination sensor
• Talk time: Up to 10 hours on 3G
• Three-axis gyro Accelerometer , Proximity sensor , Ambient light sensor, Fingerprint identity sensor
• Nano-SIM iPhone 5s is not compatible with existing micro-SIM cards.
• Talk time: Up to 10 hours on 3G

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iPhone 5c - For the colorful -available on September 20th for $99

  iPhone 5C -Available on September 20th for $99

 

Apple  introduce its latest smartphone today at a special event in Cupertino . iPhone 5C comes with green, white, blue, pink, and yellow colors With an all-new design, The back and sides of the device are made from a single part, "this is iPhone as you’ve never seen it — or held it. iPhone 5c is beautifully, unapologetically plastic, the better to bring its five decidedly uncommon colors to life. Beneath the smooth surface of the seamless outer shell, a steel-reinforced frame provides structural integrity. So iPhone 5c feels reassuringly solid in your hand." - Apple.
Apple has also created custom cases , soft-feel silicon rubber that slip onto the handset. priced at $29

Learn more about the features of iPhone 5s

•  4-inch Retina display
• A6 processor.
• iOS 7
•  8-megapixel rear camera
•  improved FaceTime HD camera at the front 
• The 5c also includes support for "more LTE bands that any other smartphone in the world," (this particular iPhone will launch broadly around the world). 

Price Of iPhone 5C

1. 16GB model - $99,
2. 32GB version is priced at $199.

Order the iPhone 5c

Apple will start taking pre-orders for the iPhone 5c on September 13th, and the device will be available in the

• US
•  Australia
•  Canada
•  China
• France
• Germany
• Japan
• Singapore
•  UK on September 20th.

 

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Apple App Store will no longer accept new apps or app updates that access UDIDs

Apple App Store new Announcement-apps using UDIDs will no longer  accepted by the App Store effective May 1

Apple has informed app developers that App store no longer accept apps that acces unique device identifier (UDID -a 40-character code that uniquely identifies each device) after May 1 , more details.  The UDID codes very are important because using UUID developers can  track their applications and Mobile advertising networks also use the UDID codes for advertising purposes Apple requests developers use the new 'Vendor or Advertising identifiers'- introduced in iOS 6.

Must Support IOS retina and iPhone 5's 4-inch display

Apps also be required to support both the Retina display and the iPhone 5's 4-inch display  apple will not support apps that doesnot support retina display, and 4 -inch iphone.

Apple and several app developers are use the UDID to track users across different apps because using UUID developer know which particular iOS device is being used to access their app this violate privacy of user (UDID doesn't specifically identify a user). The sharing of UDIDs between advertising networks this leads to identify the activity and interests of the user.

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Apple take lead over Google in USA

The Battle never ends ,The new smartphone sales records  shows that  iOS back to the number one  in the US. Now Apple has a 48.1% share of  smartphone sales and for Android which has 46.7%  ,in USA.

courtesy :Kantar Worldpanel

Unfortunately in  Europe where Android still takes the lead.  sales in Germany 73.9%  and  81.7% in Spain. How ever in Britain where apple  holds a 32.7% share its very impressive . Germany  one of the  tough market for Apple, share falling by 5.1 percentage over the last  year.  The new  Samsung Galaxy S3 has taken  about 25 %r of the  smartphone sales its very helpful for android.  In Italy Nokia helps Windows , good sales of the Nokia Lumia 610 ( fourth best selling handset over the past 12 weeks)  and the Nokia Lumia 800 ( seventh best selling) this leads  Windows’ share up to 11.7% ( highest across Europe).

The last time iOS overtake Android in the USA  was when the iPhone 4S was released  (49.3%). This time hope  that Apple will beat  previous record and create new record in  the US smartphone market .Now Main reason  -I PHONE 5.

In  US iPhone 5 sales, 62%, have come from existing Apple users,  ie  upgrading to the latest  device, and  also   13 % of users switched from Android to I phone .people switching from BlackBerry devices- 6%,  and a very  small number  new Smartphone owners. Apple has always managed to maintain their service and quality. So  92% of existing Apple owners in the USA said they will choose an iPhone the next time they upgrade. Apples loyalty play key role, its help to  attract new customers  to Apple. approximately  60% of US iPhone 5 sales coming from existing customers and 40% from new customers it shows the  strength of the brand In  USA. main  physical changes on the iPhone 5 was a bigger 4” screen , 4G/LTE capability, both of which had a big impact on the  consumers . 

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