The Apple Beat: Apple's 2013 iPhone strategy

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Cupertino, CA - Apple released the new iPhones here this week at an intimate media event in their Apple Campus auditorium.

Apple CEO Tim Cook set things up by announcing that there were now over 700 million iOS devices in the market today and then passed the stage to senior VP of software engineering Craig Federighi, who ran through iOS 7.

iOS 7 is expected to be available for free to users on September 18 and will work for iPhone 4 and later, iPad 2 and later, iPad mini and iPod touch (fifth generation). Some features may not be available on all products.

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September 27 is the day for LG G2 to launch in Canada

LG has let us know that starting September 27, Canadians can get their hands on the much anticipated LG G2, the first smartphone introduced under the new LG series “G” slated for premium devices and the successor to the Optimus G.

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Nokia Lumia 1020 "coming soon" to TELUS

While most OEM's are pushing the boundaries of screen size and processing power in their devices, Nokia is sticking to their guns and pushing the boundaries on the amount of megapixels they can pack into their smartphone cameras; this time around it's 41 to be exact. And while Nokia did recently announce that this anticipated device would be coming to Canada by way of TELUS and Rogers, not much else was known in regards to pricing or release date.

The Lumia 1020 packs a 4.5-inch 1280×768 LCD display, 1.5Ghz dual-core Snapdragon S4 Plus processor, 41MP PureView camera with Xenon Flash, LTE connectivity, 2GB RAM, 32GB internal storage, 1.2MP front-facing camera and a 2,000mAh battery.

While, sorry to tease, we still don't have anything in regards to said pricing or release date, we do know that the device is indeed coming soon (as per the screenshot taken from TELUS' website directly). 

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Intel helping to usher in the Internet of Things with new chip

Intel aims to be at the forefront of the next computing wave with its newly announced Quark chip. It’s a sub-Atom System on a Chip (SoC) that the company is positioning as useful for wearable computers, robotics, and the growing industrial Internet of Things or internet-connected products such as cars, appliances, and even buildings.

According to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, it is a 32-bit, single-core, single-thread chip that is one-fifth the size of the Atom processor and uses one-tenth of that power. The first product set for production later this year is the Quark X1000 SoC (previously codenamed as Clanton).

Sources: PC Mag & Tech News World