Apple Rolls Out CarPlay Giving Drivers a Smarter, Safer & More Fun Way to Use iPhone in the Car
Apple today announced that leading auto manufacturers are rolling out CarPlay, the smarter, safer and more fun way to use iPhone in the car. CarPlay gives iPhone users an incredibly intuitive way to make calls, use Maps, listen to music and access messages with just a word or a touch. Users can easily control CarPlay from the car’s native interface or just push-and-hold the voice control button on the steering wheel to activate Siri without distraction. Vehicles from Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will premiere CarPlay to their drivers this week, while additional auto manufacturers bringing CarPlay to their drivers down the road include BMW Group, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai Motor Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia…
Brand New Section For TheAppWhisperer – Utilising Your DSLR/Mirrorless/Medium Format Cameras With Apps!
We’re very excited to launch a brand new section to TheAppWhisperer today, this section will be entitled Photo Tool Apps and essentially help you operate and utilize your DSLR’s, mirrorless and medium/large format cameras with specialised apps. We have covered these in the past, infact I was the first Professional Journalist to write about them for dpreview back in 2011, see here and I have mentioned them here of course. But now we are dedicating a complete section to this invaluable area. Mobile Photography encompasses many aspects, it’s not only about taking and editing images with your smartphone and of course this is an essential area that we already focus on…
Amazing iPhone Video Shot by Apple to Celebrate the Mac’s 30th Birthday
Take a look at this amazing Apple video, shot only with iPhone’s to celebrate the Mac’s 30th birthday. ‘Thirty years ago Macintosh promised to put technology in the hands of the people. To celebrate Mac’s birthday, this film was shot around the world in one day, entirely on iPhone. Here’s to the next thirty’, Apple. Hopefully this will inspire you to create more mobile videos and add them to our Mobile Movies Flickr Group – here – for inclusion in our Mobile Movies Column – here.
Apple App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013
Apple today announced that customers spent over $10 billion on the App Store in 2013, including over $1 billion in December alone. App Store customers downloaded almost three billion apps in December making it the most successful month in App Store history. Apple’s incredible developers have now earned $15 billion on the App Store. “We’d like to thank our customers for making 2013 the best year ever for the App Store,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “The line up of apps for the holiday season was astonishing and we look forward to seeing what developers create in 2014.” With the introduction of iOS 7, developers…
Apple US Offering Gift Cards With Black Friday Deals – Apple UK Offering Direct Discounts
Well, it seems that different Apple stores around the world are offering slightly different deals this Black Friday. In the US, Apple are offer Gift Cards to relieve the full price on some of their products. Examples include a $75 gift card offered with a $499 iPad Air. In the UK things are slightly different today, you will receive a direct saving instead. So, you can pick up an £399 iPad Air for £368, a saving in your pocket of £31. Check out all the savings from these links below: UK Apple Store US Apple Store US Apple Store UK Apple Store
Apple Announces iPad Air and Upto 128 GB Storage
Apple yesterday announced iPad Air, the latest generation of its category-defining device, featuring a 9.7-inch Retina display in a thinner and lighter design and weighing just one pound. The new iPad model features the powerful and power-efficient Apple-designed A7 chip with 64-bit desktop-class architecture, ultrafast wireless with faster built-in Wi-Fi and expanded LTE cellular connectivity, and iOS 7 featuring hundreds of great new features. “iPad created an entirely new mobile computing experience, and the new iPad Air is another big leap ahead,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “It is so thin, light and powerful, once you hold one in your hand you will understand what…
The Ten Greatest Rumours About Tomorrow’s Apple Event
Mashable have trawled the internet and brought together a collection of the ten greatest rumours expected to come from the Apple Event tomorrow. The main rumours centre around the launch of two new iPads, the iPad 5 and iPad Mini 2. I confess I love my iPad Mini and only wish it had a Retina display, it looks like that might be being announced tomorrow or maybe not.. I also adore my iPad but if it would run faster I’d love it even more and if Apple put the super fast iPhone 5S A7 chip into the newer model, that would be perfect, we’ll see… Improved camera? Oh yes, always!…
iPhone 5s Overview – Kevin Carter Reviews For DxO Mark & DPReview
Kevin Carter our Head of Technical Hardware as well as the Lead Technical Editor for DxO Mark and the British Journal of Photography among others, recently as tested the Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone, we mentioned that here. Kevin has also reviewed the Apple iPhone 5s too. Kevin says, ‘With a DxOMark Mobile score of 76 the Apple iPhone 5s ranks in second place to the inspirational Nokia 808 Pureview, and ahead of other notable camera-phones including the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the previous iPhone 5, which score 75 and 72 points in our smartphone rankings’. To read more of that review, go here. To read on dpreview including Kevin’s scientific…
iPhone 5s & iPhone 5c Arrive in Italy, Russia, Spain & More Than 25 Countries on Friday, October 25
Apple today announced iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c will be available in Italy, Russia, Spain and more than 25 additional countries on Friday, October 25. iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c will also be available in more than a dozen countries on Friday, November 1, including India and Mexico. iPhone 5s redefines the best smartphone experience in the world with amazing new features all packed into a remarkable thin and light design, including the Apple-designed A7 64-bit chip, all-new 8 megapixel iSight camera with True Tone flash and introducing Touch ID, an innovative way to simply and securely unlock your phone with just the touch of a finger. iPhone 5c features…
Interesting Slow-Mo iPhone 5s Videos
We were pleased to discover this post on CNET (a site that our Head of Technical Hardware, Kevin Carter, also used to contribute to). With the new slo-mo feature in the iPhone 5s and over 9 million new handsets sold in the first weekend, we’re hoping to see a lot more of these. CNET have collected together 15 ‘must see’ videos. We have a dedicated Mobile Movies Flickr group and each week Donna Donato curates and presents a wonderful post with commentary on each video. We’d love for you to send your videos here, so we can include them too. To view the CNET picked videos, go here
