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VIDEO: Top 6 iPhone 6 Concepts

Today we came across a video by TechRadar showing what they believe to be the best iPhone 6 concepts. If you don’t know what a concept is, it’s simply a fan made design / idea of what the phone will look like, as well as features it may have. Obviously none of these designs in the video are official. This should hold you over until we get some solid updates on Apple’s next iPhone.

Fingerprint scanner

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New iPhone includes fingerprint scanner in the home button

APPLE’S latest software release has confirmed rumours of a fingerprint scanner in the new iPhone 5S.

Discovery of a folder labelled ‘Biometric Kit’ hidden in iOS7 has lent proof to rumours that Apple’s next iPhone will feature a fingerprint sensor.

If the rumours are true then a scanner will be built into the home button in order to confirm the user’s identity for possible iTunes payments, unlocking the phone and even signing into Facebook and other apps.

The extra security of fingerprint recognition would be a useful crime deterrent as the iconic iPhone is a preferred target for muggers.

Apple is known for launching each version of the iPhone with a new killer feature, such as Siri, to lure punters into upgrading.

Fingerprint scanners could be the next trick up Apple’s sleeve.

 

The computer code discovered by a London programmer includes the giveaway phrase: “A fingerprint that changes colour during the setup process.”
Apple is also said to be working on a new "classic" cheaper plastic mobile called the iPhone 5C to help it compete against lower end Android handsets in emerging markets.
Whether the plastic iPhone will include a fingerprint scanner or it will be reserved for a separate premium model is not yet known.
The fingerprint scanner rumours began last year when Apple purchased the company AuthenTec, who produce hardware including fingerprint sensors.
Apple’s new iPhone models are expected to be released in September.

 

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A look, a touch. And you have all the functions you need. Straightaway!

With i’m Watch you can do things you can’t do with just your smartphone. Because, with it on your wrist, your hands are free. When necessary, press the touchscreen display for maximum use of your smartphone functions, linked via Bluetooth. Here are just some of the many available:

Calls

If you receive a call, you can see who’s calling, wherever you left your smartphone. Make a call straight from your i’m Watch by dialing the number or selecting a contact from your Address book.

SMS

Receive and read your texts directly on your i’m Watch display. Think later about how to reply.

E-mail

Don’t miss a single e-mail: Mail is perfect for managing your e-mail in any situation.

Appointments

Not just any old calendar but a complete management system for events and appointments, synced with your schedule.

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Who is this guy?

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (/ˈdʒɒbz/; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he is widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields, transforming "one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies". Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and, one year later, the Macintosh. He also played a role in introducing the LaserWriter, one of the first widely available laser printers, to the market.

After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, which was spun off as Pixar.[14] He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He served as CEO and majority shareholder until Disney's purchase of Pixar in 2006.[15] In 1996, after Apple had failed to deliver its operating system, Copland, Gil Amelio turned to NeXT Computer, and the NeXTSTEP platform became the foundation for the Mac OS X.[16] Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor, and took control of the company as an interim CEO. Jobs brought Apple from near bankruptcy to profitability by 1998.

As the new CEO of the company, Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and on the services side, the company's Apple Retail Stores, iTunes Store and the App Store. The success of these products and services provided several years of stable financial returns, and propelled Apple to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company in 2011. The reinvigoration of the company is regarded by many commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in business history.

In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreas neuroendocrine tumor. Though it was initially treated, he reported a hormone imbalance, underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared progressively thinner as his health declined.On medical leave for most of 2011, Jobs resigned in August that year, and was elected Chairman of the Board. He died of respiratory arrest related to his tumor on October 5, 2011.

Jobs received a number of honors and public recognition for his influence in the technology and music industries. He has been referred to as "legendary", a "futurist" or simply "visionary", and has been described as the "Father of the Digital Revolution", a "master of innovation", "the master evangelist of the digital age"and a "design perfectionist".

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Samsung trumps Apple sparking calls for low-cost iPhone

Samsung has taken Apple's crown as the world's most profitable mobile handset vendor, according to new research, as analysts called on Apple to release a low-cost version of the iPhone to boost its global growth.

Samsung's operating profit for its handset division stood at $5.2 billion in the second quarter of 2013, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, compared to Apple's estimated iPhone operating profit of $4.6 billion. It marks the first time the Korean firm has overtaken its U.S. rival.

"Apple's reign as the world's most profitable handset vendor lasted almost four years, from [the third quarter of] 2009 to [the first quarter of] 2013," Neil Mawston, the executive director at Strategy Analytics, said on Friday. "Apple's profit margin for its handset division has been fading recently due to lackluster iPhone 5 volumes and tougher competition from rivals."

(Read More: Smartphone saturation stats may prove Apple wrong)

Samsung continued to dominate global mobile shipments, the research firm said, shipping 107 million phones worldwide in the second quarter - a 15 percent increase on the same quarter last year. This gave the company a 28 percent market share, solidifying its first-place lead. Apple's shipments increased by 20 percent to 31.2 million from last year, ranking it in third place in terms of global market share, behind Nokia.

When looking at just smartphones, the news was a gloomier for Apple, with its global market share decreasing to 13.6 percent from 16.6 percent in the second quarter of 2012, according to the research. By comparison, Samsung, LG, ZTE and Huawei all increased their market share of smartphone shipments.

Strategy Analytics' statistics were backed up by data from the International Data Corporation (IDC), also released on Friday. Apple posted its second-lowest year-on-year iPhone growth rate in almost four years, according to IDC, which said some buyers may have held off from buying iPhones in anticipation of an expected next-generation device launch this Fall.

(Read More: Apple investors bet cheap iPhone can offset China)

Both IDC and Strategy Analytics urged Apple to launch a lower cost iPhone to accelerate global growth and continue to penetrate prepaid markets in the quarters to come.

"Apple's share of the mobile phone market is struggling to break through the 10 percent ceiling into double figures, and it will only be able to achieve this on a sustainable basis if it adds new iPhone models at lower price-points or with bigger screens in the future," Strategy Analytics' Mawston said.

"The current iPhone portfolio is under-performing and Apple is at risk of being trapped in a pincer movement between rival 3-inch Android models at the low-end and 5-inch Android models at the high-end."

Steven Pelayo, regional head of technology research for Asia-Pacific at HSBC, told CNBC there had been a lot of speculation about a low cost iPhone which – if it comes - could make up the majority of the fourth-quarter shipments for Apple.

"They really do need to have a low-cost product… with a plastic case, instead of a metal one, [and] some other ways to save some cost there," he said on Wednesday.

(Read More: An 'emerging' threat to Samsung, and it's not Apple)

More broadly, the global smartphone market posted its highest annual growth rate in five quarters, according to IDC. Vendors shipped 237.9 million units in the second quarter, compared with 156.2 million units in the same quarter of 2012 – an increase of over 50 percent. 

"The smartphone market is still a rising tide that's lifting many ships," Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst at IDC, said on Friday. "Though Samsung and Apple are the dominant players, the market is as fragmented as ever. There is ample opportunity for smartphone vendors with differentiated offerings."

The mobile phone market as a whole grew 6 percent year on year in the second quarter of 2013, IDC added.

—By CNBC.com's Matt Clinch. Follow him on Twitter 

@mattclinch81

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iPhone 5S

The iPhone 5 is beginning to look a little long in the tooth against the rest of the best phones around, so it's no wonder we're hearing a lot of information about a successor. In keeping with Apple's naming convention we've no doubt this will predictably, and rather boringly, be called the iPhone 5S.

The early arrival of the iPad 4 and the iPad mini - just eight months after the release of the iPad 3 in March - has meant that Apple still has the ability to surprise so the mooted release date for the next iPhone is still up for debate.

Nevertheless it's most likely that the iPhone 5S will hit stores in the latter part of 2013, following the trend set by the iPhone 5 and 4S. It's even possible that Apple will skip the iPhone 5S and hop right on to the iPhone 6, though there is little

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1981–85: Lisa and Macintosh

Apple began working on the Apple Lisa in 1978. In 1982, Jobs was pushed from the Lisa team due to infighting. Jobs took over Jef Raskin's low-cost-computer project, the Macintosh. A race broke out between the Lisa team and the Macintosh team over which product would ship first. Lisa won the race in 1983 and became the first personal computer sold to the public with a GUI, but was a commercial failure due to its high price tag and limited software titles.

In 1984, Apple next launched the Macintosh. Its debut was announced by the now famous $1.5 million television commercial "1984". It was directed by

Ridley Scott and was aired during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984. It is now hailed as a watershed event for Apple's success and a "masterpiece".

The Macintosh initially sold well, but follow-up sales were not strong due to its high price and limited range of software titles. The Macintosh was the first personal computer to be sold without a programming language at all.

The machine's fortunes changed with the introduction of the LaserWriter, the first PostScript laser printer to be sold at a reasonable price, and PageMaker, an early desktop publishing package. It has been suggested that the combination of these three products was responsible for the creation of the desktop publishing market. The Mac was particularly powerful in the desktop publishing market due to its advanced graphics capabilities, which had necessarily been built in to create the intuitive Macintosh GUI.

In 1985 a power struggle developed between Jobs and CEO John Sculley, who had been hired two years earlier. The Apple board of directors instructed Sculley to "contain" Jobs and limit his ability to launch expensive forays into untested products. Rather than submit to Sculley's direction, Jobs attempted to oust him from his leadership role at Apple. Sculley found out that Jobs had been attempting to organize a coup and called a board meeting at which Apple's board of directors sided with Sculley and removed Jobs from his managerial duties. Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT Inc. the same year.

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1976–80: Founding and incorporation

Apple was established on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to sell the Apple I personal computer kit, a computer single handedly designed by Wozniak. The kits were hand-built by Wozniak and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club. The Apple I was sold as a motherboard (with CPU, RAM, and basic textual-video chips), which is less than what is today considered a complete personal computer. The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 and was market-priced at $666.66 ($2,690 in 2013 dollars, adjusted for inflation).

Apple was incorporated January 3, 1977, without Wayne, who sold his share of the company back to Jobs and Wozniak for $800. Multi-millionaire Mike Markkula provided essential business expertise and funding of $250,000 during the incorporation of Apple.

The Apple II, also invented by Wozniak, was introduced on April 16, 1977, at the first West Coast Computer Faire. It differed from its major rivals, the TRS-80 and Commodore PET, due to its character cell-based color graphics and an open architecture. While early models used ordinary cassette tapes as storage devices, they were superseded by the introduction of a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive and interface, the Disk II.

The Apple II was chosen to be the desktop platform for the first "killer app" of the business world, VisiCalc, a spreadsheet program. VisiCalc created a business market for the Apple II and gave home users compatibility with the office, an additional reason to buy an Apple II.Apple was a distant third place to Commodore and Tandy until VisiCalc came along.

By the end of the 1970s, Apple had a staff of computer designers and a production line. The company introduced the Apple III in May 1980 in an attempt to compete with IBM and Microsoft in the business and corporate computing market.

Jobs and several Apple employees, including Jef Raskin, visited Xerox PARC in December 1979 to see the Xerox Alto. Xerox granted Apple engineers three days of access to the PARC facilities in return for the option to buy 100,000 shares (800,000 split-adjusted shares) of Apple at the pre-IPO price of $10 a share. Jobs was immediately convinced that all future computers would use a graphical user interface (GUI), and development of a GUI began for the Apple Lisa.

On December 12, 1980, Apple went public at $22 per share, generating more capital than any IPO since Ford Motor Company in 1956 and instantly creating more millionaires (about 300) than any company in history.

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When something is designed to work beautifully,

it tends to look that way, too.

Nothing we’ve ever created has been designed just to look beautiful. That’s approaching the opportunity from the wrong end. Instead, as we reconsidered iOS, our purpose was to create an experience that was simpler, more useful, and more enjoyable — while building on the things people love about iOS. Ultimately, redesigning the way it works led us to redesign the way it looks. Because good design is design that’s in service of the experience.

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Capable of great things.

And all the little everyday things, too 

iOS 7 introduces great new features like Control Center, AirDrop for iOS, and smarter multitasking. It also makes the things you do every day even easier, faster, and more enjoyable. And while many of the apps look different, the way you do things feels perfectly familiar. So from day one, you know how to use the world’s most advanced mobile OS.In its most advanced form.

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iOS 7 started with a desire to take an experience people love and make it better. To make it even simpler, more useful, and more enjoyable — but still feel instantly familiar. The design of iOS 7 is beautiful because it’s all of those things. And it’s the start of a new chapter for iOS.

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