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Apple Special Event Roundup

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:18:34 GMT

So it's been and gone and here is what's new - or what matters. Your choice. Here it goes

iOS 9.3 - Available today. Brings Night Shift, secure notes etc.

iPhone SE - Same size and design as the iPhone 5s. Also brings rose gold as a colour option. Has the A9 processor and Apple Pay (NFC) on board. In 16(aka waste of time)GB and 64GB.

iPad Pro 9.7' - iPad Pro in a smaller frame. Simple. What to know what the iPad Pro is like. Read my review. Adds 256GB to the mix. The 256GB comes to the iPad Pro 12.9' as well.

Apple Watch - New Straps. Next!

That's about everything of significance.

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Anonymous — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:22:16 GMT

Nearly forgot. Both the iPhone SE and iPad Pro 9.7' go up for preorder on the 24th March and are released on the 31st March.

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adamtemp64 — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:37:02 GMT

I have found night shift very good being on the beta programme on my iPhone 6s lets see how it works on my iPad Air 2 later

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viridis — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:40:10 GMT

The funny thing is, the ridiculous prices for the apple straps are truly amazing lmao.

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Anonymous — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:45:39 GMT

Got to agree with you viridis.

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jonsie — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:45:44 GMT

And the people are fooled and buy into it....hallelujah and all praise the mighty Apple label. Joke isn't it....?

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Cleoriff — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:52:44 GMT

Also I cant see much point to the iPhone SE? They will release another flagship device in September so seems a bit of an irrelevant money spinning promotion....

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Anonymous — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:03:23 GMT

Again, have to agree. Why not release one when they release the iPhone 7. iPhone 7 mini, 7 and pro. Boom!

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Anonymous — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:22:29 GMT

So it's a faster iPhone 5S then? Not a 4 inch screen?

ill download 9.3 to my iPhone 6 soon

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Anonymous — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:50:18 GMT

Should be as fast as the 6s. No mention of the amount of RAM though.

Yea, it's a 4 inch screen.

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Anonymous — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:51:07 GMT

I'll pass on it

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Anonymous — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 21:13:58 GMT

Mostly what I was expecting.

Bit confused as to why the SE didn’t have the same body design as the iPhone 6, so as to keep the iPhone design consistent all the way across the board. Definitely think that its good to have a 4 inch iPhone in the range, as some people do hate large screen smartphones (although I’m not one of them).

Most confusing part of the keynote was about the new 9.7 inch iPad Pro.
I found the iPad Pro 9.7 inch a bit confusing. Having a higher megapixel camera on the 9.7 inch compared to the 12.9 inch doesn’t make sense to me. Also, using the True Tone display and giving the 9.7 inch iPad a wider colour gamut, really confuses me. Easiest thing would have been to have given them identical specs and the only thing to differ between the 12.9 inch and the 9.7 inch should have just been the screen size. Its like they are two different models, when really they aren’t, as they share the same name.

Wasn’t too keen on the nylon Apple Watch straps. Out of all the Apple Watches, I find the Sports model looks cheap with the rubber strap, and the nylon strap didn’t change my opinion. I have seen the Apple Watches in the Apple Store and I did think the stainless steel Apple Watch with the stainless steel strap was beautifully designed but about £400 too expensive. As much as I like my Apple stuff, I’m not convinced on the Smart Watch idea, just not for me.

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viridis — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 01:49:21 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Bit confused as to why the SE didn’t have the same body design as the iPhone 6, so as to keep the iPhone design consistent.

Not often I agree, but that rings very true. They praised the design of the 6's so why not at least try to maintain consistency?

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Toby — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:20:11 GMT

Great round-ups @Anonymous and @Anonymous, nicely done.

How is 9.3 performing? Anyone using it yet?

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Anonymous — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:25:59 GMT

@Toby wrote:
Great round-ups @Anonymous and @Anonymous, nicely done.

How is 9.3 performing? Anyone using it yet?

Seems fine Toby, no issues to report. I can't see me using the Night Shift mode as I tend to not use my iPhone late in the evening.

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Anonymous — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:29:23 GMT

@viridis wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:

Bit confused as to why the SE didn’t have the same body design as the iPhone 6, so as to keep the iPhone design consistent.
Not often I agree, but that rings very true. They praised the design of the 6's so why not at least try to maintain consistency?

At the end of the day, the body design is the same as the 5s, which is a 3 year old design/phone. Maybe its my OCD side but I would have liked to have seen the iPhone range all sharing the same body design.

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adamtemp64 — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 10:35:51 GMT

@Toby 9.3 has been fine for me on all the betas and fine on full version .

nightshift is very pleasing on the eyes

now to wait for next beta trial !

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Toby — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:28:46 GMT

Good to know Adam!

Do you simply apply to be part of the BETA trial, or do you need to contribute to the Apple community in some way first?

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PhoneChanger — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:25:12 GMT

@Toby Apple's current BETA program for iOS can be accessed by anyone with an Apple device, you do not need to be a member of the community, etc to access (at least at the moment anyway)

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Anonymous — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:21:47 GMT

9.3 no issues so far @Toby