THE TECH-LICIOUS: APPLE LEAKS

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.3104000091553px;">Apple’s September 9 event is just around the corner, but it looks like Cupertino will not have any surprises to show on the mobile side. </span>French website Nowhereelse<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.3104000091553px;"> has released some more screenshots and a video of the 5.5-inch “iPhone Air”, apparently coming this year..</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Rumors of the iPhone Air have been growing in the past week, leading to speculation Apple will not hold off the launch of the 5.5-inch model until 2015. This could mean the iPhone Air will be announced at the September 9 event, alongside the 4.7-inch iPhone 6.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On the design front, the iPhone Air will look identical to the iPhone 6. The bottom will have the same seven hole speaker on the bottom and all of the buttons on the sides. Apple will not add any buttons onto the top of the device, given the larger size of the screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The 5.5-inch iPhone Air will be a direct competitor against the Galaxy Note 4 and other “phablet” products. Apple is obviously chasing after Samsung’s market share and the only way to do this is to offer better products in the same category.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The iPhone Air will have the sapphire crystal screen, full HD display and A8 chipset. The A8 chipset should come with some more processing horsepower, but early reports claim it will still have only 1GB of RAM, a little underwhelming against the Galaxy Note 4’s 3GB of RAM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That being said, iOS has always been an optimised and light mobile operating system, especially against Android. If Apple thinks 1GB of RAM is all they need to power the device, we cannot really argue that point without seeing the phone in action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Adding two new iPhone’s into the market at the same time might be bad for Apple, who have been known to cannibalise their own market. The iPad Mini showed that consumers are willing to completely switch for a cheaper option, and we expect the iPhone Air to be the more expensive of the two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This might mean lacklustre sales for the phablet phone, similar to the iPhone 5C.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">source-<a href="http://news.filehippo.com/2014/09/iphone-air-leaked-video-5-5-inch-display%e2%80%8f/" target="_blank">tech beat</a></span></div>
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I Phone Air Leaked On Video With 5.5-inch Display‏

Apple’s September 9 event is just around the corner, but it looks like Cupertino will not have any surprises to show on the mobile side. French website Nowhereelse has released some more screenshots …

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The photo shows two columns of prices – one for the 4.7" model and one for the 5.5" model. Both <span style="background-color: transparent;">iPhone 6</span>variants will have 3 different internal storage tiers – 16, 32, and 64 GB – same as before. It seems that an earlier rumor that <span style="background-color: transparent;">Apple may add a 128 GB device to the roster</span> is yet to be confirmed, if at all.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">These prices are in HKD, and converting them to USD gives us the following numbers:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Looking at the HK Apple store page and converting the iPhone 5S price tags to USD, we can see that the current smartphone goes for around between $70 and $80 more in Hong Kong, depending on the tier. Keeping that in mind, we can guesstimate prices for the iPhone 6 to be at:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Of course, we are talking retail prices here – without contract. From these numbers, we can see that the 5.5" iPhone 6 will be quite the premium device, the 16 GB model starting at ~$50 above an 11" MacBook Air, and the top-tier 64 GB one costing ~$150 shy of a bottom-of-the-line 13” Retina MacBook Pro. Or, to put things in perspective, a 4G-capable iPad Air with 128 GB of storage currently costs $929.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If these prices are true, Apple seems really optimistic about the demand for the new, large screen iPhones. What do you make of these numbers?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">source-<a href="http://www.phonearena.com/news/iPhone-6-prices-for-all-models-leaked_id60138" target="_blank">phonearena</a></span></div>
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iPhone 6 prices for all models leaked

Blogger TK Tech News has gotten a hold of a snapshot of what the upcoming iPhone models might cost. The photo comes all the way from Hong Kong, so, assuming it is accurate, the final pricing may be s…