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One less thing. Reversing the iconic Steve Jobs phrase, this sums up Apple’s premiere on Tuesday night, which also introduced new watches and new tablets, but not the iPhone, which is scheduled to arrive in September. In return, there is also a cheaper novelty of the Apple Watch and the iPad.

The first novelty of the online demo, again held after the Apple event in June, is the Apple Watch Series 6. The watch’s capabilities were primarily affected by health engineers. Thanks to the improved sensor, this smartwatch can now detect blood oxygen levels using red and infrared light. It takes 15 seconds to determine the value. The company is also working to make the feature capable of raising suspicions of a coronavirus, but that’s just a plan for now.

Behind the main novelty and other features is an S6 processor based on the A13 Bionic chip, which according to the company allows a 20 percent speed increase over the previous clock. (Which, by the way, was the same as the quad series processor introduced in 2018 in terms of power, so users of the Apple Watch 4 or Apple Watch 5 will feel the change similarly.)

Apple Watch Series 6

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The new class will run watchOS 7, already presented at the WWDC Developer Conference in June. (Appearing on older models as of Wednesday.) In addition to the functions described at the time, a novelty is the Family Settings, which allows parents to manage their children’s watches: children do not need their own iPhone for the clock, which parents can configure as they see fit. silent mode (do not disturb) or control the list of dialed numbers.

Available in gold, graphite gray, blue and red, the models are made entirely of recycled aluminum by Apple, emphasizing the importance of green solutions in their presentation tonight. There will also be one less piece of plastic in the watch case – there will be a charging cable, but the company will no longer provide the charging head.

The Apple Watch Series 6 will be available at a base price of $ 399, similar to last year’s price; can be ordered today, but the first parts will only be available to customers on Friday.

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There is another, there is cheaper

Encouraged by the success of the iPhone SE, Apple is also testing its recipe on its watch portfolio. Also available on Friday, the Apple Watch SE offers more modest capabilities for $ 279. As with the phones, this is a slightly modernized version of an older model (the Apple Watch Series 4) at a more affordable price compared to the current top model.

With the watchOS 7 operating system, family management, drop detection and even waterproof design are available for those who choose the cheaper model, but all this is served a little slower by the hardware, whose soul here is just one S5 chip. The Apple Watch SE does not measure blood oxygen levels and does not even have an ECG function.

With the introduction of the Apple Watch SE, the Series 3, so far sold as a cheaper model, will not disappear from the range.

Wristwatch, charisma

Apple says the new Fitness + service will be built primarily around the smartphone, but it can be used well with iPhones, iPads, and even Apple TV, and subscribers will receive virtual workout plans for $ 9.99 per month (or $ 79.99 per year). . .

First, the system offers a solution for ten forms of movement, including cycling, running or yoga. Fitness + is not just about allowing the user to watch some Ruby Cancer videos in the US, but the system uses the Apple Watch to continuously monitor the workout, measuring its performance and health impact. Additionally, workouts can be coordinated with the Apple Music service.

Fitness + will be available sometime this year, but in the first round only in six countries, among which Hungary is not.

It is easier to carry in a pack

Tuesday night’s presentation was also a first for those not planning to buy a new device, they would only get a little more from the old one. The most important is the Apple One package system. Individual, Family and Premier packages include a variety of Apple services.

The cheapest ones, who choose the Individual package, get 50 gigabytes of storage, an Apple Music subscription, an Apple TV + subscription, and an Apple Arcade subscription for $ 14.95 a month. The family package offers the same, with just 200 gigabytes of storage, for multiple users, for $ 19.95 a month. In Apple One Premier, the storage space is 2 TB and, in addition, the Apple News news service, which is not available in Hungary, and the Apple Fitness + training plan service, which will be launched later this year. , will be added for $ 29.95 per month.

The packages result in significant savings for those who want to take advantage of all the services included in them ($ 6, $ 8, $ 25 per month, respectively). Of course, the same can be said that anyone who already uses two services may feel that they only have to pay a little more to get two more, and thus end up leaving that company with a little more money.

Newer and newer iPad

Even if no new iPhones have arrived, there is something new about the larger size screens. CEO Tim Cook has not forgotten to mention that the company has so far sold 500 million of the iPad, which celebrates its 10th birthday, in various variants. Also, perhaps thanks to the increase in stay-at-home due to the epidemic, there are many new entrants to the category right now: 53 percent of new iPad buyers now own their first iPad.

The base model received a $ 329 fold. The eighth-generation iPad, introduced now, has the A12 chip already installed in the iPad Air last year, offering 40 percent computing power over its predecessor and performing graphical calculations. twice as fast. The machine will be available in stores on Friday with the new operating system, iPadOS 14, announced in June.

The screen remained 10.2 inches. And unfortunately, the Lightning charging connector remained, which Apple has already replaced with a USB-C connector on all other new iPad models.

Anyone who chooses the new iPad Air unveiled on Tuesday will have a lot more to dig into their pockets; it is true, in return they will already get a tablet that is much more similar to Apple’s superior iPad Pro.

Beyond the design, a number of similarities are reinforced by the fact that the new iPad Air already comes with a 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display with a resolution of 2360×1640 pixels. To avoid interfering with the use of a button, the Touch ID fingerprint reader is built into the button on the top of the device (used to turn it on and off) by Apple. (Face ID already available on the iPad Pro was not on board.)

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The machine is powered by an A14 Bionic chip with 11.8 billion transistors, resulting in a 40 percent performance improvement over the previous iPad Air. Also new is the 12-megapixel rear camera and a 7-megapixel FaceTime HD unit on the opposite side. Instead of Apple’s Lightning technology, the USB-Cs charger now supports 20-watt fast charging and the connector is capable of transferring data at 5 Gbps. And on the wireless front, WiFi 6 support is a major innovation.

The new iPad Air will launch in October.

IOS 14, on the other hand, is already Wednesday: if you don’t have a new iPhone, at least have new software for the existing ones.

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