The Apple Campus 2 project has been there in the talks since 2006, when Late Steve Jobs made the Cupertino City Council take a note of the buildings that Apple had acquired to materialize its dream of building another campus, just a mile away from the very first Apple Campus, in Cupertino. The campus was supposed to be built by 2015, but now it is expected to open not any time before 2016.
The story began when Texas-based real estate fir Hines Interests began a shopping spree, of properties in Cupertino, for Apple. The sellers, at the time, didn’t know about Apple being the real buyer. Apple’s name was hidden, due to the very fact that it’d, for sure, urge the sellers to sell their properties at an all-time higher rate!
Apple Campus 2 is going to be one of the best company-campuses in the world, in the coming time, if everything that the management claims is achieved. The proposed, 175 acres, campus will have 4-storeyed circular ‘spaceship’ architecture building to house about 13000 of its technocrats, a café with a seating capacity of 3000 people, an auditorium that will be able to house about 1000 people, and an area of 28000m2 will remain dedicated to an R&D structure. Apart from this, regular aspects of the campus will include an orchard, a fitness center, a renewable power plant, etc.
Although the cost of the project is estimated at a whopping $5billion, Apple Campus 2 in Cupertino is bound to attract thousands of Apple and non-Apple employees!
First they transformed the mobile computing scenario by introducing an iPad, way back in 2010. Now, the leading tab makers are back with two more marvelous pieces of machine, set to transform the way you look at tablets!
The iPad Air, and iPad Mini with retina display.
iPad Air
As Apple says “Desktop class architecture, No desktop required”, this slim trim version of the iPad catches your attention with its sleek and neat design. It is now 0.44 pounds lighter, i.e. weighs just a pound, and is ~2mm thinner, than its predecessor.
On the performance front, Apple makes sure it doesn’t have to take its words back, thus makes iPad Air a hardcore performer, by powering it with the new A7 chip, driven by a 64-bit architecture.
The Wi-Fi variant has a starting price of 499$ on the Apple store, while the Wi-Fi+Cellular variant starts from 629$.
The 5MP main & 1.2 MP front cameras are exceptional as always.
iPad Mini, with Retina Display
The latest variant in the ‘mini’-series is the brand new iPad mini, bundled with a Retina display.
The 7.9 inch screen of this device looks amazing, and boasts the 2048 x 1536 resolution very brilliantly. The pixel density has been elevated to a whopping 326 pixels per inch, which makes the display even more crisp and vibrant. This can also be looked in this way that the 3.1 million pixels of a 9.7 inch iPad have been embedded in a 7.9-inch screen size!
Apart from all the connectivity features, this variant is, also, powered by an A7 processor, thus enhancing the computing possibilities.
Similar to the Air, iPad mini also has 5MP & 1.2 MP cameras.
The iPad mini has a starting price of 399$ for the Wi-Fi variant.
iPhone 5s was recently launched by Apple to succeed the iPhone 5. The smartphone market is already crowded with monster smartphones from Samsung, Nokia, HTC and LG. Here at PING Magazine we are asking the vital questions which includes what is made of, who is for, when can we get it, where is it available and why is it necessary?
The iPhone 5s is pioneering the 64-bit mobile architecture features an A7 chip, a finger print identity sensor. The iPhone 5s comes in gold standard but also available in silver and grey. This iOS 7 phone is equipped with an iSight camera with a larger 8MP and ultra-fast wireless system.
iPhone 5s is designed for the high-end market because it oozes premium all round with a fingerprint scanner and a gold standard colour that makes the phone stand out.
The iPhone 5S will be available for purchase from the 20th of September and you can pre-order from the 13th of September 2013. The iPhone 5S is going on sale for £549 or US$649 SIM-free, for 16GB of internal storage. The 32GB version is £629 or US$749 while the 64GB version will set you back for a whopping sum of £709 or US$849.
The best way to get the iPhone 5s is to pre order online at the Apple store. Do expect the usual extravaganza that comes with a new iPhone so the retail store will be opened on September 20th at 8 a.m. local time.
In the UK, Orange and T-Mobile have confirmed the iPhone 5s under EE 4GEE network. It’s on Vodafone Red 4G-ready plan and O2 Refresh tariffs. In the US, carriers like Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Wal-Mart and Best Buy are ready to satisfy the hungry consumers.
We all have been expecting the new iPhone and waiting for Apple to regain its position as the number one smartphone in the world. Apple fan across the globe are reacting differently some are of the opinion that the A7 processor is not enough for them to change. Others question the Touch ID security system both the biometrics industries are overwhelmed with it. We at PING Magazine think Apple has done a decent job on the iPhone 5s but it’s an evolutionary design rather the revolutionary. Join the conversation what do you think of the iPhone 5s.
The iPhone 5s memory capacity is available in 16GB, 32GB or 64GB.
It weighs 112 grams with physical dimensions of 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm.
The iPhone 5S comes with an A7 chip with 64-bit architecture + M7 motion co-processor.
It has a fingerprint sensor and a Siri intelligent assistant.
The iPhone 5S display is 4-inch Retina display, 1136×640 resolutions, and 326 ppi.
iPhone 5S has a FaceTime camera of 1.2MP photos (1280×960), 720p HD video recording and a new backside illumination sensor.
iPhone 5S Headphones is Apple EarPods with Remote and Mic, Storage and travel case
iPhone 5S sensor is three-axis gyro, Accelerometer, Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor and fingerprint identity sensor. It comes with a Nano-SIM
iPhone 5S iSight camera is 8 megapixels with 1.5µ pixels, /2.2 aperture, Sapphire crystal lens cover, true tone flash, backside illumination sensor, Five-element lens, Hybrid IR filter, autofocus, tap to focus, face detection, panorama, burst mode and photo geotagging.
The video recording on the iPhone 5S is 1080p HD video recording, 30 fps, true tone flash, Slo-mo video, improved video stabilisation, take still photos while recording videos, face detection, 3x zoom, Video geotagging and tap to focus.
The Connectivity iPhone 5S is GSM model ; GSM/EDGE, UMTS/HSPA+, DC-HSDPA, CDMA model: CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B, LTE, Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n; 802.11n on 2.4GHz and 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and GLONASS.
The battery of iPhone 5S is built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery, charging via USB to computer system or power adapter, talk time: up to 10 hours on 3G, standby time: up to 250 hours, internet use: up to 8 hours on 3G, up to 10 hours on LTE, up to 10 hours on Wi-Fi, video playback: up to 10 hours and audio playback: up to 40 hours.
Is iTunes really 10 years old? It doesn’t seem like it. It feels like is been around since the 90’s owing to the fact that it has changed the way we buy music and also made music history as the first site to allow music to be downloaded digitally.
With iTunes been the number 1 largest music retailer in the world with its business having an income of $4.1bn {£2.6bn} last year. Let’s rewind and see how they got here.
April 28 2003- iTunes is launched after years of developing hardware and software and being brave by getting the 5 big music companies to partner with them even after what Hunter S. Thompson’s famous quote about the music industry, that said “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs”.
Then just a week of being out in the US the iTunes store sold over 1m songs.
September 2003- songs downloads hit the 10 million mark.
16 October 2003- iTunes available on windows.
March 2004- 5 million song is downloaded on iTunes
June 2004 iTunes launched in the UK with 450,000 tracks downloaded in the first week.
July 2004- Kevin Britten, downloader of 100 millionth iTunes songs wins a PowerBook, iPod and a voucher for 10,000 more tunes.
August 2004- over a 100 million songs available in the store
April 17 2005- its sales and downloads were combined in the official Top 40 for the first time with Amarillo by Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay at No.1
April 2006- Crazy by Gnarls Barkley was the first song on the top U.K charts on downloads alone.
Now April 2013 it has grown from only having 200,000 songs in the catalogue to 35 million
It has 15,000 songs downloaded every minute and it reached its 25 billion songs benign downloaded this February.
Available now in 119 countries with more than 435 million registered users (this makes it one of the world’s five largest holders of credit card details.)
Great work iTunes, its been ten years of undiluted sound. Let the music play on.
Apple ships new high-end and low-end models of iPhone in early September.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Apple will be shipping new high-end and low-end models of the iPhone in early September. The latest buzz surrounding the iPhone 5S is that Apple will release a gold version alongside the traditional black and white colors. AllThingsD reported earlier this month that Apple will unveil the next-generation iPhone at an event on September 10th.
The WSJ did not go into specifics about what we’ll see from new iPhones; speculations however say it’s likely that we’ll get the iPhone 5S, which would follow in the footsteps of the iPhone 5 with a metal body similar to the previous design as well as an iPhone 5C with a rear plastic case in multiple colors.
The shipping plans suggest that two new iPhone models could be launched as soon as next month, pointing to a strategy shift as Apple attempts to regain its momentum in the smartphone market. The company hasn’t previously announced different iPhone models around the same time.
Suppliers first began preparing components back in June, according to the paper’s sources. The cheaper iPhone is expected to be dubbed the iPhone 5C and come with several color choices. A ship date of later in September would also be in keeping with the timing of previous iPhone launches, where hardware typically hits consumer shelves a maximum of two weeks after the announcement.
The activity adds to Apple’s challenges. The company has been facing tough competition from Samsung and other firms making smartphones based on Google Inc.’s Android software. A perception that Apple’s pace of innovation has slowed, along with some uncharacteristic missteps by the company, helped push the company’s shares down more than 40% in the span of six months from all-time highs of more than $700 in September. The company’s shares have since rebounded somewhat, currently at $509.66, up 1.5%.
