Text translation Apple Special Event (broadcast is over, all new at the end of the post)

In the small presentation hall of the company campus in Cupertino , today, Apple will show some new items. New iPhones and iPads are expected, but to say for sure what they will show, as always is impossible.

For favorite readers of Geektimes this evening we will hold a text translation of the event. Those interested are encouraged to add this post to their bookmarks in order to return to it at exactly 20.00 Moscow time.

In general, the presentation was initially expected on March 15, but Apple moved the event for almost a week and chose March 21. The press has received invitations and there is definitely a hint in their design - on the image you can see the colors of the product cases: gray, silver, gold and pink gold.
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So what do we expect to see today?

iPhone 5SE

5SE can mean 5S Enhanced. But why confuse shoppers with quintuples when the sixth iPhone life cycle is on? Rumors speak of the name of the iPhone SE, Special Edition.


Amateur renders of putative devices


A leak from the Chinese Weibo social network shows a fragment of the specifications of the new iPhone SE.

It should be a real 4-inch “bomb” with iPhone 6S hardware stuff minus the 3D Touch: an on-chip A9 system with a co-processor for analyzing M9, NFC for Apple Pay movements and an 8 megapixel camera with a 1.2 megapixel front camera. We discuss the memory sizes of 16 and 64 GB. In terms of design, the device will look a bit like the iPhone 6S with its rounded corners. But rumors claim that the semblance of the iPhone 5S will be preserved in size.

The product can occupy a niche iPhone 5S in the current model range. Possible price - from 450 dollars.

Little iPad Pro

This is only a characteristic, not a real name. Rumor has it that the new 9.7-inch iPad will borrow features of the large 12.9-inch iPad Pro: support for the Apple Pencil stylus, Smart Connector connector and 4 speakers. The younger brother will have everything “grown-up”: a system on an A9X chip, 4 GB of RAM, the same storage capacity up to 128 GB. But the cost may be only a hundred dollars higher than the price of iPad Air.

Now in the arsenal of Apple is similar in size apparatus - 9.7-inch iPad Air 2. It has not been updated since October 2014. It begs the assumption that today will show a replacement to simplify the model range. Macbook and Macbook Pro are 13 and 15 inches. Why not let the iPad Pro come in two sizes too? Prices can start at $ 599.

Other

Rumors speak of new Apple Watch straps, iOS 9.3 announcements, WatchOS 2.2, OS X 10.11.4 and tvOS 9.2.

Intel has released Skylake microarchitecture processors. It would be logical to release a new Macbook with them. However, Apple may again limit itself to a press release for the announcement of new laptops.

Apple refuses to develop a backdoor for the FBI for a San Bernandino terrorist encrypted iPhone. The next hearings on this case will be held tomorrow - March 22. Will there be hints of encryption today?

But all this is only speculation, rumor and speculation, and what will happen in reality is lower.





By the way, why did we decide to broadcast?

Why-why ... yes, because it is here that all the new products will appear the very next day after the start of sales :)