Apple Launches iPhone 5

Apple today announced iPhone 5, the thinnest and lightest iPhone ever, completely redesigned to feature a stunning new 4-inch Retina display; an Apple-designed A6 chip for blazing fast performance; and ultrafast wireless technology—all while delivering even better battery life. iPhone 5 comes with iOS 6, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features including: the all new Maps app with Apple-designed cartography and turn-by-turn navigation; Facebook integration; Passbook organization; and even more Siri features and languages.

“iPhone 5 is the most beautiful consumer device that we’ve ever created,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “We’ve packed an amazing amount of innovation and advanced technology into a thin and light, jewel-like device with a stunning 4-inch Retina display, blazing fast A6 chip, ultrafast wireless, even longer battery life; and we think customers are going to love it.”

iPhone 5 is the thinnest smartphone in the world, with an all-new 7.6 mm anodized aluminum body that is 18 percent thinner and 20 percent lighter than iPhone 4S. Designed with an unprecedented level of precision, iPhone 5 combines an anodized aluminum body with diamond cut chamfered edges and glass inlays for a truly incredible fit and finish.

The new 4-inch Retina display on iPhone 5 delivers even more pixels than iPhone 4S, making the already incredible Retina display even better. By making the screen taller, not wider, iPhone 5 is just as easy to use with one hand so you can tap, type and scroll the same way you always have, while enjoying even more of your content including amazing apps optimized for the larger Retina display, widescreen HD video, a full five days of your Calendar and more of every web page.

iPhone 5 supports ultrafast wireless standards including LTE and DC-HSDPA, so you can browse, download and stream content even faster. To support the latest LTE technology, Apple has pioneered a unique single-radio LTE solution that provides blazing fast speeds while fitting perfectly into the new remarkably thin design. iPhone 5 features dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi support for a wireless experience up to 150 Mbps.

The all-new A6 chip was designed by Apple to maximize performance and power efficiency to support all the incredible new features in iPhone 5, including the stunning new 4-inch Retina display—all while delivering even better battery life. With up to twice the CPU and graphics performance, almost everything you do on iPhone 5 is blazing fast for launching apps, loading web pages and downloading email attachments.

Pricing & Availability

iPhone 5 comes in either white & silver or black & slate, and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the 64GB model. iPhone 5 will be available from the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores, and through AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and select Apple Authorized Resellers. iPhone 5 will be available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the UK on Friday, September 21, and customers can pre-order their iPhone 5 beginning Friday, September 14. iPhone 4S will also be available for just $99 (US) and iPhone 4 will be available for free with a two-year contract.iOS 6 software will be available on Wednesday, September 19 as a free software update.

Source:Yahoo.com

Sony Xperia ion Price in India Rs 36,999

Sony Mobile has lastly declared the release of its next creation of smart phone, Xperia ion, in India at a price of Rs 36,999. The Xperia ion was revealed at the 2012 Worldwide CES. Presented in red and white, the Xperia ion comes with a 4.6" touch screen display and operates on Andorid 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).

The Xperia ion sports a 4.6-inch HD Reality display HD quality display (1280 x 720), as fine as back camcorders for HD producing, also the capacity to view HD content on the big display via HDMI.

The HDMI connection as well reveals the Xperia ion's TV launcher, a personalized home screen slide carousel of application strategies by which a person can get around the TV launcher and the rest of the Xperia ion's choices at your comfort using your TV's remote control.

The Xperia ion comes with 1.5GHz dual-core processor for rapid surfing and content download, which can be saved on the inner 16GB flash storage.

The system comes outfitted with 12 mega-pixel back camera and a 1.3 mega-pixel front camera for video conference.

The phone is outfitted with a devoted camera option that permit it to go from stand by function to first camera taken in just 1.5 a few moments.

Xperia ion features all-around HD videos, so while video chatting or simply clicking images, the individual can be sure to have high-quality video on the go using either your back or front-facing cameras.

The Xperia ion is as well PlayStation qualified for top excellent mobile game playing.

Xperia ion customers will be able to access the richest enjoyment encounters from Sony Entertainment Network.

Sony Xperia Sola brings floating touch navigation

Forget touch displays. You never even need to caress the screen of Sony’s “magical” smartphone to communicate with it -- just float your fingur over the screen to navigate through the menu.

The Android-powered system includes Sony’s new floating touch navigation with NFC and Xperia SmartTags to provide customers with a unique smartphone experience.

The two provided SmartTags can be customized with up to 10 different commandss -- such as training your phone to convert on its WiFi connection and release the news app when you move into the living room or to switch to silent and convert on the alarm when you move into the bed room.

The Xperia sola is also outfitted with a 3.7” Reality Display, a 1GHz dual-core processor, xLOUD and 3D surround sound, a 5MP camera with a 16x zoom capability, 720p videos, DLNA, and The Google android 2.3.

 

Xperia sola features razor sharp quality with Display Screen operated by Cellular BRAVIA® engine, xLOUD(TM) and 3D surround sound technological innovation crisp and loud sound, and a 1GHz dual-core processor for super fast efficiency.

The Xperia Sola will be lanching around the world sometime between the end of this month and the end of June, when it’ll be available in black, white or red. Costs has yet to be verified.