CEO Tim Cook, with a nice round one. Photo: The Verge
FORTUNE — Here they are, as they cross the wires:
iPhones:
- Prices: The new iPhone 5 starts at $199 for 16G, $299 for 32G, $399 for 64G with 2-year contract
- The 16G iPhone 4S falls to $99, the 8G iPhone 4 is free on contract
- Preorders start Sept. 14
- Sales start Sept. 21 in the U.S. and 8 more countries
- Ships to 20 more countries on Sept. 28
- By December will be in 100 countries, 240 carriers
- iOS 6 ships free on Sept. 19
- The iPhone 5 is 18% thinner than the iPhone 4S
- At 112 grams, it’s 20% lighter
- The display measures 4 inches diagonally
- 1136 x 640 screen resolution
- 16:9 aspect ratio
- Accommodates a fifth row of icons
- 44% more color saturation
- One less layer in the display
- 4G LTE modem is twice as fast as fastest 3G standard
- New Wi-Fi radio gets download speeds of up to 150 Mbps
- A6 dual-core processor is 2X faster iPhone 4S
- 2X faster graphics
- Launches Pages app 2.1X faster. Saves iPhoto image 1.7X faster
- 8 hours talk time on the battery, 250 hours standby
- 8 megapixel rear camera, f2.4 aperture, 25% smaller
- 40% faster photo capture
- Shoots 1080p HD video
- Front camera shoots FaceTime chats at 720p HD
- 3 microphones: bottom, front and back
- Speaker is 20% smaller
- New “lightning” dock connector is 80% smaller
- New maps app in iOS 6 knows about 100 million “points of interest”
- 400 million iOS devices sold through June 2012
iTunes:
- iTunes update due in late October
- 200 million customers using iTunes in the cloud
- iTunes store available in 63 countries
- Apple has 435 million iTunes accounts (i.e. credit card numbers) with 1-click shopping
iPods:
- 350 million iPods sold to date
- New iPod nano has 2.5-inch multitouch screen
- At 5.4mm, 38% thinner
- Comes in 7 colors
- Available in October
- $149 for 16GB
iPod touch:
- New iPod touch at 6.1mm thin and weighs 88 grams is the thinnest and lightest yet
- Same 4-inch display as the iPhone 5
- 2X faster dual-core A5 processor
- Up to 7X faster graphics
- Batteries good for 40 hours of music
- 5 megapixel camera on back
- 720p HD camera in front
- Bluetooth 4.0
- Wi-Fi 11n 2.4 and 5GHz for up to 150 Mbps downloads
- 5 colors, with matching wrist loops
- Available in October
- 32GB for $299 and 64GB for $399
EarPods:
- 600 million earbuds shipped
- New EarPods 3 years in design; involved making 3D scans of hundreds of ears
- Free with new iPhone 5, iPod touch and iPod nano
- Sold separately, but no price given (UPDATE: $29 on apple.com)
App Store:
- 700,000 apps in the App Store, 250,000 tailored for the iPad
- 90% of them are downloaded every month
- The average customer uses 100 of them
iPad:
- Apple (AAPL) sold 17 million iPads last quarter for a total of 84 million in two and a half years
- That’s more iPads than PCs sold in the quarter by any PC manufacturer
- Hundreds of competing tablets have been launched, to little effect
- A year ago, iPad had a 62% tablet market share worldwide
- Last quarter, iPad it had a 68% share
- iPad accounts for 91% of Web traffic for all tablets
- 94% of the Fortune 500 are testing or deploying iPads
Macs:
- Apple’s notebooks ranked No. 1 in U.S. marketshare over the past three months
- Mac sales growth has outpaced PCs for six years straight
- In July, Apple’s notebooks had a 27% market share in the U.S.
- 7 million copies of Mountain Lion have been downloaded
Apple Stores:
- 83 million people visited Apple Stores last year, almost 1 million a day on average
- A total of 380 stores as of today
- As of Friday, with first store in Sweden, will have Apple Stores in 13 countries
