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Apple Flip Phone

It’s finally here.

The Apple Flip Phone.

Like the Samsung, but more refined. But let’s be honest, most apple products are refined. Nevertheless, it’s here. It brings back memories of the Motorola Flip phone, remember that classic? When you were done with a call you’d flip it down to close. I guess you won’t be using as much force with this one when you come to close it, purely down to the cost of it being $2000!

Yes, you got that right.

This one is expensive.

But don’t worry. Apple also introduced the iPhone 18. Better than the 17. But for me, it’s not the phone itself, it’s the camera that has caught my attention.

Apple describes as its “most advanced camera system yet,” built around a 48-megapixel Fusion Main camera with variable aperture — a first for iPhone. Six “laser-cut blades” automatically adjust across four aperture settings to manage depth of field and lighting, while a new sensor is designed to improve low-light shooting and group-photo detail.

A new “Pro controls” interface lets photographers manually adjust aperture, shutter speed, and white balance, and check exposure with an onscreen histogram; an API also lets external developers access the aperture range.

I’ll be honest, it’s coming quite close to me ditching my DSLR and just using the phone to take all images and videos!

New airpods were announced too…

Oh, and new watches… including (the one I’ve been waiting for) Ultra 4!

Apple Watch Ultra 4, aimed at athletes and outdoor use, offers up to 50 hours of everyday battery life and up to 84 hours in Low Power Mode, with a Max Extended Workout mode that can track outdoor activity for up to 45 hours; it comes in natural and black titanium, starting at $799.

There is a new Apple Watch 12 that’s come out.

And there’s alot more on health. That’s right, the app gets more data, insights and advanced details. Wanting you to live longer and buy more apple products I guess.

And, one more thing…. Siri. I hear it’s more advanced than ever before. Which is great, because it needs to be. There’s so much voice activation can do, and I always feel let down by Siri and revert to Alexa (mainly when I’m at home).

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Apple Intelligence

This blog post is for those out there that use Apple products (iPhones, iPads, etc…) and those interested to see what Apple are doing.

Last night… was Apple WWDC 2024. (WWDC = Worldwide Developers Conference). And alot was announced!

Here’s my Top 5…

  1. iPhone and Mac will now come equipped with ChatGPT for free. This is huge. Before you would’ve had to go into ChatGPT to do your tasks, now… access it from Siri for questions, share photos with it for suggestions and create images and texts within documents with ChatGPT.
  2. AI powered Siri. There’ll be a new glowing light that when you speak to Siri, lights up and you can talk naturally to it and it’ll understand everything. If you’re like me – I have on occasions been frustrated with Siri in the past but this looks alot promising. It will understand deeper meanings like you, your, your son, your office location, etc..
  3. Auto-fill Forms. We’re just getting lazy now, right? Yes we are. There’ll be a feature that, if a form needs filling out, you can just ask siri to find a personal document of yours, like a passport and auto fill the details for you directly into the form.
  4. AI editing on the Mac. If you’re a mac user, you can generate new text, proof read and edit, but most importantly (I think, which will be brilliant) change the tone (toneGen). This is all done in any text you type – email, doc, etc…
  5. AI powered call transcripts. Let’s be honest, there’s been times I’d wish, whilst on a call I had a pen and paper handy or something to quickly take notes. Not any more… transcribe your calls, turn them into summaries and share them across apps and emails.
AI Powered call transcripts

There were some other announcements which, frankly, didn’t really impress me – such as, you can now have a calculator on the iPad. What really impressed me is the way Apple have shared how they’re going to use AI… but more importantly, how we can use AI.

You can watch a summary video of it below, from our friends at Verge.