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UPDATE: 2:49 p.m. EDT -- The new iPhone 7 starts at $649 with 32GB. Orders alpha Friday. Shipping starts Sept. 16.
UPDATE: 2:43 p.m. EDT -- Apple's new iPhone will accept the longest array activity anytime for one of its smartphones. The iPhone 7 will affection two more hours of array activity compared to antecedent devices.
UPDATE: 2:30 p.m. EDT -- Apple is accepting rid of its iPhone headphone jack. The new iPhone will crave wireless earbuds.
"The acumen to move on: courage. The adventuresomeness to move on and do article new that betters all of us," said Philip Schiller, chief carnality admiral of common business at Apple. "First, we've apparent that we can use Lightning to affix our headphones. Second, our smartphones are arranged with technologies and we all appetite more. It's all angry for amplitude in that enclosure. Maintaining an age-old analog distinct use adapter isn't a abundant use of space. Third, we accept a eyes for how audio should assignment on adaptable devices. Wireless."
Apple alien its new artefact alleged Apple AirPods. "They alone comedy already you are accessible to listen," a video announced.
UPDATE: 2:15 p.m. EDT -- The iPhone 7 will appearance a camera with 1.8 breach and 12 megapixel lens that is faster and more activity efficient, Apple appear Wednesday. The smartphone is also water aggressive and dust resistant.
The buzz won't appear in a dejected color, as had been accounted in contempo media reports.
UPDATE: 2:01 p.m. EDT -- The iPhone 7 is assuredly here. "It’s the best iPhone we’ve anytime created,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said. “This is iPhone7. It has a attractive new design.”
UPDATE: 1:48 p.m. EDT -- Apple CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday the Apple Watch is the absolute accessory for runners, swimmers and added fettle enthusiasts. He appear Apple Watch Nike Plus, a watch advised for runners with a adaptable band. The Apple Watch 2, meanwhile, will be waterproof and affection a headphone jack.
UPDATE: 1:35 p.m. EDT -- You can now comedy Pokemon Go on an Apple Watch. The accessory will appearance how abundant exercise you've had while playing.
UPDATE: 1:22 p.m. EDT -- Apple accidentally alien its new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Wednesday on Twitter afore the official advertisement during the tech giant's accident in San Francisco. The tweets showed phones that looked like Apple's antecedent devices. But the new smartphones are "water-resistant," and accept stereo speakers. The tweets were later deleted.
UPDATE: 1:16 p.m. EDT -- Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto appear Wednesday during Apple's accident in San Francisco that Super Mario was advancing to the App Store. Miyamoto is the architect of the Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong brands.
UPDATE: 1:03 p.m. EDT -- Apple CEO Tim Cook, rapper Pharrell and Siri kicked off the Apple accident Wednesday with a carpool karaoke jam with James Corden.
UPDATE: 12:43 p.m. EDT -- Amazon reportedly released its specialized iPhone 7 Wednesday hours afore Apple was set to advertise the new device. The folio included pictures of an iPhone 7 with bifold back-facing cameras and a articulation for Bluetooth headphones, acknowledging contempo media rumors about what the new smartphone would attending like. Amazon anon took bottomward the folio afterwards Gizmodo wrote about the posting.
UPDATE: 12:24 p.m. EDT -- The Apple Watch slated to be appear Wednesday apparently won't be too altered from the accessory that aboriginal went on auction in April 2015, and that could be bad account for Apple. With so abounding vendors aggressive to boss the wearable accessories market, Apple ability charge an bend to compete, analysts said.
Smart wearables accept yet to acquisition a able abode in the market, Ramon Llamas, assay administrator at IDC, told CNBC Wednesday. Apple has not aggregate sales of the Apple watch.
UPDATE: 12:01 p.m. EDT -- A Vietnamese gadget blog called TechSign.in reportedly appear Wednesday the world's aboriginal photo of Apple’s new iPhone 7 in a bright atramentous finish. The angel can be apparent here. Apple is accounted to absolution its abutting smartphone Wednesday in two new colors: dejected and "piano black."
UPDATE: 11:34 a.m. EDT -- Apple banal is expected to assemblage Wednesday night afterwards the tech baton unveils its latest annular of products, CNBC reported. When Apple CEO Tim Cook alien new iPhones in the past, Apple stock dropped alone to backlash the abutting day, new abstracts from Kensho's Bhavesh Dayalji and CNBC's quantitative assay aggregation show. Afterwards the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus announcement, Apple saw a 3.07 percent bang in its banal the abutting day.
"We're not adage iPhone 7 is a bold changer, we are adage it's activity to be a solid upgrade, aerial affection artefact that will acknowledgment the iPhone and Apple to advance in 2017," Drexel Hamilton analyst Brian White told CNBC. "I ahead you are still in this gloom-and-doom cycle, but off the bottom."
Marketwatch acclaimed agnate trends. “Going into the Sept. 7 event, the banal is hardly bottomward from two weeks ago,” UBS analyst Steven Milunovich told the account site. "Barring any surprises, such as an iPhone amount cut, we see bound downside accident as investors already ahead underwhelming iPhone 7 features."
UPDATE: 11:10 a.m. EDT -- Apple is befitting the capacity of its accounted new articles a secret, but the media has been aperture appearance for weeks. Afore the Apple absolution accident Wednesday, beneath are some of International Business Times' contempo letters on how to get a acceptable accord on the iPhone 7 and what to apprehend from Apple's abutting smartphone.
So what absolutely do we apperceive so far? The new buzz ability accept a best array life. It will acceptable affection a bifold camera. Your smartphone carrier is apparently accepting accessible to advance our its best offers to accumulate your business. Customers ability be able to adjustment the buzz as anon as Friday. The accessory will appear in new colors, including "Space Black." The iPhone 7 will be added waterproof than antecedent designs, and it won't accommodate a headphone jack.
UPDATE: 10:50 a.m. EDT -- Apple CEO Tim Cook is slated to bare the iPhone 7 Wednesday and critics are already allurement why he isn't blame the tech behemothic to innovate more. "Some bodies will appear out and say it explicitly: Why can’t Tim Cook be added like Steve Jobs?" Fusion wrote.
But Cooks doesn't assume worried. He tweeted afore the big event:
Original story:
Apple's accident Wednesday is accepted to accommodate updates on new iPhones, appearance and accessories amidst crumbling buzz sales and growing agitation over whether the tech behemothic has absent its avant-garde edge.
The Apple Watch 2 and iPhone 7 will best likely be appear during the event. The latest smartphones have an analog headphone jack, acute users to buy wireless headphones or use an adapter, according to media reports. Otherwise, the buzz isn't accepted to be too altered from antecedent models, and the accessory updates accept already fatigued criticism from tech leaders.
"Without the advancement acceleration of consistently growing iPhone sales, Apple’s new iPhone will accept to validate its actuality in a way that no antecedent abundance has had to do. Consumers are now bigger informed, added demanding, and added price-sensitive than ever, and Apple will accept to accord them some acumen to admiration a broadly banausic device. Simply being the latest iPhone is no best enough," the Verge wrote.
Apple saw sales of $42.4 billion for the division that concluded in June, a fall from $49.6 billion a year earlier, according to its earnings report.
"If Apple releases several years’ account of black iPhones in a row, their bazaar allotment will abatement and the aggregation will collapse. But in the short-term, the aggregation is basically disaster-proof because switching abroad from iOS to Android is abundant of a altercation that bodies won’t do it en masse over one bad iPhone update," Vox wrote Wednesday. "But if people do end up affection a artefact that it sure seems like bodies would hate, it will be the best affidavit accessible that Apple still has the old magic."
The Apple accident starts at 10 a.m. in California and 1 p.m. in New York at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. You can watch alive here.