Apple announces iPhone 5, new iPods

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Apple CEO Tim Cook took to the stage along with SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller Wednesday at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, to announce the iPhone 5, a new iPod Nano, a new iPod Touch and new iTunes software. Here are the juicy details.

Made from aluminum and glass, at 112 grams, it's 20 percent lighter than the iPhone 4S. It's thinner too - at 7.6mm it's 18 percent thinner. As the rumors suggested, it looks like a taller version of the iPhone 4S.

The screen is more saturated, and the sensors in it are integrated right into the screen, for better viewing. Older apps run at the same size as they did in the previous iPhone, centered in place.
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There is LTE cellular data connectivity, as predicted. It's a single chip that can deliver, theoretically, up to 100 megabits per second. (Generally, for now Verizon delivers 15 or so in ideal situations, so expect that.) AT&T, Verizon and Sprint will all support the LTE data link.

There's a brand new chip: the Apple A6 chip. Twice as fast in CPU and graphics performance. You get 1.5 to 2 times better performances launching Pages, saving images in iPhoto, and loading music.

Battery life is better than the iPhone 4S, says Schiller. You can expect 8 hours of 3G talk and browsing; 8 hours LTE browsing; 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing and 10 hours of video. There will be 225 hours of standby. How many days is that? 9 and change?

The camera is similar in specs to the 4S — 8 megapixel, f/2.4 aperture — but made it smaller, and leveraged the processor to jack up the performance. There's a Panorama app that smart-stitches together beautiful, huge pictures.

There's 1080p HD video on the main camera, like before, but now the front camera can do 720p. Schiller mentions that FaceTime will now work over cellular (but check with your carrier about that).

Audio-wise, Apple added some natural sound enhancements and better noise canceling in the audio system.

Apple is ditching the 30-pin connector introduced in 2003. The new connector is the Lightning, an all-digital "8-signal" design. It's way more durable, and 80 percent smaller. There will be a 30-pin-to-Lightning adapter available, so you don't have to ditch your old car charger.

An EA exec introduced "Real Racing 3" a game with such realistic detail, you can actually see what's in your rear-view mirror. It has a cool feature called time-shifted multiplayer, where you race, and someone else can race against you later. It's coming out "later this year."

The iPhone 5 release/launch date in Singapore is on September 21. More details later.