New releases such as "iPhone 7" are anticipated Present what is likely to appear at Apple's event on September 7?

ByMartin Hajek

Apple will hold a special event announcing a new product at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California from 10 o'clock local time September 7, 2016 (2 o'clock on 8 September Japan time). The pattern is planned to be updated in real time even at GIGAZINE, and it is expected that new products will be announced on the new iPhone and Mac related day.

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◆ New iPhone
In the new iPhone which is drawing attention as to whether it will become the name "iPhone 7", it is seen that there are not many changes in appearance. As keywords related to the changes of the iPhone, "5 color development color variations" "Storage capacity is up, deployment of the 256 GB model from the 32 GB model" "Plus model incorporates dual lens camera" "Headphone jack is abolished" "A 10 Processor installation "" FeliCa support "perhaps the biggest point. Other detailed prediction specifications are explained in detail in the following articles.

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With the discontinuance of headphone jack, conventional earphones can not be used with the new iPhone. For that reason, a wireless type genuine earphone may come up.

◆ New Apple Watch
At the special event, the second generation Apple Watch is supposed to finally come out. This time it will be a model change after a year and a half since the appearance of Spring 2015, "GPS function addition" and "faster processing speed" are likely to be a point. Since the original Apple Watch relied on the iPhone which is the parent machine as the GPS function, when wearing only Apple Watch and going out for jogging etc. could not record much accurate data. The new Apple Watch is believed to realize higher stand-alone performance by reducing the ratio depending on the iPhone. Although it seems that it will be equipped with various new functions, appearance is seen as almost unchanged from the original model.


In addition, it seems likely that the connection function to LTE and 3G mobile phone network, which was expected to be installed in part, will be sent off in this model. This is believed to be due to the fact that the problem of drastically increasing battery consumption by installing a communication function has not been sufficiently solved.

◆ New MacBook is unknown
For MacBook-related, it is predicted that rumors that the top model MacBook Pro will be equipped with a touch screen function key with an OLED (organic EL) display on the top of the keyboard, CPU, GPU, and storage performance enhancement.

On the other hand, MacBook Air is seen as having a low possibility of appearance. On the contrary, the MacBook Air that appeared in 2010 is thought to be the end of the model, and there is also the possibility of being abolished. As a model that changes to this, the possibility that MacBook with Retina display will be playing the low end is being whispered. On the other hand, there is also a prediction that the MacBook Air will have a USB Type-C connector as the last update.

Nonetheless, there is a view that there is no announcement related to Mac in this event, and if that happens then it will be that the Mac hardware update will not be done for a year and a half.

◆ iPad
For 12.9-inch iPad Pro that appeared in the 2015 event and 9.7-inch iPad Pro that appeared in the spring of 2016, no particular announcement is expected. Apple is supposed to be under development with software updates in mind for iPad, and it is anticipated that new features will be announced within 2017.

It is related to the iPad which is not likely to expect much new things, but it is also a fact that some kind of announcement is about to be done for models other than Pro. IPad mini 4 celebrates one year since its appearance, two years have passed since the advent of iPad Air 2, and stocks at dealers have decreased greatly, so it seems strange that new models will appear It is in order. It is noteworthy point what kind of action Apple will make against the tablet market where the trouble is being told.

◆ Software (OS) related
It seems to be okay to see that there is almost no doubt that a new OS will appear at the event this time. There is a possibility of appearance of iOS 10, macOS Sierra, watch OS 3, tvOS 10, some of which may be released on September 7th.

In tvOS 10, it seems that NI mode mode UI installed in iOS seems to be installed, it seems that it will perform simplification of the login procedure to the application and addition of functions for the developer, etc. Nonetheless, there are not many changes to general users.

In the watch OS 3 for Apple Watch, changes will be added to the UI and the message function will be strengthened. Also, by loading 10 frequently used applications into memory, it is expected that changes will be added to improve the speed of exercise. At the same time Apple Watch 2 is expected to appear, but watchOS 3 will be compatible with the traditional Apple Watch.

The biggest change is that Siri will be loaded on OS "Sierra" for Mac which became "macOS" newly. Supporting iCloud also saves disk space on the machine. Also, it is expected that you will be able to deal with unlocking with Apple Watch by strengthening the security function.


And in iOS 10, a new notification screen is adopted, "Today" view appears. For developers, APIs such as "SiriKit" and "CallKit" appeared, and it seems that functions which were not available in the past will be available.