Today Apple is expected to introduce the new iPhone 13.
The new Apple Watch will also be a highlight: It is about to undergo a major design change.
Cupertino - On Tuesday (September 14th) Apple will present new products - in all likelihood also the next generation of the iPhone. As the financial service
Bloomberg reported
before the start of the online event (from 7 p.m. German time), the exterior of the iPhone 13 will largely retain the design of the current series. For this purpose, the recess for cameras and sensors for face recognition at the top of the screen should be smaller. The more expensive Pro model will also get a version with a terabyte of storage capacity for the first time, predicted the well-known industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Kuo assumes that Apple will keep the current structure of the model range with the basic iPhone, a smaller mini version and two Pro devices in different sizes.
In the past few months it had been speculated that the company could discontinue the iPhone mini because its sales figures remained below expectations.
As usual, the new iPhones will get faster chips - and the Pro models will also have improved display technology, wrote
Bloomberg
.
Apple: iPhone's share of sales falls - More iPads and MacBooks sold
The iPhone has been Apple's most important product for years and at times brought in up to two thirds of the company's business. Most recently, however, its share of sales fell below 50 percent, among other things because Mac computers and iPad tablets became significantly more popular again during the pandemic.
A new model of the Apple Watch computer watch is also expected. According to media reports, the biggest design change since the market launch in spring 2015 is pending. The watch should therefore have a flatter screen and angular edges instead of the previously strongly rounded corners. The displays should also be a little bigger for the second time. With 41 and 45 millimeters diagonal, one millimeter should be added, as
reported by
Bloomberg
. Because production problems have now been overcome, the new watch model will not go into mass production until later than planned in September, wrote Ming-Chi Kuo.
There is also talk of a new generation of the popular AirPods earbuds that will hit the market in the fall.
Which products and features the Apple fan can still expect today.
Apple: Security gap in the chat service iMessage is being closed in a hurry
On the day before the big product event, Apple had to hurry to close a security gap in the software of the iPhones and iPads, which experts say can be used to spy on messages in the in-house chat service iMessage.
Researchers from Citizen Lab said they discovered the vulnerability while analyzing the phone of a Saudi Arabian activist.
The device was infected with the monitoring software "Pegasus" from the Israeli company NSO, reported Citizen Lab on Monday.
Apple released software updates that close the vulnerability. For the protection to take effect, the updates must be installed by the users. Citizen Lab estimates that the vulnerability has been exploited since at least February 2021.
(dpa)
