Apple Updating iTunes Store for iPhone 5 Pre-Orders

At the moment you will find that if you go to Apple's iPhone 5 page on it's website and click buy you will be taken to a multilingual page with this message telling you that it's in the prosess of updating.

This means the iPhone 5 preorder is looming and with an expected start of 12:01 AM Cupertino time be ready because it's going to sell like hotcakes, probably taking down the site for a period if previous years are anything to go by.

UPDATE: The Pre-Order page is now live

Apple's iPhone 5 Event Summary and Recap for the Busy

Apple Updated it's iPhone and iPod models with massive redesignes this year. Everything to even the earphones are improved. Let's go over them. 

iPhone 5-

• Faster, Lighter, Thinner
• 1GB RAM (assumed)
• 8 megapixel camera with better quality and faster capture time
• Improved video stabilisation with video recording
• In-Cell Display
• 7.6mm, 18% thinner
• Two Toned Aluminium and Glass Back
• New Dock Connector
• Nano Sim
• Relocated Headphone Jack
• New grilled louder, higher quality speakers
• 3 microphones, noise cancelling
• New Earphones
• 4G LTE
• Longer 1136x640 16:9 4” Retina Screen with higher quality, better contrast ratio
• New 9 pin reversable Sync Cable
• Released on September 21^st
• Better Battery with 225 hour standby
• Apple will sell an adapter for old dock connector accessories
• Will Come with iOS 6
• Costs the same as the 4S
• A6 Chip 2x as fast as A5
• Facetime HD Camera

iPod Touch 5g-

• 4" Screen extended lenghways like iPhone 5
• 6.1mm thin, 88 grams light
• New dock connector
• 1080p, 5 megapixel back camera
• Flash on back
• A5 chip
• Facetime HD camera
• Siri comes to iPod Touch
• 5 colours
• iPod Touch "Loop" can attach a wrist strap

iPod Nano 7g-

• 2.5" multitouch display
• 5.4mm, 38% thinner
• Volume rocker with play/pause functionality
• Round icons
• Video playback

iOS 6-

• Panarama camera mode takes pictures up to 28 megapixels
• Set to be released on September 19th

Other-

• New EarPods earphones

The New iPhone 5 with 4" Screen, 4G LTE, A6 CPU and Beautiful Redesign

The iPhone 5 has finally been officially announced by Apple and it looks damn fine! Here are it's features updating if anymore is revealed. 

• Faster, Lighter, Thinner
• 1GB RAM (assumed)
• 8 megapixel camera with better quality and faster capture time
• Improved video stabilisation with video recording
• In-Cell Display
• 7.6mm, 18% thinner
• Two Toned Aluminium and Glass Back
• New Dock Connector
• Nano Sim
• Relocated Headphone Jack
• New grilled louder, higher quality speakers
• 3 microphones, noise cancelling
• New Earphones
• 4G LTE
• Longer 1136x640 16:9 4” Retina Screen with higher quality, better contrast ratio
• New 9 pin reversable Sync Cable
• Released on September 21^st
• Better Battery with 225 hour standby
• Apple will sell an adapter for old dock connector accessories
• Will Come with iOS 6
• Costs the same as the 4S
• A6 Chip 2x as fast as A5
• Facetime HD Camera

New iPod Touch to be "Biggest Upgrade Ever" with New Colours, GPS, and Camera Improvements

KGI Securities Analyst Ming-Chi who is notoriously reliable in his predictions has released some last minute details on what he expects to be included in the next generation iPod Touch. He expects the dessign and features to be massively overhauled with New colours to attract younger buyers, GPS for better location info and an improved camera over the shoddy current one. 

• New colors: Beyond the traditional black model and the white model added last year, Kuo expects new colors for the iPod touch in order to attract younger customers. Speculation based on part numbers has already suggested that new colors could be in the mix.
• 4-inch display and thinner body: Apple is expected to adopt the same 4-inch display panel with in-cell touch technology that is making its way into the iPhone 5, enabling Apple to shave the iPod touch's thickness down to 6.0-6.5 mm and weight down to under 100 grams.
• GPS: While the current iPod touch can in some cases determine fairly accurate location information based off of Wi-Fi access points, Kuo expects that the new iPod touch will incorporate built-in GPS in order to better capitalize on Apple's new Maps app.
• Camera improvements: Kuo expects the iPod touch to adopt a FaceTime HD camera on the front, as well as a significantly upgraded 5-megapixel rear camera.
• Cross-device compatibility: The new iPod touch may be able to easily connect with iPad and Mac hardware to serve as a game controller or other accessory. iLounge had previously reported that Apple was working on an unannounced iOS 6 feature that would increase cross-device integration using Bluetooth 4.0.
• A5 chip: In line with a report from yesterday, Kuo claims that the new iPod touch will use the A5 system-on-a-chip, presumably the die-shrunk 32-nanometer version that debuted earlier this year in the tweaked iPad 2 and third-generation Apple TV. The iPhone 5 is expected to adopt a more powerful A6 chip.
• Smaller dock connector: Apple's entire iOS device lineup has been rumored to be moving to a new dock connector containing just nine pins rather than the 30 pins found in the current connector. The iPod touch will of course be part of that transition.

Naturally the 4g iPod Touch will be discontinued with this upgrade as lower teired options are generally only for iPhones, which Ming-Chi concurs with. 

Via Macrumors

Finalized iPhone 5 Design Leaked

Just released images from French website nowhereelse.fr seem to show the next iPhone, but with a catch. It looks like the other leaked iPhones were missing a white band that wrapped around the edges seperating the antena band and the front and back of the device. 

With only 30 minutes left until the Apple event starts, they claim it is the final design.