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what's good brian Tong here and welcome to the show that's all about the good and bad inside the world of Apple we call it the Apple bite because it's a catchy name now let's get to the show and it's official apple recently sent out their colorful invitation for their expected September 10th event with the tagline this should brighten everyone's day and it really did Oh it'll be held at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino just like they did when they announced the iphone 4s and the smaller venue on apple's campus leads me to believe we won't be seen any big surprises so what can we expect to see well if you've been watching the show the past few weeks it's really no secret at all we're expecting to see two new phones with the iphone 5s that's rumored to be coming not only in white or black but also a gold champagne color change that intrigues me and possibly even graphite now apple retail employees and t-mobile employees have been issued vacation blackout dates that indicate a sep tember 20th iphone 5s launch date feature wise the rumor mills point to the same exact screen size and form factor which we've pretty much accepted now unless they've tricked us all in yeah that has to be it now there's possibly a new a7 processor a 128 gig option and improve 13 megapixel camera with a dual LED flash and possibly a fingerprint scanner for security that looks like this one from SW box.com and that's really the biggest key to me a fingerprint reader might not be the sexiest thing but the next evolution of the smartphone is to become our wallet there's all these different mobile payment standards out there competing to be the one google wallet tried but it's clumsy and it doesn't work very well and now i've used phones that could be used as true wallets back in 2005 when I was in Japan and looked almost exactly the same age and they worked seamlessly and I know it's no easy task at all it will take time but if Apple wants to get some of their mojo back make our phone a real wallet that works oh and a battery life yeah make that super long to all right if you're using a fluorescent there's a lot of you out there I think you're really going to love the 5s with the new hardware for you and iOS 7 so Apple is trying to make it easy for everyone to upgrade with a recently launched iphone trade-in program at Apple stores you can get anywhere from one hundred twenty dollars to as high as two hundred and eighty bucks for your iphone and the convenience of doing it all in one place but other trade in services like gazelle huh not that gizelle this gazelle offer up to 340 bucks for an iphone 5 trade-in depending on the model so that might be worth it to you now the other phone were expecting is the iphone 5 seat with its plastic shell coming in a variety of colors that no one has told me they're excited about it's going to target the lower end market in other countries and we've really seen almost every color you can imagine in case you want to pink this is what it might look like now Apple also sent out invites to Chinese media for a sep tember 11th event with the timing only making them several hours apart from the US announcement and fueling rumors that China Mobile will finally launched an iphone all things the also reports satellite events will be held in tokyo and berlin now iOS 7 will round out the announcements and it's a big deal for apple moving forward after using 7 the whole time in going back to 6 i'm a fan of 7 even with its hello kitty look and the top two features i've used the most one the control center and number two surprisingly iTunes radio and it's really that good plus I should also include the lock screen I use that every time i unlock my screen now the big a is released six versions of the iOS 7 beta so is pretty much ready to roll right now between the 10th and the 20th now iOS 6 was released two days before the iphone 5s launched last year so we'll probably see something similar for the 5s but what could be that one more thing you know that one more thing that Apple no longer really does well there's rumors of the eyebrow I've been told that's not happening which is a total bummer and they surprised everyone with the mac Proteas at WWDC no one saw that one coming even if only maybe four percent of apple's user base will buy one so what could it be guys well GigaOM reports that a recent bill of lading from the US Department of Homeland Security shows apple recently took in three shipments of set-top boxes from a known partner in China as recent as August the 18th now could it be an updated Apple TV Kern Apple TVs are labeled by their part number n is definitely not the Apple TV TV they were small shipments either with the first Wayne over one metric ton that's over 2,200 pounds and the other two shipments were over 16 and a half metric tons each so that's some serious hardware we may or may not see but there's no indication we'll see anything like Samsung's Galaxy gear watch at this keynote if that's your kind of thing but it feels like we already know exactly what to expect so we'll wait to see what Apple officially shows us on sep tember the tenth plus we already plan to see another event in October featuring new iPads the new Mac Pro OS 10 Mavericks maybe even macbook pros and possibly even IMAX and mac minis now we want to hear from you the Apple biters your thoughts on Apple's announcements so send me your emails to the apple byte at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong and will include some of them in next week's show now i'm honestly excited how can you not be but i'm not really expecting to be blown away but hey maybe they'll surprise me we'll just all find out together all right that's gonna do it for this week's show i'm brian Tong thanks for watching I will catch you guys next week for another bite of the Apple you