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hello and welcome to inside scoop I'm Sumi das we are trying something a little bit different today joining me via Skype is josh lowensohn senior writer for cnet josh thanks for being with us my pleasure so Josh you are among the lucky few who received an invitation this morning for the upcoming apple event these invites always have clues what were the clues this time there really weren't a lot of clues of today's apple invite oh the big tagline was this should brighten everyone's day and did it brighten your day Josh it did ray my day in the fact that it came when we were expecting it they sent it just after 9am pacific time which is kind of their normal the big thing to look for on the invite are just a bunch of polka dots basically of colors you have yellows greens blues oranges these are basically the colors were expecting for their next iPhone the iPhone 5c along with the newer high-end model the iphone 5s the 5c that's the low cost model iphone that we're all expecting to be announced is that right yeah this is the one that's probably going to cost about four hundred dollars that's a lot of analysts and expected between four and five hundred dollars unlocked as a frame of reference the iphone 4 which is now a 3 year old model costs four hundred and fifty dollars so this is probably going to be cheaper more affordable and maybe something that's targeted towards emerging markets like China and India where a lot of people just buy their phone upfront not from their carrier so no clues about possible iPad announcements then I'm pretty sure this is going to be here just for iPhones I think that a newer iPad or iPads are going to be expected in a an event in October or maybe even early November that's something that's typically kind of bundled in with other announcements or at least it was last year when Apple did it last October so I there's a there's a key reason it kind of launched those products in that product line at a later time especially if they're doing to iphone models a lot of the attention will shift to tablets and I think if you look at something like the ipad the ipad mini those are two things that really stand on the road now they're very popular products they sold in some cases almost as many as a iphone so it's kind of become apples second big moneymaker behind the iphone and is there anything to be inferred from the location we know the event is scheduled for September 10th a lot of people were assuming it would be held here in San Francisco but it's actually going to take place in Cupertino yeah this is happening in Apple's headquarters and that's not really unusual they've done some other events there notably the iphone 4s and 2011 as well as the new macbook airs as well as OS 10.7 lion back in 2010 so there's this kind of long history of doing events there the curious thing is whether they're going to do it kind of on the same scale these events have gotten larger more and more people are trying to get in there and cover it and this is one of the smallest venues to have it in last year they had in yerba buena center for the arts which holds a lot more people and it's also more central in San Francisco at least its central for us given that cnet is based here in San Francisco all right Josh and you will be attending the event I presume yeah we'll be there live it's kind of unclear whether there will be live video Apple did that last October for the ipad mini event but not for the iphone event last September so I guess we'll see so this week we're expecting a lot of SmartWatch announcements out of eva in berlin large conference we know that samsung will unveil its Galaxy gear given that rumors have swirled around an apple iWatch does this put added pressure on Apple in terms of pressure for a watch I don't think apples ready to unveil that yet especially from what we know from what the teams have been working on and from rumors we've heard from our sources it's not at the point where they're ready to go with it a lot of the products that we're going to see this fall kind of got locked down in the April timeline so if you look at something like a watch it's just not ready yet and if you're expecting a watch this year it's probably best to wait till next year to see that from Apple in terms of what that product will be that's the kind of interesting story I think a lot of people myself included are expecting the Samsung watch to kind of be a companion to your smartphone not a phone itself something Samsung is actually done with a couple of previous products and that's kind of the direction we expect able to go to either way we'll count on you to keep us informed of what's happening on the inside Josh thank you for inside scoop I'm Sumi das thanks for watching