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what's up Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple bite for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple last week was a beast with all the Apple leaks from the home pod firmware release but guess what it's the gift that keeps on giving now let's start with the iPhone 8 because everyone wants more iPhone goodies I know you do I help PR has uncovered new code that suggests the iPhone will be able to scan your face even while the device is laying flat an earlier Bloomberg report claimed the facial recognition system would be more nuanced capturing more data points compared to touch ID and could operate beyond simply scanning faces head-on now your smartphone could be unlocked even when it's at an odd angle with Apple's new face unlock a tweet by Bloomberg smart durman says Apple will pitch face ID as being quicker more secure and more accurate than touch ID and people inside Apple say it is now the facial recognition system will likely work also with Apple pay with references for pearl resting inside the payment verification data pearl refers to pearl ID which is the codename for Apple's facial recognition system I helped PR has also found that the iPhone 8 may record 4k video at 60 frames per second for both the front and rear cameras the current iPhone 7s rear camera Accords 4k at 30 frames per second and the front-facing camera is limited to 1080p right now Gellhorn Rambo discovered a new smart camera feature that suggests the new iPhone can auto detect different types of scenes conditions or things such as fireworks foliage pet sports the sky or snow there's also a freeze motion feature to recognize a fast moving target and capture a photo at an ideal moment and we know with these phones these days it's all about the camera and for the 426 of you and last week's comments without Apple leaked this on purpose do you still really think that because come on they didn't there is no way they leaked all of this on purpose just no way all right we can always count on Foxconn for even more iPhone goodies an employee has allegedly taken photos of the new iPhones internals that were posted on social media site Weibo you see that a large black spot in the center yeah that rep the iPhones wireless charging coil and we've been expecting that as one of its long rumored features and remember the Palm Pre way way back in like 2009 that was one of the first phones with wireless charging this is expected to be Apple's first eight years later all right cagey eyes Ming cheek well reports at all 2017 iPhones will come in only three colors black silver and gold that also matches up with a recent iPhone dummy model leaked Kuo also believes all phones will be announced together in September and Apple will launch them all on the same date based on his knowledge of the mass production starting in mid September with the iPhone 8 being extremely limited at first other reports claim the new iPhone 8 launch could be delayed until October November but we'll have to wait and find out all right enough about the iPhone for now let's talk about Apple TV a reference to a 4k HDR display mode in the home pods firmware backs up rumors that Apple has been testing a 4k 5th generation Apple TV Yale home Rambo also found strings that could indicate support for both Dolby vision and HDR 10 Apple recently listed select movies from iTunes as 4k and HDR in the iTunes history in Canada and the UK now the movies are still only playing in SD or 1080p but it could be another sign that they're preparing to drop a new Apple TV on us this year and the man of really the past week Stephen Chow Smith tweeted screenshots of Apple's TV OS simulator running in 4k with a screen resolution running at 3840 by 2160 there is no clear launch date but come on Apple you got to get this out in time for the holiday season all right a Bloomberg story over the weekend reports Apple is planning to release an LTE version of the Apple watch later this year that will reduce its dependence on the iPhone the report says Intel will supply the new modems for this series 3 watch an apple is already in talks with carriers in the US and Europe about offering the cellular version gizmo is the internal code name for the series 3 Apple watch and developer Jeffrey Grossman even found references to gizmo in the home pod firmware that refers to the cellular radio reportedly supplied by Intel now reports claimed Apple and plan to release this LTE version of the last year but chose to hold off on it due to battery issues Apple is still working on ways to improve the battery life and they really have no choice to make this the independent watch we've been waiting for and before we go we had so much stuff to get through last week we didn't want to forget to pay our respects to the iPod Nano and the iPod shuffle you see Apple remove the - from its website an online store and confirmed the media players have been discontinued so we wanted to take a moment to remember them okay it reminds me though that I still have my original iPod and it still works like a charm like this guy right here this is a collector's item no crap okay well that's gonna do it for this week's show you know what you can email us at the Apple bita cnet.com or tweet me at Brian Tong thanks so much for watching and we will catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple oh crap okay what the hell happened here no it's not funny man this is like a collector's item dude sucks