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welcome to a special edition to albacore as you can see today we are not in the studio we are at the Apple event in fact if you can peek through those trees you'll be able to catch a glimpse of the Apple Campus that spaceship campus and right behind me here is the Steve Jobs theater where Apple has just announced their latest batch of products and I'm gonna give you a play-by-play of everything that happened today ending with our first hands-on look at those new products the first product out of the gate was the Apple watch series 4 and there's a reason why it was the headliner because the least in my eyes it really stole the show it got the first big redesign since its launch and thanks to nine-to-five Mac we knew exactly what that redesign would look like so yes bigger screened but not just because of those barely-there bezels but also because the screen itself got larger from 38 to 40 millimeters for the smaller version and 42 to 44 millimeters for the larger one that means more complications on the screen up to 8 which we also knew from the leak and a new set of watch faces to choose from but still no watch face store or sleep tracking and the battery life doesn't seem to have improved much from the last model but once in the demo room I actually got to take a closer look at the watch and put it side-by-side with the series 3 that I had on my wrist and here's where you really see the difference in that screen size also worth noting the digital crown looks way better with just the red outline for the LTE version instead of that big red dot it also has the now haptic feedback which is useful for a superpower but I'll get to that later I also want to point out that the mic is moved position it has a better speaker so just to reduce echo they've moved it below the digital crown and the back is now made of ceramic and sapphire this is supposed to boost cell signal on the watches it also feels more comfortable on the wrist I think the body itself is slimmer but also the sensors don't jut out as much and it seems to be more flush with my skin it's actually those sensors that are the main event for the watch it has a new EKG or ECG feature meaning it can pretty much screen for potentially life-threatening diseases like atrial fibrillation it now alerts you when you have an irregular heart rate and then you can either confirm or deny by just putting your finger on that digital crown to take an ECG and maybe send it to your doctor for analysis now the other big thing is that it does have FDA clearance which is a huge step forward for a consumer wearable it also has an improved accelerometer and gyroscope so precise that it could actually figure out when you've taken a tumble now this is helpful if you actually hurt yourself and if it detects that you're not moving it takes the next step for you and actually sends out an SOS alert and lets your loved ones know that you've taken a fall that to me really elevates the watch for a different kind of audience that's not just looking to get in shape or to use it as an extension of their phone but who's looking to really keep tabs on their health or an audience who's looking to keep tabs on the health of their loved ones okay next up iPhones the sequels to the ten are officially the 10s and 10's Max and I still can't get used to saying max so excuse me if I at some point stumble and say Plus because it still still hasn't sunk in but moving on they were exactly what we expected thanks again to a leaked by 95 Mac we had the 5.8 inch and the 6.5 inch super Retina Howlett screen with that nice gold finish they both have better sound better camera sensor a 12 Bionic processor faster and more secure face ID dual SIM option and a 512 gigabytes storage option at the low price of 999 dollars or 1099 dollars oh yeah or 1499 dollars for the 512 gigabyte option yikes that's a lot of numbers and a lot of money now up close the 10 doesn't look that much bigger than the previous 8 Plus which is pretty cool the fact that they've been able to really take advantage of all the real estate on the front of the phone it has one full inch more so also a much nicer goal than the previous models at least in my opinion here they are all three of them together we have the aluminum 7 plus the glass and aluminum 8 plus which looked more like pink let's be honest and this new stainless steel which in my opinion is kind of what makes the gold on this finish look better I also got to play around with the advanced portrait mode feature that lets you change the intensity of the blur after you've taken the shot that's similar to what we'd already seen from Samsung with the selective focus but I did feel like the blur on the max looked a little bit more natural than what I was used to seeing on the iPhone 10 at least in the few minutes that I had to play around with it then that one more thing which in this case happened to be an iPhone which we were already expecting what we didn't know was the name the iPhone 10 are don't ask me what the arch stands for because I'm not sure that Apple knows what the R stands for but that doesn't mean we can't have some fun playing a guessing game down in the comment section below or hit me up on Twitter with your funniest or best guesses of what that R stands for anyway we didn't have an official leak of this phone but it did match up to a lot of the mock-ups we had been seeing pretty much everywhere at this point it did have six new color options that we weren't quite sure of a red a blue a yellow a coral a white and black with that 6.1 inch LCD screen oh wait liquid Retina display and single camera on the back here it is side by side with an iPhone 10 and an iPhone 8 plus it's actually a really nice size right in the middle of these two there are a few other differences to point out like the aluminum frame we also expected that versus the stainless steel and no 3d touch instead it actually has haptic touch on the side button and for things like quick launch of the camera but aside from that it seems to be on par with the other two at least where it matters the same a 12 Bionic processor a dual SIM option that faster face ID and it even has portrait mode but it's doing that with software because it obviously doesn't have that second telephoto lens so TBD whether or not this actually works the Google pixel does it with software and it does it pretty well so it could be that it does a legitimate portrait mode as well but the best thing about this phone is that it's 250 dollars cheaper than its cheapest counterpart which happens to be smaller and it's kind of sad that anything below $1000 now is considered cheap so I'm just gonna call it less expensive either way it's a good alternative if you're not willing to fork up the thousand dollars for either of the other two models and and again that's just for the six before gigabyte option because if not you're going to spend closer to the thousand dollars sadly no more one more things after that except we did find out that the fast charger and the dongle will be mi a in the box of these new iPhones pre-orders for the iPhone 10 s 10 s max and the Apple watch series for begin on Friday September 14 with the phones and the watch actually going on sale the following Friday September 21st but unfortunately the rumors were also true about the delays for the cheaper iPhone 10 R and you're gonna have to wait for the pre-order which begins October 19th and it doesn't go on sale till October 26 so that concludes the gather round portion of the Apple event here at the Steve Jobs theater we got four new Apple products we got three new iPhones and an Apple watch series for that I want to know which one of these you guys like best hit me up on the comment section below or on Twitter and we also didn't get answers to all of our questions at this event so we're gonna be back next week at the apple core discussing what we didn't get from the Apple event so come back at 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