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📸 Apple releases official photos from the iPhone 18 Pro launch day in NY and beyond

📍At the Apple Fifth Avenue store, customers were greeted by much of Apple's top brass: John Ternus, Greg Joswiak, Deirdre O'Brien, Molly Anderson, Steve Lemay, and Lily Rincon.

📱 The first buyers didn't just pick up their pre-orders, but also got hands-on time with the new lineup and tips on how to use the latest features.

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📱 Apple rolled out a massive global campaign for the iPhone Duo

📍 Samsung, of course, couldn't resist. They swooped in and bought the billboard right next to Apple's ad at Delhi Airport, putting up their own clapback right beside it.

Classic: Apple announces and Samsung claps back within hours. The rivalry never sleeps 🍿

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📱 iPhone 18 Pro reviews are in: great camera, better battery, no big surprises

🧐 First reviews of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are out, and the verdict is familiar: solid upgrade, nothing revolutionary. One reviewer described it essentially as last year's Pro with a better chip, camera, and bigger battery, plus new colors to help people spot the new models.

📸 Camera: New variable aperture (f/1.48–f/4) boosts low-light shots and daytime bokeh, plus new shutter-speed and film-grain options.

🧠 Performance: A20 Pro chip runs demanding games smoothly; bigger vapor chamber keeps it cooler.

🔋 Battery: Biggest win — 18 Pro Max hit 34.5 hours of HD video playback, 2 hours more than last year.

🏝 Dynamic Island is 25% smaller and now shows 3 notifications at once.

✏️ Same overall design as before, and the aluminum camera bump edges still scratch easily = a known issue Apple reportedly isn't fixing.

📅 Sales start tomorrow, September 18. Base 18 Pro (256GB) starts at $1,199.

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🍎 So, how do you like the new iOS and Golden Gate macOS?

What's new, general:

🤪 New Siri – understands on-screen context, in-app actions, and has broader world knowledge (iPhone 15 Pro / 16 and newer)
🛝 Siri Camera – ask questions right from the Camera app, even split a restaurant bill
🖋 Write with Siri – writing help in Messages and Mail, adapts to your personal style
🌼 Photos – Clean Up, Extend, and perspective changes after you've already taken the shot
🧭 Safari – smart tab grouping, page-change tracking, custom extensions on request
🛝 Image Playground – new generation model, including photorealistic style
💠 Shortcuts and Calendar now understand plain natural language for creating things
🔒 More parental control tools
🎛 Liquid Glass is more flexible styling (from fully transparent to fully tinted)
🔋 Better performance and energy efficiency system-wide

P.S. Some Apple Intelligence features are still limited by region and language.

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🤝 iPhone Duo vs Xiaomi 18 Fold

📰 Xiaomi unveiled the 18 Fold in China on September 7, while Apple announced the iPhone Duo two days later. So this time it wasn't Xiaomi "copying" Apple as it literally beat it to market.

The specs:
🆕 iPhone Duo: unfolds to 7.6", 5.4" outer display, A20 Pro chip, titanium frame, 5.2mm thick, 254g. No Face ID (Touch ID is back, in the side button), no telephoto lens. Starts at $1,999 for 256GB, up to $3,199 for 2T, ships October 23.

🆕 Xiaomi 18 Fold: unfolds to 7.58", 5.38" cover screen, in-house Xring O3 chip, 5mm thick, 219g, a massive 6000mAh battery, up to 1TB storage, triple rear camera with no obvious compromises. Starts at roughly ≈$1,600 (10,999 yuan), topping out around ≈$2,050 for the 16GB/1TB config фтв still China-only for now.

🔎 On paper, Xiaomi looks like the more aggressive package: lighter, slightly thinner, bigger battery. But...

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🛝 No one's talking about what Apple did with AI

🔜 iOS 27 drops September 14 as an update, and Siri now clever got rebuilt from the ground up.

🧠 Siri now gets things done, not just answers
If give her access to your calendar and email, and she'll sort messages, book meetings, and follow a task through inside the apps you already use. Onstage demo : a guy walks through a market talking to Siri, and she builds his shopping list live.

🤖 Other new AI bits:
• Record a conversation = it turns into a structured note with action items
• Ask Siri to watch a webpage = she pings you when it changes
• Apple Watch now estimates biological age and suggests workouts

📆 The catch
Siri AI launches in beta, English only with more languages promised later this year. iPhone 15 Pro or newer. Not available in the EU or China at launch.

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🤡 Samsung trolls Apple using a real guy named Tim Cook

📱 Samsung's New Zealand branch dropped (as usual) a parody video starring an actual resident of Palmerston North named Tim Cook. This full namesake of Apple's former CEO showed up on camera holding a foldable Galaxy Z Fold 8.

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🆕 foldable iPhone Duo

• 2 screens: 7.6” and 5.4”
• 48 MP main camera with 2x optical zoom and a wide-angle lens. Front camera with Center Stage, plus an under-display camera
• Apple Pencil support (later)
• Titanium body
• Charges to 50% in 20 minutes
• eSIM only

💸 US pricing
• 256 GB: $1,999
• 512 GB: $2,199
• 1 TB: $2,599
• 2 TB: $3,199

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🔥 Apple's fall lineup in the highlight reel

A mini teaser wrapping up everything new from the yesterday's Apple Event:

🆕 iPhone Duo
🆕 iPhone 18 Pro & iPhone 18 Pro Max
🆕 Apple Watch Series 12 & Apple Watch Ultra 4
🆕 AirPods 5

...and of course, Joz. 😄

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🚨 Apple discontinues iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

📰 Following today's iPhone 18 Pro launch, Apple has officially discontinued the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max as both removed from the lineup on the website. The devices will still get software updates, and remaining stock is expected at retailers and carriers while supplies last.

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Ready or not! Here it comes!

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