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11/22/2024 03:52:52 am

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Apple iPhone 6 Release Date: New Health Kit and Phosphorus Chip at $800

According to a new leak, the Sept. 9 release date of the highly-anticipated iPhone 6 is confirmed. French tech blog Nowhere Else published new photos of what is supposedly part of the packaging for Apple's latest flagship smartphone.

The photos show a new wake/sleep button location on the iPhone 6's upper right hand side. Other claims include that the smartphone will feature a reversible USB port and a beefed up battery unit. It is said that Apple used sapphire glass for the next-gen iPhone 6 screen for a smash and scratch proof display. Nowhere Else leaked the same photos of an iPhone 5S documentation citing a reliable Chinese source. In 2013, it leaked the new home button with fingerprint sensor only hours ahead of the Apple launch.

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Steve Hemmerstoffer of Nowhere Else said that his source is still correct this year. According to him, the company chose a clean, white box for its upcoming flagship smartphone. Nowhere Else also indicated that the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 could have 128 GB of internal memory.

Apple is rumored to be launching two iPhone 6 sizes with a large 5.5-inch phablet model to be called iPhone 6L. Meanwhile, Samsung is rumored to be releasing the Samsung Galaxy Alpha to compete with Apple's smaller iPhone 6 variant. The iPhone 5S has a 4-inch screen.

Other iPhone 6 rumored features are an ultra thin body, higher screen resolution and a new Apple operating system iOS 8. Apple's WWDC keynote was HealthKit, an iOS tool for a more functional and cohesive library of fitness and health apps for the iPhone.

Weibo user GeekBar also posted a photo of schematics for Phosphorus, a chip supposedly to follow-up the M7 motion coprocessor in the iPhone 5S.

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