iPhoning It In
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4.1 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
It's September, which can only mean one thing: Apple's got some new products. This week, the company held a virtual event to detail its slate of upcoming iPhones, iPads, and smartwatches. Along with the new chips, Apple showed off some flashy photo and video features meant to appeal to pro users. But are those features all they're cracked up to be? And do you really need to buy the new hardware in order to use them?
This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED reviews editor Julian Chokkattu joins us to talk about everything Apple announced this week and what you need to know before upgrading.
Show Notes:
Read all about the new iPhone 13. Also check out the changes to the iPad Mini. Here’s everything Apple announced at its event this week. Here’s Lauren and Julian’s story about Google’s new tensor chip in its Pixel 6 phone. Read Julian’s guide to iPhone 12 accessories. And you bet your ass we talked about cargo pants again.
Recommendations:
Julian recommends Apple’s MagSafe ecosystem for your phone accessories. Mike recommends just using the iPad Mini instead of a phone. Lauren recommends the docu-series LuLaRich on Amazon Prime.
Julian Chokkattu can be found on Twitter @JulianChokkattu. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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| 0:00.0 | Mike. |
| 0:01.2 | Lauren. |
| 0:01.9 | Mike, now are you going to consider switching to an iPhone? |
| 0:05.3 | I mean, think of all the features, cinematic video, a one-terabyte storage option, |
| 0:10.8 | being totally locked into the Apple universe. |
| 0:13.6 | This sounds so much more appealing than a pixel. |
| 0:16.9 | No, it's that last one that's a real sticking point for me. |
| 0:19.8 | I don't like being locked in anywhere. |
| 0:21.4 | Well, regardless, you can imagine this is what we're going to be talking about today. |
| 0:32.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Gadget Lab. I'm Lauren Good. I'm a senior writer at Wired, and I am podcasting from Kara Swisher's Closet. |
| 0:40.6 | And I am Michael Collory. I am a senior editor at Wired, and I am podcasting from Michael Colore's closet. |
| 0:47.9 | We are also joined by Wired Reviews editor Julian Chakatu, who joins us from New York City. Julian, whose closet are you zooming from right now? |
| 0:56.9 | And are you zooming on an iPhone 13? |
| 0:58.9 | Are you allowed to say whether you are? |
| 1:00.6 | Hello, I am not in a closet and no comment. |
| 1:08.7 | All right. |
| 1:09.6 | So today we're talking about Apple's pre-produced, visually stunning and somewhat boring iPhone 13 event this week. As you may have heard, there was an iPhone event on Tuesday. It was entirely online because we're not yet back to in-person events. Yes, my tweet about arriving at Apple Park before Dieter Bone was a joke, everyone. |
| 1:28.6 | There are some new iPhones, a couple of iPads, and an Apple Watch, or at least there's the |
| 1:33.2 | suggestion of an Apple Watch because we don't yet know when it's shipping. There are also some |
| 1:37.1 | new software features in the iPhone, specifically around the cameras. So we're going to get |
| 1:41.8 | into that software a little bit later in the show and maybe talk a |
| 1:44.4 | little bit about iOS 15, which is the upgrade that we like to say will make your iPhone feel new |
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