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Home » News » Apple unveils iPhone 12 with 5G, including ‘Mini’ and ‘Pro’ versions

Apple unveils iPhone 12 with 5G, including ‘Mini’ and ‘Pro’ versions

by Reuters
13 October 2020
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Apple CEO Tim Cook poses with the all-new iPhone 12 Pro at Apple Park in Cupertino, California

Apple CEO Tim Cook poses with the all-new iPhone 12 Pro at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, U.S. in a photo released October 13, 2020. Apple unveils iPhone 12 with 5G, including ‘Mini’ and ‘Pro’ versions. Brooks Kraft/Apple Inc./Handout via REUTERS

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Apple on Tuesday launched the iPhone 12 with faster 5G connectivity starting at $799, which the Cupertino, California company hopes will spur a wave of upgrades and keep its sales booming through the end of the year.

The iPhone 12, with a 6.1-inch display, has flat sides with a flush display, similar to the company’s iPhone 5 and a departure from rounded edges in recent years. 

Apple also introduced a “Mini” version with a 5.4-inch screen for $699 and a “Pro” version with three cameras.

Verizon Communications CEO Hans Vestberg said the new iPhones would work with the carrier’s “ultrawideband” 5G network designed to alleviate bottlenecks in major cities like New York and Los Angeles as well as in crowded areas like NFL stadiums. 

Apple said all iPhone 12 models in the United States will support millimeter wave 5G, the fastest variant of the technology, as well as lower-frequency bands. Some rival Android devices support only the lower-frequency versions of 5G.

Apple said it had tested 5G on more than 800 carriers in 30 regions globally.

The new iPhone 12 colors #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/xut3fe1LnX

— Apple Hub (@theapplehub) October 13, 2020

The new phone will have a “ceramic shield” glass cover to resist cracks when dropped. 

Apple also announced a HomePod Mini smart speaker that will come in white and gray, cost $99 and be shipped starting Nov. 16. 

The new HomePod offers features like allowing use by multiple users in a home and sending information to car-based systems. For example, a user can tee up driving directions to a store after asking the HomePod what time it closes. Many of the features serve as a catch-up to similar offerings from Amazon and Google.

The annual launch event is nearly one month later than normal and comes as the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted Apple’s well-oiled machine for designing and churning out its biggest-selling product. 

The iPhones announced Tuesday will test whether Apple can keep up that streak and ride a wave of consumer excitement around 5G wireless data networks, whose speediest variants outstrip their predecessors’ data rates multiple times over. Android devices from Samsung Electronics and others have featured the new networking capabilities for months, and analysts say 5G phones are driving upgrades. 

pple's vice president of iPhone Product Marketing Kaiann Drance unveils the all-new iPhone 12 at a special event at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, U.S. in a still image from video released October 13, 2020.
Apple unveils iPhone 12 with 5G, including ‘Mini’ and ‘Pro’ versions. Apple Inc./Handout via REUTERS

But Apple is in a delicate position of needing to excite consumers with 5G without setting them up for a disappointment: For many of its fans, it will be their first experience with 5G networks, which in the United States remain years away from delivering dramatic speed boosts for most consumers. Some analysts worry Apple will be selling a high-powered sports car while its customers remain confined to sleepy village roadways.

Shares of Apple fell 2.5% on Tuesday, after jumping 6% the day before, which added $128 billion to its stock market value.

Apple in January quit giving financial guidance, citing uncertainty from the pandemic. But despite waves of retail store closures and travel bans that delayed the development of the iPhone because Apple engineers were not able to cross the Pacific to Chinese factories as frequently, Apple’s financial results have largely bucked the pandemic. 

In July at its most recent earnings, the company posted year-on-year revenue gains across every category and in every geography as consumers working and learning from home during the COVID-19 pandemic turned to its products and services.

Apple last month launched new watch models with blood oxygen sensors and updated its iPad models while also rolling out a new bundle of its paid subscription services called Apple One.

The company has also committed to introducing new Mac computers before year’s end based on processors of its own design rather than those from Intel Corp. 

(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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