Apple 7 September event: Piano Black iPhones, a less-dependent Apple Watch 2 and more

Every year, a long list of leaks gives fans plenty of hints about what to expect from Apple’s September event. The event year after year, sees the launch of Apple’s newest iPhones and but unlike last year, many will also expect Apple to announce a new Apple Watch as well. Other goodies with every year’s September event are the roll outs of Apple’s operating system updates for its Mac, iPhone, Watch and TV. This year however, the rumours have gotten out of proportion and there have been leaks of one too many iPhone 7 models including an iPhone 6SE that recently leaked out a week ago. So what’s what and what’s not at this year’s 7 September event? Let take a long hard look. iPhones in Piano Black [caption id=“attachment_323507” align=“aligncenter” width=“640”] Apple iPhone 7 render by Martin Hajek[/caption] While the world drooled at the thought a ‘Space Black’ iPhone and then got disappointed that it was just a distant dream. Well, its time to day dream again Apple fans, as a recent leak hints at the possibility of a ‘Piano Black’ and ‘Dark Black’ iPhones this year. https://twitter.com/the_malignant/status/772369664487911424 The Dark Black variant will replace the current Slate Grey option while the slick-looking Piano Black variant will be reserved for the high-capacity 256GB variants of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. The news comes from a tipster Malignant who leaked out labels of the prototype devices, once again sparking rumours of a Space Black iPhone. With that said, Apple would have to change the metal used for building its iPhones as well. While the Dark Black coating can be easily achieved on the aluminium-bodied iPhones, Apple may need to switch to ceramic or steel to get a Space Black or Piano Black finish for the premium models, similar to what it did with its Watch models. Coming to the internals, the new iPhones will pack in a mandatory spec bump that should see an A10 chipset along with a speculated 3GB RAM. Other important details include the a home button with Force Touch capabilities would also mean an updated scanning technology from Sonavation , believed to be the only other company (apart from Qualcomm) that has developed ultrasonic fingerprint reading technologies. For now it is unclear as to what Apple plans to do with a Force Touch home button, but with Siri coming to third-party apps, a Force Touch home button could be used in a Google Now on Tap- like fashion to help Siri read up your screen without leaving an app. Because apart from this its hard to tell why anyone would need a Force Touch home button especially now that everyone’s used to a clickable one. Apart from above expect the much-loved 3.5mm headphone jack to disappear. Apple may in all probability announce of a pair of Bluetooth earbuds. For a deeper analysis of the upcoming iPhone 7, including price tags, storage size, click here . As for the iPhone 6SE, we have only seen the packaging of the device, which also means that this could be fake. Apple is banking on a number of new features, which should make it good enough to stand up tall as an iPhone 7 even if all of them come packaged in a design similar to the iPhone 6. A less-dependent Apple Watch The next version of the Apple Watch so far has been a well-guarded secret. All we seen and heard come from analyst KGI analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo,  who predicts that the Apple Watch 2 will not look any different from the current model. It will however pack in a better battery, and the new models (two in all) are expected to bring in better waterproofing and finally GPS. The first version would be a tiny upgrade with better processor and waterproofing while the new Watch 2 should pack in GPS, a barometer and a higher capacity battery. While the latter hints at an independent Watch, it may still be dependent on your iPhone, but not as much as it was in the past. Part of this speculation comes from watchOS betas that show apps running smoothly unlike on past versions of the software. Cellular connectivity is not expected to make it to the Apple Watch this year as well. Apple seems to have tried , but getting decent battery life seems to have been the main problem. iOS, macOS, watchOS get new features Coming to the other interesting bit that will make plenty of existing owners of Apple devices happy, is the software rollout. This time we have iOS 10, macOS and watchOS. With iOS, Siri will be the centre of all things mobile. Siri now being made available for third-party app developers, should be able to tap into every single app take commands for them as well. With iOS 10 onboard, users will be able to send a message to a WhatsApp contact using Siri or even book a cab using just their voice. Apart from Siri, iMessage also gets a big upgrade. iMessage is now a platform with its own little apps that will add to flavour to the messaging experience that until now was drab and boring. 3D Touch is more important than ever on iPhones, with plenty of new features including widgets that pop up from app icons and even the ability to interact with notifications right from your lock screen. Siri finally comes to Mac which means all of your Apple devices are now connected like never before. On macOS Sierra, Siri get even more powerful even though it’s the first time the digital assistant meets desktops and laptops. By this we mean Siri will also be able to understand natural language or and conduct intelligent search queries. You could simply ask Siri to ‘search for all the documents you worked on last month’ as a query, and it’ll display all the document files present in the Document folder. Impressed? Universal clipboard makes things even better. Simply put, it will allow you to copy an image from your iPhone and let you past it a document on your Mac! From what we have seen with developer betas so far, the Apple Watch is all geared up to make itself a lot more useful. Apart from the fact that you will be able to unlock your Mac using your Watch, watchOS 3 does bring in some much-needed upgrades. You will no longer need to fiddle around with the Carousel, as you can simply tap on the apps in your dock to access them. Even bigger is that watchOS now supports accessibility and will even support wheelchair workouts. Add to this plenty of speed improvements (even launching native and third-party apps) and the update will be worthwhile.