Bite Autumn 2012

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Apple iPhone 5

T he iPhone 5, hailed by Apple as their thinnest and lightest iPhone yet, has recently been released to the worldwide market. It has been redesigned with a 4-inch Retina display and, of course, comes bursting with many other new features. Philip Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing said, “iPhone 5 is the most beautiful consumer device that we’ve ever created. We’ve packed an amazing amount of innovation and advanced technology into a thin and light, jewel-like device with a stunning 4-inch Retina display, blazing fast A6 chip, ultrafast wireless, even longer battery life; and we think customers are going to love it.” The body of the iPhone 5 is 7.6 mm of anodised aluminium, making it 20% lighter and 18% thinner than the iPhone 4S. It also has even clearer image. It has a panorama feature which enables you to take panorama images by moving the camera across a scene of your choice. These panorama pictures can reach up to 28 megapixels. Making videos, meanwhile, is further improved with up to ten faces being recognised by the video face detection and you can even combine the act of taking pictures and filming a video both at once. The iPhone 5 comes with Apple EarPods, earphones designed to be longer lasting and to have a more natural fit within the ear. There is also a new microphone system that is noise-cancelling and uses a cellular wideband audio that will make the person on the other end of the phone sound more natural than ever before. Finally, the iPhone 5 also offers the Lightning connector: a digital device allowing you to connect to your various iPhone accessories. www.apple.com more pixels in its Retina display than its predecessor, and the screen has been made longer as opposed to wider. The iPhone 5 supports the speeding wireless technology of LTE and DC-HSDPA and it has an A6 chip to ensure the best performance from the phone in opening web pages, downloading files, and launching apps, as well as improved battery life. It also has an 8 megapixel iSight camera, 25% smaller than the iPhone 4S’ camera, and rather than using a glass cover, it uses sapphire crystal that gives an

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the frustration of having to increase the volume of one’s music to worrying levels, just to drown out the other noises all around but the Parrot Zik headphones possess technology that can eliminate up to 25db. One of the most surprising features included is the ability to answer or make phone calls, hands free, with the use of the headphones as an extension of your Smartphone. Once again the noise cancelling comes into use, enabling phone calls to be carried out with ease between caller and recipient.This is done by sensing and analysing the user’s jaw movements in order to separate their speech from other noises nearby. The Parrot Zik has a touch panel, which can alter the volume by moving one’s finger vertically across it, or switch to the next or last track by a horizontal finger movement. To receive a phone call, you tap the right side of the headphones. To reject the call, touch the panel for two seconds. The headphones will even stop playing music when you remove them, and resume once more when you put them on again. The Parrot Zik is compatible with all mobile phone brands, and even has the ability to work with Bluetooth stereo so you can be sure that such state of the art, luxury headphones can be useful to all. The Parrot Zik headphones are sold via Selfridges, Amazon, and Harrods. www.parrot.com