This seems new: Apple just announced that in iOS 6, you’ll be able to share photos through Photo Stream with friends, and when you share, you can comment on the photos, have your friends comment on photos and even like photos, with all changes pushed to you by notification. It looks like Facebook integration into Photo Stream, but Apple’s not calling it that. Is this Apple getting into the photography social networking game?

Also, Apple’s right. Alex Heath is a slob. Someone get that poor hobo a clean shirt.

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One of the biggest upgrades to the iPhone 5, though, is the new 8-pin dock connector. It’s called Lightning, and its going to throw third party accessory makers into havok.

The iPhone 5’s improvements aren’t all visual though. It’s also got a bitching new audio system.

First of all, the new iPhone has three microphones, at the front back and bottom. That gives much better voice clarity.

Speakers have five magnet transducers, which is up from three.

And the earpiece? Built in noise canceling of your own audio out. That’s actually super impressive.

These are the silent killer upgrades. Expect the iPhone 5 to be the best sounding smartphone in the world.

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Apple today unveiled the new improvements in the iPhone 5’s camera. The iPhone 5 features multiple enhancements in what Apple is calling the “iSight” department. The device’s 8 megapixel sensor will shoot pics at a 3264×2448 resolution, and the camera includes a Hybrid IR filter and next-gen ISP technology. Schiller noted that the camera itself is 25% smaller.

In iOS 6 the Camera app will include a Panorama mode for taking large landscape pictures, and Shared Photo Streams will give users the ability to effortlessly share pics with friends and family on the go.

For video, the iPhone 5 shoots rear-facing 1080p video like the iPhone 4S. The front-facing camera now shoots 720p video for FaceTime, which is a nice improvement.

For more on the iPhone 5’s camera, check out Charlie’s feature.

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Phil Schiller has again taken the stage, and now he wants to make some points about the iPhone 5’s battery life.

“We’re really proud that the iPhone 5 battery life exceeds the iPhone 4S.”

Following the announcement that the iPhone 5 features LTE networking, Apple’s Phil Schiller unveiled the phone’s new A6 processor. According to Schiller, the A6 chip is 2x faster than the previous A5 in both CPU and GPU computing.

“It’s a huge jump in performance, but 22% smaller,” noted Schiller.

Per tradition, Apple invited EA onstage to demo the upcoming Real Racing 3 game on the iPhone 5’s A6 chip. EA explained how the A6 allows for “”full console quality” gaming on a mobile device.

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Apple just lifted the curtain on the iPhone 5, it’s most groundbreaking iPhone yet. The device features a 4-inch Retina display with 1136 x 640 screen resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio. To show off the new display, Apple’s Phil Schiller demonstrated what widescreen iOS apps look like on the device.

Not only will the iOS Home screen feature 5 rows of icons instead of the traditional 4, but all of Apple’s own apps will be updated to make use of the iPhone 5’s new screen real estate. Games and other kinds of apps also look great on the display, and the aspect ratio allows for truer widescreen video.

The iPhone 5 doesn’t just have a lighter, thinner construction, though. As rumored, it also has “ultrafast wireless.” Yep, that means LTE.

“We have some very exciting news to tell you about the iPhone,” Tim Cook says. And now Phil Schiller’s up.

“I think Time Magazine said it best ‘it is the phone that has changed phones forever’ and boy were they right,” says Schiller. Every year they raise the bar. Here comes a hole new bar.

“Today we’re introducing the iPhone 5.” The iPhone 5 rises from a pedestal in front of the audience. Holy crap.

Tim Cook is going through the preliminary statistics of Apple’s business right now, which is usually where people snooze in these events, but this number really stuck out to us: Tim Cook says that the iPad has sold “more iPads than any PC manufacturer sold of their entire PC line.”

Read that quote again. It’s absolutely nuts. There are 84 million iPads out there, as of June. And Apple has done this while still growing the Mac 15% year-over-year compared to just two percent year-over-year growth for PCs.

Apple rules the computer world.

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