iPhone 4S officially announced with A5 CPU

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What's this? The second coming of the iPhone 4? Sure enough, Tim Cook just pulled the covers off of the hotly-anticipated iPhone 4s here in Cupertino, making 2011 the first year in the company's current stint in the smartphone business that it chose to launch three new handsets (Verizon's CDMA iPhone 4included, of course).

New iPod Touch maxes out a 64GB / $399, available in white October 12th

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No new iPhones yet, but we do have a new iPod Touch.

Apple's new nano: $149 for 16GB and $129 for 8GB

Apple keeps coming with the news from it's "Let's talk iPhone" event, and the latest is a price drop for it's diminutive PMP, the Nano. From now on, you'll be forking over $129 for an 8GB version and $149 for twice the tunage space.

iTunes Match hits US 'end of October' for $24.99

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We already had the details on iTunes Match, but now we've got a ball-park release date. According to Apple, the iTunes service will make it's debut by the end of the month in the great U S of A, and it can be yours for $24.99.

iOS 5 will be available October 12, with iCloud launching the same day

Mark your calendars, kids. Scott Forstall's on stage here at "Let's Talk iPhone" and just gave a hard date for iOS 5's (mass audience) arrival: expect it to hit next week, on October 12th, with Apple's iCloud service opening up shop that same day. Though developers have been playing with it for four months now, this will be the first time the general, non-tinkering public gets to taste its 200-plus new features -- a list that includes Newsstand, Reminders, iMessage, WiFi sync, Find My Friends, split keyboards, AirPlay mirroring for iPad 2 and the Notification Center. (And, you know, greeting cards, if you're into that sort of thing.)

Apple: 250 million iOS devices sold, 18 billion apps downloaded

Among the glut of numbers coming out of the Apple keynote today, delaying the reveal of your next iPhone, was a particularly impressive one: 250 million. That's the number of iOS devices sold. That's 250 million iPhones and iPads in the wild worldwide, running a grand total of 18 billion apps between them, which have netted developers a whopping $3 billion. That ladies and gentlemen, is nothing to sniff at.

Tim Cook: Macbook Pro and iMac are the best selling notebook and desktop in the US

Tim Cook kicked off today's 'Let's talk iPhone' event by the numbers, mentioning that "the MacBook Pro and iMac are the number one best selling notebook and desktop in the United States." Apparently the Mac platform grew by 23 percent over the last year, versus a four percent growth from the PC sector. Brandishing a chart tracing the trend back five years, Cook says that Apple is now pushing 60 million Mac users worldwide, leaving Cupertino just shy of owning a fourth of the personal computer market. "There are still 77 percent of people who are buying something else," Cook said, "We have an incredibly high ceiling here. We have a long way to go."

Apple: Six million copies of OS X Lion downloaded since launch

Before we get to the real meat of things, Tim Cook's just trotted out some Lion numbers -- six million copies downloaded since launch, to be exact. According to the big Apple's new CEO, that's a growth of 80 percent over Snow Leopard. Of course, those numbers would mean nothing without a little comparison. Cook says it took Windows 7 20 weeks to meet 10 percent of Windows' install base, compared to the two weeks it took Lion to reach the same portion of OS X users.

Apple: 16 billion iTunes songs downloaded, 300 million iPods sold

Tim Cook's dishing out plenty of numbers today, and there's some big ones when it comes to the iPod and iTunes. He confirmed that there's now been a whopping 16 billion songs downloaded from iTunes, and 300 million iPods sold. To put that in a bit of perspective, he also noted that it took Sony 30 years to sell a mere 220,000 Walkman cassette players.

Apple announces Find My Friends feature for iOS 5

Apple spent a fair bit of time recapping some already announced iOS 5 features, but it finally got around to announcing a new one: Find My Friends. That will let you easily find friends who have opted to share their location with you, and you'll also be able to invite friends to share their location for a limited time -- when they're driving to your house, for instance, so you can give them directions. Naturally, there are some parental controls and other "simple" privacy settings.