<\/a>Dominique Lacey and Shelbi Ware
\n<\/strong>Staff Writers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apple presented bigger and better smart phone technology on Sept. 9 during an Apple Live Special Event video on their website.<\/p>\n

Expanding and creating high tech and innovative products since 1976, the recent updates to their product line are the thinnest and largest iPhones to date.<\/p>\n

The iPhones will come in three different colors; gold, silver, and space gray.\u00a0 The iPhone 6 screen measures 4.7 inches and is 6.9 mm thin with the iPhone 6 Plus measuring in with a 5.5 inch screen and a thickness of 7.1 mm.\u00a0 The new iPhones will be equipped with better resolution, a powerful A8 chip with an M8 motion coprocessor, better battery life, an even more powerful camera, faster LTE download speeds, and when connected to Wi-Fi, the speed will be up to three times faster!<\/p>\n

Both iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus can be purchased with up to 128 GB of flash memory.\u00a0 Prices for the iPhone 6 ranges between $199 and $399 depending on the gigabytes.\u00a0 Prices for the 6 Plus range between $299 and $499, depending on the gigabytes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so excited about the iPhone updates. I am personally a huge fan of the new advances being made. I currently have an iPhone 5s and I am ready for a bigger screen and better picture,\u201d said Tanesha Johnson, a freshman elementary education major from Coffeeville, Miss.<\/p>\n

Toni Barnes, a freshman computer engineering major from Jackson, Miss. is not interested in the iPhone 6 because of the size difference.<\/p>\n

\u201cApple should have kept it the way it was because most people will get the iPhone for the size. You might as well get a Samsung phone,\u201d said Barnes.<\/p>\n

Other JSU students are disappointed that there will not be any available at the University\u2019s Tiger Tech store. Nic Escobedo, the store manager at Tiger Tech said that campus stores cannot receive iPhones.<\/p>\n

\u201cApple has a contractual agreement with their campus stores around the nation.\u00a0 It deals with the customer flow of traffic of technical support issue of any and all iPhone models.\u00a0 They don\u2019t allow us to sell it at the store,\u201d said Escobedo.<\/p>\n

If the new iPhone is not what you want, maybe you are in the market for the smart watch, an operating system update or an electronic wallet that may soon make plastic credit cards a relic of the past. Smart watches will be $349 but will not be available until 2015.<\/p>\n

The watch comes in three different editions; The Watch, the Watch Sport, and The Watch Edition. The watches come in stainless steel, space black, sapphire crystal, anodized aluminum, and 18 karat gold.<\/p>\n

Some students are not too enthusiastic about the new addition.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving a watch that performs the same duties as the iPhone is pointless and unnecessary,\u201d said Faith Ambrose, a freshman political Science and elementary education major from Jacksonville, Ill.<\/p>\n

Ashlea Daniels, a senior political science major from Bolton, Miss., believes that Apple\u2019s smart watch was already the idea of a competing company.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the idea of a smart watch came from Samsung phone company.\u00a0 Overall, I do think the idea of a smart watch is clever because it\u2019s smaller and it can be attached to you wherever you go,\u201d said Daniels.<\/p>\n

Not only is Apple coming out with new phones, they are coming out with new updates that better enhance the experience on the phones. The new iOS8 update allows you to share content with your family in a new way, rediscover favorite photos, new photo editing tools, \u201ctap to add\u201d voice content to messages, a new keyboard that suggests contextually appropriate words, recognizes whether you\u2019re typing an email or message, and allows you to seamlessly continue a project on another apple device. The software update makes things easy for you while allowing you to discover what the phone has to offer.<\/p>\n

Pre-orders for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus started on Sept. 12 and will be available in stores starting at 8 a.m. Sept. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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