Apple could reveal mini iPhone 5SE on March 21

Apple could reveal mini iPhone 5SE on March 21

March 10

NEW YORK

Set that calendar reminder: Apple is about to reveal some new gadgets on March 21. 

The company sent invitations to the media for a special event on Thursday, with the words "Let us loop you in."

Apple is widely expected to take the covers off a mini iPhone -- a four-inch "iPhone 5SE."The smaller phone will be about the same size as the existing iPhone 5S, according to leaked images. But it will also have some of the same features as the newer iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S models, including rounded edges, a Touch ID home button and an on/off button on the right-hand side of the device.

Some other products Apple could show off? There have been reports about a possible smaller iPad Pro, new Apple watch bands and software updates for its devices.

Releasing a smaller iPhone makes a good deal of sense for Apple.

The iPhone 7 is expected to be released in the fall, when Apple would typically be expected to retire the iPhone 5S. By that point, the 5S will be three years old.

Though Apple doesn't break out sales numbers for different versions of the iPhone, Wall Street analysts believe there has been a large amount of staying power for the iPhone 5S because of its smaller size.

The iPhone 5S is the last four-inch iPhone on the market.

Personal opinion

Apple must be really confident on their marketing if they're thinking that a mix of iphone6 and iphone 5 but smaller is going to pass by as a new model. They even state "including rounded edges" because that's the top of the innovation!! And they say it like having rounded edges is an achievement...

Vocabulary:

Edges: bordes

Devices: dispositivo

Can technology make a better world?

            Knowing that technology is utterly useful and it is a powerful tool at its prime, every single object/tool that can fit in this description can be used for good or bad. I always like to highlight the way social relations went from being good to poor and generical. Why would we ask someone for locations when we have a gps? Or online maps? Why would we meet someone when you can instant message them instead? Secodly, machines are stealing people's jobs, because why would we pay a month salary to someone when we can improve our industries machines to do a human's job?
            On the other hand, everything is not negative. I look forward to think that even with its flaws, it benefits us more than the harm it causes. Briefly, it makes life more easier and confortable, like using internet at home instead of going to the library to do a research, or renewable energies instead of using unrenewable ones which pollute our planet.
             Obviously, it is made to do positive things, but sometimes negative things can happen, but the only one to blame is the owner, the one who gave it usage, not the technology itself.

Can technology solve our problems?

Watching Jason Pontin's speech about technology really answered a lot of questions. Why have US been the first country to land in the moon? What happened to the future? How to solve big problems? Etc...

As him, I see JFK's iniciative of sending apollo 10 to the moon to prove that he had better rockets than the soviets a good thing because since then, for some reason we advanced a lot in technology, but as he says, these things won't solve humanity's biggest problems if we don't know how to use them, because most of the time our political system still fails, and some of these biggest problems are not even technological, like famine, which is caused by a bad food distribution.

Sometimes we can't solve them because we can't understand them, so, before trying to find the answer for something, political leaders and public must care to solve the problem, institutions must support the solution, it must really be a technological problem and we must understand it.