Apple TV 4K 2021 Uses An iPhone To Adjust Colour Balance; Starts From RM849

 Alongside the new iPad Pro and AirTag, Apple also announced the new Apple TV 4K at its recent event. This new entry features the A12 Bionic chip that we previously saw powering the iPhone XS and XR back in 2018.

The new Apple TV 4K has an interesting feature, simply called Colour Balance. This makes use of an accompanying iPhone to automatically adjust its own colour output, allowing it to compensate for colour inaccuracies of your TV. In other words, it works sort of like a monitor calibrator, except you do the calibration with an iPhone.

Accompanying the new Apple TV 4K is a new Apple TV Remote. It’s a small remote, with very few buttons. Most of the operation is done via the round clickpad at the centre. You can press down on each direction the old fashioned way. But in certain contexts you can also swipe across it like you would a smart device. And since it supports touch controls, you can also use circular gestures to use it as a jog control.

The Apple TV 4K comes with two storage options, 32GB and 64GB. These are priced at RM849 and RM949, respectively. You can also just get the new remote for RM229. Or, you can get the existing Apple TV HD with the new remote for RM719. That being said, Apple Malaysia has not said when you can actually buy it yet.

Apple iPhone 12 And iPhone 12 mini Receives New Purple Colour Option

Last night’s Spring Loaded event saw the launch of several new products from Apple; including the brand new iPad Pro, iMac computers, AirTags and more. Much to our surprise, the Cupertino-based company also managed to slip in an iPhone announcement, but not in the major kind of way that most would have hoped for. 

Months after their initial debut back in late October last year, Apple has revealed that the standard and mini variants of its iPhone 12 smartphone series will receive a new addition to its current colour selection. Slated to arrive soon, fans can now own these models in the newly announced Purple colour. Yeah, that’s pretty much it.

Usually we’d expect phone brands to provide some sort of explanation as to why a new option has suddenly emerged, often with some fancy copywriting to go along with it. Instead, Apple senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Greg Joswiak simply said, “The new purple finish, just in time for spring, adds another bright and fun option to the lineup, and we think customers are going to love it.” 

Aside from the new colour addition, everything else remains unchanged. Both the standard and mini variants of the iPhone 12 retain the same 5G-enabled A14 Bionic chip, RAM and storage configurations, MagSafe capabilities, so on and so forth. The company did note that the newer batch will ship with the recently announced iOS 14.5 firmware update, which is also slated to roll out to users sometime next week.

Apple says that the aforementioned Purple cladded iPhone 12 models will be available in the US starting 30 April, with pre-orders opening soon on 23 April. At this current time, the new colour selection is listed to be “coming soon” on Apple Malaysia’s website and despite featuring a newer colour, both models are offered at the same price as their original release. Specifically, the standard iPhone 12 is offered at a starting price of RM 3,899, while the mini variant starts at RM 3,399.