Live Blog: Apple Unveils iPhone 5 With Bigger Screen, New Connector

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Tim Cook on stage at the Apple event.

1:15 P.M.: It has five rows of icons, plus the dock row on the bottom (longer) .... The leaked parts were accurate. Schiller says new phone is 20 percent lighter than the 4S.

1:14 P.M.: Schiller: today we're going to introduce iPhone 5. (It comes up on a pedestal from stage.)

1:13 P.M.: Cook: We have exciting news about the iPhone, Phil Schiller coming to share it.

1:12 P.M.: Cook: Last quarter we sold our 400 millionth iOS device.

1:11 P.M.: Cook: Apple recently passed 700 thousand apps in app store, 250 thousand for iPad, with the average customer using more than 100 apps.

1:09 P.M.: Cook: Apple tablet share up to 68 percent, iPad accounts for 91 percent of tablet web traffic: "I don't know what these other tablets are doing," he said.

1:08 P.M.: Cook talking iPad momentum: Apple sold more iPads than any PC maker sold of entire PC lineup.

Source: Apple

1:06 P.M.: Cook talking about recent Mac updates, including Mountain Lion. He says Apple notebooks now #1 in market share in the US over the past 3 months, at 27 percent.

1:05 P.M.: Cook said now there are 380 stores in 12 countries, 13th, Sweden coming this Friday. Serving one million people per day, almost.

1:03 P.M.: Cook is showing a video from the Barcelona store opening.

1:02 P.M.: Cook starting with Apple retail. Shows image of Apple retail. Says Apple used limestone from a local quarry to modernize the building

1:01 P.M.: Tim Cook takes the stage. "Good morning."

1:00 P.M.: Path CEO Dave Morin is here. Lights just dimmed.

12:54 P.M.: They have let us in. Al Gore is here, as usual.

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