The After Math: two new iPads, two new Windows Phones and Instagram news
Did Apple manage satisfy your cravings for a new iPad? Maybe that new Mac Pro has got you readying a preorder, if only for the illusion of the power user that you one day hope to be. After a year's break, the return of Nokia World coincided with Apple's soiree, but the Microsoft-aligned phone maker actually had more new hardware to show off, including a pair of new Windows Phones, its first Windows tablet and a brimful (that is, three) of Asha phones. Leaf the digital page over to see both events reprocessed, vitamin-enriched and in numerical form.
Weight of the new iPad air: 1 lb
Weight of the new iPad Mini Retina: 0.73 lbs
Weight of the first iPad: 1.5 lbs
Nokia's new Asha 500 feature phone price: $69
Number of Asha phones you could buy for the price of a Mac Pro: 43
Reduction in Mac Pro's energy consumption compared to previous model: Up to 70 percent
New Nokia devices announced this week: 6
Nokia Lumia smartphones announced since 2011: 17
New Apple devices announced this week: 2
Apple smartphones announced since 2011: 3
WhatsApp users on Nokia devices being added per day: 250,000
Number of active WhatsApp users: 350 million
Whatsapp's place in the iPhone's "All-Time Top Apps": No.18
Total Number of iOS apps downloaded: 60 billion
Number of iOS apps available: 1 million
Number of Windows Phone apps available (as of August, 2013); 170,000
Instagram app launch date on iOS: October 2010
Instagram app launch date on Android: April 2012
Instagram app launch date on Windows Phone: TBD ("In the coming weeks")
Number of 'likes' on Nokia's first official Instagram photo: 367
Number of 'likes' on a recent selfie of Kim Kardashian in a bathing suit: 972,164