One of the first people in the world to get his hands on the new iPhone swiftly had his heart in his mouth… when he dropped it on the floor.
The man, who was identified by local media as Jack Cooksey, was at the front of the queue in Perth, Australia, to pick up an iPhone 6, which is priced at over £500 in the UK.
Television cameras focused in on him as he excitedly opened the box, but his happiness soon turned to panic as it crashed onto the floor.
The crowd around him groaned as he bent down to pick it up and check there were no cracks.
"All good," he said laughing.
Customers wait for their iPhones in the German capital, Berlin
He told Perth Now: "I dropped it in a panic to get it open.
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At long last, Windows users, the Start menu will be coming back. A new series of leaked pictures provided by German website ComputerBase give us our best look yet at Windows 9, including the newly redesigned Start menu that users have been begging for since the release of Windows 8 in 2012.
As you can see in the picture, the new Start menu looks much like the old one in terms of overall layout but its icons and general design have been updated to fit in with the “Modern” UI that Microsoft has been pushing for the last two years. You can also see a search icon next to the Start menu, which will presumably be a quicker shortcut to universal search on Windows 9 than opening up the Start menu and searching.
The picture above also gives us a nice look at the notifications center that Microsoft will be bringing to our desktops. It pops up on the right-hand side of your screen and will presumably function much like notifications centers on our smartphones by letting us know when we have new emails and or alerting us to various interactions on different social media platforms. Earlier leaks that we’ve seen claim that there will be a button that will let us clear off all our notifications at once, although we sadly don’t see it in these leaked pictures.
All told, this looks like a promising compromise between the changes that Microsoft introduced in Windows 8 and the more traditional desktop interface that many longtime Windows users have been asking for.
It's no secret that an upcoming Windows update codenamed 'Threshold' will herald the return of the Start menu and allow Metro apps to operate in windowed mode. Heck, the image above came straight from Microsoft itself. But whenever fresh screenshots of the interface show up it's always worth taking a look.
Myce.com recently nabbed two screenshots from a purported recent build of Threshold, which is expected to be called Windows 9 when it debuts in 2015. Right now, however, these internal builds are labeled Windows 8.1 Pro—a fact that Neowinnoted earlier in July when it also nabbed a screenshot of the Start menu.
A purported leaked screenshot of Threshold from Myce.com.
The Myce and Neowin shots are very similar and aren't all that different from what we saw in April, when Microsoft officially announced the Start menu was coming back. On the left-hand side of the new Start menu you'll have a list of recently used apps as well as an option to view a list of "All apps." (The terminology seems to be a catch-all for both desktop programs and Metro apps.)
Presumably, as with the original versions of the Start menu, you'll be able to pin apps to this list.
To the right of the apps list is an area with pinned metro apps for easy access and at-a-glance live tiles for apps like weather, mail, news, and calendar. The new Start menu seems to be customizable, with it tile sizes appearing adjustable, just as they are now on the Start screen.
The Start Menu build leaked on the My Digital Life forums and reported by Neowin.
One difference from the April sneak peek is that regular desktop features are also pinned to the metro side. Both the Myce and Neowin screenshots, for example, show icons for the Pictures and Documents folders, as well as what looks like a "My PC/This PC" tile.
Start menu takes over
Most desktop users are excited about the notion that the Start menu will return. Even better it may actually put metro apps to good use for those of us who boot to the desktop.
But Microsoft may have different plans. The Verge reported late Monday that Microsoft is testing versions of the Start menu that take over the entire screen and act more like the current Start screen in Windows 8.1 (while also confirming Myce's screenshots as legit, according to its sources).
What The Verge doesn't mention, however, is whether this will happen on all devices running Threshold. A report from Windows watcher Paul Thurrott earlier in July said the expanded Start menu would be the default option for tablets and other touch-based devices that lack a keyboard. This interface, Thurrott said, would be "a full-screen Start menu that looks and works a lot like the Start screen does now." Regular PCs, however, would get the more traditional Start menu as seen in the Myce and Neowin leaked screenshots.
In addition to another look at the Start menu, Myce also published a screenshot showing the Windows Store operating in windowed mode.
The Windows Store Metro app running in a desktop window.
Threshold isn't expected to roll out until April 2015, but if you can't wait that long you can put together a similar set-up using third-party tools for Windows 8.1. Check out our tutorial on how to get a Windows 7-like Start menu and windowed Metro apps right now.
