Yes, yes, new iPhone, yada yada. By the time this column is published, news of the super-amazing iPhone 5 will be a week old, and anyone desperate for information will have already found it. Bigger screen, whoopdidoo. Thinner design, yay.

There is one thing I want to talk about: the new iPhone’s new connector. Rather than use the same venerable Dock Connector that’s been on all previous iPhones and on iPods since 2003, Apple chose to create a brand new proprietary port called Lightning. It’s smaller, which it allegedly needed to be to accommodate the thinner and lighter casing, and has fewer pins.

Last week, Amazon announced a bunch of new hardware all at once. Pretty much their whole Kindle line got refreshed, e-readers and tablets both. Rumors of a Kindle phone proved false, for now, but the sheer number of new gadgets kind of made up for that.

 On almost the same day last month, two similar products came out that seem inevitable in retrospect. They’re point-and-shoot cameras with the Android operating system built right in, so all (well, most) of the apps that Android phones can run, these things can run.

There’s photo sharing, of course. But there’s also social networking, games, organizers, office document editors, all kinds of stuff. Smartphones all have cameras built into them, so putting Android on an actual camera camera with a larger zoom lens and capable image sensor just makes sense.

An Aug. 15 report from Strategy Analytics, Inc. predicts that the amount of money spent on physical music media like CDs and vinyl records will be surpassed by money spent on streaming and download services this year in the United States.

That’s right: We Americans will spend more in places like Spotify and iTunes than in good old-fashioned record stores this year. It’s a big turnaround from the early days of MP3s, when record labels feared that file-sharing would bankrupt the music industry.

 No matter how fast the electronic interface got, drives were still limited by the speed at which the disk rotated. For consumer drives, that’s usually 5,400 or 7,200 revolutions per minute (RPM). Some high-end server drives spin as fast as 15,000 RPM, but they need to be installed in a well-cooled chassis. The average desktop or laptop just wouldn’t cut it, and they’re expensive anyway.