iPhone 16 full series exposed! The performance and screen have been greatly upgraded, and the AI has come to a big move

Ray Technology

2024-07-02 20:20Creators in the field of technology

According to the rhythm of Apple's autumn new product launch in September every year, entering July, it is time for the new iPhone to be finalized.

At WWDC 2024 held not long ago, Apple unveiled the Apple Intelligent AI operating system, considering performance, storage and other factors, although the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will get relevant AI features later this year, consumers are still more concerned about the arrival of the iPhone 16 series.

(Source: Apple)

Of course, for consumers, they are more looking forward to the hardware changes on the iPhone 16 series than when Apple Intelligent will be launched, after all, these changes determine whether users are willing to upgrade and contribute to Apple's AI empire.

Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman has unveiled a number of hardware upgrades for the iPhone 16 series, such as a stainless steel battery, a new 48MP ultra-wide-angle lens, and a redesigned camera button. Can these "upgrades" save Apple from the sluggish mobile phone market?

iPhone 16 series, Apple has started to work again

After replacing the mute switch with an action button on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, Apple is experimenting with more physical buttons.

Mark Gurman revealed that the iPhone 16 series will be equipped with an independent camera button, which supports one-click access to the camera interface, and has two functions: click to take a photo and press and hold to record. It's uncertain whether this button is physical or solid-state. The iPhone 16 standard version also inherits the action buttons of the previous generation Pro, which means that the iPhone's mute switch is completely history.

Although the iPhone 16 Pro/Max gets a separate camera button, the image improvement is not huge, and both Pro-class iPhones get a new 48-megapixel ultra-wide angle, which is mainly focused on the increase in pixel count compared to the previous generation. The iPhone 16 Pro Max's 5x periscope telephoto has a larger sensor area, which allows it to be actively called up at night.

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It is reported that the iPhone 16 Pro will also be upgraded to a 5x periscope telephoto in this generation, which will replace the 3x vertical telephoto lens that has been used in this frontier for many years, but considering the space constraints of the iPhone 16 Pro, even if it uses a new sensor, its imaging effect will not be more significantly improved.

The iPhone 16 Pro series is exclusive to Samsung's new M14 panel, which chooses microlens technology, which makes its brightness and contrast significantly improved, and the application of new materials makes it also have obvious advantages in terms of power consumption. It is reported that this generation of M14 panels can achieve SDR 1200 nits brightness and HDR 1600 nits brightness, and the local peak brightness is maintained at 2000 nits.

(Source: 9to5Mac)

In terms of battery, the iPhone 16 Pro will use high-density battery technology, supplemented by a stainless steel battery case, which greatly improves battery utilization and charging speed. However, The Information reported that Apple has not increased the battery capacity of the iPhone 16 Pro to a larger capacity, and it is still about 4600 mAh similar to that of its predecessor. As for the charging speed, it is only 40W.

Compared to the improvement of the Pro version, the standard iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus have few upgrade points. Except for the action button, camera button, and 48-megapixel ultra-wide angle, the rest of the configuration remains the same as the previous generation. But the good news is that thanks to Apple Intelligent's memory requirement for devices to start at 8GB, this generation of iPhone 16 series comes standard with 8GB of RAM, which can be said to be an epic upgrade.

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In terms of chips, Apple's ancestral knife method is still not absent, iPhone 16/Plus is equipped with A18 chip, and iPhone 16 Pro/Max is equipped with A18 Pro chip. The gap between the two chips is mainly focused on high-end features such as AI computing power and ray tracing, and the rest is about the same. What's more, the iPhone 16 Standard Edition still doesn't plan to come with a ProMotion-enabled display.

Overall, the upgrade of the iPhone 16 series is not sincere, especially in the battery capacity, fast charging rate, image and other parts of the mobile phone market, which are seriously involuted, have not reached the standard line of the Android flagship. If Apple wants to compete with Android flagships with the iPhone 16 series, it can only give more sincerity in the software part.

iPhone 16 series, still not strong enough?

Since the iPhone 13 series, Apple's new iPhone has often been complained about, and many loyal Apple fans believe that the iPhone is too slow to progress and has been left behind by the Android camp.

But objectively speaking, the upgrade of the iPhone 16 series has been regarded as Apple's most sincere generation in the past two years.

Apple lags behind the Android camp in the imaging segment, with both the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max making way for larger sensors by increasing the body size, with the former increasing to 6.36 inches and the latter at 6.9 inches. In the case of a larger body, the iPhone 16 Pro/Max will use a 1/1.14-inch main camera sensor, which is larger than the 1/1.28-inch of the previous generation, but still less than 1-inch. The addition of a periscope telephoto to the iPhone 16 Pro may give it even better telephoto capabilities.

However, we also have to look at what kind of terrifying opponents the iPhone 16 Pro/Max is facing: the vivo X100 Ultra not only uses a 1-inch outsole sensor for the main camera, but also uses the HP9 200-million-pixel telephoto lens from Samsung. The Oppo Find X7 Ultra and Xiaomi Mi 14 Ultra both have dual telephoto solutions.

(Source: vivo)

What's worse is actually the battery life of the iPhone, although this used to be Apple's forte, a small battery + strict power management scheme, creating a miracle. However, as Android manufacturers continue to develop high-density batteries, such as Honor Qinghai Lake batteries, vivo blue ocean batteries, etc., they have been made thin and light, and the battery capacity is large. Now that Apple is considering joining the high-density battery camp, why not increase the battery capacity?

The standard iPhone 16 has not been treated as it should, especially in the image and display sections, where the long-awaited high refresh rate panel has not appeared in this generation, and the camera solution has simply upgraded the ultra-wide angle. To be honest, the upgrade of the ultra-wide angle is actually mainly for the spatial video service of the Vision Pro, but the sales of the Vision Pro are dismal, and it is not worth Apple's effort to let its own "sales champion" match it.

(Source: 9to5Mac)

Of course, Samsung, which has not improved much in terms of hardware, has skyrocketed the sales of the Galaxy S24 series with the slogan of Galaxy AI, and Apple may also see Samsung's success story and want to strengthen the concept of AI, so as to promote the sales of the iPhone 16 series to achieve better results. But can Apple Intelligent, which is too late, replicate the success of the Galaxy AI, which caught up with the early episode?

iPhone 16+AI，苹果要打一场漂亮的翻身仗

In 618 this year, the iPhone 15 series once again won the first place on multiple e-commerce platforms with its ultra-high sales, but the process was more tortuous than in previous years. For example, this year, Apple rarely started advertising on Tmall, and 618 released large coupons in the first stage, and the iPhone 15 Pro Max can drop up to more than 2000 yuan, which is quite large.

The embarrassment of the iPhone 15 series has sounded the alarm for Apple, and at WWDC 2024, Apple has finally handed over its self-developed AI solution. But the real landing of Apple Intelligent will not be until this fall, that is, the iPhone 16 series, so whether this plan will work, whether Apple can regain market reputation depends on how the new iPhone performs.

（图源：Mac Rumors）

The four models of the iPhone 16 series will be equipped with the A18/Pro chip based on the 3nm process, which means that their performance gap will be further narrowed, and considering the importance that Apple and even the entire mobile phone industry attach to AI, there will definitely be no obvious "knife method" in NPU computing power. At present, it depends on how Apple's AI functions will be implemented globally, such as which partner to choose in the Chinese market, and what functions can be achieved by the local device-side large model.

(Source: Apple)

In Xiaolei's view, Apple Intelligent may be able to reverse the reputation of the iPhone 16 series, but the gap in hardware is also regrettable, especially in the Chinese mainland market, Hongmeng NEXT will be open to all ordinary users in the fourth quarter of this year, in the face of a stronger, smarter, newer system and Huawei's new flagship Mate 70 series, does Apple really have the confidence to deal with it?

In any case, the iPhone 16 series has not yet been officially released, and apart from some information from the supply chain, it is difficult for us to predict whether Apple will hold back any big moves and wait for the moment of the explosion. But just looking at the existing hardware clues, if the iPhone 16 series wants to reverse its reputation and return to the top, Apple's AI still needs to spend more effort to make up for those congenital deficiencies.

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