Apple has unveiled the iPhone 16, the latest edition of its flagship smartphone line. The iPhone 16 has a variety of slightly refreshed colors that are brighter compared to previous years. The updated dual-camera arrangement on its back has also been refreshed, once again set up vertically, as last seen on the iPhone 12 from 2020.
The iPhone 16 has a variety of new hardware refinements, such as a new A18 chip with a 3nm process that is 30 percent faster than the CPU of the iPhone 15, an Action Button that debuted on the Pro models last year, and a new physical camera control button below power. button.
The iPhone 16 will be the first major Apple phone to use Apple Intelligence in beta after the update coming in October. The company first previewed the AI ​​software at WWDC, where it was initially gated to Pro-level iPhone 15 models only. While Apple spent time reviewing many of the upcoming Apple Intelligence features already shown at WWDC (such as custom emoji and the ability to summarize text or emails), it previewed a new Google Lens-like search feature called Visual Intelligence, which allows an iPhone 16 user to search. out information based on what the camera sees.
Speaking of cameras, the iPhone 16’s dual setup of a 48-megapixel primary camera and an autofocusing ultra-wide camera offers the “equivalent” of four lenses via 2x crop mode and macro mode (more trickle-down from recent Pro iPhone models).
Again, the standard iPhone will have a 6.1-inch screen while the larger iPhone 16 Plus will get a 6.7-inch display — the same size as the iPhone 15 generation. But the screens for the iPhone 16 pair can reach 2,000 nits of peak brightness and be as dim as 1 nit.
The 16 follows the same general design as the 15, with a squared-off frame, rear glass that allows for MagSafe wireless charging, Apple’s Dynamic Island top cutout for housing the front-facing camera and Face ID sensors its, and USB-C charging / data port on its base. While the move back to vertically aligned rear lenses may seem like an odd retread on a design element that Apple has moved on from, the backtrack makes sense for better spatial video support in the Apple Vision Pro .
The iPhone 16 starts at $799 with 128GB of storage and the iPhone 16 Plus starts at $899 with the same storage configuration.
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