Earlier today, September 9, Apple streamed its Apple Event introducing a number of new products including the AirPods 4 and the Apple Watch Series 10, but we’re here to talk about the Apple iPhone 16 and it’s various versions.
Made from aerospace-grade aluminum and 80% recycled materials, The new iPhone 16 is durable and slick as ever. It’s water and dust resistant durability with 2x tougher glass than any other smartphone on the market. It is available in ultramarine, teal and pink, along with the traditional white and black. Size-wise the iPhone 16 comes in at 6.1 inches with the iPhone 16 Plus at 6.7 inches. The iPhone 16 Plus having the largest iPhone display, ever.
A new customizable action button on the side can be set to translate a phrase, identify a song, and more. You can even assign different actions based on time of day like flashlight at night.
Apple Intelligence
Apple is toting that this next generation of iPhone is the first build with generative AI in mind from the ground up.
The iPhone 16 is built with the new A18 chip created specifically for it. A 16-core neural engine makes the iPhone capable of handling large generative models. It has 17% more memory bandwidth and is 30% faster than the iPhone 15 (60% faster than the iPhone 12). Faster than competition too, challenging even desktop PC so Apple claims. And that’s just the non-Pro version.
Apple Intelligence can create images, language, and take action on your behalf. Writing Tools will be available right from anywhere you type to rephrase Slack messages to your boss or invites to a party sent over iMessage. You can create unique emojis or original images on the fly, which I guess is just a thing we need to have everywhere in our lives. Notifications can be summarized from the lock screen so you can get the gist of what you’re missing in a longwinded group chat.
A genuinely interesting improvement Apple Intelligence offers is what it’s done to Siri as it enters a “new era” with richer language understanding and a more expansive knowledgebase. The livestream showed off a user asking Siri to “Send erica the photos from Saturday’s barbecue” and then it did it. This is honestly pretty cool, as it feels like Apple is finally fulfilling the promise of what Siri was supposed to be from the start — a digital assistant that can help you with simple tasks and make your life easier.
Private Cloud Compute is Apple’s way of ensuring that your data is never shared and stored, handling more of the AI computing on the user side, and not retaining anything that must be computed over the cloud.
Camera Control
New controls on the side of the iPhone change the way you take photos and videos. Just slide finger across the side to adjust camera controls like zoom or depth of field, and use it in third party apps like Snapchat.
The iPhone 16 features a 48 MP main camera with 4x more resolution than that on the iPhone 14 as well as a 12M Ultra Wide camera that can capture 2.6x more light than the previous iPhone. It’s now built for macrophotography, allowing you to get super close to small subjects and still retain detail and light. Using machine learning, unwanted audio from background sounds like wind can be removed from video automatically.
Pre-orders begin Friday, September 13, and release on September 20.
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