Must you improve to an iPhone 16?

Should you missed it, Apple unveiled all the brand new iPhones we anticipated, a brand new Apple Watch which may steal a number of the headlines (greater, thinner, higher!) and a shocking new push for its wi-fi headphones, with three new fashions and a software program replace for AirPods Professional that brings the corporate into a brand new product class, via software program alone.

We’ll chew over these beneath, however first up: the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 16 Pro. There’s a shocking parity of latest options within the two gadgets this 12 months. The iPhone 16 will get an motion button (left edge, above the amount buttons) and a brand new digicam button, too.

Properly, it’s greater than only a button. With all types of sensors and tech crammed inside, you may modify controls and settings within the digicam — suppose zoom, publicity and aperture — with light slides and presses. Apple is already planning an replace for a half-press to focus the digicam and a full press to seize.

Why did Apple redesign the iPhone 16 digicam module? The cynic in me thought this modification, with lenses stacked vertically, was only a determined indicator to indicate that people had the most recent iPhone, however there’s a motive. Apparently, this association means the cameras can work in tandem to seize spatial video and photographs.

The iPhone 16 Professional (and Professional Max) each get an array of upgraded capturing options. There may be (fortunately!) parity between the 6.9-inch Professional Max and 6.2-inch Professional, with the smaller Professional getting 5x optical zoom this 12 months. The ultra-wide-angle digicam has been upgraded from 12 megapixels to 48 megapixels in each Professional fashions. The iPhone 16 Professional can shoot video in 4K at 120 fps, so you may swap to and from slow-mo footage after the actual fact — no slow-motion recording mode crucial.

The iPhone 16 Professionals have a bigger battery, delivering us that perennial line: the “greatest iPhone battery life ever.” Nonetheless, on Apple’s personal specification cheat sheet, it will get slightly extra particular, saying it was the “Finest iPhone battery life on Professional Max.” That’s one thing to scrutinize in critiques. However after final 12 months’s shift to USB-C, the lightness of a titanium construct and an motion button just isn’t fairly as convincing an improve.

Having mentioned that, what am I doing? I presently juggle an Apple iPhone 15 Professional Max and a Pixel 9 Professional XL, that are too large for me. Final 12 months, I leaned on the iPhone 15 Professional Max, as an alternative of the iPhone 15 Professional, for 5x digicam zoom… and nothing else.

This time round, just like the iPhone 14 sequence, there are just about an identical specs throughout the iPhone 16 Professional duo — which is how it should be — so I’m lining up a pre-order for a black iPhone 16 Professional, with 1TB of storage. I would change my thoughts.

Should you’re a Professional Max type of iPhone proprietor, I believe you might most likely wait a 12 months, however it’s additionally a good time to improve to the bottom iPhone 16. It will get these new buttons, it’ll work with Apple Intelligence in a number of months and it has a reasonably beautiful lineup of colours.

We’ve obtained hands-on impressions on the whole lot beneath.

— Mat Smith

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Are you able to discover 9 p.c?

Apple’s wearable had the largest spec soar at its occasion yesterday, with the largest show and thinnest design ever on an Apple Watch. The wide-angle OLED show is even a bit bigger than the Apple Watch Extremely 2. Apple claims the display is 40 p.c brighter when checked out from an angle, due to that new OLED tech, and it’ll present a second hand ticking away even when your wrist is down. The corporate claims an 18-hour battery life, which somebody must remind Apple is not a full day.

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And an additional ANC choice to confuse customers.

Apple launched its fourth-generation AirPods this week, as rumors instructed. They’ve a redesigned bud form that’s supposed to suit extra ear shapes. The brand new entry-level AirPods even have the H2 chip to energy options like Spatial Audio. The charging case has a USB-C port, and it’s the smallest AirPods charging case up to now. To throw a wrench into the works, Apple introduced a second mannequin supporting lively noise cancellation and Transparency mode. To not be confused with the AirPods Professional, which nonetheless exist.

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Google lastly obtained it proper, particularly with the battery life.

Spare a thought for Deputy Editor Cherlynn Low. As we bundled her right into a airplane for Cupertino to report on all that Apple stuff, she was wrapping up her evaluation of Google’s Pixel Watch 3. Whereas we had in contrast Google’s newest wearable to Apple’s Watch Sequence 9, we expect Apple has some wearable competitors right here, due to stable battery life and a complete and intuitive suite of health-tracking options.

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In beneath 9 minutes.

Sony has introduced a PlayStation 5 Technical Presentation stream at 11AM ET at the moment on the PlayStation YouTube channel. All indications level towards this being the official unveiling of the PS5 Professional. Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PS5, will host the stream, which is able to concentrate on the PS5 and improvements in gaming know-how. For lower than 10 minutes.

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