iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max debut at Apple Annual Fall Festival tuesday From the moment I picked it up in the hands-on area of the Steve Jobs Theater, I could tell there were some significant improvements over previous Pro models. The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max are made of titanium instead of stainless steel like last year iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max This makes them noticeably lighter.
In recent years, Apple has used its Pro phones to push technological advances by keeping standard models with the previous year’s technology, which would likely lower costs and encourage upgrades to more expensive premium models. That proved true with the standard iPhone 15 and 15 Plus, which expanded to include 14 Pro features last year. The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max have since continued this tradition iPhone 15 Ultra Rumors What is unfounded is that these are Apple’s most advanced phones to date.
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The edges of the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max are slightly rounded, which makes them easier to hold. Considering I had about 30 minutes to try it out in a very crowded demo room, the light weight and less bulky feel left a positive impression. The new Pros have thinner bezels for more glass on the front display — which is still 6.1 inches on the iPhone 15 Pro and 6.7 inches on the iPhone 15 Pro Max.
As for colors, the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max are available in four metallic colors: black titanium and traditional white, in addition to blue titanium and “natural” gray titanium.
The iPhone 15 Pro starts at $999 (£999, AU$1,849), while the iPhone 15 Pro Max starts at $1,199 (£1,199, AU$2,199). While the Pro Max is more expensive than the $1,099 starting price of last year’s iPhone 14 Pro Max, the new iPhone 15 Pro Max starts with 256GB, twice the internal storage of its predecessor.
Pre-orders for iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max The phones will be available in Apple stores starting Friday and online next Friday, September 22.
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The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max are rumored to ditch the Lightning port in favor of USB-C for 10Gbps data transfer (the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus are also switching to USB-C).
There’s another new feature: an action button that replaces the mute switch iPhones have used for years. By default, a long press lets you mute or unmute the sound. You can customize it to launch a range of shortcuts, such as: turning on the flashlight, recording a voice memo or even opening the camera. After opening the camera app, I used the action button as a physical shutter button to take the photo. That reminds me a bit Sony Xperia 1V and its special hardware triggers.
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Better camera, better zoom
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max have a 48-megapixel camera with a larger sensor. Image resolution is standard at 24MP and lidar scanning maximizes low-light and night shots. The phones also feature a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera, carried over from last year’s iPhone 14 Pro.
But the big feature this year is better zoom, albeit only for larger premium phones. The Pro retains its predecessor’s 3x telephoto camera (equivalent to a 77mm lens), while the Pro Max has a 5x optical zoom (equivalent to a 120mm lens) – a “quad prism” design that refracts light multiple times to create even larger images. Lens compact frame for iPhone. When I tried out the Pro Max’s new telephoto camera, I was amazed at the 5x difference compared to the 3x on the 15 Pro. I was able to digitally zoom to 25x, which is ridiculous for an iPhone.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max has a telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom (equivalent to a 120mm lens) thanks to a “quad prism” design.
High-end Android phones, particularly the Samsung Galaxy S series, have featured something similar – periscope cameras – for years, although they use a design technique where the lens is stacked inside the phone’s frame and reflected back to the phone using a mirror. . Telephone will be indicated. The Galaxy S23 Ultra, for example, has a periscope camera with 10x optical zoom.
Apple is trying to attract more professional photographers by adding more interstitial zoom levels to the Camera app interface. With the Camera app open, users can tap the 1x zoom button to switch between common focal lengths – 24mm, 28mm and 35mm – and set one of them as the default focal length when opening the app.
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iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max cameras also have advanced video features, such as: B. Vlog encoding, and take advantage of the fast throughput speed of USB-C cables to instantly capture and transfer images captured in Pro Raw format at maximum resolution from your iPhone 15. Pro to Mac. It can also record videos in ProRes format directly to an external storage drive.
iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature advanced spatial video capture that uses multiple cameras to capture depth-of-field video that can be viewed on the Apple Vision Pro AR/VR headset. Unfortunately, the feature won’t be released until later this year.
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Faster processor, more games
iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max launch with the A17 Pro Bionic processor, a 3nm chip with 19 billion transistors for faster performance. The new hexa-core GPU is up to 20% faster than the A16’s GPU and enables ray tracing.
Apple has been pushing mobile gaming in its iPhone releases for years, and this year was no exception: developers Ubisoft and Capcom promoted the full iPhone console version of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, as well as Resident Evil 8 and Resident Evil 4 Remake, respectively. . (The latter two games are confirmed to come to the iPhone 15 Pro later this year, while Assassin’s Creed is coming in early 2024.) Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding will also come to the iPhone 15 Pro.
As Apple improves the iPhone 15 Pro’s mobile gaming capabilities, the A17 Pro chip will also benefit from augmented reality applications.
The iPhone 15 Pro will launch with iOS 17 (which will be available to the general public when the phones launch on September 22), which introduces the standby mode unveiled at WWDC 2023. It essentially puts the phone in a more passive mode at night, displaying the time in a larger format and application element. It activates when you turn the phone on its side, but when the phone is mounted on the MagSafe stand it’s meant to be used and looks like the world’s most expensive alarm clock.
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