In the early morning of September 10th, Beijing time, Apple held a fall new product launch conference. At this conference, the iPhone 16 was undoubtedly the most popular product. After the standard version of the iPhone 16, Apple brought the iPhone 16 Pro series. The new machine includes two versions, the iPhone 16 Pro and the iPhone 16 Pro Max, with starting prices of US$999 and US$1199 respectively.
According to Apple, the iPhone 16 Pro series is available in four titanium colors: black, silver, gray, and gold, and is also equipped with the largest screen ever on the iPhone. The iPhone 16 Pro is enlarged to 6.3 inches, while the iPhone 16 Pro Max is increased to 6.9 inches. At the same time, the new phone has further narrowed the border, resulting in a higher screen-to-body ratio and a more shocking front view.
In terms of performance, the iPhone 16 Pro series is equipped with the most powerful A18 Pro chip in Apple’s A series. It also uses the second-generation 3nm process, has a 16-core neural network engine and a 6-core GPU, and has a 20% performance improvement. The ray tracing performance is twice that of the A17 Pro. The CPU is also a 2+4 architecture, with a 15% performance improvement, and 20% lower power consumption than the A17 Pro at the same performance. The video encoding speed is also stronger than the A17Pro.
In terms of imaging, the iPhone 16 Pro series is equipped with a 48-megapixel main camera + a 48-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera and a 12-megapixel 5x periscope telephoto camera, supporting ProRAW and HEIF photo format shooting. In terms of video recording, the new phone is equipped with a higher read speed sensor, supports up to 4K 120 frames Dolby Vision video shooting, and also supports 0.25x speed shooting. It also supports spatial video shooting.
Apple also introduced the upgrade of iPhone 16 Pro in recording. It is equipped with 4 microphones, which can separate the recording content and edit the audio tracks separately, which can bring studio-level effects. It also specially showed the clips of The Weeknd’s new song and MV shot by iPhone 16 Pro.
