Apple announced, at its annual conference in Cupertino, California, the family of iPhone 16 phones and the tenth generation of the AppleWatch, which came with a new design and a larger screen, the new version of the Apple Watch Ultra 2, the fourth generation of AirPods and the second generation of AirPods Pro, as well as, announced its revolutionary update based on artificial intelligence Apple Intelligence.
The Apple iPhone 16 comes with an aluminum chassis in new colors of blue, green, and pink, along with black and white, through injection technology for the back glass of the phone, which the company used before with the iPhone 15, which is resistant to water and dirt, and the screen is covered with a ceramic protector. It comes with storage capacities of 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB. The phone comes in 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch measurements for the iPhone 16 Plus, and comes with the same Action button, which came for the first time with the iPhone 15. Also, a new button to control the camera.
The phone will come with the A18 chip, which is twice as fast to deal with artificial intelligence, with 3nm technology, which means a smaller transistor size, which makes it 30% faster than the processors of iPhone 15 phones, and less energy consuming. It is equipped with a 48-megapixel main camera. The phone will come with 4 microphones, which give sound closer to the truth, and spatial audio recording.
The iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max come with Apple Intelligence and a new design, starting with a 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch ProMax screen. These are the largest iPhone screens ever. It is stronger and more scratch resistant. It comes in four colors white, black, natural titanium, and desert titanium. The phone comes with a 3nm A18 Pro chip, which makes it faster and more efficient in dealing with artificial intelligence technologies. It's 15% faster than the A17 Pro. It's 20% faster at graphics processing than the iPhone 15. In addition to the 48-megapixel main camera, the phone comes with 3 new cameras, with a new camera control button, and professional features for capturing video and photos.
The phone comes at a price of $ 999 and $ 1199 for the top version, and will be available for pre-order starting today, and will reach the market on September 20.
Apple announced the new MagSafe wireless charger with faster wireless charging of up to 25 watts, which is certified by Qi2, and is available in one or two meters long.
Apple Watch Series 10
The new watch comes with a larger screen than its predecessor, even larger than the screen of the Apple Watch Ultra watch, and comes with curved edges, and it is with OLED technology, which enables the user to see it clearly when viewed from the side.The Series 10 will be Apple's thinnest watch ever, 10% thinner than its predecessor Series 9, which meant re-engineering the audio headphones, which are lighter as well. It's also the fastest to charge, with 80% in just 30 minutes. The watch can detect if a person falls to the ground, and it uses machine learning for translation, voice recognition and simultaneous translation.
The new watch is the first watch capable of capturing the state of sleep apnea, by using an acceleration sensor to detect any disorders during sleep, and although the company confirmed that the new feature is a "medical feature", it has not yet obtained the approval of the US Food and Drug Administration FDA to provide that feature. Apple supported its new watch with an all-new processor, the S10 chip, which offers a superior level of energy saving and artificial intelligence. The new watch will carry a measure of water depth and temperature, making it suitable for scuba diving and water sports. It will provide the user with tidal status with data for the past 7 days.
The new watch is available for pre-orders starting today with a starting price of $399, and will arrive on the market by September 28.
Apple Watch Ultra 2
Apple announced the new version of the 2 Apple Watch Ultra, which comes with a titanium suit, new hand straps, and new features for sports lovers.
Airpods 4
Apple also announced the Airpods 4 with an H2 chip, which comes with a more comfortable design for the ear, a new architecture for sound design, and better features for sound insulation, answering calls, and answering Siri yes or no. It will come with a USB-C port, and a starting price of $ 129 and $ 179 for the AirPods 4 that come with the Active Noise Cancellation feature, and are available for pre-order from today, and will arrive on September 20.
The company also added the Conversation Awareness feature, which allows AirPods 4 users to automatically lower the volume as soon as they pick up the speaker and have a conversation with someone around them, and then turn up the volume again when it is finished. The company enhanced the user experience with its new headphones by providing them with a 30-hour battery life of use, while improving the experience by providing a new design for the headset storage and charging case, which makes it more practical to move, and it also supports wireless charging, and also provided it with a speaker that helps to find it by launching a loud tone than searching for it by the Apple Find My service.
AirPods Pro 2
It will come with higher clarity of sound and better sound insulation. Apple conducted a study on hearing loss, and through that study it will provide AirPods Pro, with 3 features, the first of which is hearing protection and reduces external sounds while in a loud noise environment. The second feature gives the user a hearing test.Third, Hearing Aid, a tool to help those who have partially lost hearing, which improves the user's ability to hear sounds around him more clearly, using AirPods Pro, and this feature can be used after using a hearing test, and accordingly the headset will determine the appropriate sound level. Apple said it expects the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve the tool shortly.
This year's iPhones are Apple's opportunity to raise the revenues of its smartphone sector this year, as the revenues from iPhone sales for the third quarter of this year were $ 400 million lower than expected, as they achieved during that period of this year $ 39.2 billion, compared to a total of $ 39.6 billion achieved by iPhone sales during the same period of 2023.
Design About Apple Intelligence
Built around Apple Intelligence, the iPhone 16 lineup leverages the power of Apple silicon chips and generation models built by Apple to understand and create language and images, take action across apps, and leverage personal context to simplify and speed up everyday tasks. Apple Intelligence keeps user data safe and private thanks to private cloud computing, as this pioneering approach offers the ability to adapt and extend computational power between on-device processing and larger models running on dedicated Apple silicon servers, an unprecedented step for privacy in AI.
Apple Intelligence opens up the horizon for users to elevate their writing with system-wide writing tools, enabling them to paraphrase, proofread and summarize text.
Interaction with Siri has become more realistic and flexible after the new update, given that it is more integrated into the system experience and comes with a completely new design, according to "Apple".
With richer language understanding capabilities, Siri understands what is needed even if users stutter their words, and maintains context as you move from one topic to another. Users can also write to Siri at any time, and can seamlessly switch between text and voice interactions while using Siri to speed up everyday tasks.
Analysts differed in their expectations for the performance of iPhone 16 sales, some of them saw that artificial intelligence will serve as the company's trump card, which will create a "super cycle" that means that users will greatly upgrade their phones to the latest Apple phones to take advantage of smart features, while others were more pessimistic, especially since the majority of smart features will not be available with the arrival of iOS 18, and will be available with the iOS 18.1 update.
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