QUOTE(Andrewtst @ Sep 10 2024, 02:48 AM)
Boring announcement, Boring update.
The only I might interesting is the same no update Ultra 2 but that new black color look finally awesome in Ultra watch series.
"Boring announcement, boring updates" apply to most new phone launches these days... I think the industry is more or less at a plateau already, I don't recall any phone launch that made me go "wow" for years now
QUOTE(MasBoleh! @ Sep 10 2024, 03:12 AM)
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They finally ran out of Apple Park buildings to film so now the video team is burning through San Francisco landmarks
Impressions:
Apple Watch Series 10
- Bigger bridghter display - 30% more screen area, bigger than the Ultra
- Thinner, more rounded design
- New polished aluminum jet black color alongside the rose gold and silver in the old aluminum treatment
- Faster charging - 30 min to 80%
- Introducing polished titanium (natural, gold, and dark) to replace stainless steel as the midrange model. It's also carbon neutral now
- Sleep Apnea Detection - now you can tell your partner they snore and have the data to prove it
- Swim - Tides app, depth app, water temperature, custom swim workouts
Apple Watch Ultra
- New satin black finish - 95% recycled titanium
- Updated black bands including new titanium Milanese Loop
AirPods 4
- 2 models - with and without ANC/transparency mode/Adaptive Audio
- Slightly refined shape
- H2 chip - New acoustic architecture
- $179 with ANC, $129 without
AirPods Max
- New colors (blue, purple, orange, gold)
- $549
- USB-C - finally! I actually didnt catch this the first 5 times they said it for some reason. Thanks to the commenters who saved me from myself
Other AirPods News
- Stuff for both Pro and Max
- Hearing protection to reduce volume while retaining range
- Hearing Test feature
AirPods Pro 2 is getting a hearing Aid feature - This feels like a big deal, there are a lot of people who are unwilling to get a hearing aid who may be persuaded if it's AirPods
iPhone 16
- 85% recycled aluminum
- new colors (ultramarine, teal, pink, white, black)
- 50% tougher display class - 3x tougher than any other smartphone class
- Screen can go down to 1 nit for those of you who like to ruin your health by staring at your phone in bed at night
- Action Button from the Pros is here
- New camera button
- Click for photo, hold for video
- 2 stage shutter and touch sensitive to automatically lock focus and exposure and also enable gestures like double click & slide to change tools
A18 Bionic Chip
- 2nd Gen 3nm - for those not in the know, this is the 3nm process the nerds have been waiting for
- 16 core neural engine
- 17% more memory bandwidth
- 6-core CPU- 30% less power
- 5 core GPU - 35% less power
Cameras
- 48MP "Fusion Camera" with 2x telephoto portrait - 4k60 video in Dolby HDR
- 12MP Ultrawide - x2.6 more light and macrophotography
- Spacial capture from the new camera design for those of you who shell out for Vision Pro but not for iPhone Pro
- Don't think they talked about this but you can pause video recording now, the future is now, folks
- Redesigned interior
- New thermal 30% higher sustained performance
- Hardware Ray tracing
- Random game ad for Tencent
- $799 ($100 more for Plus) - Starts at 128gb
Apple Intelligence
- Unsurprisingly coming to all phones this generation
- Can send a pic to Apple Intelligence to ask about things like restaurant hours and "whats this plant" type queries - Of course they found a way to make the camera button an AI button
- Mostly a rehash of things like Private Cloud compute and on device models
- Available next month in English and December in localized English, next year for other languages
iPhone 16 Pro Max
- Design
- Larger 6.3in and 6.9in screen
- Thinnest borders on any Apple Product
-"Grade 5 Titanium" in a micro blasted texture (Black, white, natural, desert)
- Max has the best battery life ever
- A18 Pro Chip
- 16 core neural engine - 35T ops
- 6 core GPU - 2x faster ray tracing
- 2 Performance cores, 4 efficiency cores - 20% less power
- Display engine, faster USB 3 Speeds, video encoder, ISP for 2x faster video processing
Cameras
- 48MP Fusion Camera with 0 shutter lag
- 48MP Ultrawide
- Tetraprism for the zoom camera on both models now
- 4k120fps Video - Pretty sure they brought back the same actors from the Cinematic Mode ad they ran 2 years ago to introduce this. We doing sequels to ads now
- Audio mix feature to segment different parts of audio
- Voice Memos can allow for layering another track on top of the recording for musicians
- $999 ($200 more for the Max)
Other iPhone
- New Cases with a sapphire crystal camera button
- New MagSafe Charger with longer cable and faster charging
- 100% fiber based packaging
Not bad upgrades overall if a bit iterative. Can't believe we brought back the camera button from early Android days. Seems like enough stuff left over for an ecosystem focused October event.
Great summary bro! I can skip the launch video di, haha...
On the AirPods Pro.. I only have one wishlist... Just. Give. Us. Black.
QUOTE(ftan @ Sep 10 2024, 04:39 AM)
I’ll either wait it out next few months (more discounts?) or skip buying the iPhone 16 pro max. Not much changes really.
I read online the phones are made in India now including the pro series?
I remembered when I asked about iPhone 15 last year, the sales person said still made in China.
I have a sneaky feeling you'll surprise us and get it at launch or just after? Hehe...
I think previously they mentioned the non Pros will be made in India and the Pros will continue to be made in China? Not sure if that is still the case though
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