This year, the iPhone 16 Pro Max will be favored with many extremely attractive features.
iPhone 16 Pro Max is expected to launch this fall. Rumors about this high-end smartphone have begun to appear more densely. But are the new features attractive enough for Ifans to upgrade?
iPhone 16 Pro
Below are the 7 most rumored upgrades for the iPhone 16 Pro Max up to now.
1. Bigger screen
The iPhone Pro Max series has had a 6.7-inch screen since the iPhone 12 Pro Max - launched in 2020. But this year, the iPhone 16 Pro Max will be the iPhone with the largest screen. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts that the iPhone 16 Pro Max will have a 6.9-inch screen. This size is even larger than the screen of the Galaxy S24 Ultra - 6.8 inches in size.
The iPhone 16 Pro duo will have larger screens than their predecessors.
With a larger screen, users can comfortably play games and watch movies. The good news is that the bezels of the iPhone 16 Pro Max are also expected to be thinner.
2. New shutter button.
iPhone 15 Pro Max has introduced a customizable Action button. According to rumors, this year, the iPhone 16 Pro Max and iPhone 16 Pro pairs will have a new Shutter button. The same will happen with the standard iPhone 16 pair.
iPhone 16 quartet model.
The button will have a capacitive design with haptic feedback and will be located below the power button. The Shutter button will probably be used to launch the camera and take quick photos. In particular, the “force sensing function” could open up other possibilities. For example, users can press harder to record a video.
Sources on social network Weibo also said that the Shutter button can be used to focus the iPhone 16's camera, similar to how focusing is done with some of the best mirrorless cameras.
3. Upgrade camera.
Last year, "Apple" added a quad-prism 5x optical zoom lens to the iPhone 15 Pro Max and this year, the iPhone 16 Pro line will be upgraded to an ultra-wide lens. Both the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max are expected to have a 48MP ultra-wide-angle camera, up from 12MP resolution on previous models.
Close-up of iPhone 15 Pro Max camera.
This super wide-angle camera will have a larger sensor size - 1/2.6 inches. In addition, the 48MP main camera will contain a 1/1.4-inch sensor - up from 1/1.28 inch. This change will give the lens the ability to collect more light.
4. A18 Pro chip.
The A17 Pro chip is powerful, but Apple will need to speed things up with the A18 Pro if it wants the iPhone 16 Pro Max to be the fastest phone around. According to leaked Geekbench performance score results, the A18 Pro chip can reach 3,570 single-core points and 9,310 multi-core points. This number is higher than the iPhone 15 Pro Series (2,890 single core points / 7,914 multi-core points) but is soon threatened by Qualcomm's chip.
The A18 Pro chip will be very powerful.
The Galaxy S23 Ultra gets a single-core score of 2,300 and a multi-core score of 7,249 with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip. With a leaked single-core score of 3,500 for the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip, Apple will have to compete harder.
5. Innovative AI.
iPhone 16 Pro Max will receive many powerful AI upgrades from iOS 18. iOS 18 will be first introduced at the Developers Conference - WWDC 2024, which will take place in June.
Innovative AI
Apple is investing heavily in generative AI tools for the iPhone, including automating tasks that are often multi-step performed by voice as well as a new version of Siri based on large language models (LLMs) of Apple. Apple.
Apple is also enhancing its own apps with AI, including Music, Pages, and Keynote. The company is also in talks with Google to license Gemini for generative AI. The question is which AI features will be exclusive to iPhone 16 Pro Max and iPhone 16 Pro.
6. Wi-Fi 7.
In fact, Wi-Fi 7 technology is still quite new and the best Wi-Fi 7 routers are quite expensive. However, Wi-Fi 7 brings much faster speeds along with more channels, resulting in more bandwidth for users' devices. And with Multi-Link Operation, iPhone 16 Pro Max can send and receive data on many different bands and channels.
7. Bigger battery.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max with its 4,422 mAh battery provided incredible battery life, lasting 14 hours and 2 minutes while surfing the web over 5G. According to sources from Weibo, the iPhone 16 Pro Max's battery will be even larger with a capacity of 4,676 mAh.
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Therefore, the iPhone 16 Pro Max can be among the top smartphones with the longest battery life, able to last up to 16 hours or more. This duration can "beat" the Galaxy S24 Ultra (duration 16:45) and OnePlus 12 (duration 18:42). Both high-end smartphones have larger capacity batteries and run Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip.