Apple held today’s “curiosity on the head” theme of the event, the official launch of the iPhone 15 series of new machines, This article will mainly introduce the higher-end iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max two cell phones.
The iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max are 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches, respectively, and both come with a Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion and support for Always On Display and the new standby mode in iOS 17. The new models feature a new titanium body with a brushed finish and curved edges that feel more comfortable in the hand. Apple says the new titanium design is the finest material it’s ever used in an iPhone case, and it’s stronger, more durable, and lighter, making it the lightest Pro model ever. The new model has the narrowest bezels on an iPhone, with a reduced body size that doesn’t affect the display size.
The iPhone 15 Pro lineup features the Action button instead of a mute switch. By pressing and holding the Action button you can toggle between ringing and mute, with haptic feedback to indicate changes in status. Users can toggle between different actions, such as starting to record a voice memo, launching the camera, activating a favourite accessibility feature or running a shortcut.
The iPhone 15 Pro series is powered by Apple’s latest A17 Pro chip, the industry’s first 3nm chip with 19 billion transistors and a six-core CPU. Through microarchitectural and design improvements, the new central processor achieves up to 10 per cent faster speeds. A 16-core neural engine that is up to 2x faster than its predecessor and can process up to 35 trillion operations per second, accelerating machine learning to support more accurate auto-correction or theme extraction from images, with dedicated ProRes, Pro display engine and AV1 decoder engine.
The A17 Pro has an all-new GPU with an Apple-designed shader architecture and a 6-core design that delivers up to a 20% increase in peak performance. Apple calls it a professional-grade GPU focused on performance and efficiency, running complex apps, and new rendering features, offering hardware-accelerated ray tracing and new mesh shading capabilities that are up to four times faster than the A16 Bionic software ray tracing. Apple says the A17 Pro will change mobile gaming, with console games like Resident Evil 4 playable right on the iPhone.
The iPhone 15 Pro comes with an upgraded camera system, with a larger sensor for the main camera, a new coating to reduce lens flare, and more. The new model comes with a more advanced 48MP primary camera with a larger sensor than the iPhone 15. Lens flare is reduced with a new coating that provides better low-light performance for portrait and night modes. Support for full-resolution HEIF photos using Apple’s AI system, as well as the ability to change the default lens and shoot at multiple focal lengths (24mm, 28mm, and 35mm) within the main camera.
The iPhone 15 Pro features a 3x telephoto camera, while the iPhone 15 Pro Max offers a 5x zoom with a 120mm focal length, the longest optical zoom distance on an iPhone to date. the new telephoto lens on the iPhone 15 Pro features a groundbreaking quad-reflective prism design combined with Apple’s most advanced stabilization system to date, including Optical Image Stabilization and Autofocus 3D. The new telephoto lens on iPhone 15 Pro features a groundbreaking quad-reflector prism design combined with Apple’s most advanced stabilization system to date, including Optical Image Stabilizer technology and an autofocus 3D sensor shift module, making it ideal for close-ups, wildlife, and capturing action from a distance.
Like the standard iPhone 15 models, the iPhone 15 Pro lineup supports next-generation Portrait Mode, which automatically detects the presence of a subject in the frame so that you can switch to Portrait Mode after capturing an image. There are also new focus and depth control tools that allow the focus to be switched from one person to another after a photo is taken. Night mode has also been improved, while the Smart HDR feature allows the phone to capture both the sky and the subject.
The Apple iPhone 15 Pro series supports shooting space video, which can subsequently be viewed on Apple Vision Pro.
Call audio quality on the iPhone 15 Pro also sees improvements through a more advanced machine learning model that prioritizes the user’s voice. On top of satellite emergency distress, it is now possible to connect to a satellite for roadside assistance.
The iPhone 15 Pro features Apple’s second-generation Ultra Wideband chip, which allows other devices equipped with the chip to connect from up to three times the distance and can be targeted to locate friends with whom you’re sharing your location, just like AirTag.
