Apple Inc. is expected to launch the annual flagship iPhone 14 series in less than two months at the earliest. The news about the new phone is also constantly being updated. The foreign media 9to5mac also sorted out the four most frequently mentioned and expected in New changes on the iPhone 14 series.
iPhone 14 Max’s affordable big screen is coming for the first time
The iPhone 14 series is expected to include the 6.1-inch iPhone 14, the 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Max, and the 6.1-inch iPhone 14 Pro and 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Pro Max. The Pro model will be slightly longer than the 14 normal model. This is also the first time that a general model has brought a large-screen option, replacing the mini’s one-handed holding friendly experience. It is expected that the selling price strategy will also be a relatively cheap model of the large-screen iPhone.
Pro models feature an “exclamation point” screen
The two iPhone 14 Pro models will discard the bangs screen used since the iPhone X and replace it with a round hole and a pill-shaped original depth sensing lens module. The front lens module is like a The exclamation mark, of course, the purpose is to increase the screen ratio to gain more field of view, and with this change, the body will also be slightly elongated; as for the iPhone 14, the two general models will maintain the bangs, the size of the bangs and the iPhone 13. same. In addition, other aspects including the right-angle frame body and the number of lenses have not changed much from the previous generation.
iPhone 14 uses A15 bionic chip, Pro uses A16
This is undoubtedly one of the most shocking revelations of the iPhone 14 this year. It is expected that the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Max will use the A15 bionic chip of the iPhone 13 series, but the RAM will be increased from 4GB to 6GB, and the new A16 bionic chip will use On the premium iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models.
It can be further mentioned here that the policy of using the A15 bionic chip is related to factors such as the global shortage of high-end chips for high-end chips, market sales considerations, and even devoting major resources to the development of M-series Apple Silicon chips. First of all, the global chip shortage has been a topic faced by the global technology industry in the past two years and will not be repeated here.
Moreover, since Apple launched the A4 custom chip on the iPhone 4 in 2010, it has continued to name the A-series chips on the iPhone, making it easier for consumers to remember the code name and easier for marketing. In detail, even the same A15 Bionic chip has different performance. For example, the A15 Bionic chip on the iPhone 13/iPad mini 6 has a 6-core CPU, 4-core GPU and 4GB RAM, and the A15 Bionic chip on the iPhone 13 Pro has a 6-core CPU, 4-core GPU and 4GB RAM. The core CPU, 5-core GPU, and 6GB RAM are more like a complete unit.
Apple did not distinguish the name of the A15 bionic chip between the iPhone 13 series and the iPad mini 6. It is speculated that the two iPhone 13 Pros have obvious three-lens, 120Hz screen update rate and other specifications differences, and the Pro name refers to the flagship professional. Impression, with the same chip naming, can also boost the powerful image of the relatively affordable iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini.
But in fact, as early as 2012, Apple named the A5X for the processor of the iPad 3. This chip is based on the A5 chip of the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 but has twice as many GPU cores. On the iPad Pro in 2020, more It was renamed the A12Z bionic chip following the old A12X chip, except that additional GPU cores were enabled.
It is still unclear whether Apple will rename the A15 bionic chip on the iPhone 14 to the A15X bionic chip, or change the architecture to name the two iPhone 14 chips as the A16 bionic chip and the two iPhone 14 Pro chips as the A16 Pro bionic Chip, we can only wait for more news to be revealed in the follow-up.
Finally, Mark Gurman, a senior reporter from Bloomberg, mentioned that Apple has been actively responding to the transition from Mac’s intel chips to the M-series chip plan in recent years, and has launched five M-series chips in the past year and a half. Launch more. In order to achieve this goal, the Apple chip team had to shift development resources, which may lead to a slowdown in the development of iPhone, Apple Watch and 5G modem chips.
iPhone 14 Pro lens upgrade: 48MP main lens, autofocus front lens
Both the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max will be equipped with a 48MP primary lens sensor, but the output pixel may remain at 12MP, with multi-pixel binning technology to bring more detail to the image and reduce Noise points, and the original size of each pixel may be increased to 2.5um compared to the previous 1.7um, and is expected to support 8K recording; and the upgrade of the front lens will bring autofocus, larger f/1.9 aperture, etc. for the first time . (Huang Zilun/Comprehensive Report)
