Today’s Glowtime online Apple event was packed with facts, figures, and statistics throughout the presentation and elsewhere. We’ve pulled together the highlights.
iPhones
iPhone 16 and 16 Plus
- The iPhone 16 and 16 Plus are 6.1” and 6.7”, respectively
- The new 12MP ultra wide lens captures 2.6x more light
- The main camera is 48MP and can take cropped 12MP 2x telephoto images
- 50% stronger ceramic shield on screen
- Brightness ranges from 1 to 2,000 nits
- The A18 uses 35% less energy than the A16 Bionic
- The A18 chip is 40% faster than the A16 Bionic
- The A18 has a 5-core GPU and a 6-core CPU
- The A18 has 17% more system memory bandwidth and a 16-core Neural Engine for 2x faster machine learning tasks
iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max
- 6.3” and 6.9” screens, respectively
- 2x faster ray tracing
- Can shoot 4K video at 120 fps
- 48MP ultra wide camera
- The A18 Pro has a 6-core CPU that is 15% faster than the A17 Pro and uses 20% less power
- The A18 Pro also has a 6-core GPU that is 20% faster and a 16-core Neural Engine that does 35 trillion operations per second
Apple Watch Series 10
- The Series 10 comes in 42 and 46mm variants
- 30% more screen area compared to previous watches
- 40% brighter display at 2,000 nits
- the S10 chip has a 64-bit dual core processor and a 4-core Neural Engine
- Battery life is up to 36 hours in low power mode
- 30% thinner than prior models
- 30% smaller speakers
- Charges to 80% in 30 minutes
- Titanium models weigh 20% less than stainless steel models
AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2
AirPods 4
- 30 hours of battery life with new case but only 20 if you use Active Noise Cancelation with the compatible model
- Up to 5 hours of listening time for the standard AirPods 4 and 4 hours with Active Noise cancellation turned on
- 4.5 hours of talk time on both models which increases to 20 hours when the case is accounted for
- Both models use Bluetooth 5.3
AirPods Pro 2
- Up to 6 hours of listening time down to 5.5 hours with head tracking and Spatial audio enabled and adding the case bumps listening time to 30 hours
- Up to 4.5 hours of talk time and adding the case bumps the talk time to 24 hours
- Up to 4 hours of lossless audio when used with the Vision Pro
- 10 minutes charging in the case provides one hour of listening or talk time
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