Apple recently introduced the iPhone 15 Pro Max earlier this year along with the iPhone 15 Pro at the Wonderlust event earlier this year.
As per the latest report from Ming-Chi Kuo and The Elec, Apple will equip both iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max with the advanced telephoto lens next year. Now, MacRumors has also received information from their sources confirming the rumour. Let’s see what the latest report reveals about the tetraprism lens on iPhone 16 Pro models.
As mentioned before, Apple equipped the iPhone 15 Pro Max with an advanced tetraprism telephoto lens but not the smaller 15 Pro.
The reason behind the lens being exclusive to the Pro Max variant is that the tetraprism telephoto lens wouldn’t fit the 6.1-inch frame of the smaller Pro variant. But if the latest report is to be believed, both iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max will feature the tetraprism telephoto lens next year. This is good news for those who want all Pro features but not the bulk of the Pro Max model.
A Apple will increase the size of the iPhone 16 Pro from 6.1 inches to 6.3 inches and the iPhone 16 Pro Max from 6.7 inches to 6.9 inches. This increase in size will allow Apple to fit the new tetraprism telephoto camera in the 16 Pro model as well.
For the base model iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, we should see an A17 chip. However, this may not be the same A17 Pro chip that is currently inside the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. Apple is likely to use a lower-cost process for a standard “A17” chip that could make its way to the standard iPhone 16 models.
Analyst Jeff Pu thinks that Apple will go a different route and simply use A18 and A18 Pro names for the new chips. This would mean that all iPhone 16 models would have some variation of an A18 chip rather than going with an A17, which could be seen as a “last generation” chip.
There have been rumors that Apple has been working on its own in-house 5G modem chips, but that won’t be happening just yet in 2024. Instead, the iPhone 16 Pro may use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X75 modem for faster and more efficient 5G connectivity. However, the base-model iPhone 16 will continue to use the Qualcomm X70 chip that is currently in the iPhone 15. The iPhone 16 could also have Wi-Fi 7 technology that could get at least 30 gigabits per second, up to 40Gb/s.