When Steve Jobs held the iPhone aloft in his hand on January 9, 2007, could he even have conceived that here in 2024 we’d be eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the iPhone 16 series? This October it will have been 13 years since the Apple co-founder passed from pancreatic cancer and his hand-picked successor has done an admirable job at the helm of the company. Believe it or not, next month is September which means that are are only weeks away from the unveiling of the next iteration of the iPhone.
iPhone 16 Dummy units. Note the new vertical mounting for the two rear cameras. | Image credit-Sonny Dickson
The iPhone 16 Pro is getting a larger 6.3-inch OLED display and the tetraprism periscope zoom lens that will deliver 5x optical zoom. The iPhone 16 Pro Max will now sport the largest display ever found on an iPhone model at 6.9 inches (OLED, of course). Both Pro models will carry a 48MP Ultrawide sensor and be equipped with the A18 Pro chipset made by TSMC using its second-gen 3nm process node (3NE).
The iPhone 16 (6.1-inch display) and iPhone 16 Plus (6.7-inch display) will be powered by the 3nm A18 application processor with a redesigned rear camera module. The lenses will be mounted vertically instead of diagonally so that users can snap spatial photos and record spatial videos that appear as 3D when viewing with the Vision Pro headset. On any other device, these images and videos will appear in 2D. The non-Pro models will get the Action button that debuted on the iPhone 15 Pro line. This button activates one preset feature selected by the user.
All four new iPhone 16 devices could introduce the new Capture button which users can swipe to zoom in or zoom out with their camera, or press to focus the camera, and long-press to activate the shutter or start video recording.