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It’s quite hard reviewing the new iPhone 16 series this year, because they are technically not finalized products. The four new iPhones this year are heavily advertised by Apple as the first iPhones to be “built from the ground up to run Apple Intelligence ,” the latter two words referring to the American tech giant’s suite of generative AI services.
Fortunately , the new iPhones also got some nifty hardware upgrades that still justify some excitement. I’ve been using the largest and priciest model, the iPhone 16 Pro Max, for a month now, and I have enjoyed the experience more than usual.The new Pro iPhones look similar to last year’s models mostly — it’s still constructed out of beautiful titanium, and the softer edges introduced last year returns. But the new Pro iPhones have slightly larger screens, with the Pro Max model jumping up to 6.
Why go through all that trouble if I can just tap on the on-screen 5X button and switch immediately? Trust me, I really wanted to like this button — I am an aspiring street photographer and I like the idea of having a physical shutter. But the Camera Control, in this current form, is just poorly implemented. I tried using it for one week then I just stopped using it. I’ve touched that button maybe two or three times in the past three weeks.
Perhaps the biggest video upgrade is there are four improved microphones on the iPhone, and they take in the best audio of any phone I’ve tested. In fact, I think for beginning or aspiring video content creators who have not invested in a bluetooth microphone yet, the iPhone 16 Pro phones will record audio so good it may delay their realization that they will need bluetooth microphones eventually if they want to create video content seriously.
There’s generative AI photo editing, which right now mostly consists of removing things from images. But you can create original emojis in the future via text prompts. Apple’s object remover works pretty well, but not quite as well as Google’s crazy good version.
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