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It is an iPhone 16, inside iPhone 14 Body, Single Camera from iPhone 16, with iPhone 14 OLED Screen, Apple Modem, Without UWB, Minus 1 GPU Core on A18, 7.5W Mag
by ksec 2y ago
It is an iPhone 16, inside iPhone 14 Body, Single Camera from iPhone 16, with iPhone 14 OLED Screen, Apple Modem, Without UWB, Minus 1 GPU Core on A18, 7.5W MagSafe Charging same as iPhone 14. Wifi 6 instead of Wifi 7 on iPhone 16.
However at $599, higher than the rumoured $499 or $549 pricing. iPhone 14 previously at $599 and iPhone SE at $429 are now gone. Getting rid of iPhone 14 and iPhone SE as they are both using Lightning and not USB-C.
The lineup is a little strange. Will iPhone 15, currently at $699 dropped to $599 when they announce iPhone 17?
The most interesting part is of course the Modem. We will have to wait and see how it perform.
- layer8 2y agoNo MagSafe, only Qi (not Qi2). 800 nits typical brightness vs. 1000 for the 16, 1200 nits maximum brightness vs. 1600–2000 nits. Notch vs. dynamic island, of course.
- GeekyBear 2y ago> No MagSafe, only Qi. Qi2 is based on Magsafe. https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/3/23538131/qi2-wireless-charging-apple-samsung https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/3/23538131/qi2-wireless-char...
- dagmx 2y agoQi2 doesn’t require the magnetic component however.
- Tagbert 2y agoTrue but the alignment magnets of MagSafe and Qi2 were a huge quality of life improvement. You are probably better off just using USB to charge this one
- post_break 2y ago"Any device labeled Qi2 is MPP and must include magnets.” https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-qi2-wireless-charging/ https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-qi2-wireless-charging/
- layer8 2y agoI know, but the official specs and comparison page explicitly only say Qi (with 7.5 W) for the 16e where they say MagSafe and Qi2 (with 25 W) for the iPhone 16. The comparison page is also lacking the MagSafe symbol for the 16e.
- cptskippy 2y ago> Qi2 is based on Magsafe. That's an insult to all of the engineering that went into Qi. The Magsafe specification was an attempt to create the new Lightning connector ecosystem that backfired spectacularly and blew up in Apple's face. It's nothing more than magnets and DRM layered on top of a regular Qi charger. Naturally Apple used the DRM to limit the charging speeds of their phones when paired with regular Qi chargers. There's a practical reason for this which is how Apple tried to justify their outrageous licensing fee to implement Magsafe. Unfortunately for Apple, manufacturers mostly said no to Magsafe licensing and Apple's user based complained to Apple that their phones wouldn't charge at the rated speeds of the Qi chargers they bought. This put Apple in an awkward position where they could tell their users to only buy MagSafe devices, compromise on safety to appease users, or give up on Magsafe being proprietary. Thankfully they chose the later. Qi2 isn't Magsafe, Qi2 incorporated Magsafe because it improves the standard. Don't let Apple marketing fool you into thinking Apple is doing this altruistically.
- GeekyBear 2y agoFrom the article linked above: > With the blessing of competitors, Apple is about to change the Qi wireless standard itself. It’s contributing to a new version of Qi that works much like MagSafe — magnets, authentication, and all.
- cptskippy 2y ago"Qi2 is based on Magsafe" is not the same as "Apple is... contributing to a new version of Qi" Your statement implies that Qi2 used Magsafe as a starting point or that it's primarily based on Magsafe. Your statement is inaccurate and would lead people to think that Qi2 was mostly an Apple design.
- DrBenCarson 2y ago…it is. Qi2 is basically a copy-paste of MagSafe
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- wraptile 2y agoMagsafe sticker is is 1$ for a pack of 10 so it's really not a problem.
- azinman2 2y agoBut you need to align it perfectly.
- fkyoureadthedoc 2y agoI've had good luck with cases that have the magnet bit built in
- Kirby64 2y agoAssuming they do it correctly. There was a series of Pixel cases (the 9s, I think?) where they used the same alignment between the Pro and non-Pro Pixels on the case, despite the coils not being in the same location on the actual phones... which apparently caused poor/non-existent charging and excessive heat.
- layer8 2y agoThe A18 in the 16e is also binned, one less GPU core compared to the regular 16.
- re-thc 2y ago> 7.5W MagSafe Charging same as iPhone 14 No MagSafe here
- batata_frita 2y agoGreat description. But what is UWB?
- mikestew 2y ago“Ultra Wide Band”, used for finding things at short range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-wideband https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-wideband
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- dopamean 2y agoultra wide band
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- jjice 2y agoUltra Wide Band - it's how AirTags and other things give you that precise finding feature, I believe.
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- GeekyBear 2y ago> The most interesting part is of course the Modem. In addition, they are said to have replaced the WiFi/Bluetooth chip with one developed in-house. > Apple Inc.’s ambitious plan to create in-house components for its devices will include switching to a homegrown chip for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections starting next year, a move that will replace some parts currently provided by Broadcom Inc. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-12/apple-nears-switch-to-in-house-bluetooth-and-wi-fi-chip-for-iphone-home https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-12/apple-nea... The rumors called out improved battery life as an upside.
- walterbell 2y agoHopefully these new cellular, wifi and bluetooth basebands can avoid the zero-day fame of their predecessors.
- GeekyBear 2y agoI would assume that Apple's new firmware would have been written in a memory safe language. They did make some noise about enabling Swift for embedded development at last years WWDC. Although Qualcomm's big zero day last year was related to the DSP and not the baseband, I believe.
- FirmwareBurner 2y ago>I would assume that Apple's new firmware would have been written in a memory safe language. Memory safe languages don't protect from human programmer complacency and stupidity, or from incidental alphabet agency backdoors.
- GeekyBear 2y agoThe patch notes for Qualcomm's big zero day exploit last year certainly gives the impression that this was yet another example of a memory safety error. > According to the patch instructions, the fix works by adding direct memory access handle references. https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366612994/High-severity-Qualcomm-zero-day-vulnerability-under-attack https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366612994/Hig...
- JBiserkov 2y ago$599, same as the Mac Mini M4 :-)
- HumblyTossed 2y agoYeah, but this has a screen built in and you can actually put it in your pocket.
- LightBug1 2y agohttps://sidetalking.com/original/ https://sidetalking.com/original/ Don't limit yourself ...
- Quadricycle 2y agoFor anyone else whose browser is configured to not ask where to save files before downloading, you may notice that the site linked above initiates a download of a MIDI file named "Jive_Talkin.mid." It does appear to be safe according to VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/896eadff63581cb1a3f0e3547538518dfeef0c7dbc0dfe3a2f71d846e048b5af https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/896eadff63581cb1a3f0e354...
- Kwpolska 2y agoThis page works best in Internet Explorer. You would actually hear the music the authors intended you to hear. PowerShell to the rescue: $ie = New-Object -ComObject internetexplorer.application; $ie.Navigate("https://sidetalking.com/original/"); $ie.Visible = $true
- iknowstuff 2y agoIs there a recommended resolution for viewing too?
- crossroadsguy 2y agoBut if you have an older pant that used to store an iPhone of 4.x inch size then it might not be as cozy as you knew it. Just saying.
- giancarlostoro 2y ago> The lineup is a little strange. They have Macs they call Macbook Airs, but their Macbooks look like "Air" Macbooks, they really should have swapped the names on those models long ago.
- Kwpolska 2y agoThe 12" MacBook Abomination was a short-lived, badly-designed, performance-limited computer. Apple doesn’t sell them anymore, and modern Airs are very respectable computers.
- rsync 2y ago... except for the fact that they refuse to re-issue the second greatest laptop form facter of all time: the 11" MBA. First place, obviously, goes to the Toshiba Libretto.
- nazgulnarsil 2y agoBecause the 13" is close to the same physical size as the old 11
- torstenvl 2y agoIt really isn't. While it's only .12" wider, it's almost an inch deeper and over 5oz heavier.
- robterrell 2y agoCome on. First place has gotta be the PowerBook 100.
- Mistletoe 2y agoI wish they would make a mini version of this, it would be perfect. After the 13 Mini, us small phone lovers are screwed.
- saturn8601 2y agoholding onto my iPhone 13 Mini for dear life.
- biker142541 2y agoSame here with 12 mini. Honestly even this feels larger than needed, but any bigger? Ridiculous.
- jansan 2y agoLots of Android options available, and much more affordable.
- crossroadsguy 2y agoI don't think there is any mainstream Android phone available that is of 12/13 Mini size. In fact there might not be a mainstream one that is smaller than the current base iPhone size.
- pzmarzly 2y agoRegarding your first statement: yes, sadly. Regarding your second one, I have some good news though: ASUS Zenfone 10 is smaller than iPhone 16 by 1.1mm x 3.5mm, Samsung S24 (base model) is 0.6mm x 1.0mm smaller, and Sony Xperia 5 V is only slightly bigger.
- red369 2y agoI know there used to be such a huge range of Android phone sizes, that there was likely to be a phone in the size you wanted, and you acknowledged that the phones you were listing were not the same size as the 12/13 mini... But the Sony suggested is slightly bigger than the iPhone 16 in 2/3 of the dimensions and this comment thread is lamenting how big the iPhone 16 is! I think people who see the iPhone 16 as so large it is not an option are unlikely to consider switching to Android for an even larger phone. It's a shame, because Sony used to make smaller phones with only slightly lower specs than their flagship phones. I also still associate them with making sensibly-sized alternatives, even though they don't anymore.
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- gffrd 2y agoHard-to-differentiate product offerings tend to drive people into the waiting arms of higher-spec (and cost) products, while still allowing a company to make a claim for a certain pricepoint. You see this in telecom a lot.