Apple finally launched its latest and greatest iPhone 16 series as the successor to the iPhone 15 yesterday. Yes, the foreseen leaks and rumors have always been evident in the launch event but not like Google. We will discuss some major and minor changes in this iPhone 16 series in detail below. There is not much of a difference here and there between iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max so we will see here vividly.
Build
The iPhone 16 Pro has the dimensions of 149.6×71.5 ×8.25mm with a weight of 199g and the iPhone 16 Pro Max has the dimensions of 163×77.6×8.25mm and a weight of 227g with both have grade 5 titanium build.
Display
The iPhone 16 Pro has the display size of 6.3-inch which is 2622×1206 pixels OLED display with 460ppi Super Retina XDR display, with the max brightness of 1000 nits and 1600 nits of peak brightness, up to 2000 nits peak outdoor brightness, HDR, True Tone, Dynamic Island, Always-On display, ProMotion technology with adaptive refresh rates up to 120Hz with Corning-made glass with Ceramic Shield protection.
The iPhone 16 Pro Max has the display size of 6.9-inch with 2868×1320 pixels and as same as the above-mentioned iPhone 16 Pro.
Performance
The both iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max come with the same A18 Pro processor which has 2 performance and 4 efficiency cores. This is a 3nm chip with 64-bit architecture with 6‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine. This phone comes with three storage variants 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB. The iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max comes with IP68 water and dust resistance and have one nano SIM and eSIM support. As expected this phone will come with iOS 18. The iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max have built-in lithium-ion batteries as per Apple the iPhone 16 Pro has 29 hours and iPhone 16 Pro Max will have 33 hours of video playback. We can charge these devices 25W charger via USB Type C. The iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max have TrueDepth camera for FaceID and facial recognition.
Camera
The iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max have the same set of cameras and the same functions so we will see here briefly. These two phones have 48MP wide-angle with f/1.78 aperture with the second-generation sensor-shift optical image stabilisation for video with 100% Focus Pixels, Photonic Engine, True Tone flash, 48MP 120 degrees Ultra Wide camera with f/2.2 aperture secondary camera and 12MP Telephoto with ƒ/2.8 aperture with optical image stabilisation which goes up to 5x optical zoom in, 2x optical zoom out with 10x optical zoom range and digital zoom goes up to 25X with HDR video recording with Dolby Vision at 4K 60 fps, Slo‑mo 1080p at 240fps, Cinematic mode up to 4K Dolby Vision at 30 fps and Spatial video recording up to 1080p at 30 fps.
For the front, iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max come with 12MP TrueDepth with ƒ/1.9 aperture with Autofocus with Focus Pixels, Retina Flash, HDR video recording with Dolby Vision up to 4K at 60 fps and Slo‑mo 1080p at 120fps.
Connectivity
As the connectivity front, both iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max has 24 5G bands (sub‑6 GHz) with 4×4 MIMO, Gigabit-class LTE, Wi-Fi 7 with 2×2 MIMO, Bluetooth 5.3, Second-generation Ultra Wideband chip for spatial awareness, Thread networking technology, NFC with reader mode, GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS and BeiDou given all bells and whistles.
Price and Availability
The iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max come with four color options Black Titanium, White Titanium, Natural Titanium, and Desert Titanium and have 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB storage options. The Pricing of the iPhone 16 Pro starts at 128GB for Rs 1,19,900, 256GB Rs 1,29,900, 512GB Rs 1,49,900 and 1TB comes with Rs 1,69,900. For iPhone 16 Pro Max starts at 256GB for Rs 1,44,900, 512GB Rs 1,64,900 and 1TB comes with Rs 1,84,900. The iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max pre-order starts on 13th September 5:30 pm and is available on 20th September this will be available on apple.com/store.
