iPhone 16 Rumor Recap: What We Know About Apple's 2024 Smartphones So Far

[MrWillie]

I’d pay $3000 for one made of Kevlar with a rubber frame. When it drops I want it to not only survive the fall but bounce back into my hand!

Pass. What I want is if it slips out of my hand, anti-gravity is activated and it just floats.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Pass. What I want is if it slips out of my hand, anti-gravity is activated and it just floats.

Sounds like an Apple AR/VR headset to me. 🤐

 

[hortod1]

The iPhone Ultra will feature an additional “international orange” button that does… basically nothing

 

[no_idea]

It should be the premium device targeted at premium customers like myself. I honestly wouldn’t mind paying $3000 for a Ceramic iPhone. Niche market? Yes, but there are people out there that are willing to pay that price with no problem.

Lol…right
“Hey apple…go manufacture a $3k phone for 0.001% of the market”

 

[maxrest]

I'm pretty happy with the 15 pro max rumors! Seems like a pretty solid update to me personally so I wouldn't consider it being a less impressive update

 

[CatalinApple]

It should be the premium device targeted at premium customers like myself. I honestly wouldn’t mind paying $3000 for a Ceramic iPhone. Niche market? Yes, but there are people out there that are willing to pay that price with no problem.

I don't think Apple will take this risk again. It reminds me of the Apple Watch 18-karat Gold Edition. In the end it didn't sell so well and Apple discontinued it.

 

[Apple Fan 2008]

Lol…right
“Hey apple…go manufacture a $3k phone for 0.001% of the market”

Profit is profit

 

[Apple Fan 2008]

They wrote that one up 6 years ago, get with the program

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[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

The iPhone Ultra will feature an additional “international orange” button that does… basically nothing

Well, we do have plenty of options available but none of them are really that appealing or to be used daily. Well yeah, your right. It sucks! Apple should have called it, the Rugged ACTION button.

 

[Choco Taco]

One thing is known for sure. It's going to be newer than the iPhone 15.

 

[JM]

14 pro seems more and more like a solid buy. 👍

 

[CatalinApple]

14 pro seems more and more like a solid buy. 👍

It is indeed a good iPhone! Personally I would have bought the iPhone 14 Pro if it had USB-C because I really want to carry just one cable with me for all my devices. I might buy this year's iPhone 15 Pro if the upgrades are worth it coming from my iPhone 13 Pro.

 

[Lcgiv]

Ceramic is beautiful but it will be pricey. Imagine if the starting price would be $3000. I would definitely not buy it.

Perfect match for your 3k headset

 

[dampfnudel]

A few years ago, Apple registered a patent for a camera system with just one large lens. It was posted here I think. That would be a noticeable redesign. We’ve had the same three lens look (with LiDAR) for a while now.

 

[anthogag]

iPhone Ultra should be 'rugged', an iPhone for the Watch Ultra user, and light -- use titanium & carbon fibre & be-ith totally wireless. Excellent reception when other phones are searching for a signal. It would play lossless with the new upcoming AirPods Max.

 

[redbeard331]

I’d pay $3000 for one made of Kevlar with a rubber frame. When it drops I want it to not only survive the fall but bounce back into my hand!

The NBA edition is what you seek.

 

[cocoua]

* 2024?
“

• Periscope lens - With the ‌iPhone 15 Pro‌ Max, Apple plans to introduce a periscope telephoto lens that supports 5x or 6x optical zoom. Apple sometimes expands technology used in a flagship ‌iPhone‌ to additional models the next year, but Apple analyst Ming-Cho Kuo suggests that the periscope technology will remain limited to the ‌iPhone 16‌ Pro Max in 2023.
• “

 

[mrr]

What about support for the Apple Pencil?

 

[redbeard331]

The reason why there are a lot of rumors floating around about the iPhone 16 line up now is because Apple is pretty much done finalizing the iPhone 15. The iPhone Product development team is currently working on the 2024 iPhone 16 lineup now. By this time, next year, we will be hearing about iPhone 17. This is normal.

Agreed, it seems like EVERY year we hear all sorts of great rumors about the soon to be released iPhone, and this time of year all of a sudden everything is delayed until “next year”.

I have to remember how little anyone actually knows, and how most of the rumors every year turn out to not be true at all. Sometimes we expect great changes and are disappointed, sometimes we don’t expect much and get surprised by Apple. I will have a great big belly laugh this September if Apple comes out with everything mentioned in the article, as well as being quite satisfied. If these rumors are true, I may not be upgrading as I don’t see the point if it’s just gonna be usbC and a slight increase of the telephoto lens.

We need an iPhone ultra and we want it now (September), make it Titanium, throw in the kitchen sink, and I will camp out for it.

 

[CatalinApple]

Perfect match for your 3k headset

The thing is I don't think I want a VR/AR headset. What's Apple's angle here? Is it a gaming headset or something else?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

The thing is I don't think I want a VR/AR headset. What's Apple's angle here? Is it gaming a gaming headset or something else?

It’s probably going to be targeted toward Health and Fitness first. That will be the main scope. Apple is far behind when it comes to gaming.

 

[cpnotebook80]

They need to get ppl to upgrade so they will do whatever each iteration - throw fancy orange buttons, lens, thin bezels, new Face ID etc etc but if it ain’t broke for most ppl why upgrade for a premium? My iPhone 12 Pro is still good so maybe 2025 is the year of radical changes but then again rumours are just rumours. I still have the iPhone 3GS in a box and the only change that is needed is the iOS Ux design

 

[355922]

Great. Another year of downgrades (for the sake of “change”) and minor upgrades. 2017 was the last good update.

 

[JM]

A few years ago, Apple registered a patent for a camera system with just one large lens. It was posted here I think. That would be a noticeable redesign. We’ve had the same three lens look (with LiDAR) for a while now.

Mike Wazowski approved.

 

[sw1tcher]

It is indeed a good iPhone! Personally I would have bought the iPhone 14 Pro if it had USB-C because I really want to carry just one cable with me for all my devices.

Then this is the one cable you want

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