iPhone 15 Pro Expected Next Week With These 12 New Features

[FastLaneJB]

Unlike 5G, I think Wifi 6E is an actual huge leap. I’ve used it on the iPad Pro and if you have gigabit or higher internet connection with compatible router, it flies. Especially in areas with high congestion like large apartment buildings.

Hopefully them removing E-Sim in more places means they can actually use the space this year, more battery please…

Will have to get a 6E router to try this. I’ve been holding out for a router that also does WiFi 7 seeing as it’s so close. Or well that to become a bit more mainstream.

Sadly I expect the SIM slot space to be filler again as until all countries don’t have a SIM slot they need to keep the space for the countries that get the slot. I’m in the UK and hoping it still has the slot. I use eSIM for my personal SIM and put my work SIM in the slot. I’m not allowed to transfer that physical SIM to a eSIM, nor do I have the access / permissions to do it either. An eSIM only iPhone means the end of dual SIM for me.

 

[ApplesAreSweet&Sour]

Oh, screw you, Apple. I am so tired of the best camera features only coming on the "larger than I want" version of the phone. Dating all the way back to the iPhone 6, where only the 6 Plus got image stabilization. Regularly, Apple has included photo features on only the Plus/Max size phone, not the regular. It should be a *PRO* thing, not a "Max" thing. This was my year to upgrade, but I really want the better zoom, so now I'll be waiting an extra year and hoping (like in past iterations) the better photo feature trickles down the following year.

Yeah, not a lot of appeal to all that optical zoom and great features if it’s only available on the one iPhone model that I genuinely can’t cram into most of my pockets even if I wanted to, and falls out of all the ones that are large enough but have a big opening or no zippers or buttons.

If I don’t care about being able to fit the thing in my pockets and jackets then I could easily find a real digital camera with much better specs and lug that around everywhere I go.

I know it’s most likely true but I really hope these rumors are wrong and that all Pros get the same cameras.

 

[Jamie0003]

TBF even coming from an iPhone X the upgrade isn't that big overall in day to day life, but the same can be said about all the other phone manufacturers and you also see it in other electronics, Moore's law has been dead for years.

But people see that as a bad thing but it just means you don't have to upgrade your phone every year (or even every 2 years).

Funnily enough that’s what I’m upgrading from, and there’s tons new for me to enjoy, but yeah it’s still essentially just the same experience, just a bit better. If you want something truly different I suppose there’s foldables but I wouldn’t touch one with a barge pole personally (plastic screen with a crease in the middle, worse specs, higher price, yuk)

 

[Jaisah]

Why is nobody mentioning the upgraded main camera? This year we are getting the Sony IMX903 which is a 1/1.14” sensor and 30% larger (area) compared with the IMX803 1/1.3” sensor in the 14 pro and more than double the area compared with the IMX703 found in the 13 Pro (the phone that I have now). Also the IMX903 has Sonys new dual stacked CMOS technology allowing for ~2x the light capturing ability so compared to the 14 pro it will be approx 2.6x more photosensitive and compared to the 13 pro it will be ~4x more photosensitive. It should be a huge upgrade! And that is not even including the New glass-plastic hybrid lens and an updated ISP. That, for me, is one of the biggest upgrades we are getting and yet nobody is talking about it.

 

[Shirasaki]

Such a bummer… No SIM card tray, no buy. I guess I’ll have to either wait until I can buy them overseas or start officially looking for alternative. E-SIM is great but all the countries I work in are contract only for E-SIM. I just retuned from working for two months in the Philippine. My wife couldn‘t use her unlocked “US“ iPhone 14… No SIM Tray. Really messing with our company phones.

Seems that importing iPhone gonna become a new trend as long as there are a good number of countries refusing to embrace eSIM, such as China.

 

[Macrumors007]

I don't agree with a government having this power, that has nothing to do with the outcome.

For example, the government might mandate that all eat 100% healthy meals, no more sugary or fried stuff. The outcome might be good, but this kind of power is immoral and downright terrifying to me.

No dissonance, you just didn't understand.

Compare apples to oranges all you want. This is more like the government mandating that all
homebuilders need to install the same type of power sockets, rather than installing some proprietary one so that they can sell their own plugs.

Nothing immoral at all about it.

Are you terrified that gas stations all need to have nozzles that fit in every car?

 

[NARadyk]

So out of these 12 “new features”, how many are exclusive to the Pro’s?

 

[Fat_Guy]

Speculation of an iPhone 15 Ultra is still around.

iPhone 15 Ultra might launch alongside iPhone 15 Pro Max, says tipster – 91mobiles.com

As always there are little bits here and there that keep this possibility alive.

 

[Shirasaki]

Why is nobody mentioning the upgraded main camera? This year we are getting the Sony IMX903 which is a 1/1.14” sensor and 30% larger (area) compared with the IMX803 1/1.3” sensor in the 14 pro and more than double the area compared with the IMX703 found in the 13 Pro (the phone that I have now). Also the IMX903 has Sonys new dual stacked CMOS technology allowing for ~2x the light capturing ability so compared to the 14 pro it will be approx 2.6x more photosensitive and compared to the 13 pro it will be ~4x more photosensitive. It should be a huge upgrade! And that is not even including the New glass-plastic hybrid lens and an updated ISP. That, for me, is one of the biggest upgrades we are getting and yet nobody is talking about it.

Nobody is talking about it because good hardware on paper doesnt always produce the desired result, assuming same person, same scene and roughly the same time. On top of that, photos produced on smartphone nowadays are heavily touched by software, rather than displaying true performance of the hardware, further washing away the importance of significant hardware upgrade For casual use.

And let’s not forget that tech specs is not something most people gonna care about, much less to a camera with seemingly rocket science level of parameters and whatnot.

 

[solq]

Compare apples to oranges all you want. This is more like the government mandating that all
homebuilders need to install the same type of power sockets, rather than installing some proprietary one so that they can sell their own plugs.

Nothing immoral at all about it.

Are you terrified that gas stations all need to have nozzles that fit in every car?

I don't think this is a job for the government, at all. The market is perfectly capable of sorting this kind of stuff out.

This is busybodies at work, making innovation harder.

 

[the future]

Yep, the smaller iPhone 16 Pro is already rumored to be getting the periscope lens next year.

A year is a lot of time in design/engineering. It‘s quite probable that this year‘s available components for the periscope don‘t fit in the smaller chassis of the regular Pro, but next year‘s components will.

 

[the future]

6.1" and 6.7" displays still for Pro + Pro Max this year. 6.3" + 6.9" rumored for next year. Up, up, up we go!

Which means, considering the shrinking bezels, the 15 Pro Max will be the smallest Pro Max for the foreseeable future. Which makes it more attractive to me. (Together with the weight loss due to the titanium frame.)

 

[the future]

This is definitely my favorite new feature. It’s always so exciting when Apple takes things away from us. I love those features the best.

Do you want more battery? Because removing the SIM slot frees up considerable space inside the phone.

 

[Marty80]

I cannot wait for this event to end, and let the countdown begin for the 16 ultra.

 

[redbeard331]

Why is nobody mentioning the upgraded main camera? This year we are getting the Sony IMX903 which is a 1/1.14” sensor and 30% larger (area) compared with the IMX803 1/1.3” sensor in the 14 pro and more than double the area compared with the IMX703 found in the 13 Pro (the phone that I have now). Also the IMX903 has Sonys new dual stacked CMOS technology allowing for ~2x the light capturing ability so compared to the 14 pro it will be approx 2.6x more photosensitive and compared to the 13 pro it will be ~4x more photosensitive. It should be a huge upgrade! And that is not even including the New glass-plastic hybrid lens and an updated ISP. That, for me, is one of the biggest upgrades we are getting and yet nobody is talking about it.

We hear this every year and then I can barely tell the difference from one year to the next. I am ready for a huge leap in camera technology, and I think Apple could still surprise us all as they do every year with something. Forget CMOS, I’d like to see Apple wedge a little and affordable SPAD sensor into the iPhone for truly incredible night photography. Maybe one day…

 

[solq]

Why is nobody mentioning the upgraded main camera? This year we are getting the Sony IMX903 which is a 1/1.14” sensor and 30% larger (area) compared with the IMX803 1/1.3” sensor in the 14 pro and more than double the area compared with the IMX703 found in the 13 Pro (the phone that I have now). Also the IMX903 has Sonys new dual stacked CMOS technology allowing for ~2x the light capturing ability so compared to the 14 pro it will be approx 2.6x more photosensitive and compared to the 13 pro it will be ~4x more photosensitive. It should be a huge upgrade! And that is not even including the New glass-plastic hybrid lens and an updated ISP. That, for me, is one of the biggest upgrades we are getting and yet nobody is talking about it.

I wanted to upgrade last year my current 11 Pro so I went to the Apple Store to try out the 14 Pro. In the end the design prevented that - I hated the sharp edges, as I use my phone without a case, but I tried the camera.

On paper, the 14 Pro is much, much better compared to my 11 Pro. In reality, shots taken in the store (not so brightly lit) looked pretty much identical on the screen. Of course, if you zoomed in, there was more detail in the 14 Pro shots, but I just don't need that extra detail. Whatever the 11 Pro produces is fine for viewing and print.

In fact, I have printed photos taken with much older phones, such as my Samsung Galaxy Alpha, and they look beautiful and perfectly crisp.

What you're going to get is more of the same, in terms of end results, and if you want the best computational photography money can buy, the Pixels are better anyway.

 

[the future]

The editor forgot the main new “feature” on their list: a higher price.

Wait and see, shall we? Of all rumours wrt iPhone, the „supply chain“, where most of the rumours come from, knows least about the prices Apple may or may not charge. It is, quite literally, none of their business. It is also the info the least amount of people inside Apple know anything about. And the easiest thing to change at the last minute (the only thing, really).

 

[the future]

The only “feature” that is of interest for me is the periscope lens, but, only if it has optical zoom as in lenses being used for zoom and not digital and I am not yet convinced that it really does optical.

It is not the only new feature of interest for me, but the most important one by far. If it is a real optical zoom (which so far only 2 phones in the world have, a Sony and an Oppo, AFAIK), I‘m in.

 

[redbeard331]

I don't think this is a job for the government, at all. The market is perfectly capable of sorting this kind of stuff out.

This is busybodies at work, making innovation harder.

Many things are the responsibility of government, as has been proven over and over again, the “market” would never do the right thing in many cases unless they were forced to.

For whatever reason Apple has kept the iPhone on slow lightning years after the iPad got USBC, it’s long past due. I’m sure we’ll all survive usbc.

 

[the future]

How can people call any of these updates "game changers".

Who did?

Besides, real optical zoom would be a game changer for (my) iPhone photography.

Every new iPhones for the last few years has basically been a S upgrade compared to the last generation.

What do you expect? Smart phones are just a very mature category by now.

 

[the future]

Hoping the 8gb of ram comes true and that the periscope lens is at least 250-300mm Ff equivalent. 5-6x optical zoom is so 5 years ago.

I‘d rather have a great 5-6x than a crappy 10x.

 

[the future]

I am underwhelmed

Yuck! Slight improvements and lots of costly marketing words.

Eh. It's been about 5 or 6 years since I've been excited for a new iPhone.

Nothing more reliable (or predictable) than jaded nerds. If you want something brand new and exciting, you better jump on the Vision Pro, then.

 

[solq]

Many things are the responsibility of government, as has been proven over and over again, the “market” would never do the right thing in many cases unless they were forced to.

I couldn't disagree more. In fact I think the opposite - that governments basically almost never do the right thing, and if they do, they do it either in an unethical manner and almost always in an abusive and utterly wasteful way.

 

[ChibaCityBlues]

Titanium is another stupid material choice, that doesn’t do anything but hike up the prices.

Honestly… it makes me mad. If you want to reduce the weight and improve the durability, don’t use a case back made out of glass!

All things considered, plastic is not bad after all. Lightweight, hard to break, bounces back in shape, don’t block the antennas and allows for amazing reception.

 

[Kylo83]

Not very major upgrades to be fair, every year is getting so minor