iPhone 15 rumors: Thinner bezels, USB-C, and more expensive
Thinner bezels, USB-C, and more Dynamic Island action are apparently on the way for this fall's iPhone 15 launches, as a report sums up many of the rumors about the inbound refresh.
Render of the iPhone 15 Pro
As usual, Apple is expected to introduce a refreshed iPhone 15 family of smartphones in September. As is typical for the summer, the rumor mill heats up with even more speculation and various claims about the mobile devices, increasing in quantity as the time approaches.
In Sunday's "Power On" newsletter for Bloomberg, Mark Gurman sums up many of the rumors into a list of potential changes customers could find in the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro ranges.
For a start, Gurman covers how Apple will get to the "dream" iPhone with a bunch of display changes. For the iPhone 15 and Plus, the introduction of Dynamic Island will be the big change.
On the Pro side, he discusses the use of low-injection pressure over-molding (LIPO) to shrink the border around the display, which has appeared in other rumors. According to Gurman, the technique shrinks the border from 2.2mm to 1.5mm, and it may also arrive on the iPad in the future.
The non-Pro models will also get "major camera improvements" and gain the A16 from the Pro line. The Pro will shift to a 3-nanometer-based A17.
The camera changes can include updated lenses, sensors, and, on the Pro Max model, the use of a periscope lens.
The switch to USB-C from Lighting is also touted.
The Pro models were also apparently planned to have touch-sensitive buttons with haptic feedback, but that was scrapped in favor of standard volume and power controls. Instead, the mute-ring switch will become a customizable Action button.
While it all sounds plausible, there's no guarantee that everything will make it into the final product. No-one outside of Apple will truly know what the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro will look like until Apple makes its September presentation.
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Wish I'd thought of that! Wish Apple Jobs had thought of that 4 years ago. Is Lightning the last Apple-proprietary connector?
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edit: To be more clear, I can think of two Apple connectors still being sold today on new products: the iPad Pro's Smart Connector, and the Mac notebook's MagSafe connector.
I thought about the improvements adding cost, but then I remembered Moore's Law: "Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years. The law claims that we can expect the speed and capability of our computers to increase every two years because of this, yet we will pay less for them." So far, that has been pretty consistent.
I tend to think Apple will bump prices by $100 for each model, which may well become the most signficant headline "upgrade" for the iPhone 15 Pro. They'd be smarter to hold off til next year when we'll supposedly see a design refresh--at least then, the price increase won't be the only thing to talk about.
Even if we do look at transistors, we see that Apple’s SoCs keep getting larger with more transistors. I don’t think Gordon Moore could’ve imagined a 3nm process and how specialized and fast microchips would become. I seem to recall the fear by industry experts that we were reaching a limit of how small the node process could become. I think it was 130 or 90nm people were worried that we had reached the end. Human innovation and adaptation is an amazing thing.