I PHONE 14

 

get ready for some major upgrades to the

iphone and apple watch lineup at the company's far out launch event next week now last year's iphone  was kind of marginal upgrade there really weren'that many changes except for the pro line which got the faster promotion screens and got better cameras that was a nice uh upgrade but the actual iphone

13 not really much changed there 0:21

according to the latest rumors the iphone 14 lineup is going to be a huge step forward especially on the pro line the apple watch is going to be getting a new model to work with and there's a lot of talk about the subtext of the invite which just says far out what could that mean let's dive into it when it comes to the iphone 14 and iphone 14 pro lineup we're still going to see four models this year but a lot of rumors have pointed to one major

change there's not going to be an iphone

mini model anymore instead apple's going

to be launching a new iphone max or pro

model that's that's gonna have a 6.7

inch screen like the iphone pro max but

will likely just have the same basic

hardware as the standard iphone 14. now i'm sure fans of tiny gadgets are going to be disappointed by that but you know the larger consumer trend is towards bigger screens just about everywhere that's something samsung has really taken to heart and that's why all their 1 phones have gotten so huge that'honestly the big draw of folding phones as well just being able to cram in giantscreens apple could also be taking a cue from samsung and other android phone makers by getting rid of its notch onthe iphone pro models and using two punch out designs instead now here's where it gets interesting the early rumors point to two separate punch-out modules a little circular one for the front-facing camera and a pill-shaped box for the face id sensor but the latest rumors point to something else entirely it looks like that little box is going to be unified as a single pill-shaped sensor it's still physically going to be two holes but software is going to kind of black out that whole area now why would apple do that one other rumon we're seeing lately is that apple is going to be using the notifications those little dots that appear when you know an app is using your microphone and2 it's going to be taking those dots and putting them in between those two sensors so it's going to kind of show in the center of your phone rather in the top right and above the reception bar which honestly just always fell cluttered to me now this new pillbox design isn't going to be a huge step forward from the notch to be honest but hey the notch is you know something we've been seeing since the iphone 10 in 2017 right so it's niceto have the design change it's just unfortunate that the iphone 14 the standard model may not be getting this upgrade and for the most part from all the rumors we've seen so far it really looks like the iphone 14 pro and pro max are going to be the ones getting the biggest upgrades this year and i guess that's just how going to be for now on from apple it's kind of what we saw last year too we're also hearing that the iphone 14 pro will have an always on screen that's a rumor that's been around since last year and more crucially and more controversially it sounds likh apple may just be giving us a processor upgrade only on the pro lines that means only the iphone 14 pro and pro max will be getting the new a16 bionic chip

that's the one we kind of expect to be happening next uh whereas the iphone 14 standard models will just have the a bionic from last year now that is kind of a big deal i don't think apple has ever had such ahuge speed variation between iphone models especially between the pro and the standard lineup but also don't know if consumers will actually care the a15 chip is super fast it's still you know faster than alot of chips we're seeing in android phones and most consumers probably will not even notice the difference if anything it makes the pro phones kind of a bigger deal and makes them more of a draw for pro users and anybody who really wants to get the latest and greatest hardware now let's move on to camera updates and this has really always been an area than has separated the iphone 14 pro from the standard line according to analyst min ching kug apple is planning to introduce a 48 megapixel sensor into the iphone pro line which is a huge update because apple has really relied on increasingly better 12 megapixel sensors over the last few years now that'll be for the standard wide camera and it also sounds like apple could be introducing a new ultra wide sensor that has bigger pixels and will work better in low light so that's going to be a nice update as well now i don't think these are going to be big enough upgrades for anybody with an iphone 13 pro to upgrade immediately but you know for photographers and people who really demand the best image quality possible getting those extra megapixels is gonna be a pretty big deal and that's something a lot of android phones have been doing for a while too so apple just really needs to compete there as for the base iphone 14 we're hearing that it's going to be getting the slightl improved ultra wide sensor that the iphone 13 pro had last year so you know that's something now let's speculate a bit because a lot of people are thinking what does apple mean by far outwith this event and the invite also showed kind of a star field we were thinking astrophotography it could be all sorts of things but we did see the news recently between t-mobile and spacex where they announced that you know they're going to be bringing satellite emergency connectivity to some of their phones over the next couple years and that's going to be a pretty big deal and that's likely what apple was trying to do and maybe they just want to get out ahead of applewe've been hearing about satellite connectivity integration in iphone since last year and at that point it did seema little unbelievable but now the whole idea of it is certainly taking shap according to ming chi kuo apple ha finished testing out satellite connectivity hardware on the iphone 14 pro right now it's just kind of waiting contract deals with partners to figure out how it's actually going to provide that service so we're all kind of waiting to see how that kind of shape out but the other interesting thing that cool says is that the iphone 13 models also had some satellite hardware in there and i just want to see how that works out don't expect to be face timing via satellite or anything though uh the low bandwidth from these connections really just makes them good fOR messages or maybe voice call maybe very low quality ones but the whole idea is that you'll have some connectivity if you're far out in the wild and away from typical cell towers as for the apple watch there have been ton of rumors about a new pro model thatapples can be introducing alongside the new apple watch series 8. according to bloomberg's mark german apple has a new model that's more activity oriented it's going to have a slightly bigger two inch screen it's going to have stronger titanium connectivity a bigger battery a low power mode that could help it last for up to two days on a single charge and this could be a pro model it could be an adventure model we don't know what they're going to call it this apple watch pro could also have the temperature sensor that's been rumored to come to the apple watch series 8 and this is something that could help you know keep track of your temperature in case you're getting sick or about to have a fever but it could also be useful for fertility tracking or period tracking and things like that too so this is a whole new technology and it'll be really interesting to see how the apple watch takes advantage of it rounding things out a bit we have heard a bit about the airpods pro 2 it's been almost three years since the first airpods pro came out we love them wegave them a glowing review and it sounds like apple has a couple tricks up its sleeve for the new one there were initial rumors that it could have a completely new design that doesn't have the little antenna bars that they're kind of known for but more recent rumors say that that's not the case instead it's the airpods pro 2k so it's gonna be getting a couple changes there may be holes for speaker for the find my app to just make noise if you lost it somewhere and there may even be a little notch for you to attach a strap or maybe an air tag or something like that there are also rumors that the airpods pro 2 could support apple's lossless audio codec maybe with the help of a new updated h1 chip it's hard to tell you know if that's going to make a real difference and certainly with small earbuds lossless audio may not even be a thing you can nactually hear but hey it's a thing you can market so i'm sure apple will try don't get your hopes up for any health tracking hardware in the airpods pro though there were early rumors that said it could have heart rate tracking hardware or body temperature sensing hardware but sounds like that's not happening at all and last but not least is uh the ipad now apple usually has a separate event for its higher end ipads later in the fall but for the last couple years apple has given us  on the base ipad it's cheapestone during the iphone event this year for the 10th generation base ipad we're hearing it may include usb-c support instead of apple's lightning connector it may have a slightly bigger screen maybe something more akin to the air but you know don't get your hopes up for any major design changes this is a device that apple doesn't typically spend much time or energy on so it's probably still going to have thick bezels it's probably still going to have a home button but you know it's still going to be a great machine and hopefully they'll be able to still keep that price the base ipad may finally get 5g support according to some rumors and we've also heard inklings that it may have a better front-facing camera as well and certainly with the whole you know all the software apples using for video chats at this point that could be a big update stay tuned to end gadget.com forall of our news from apple's hardwar event on september 7th and you know follow along for our reviews and everything else as .