One other September, one other Apple occasion. Right this moment, Apple revealed its new iPhone 17 lineup in common and Professional fashions, in addition to the brand new and really skinny iPhone Air. The corporate additionally confirmed off the brand new Apple Watches—Sequence 11, Extremely 3, and SE—and the refreshed AirPods Professional 3.
There wasn’t a lot speak of software program, or about Apple’s ongoing efforts to seamlessly combine AI into all its merchandise. However we acquired numerous {hardware}! Right here’s every thing Apple introduced as we speak.
New iPhones
There are 4 iPhones as normal, however Apple has modified issues up fairly a bit this 12 months. Gone is the Plus mannequin, and as a replacement is the iPhone Air, a brand new ultra-slim and light-weight iPhone that’s simply 5.6 mm thick.
You solely get one digicam on this mannequin, although, and Apple appears to be utilizing high-density silicon-carbon batteries. The corporate is claiming the identical 27 hours of video playback that the iPhone 16 Plus was able to, regardless that this cellphone is way thinner and presumably has a slimmer battery. We’ll see the way it performs after we check it. There’s a brand new low-profile MagSafe battery pack to accompany it in case you’re frightened (or Apple is frightened) about battery.
The iPhone 17 Professional fashions have a very contemporary look, with a brand new “Digital camera Plateau” design. The highlights listed here are a vapor chamber cooling system which helps regulate the warmth generated by the beefier processor, and a 48-megapixel telephoto digicam that hits 4x optical zoom and 8x “optical-like” zoom.
All of those telephones make use of Apple’s new N1 wi-fi networking chip, which options Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread help, although solely the iPhone Air comes with Apple’s homebrewed C1X modem. That’s probably as a result of the C1X doesn’t help millimeter wave 5G (solely sub-6).
Maybe extra thrilling is the contemporary 18-megapixel selfie digicam, which helps the Heart Stage function that mechanically adjusts the framing to maintain you targeted. It additionally has Twin Seize help, so you’ll be able to ship response movies all day on a regular basis and name your self a Twitch streamer.
The bottom iPhone 17 begins at $799. The iPhone Air is $999, the iPhone 17 Professional is $1,099, and the iPhone Professional Max is $1,199. All iPhones can be obtainable on September 19.
And this wasn’t within the presentation, however iOS 26 can be obtainable on iPhones outdated and new on September 15. —Julian Chokkattu
3 New Watches!
In comparison with final 12 months’s considerably lackluster 10th anniversary of the Apple Watch, this 12 months sees an entire revamp, together with an extended overdue replace of the corporate’s entry-level Watch SE. This 12 months, the Watch SE has the most recent S10 chip, which signifies that it lastly has numerous the options obtainable on costlier watches, just like the sleep monitoring and satellite tv for pc messaging. Satellite tv for pc messaging turned obtainable on the iPhone final 12 months, and is now obtainable on all three watches. You’ll be able to textual content your loved ones and mates if you’re off the grid through your watch. In case your watch detects that you simply’ve crashed or had an incident, it should additionally ship your location through satellite tv for pc to emergency providers and contacts.
The newest replace to the Watch Sequence 11 and Watch Extremely 3’s vaunted sequence of health features is hypertension notification, which Apple expects to be FDA-cleared inside the month.
Over a interval of 30 days, the watch’s optical coronary heart sensor will examine when you have symptoms of hypertension, which impacts as many as one out of three of the worldwide inhabitants and may trigger every thing from coronary heart assaults to kidney illness to stroke.
That is along with {hardware} upgrades like wide-angle OLED shows that we noticed on final 12 months’s Sequence 10, together with—that is enormous—a full 24 hours of battery life on the Sequence 11 and as much as 72 hours of battery life on the Watch Extremely 3 in low energy mode. The Apple Watches have had notoriously poor battery life for a decade, and now you’ll be able to (in all probability) put on your Apple Watch all by the evening or for a weekend tenting journey! Superb!
