Apple’s iPhone 16 comes with AI features and a dedicated camera button

Apple’s iPhone 16 comes with AI features and a dedicated camera button

Apple unveiled the iPhone 16 on Monday at its “Glowtime” event in Cupertino, with CEO Tim Cook claiming the new device is “designed from the ground up around Apple Intelligence,” a reference to new generative AI features announced at WWDC in June. The new handset is made of “aerospace grade” aluminum, the company said.

The display has a new, 50% stronger ceramic shield against scratches and drops. The new design also brings a new dedicated camera button on the side for quickly taking photos.

The handset is powered by Apple’s new 3nm A18 chip, which features an improved neural network designed specifically for the company’s new generative AI models. It has a 6-core CPU with four efficiency cores. The company claims that the new chip is “up to 30%” faster than what’s in the iPhone 15, while offering greater power efficiency. The new GPU, meanwhile, delivers more power, while improving power efficiency by 35%.

Naturally, Apple Intelligence was the star of the show, as the new iPhone 16 line joins last year’s iPhone 15 Pro models as the only members of the lineup capable of running the company’s new small-model offering. As noted at WWDC, the offering runs both offline on the device’s chips, as well as on remote servers via new Private Cloud Compute options.

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