The iPhone 14 was released specified weeks ago, but we’ve inactive heard immoderate blistery rumours astir its successor. Here’s everything we cognize truthful far.
Apple’s newest telephone ne'er fails to make immense levels of excitement from the tech community. With a rigid yearly motorboat cycle, it’s conscionable earthy that nary sooner than the latest iPhone hits the store shelves, we’re already smacking our lips successful anticipation of what could travel next.
While the iPhone 14 bid delivered immoderate breathtaking caller features and much-awaited upgrades, fewer of america would picture the clutch of caller devices arsenic perfect; there’s ever country for improvement, and truthful we’re keeping our fingers crossed that we’ll spot immoderate these affirmative changes footwear successful for the iPhone 15 series. In this article, we’ve collected each the rumours and speculation we’ve travel crossed truthful acold regarding these planned caller smartphones. Read connected to hole yourself for adjacent year’s launch.
Release Date
iPhones travel a reasonably predictable motorboat schedule, with the caller 1 appearing each twelvemonth successful the aboriginal autumn. Don’t conscionable instrumentality my connection for it; the database beneath shows the announcement dates for each caller mainline iPhones:
- iPhone 14: September 16, 2022
- iPhone 13: September 24, 2021
- iPhone 12: November 13, 2020
- iPhone 11: September 20, 2019
- iPhone XS: September 21, 2018
Based connected this pattern, we’d estimation that the iPhone 15 volition astir apt beryllium released successful mid- to late-September, though there’s thing definite conscionable yet. The devices volition typically beryllium disposable to pre-order arsenic soon arsenic the announcement is over, and volition deed the store shelves a fewer days aft that.
Price
While the iPhone 14’s terms remained the aforesaid successful its location marketplace of the US ($799 for the basal model, rising to arsenic overmuch arsenic $1,099 for the iPhone 14 Pro Max), we weren’t rather truthful fortunate present successful the UK. British customers got deed with a £70 terms summation from the iPhone 13, with the iPhone 14 starting from £849.
So acold we’ve not had our eyes connected close pricing accusation astir the iPhone 15, and arsenic we’re truthful aboriginal successful the motorboat rhythm there’s each accidental that this has not been acceptable successful factual conscionable yet. It’s excessively aboriginal to speculate, but we’re conscionable hoping that the caller prices enactment customers worldwide connected a much adjacent playing field.
The astir eye-catching assertion truthful acold (from LeaksApplePro) is that a marque caller top-tier handset could beryllium added to the range. This iPhone 15 Ultra, arsenic it’s presently known, volition nary uncertainty travel with an ultra-expensive terms tag to boot; not slightest due to the fact that it volition seemingly beryllium formed successful titanium, conscionable similar the caller Apple Watch Ultra.
Design
The plan is wherever we could spot a large displacement successful Apple’s argumentation that galore believed would ne'er happen. This is of people the power to USB-C implicit Apple’s proprietary Lightning port, a alteration that would marque the iPhone a batch much versatile and compatible with charging cables for Android phones.
The Bloomberg study Mark Gurman, 1 of the champion sources connected the interior workings of Apple, claimed that the instauration of USB-C is “essentially a lock” for the iPhone 15. This is the strongest connection we’ve yet heard connected the subject, and the alteration of absorption was astir surely influenced by a European Parliament ballot connected the subject.
Another rumour indicates that Apple volition adjacent spell a signifier further than that, making its USB-C ports enactment the Thunderbolt 4 standard. According to LeaksApplePro, the Pro models of the iPhone 15 bid volition thereby boast overmuch higher bandwidth for higher information speeds, though unluckily it seems that the modular non-Pro variants volition miss retired adjacent year.
One feature, however, which volition seemingly beryllium contiguous crossed the full scope (both Pro and non-Pro alike) is 1 of the defining aspects of the recently-released iPhone 15 Pro; yes, the Dynamic Island volition seemingly beryllium universally adopted by each iPhone 15 models.
This nifty caller look replaced the modular notch that had been contiguous ever since the iPhone X, and our Editor, Max Parker, described it arsenic a “big improvement” since it adds “an other furniture of enactment to the phone”; this small pill includes details of concurrently moving apps truthful that you tin multitask with ease, and we’re precise excited to spot that capableness get connected much Apple devices.
Camera
For a portion now, it’s been rumoured that a periscope lens could travel to articulation Apple’s enactment of smartphones successful 2023. On that score, astatine slightest according to the latest rumours, we’ve got immoderate bully quality and immoderate atrocious news.
The bully quality is that, yes, it volition beryllium present: reliable Apple root Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that the high-ASP periscope would so get for the iPhone 15 series. However, aft issuing the supra tweet helium aboriginal clarified that it would lone beryllium contiguous connected the iPhone 15 Pro Max, the astir costly handset of the full series. So if if you hap to bargain a modular iPhone 15, oregon adjacent the souped-up iPhone 15 Pro, it looks similar you mightiness miss retired connected this slayer caller diagnostic that could fto you drawback clearer close-ups than ever before.