Kuo: Periscope Camera Lens Will Remain Limited to iPhone 16 Pro Max Model in 2024 - MacRumors

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Tuesday January 31, 2023 9:17 americium PST by Juli Clover

The 2024 iPhone 16 Pro Max (or Ultra should Apple alteration the ‌iPhone‌ naming scheme) volition proceed to beryllium the lone ‌iPhone‌ exemplary that volition get a higher-end, upgraded periscope camera with caller zoom capabilities adjacent year, according to Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo.

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As has been antecedently rumored respective times, Apple this twelvemonth volition bounds periscope lens exertion to the larger iPhone 15 Pro Max, possibly due to the fact that of the abstraction that the hardware requires. Keeping the periscope lens exclusive to the ‌iPhone‌ 16 Pro Max arsenic good volition spot Apple breaking a contented that often sees caller features introduced arsenic exclusives for 1 ‌iPhone‌ and past aboriginal expanded to further ‌iPhone‌ models erstwhile next-generation devices release.

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As antecedently predicted, the highest-end exemplary of the 2H23 caller iPhone 15 exemplary (15 Pro Max oregon 15 Ultra) volition follow the periscope camera. The marketplace expected that adding periscope cameras to much iPhone models would thrust request for lens upgrades successful 2023-2024. — 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) January 31, 2023

Kuo's accusation contradicts a caller study from The Elec, which said that a "Folded Zoom" periscope lens would beryllium available successful some the ‌iPhone‌ 16 Pro and the ‌iPhone‌ 16 Pro Max adjacent year.

With a periscope lens, airy is reflected by an angled reflector toward the representation sensor successful the camera. The directional displacement allows for a "folded" telephoto lens strategy for improved optical zoom capabilities without the blurriness that comes with integer zoom.

Periscope lens exertion is already utilized by Apple's competitors similar Samsung, and the ‌iPhone 15‌ Pro Max could diagnostic up to 6x optical zoom, an betterment implicit the existent 3x optical zoom successful the iPhone 14 Pro models.

For the past fewer years, the Pro and Pro Max iPhones person offered akin features, and artillery beingness has been the main distinguishing diagnostic betwixt the devices speech from show size. Limiting periscope zoom exertion to the Pro Max volition apt frustrate those who similar to person the latest exertion but who bash not attraction for the larger 6.7-inch size.

As Apple is adding much features to the larger 6.7-inch ‌iPhone 15‌ "Pro Max," determination are rumors that it could alternatively beryllium called the ‌iPhone 15‌ Ultra, akin to the Apple Watch Ultra.