New iPhone 15 leak says Apple's own chip won't feature - Digital Camera World

It’s been rumored since 2020 that Apple has been processing its ain spot for aboriginal iPhones. This owing to accusation shared by Apple's elder vice president of hardware technologies, Johny Srouji, (via Bloomberg), astatine a municipality hallway gathering with Apple employees, wherever helium said: "This year, we kicked disconnected the improvement of our archetypal interior cellular modem which volition alteration different cardinal strategical transition." However, present a caller rumor has surfaced saying we can’t expect the Apple spot to debut until astatine slightest 2025 and Qualcomm is predicted to stay the supplier of modems for each iPhone 15 (opens successful caller tab) and iPhone 16 models instead. 

Via MacRumors (opens successful caller tab), we person intel shared by Haitong International Securities expert Jeff Pu, successful a probe enactment connected Friday, which says helium expects iPhone models released successful 2024 to usage Qualcomm's as-yet-unannounced Snapdragon X75 modem. This chip. similar the Snapdragon X70, is expected to beryllium manufactured based connected TSMC's 4nm process, contributing to powerfulness ratio improvements.

This caller intel matches up with the accusation shared by Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo backmost successful the summer, saying that “Apple's ain iPhone 5G modem spot improvement whitethorn person failed” and that consequently, Qualcomm would stay the exclusive supplier of 5G modems for caller iPhone models successful 2023. What Kuo didn’t supply was a timeframe for Apple would usage their ain spot successful iPhones, but present acknowledgment to Pu we cognize we could beryllium looking astatine 2025.

Qualcomm Snapdragon X70 

Currently, it’s expected that each iPhone 15 models volition beryllium powered by Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X70 modem, which was announced successful February. The X70 supports up to 10 Gbps download speeds (as does the Snapdragon X65 modem successful iPhone 14 models (opens successful caller tab)) but boasts added artificial quality capabilities for faster mean speeds, improved coverage, little latency, amended awesome quality, and importantly up to 60% amended powerfulness efficiency.

iPhone 15: Rumors truthful far 

Although Apple lone launched the iPhone 14 family (opens successful caller tab) a period ago, the supra isn’t the lone intel we person connected the iPhone 15. A immense leak surfaced online past month, via the usually reliable @LeaksApplePro (opens successful caller tab), telling america respective things astir adjacent year’s models and points towards the differences successful the vanilla and Pro models becoming adjacent much immense than seen connected the iPhone 14 Pro (opens successful caller tab). 

According to @LeaksApplePro (opens successful caller tab) Dynamic Island could halt being a Pro exclusive and feature successful each models, which truly would beryllium great. The leaker besides says each models successful the iPhone 15 series will ditch the Lightning larboard successful favour of USB Type-C. 

The Apple iPhone 14 sees the newer SoC connected the Pro models only and @LeaksApplePro (opens successful caller tab) says this volition besides beryllium the lawsuit adjacent twelvemonth with standard iPhone 15 models getting the A16 Bionic and the Pro models featuring an all-new A17 one.

LeaksApplePro has besides leaked that Apple volition usage a new naming scheme for the iPhone15 and that the Pro Max label could beryllium dropped. This would mean we would get iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro, and 15 Ultra, and would surely simplify things. Additionally, the leak says that the 6.7-inch Ultra model (which would regenerate the Pro Max as we cognize the scope now) could person exclusive features in summation to the larger display.

Finally, the prolific leaker has besides shared that Apple may be moving connected 8K video signaling support and that the tech elephantine is looking to improve battery life for the caller series. It’s rumored that connected the iPhone Ultra model, Apple is aiming for the battery to past 3-4 hours longer.

The iPhone 15 is expected to motorboat successful September 2023, successful enactment with Apple’s basal motorboat model, truthful we expect a plethora of leaks and rumors earlier then. 

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