After months of rumors, Apple has finally launched its flagship iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus smartphones with a new design while maintaining the same display sizes. The new standard iPhones are made out of aluminium, like last year and also come with the same 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch oLED displays with a peak brightness of 2,000 nits.
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The new iPhone 16 variants have received a major processor boost with the new A18 chipset. The latest chipset runs on 3nm technology with a 6-core CPU, including 2 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. Apple says the iPhone 16 models have a 30% faster CPU and 40% faster GPU than its predecessor, while also remaining more power efficient.
Visually, the most significant design change on the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus is a vertical pill-shaped camera layout that houses the 48MP Fusion camera with 2x optical zoom and 12MP ultra-wide angle lens, which also enables macro photography.
iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus also feature the Action Button, which was reserved for the Pro lineup until last year. With the new button, users can access a variety of features with a single press, including opening the camera, flashlight, activating voice memos, translate, magnifier and more.
There is also a new 'Camera Control' on all 4 iPhone 16 models, which is Apple's way of adding a new touch-sensitive button that can be used to launch the Camera app, take photos and videos, zoom in and out of photos, and adjust other settings such as exposure and depth of field.
iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus come at the same starting price of ₹79,900 and 89,900 as last year despite boasting a much more powerful CPU. Meanwhile, the 256GB version of the iPhone 16 is priced at ₹89,900 and 512GB version is priced at ₹1,09,900. iPhone 16 Plus, on the other hand, is priced at ₹99,900 for the 256GB variant and ₹1,19,900 for the 512GB variant.
The new iPhone 16 variants will be available in five colourways: black, white, pink, teal and ultramarine. They will be available to pre-order from September 13 and can be bought from September 20 onwards.
