Apple Event: iPhone 14, Apple Watch Series 8, AirPods Pro, and more.
1. Apple Watch Series 8
Display
Apple Watch Series 8 features a brilliant, always-on display with narrow borders that push the screen to the edge. Detailed watch faces like the new lunar, astronomy, metropolitan and modular look stunning. And it's so bright that the texting complications are easy to read even when your wrist is down.
Durability
Series 8 is durable, swim-proof, dustproof, and crack-resistant. Series 8 helps keeps you safe with fall detection, emergency SOS and Medical Id. It has sleep tracking, cycle tracking, and mindfulness. Series 8 brings even more health, safety, and connectivity features. This year Apple is introducing a suite of advanced cycle tracking features. Utilizing the new temperature sensor in Apple Watch Series 8, you can now receive a retrospective estimate even when you ovulated.
Sensor
Series 8 has a unique two-sensor design. There’s one temperature sensor on the back crystal near your skin and another just under the display. Overnight Series 8 samples your wrist temperature every 5 seconds and can detect changes as small as 0.1-degree Celsius. In the health app, you can see nightly shifts from your baseline temperature, which can be caused by things like exercise, alcohol, or illness.
Crash Detection
Apple Watch Series 8 can detect if you were in a severe car crash. When a car crash is detected, it automatically connects to the emergency services, provides your location, and notifies your emergency contacts. In order to detect the unique forces of car crashes, Apple developed two new motion sensors for Series 8. An improved 3-axis gyroscope and high G-force accelerometer. The new accelerometer is capable of measuring up to 256 G’s, allowing it to detect the extreme impacts of a car crash and it samples motion 4x faster at over 3000 times a second. Crash detection runs only while you are driving and processes data only around the time of a possible crash.
Battery Life
Apple Watch Series 8 has 18-hour battery life. Apple also introduced Low Power Mode, which can give you up to 36 hours of battery life. Low power maintains all the core features like activity tracking and fall detection while temporarily disabling features like always on display and auto workout detection.
Colors
Apple Watch Series 8 will be available in 4 colors with 100% recycled aluminum. Midnight, Starlight, Silver, and product Red and in 3 stainless steel finishes- Silver, Gold, and Graphite.
Apple Watch Series 8 starts at 399$ for GPS and 499$ for GPS + Cellular, available from September 16.
2. Apple Watch Ultra
Apple also unveiled Apple Watch Ultra, a completely new design, reimagined with extraordinary capabilities that expand the ways in which you can use Apple Watch. It starts with a case made from aerospace-grade titanium. It has the biggest brightest display ever on the Apple watch. Apple also added a new action button, in high contrast international orange for various functions. Ultra has the biggest battery of any Apple Watch yet. It gets up to 36 hours of battery life on a single charge. For Ultra, Apple created the most technical face yet, Wayfinder. It includes a compass in the dial which can be customized for the mountain, or ocean, and to optimize for evening conditions, there’s night mode. The UI turns red for better visibility in the dark.
3. AirPods Pro
At the heart of AirPods Pro is the brand new H2 chip. It has the new low distortion audio driver and a custom driver to power it. H2 delivers advanced computational audio.
4. iPhone 14 and 14 Plus
Apple introduced the popular 6.1" iPhone 14 and 6.7" iPhone 14 Plus. Both models have a gorgeous super retina XDR display with OLED technology which supports 1200 nits peak HDR brightness and Dolby vision. They come in 5 gorgeous colors: Midnight, Starlight, Blue, elegant Purple, and product Red.
iPhone 14 has the A15 Bionic chip with 5 core GPU, 6 core CPU with 2 high performance and four efficiency cores, and 16 core neural engine that pushes the limits of machine learning. It has 49 % low-light improvement to take better pictures in challenging lighting environments. It also has a car crash sensor as with the Apple Watch. It also has emergency SOS inbuilt.
iPhone 14 is priced at $799 and iPhone 14 Plus at $899.
5. iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Plus
Made with beautiful and strong surgical-grade stainless steel. It comes in 4 gorgeous colors — a new space black, silver, gold, and all new deep purple
Dynamic Island
iPhone 14 Pro features a new front design that is sure to become iconic and it's called Dynamic Island. When you receive an alert Dynamic Island expands to notify you. From things like confirming your AirPods are connected, muting, or starting to charge, playing music, etc. the Dynamic Island makes it easy to seamlessly interact without leaving the app you are in.
Display
iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max come in two great sizes, 6.1" and 6.7" with thinner borders, more active area, and the dynamic island. The new display provides peak HCR brightness with 1600 nits, for bright sunny days iPhone can even push the brightness to 2000 nits. It also has always on display with the automatic low brightness lock screen. With all these features the new super retina XDR is the most advanced display ever in a smartphone.
A16 Bionic Chip
The iPhone 14 Pro is powered by the new A16 Bionic chip. A16 primarily focuses on 3 areas- Power efficiency, display, and camera. A16 has nearly 16 billion transistors. A16 is Apple's first chip built on a state-of-the-art 4-nanometer process, enabling greater efficiency while delivering even more performance. The Cpu uses best-in-class fusion architecture, which delivers both leading performance and leading efficiency. The two new performance cores are faster and use 20% less power compared to the A15 Bionic chip. The new 16-core neural engine is capable of nearly 17 trillion operations per second.
Camera
iPhone 14 Pro introduces a brand new class of cameras to iPhone. A whopping 48-megapixel camera with a quad-pixel sensor. The quad sensor enables a new flexible approach, which adapts the photo you are shooting. The new sensor groups every four pixels into one large quad pixel with 4x more light-capturing capability. The flash is completely redesigned for a new adapted behavior based on the focal length of the photo. With a new array of 9 LEDs, the pattern and intensity of the flash can be controlled. iPhone 14 Pro comes with the new Action mode with upgrades in the Cinematic mode, which supports up to 4k resolution in 30 frames per second.
The Dynamic Island, Always on display, powered by an A16 Bionic chip with a new 48-megapixel camera, beautiful new finishes, crash detection, and emergency SOS via satellite introduces new ways to experience iPhone.
iPhone 14Pro starts at $999 and iPhone14Pro Plus at $1099.
