Apple iPhone 16 128GB

The iPhone 16 has a variety of new hardware refinements and features, like a new A18 chip with 3nm process, increased battery life, water and dust resistance, an Action Button, Wi-Fi 7, improved thermal design for gaming with hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and a new physical Camera Control button below the power button. The new button sits flush with the case and allows swipe and tap gestures for camera app control, as well as physically pressing down slightly to take pictures.

The new A18 chip has six performance cores and four efficiency cores. It is 30% faster than the iPhone 15’s CPU and can use 30% less power, and its GPU is 40% faster while using 35% less power, likely helping to afford Apple its claim that the iPhone 16 offers a big boost in battery life. The A18 also features improved gaming performance, allowing the iPhone 16 to be compatible with AAA games like Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Resident Evil 4 that have so far been exclusive to the iPhone 15 Pro.

The iPhone 16 will be Apple’s first mainstream phone to utilize Apple Intelligence. The company first previewed the AI software at WWDC, where it was initially gated to Pro-level iPhone 15 models only. While Apple spent time reviewing many of Apple Intelligence’s upcoming features already shown at WWDC (like custom emoji and the ability to summarize text or emails), it previewed a new Google Lens-like search feature called Visual Intelligence, allowing an iPhone 16 user to search for information based on what the camera sees.

Speaking of cameras, the iPhone 16’s dual setup of a 48-megapixel main camera and new autofocusing ultra-wide camera offers the equivalent of four lenses by way of a 2x crop mode and macro mode (more trickle-down features from recent Pro iPhone models).