Apple iPhone 16 in for review | Infinium-tech
This is the iPhone 16 – the entry-level model in Apple’s new 16 lineup. But first – a look inside the box – as before, you get a braided USB-C cable and a SIM tool and that’s it.
The iPhone 16 is more power efficient thanks to the A18, a 3nm SoC compared to the 4nm A16 Bionic. However, you still get the same 6-core CPU, 5-core GPU, and 16-core Neural Engine.
RAM is up to 8GB – up from 6GB on the previous iPhone. You also get a bigger battery, which Apple says is good for 22 hours of video streaming – 15 hours more than the iPhone 2.
The ultrawide angle camera is new, but it’s not a new ultrawide like the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max – it’s a 12 MP unit with autofocus and a macro mode. The realigned dual camera system looks better and can capture spatial video for your Apple Vision Pro.
The biggest addition is the new camera control button, which Apple has unusually brought to the non-Pro phone as well.
It’s a physical button that recognises both capacitive touch gestures and pressure. It’s pretty smart. You can open the camera from the lock or any screen and dive deep into photographic settings without touching the screen.
New camera button
The buttons, spec bump, new ultrawide and battery increase shape up to be a solid annual upgrade. But we can’t ignore Apple’s insistence on sticking with the same old 60Hz panel for another year. This is the old 6.1-inch unit with thick bezels, not the 6.3-inch of the iPhone 16 Pro.
We understand that the vast majority of vanilla iPhone buyers don’t need, or care about, a high refresh rate. But from a market perspective, this nearly €1,000 phone puts almost every midrange Android phone launched in the last two years to shame.
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