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The annual "Spring Festival Gala" in the science and technology world has come again. Apple held its fall 2022 product launch at 01:00 on September 8, Beijing time, with the debut of all the new iPhone 14 series, Apple Watch Series 8, AirPods Pro and other new products. According to the old rule, CTOnews.com is still the first time to send you a summary of the highlights of the press conference.

1. IPhone14 series of phones at this conference, Apple released a total of four iPhone14 series phones, namely, the iPhone14, iPhone14 Plus, iPhone14 Pro and iPhone14 Pro Max.

1. IPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus this year's iPhone 14 series removed the mini model and replaced it with the iPhone 14 Plus with a larger screen. These two phones retain most of the iPhone 13 design-including bangs grooves for selfie cameras and Face ID sensors, and are available in five colors: midnight, purple, starlight, red and blue.

Screen

The iPhone 14 Standard Edition uses a 6.1inch screen, while the iPhone 14 Plus offers a 6.7inch large screen. Both screens are made of super-ceramic panels and OLED screens, and both are super-retinal XDR displays.

Image

The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus have the same imaging configuration, with a larger sensor and pixel size of 1200 megapixel camera, a new 1200 megapixel front-facing camera, and a 1200 megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera (aperture / 2.4aperture and 120 °viewing angle).

At the same time, the iPhone14 series has made improvements to the original color flash, which is 10% brighter than before, with better uniformity and more uniform light.

In the iPhone 14 series of imaging systems, Apple has introduced a new light engine technology, which can improve the performance of all cameras in low and medium light environments through deep integration of software and hardware: the performance of ultra-wide-angle cameras can be improved by up to 2 times, the performance of the original camera can be improved by 2 times, and the performance of the new camera can be improved by 2.5 times.

At the same time, the light engine brings a leap in image quality, which fuses the depth in advance in the image processing steps, thus showing richer details, capturing delicate and subtle textures, and making the colors more outstanding.

The iPhone 14 series also adds a new motion mode to shoot extremely silky videos to cope with large shakes, displacements and vibrations, even when shooting in motion. The original sensor displacement anti-shake function has also been introduced into the iPhone14 series. In addition, the movie effect mode now supports 4K 30 fps and 4K 24 fps shooting.

Satellite communication and SOS emergency communication

The iPhone 14 series supports long-rumored emergency messages sent via communications satellites, called emergency SOS. When the user is not within the range of the mobile phone signal, the mobile phone antenna can be connected to the satellite frequency. Through the custom short text compression algorithm, the message size can be greatly reduced. Under the condition that the clear sky can be seen, the message can be sent in less than 15 seconds, and satellite location sharing is supported. In the field of field scenes, emergency rescue and other fields, satellite communication functions can play specific functions.

The service will be free for the first two years and will be launched first in the United States and Canada in November.

Car accident detection

A car accident detection feature has been added to the iPhone 14 series. With a built-in dual-core acceleration sensor that can detect up to 256 g-force and a gyroscope with high dynamic range, it can detect severe car crashes and automatically make emergency calls when the user loses consciousness or cannot reach the iPhone.

At the same time, this function can also use the barometer to monitor changes in air pressure inside the car, GPS introduces more data on speed changes, and the microphone can identify the unique loud noise emitted by car accidents.

With Apple Watch, the car accident detection function seamlessly combines the unique advantages of the two devices. When a major accident is detected, the emergency services call interface will be displayed on Apple Watch's screen because the device is likely to be closer to the user, while if the iPhone is nearby, calls will be made through iPhone to ensure the quality of the connection as much as possible.

A15 bionic chip

Both iPhone 14 and 14 Plus are equipped with A15 bionic chips that are more powerful than last year's iPhone 13. The upgrade point is that the GPU has been upgraded from 4 cores to 5 cores full of blood, making video App and high-performance games more streamlined. In addition, its 6-core CPU can handle extremely high performance tasks smoothly and efficiently. The 16-core neural network engine performs 15.8 trillion operations per second, which can speed up machine learning in third-party App and iOS 16.

Bank of China price

IPhone 14:

The price of 128GB version is 5999 yuan, 256GB is 6899 yuan and 512GB is 8699 yuan.

IPhone 14 Plus:

The 128GB version sells for 6999 yuan, 256GB for 7899 yuan and 512GB for 9699 yuan.

Pre-orders for both models will be accepted from Friday, September 9, with the iPhone 14 officially released on Friday, September 16, and the iPhone 14 Plus on Friday, October 7.

2. IPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro MaxiPhone 14 Pro series also support the aforementioned functions such as car accident detection and satellite communications. The following mainly describes their upgrades compared to the iPhone 14 series.

Appearance and screen

IPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max are made of exquisite surgical grade stainless steel and matte glass with excellent texture, with a total of four colors, namely dark black, silver, gold and dark purple.

The screen size of the iPhone 14 Pro is 6.1in and the iPhone 14 Pro Max is 6.7in. Both models feature a new hyperretinal XDR display that supports ProMotion technology.

This advanced display also brings the same HDR peak brightness as the Pro Display XDR display and is by far the highest outdoor peak brightness of the iPhone: up to 2000 nits, twice as much as the iPhone 13 Pro. At the same time, the screen also uses super-ceramic panels, which continue to provide leading durability, water and dust resistance, and can withstand common accidental splashes.

All-weather display

IPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max have added an all-weather display function that is different from Android's camp screen display. With the new 1Hz refresh rate and a number of energy-saving technologies, the screen can always display a lock screen, but not a breath screen, and the time, widgets and real-time activities are always clear at a glance.

Smart Island

On the iPhone 14 Pro series, the original deep feeling camera was redesigned to reduce the display space and become the shape of a punched pill, Apple creatively introduced a new interactive interactive experience: smart Island.

Without affecting the display of the contents of the screen, Smart Island remains active, allowing users to use the control options by simply pressing a long button. Activities such as maps, music App or timers that keep running in the background are always visible and interactive, as well as real-time changes to show important reminders, notifications, and activities. In addition, Smart Island also applies to third-party App in iOS 16 that provide information (such as race scores and carpool information) through "real-time events".

Camera system upgrade

On the wide-angle camera of the iPhone 14 Pro series, Apple abandoned its ancestral 1200-megapixel camera to bring a wide-angle camera of 4800 megapixels, supporting four-in-one pixel technology, 24mm focal length, aperture / 1.78mm, and second-generation sensor displacement optical image anti-shake. It is also equipped with a new 1200-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera (1.4 microns per pixel) to present clearer images and more details.

At the same time, the iPhone 14 Pro series also has a 1200 megapixel 3x telephoto lens with an aperture of 2.8x. In addition, through the 4800 megapixel four-in-one sensor taken by the main camera, the iPhone 14 Pro also supports 2x zoom and is also rich in detail.

With regard to the four-in-one pixel sensor, for most photos, it combines every four pixels into one large pixel (the unit pixel size is equivalent to 2.44 microns), so that a high-quality image can be taken in low light conditions. and keep the photo size at a practical 1200 megapixels. The four-in-one pixel sensor also benefits the Pro workflow and is optimized for detail presentation in ProRAW. In addition, using a machine learning model tailored for four-in-one pixel sensors, iPhone can now capture ProRAW images at 4800 megapixels, showing unprecedented detail.

The iPhone 14 Pro series imaging system also features a new adaptive primary color flash with a 9 LED array that changes the flash mode according to the focal length of the user's choice.

In addition, the new original camera uses aperture / 1.9 aperture to improve camera performance in low-light environments. With the first autofocus feature, the camera can focus faster in low-light environments and take selfies from a greater distance.

A16 bionic chip

The iPhone 14 Pro series is equipped with the new A16 bionic chip, which is the first Apple chip based on 4nm technology and has 16 billion transistors. At the same time, the 6-core CPU, composed of two high-performance cores and four energy-efficient cores, increases speed to up to 40%, and uses accelerated 5-core image processors to increase memory bandwidth by up to 50%, making it ideal for running graphics-intensive games and App, while the new 16-core neural network engine has a processing capacity of up to 17 trillion operations per second.

The A16 bionic chip combines high performance and energy efficiency with Apple's industry-leading fusion architecture, providing higher performance at very low power consumption for round-the-clock battery life.

As the basis of the Pro-level camera system, the A16 bionic chip drives outstanding computational photography functions. The CPU, image processor, neural network engine and image signal processor work together seamlessly to support new camera hardware that can operate up to 4 trillion times per photo.

Bank of China price

IPhone 14 Pro:

The price of 128GB is 7999 yuan, 256GB is 8899 yuan, 512GB is 10699 yuan, 1TB is 12499 yuan.

IPhone 14 Pro Max:

128GB sells for 8999 yuan, 256GB for 9899 yuan, 512GB for 11699 yuan and 1TB for 13499 yuan.

Pre-orders for the two phones will begin on September 9 and will go on sale on Friday, September 16.

Second, the Apple Watch Series 8Apple Watch Series 8 is the first product to be unveiled at this event, with a slightly newer design than last year's Apple Watch Series 7, making the screen larger than previous models. The fuselage is available in starlight, noon, silver and red, while stainless steel watches are available in silver, graphite and gold.

Women's health

Apple Watch Series 8 adds a new temperature sensor that tracks temperature changes as low as 0.1 degrees Celsius and checks the temperature every five seconds. Body temperature tracking at night can help female users gain an in-depth understanding of the ovulation cycle and can be used to enhance the menstrual cycle tracking function of the watch.

Apple says the data is encrypted on the watch itself and that anyone tracking their cycles is an important consideration.

Car accident detection

Like the iPhone 14 series, Apple Watch Series 8 also includes two new motion sensors that detect whether the user has experienced a serious accident and automatically connect the owner to emergency services, provide location and notify emergency contacts.

To this end, the Apple Watch Series 8 is equipped with a new 3-axis gyroscope and a high g-force accelerometer that can measure up to 256G and increase the sampling speed by four times (3000 times per second).

Low power mode

To allow users to stay in touch for longer, the new low-battery mode can extend battery life, with Apple Watch Series 8 with iPhone lasting up to 36 hours. Under this new mode, some sensors and functions will be temporarily disabled or restricted, including round-the-clock retinal display, automatic start of physical training, heart health notification, and so on.

The Apple Watch Series 8 GPS version starts at $399 and the GPS + cellular version starts at $499 and goes on sale on September 16.

3. Apple Watch SE 2 in addition to Apple Watch Series 8, Apple also launched a brand new Apple Watch SE 2 at this launch.

Apple Watch SE 2 will support the car accident detection feature announced on Series 8 and will be 20% faster than the first-generation SE due to the same new S8 chip as in Series 8. It also has the same motion sensor. The new Apple Watch SE will be available in silver, midnight and starlight colors, and will have a new color-matching rear shell.

Apple Watch SE will also support international roaming by pairing with iPhone's roaming plan. It retains all the standard functions of the original SE-retinal OLED display, optical heart rate sensor, fall detection, emergency SOS and water resistance up to 50 meters.

The Apple Watch SE cellular version is popular with parents who want to find a way to communicate with school-age children without using iPhone, and Apple announced that the new Apple Watch SE 2 will be used in conjunction with Apple's home settings feature, which made its debut on Apple Watch SE.

The Apple Watch SE 2 national version of 40mm starts at 1999 yuan and the 44mm version starts at 2399 yuan. Orders are available from September 9 and will go on sale on Friday, September 16.

Apple Watch Ultra sports watch Apple Watch also has an important update this time, that is, the release of the brand new Apple Watch Ultra sports watch.

Made of aviation-grade titanium, the Apple Watch Ultra achieves an ideal balance in weight, durability and corrosion resistance, with a display brightness of up to 2000 nits, twice as bright as all previous Apple Watch models. The new operation button is presented in high-contrast international orange and can be easily customized for quick use of a variety of functions.

The Apple Watch Ultra is equipped with three built-in microphones that greatly improve the sound quality of voice calls in a variety of environments. In a windy environment where radio is extremely challenging, it can also provide clear and discernible audio for calls.

Apple Watch Ultra has the best battery life of all Apple Watch, up to 36 hours under normal operating conditions. In addition, through the new low power setting, the battery life can be extended to up to 60 hours, which is suitable for many consecutive days.

The Pathfinder dial, specially designed for the Apple Watch Ultra large area display, includes a compass into the time display area and provides space for up to eight complex functions, including physical training, compass navigation, backtracking, and more.

Apple Watch Ultra is also equipped with precision dual-band GPS for the first time, including L1 and the latest L5 frequencies, and uses a new positioning algorithm. This allows it to provide the most accurate GPS functionality to date.

It can also adapt to a variety of extreme environments, from cold snow-capped mountains of-20 °C to hot deserts of 55 °C. Apple Watch Ultra has passed the standard certification of MIL-STD 810H related projects.

Apple Watch Ultra also supports a wider range of water sports, including extreme sports such as kite surfing and wake water skiing, as well as leisure scuba diving at depths of up to 40 meters with the new Oceanic+ App. To support these underwater adventures, Apple Watch Ultra has passed WR100 certification.

With the new depth meter, Apple Watch Ultra introduced the bathymetric App with an intuitive user interface. Water depth App can display information such as time, current depth, water temperature, underwater duration and maximum depth reached, so that users can see at a glance. The user can set the operation button to quickly start the bathymetric App.

The Apple Watch Ultra sells for $799 and the Bank of China sells for 6299 yuan. Only the GPS + cellular version will go on sale on September 23.

The second generation of AirPods Pro Apple also launched a brand new second-generation AirPods Pro headset at this autumn launch. The new AirPods Pro is driven by a new H2 chip, unlocks breakthrough audio performance, and makes major upgrades to active noise reduction and penetration modes.

In terms of noise reduction, AirPods Pro is equipped with a new H2 chip, which can reduce noise twice as much as the previous generation of AirPods Pro.

In addition, an adaptive penetration mode is added, driven by a powerful H2 chip, device-side processing technology can reduce noisy ambient noise, such as the alarm sound of passing vehicles, construction noise, and even the sound of loudspeakers in concerts.

In terms of sound quality, personalized spatial audio allows AirPods to provide a more immersive listening experience. Users can use iPhone's original depth camera to create spatial audio profile information and get a listening experience that is precisely tuned for them.

In terms of connection and control, users can directly control the new AirPods Pro audio playback and volume adjustment without the help of other devices. Using the touch operation of AirPods Pro, you can quickly adjust the volume by gently sliding up or down on the headphone handle. Users can simply press the headphone handle to switch music, answer incoming calls, or say "Hey Siri", and give instructions without having to do anything.

In terms of battery life, the new AirPods Pro increases listening time by 1.5 hours compared with the previous generation, and up to 6 hours in active noise reduction mode. The wireless charging box can charge the headset an additional 4 times, thus enjoying up to 30 hours of listening time in active noise reduction mode, 6 hours more than the previous generation.

In addition, the AirPods Pro is equipped with a newly designed anti-perspiration and water-resistant charging box and includes rope holes to make the equipment accessible at any time. The precise search function allows users to locate the charging box according to the navigation route provided by iPhone equipped with U1 chip. The built-in speaker of the charging box can play a louder sound to help locate the AirPods Pro.

The new generation of AirPods Pro costs 1899 yuan and will be available in retail stores from Friday, September 23.

Other key information about the official version of iOS 16 will be available as a free software update from September 13, while Apple pushed the iOS 16 RC version (build number: 20A362) update to iPhone users early this morning.

After the release of iPhone 14, Apple removed the iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 iPhone 13 Pro / Max, and can still buy iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 / mini.

After the release of Apple Watch Series 8, Apple officially removed its shelves and stopped production of the outdated Apple Watch Series 3.

After the event, Apple also updated its AppleCare + extra warranty today, adding the "unlimited maintenance" option instead of twice a year, but each time there is a service charge.

Related readings:

Apple iPhone 14 / Plus release: 5999 to 9699 yuan, with 6.1 / 6.7 inch bangs screen, using A15 chip, American version supports satellite communications

Apple iPhone 14 Pro / Pro Max release: 7999 to 13499 yuan, equipped with smart island pill screen / AOD message screen display, built-in A16 chip, American version supports satellite communications

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