The iPhone 16 Professional Max is just about a “phablet” – it has a bigger 6.9-inch display, in comparison with the 6.7-inch show on the iPhone 15 Professional Max. So you may’t inform me the iPhone 16 Professional Max isn’t some form of phone-tablet hybrid.
However you already know what? I am not complaining. I used to be by no means within the “waa! Cell telephones are getting too huge” camp. My denims pockets had been all the time sufficiently big to carry my big telephones.
Smaller telephones are usually not my factor. (Sorry, however I do not miss your iPhone Mini!) A smaller physique normally means a smaller battery, which frequently ends in shorter battery life. No thanks! Give me the mega handset with the mega battery life.
Nonetheless, I used to be in a position to expertise the iPhone 16 Professional Max in my fingers. Is it as unwieldy because it appears?
iPhone 16 Professional Max in sensible check
The very first thing I needed to check with the iPhone 16 Professional Max, particularly with its new 6.9-inch show, was whether or not it felt too huge in my fingers.
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Nonetheless, after I picked it up, it was surprisingly comfy to carry in my hand. That shocked me a bit of. How come it would not really feel bizarre? Due to its titanium casing, it would not even really feel heavy.
Throughout the iPhone 16 unveiling on the Steve Jobs Theater, I could not assist however be drawn to the Desert Titanium colorway. Earlier than the September 9 “Glowtime” occasion the place the brand new iPhone 16 collection was unveiled, leakers could not appear to agree on the precise shade of Desert Titanium.
Some have mentioned it is pink, darkish gold, and even bronze. Desert Titanium, nonetheless, is a barely perceptible shade. How greatest to explain it? It is like somebody dropped a little bit of pink right into a bucket of beige paint.
iPhone 16 Professional Max in Desert Titanium
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Due to this fact, Desert Titanium is much less camel-colored and extra sand-colored in its shade scheme. (The iPhone 16 Professional Max can also be obtainable in White Titanium, Black Titanium and Pure Titanium.)
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iPhone 16 Professional Max Digicam Management Button
Surprisingly, Apple did not reserve the brand new digicam management button for the iPhone 16 Professional fashions. (Apple normally reserves all cool new options for the higher-end telephones.)
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I attempted the digicam management button on each the entry-level iPhone 16 and the iPhone 16 Professional, and as you’d count on, the previous is of course a bit of simpler to make use of, because the 6.1-inch cellphone is lighter and extra compact than the 6.9-inch system.
Nonetheless, the digicam management button on the iPhone 16 Professional Max was nonetheless manageable.
(I did a separate hands-on check of the digicam management button. Learn it to see why I feel the video recording possibility could possibly be higher.)
Fewer borders, extra display house
The iPhone 16 Professional Max additionally has ultra-thin bezels. In different phrases, the body across the cellphone has turn into slimmer, supplying you with a greater screen-to-body ratio. I’ve by no means been one to actually care about slim bezels, however I see the enchantment.
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Nonetheless, if Apple needs to create a distraction-free expertise with the show, I ponder if Dynamic Island will disappear quickly. I’ve all the time been detached to this glorified notch function. Positive, the animations telling you what your cellphone is as much as are fairly cool, however truthfully, if Apple eliminated Dynamic Island on the iPhone 17 collection, I would not miss it a lot.
What I am most enthusiastic about, nonetheless, is the truth that the iPhone 16 Professional Max may have unbelievable battery life. Greater than something, I worth lengthy battery life and energy effectivity, so I am unable to wait to check this imply system and see how lengthy it lasts on a cost.
Is the iPhone 16 Professional Max value it?
Different new options on the iPhone 16 Professional Max embrace a brand new 48MP ultra-wide digicam (so your panorama pictures and different wide-angle pictures ought to be higher than ever) and 4K video recording at 120Hz.
The sound high quality of the iPhone 16 Professional Max has additionally been improved. Additionally it is potential to overlay audio information in voice memos.
These are unique to the iPhone 16 Professional fashions, however until you simply need the most recent and biggest iPhone to point out off, most individuals is not going to actually profit from the benefits talked about above.
The iPhone 16 is straightforward to make use of, particularly because it has a button for digicam management.
The iPhone 16 Professional Max is accessible from Apple’s official on-line retailer beginning at $1,199.