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TL;DR
- A brand new report means that Apple may double the baseline storage on the iPhone 16 Professional.
- The gadget might pack a minimal of 256GB storage, however Apple may worth it larger than the bottom iPhone 15 Professional.
- The report additionally provides that the lineup will debut with new A18 and A18 Professional chips, and all 4 fashions will pack 8GB of RAM.
Apple bumped the bottom iPhone 15 Professional Max to 256GB of storage, nevertheless it nonetheless supplied a 128GB variant of the smaller Professional mannequin in final yr’s lineup. That would change with the upcoming iPhone 16 sequence, with each the Professional and Professional Max fashions that includes a minimal of 256GB of storage.
Taiwanese market analysis agency TrendForce experiences (by way of MacRumors) that the bottom iPhone 16 Professional will probably be priced larger than the bottom iPhone 15 Professional, because it’s anticipated to characteristic the tetraprism zoom lens that was beforehand unique to the iPhone 15 Professional Max. To make the worth enhance simpler to digest, Apple will double the baseline storage to 256GB.
The Cupertino big employed an analogous technique with the iPhone 15 Professional Max final yr. It debuted with the tetraprism zoom lens and a minimal of 256GB of storage, and it was priced the identical because the 256GB variant of the iPhone 14 Professional Max. Nevertheless, on condition that the iPhone 16 Professional can also be anticipated to characteristic a bigger show, amongst different enhancements, it received’t come as a shock if it’s pricier than the 256GB iPhone 15 Professional.
The report additional provides that the iPhone 16 sequence will debut with two new processors. The non-Professional variants will pack the A18 chip, whereas the Professional fashions will get the A18 Professional. Apple might additionally enhance the RAM on the non-Professional fashions from 6GB to 8GB to help Apple Intelligence options. We anticipate to be taught extra particulars when Apple lifts the covers off the brand new gadgets on September 9.
