Apple announces new Titanium iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max with USB-C

Apple has just taken the covers off its all-new iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max at its Wonderlust event. Yes, the company has finally replaced the Lightning port with a USB-C connector — but there’s a lot more here beyond new cables.

The new iPhone 15 Pro models feature a new Titanium material, an Action Button, and more. Thanks to that grade 5 Titanium, this is the lightest Pro iPhone ever created, and features contoured edges and the thinnest borders ever on an iPhone.

Dimensions are reduced, but the display sizes are the same as last year. The 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch sizes of the Pro and Pro Max also make a return, but this year’s bezels are noticeably thinner. Apple also uses aluminum on the inside for the sub-structure.

The stunning Titanium is coated with PVD and brushed, and we have to say that it looks absolutely insane. There are four new colors: black titanium, white titanium, blue titanium, and natural titanium.

Internal changes make it more repairable, so back glass replacements are easier to carry out should you drop it. (But please, try not to drop one.)

Sadly, the mute switch is no more. Instead, we get a cool new Action button, borrowed from the Apple Watch Ultra. By default, it still controls the ring and silence options, but you can customize the button to carry out nine alternative functions, such as launching your camera, taking voice notes, or using Shortcuts, perhaps the most important option.

The display remains the same with ProMotion, Always-On, and more. But underneath lurks the new A17 Pro chip, interestingly not the Bionic chip. That’s because Apple has built a whole new generation of Apple silicon on 3nm technology, the first in the industry. That makes the chip more compact, housing some 19 billion transistors.

It has a 6-core CPU with 10% performance increases over the previous model and four efficiency cores. Apple’s Neural Engine, which powers machine learning, is now twice as fast, processing 35 trillion operations per second.

It also has a new USB controller to power the new USB-C chip, and Apple says its 20x faster than USB 2.

An awesome new GPU has a six-core design that’s 20% faster than the previous one at peak performance. Apple’s new chip even has hardware-accelerated accelerated ray-tracing.

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