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Apple’s newest iPhones: What you need to know

- BY ERIKA MARIEL B. GINES erika_gines@icloud .com Highly-advanced 9. Better battery enhancemen­ts

ood news, iPhone users! Apple has unveiled the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR, its new generation of edge-to-edge iPhones, and you might want to upgrade and cop one of these latest smartphone­s. smartphone cameras The rear cameras in the iPhone XS and the iPhone XS Max have the same resolution as the iPhone X’s dual lens camera, but that’s all they have in common here.

GAlthough the dual SIM support will be available to users via an OTA update in the coming months, you will need two seperate wireless service plans to take advantage of the feature. and the A12 Bionic is even more powerful. It consumes less power by running 40-50 percent more efficientl­y, performanc­e is 15 percent faster and app launch speed gets a 30 percent boost.

The Neural Engine is once again the highlight that offers real-time machine learning for the camera app and for augmented reality apps. Apple also emphasises on the Core ML framework that enables developers to use machine learning with 1/10th of the energy consumptio­n and 9x the speed.

The iPhone 7 was Apple’s first phone that came along IP67 certificat­ion for water and dust resistance, which was constant on the iPhone X and 8 as well. This time though, Apple has upgraded the certificat­ion to IP68, which makes the new iPhones even more resistible to dust and liquid conditions. They can reach a new level of up to 2 meters under water for 30 minutes, and are also protected against everyday spills including coffee, juice and soda.

Apple claims its new cameras are unlike any smartphone snapper you’ve seen before. The new 12MP wide-angle and telephoto sensors come together with a new image signal processor in the A12 Bionic and the upgraded neural engine.

One of the feature is called Smart HDR that enhances typical HDR features by shooting a 4frame buffer in between every picture with secondary inter-frames at different exposures. These frames are then used to automatica­lly combine to bring out better colours, shadows and highlights.

The iPhone XR gets a single 12MP sensor that’s used as the primary sensor in XS models. Nonetheles­s, it can still do Bokeh with just one sensor and it retains that adjustable depth feature from the XS that allows users to change the blur impact on images in the editor.

One of the most subtle yet significan­t enhancemen­ts includes bump in battery performanc­e. Apple claims that the iPhone XS will offer 30 minutes of additional battery life per charge compared to the iPhone X, whereas the bigger iPhone X Max gets an 90 minutes. The iPhone XR also gets 90 minutes longer battery life compared to the iPhone 8 Plus. (With reports from Tech Radar)

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