Apple iPhone 16 Pro & 16 Pro Max: Bigger, Faster, More Intelligent than ever before!

Posted on September 12, 2024September 16, 2024 by Ty Rodricques

12 Sep

The long-anticipated iPhone 16 Pro / 16 Pro Max was debuted by Apple on 9th September 2024 sending tails wagging & every die-hard Apple fan tickled pink with excitement & one question on their mind – should I upgrade? We see you 😉 Let’s unpack the awesome new iPhone 16 Pro / 16 Pro Max to see if you’re ready for next-level power!

SUMMARY: Larger & Stronger Screen, Bigger Battery, Faster A18 Pro Chipset, New Camera Control Button, Professional Audio & Audio Editing, Improved Siri, Better Design & AI Intelligence elevating every task your iPhone 16 Pro performs!

Read on for the juicy details, I dare you…

Display & Design

The Apple iPhone 16 Pro & 16 Pro Max has THE largest, clearest display ever seen before on an iPhone – a huge jump from the 15 Pro Max at 6.7 inches to 6.9 inches on the 16 Pro Max & 6.1″ to 6.3″ on the 16 Pro with a crystal clear resolution bump from 2796 x 1290 on the 15 Pro Max to 2868 x 1320 on the 16 Pro Max. Smartphone shopping enquiries are often focused on camera specs & this is often compared with cheaper asian brands, without considering its life partner – display! It’s the more technical, less interesting twin-sister, but without a good display to match, all those “Megapixels” ain’t fooling anyone if you can’t actually SEE them now!

Smartphones are in essence, SCREENS before they’re anything else & if you’re looking for the best, you probably want to start here! With the 16 Pro graphics every experience is immersive so if you’re gaming or looking through your cherished Christmas videos, you’ll be forgiven for drifting off into your own little world. And as they say, size matters & everyone has a preference with their smartphones, so if you’re looking for a screen that’s more compact or something luxuriously large to get the best experience out of your daily tasks like reading, document viewing & signing, taking a snap, or scrolling the socials – the new iPhone 16 Pro & 16 Pro Max has got you covered in style!

Alright now, Style & Security go hand-in-hand – the last thing you want is to replace a screen on that new baby, so Apple has included the latest-generation Ceramic Shield Glass – the formulation is 2x stronger than glass on any other smartphone on the market!

In addition, you’ve finally got the long-anticipated Always-On & ProMotion technology so you can take a quick glance to see notifications or check the time without unlocking your device.

Apple has managed to integrate powerhouse features into a stunning lightweight yet durable design featuring the slimmest Titanium bezels to grace an iPhone at just 1.2mm from its predecessor’s 1.55mm & all that in a sophisticated colour palate with the new Desert Titanium as the main character & the much-loved Natural Titanium, Black Titanium & White Titanium.

THAT NEW, NEW

You may have heard the buzz about the new Camera Control button that allows for easier camera control, seamless capture in the mo’ ¹ & faster access to photo & video tools. The Camera Control button Improves your cameraman skills with a hardware-software integration that enables swift initiating, capturing photos, video recording. It also uses a Capacitative Sensor for touch interactions, Tactile Switch that powers the click experience & High-Precision Force Sensor that enables a light press gesture.

Your inner photographer will thank you for the new Camera Preview function that helps you frame the shot & adjust control options such as zoom, exposure & depth of field to capture the magic like a Pro by simply sliding your finger on the new Camera Control button. Even Grandma can take Insta-worthy snaps now! And you can cancel that gimmicky “Take better pics on iPhone” course now, you’re welcome ☺️

Later this year, an update will unlock Visual Intelligence to helps users learn about objects & places faster than ever before! You’ll be able to click & hold Camera Control to access restaurant ratings, view opening hours, add an event or meeting onto your calendar from a flyer & even identify a dog breed! You’ll have access to third-party tools like finding out where to buy an item on Google, ChatGPT‘s problem-solving skills without compromising your privacy.

Camera

Speaking of camera, in addition to the stunning Lidar Sensor which detects distance of objects & people to accurately adjust focus, you’ve got a new & improved Pro Camera system with an upgraded Ultra-wide angle lens from 12MP on the 15 Pro / Pro Max to 48MP on the iPhone 16 Pro & 16 Pro Max AND an upgrade to the 4K Videography capabilities with 120 FPS now (Frames-per-second) to elevate your Slo-Mo action! A HUGE leap from the 15 Pro Max’s 60 FPS!

Upgraded, Professional Quality Audio & Audio-Editing

Both Pro models feature four NEW studio-quality mics that preserve true-to-life recorded sounds, and video can now be captured in Spatial Audio for immersive listening with AirPods, Apple Vision Pro, or a surround sound system. The iPhone 16 Pro & 16 Pro Max also introduces creative new ways to edit video sound with Audio Mix, allowing you to adjust your sound after capture to focus on the voice of the person on camera, make it sound like the video was recorded inside a professional studio, or position vocal tracks in the front and environmental noises in surround sound. With wind noise reduction, powerful machine learning algorithms reduce unwanted noise for better audio quality.

WiFi & Battery: Power at its peak!

Apple has upgraded WiFi to WiFi 7 – Apple users have long complained about the WiFi connectivity disruptions & this is very welcome WiFi upgrade is expected to improve the stability & performance of your WiFi connections.

All this magic must be backed with power & boy has Apple hooked the iPhone 16 Pro up! With the largest battery ever on an iPhone, the 16 Pro Max can achieve up to 33 hours of video playback compared to the 15 Pro Max’s 29 hours. Eskom will thank you…

And when you do need to charge your iPhone, it now supports 25W Super Fast MagSafe charging AND 45W USB-C Super Fast Charging so you can finally fare against the Korean fans. Welcome to the 21st century, Apple!

Apple Intelligence

The iPhone 16 lineup features Apple Intelligence weaved into the DNA of your iPhone to create an elevated, seamless user-experience across tasks. With an array of features powered by Apple silicon and generative models to understand language and images, simplify tasks, and ensure data privacy with Private Cloud Compute to name a few.

Writing Tools will help you rewrite, proofread & summarise text, while Siri integrates more deeply with a new design and enhanced capabilities creating a more natural experience.

Reading Tools allow iPhone 16 Pro users to see summaries of the most important information in each email saving you the task of previewing.

Additional features like Image Playground and Genmoji creation will roll out later, enhancing user experience with personalized intelligence and actions across apps. Image Playground allows you to create playful images in moments & Genmoji gives you next-level ability to create original Genmoji by simply selecting a friend’s photo or typing a description

So much more to explore on the new iPhone 16 Pro & 16 Pro Max. So start exploring by ordering yours from South Africa’s favourite online Smartphone store – with the fastest delivery lead time nationwide, the best deals and unmatched service, we endeavour to make your upgrade experience a phenomenal one!

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PORSCHE DESIGN Huawei Mate RS

Posted on October 20, 2018October 21, 2018 by Kerry Rodricques

20 Oct

PORSCHE & HUAWEI COLLABORATION

It was 1987 and Huawei had just been founded; focusing its engineering mastery on manufacturing phone switches of all things it later entered the smartphone market in full bloom. The brand was met with skepticism as Samsung and Apple’s long time rivalry was at its peak _ and to our amazement we witnessed Huawei grow in leaps in bounds in less than half a decade and eventually claim Apple’s coveted number 2 spot as the world’s second largest smartphone manufacturer this year! Way to go, Huawei!

Now there are many reasons Huawei has taken the smartphone orb by storm but we reckon their collaborations with the likes of Leica and other awesome brands has had hand in carrying them to the top! The Leica and Huawei collaboration has taken the world’s selfie craze to a whole new level from 2016 to date. Its focus is on crafting the best lenses, sensors, ISP and tuning for the most beautiful photography experience. But their newest collab has luxury car enthusiasts hot under the collar – what do you get when you inject Porsche DNA into a Smartphone? Drum roll please…

Get craze-ee for the Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS!!!

We’re talking design and performance that exudes luxury, speed and groundbreaking technology! Whether you think those adjectives best describe your preferences or not, we guarantee you’re gonna go craze-ee for the power and exclusivity of the Mate RS. This is the specs on Huawei’s Mate RS – a device for the deluxe.

DESIGN & DISPLAY

From first glimpse you can’t help but be intrigued by the streamline curves and regal hues of grey, black and vibrant red. Its 8 smooth curves and 6 symmetrical surfaces truly inspired by the Porsche RS that dominates the racetrack, produces a graceful sway of light and shade that excites! It boasts a 6 inch display and AMOLED capacitive touchscreen that is pretty as picture – a picture with 16M colours that is! The Mate RS is available in Black and Red. Sophisticated craftsmanship has resulted in a beautiful double-sided glass body that reimagines the elegance of a Porsche RS. Built with a customised UI, it is breathtaking for both internal and external design.

ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE POWERED BY AI

Inspired once again by the pursuit of maximum dynamics and precision of a Porsche RS car, the Mate RS – driven by the Kirin 970 AI processor – takes high performance to the next level! Breakthroughs in mobile AI allow the EMUI system to evolve and learn to better understand your needs and respond faster to every task! Offering 256GB and 512GB storage, and 6GB RAM under its hood; fueling this speed and performance is a 4000 mAh battery and Safety Certified Huawei SuperCharge with intelligent power saving. A quick wireless charge design that is whisper-quiet and fan-less keeps you cool under pressure and in the race for the long-haul!

GROUNDBREAKING SMART START

Smartphone manufacturers have perfected the rear fingerprint scanner and have researched and promised in-screen fingerprint technology for what feels like decades now!
So imagine our excitement when we discovered the Mate RS is the first device to unleash this revolution in unlocking! Floating your finger wakes up the device and touching to unlock the smartphone is as fast as lightning!

But it doesn’t stop there; the Huawei still sports the familiar rear-fingerprint scanner – adding another ‘first’ to Huawei’s tablestand is its dual-fingerprint authentification!

IT’S ALL ABOUT THAT ‘SNAP-CRAZE’

The camera on a device is more often than not the ultimate deciding factor for most smartphone buyers and if the rest of the features we just mentioned went over your head we bet this one will get you amped and running for that buy button! The Huawei Mate RS features a Leica Triple Camera with an innovating 40 Megapixel camera lense that captures more details! You heard me – a whopping 40 megapixels! The 5x Hybrid Zoom supports clear viewing at long distances; and the breathtaking Huawei AIS technology is br-ill-iant in low light! A huge distinguishing factor when determining camera quality these days! If it shoots awesome in low-light its awesome full stop. This camera is truly a thing of beauty!

THE NOW ‘STANDARDS’ IN THE SMARTPHONE ORB

With all these additions and groundbreaking leaps in smartphone design of course the Mate RS comes standard with water and dust resistance and a front camera of 24 Megapixels for ultra-sexy selfies!

WHAT’S IN THE BOX?

Unboxing the Huawei Mate RS is truly a delight – with so many goodies inside it gives us a glimpse of what taking delivery of a Porsche RS might feel like! We’re talking 2 chargers – UK and EU – because you need one for home and one for your international ventures, darr-ling! A Porsche branded flip cover – in leather no less! A Porsche design premium stereo headset, a 3.5 mm headphone jack adapter and wait for it… an authentication card! Because the Mate RS is exclusive like that.

So that is the Huawei Porsche Design Mate RS – Huawei’s best, amplified! And if this ain’t luxury, power, speed and innovation smartphone-ified then we don’t know what is!
This is for the biggest of the big chops! The device that turns heads and welcomes you into a smartphone market of exclusivity of luxury! You probably haven’t seen it and will be lucky to see it twice in this lifetime! THIS is Huawei Porsche Design Mate RS for YOU!

So get Snappy and make our craze-ee Mate RS deal yours!

The Mate 20 Series

Posted on September 12, 2018September 26, 2018 by Kerry Rodricques

12 Sep

Big, Bigger, Biggest?

The Huawei Mate range is fairly new to the Smartphone orb. Despite being a newcomer it featured some of the highest ranked specs in its competitive market, giving devices as big as the Samsung Galaxy S8 a run for its money in overall performance! Quite impressive we reckon; and if that debut is anything to go by we can be forgiven for stalking technology websites night and day in anticipation for an inkling of what’s to come in Huawei’s Mate 20 series. Yes we see you; reading this pretending to be toiling at that boring ol’ proposal due at 4pm! Don’t sweat it – we’ve done the heavy lifting for you and we promise to satisfy that curiosity and leave you bouncing off the walls with excitement by the end of this post!

Here are the facts:

The Mate 20 series will boast 3 models – The Mate 20 Pro, Mate 20 and Mate 20 Lite
The Mate 20 Lite has already been announced in August 2018 and will be available for purchase in October 2018
The Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro will be released in October 2018 with the former being the bigger brother of the Lite and the latter taking the lead as the Flagship of the series

HUAWEI MATE 20 LITE SPECIFICATIONS

Octa-core Kirin 720 processor

20 MP + 2 MP main camera

24 MP + 2 MP dual front camera

6.3 inch notched LCD display (2340 x 1080)

6 GB RAM

64 GB expandable storage

A monster battery of 3750 mAh

Rear Fingerprint Scanner

Headphone Jack

Colours include Black, Sapphire Black and Platinum Gold

HUAWEI MATE 20 SPECIFICATIONS

Here are the facts:

HiSilicon Kirin 980 chipset – the first commercially announced 7nm (nanometer) chipset

Triple rear camera set-up

18:9 aspect ratio

…And here are the latest and greatest rumoured specs:

6.3 inch AMOLED display

FHD+ Resolution

6 GB RAM

128 GB expandable storage

Could pack a larger battery than the Mate 20 Lite

Rear Fingerprint Scanner

HUAWEI MATE 20 PRO SPECIFICATIONS

The gos’ (aka ‘gossip’ – we’ve got you ;)) has been in short supply on this model which has us wondering what the Chinese smartphone makers will stun us with next…

HOWEVER – we couldn’t leave you hanging like that so here’s a taste to wet your appetite…

The Facts:

HiSilicon Kirin 980 chipset

A triple rear camera set-up

The Gos’:

6.9 inch AMOLED display

6 GB RAM / 8 GB RAM – Let’s wait and see just how gutsy these guys are!

Could feature a larger battery than the Mate 20 Lite

In-display Fingerprint Scanner (About time!!!)

Big is here and let’s hope our anticipation is met with even bigger rewards from the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro because after all – you either go BIG or go home! 😉

Until then keep your eyes peeled and your ears unsealed for all the greatest mobile device news and views on our Snapcraze-ee blog!

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