Although there are still half a year before the release of the iPhone 14 series, the revelations about Apple's new products have always been a long way in advance, and the iPhone 14 series to be released this year is no exception, and now a lot of information about the iPhone 14 series has been exposed on the Internet.
From the known information, the iPhone 14 series is still four models, but the 5.4-inch small-screen mini version will be cancelled, replaced by the standard large-screen version named iPhone 14 Max, which will be equipped with a 6.7-inch screen.
In this way, the iPhone 14 series will form a 6.1-inch iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Max and iPhone 14 Pro Max product matrix, consumers can choose 6.1-inch or 6.7-inch versions according to their own needs.
In addition to the product matrix being exposed, the design of the phone has also been fully revealed, as the standard version of the iPhone 14/14 Max, these two phones will continue the design of the iPhone 13, using a small bangs design, the back is a rear dual camera, the appearance has not changed significantly.
In terms of core configuration, the iPhone 14/14 Max will not use the latest processor, but use the current iPhone 13 Pro series with a full-blood version of the A15 processor, and the standard version is different from the GPU to 5 cores, equivalent to a 20% upgrade.
Apple also has a reason for doing this, after all, after changing to the iPhone 14/14 Max product matrix, the price will be further reduced, considering that the iPhone 13 mini is sold from 5199 yuan, the iPhone 13 is sold from 5999 yuan, the author thinks that the iPhone 14 may be around 5500 yuan.
The iPhone 14/14 Max, which has lowered its starting price, is indeed quite reliable with the previous generation of chips, and can use the production line of the previous generation of chips as much as possible to share the chip design and production costs, thereby lowering the price to increase sales.
Although the iPhone 14/14 Max will not change much, the iPhone 14 Pro/14 Pro Max will be greatly adjusted, which can be said to be the highlight of Apple's future new products.
The iPhone 14 Pro series models will certainly be equipped with a new A16 processor, which will be further upgraded in performance, but the disadvantage is that the price may rise, because the A16 processor is a new model developed by Apple, and the production line will also cost more.
The iPhone 14 Pro series model is mainly in the high-end market, positioned much higher than the standard version, so the sales will be much lower than the standard version, so that the chip design and production costs will increase a lot, the best solution is to increase the price of the Pro series to share the cost input.
Of course, the factors that affect the price of the iPhone 14 Pro series are not only performance, but also a major change in the design of this phone, after the rendering of the Pro series was exposed on the Internet.
As can be seen from the figure, this phone will use a round hole + pill hole appearance design, the shape is somewhat like an exclamation point, which is also the first time that Apple has abandoned the bangs screen that has been used for many years, and uses the exclamation point digging screen scheme instead, which can effectively increase the proportion of the screen.
Now this appearance has been further confirmed, and Apple whistleblowers have recently announced a set of CAD drawings of the iPhone 14 Pro Max, which are highly consistent with the previously exposed renderings.
As can be seen from the figure, the iPhone 14 Pro Max will not only use the exclamation point hole-cutting screen scheme, but also its border will be further narrowed, it is reported that the width is only 1.95mm, while the width of the iPhone 13 Pro Max is 2.42mm.
Moreover, Tianfeng International analyst Guo Mingji has predicted that the rear phase of the iPhone 14 Pro series will be upgraded to 48 million pixels, and the memory will also use a faster LPDDR 5, and the iPhone 14 standard version will continue to use LPDDR 4X memory.
So based on these news, the iPhone 14 Pro series will indeed be the opposite of the pricing of the iPhone 14 Standard Edition, the former will further increase the price, the latter will reduce the price, which will definitely make Apple's profitability further improved.
So as consumers, do we wait for half a year to buy a new model, or choose the existing version?
If your target model is the 6.1-inch iPhone 14, then it is entirely possible to wait for the new machine to be released, because the price is expected to be lowered, but if you want to buy the iPhone 14 Pro Max, then I recommend buying the iPhone 13 Pro Max now.
The author understands that the e-commerce platform has carried out a large price control on the iPhone 13 Pro Max, with a price of about 8,000 yuan, which is much cheaper than the initial price.
The iPhone 14 Pro Max released half a year later, the price is likely to be raised, so the purchase budget will be much higher. So how will you choose, welcome to comment, like, share, talk about your opinion.