The iPhone 14 has increased in price across the line
There is basically no suspense about the appearance and related configuration changes of the iPhone 14, it can be determined that this year's iPhone 14 will cancel the mini model, add a 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Max model, and change the lineup of four models to iPhone 14 (6.1 inches), iPhone 14 Max (6.1 inches), iPhone 14 Pro (6.1 inches), iPhone 14 Pro Max (6.7 inches).
Recently, the internet broke the news that the price of the four models of the iPhone 14 series was disclosed, and the price of the four models increased compared with the previous generation of the 13 series, with an increase of about $100.
● iPhone 14: Priced at $799
● iPhone 14 Max: $899
● iPhone 14 Pro: $1099
● iPhone 14 Pro Max: $1199
If the price is converted into RMB, it is speculated that the price of the iPhone 14 series of the National Bank of China will rise by about 700 to 1000 yuan compared with the iPhone 13 series, and the reason for the price increase is temporarily unknown. Regarding the release time of the iPhone 14 series, there are also related news that due to supply chain problems, the whole series will be postponed to October.
Comprehensive analyst news, this year's iPhone 14 series Pro model will remove the bangs screen, instead of the "exclamation point" design of the hole screen. In addition, the rear lens will be increased from 12 million to 48 million pixels, which is also the first improvement since the iPhone 6s in 2015, and the sensor will be increased again, but the zoom function will not be upgraded.
According to the news, next year's iPhone 15 Pro series will upgrade the periscope lens, when the zoom function is expected to be greatly improved, there will be such a result, usually not Apple technology limitations, pure crisp is just marketing considerations. It is inevitable that everyone will think that "the apple is squeezing toothpaste".
In addition, a latest research article by Wall Street analysts pointed out that the outside world generally expects Apple to use self-developed baseband on the iPhone 15 node in 2023, and TSMC will exclusively oem this product, which is likely to use 3nm or 4nm process.
The research report pointed out that Apple acquired the baseband business from Intel at that time, and also took away more than 2200 baseband engineers, in order to prepare for self-research baseband. Wayne Lam, senior director of analysis at CCS, said switching to its own baseband can reduce dependence on Qualcomm while reducing costs.
Apple was asked to open NFC
Since the iPhone 6, Apple has built-in NFC functions, but this is completely different from the NFC functions on Android phones, iPhone is from the system level to the NFC function is limited, limited to their own Apple Pay use.
This means that the NFC features in the iPhone are restricted and not hardware support issues. Watching the Android users next door use NFC to read and write access control card data, recharge physical bus cards, control smart homes, etc., Apple users are not envious of fake, and many users call on Apple to quickly open the NFC access control card function.
The reason why third-party software and services have not been open to invoke NFC permissions is because Apple believes that the NFC features of Apple devices are integrated on hardware and are more secure, while the software-based host card emulation (HCE) of Android systems is less secure.
However, the outside world believes that the reason why the iPhone does not fully open NFC is most likely because of the interests, their own Apple Pay, as well as CarKey, HomeKey. For example, using NFC to swipe a card must go through Apple Pay, if you want to use a car key, you must use a BMW model that Apple cooperates with, and you must use a smart door lock supported by Apple to swipe the access control card.
On the issue of NFC functionality, the EU has finally struck. According to the Financial Times, Apple will be charged by the EU for its monopolistic behavior against the NFC. The European Union said that Apple improperly prevented third-party applications from competing for wallet functions by restricting NFC function modules, resulting in a significant reduction in user experience.
If the allegations are established, Apple will face heavy penalties and be required to open the NFC function module, allowing third-party applications to call NFC functions, so that the iPhone can open NFC as well as Android. For users, this is good news.