The Apple Watch Series 9, which finally upgraded its processor
Apple Watch Series 9 was released, and the main upgrade this time is a processor that hasn't really been updated in essence for a long time.
Using the new SiP design of the S9 processor, the performance has finally improved, the GPU performance has increased by 30%, and the animation has become smoother; With the addition of the new neuron network engine, S9 has a certain ability to process and run Siri locally, and the daily Siri response speed will be significantly improved. At the same time, the same ultra-wideband chip of the iPhone was added, which means that now the Apple Watch Series 9 can find the iPhone up close. Of course, it is also an iPhone with an ultra-wideband chip.
There are not many other updates, the brightness is increased to 2000nit, the minimum brightness of AOD can be up to 1nit, these are normal hardware upgrades, it can also be expected, after all, last year the iPhone 14Pro brightness reached 2000nit. The main function that S9 brings to the Apple Watch should be the "two-finger pinch" gesture function. Combined with sophisticated neuron network algorithms, Series 9 can achieve very accurate gesture recognition. So what can this gesture do? It can be equivalent to the operation of turning the digital crown and answering and hanging up a phone call that requires clicking the screen.
Trust me, this would be your favorite way to turn off your alarm! After the alarm goes off, you can turn off the alarm with a pinch of your finger, which will not disturb your comfortable sleep at all! As long as you use it, you will definitely love it! Except that you may be late.
Apple Watch Ultra 2 is also coming as expected, and the finger pinch gesture brought by the S9 SiP will be helpful when exercising outdoors, and the brightness increase to 3000nit is also more suitable for outdoor use. The newly designed dial can be used perfectly to the edge of the screen, this should not be the exclusive dial of the Ultra 2 generation... After all, the two generations of Ultra screen size are the same.
In terms of environmental protection, this time Apple dried out leather accessories, and the leather strap was gone. Apple used a delicate denim/twill to replace the previous leather strap, which should cost less than delicate calf leather, but given the cost of environmental protection, the price may not change? Specifically, the follow-up mall is on the shelves.
All in all, although the Apple Watch series has upgraded the S9 SiP, but has not added any new sensors, more interesting functions such as blood glucose detection have not been applied, the new Apple Watch will be officially released on September 22, the price has not changed, not to mention.
Don't want to talk about the iPhone 15
iPhone 15 I really don't want to say, the main thing is not to say ah... Just go directly to the introduction of the iPhone 14 Pro series, remove the telephoto lens, replace the shell material, and replace the screen with no promotion. The function that can be updated is the update of the software, and the iPhone 14 Pro that the iPhone 15 can do will do, for example, now the camera can support automatic scene switching (that is, automatically switch to portrait mode and the like). These iOS 17 features are theoretically fully supported by the iPhone 14 Pro.
Well, no, as a digital gamer, products that are not new are not interesting, just like I won't mention the Apple Watch SE, I don't know how to introduce the iPhone 15, and I don't want to talk about anything.
Oh yes, epic upgrade, USB C, to also have a surprise, did not expect that the function is that Apple actually added a certain wired reverse charging function to the iPhone, which can charge AirPods and other accessories, but the transmission rate conference does not seem to be mentioned, first put and wait for the test to see the specific rate.
The iPhone 15 Pro/Max upgraded in stride
The texture of titanium alloy is excellent!
The only new product that the conference focused on, the iPhone 15 Pro/Max, first of all, the shell is rumored to be made of titanium alloy that the glasses family is very familiar with and love, not only the texture is excellent, but the bezel has also become narrower. Of course, the most criticized weight has also become lighter!
The mute lever has indeed been changed to a button, long press to toggle the mute state, and tap to customize the functions and shortcuts you want to enable.
This time it was very special, the A17 processor was named A17 Pro! So will there still be products that use the A17 digital series processor? Will it be the new iPad Air?
The N3E process A17Pro has a transistor scale of 19 billion and adopts a new architecture design. However, the performance of the single core is only improved by 10%, and the performance of the energy-efficient core is also highlighted, but this single-core performance improvement is a little small. Instead, the speed of the neuron network engine has doubled. The expected Thunderbolt 4 does not provide, only the speed of full blood USB 3.2, that is, 10G.
The GPU performance has increased by 20%, which is much less than expected, but with the addition of hardware ray tracing, the ray tracing performance has been improved by 4 times. This is actually more of an upgrade for the desktop-level M3Pro/Max. However, this upgrade makes people very concerned about whether the A17Pro GPU can beat 8G3, or even compare with 8G2.
Combined with the process dividend of N3E, even if the architecture remains unchanged, N3E can provide considerable performance upgrades or power consumption reductions, obviously Apple has chosen to further optimize energy consumption. Although the paper performance improvement is not much, this is also Apple's long-lost comparison with the previous generation processor at the conference in recent years (laughs). The power consumption of the A17Pro should be very good-looking, and the energy consumption ratio will have good expectations. However, there is still a bit of a "just this" feeling, depending on the frequency, if the power consumption is very good, the processor frequency is not improved compared to A16, then it can show that the IPC of the new architecture is quite powerful. On the contrary, if the frequency increases significantly again, then it really is this... High EQ means that M-series processors can finally go on high frequencies.
The camera upgrade is more obvious, the new nano-coating, more light into the camera, that is, a larger bottom. It should be the first release of Sony's new CIS stacked lens module. At the same time, you can also shoot 2400W pixel images in ordinary states, which iPhone 15 has also been upgraded, which belongs to algorithm upgrades should also be enjoyed by iPhone 14 Pro.
The Pro Max uses a 5X telephoto lens, while the new zoom algorithm makes the choice of focal lengths richer.
In terms of shooting, in addition to functions such as spatial video prepared for mixed reality devices, the iPhone's video shooting capabilities are invincible, and just one thing can represent everything: ProRes 4K60
There is no price increase in terms of price, no price increase, no price increase! It's just that the iPhone 15 Pro Max starts with 256G, but the price has not changed from the same capacity last year! This time, you can actually choose the 512G capacity version. iCloud has launched 6T or even 12T capacity, which shows that the demand for capacity for audio and video systems will be greater in the future.
Finally, predict the performance performance of the A17Pro: GeekBench5, 2100/6300, GPU19000, single-core basically catches up with I7, multi-core is close to M1, GPU basic M1 level.
GeekBench6: 2800/7200, GB6 results Apple's side advantage is very obvious, A17Pro will further consolidate this advantage