Apple's new iPhone 11 announced: good improvements, still no 5G
Apple's new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max announced
Apple has finally unveiled its new iPhone, moving away from roman numerals and making a move to one-up Samsung by naming the new iPhone as iPhone 11.
The new iPhone 11 family includes three variants: the normal iPhone 11, the higher-end iPhone 11 Pro, and the flagship iPhone 11 Pro Max. The iPhone 11 rocks a 6.1-inch display with the "toughest glass" on an iPhone yet, joined by a new dual-camera system on the back split into a 12MP wide-angle snapper and 12MP ultra-wide.
Apple says that the flash is 36% brighter, while it has a new night mode that taps adaptive bracketing for improved low-light shots. Front-facing camera wise the new iPhone 11 has a 12MP snapper (up from the 7MP snapper in previous-gen iPhones) which is capable of a crazy 4K 60FPS and slow-motion video.
Apple is powering the new iPhone 11 with its latest A13 chip, which (as always) the company says is the fastest CPU/GPU combination in a smartphone yet. Apple will be making the iPhone 11 in black, green, yellow, purple, red, and white and starts at $699.
The more exciting iPhone 11 Pro has a 5.8-inch display while the iPhone Pro Max rolls out with a 6.5-inch display, both powered by an A13 processor. Apple's higher-end Pro and Pro Max handsets have triple-camera rigs, adding a third 12MP snapper -- all 3 are 4K 60FPS capable.
Apple includes a new "Deep Fusion" feature that taps machine learning to improve low-light photos, the way this works is that the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max cameras taking a bunch of short exposure shots before you press the shutter button.
Once the shutter button is pressed, it will take a single long exposure shot -- this is then blasted into a neural network that looks over the photo "pixel by pixel" and combines them into a high-quality, low-noise, detailed photo.
The new iPhone 11 Pro starts at $999, while the iPhone 11 Pro Max kicks off at $1099.
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