Apple Announces iPhone 11 Pro Line With Three Cameras, Improved Battery Life

Apple’s newest iPhones are here. The company just took the wraps off its new iPhone 11 Pro line, consisting of the regular iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Max. These phones will be succeeding Apple’s iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max from last year. There’s also the regular iPhone 11, which will succeed the iPhone XR.

Apple’s new iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max are more about minor upgrades than major changes. It’s more of an incremental upgrade to the flagship iPhones than a major one.

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Here’s everything that’s new:

  • The design of the new iPhone 11 Pro line is largely similar to the iPhone XS line. The display on the iPhone 11 Pro is a 5.8-inch OLED panel, while the larger iPhone 11 Pro Max features a 6.5-inch panel. It comes with a new Super Retina XDR display panel that has a brightness of up to 1200 nits, HDR, 458 pixels per inch, and is 15% more energy efficient.
  • The cameras on the devices are getting some major upgrades. In fact, the cameras are the flagship headline changes on this year’s iPhones:
    • There are now three cameras at the back, giving the devices a big camera bump that looks really out of place.
    • Apple’s adding a wide-angle lens for improved wide-angle photography. You can switch between three different modes: the telephoto camera, the wide camera, and the ultra-wide camera for three different field-of-views.
    • Apple will add a new feature called Deep Fusion with a software update later on that uses machine learning that takes 9 different images and uses every single pixel from those 9 different images to put one final image together within a second.
    • You will be able to switch between the three camera modes while a video is being recorded. Video recording will also support audio zoom, so the audio will essentially change focus when you zoom in/out of an object.
    • Apple is going after Google’s Pixel phones with improved low-light pictures, too, thanks to the new Night Mode.
    • There’s also a QuickTake feature that lets you tap and hold the shutter button to take a video without having to switch to the Video mode in the Camera app.
    • Next-gen Smart HDR
    • The front-facing camera now features a 12MP lens that will be capable of recording slow-mo videos at 120fps.
  • The new phones feature Apple’s new A13 Bionic processor, which is the fastest CPU in a smartphone ever. The new devices also feature the fastest GPU in a smartphone ever. The new processor comes with a lot of improvements for Machine Learning processing, according to Apple. The new chip includes a low power design that uses a lot less power thanks to Apple’s 7nm process. The performance cores are 20% faster, and use 30% less power, while the GPU is 20% faster and uses 40% less power.
  • Thanks to the new power improvements, iPhone 11 offers 4 hours of more battery life than the iPhone XS, and iPhone 11 Pro Max offers 5 hours more than the iPhone XS Max.
  • Face ID is getting upgraded with a new multi-angle sensor that allows users to unlock the device even when the device is lying flat on a table. It’s also faster than before.
  • Spatial Audio support
  • The new devices are more durable than before, thanks to a more durable glass and improved water and dust resistance.
  • Apple has removed 3D Touch on the new iPhone 11 Pro line, replacing it with a similar Haptic Touch system.
  • They will come with an 18W power adapter with a USB-C connector out of the box for the first time ever, allowing for faster charging. The connector on the iPhone itself is still a lightning connector, however.
  • The new devices will come in a new matte finish for improved durability compared to the glass finish on the back. There’s a new Midnight Green variant, as well as the usual Space Grey, Silver, and Gold variants.

iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max will be available September 20, pre-orders start on Friday. iPhone 11 Pro starts at $999, the Pro Max starts at $1099.

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  • dontbeevil

    10 September, 2019 - 3:49 pm

    <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">OMG revolutionary, apple reinvented everything again!!!</span></p>

    • SvenJ

      10 September, 2019 - 4:07 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#463310"><em>In reply to dontbeevil:</em></a><em> </em>Have that in your copy/paste buffer do you?</blockquote><p><br></p>

      • MikeGalos

        10 September, 2019 - 4:25 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#463328">In reply to SvenJ:</a></em></blockquote><p>dontbeevil might as well. It seems to always be appropriate.</p>

        • lvthunder

          Premium Member
          10 September, 2019 - 5:18 pm

          <blockquote><em><a href="#463352">In reply to MikeGalos:</a></em></blockquote><p>Nobody claimed they reinvented anything.</p>

        • chocolate starfish

          11 September, 2019 - 12:11 am

          <blockquote><em><a href="#463352">In reply to MikeGalos:</a></em></blockquote><p>I'm sure you and dontbeevil are a team. You follow each other around agreeing with each other and shitting on every product that isn't made by MS.</p><p><br></p><p>Everyone sees it. You both know that, right.</p><p><br></p>

          • dontbeevil

            11 September, 2019 - 9:20 am

            <blockquote><em><a href="#463534">In reply to chocolate starfish:</a></em></blockquote><p>and you follow us, ignoring the truth about this blog, are you sure you're not one of them?</p>

          • pecosbob04

            11 September, 2019 - 12:03 pm

            <blockquote><em><a href="#463534">In reply to chocolate starfish:</a></em></blockquote><p>Multiple personality disorder more likely. Have you ever seen Mikey and DBE or for that matter the grasshopper plague guy in the same room? QED!</p>

    • karlinhigh

      Premium Member
      10 September, 2019 - 7:00 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#463310"><em>In reply to dontbeevil:</em></a><em> There are now three cameras at the back, giving the devices a big camera bump that looks really out of place.</em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Right there we have a criticism of Apple's latest and greatest. And from what I've read so far in the rest of the Apple articles here today, it's just straight-up "what's new" reporting. I haven't seen any fawning yet. Surely this is all we readers can ask?</p>

      • sandy

        10 September, 2019 - 9:00 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#463449">In reply to karlinhigh:</a></em></blockquote><p>My first reaction to seeing the 3 cameras was: Hideous!</p><p>Apple used to make things that looked good as well as worked well, but more recently the notch came along, and now this…</p><p>Hopefully these phones don't look as bad in real life.</p><p>The mention of USB Type C raised hopes that finally the Lightning connector was going… but instantly they were dashed.</p>

    • GT Tecolotecreek

      10 September, 2019 - 9:00 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#463310">In reply to dontbeevil:</a></em></blockquote><p>Please, please Paul get the ignore feature working. </p>

  • RobertJasiek

    10 September, 2019 - 4:00 pm

    <p>Notch. This is everything I need to know.</p>

  • Thom77

    10 September, 2019 - 6:35 pm

    <p>$700 entry level iPhone? </p><p><br></p><p>My $120 Samsung J3 does everything I need. Podcasts. Internet radio. Audiobooks. Music. Basic web browsing. Youtube. Videos.</p><p><br></p><p>What exactly are massive amounts of people doing on a $700 iPhone that makes it worth $700?.honest question.</p>

    • karlinhigh

      Premium Member
      11 September, 2019 - 4:21 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#463435">In reply to Thom77:</a></em></blockquote><p>Timex vs Rolex, perhaps.</p>

  • sott3

    Premium Member
    11 September, 2019 - 2:04 pm
  • wright_is

    Premium Member
    13 September, 2019 - 2:53 am

    <p>What are the focal lengths of the 3 lenses? I always miss that in these announcements.</p><p>Also what f-stops do they support?</p>

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