Apple publishes no decibel figure for AirPods 5 noise cancellation. It publishes no frequency range, no attenuation curve, no test method and no noise source. The only number attached to the cancellation itself is a comparison: up to 1.5x more than AirPods 4 with ANC, or up to 50 percent more noise removed, depending on…
iPhone 18 Pro Display Resolution: 2622 x 1206 for a Third Generation, and 460 ppi Across the Lineup
The iPhone 18 Pro display is 2622 x 1206 at 460 pixels per inch, and the iPhone 18 Pro Max is 2868 x 1320 at the same 460 ppi. Neither set of numbers is new. Both carry over from the iPhone 17 Pro generation, and the 6.3-inch figures go back to the iPhone 16 Pro.…
AirPods 5 ANC: Why Apple's '50 Percent More Noise' and '1.5x More ANC' Are Not the Same Sentence
Apple describes the AirPods 5 noise cancellation gain twice, in two different ways. The press release says the earbuds remove up to 50 percent more noise compared to AirPods 4 with ANC. The product page says up to 1.5x more Active Noise Cancellation than the previous generation. The arithmetic matches. The precision does not. AirPods…
AirPods 5 Noise Cancellation: Apple's 'Industry's Best' Claim Stops at Open-Ear Designs
Apple’s press release for AirPods 5 is headlined “Apple introduces AirPods 5 with best-in-class open-ear Active Noise Cancellation,” and the product page states the same thing as “the industry’s best Active Noise Cancellation in an open-ear design.” The superlative is real, and it is fenced in by five words: in an open-ear design. AirPods 5…
Apple Watch Checkout: The Three Choices You Cannot Change Later, and the One You Can
Ordering an Apple Watch commits you to three things you cannot change afterwards, and one you can change any time. Case size, case material and cellular are fixed at purchase. The band is not, and it is the only one of the four Apple has left unpriced. Ceramic Series 12 cases measure 43mm and 47mm…
Apple Watch Prices Before September 18: The Three Numbers Apple Publishes, and Nine It Does Not
Every Apple Watch price Apple has published for this launch fits in three figures: From $249 for SE 3, From $399 for Series 12 and From $799 for Ultra 4. There is no fourth number, and no per-configuration list anywhere on Apple’s site. Ceramic returns on Series 12 in pearl white and night blue, at…
Apple Watch Readiness Arrives Monday, and the Health App That Summarizes It Has No Date
Readiness reaches Apple Watch on Monday, September 14, when watchOS 27 ships free. The place Apple has designed to summarize it, the redesigned Health app on iPhone, is dated only later this year, in US English, on devices that support Apple Intelligence. The Readiness score arrives with watchOS 27 on September 14. Image: Apple So…
Apple Names the Readiness App on Two Apple Watch Pages and Leaves It Off the watchOS 27 List
Apple lists a new Readiness app on exactly two pages: the one for Apple Watch Series 12 and the one for Apple Watch Ultra 4. It is not in the watchOS 27 feature list Apple publishes, and Apple has said nothing about whether Series 11, Ultra 3 or Apple Watch SE 3 get it. The…
iPhone Duo Camera Specs Apple Has Not Published: ProRes, Sensor Size and Seven More
Apple has published an unusually detailed camera list for the iPhone Duo, down to focal lengths, apertures and slow-motion frame rates. Nine specifications that appear on the iPhone 18 Pro’s pages, or that buyers routinely ask about, are absent from it. The 48MP Fusion main camera. Apple publishes no sensor or pixel size for it.…
iPhone Duo's Camera Control Button: Siri Camera Mode, and Five Things Apple Left Out
Apple’s iPhone Duo press release contains one sentence about the phone’s shutter hardware: there is a Camera Control button, and it has a Siri Camera mode. That is the whole of what Apple has published about it, and everything else a buyer would want to know about the button is missing. The 48MP Fusion main…