Apple’s iPhone Duo press release names an exact detail inside the hinge: more than 100 components, held together in part by custom adhesives Apple designed for flex relief. What Apple has not named is a fold-cycle rating for that hinge, a repair price for it, or where iPhone Duo sits in Apple’s repair programs. The…
iPhone 18 Pro Max Battery: The Only iPhone Rated at 45 Hours
Apple rates the iPhone 18 Pro Max at up to 45 hours of video playback, up to 40 hours of streamed video and up to 30 hours of what it now calls typical use. No other iPhone Apple currently sells carries all three of those numbers, and the 45-hour figure is the single highest battery…
iPhone 18 Pro Max Display: The 6.9-Inch Numbers Apple Publishes for This Phone
Apple builds the iPhone 18 Pro Max around a 6.9-inch OLED panel at 2868 by 1320 pixels, 460 pixels per inch, inside a 249 gram aluminum body that measures 163.4 by 78.0 by 8.75 mm. Those are the figures Apple’s own tech specs attach to this phone, not a ratio measured against any other model.…
iPhone 18 Pro's Frame: Aluminum on One Apple Page, Titanium on Another
Two of Apple’s own pages disagree about what iPhone 18 Pro’s frame is made of. The tech specs page states “Aluminum unibody design.” Apple’s compare tool, on the same site, lists “Titanium frame” for the identical model, as of this week. iPhone Duo carries a Grade 5 titanium frame and hinge cover this season. Image:…
iPhone 18 Pro's Environmental Report: The Manufacturing Figures That Never Reach a Web Page
Apple’s Product Environmental Report for iPhone 18 Pro states that every final assembly site is certified Zero Waste to Landfill, that half of manufacturing electricity comes from renewable sources, and that the packaging is entirely fiber-based. None of those three figures appears on iPhone 18 Pro’s product page, its September 9 announcement, or its tech…
iPhone 18 Pro's Recycled Materials, Component by Component: What Apple's Environmental Report Lists
Apple’s Product Environmental Report for iPhone 18 Pro lists nine separate recycled-material figures for named internal parts, each with its own percentage. That level of component-by-component detail never appears on the phone’s marketing pages, which stop at a single headline number: 40 percent recycled content overall. iPhone Duo's own environmental report states a lower 35…
iPhone Duo's 24-Hour Battery Figure Assumes You Use Both Screens Equally
Apple’s iPhone Duo press release states “up to 24 hours” of typical use, then attaches a condition to that headline number: the figure “assumes equal inner and outer display use.” Apple prints this exact wording once, in the same release that also gives separate battery figures for each of the phone’s two screens. iPhone Duo's…
Apple Watch Ultra's Water Rating Has Not Moved Since the Original in 2022
Apple Watch Ultra 4 carries a 100-meter water rating. That is the exact figure Apple’s tech specs page published for the original Apple Watch Ultra in 2022, and it has not changed across the two Ultra generations released in between. Apple’s chip, battery and brightness figures for the same watch have all moved since then.…
iPhone's Launch Price Sat at $799 for Five Straight Years Before This Year's Increase
iPhone’s launch price held at exactly $799 for five straight years. Apple’s own Newsroom archives show iPhone 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 all launching at that figure between 2021 and 2025, and Apple’s Store pages today, in the week after Apple’s September 9 event, show both iPhone 16 and iPhone 17 priced above it…
AirPods 5's Bluetooth Chip Is the Same Version Apple Shipped in 2024
AirPods 5 connects over Bluetooth 5.3. That is the exact version Apple published for AirPods 4 two years ago, and it is the same version on AirPods Pro 3’s spec sheet from last year. Apple’s own tech specs pages show the H2 chip and Bluetooth 5.3 pairing has now shipped in three straight AirPods generations,…