Apple lists the iPhone 18 Pro at 150.0 x 71.9 x 8.75 mm, which is exactly what it listed for the iPhone 17 Pro, and the iPhone 18 Pro Max at 163.4 x 78.0 x 8.75 mm, exactly what it listed for the 17 Pro Max. If you can hold either of last year’s Pro…
AirPods Features That Stop at One Model: Heart Rate, Hearing Aid, Volume Swipe and MagSafe
Several of the features Apple advertises on AirPods exist on exactly one model in the range, and one of them exists on only one of the two AirPods 5 versions. Heart rate sensing and the hearing features are AirPods Pro 3 alone, MagSafe charging is Pro 3 alone, and the force sensor with volume swipe…
iPhone Duo Storage Costs the Same as iPhone 18 Pro Max Storage: How to Configure a $1,999 Fold
iPhone Duo costs exactly $700 more than an iPhone 18 Pro Max at every storage tier, and every storage step costs exactly what the same step costs on the Pro and Pro Max: $200 to reach 512GB, another $400 for 1TB, another $600 for 2TB. Apple has priced the fold as a flat surcharge and…
iPhone Duo Arrives Five Weeks After the iPhone 18 Pro: What That Gap Is Worth to a Buyer
Apple’s first foldable pre-orders on Friday, October 16 and ships on Friday, October 23, exactly five weeks after the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max reach buyers on September 18. For anyone weighing a first-generation fold, that gap is the most useful thing about the launch, because most of what sits inside an iPhone Duo…
iPhone 18 Pro Cameras: Apple Took Four Years to Get Every Rear Lens to 48MP
All three rear cameras on the iPhone 18 Pro are 48MP, and Apple took four years to get there. The first 48MP sensor arrived on the main camera of the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022, the Ultra Wide followed in 2024, and the telephoto only caught up last year. The 48MP main camera was the…
iPhone 18 Pro Reaches 2TB and iPhone Air Stops at 1TB: Where Each Storage Ladder Ends
Apple’s new iPhones do not offer the same capacities as each other. iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max and iPhone Duo climb to 2TB, iPhone Air stops at 1TB, iPhone 17 stops at 512GB, and iPhone 16 is the only model in the lineup that still starts at 128GB. iPhone Duo, one of three…
iPhone 18 Pro Carbon Figures: One Storage Step Costs More Than Moving Up to the Pro Max
Apple gives every iPhone 18 Pro configuration its own carbon figure, and read side by side they say something the price list does not: choosing more storage adds more emissions than choosing the bigger phone. A storage step adds 9 kg of CO2e on the 6.3-inch Pro, while moving to the 6.9-inch Pro Max at…
iPhone 18 Pro Thickness: 8.75 mm Against iPhone 17, iPhone Air and a Folded iPhone Duo
Both iPhone 18 Pro sizes are 8.75 mm deep, the same depth Apple published for the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max. That makes the new Pro thicker than the 7.95 mm iPhone 17, well thicker than the 5.64 mm iPhone Air, and thinner than the 11.3 mm an iPhone Duo measures when it…
iPhone 18 Pro Battery vs Pro Max: 36 Hours Clears the iPhone 16 Pro Max and Falls 3 Short of the 17 Pro Max
Apple rates the 6.3-inch iPhone 18 Pro at up to 36 hours of video playback, which is three hours more than it rates the iPhone 16 Pro Max and three hours less than last year’s iPhone 17 Pro Max. The small Pro has, in other words, caught up with a big Pro, just not the…
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 Cost of Ownership: $399 and $799 Are Starting Points, Not Totals
Apple has published three Apple Watch prices for this launch and every one of them starts with the word from: Apple Watch SE 3 from $249, Apple Watch Series 12 from $399 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 from $799. Nothing else about what a Watch costs to own over three years is on an Apple…