You’ve spent the final couple of days tweaking the icons in your iOS 18 homescreen and luxuriating in your relaxation days with watchOS 11. Now, Apple’s hoping you’ll improve even additional. The corporate is on the brink of begin promoting the brand new iPhone 16 lineup, the brand new Apple Watch Sequence 10, and the brand new AirPods 4 headphones.
We’ve been utilizing the units since they had been introduced final week, and we’re right here to reply the query that issues most: is any of this new stuff definitely worth the cash?
On this episode of The Vergecast, it’s wall-to-wall Apple critiques. First, we begin with the iPhones, which The Verge’s Allison Johnson and Nilay Patel have been reviewing. We discuss largely concerning the digicam, as a result of, nicely, the digicam’s most of what there’s to speak about. Allison and Nilay inform us about their experiences with the Digital camera Management button, the brand new pictures kinds, examine the “what is a photograph?” temperature of the brand new units, and attempt to differentiate the 4 telephones from one another and their predecessors.
After that, Victoria Track comes on to speak concerning the Apple Watch Sequence 10. We weren’t capable of check one of many Apple Watch’s key options — sleep apnea detection — forward of our recording, however we did have loads of time to speak concerning the new design, the brand new display screen, and the brand new options. Oh, and the brand new speaker, about which we’re all deeply conflicted.
Subsequent, Chris Welch tells us about his time with the AirPods 4 and whether or not it’s price spending $50 to get a mannequin with lively noise cancellation. These AirPods — with a sound high quality improve, a aggressive worth, and large guarantees about noise administration — may be vastly compelling if Apple obtained all of it proper. So… did Apple get all of it proper?
Lastly, Allison returns, and we take a break from speaking about Apple to reply a query from the Vergecast Hotline (866-VERGE11, name us!) concerning the case for the Pixel lineup in 2024. It’s a fairly good yr for telephones, and we’ve got lots to speak about.
If you wish to know extra about all the pieces we focus on on this episode, you need to learn all of our critiques of Apple’s new devices:
