Images in Apple's own code, found by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris, show an A20 Pro iPad mini 8, a HomePod mini 2 and a fourth-generation Apple TV 4K. Apple has set no date, so tablet buyers and app teams can plan on the hardware details sooner than on the October window the reports expect.
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Apple's first foldable leads the Galaxy Z Fold8 by 102 Geekbench points and costs up to 1.6 million won more than Samsung's Ultra, a premium industry analysts attribute partly to memory supply disruption.
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The iPhone 18 Pro can apply the Cinematic look to video that was shot plain, which takes a choice off the shot list, while the aperture Apple sold on stage mostly picks itself unless you go into Pro mode.
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Apple added $100 to the price of every iPhone it carried into the new lineup, and the storage configurations that corporate fleets actually order went up by several times that.
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The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB and runs to $3,199 for 2TB, making it the most expensive iPhone at launch, and it ships on October 23 into a category Samsung has led since 2019.
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iFixit's teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max finds real precision in the new magnet-driven aperture and a service path that ends in whole-assembly replacement, plus screen frames that tore on the way in.
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iFixit says a stuck aperture on the iPhone 18 Pro likely takes a new main camera assembly, and it points at the phone's improved cooling to explain the display frames that cracked on three of the four units it opened.
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The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 for 256GB where the iPhone 14 Pro started at $999 for 128GB. That is 20 percent more money for twice the base storage, before anyone asks which of four generations of features they will use.
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The 2TB iPhone 18 Pro Max lists at 3.99 million won in Seoul against 3.19 million a year ago, a 25 per cent increase on a phone whose Apple Intelligence features run only in English until a later update.
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Apple kept last year's design, so the gains sit in a 2nm chip and a bigger vapor chamber. The one job for app teams: a smaller Dynamic Island that now holds three Live Activities.
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The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 with the same A20 Pro chip as the iPhone 18 Pro, a rear camera Apple branded Dual Fusion instead of Pro Fusion, Touch ID in place of Face ID, and a 7.6-inch inner display no other iPhone has.
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PCMag's review gives both iPhone 18 Pro models the same A20 Pro chip, vapor chamber and camera hardware, and separates them only on battery life and pocketability, with the Max keeping the Editors' Choice.
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PCMag's week with the $1,299 phone found no outward change beyond new colours and an unchanged 6.43 by 3.07 by 0.34 inch body. The weight went up by half an ounce, and US models take eSIM only.
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Apple doubled the Neural Engine in the A20 Pro. In the one head-to-head Mashable ran, the new Pro Max and last year's model produced the same image in exactly the same time. That leaves battery and cooling as the upgrade case.
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TechRadar puts the generation's biggest gain in the camera, where four selectable apertures and Pro controls pay off for anyone who takes charge of a shot, while the new chip felt level with last year's.
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Apple's new moving aperture opens to f/1.48 and closes down to f/4. The Verge's review finds the image quality gains marginal on a phone that still fits iPhone 17 Pro cases and costs $100 more than last year's.
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The base iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max each went up $100, but the increase steepens up the storage ladder, and the fleet buyer specifying next year's refresh is now buying a phone that no longer sits at the top of Apple's range.
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Apple gave the iPhone 18 Pro a 32-core neural engine and FP8 support, but the figure that decides whether your model runs at usable speed is bandwidth, and it arrives as a percentage with no gigabytes per second attached.
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MobileSyrup's hands-on with the iPhone Duo describes a phone thicker folded than its rivals and still familiar to hold, with the interesting decisions sitting in iOS layout rules rather than in the hinge. Review units are not out.
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John Ternus opened his first keynote eight days into the job with a claim about where computation happens rather than what the model can do. The product behind that claim is a $1,999 foldable engineered around a hinge.
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