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 firm is on the point of begin promoting the brand new iPhone 16 lineup, the brand new Apple Watch Series 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 well worth the cash?
On this episode of The Vergecast, it’s wall-to-wall Apple evaluations. First, we begin with the iPhones, which The Verge’s Allison Johnson and Nilay Patel have been reviewing. We discuss principally in regards to the digital camera, as a result of, nicely, the digital camera’s most of what there’s to speak about. Allison and Nilay inform us about their experiences with the Camera Control 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 Song comes on to speak in regards to the Apple Watch Series 10. We weren’t in a position to 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 in regards to the new design, the brand new display, and the brand new options. Oh, and the brand new speaker, about which we’re all deeply conflicted.
Next, Chris Welch tells us about his time with the AirPods 4 and whether or not it’s value spending $50 to get a mannequin with energetic 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 acquired all of it proper. So… did Apple get all of it proper?
Finally, Allison returns, and we take a break from speaking about Apple to reply a query from the Vergecast Hotline (866-VERGE11, name us!) in regards to the case for the Pixel lineup in 2024. It’s a reasonably good 12 months for telephones, and now we have loads to speak about.
If you need to know extra about all the things we focus on on this episode, it’s best to learn all of our evaluations of Apple’s new devices:
