First USB-C iPhone is Thread enabled
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The launch of the iPhone 15 family, which drops the Lightning connector for the USB-C for the first time, is also the first Apple phone to have support for the Thread protocol for the Matter IoT standard.
The iPhone 15 Pro uses the A17 chip, Apple’s first 3nm chip. Microarchitectural enhancements boost the CPU performance by 10% and six GPU cores rather than five boosts the performance by 20% boost against the iPhone 14.
An Ultra-wide Band chip also boosts phone-to-phone data rates and an improved camera and satellite messaging capability. Adding Thread support will allow the iPhone 15 to natively support standard smart home devices.
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“iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus represent a huge leap forward with exciting camera innovations that inspire creativity, the intuitive Dynamic Island, and the A16 Bionic chip for proven powerful performance,” said Kaiann Drance, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide iPhone Product Marketing. “We’re also pushing the power of computational photography to new levels this year with a 48MP Main camera featuring a new 24MP default for super-high-resolution photos, a new 2x Telephoto option, and next-generation portraits.”
The A16 Bionic chip from the iPhone 14 is used in the cheaper iPhone 15 variants, although the five core GPU has 50 percent more memory bandwidth for smooth graphics when streaming videos and playing games. A new 16-core Neural Engine is capable of nearly 17TOPS for machine learning computations for features such as Live Voicemail transcriptions in iOS 17 and third-party apps.
Both models use a USB‑C connector for bidirectional power as a result of EU legislation, but with differences in data connections The iPhone 15 uses USB2 while the iPhone 15 Pro uses USB3 that is 20x faster.
Users can also charge AirPods or Apple Watch directly from iPhone with the USB‑C connector. Both models support MagSafe and future Qi2 chargers for wireless charging.
As Apple continues to work toward its 2030 goal of making every product carbon neutral — from design to manufacturing to customer use — the company is prioritising clean electricity across the entire supply chain and designing products with recycled and other low-carbon materials. iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus now use even more recycled content, with 100 percent recycled cobalt in the battery and 100 percent recycled copper in the main logic board, copper wire in the Taptic Engine, and copper foil in the inductive charger in MagSafe — all firsts for iPhone.
Both models also include 75 percent recycled aluminium in the enclosure, 100 percent recycled rare earth elements in all magnets, and 100 percent recycled gold in the USB‑C connector as well as the gold plating and tin soldering in multiple printed circuit boards.
Apple’s global supply chain now has more than 300 manufacturers now committed to using 100 percent clean energy for their production by 2030. New commitments from more than 50 suppliers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia have driven recent growth in Apple’s Supplier Clean Energy Program, which now represents over 90 percent of the company’s direct manufacturing spend.
iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus will be available in pink, yellow, green, blue, and black in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB storage capacities, starting at £799 or £33.29 per month, and £899 or £37.45 per month, respectively.
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