It is expected that Manzana add a periscope camera to your iPhone lineup for the first time with the launch of the iPhone 15 Pro Max later this year and a new report ensures that it will be maintained for the 16 Pro Max in 2024.
However, as a report published on the website of pocket lintthis type of camera will be exclusive to the top of the range of the Cupertino company, that is, it will we will not see it in the Pro models and it will only be from the Pro Max.
The use of a periscope camera would allow Apple increase the level of optical zoom your camera can handle without making the iPhone even thicker than it already is.
It’s an approach that other phone makers like Samsung are already taking and the iPhone 15 Pro Max is expected to be the first to get such a camera.
More details of the leak
In a series of tweets, the analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported that Apple will keep the periscope camera as a feature of the iPhone 16 Pro Max in 2024despite earlier market expectations that more iPhones would benefit from the technology.
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As previously predicted, the highest-end model of the 2H23 new iPhone 15 model (15 Pro Max or 15 Ultra) will adopt the periscope camera. The market expected that adding periscope cameras to more iPhone models would drive demand for lens upgrades in 2023-2024.— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) January 31, 2023
Kuo’s report contradicts one from The Elec in early January that suggested the exact opposite, and which suggested the iPhone 16 Pro would have the same camera.
However, keeping the camera feature as only Pro Max makes sense. Apple continues to try to further differentiate its iPhone models, as seen by how it only put the 48-megapixel camera on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models in 2022. Those same iPhones also benefit from a new chip. A16 Bionic, while non-Pro iPhones settle for the A15 Bionic.