Recently, a lot of basic information about the iPhone 16 has been revealed, and a lot of evidence suggests that the diagonal arrangement of the iPhone 16 rear camera will change to vertical, which looks a bit like the iPhone 12.
I speculate that the sudden change of the arrangement of this wave of lenses is not that the designer has no idea, but that the lidar is about to land on the iPhone16 basic model, after all, the 15 Pro series has just been in iOS172 Spatial shooting is supported in the beta version to coincide with the upcoming Apple Vision Pro release in 2024.
The iPhone16 basic model released at the end of the year is no longer on the lidar, and it can't even shoot the space**, which is really a bit unreasonable. Moreover, lidar was available on the 12 Pro 3 years ago, and it is not a rare thing, not to mention that it is not a threat to the Pro model, and there is no need to worry about the impact on sales.
So I speculate that this time the iPhone16 camera is changed to a vertical arrangement, there is no other reason, just because it wants to support space** shooting, to cooperate with the Vision Pro to be released next year, so LiDAR is added to the inside of the fuselage, resulting in the position of the original lens being occupied.
At present, the difference between iPhone15 and iPhone 15 Pro is only in the high brush screen and running memory RAM, and the extra memory of the Pro series is actually the performance requirement of triple camera photography, and there is not much difference in daily use.
Therefore, there is only one reason why you should buy 15 or wait for 16, and that is to brush the screen high, not the camera arrangement.
If the iPhone 16 series is upgraded to a 120Hz high brush screen, although it is unlikely, how can Pro be sold?But even if you can give an 80Hz screen, it's well worth the upgrade. In addition, the current iPhone 15 series will be very competitive if it can be below 5,000 yuan after the price reduction after the year.