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iPhone Ultra: Rumors About Apple's 2024 High-End iPhone 16

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Apple in 2024 may introduce a new high-end iPhone 16 "Ultra" that would be sold alongside the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max as a more expensive, feature rich option.

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This guide highlights everything we've heard about the possibility of an iPhone Ultra.

Feature Set

An iPhone 16 Ultra would be Apple's most expensive and feature rich iPhone, offering options beyond those available with the Pro models. We don't have too much insight into what new additions Apple might reserve for an Ultra model, but Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has shared some possibilities.

He says that the iPhone Ultra could include additional camera improvements, a faster chip, a bigger display, and perhaps even a portless design without a Lightning or USB-C port.

The iPhone Ultra would presumably be modeled after the Apple Watch Ultra, Apple's high-end Apple Watch option. Like that device, the iPhone Ultra could have unique and niche features that set it apart and make it worth a more premium price tag.

Pricing

If Apple ends up unveiling an iPhone 16 Ultra, it will be even more expensive than the iPhone 14 Pro Max, which is priced starting at $1,099. It is expected to be sold alongside iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max devices rather than replacing one.

Launch Timeline

The earliest that Apple would introduce a higher-end Ultra iPhone is 2024, which would make it part of the iPhone 16 lineup. As 2024 is the soonest that we'll see the model, there is a possibility that it could be delayed until the iPhone 17 lineup or beyond.

iPhone 15 Ultra?

Back in September 2022, Gurman speculated that Apple might introduce an iPhone 15 Ultra that would replace the iPhone 15 Pro Max in the 2023 iPhone lineup, but it no longer appears that an iPhone 15 Ultra is going to happen. Instead, we are expecting an iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max.

Renders

Designer Jonas Daenert in February shared some conceptual images of what an iPhone 16 Ultra could look like, with some of the design ideas taken from the Apple Watch Ultra. He imagines a thicker 12mm iPhone with a titanium chassis, rounded edges, protruding buttons, and orange accents.

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This is in no way what Apple's iPhone Ultra will look like as there haven't been design rumors as of yet, but it is a fun concept to look at.

Article Link: The iPhone Ultra: Everything We Know About Apple's 2024 High-End iPhone 16
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Very ugly.
 
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I think the iPhone Ultra will have the longest battery life, therefore it might be the folding iPhone having two parts battery when opened and largest screen
 
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UK-MacAddict said:
Can’t believe the people in here saying how they’re looking forward to this phone. Tim Cook is robbing them blind and they’re up for it.

Hopefully falls flat in sales. Total greedy money grab from a company fast running out of ideas. If nobody buys into this then you’ll soon see prices drop and reversion back to a single iPhone model that has all the periscope cameras latest and greatest chips etc.

Created the Pro line to squeeze more money from customers for features that should be in the basic iPhone. Now squeezed the price limit as far as we can with the Pro line so need another tier to keep the price heading skywards.

Tim Cook needs to go.
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I really hope it backfires in the way of people won't want to pay for the Ultra, but won't want Pro either now because they don't want to be second fiddle.
 
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Smartphone innovation is becoming like car innovation. A lot of uninteresting stuff that's not worth it. Smart people buy an old iPhone (up to a 12) and stick with it for years until it breaks.
 
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iPhone Ultra could include additional camera improvements, a faster chip, a bigger display
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Doesn't sound that exciting, more of the same. This is what I like to see in a new high-end iPhone:

- Long-distance wireless charging (meters a way, in my pocket)
- Satellite connectivity
- "AirTag" tracking after the ordinary battery is dead
- Siri that you can chat with, think ChatGPT3, but with voice recognition.
- Be able to run Mac OS X software. No need to carry laptop to office.
- Free iCould backup matching the phone's memory.
 
This is the iPhone I have been waiting for since I purchased my iPhone 12 Pro Max. If the rumours hold up, I am looking forward to a complete design for overhaul & larger display with the Face ID camera under the display. What I am not looking forward to is the cost!
 
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to be honest it would be nice with a phone that could be used without a case. Right now im always adding that extra 2mm of leather to my phone + an ugly extra layer of glass.

and im hiding the beautiful designed phone... for all I care it could be made of ****** stained plastic, no one will ever see it because if they do, I know that will be the moment I drop it and it dies.

please start making phones that don't need a cover..... you know like Nokia, where your 3210 would break the sidewalk, but the phone would be ok
 
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UK-MacAddict said:
Can’t believe the people in here saying how they’re looking forward to this phone. Tim Cook is robbing them blind and they’re up for it.

Hopefully falls flat in sales. Total greedy money grab from a company fast running out of ideas. If nobody buys into this then you’ll soon see prices drop and reversion back to a single iPhone model that has all the periscope cameras latest and greatest chips etc.

Created the Pro line to squeeze more money from customers for features that should be in the basic iPhone. Now squeezed the price limit as far as we can with the Pro line so need another tier to keep the price heading skywards.

Tim Cook needs to go.
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Yes, this has Cook written all over it. Diversify rather than make difficult decisions about improving your existing product line, constantly giving buyers more and more expensive options to save the bottom line and stimulate 'growth'. Just make a select set of excellent products. They've completely lost confidence in their phone design.
 
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Yes, this has Cook written all over it. Diversify rather than make difficult decisions about improving your existing product line, constantly giving buyers more and more expensive options to save the bottom line and stimulate 'growth'. Just make a select set of excellent products. They've completely lost confidence in their phone design.
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Tim Cook is the new John Sculley. He's doing the exact same thing and that ended up tanking Apple.
 
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Tim Cook is the new John Sculley. He's doing the exact same thing and that ended up tanking Apple.
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I don’t see him tanking the company, he’s too savvy for that and has made the company ridiculously successful, but the products are definitely taking a hit. So many blanks fired.
 
Don’t get me wrong, take my money, but only if you take my breath away.

“Rounded edges” or “more battery” isn’t stepping me to $2000+ USD.

Especially where you are starting to gimp the normal iPhones to artificially create higher positions for the regular iPhone.

Your fan base has been buying either the base or the fancy for minor differences. Now you charge so much more but want to cripple the pro?!
 
Seems to me that apple left nothing out to make the phone more vulnerable against smallest user mistake like not having a gecko-like hand. This certainly pushed people to buying new phones. So apple wont actually make robust phone so why not just buy a battery pack and be done with it. The only smart move i can see is to have a way to replace the whole original apple case including glass for 70$ or something. Basically accepting that there is not going to be significant innovation on the hardware side anymore simply because the phone does what it should quite well already and therefore apple might want to shift in a way to a highend case market.
 
Just a reminder, I'd pay $500 over the price of my iPhone 14 pro max if I could have real pencil support on it. I mean, if apple really wants to make some easy money, I know they could do it.

If the $200 Moto Stylus G can do it, I can't see what the real holdup is.
 
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I really hope that only the EU gets USB-C and the rest of the [free] world can continue to buy pure Apple products, as Apple intended. They made dual-sim different models for China for years and probably still do, same with the US models having no more sim tray. It can be done. I don't see why they wouldn't hear, unless they already had plans to do it and this is just bringing them forward.

I have a tonne of lightning cables - bedrooms, car, office, partners house. That's a lot of e-waste. They're honestly fine. Until/unless they make an unbreakable cable, I'm happy to stick with today's technology.

Compelled regulation / forcing their hand is not right. I can't believe they're trying the same with iMessage next... Btw, we do use it in Europe, it depends who you're texting- Android = WhatsApp / FB Messenger. iPhone = iMessage.
 
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