Recap of Apple iPhone, Watch & AirPods Event

Posted: September 9, 2025 | Author: clarkreid | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Apple, iPhone, Smartphone, Tech, technology |Leave a comment

Apple remarkably kept this presentation to under an hour and 15 minutes. No, there wasn’t a surprise amazing ‘one more thing.’ 

Starting out, they bowed new Air Pods Pro 3

New ANC noise reduction and new ear tips give twice the ANC of previous ones, 4X better than original Air Pods Pro. 

The new models have Live Translation to your ears, so you can understand the person speaking in your native language, and then the iPhone can show them on screen or tell them in a voice what you say in their language. 

Apple analyzed 10,000 ears and now have 5 sizes of tips to stay in ears in all conditions. They claim better sweat protection too for workouts.

Heart Rate sensing is now built in. 

New obnoxious and obsequious ‘Workout Buddy’ that has been available on iPhone now cheers you on in the ear buds. Good job, buddy! Rah, rah, you are great.

The Pro 3 has longer battery life….8 hours at a time…up from 6. It has 10 hours for hearing aid use….not bad, but actual good hearing aids have 30 house of battery life. 

The price stays $249 no increase from the previous model… preorder today, and they’re available Sept 19th.

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Apple Watch…

First, Series 11…it’s thinner, and the screen is twice as scratch resistant. 

Watch 11 has 5G if you get the one with its own phone…you should get better coverage and lower power consumption than the previous model. 

For heart health, it tracks for high blood pressure. As predicted, it will look for higher blood pressure and will notify you of possible hypertension. It will NOT give you actual blood pressure readings. 

Like other smart watches, Watch 11 will score quality of sleep. This was touted as a big deal, but competitors have had this feature for years. 

Series 11 will have 24 hours of battery life…ok, that really is a big deal. With fast charging, you can almost wear it day and night.

Watch SE3…The cheapie. It gets an always on display now. It will also play media through the speaker. The Se gets 18 hour battery life, and new fast charging…charging twice as fast as the old model. 

Watch Ultra 3-New display is brighter and has thinner borders. Largest display of all Apple Watches. (This corrects the embarrassment of last year’s Ultra 2 not having a bigger display than the Watch.  It has the Workout Buddy and Satellite connectivity. You get Emergency SOS & Messages, and

42 hours battery life. 

Base Pricing:

$249 for the  SE3

$399 for the Series 11

$799  for the Ultra 3

Preorder today, all are available Sept 19th

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iPhone—4 models…

Apple said 4 new models, but really it is one new model and 3 freshened ones. 

iPhone 17 gets alarger 6.3 inch display, and has pro motion like the pro models. It now has always on display, and a More readable brightness for the display outdoors in bright light.

The display has new Ceramic Shield 2….three times harder and better anti-glare than before. 

The 17 is powered by the A19 chip…it’s faster and more efficient that last year’s phone. 

Apple Intellegence runs on the 17 with iOS 26…including Live Translation.

The phone has 8 more hours of battery time and faster charging.

48MP dual fusion cams …a main and 2x telephoto.

The front selfie cam has Center Stage, as well as a sensor that is is twice size of last model. a new Square picture aspect ratio for the selfie cam gives higher resolution shots in any orientation. It will automatically adjust the picture field if you have a couple friends step into the frame so no one is cut off. 

iPhone Air–

This is the actual new model. It is insanely thin. Titanium super thin edges, and ceramic shield 2 on both sides. The phone is a svelte 5.6mm thick, and has a 6.5 inch display 

It runs on the A19 Pro chip. Each GPU core has MacBook Pro levels of computing in a phone.

It also has the new N1 chip…WiFi and Bluetooth designed by Apple.

As expected, you get the new C1x modem chip which is faster than the iPhone 16 Pro and is more power efficient.

The cam system: 48MP Fusion camera, but it has two cams with one lens. 24 MP default photos, portrait control, and basically 4 focal length lenses built in. The selfie cam is 18 MP.

As rumored, new Dual capture video uses both back cam and selfie cam at same time. You can insert yourself in a box on screen basically doing play by play of what’s being videoed on the main camera. 

The Air has an eSIM…no physical SIM card, and it works worldwide.

Battery life…It has new Adaptive Power Mode to intelligently manage power. They claim all day batter life. New low profile Mag Safe battery pack will allow 40 hours total with phone when attached. 

iPhone 17 Pro–

It has a new aluminum case and interior structure. It’s unibody, and allows for biggest battery ever. Apple says they went to the aluminum from titanium in order to get better heat dissipation, which they say is needed when you use the on device AI or are doing heavy duty gaming. The A19 Pro chip does generate more heat, so in addition to the aluminum unibody to help dissipate it, the phone also has a vapor chamber to help with temperature management. 

The aluminum unibody has 20 times the thermal performance of  the titanium. 

Like the Air, the antennas are in the bump. They claim 40% better performance than 16 Pro…for gaming and for AI. 

Like the Air, the both the screen and the back are Ceramic Shield 2 so you get better protection than the glass that’s on on older phones. 

The Pro Max has the biggest battery ever, it can do 39 hours of video playback.

Cameras- The Selfie Cam is 18 MP like the Air. 

The Rear main cam system ….all 3 cams are 48 MP. All are fusion cameras. New 4x zoom at 100 mm or 8x zoom tele at 200 mm focal length. That is a huge jump from before…and about time. Both zoom powers use machine learning to help reduce noise and get better color. The fusion system is the equivalent of 8 different lens focal lengths! It’s like carrying around 8 different lenses with your old DSLR in your camera bag, but in your hand. 

For video, Apple has added Pro Res Raw Capture, and Also Gen Lock, which lets you move between video and graphics, among other things like switching seamlessly between shooting angles without doing hours of editing. 

The Pro models come with 256 Gigs base storage, and you can order up to 2 TB. Apple didn’t hit us with predicted $50 price bump…

$599 16e

$799 17

$999 Air

$1099 Pro

$1199 Pro Max

Preorders start Friday, available Sept 19th. 

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Technified’ for now. 

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