Apple feels the need for speed, upgrading the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max in two big ways

Of course, most of the key specifications have stopped being a secret long before the official announcement of the iOS-powered high-end quartet, but in keeping with tradition, a number of smaller details were not shared on stage at the September 7 launch event or on Apple’s website afterwards.

All you need is speed

Still upset that the 8GB memory gossip from a while back did not materialize in the end? You might want to turn that frown upside down now that the other RAM-related iPhone 14 Pro rumor is corroborated under the hood of a commercial unit.

That’s in addition to the performance enhancements enabled by the super-advanced A16 Bionic processor, labeled by its Cupertino-based makers as the “fastest chip ever in a smartphone”, presumably without taking the aforementioned memory upgrade into consideration.

That basically means that Apple is constantly one (half) step behind its competition in this field, although you’d never suspect that by your day-to-day iOS multitasking experiences, which are always pretty much flawless.

And even more speed

Compared to the Snapdragon X60 powering the iPhone 13, 13 mini, 13 Pro, and 13 Pro Max, the hot new cellular modem should vastly improve 5G speeds (with the help of your carrier) while reducing energy consumption and thus also contributing to a battery life bump… of some sort.

It almost goes without saying that the X65 is only a brand-new modem for Apple, having already found its way inside more Android high-enders than we can count as part of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and 8+ Gen 1 SoCs.