According to Wired:
Principal filming for 28 Years Later wrapped at the end of August, and until now the production has kept under wraps the fact that the movie was shot with smartphones, with the film’s staff being asked to signed NDAs preventing the disclosure of this detail.
I cannot imagine a sicker burn on the new iPhones than this Jimmy Kimmel Live bit (which the show has done before, and always seems to work). The moral of the story, as always: don’t buy a new phone, just take the case off. Instant new phone.
Once you’ve received your UPS tracking number from Apple, use this page to figure out what flight is carrying your iPhone or Apple Watch. The “departure scan” in your UPS tracking should match the departure time for a flight listed below.
Joanna Stern convinced the Wall Street Journal to do something different for her iPhone review this year: they built a chatbot trained on her previous iPhone reviews and her testing notes for the new models. You can, uh, get pretty deep with it.
I’m not saying you should buy a new phone for a single camera setting... but I’m not not saying that, either.
It’s a good year for Apple’s basic iPhone, even if its AI is MIA.
The device already supports spatial video, but the latest iOS 18.1 developer beta brings spatial photos to the iPhone 15 Pro too. This allows for a more immersive experience when viewing photos on Apple’s Vision Pro headset.
The iPhone 16 will also come with support for spatial photos and videos when it launches later this week.
Former Bloomberg reporter Tim Culpan writes on Substack:
Apple’s A16 SoC, which first debuted two years ago in the iPhone 14 Pro, is currently being manufactured at Phase 1 of TSMC’s Fab 21 in Arizona in small, but significant, numbers, my sources tell me.
They’re only used in the iPhone 14 Pro and standard iPhone 15 right now, but maybe the American-made chips Apple signed up for will end up in a future iPhone SE someday. The question is if it’s worth the costs.
[timculpan.substack.com]
