Apple: when the iPhone 16 reaches out to you

The iPhone 16, with all its new features, has arrived. And you don’t necessarily have to rely on an inheritance from your Uncle in America, or your luck at poker, to afford this concentrate of technology…

Two months before the Beaujolais nouveau, the latest model of the famous smartphone, the iPhone 16, has landed on our planet…

Following its traditional presentation at Apple’s keynote on September 9, 2024, the long-awaited model has been available for sale since September 20, after a one-week pre-order period.

When his “dad”, the late Steve Jobs, Apple’s brilliant founder, presented his new baby, the iPhone , in January 2007, he stressed that the iPhone was a revolutionary product, “five years ahead of all other phones”…

And since then, every time the latest iPhone model is released, all iPhone lovers scrutinize the latest addition to the famous family with interest and desire. And they often find good reason to part with their older generation model, which has immediately become outdated.

The affordable dream

Once again, theiPhone 16 and its various more or less sophisticated variants (iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max) are making their presence felt.

All that’s left to do to afford this little jewel of technology is to overcome the price barrier… Starting at 969 euros for the iPhone 16, 1119 euros for the iPhone 16 Plus, 1229 euros for the iPhone 16 Pro and 1479 euros for the 16 Pro Max…

But you don’t have to hope to win the lottery to buy this iPhone 16… Mobile operators and Internet sites generally offer trade-in and payment facilities for your old model. And Pixmania, the marketplace dedicated to new and refurbished mobiles and high-tech devices, is particularly good at this. Established in 2000 and relaunched in 2022 by its original founders, Steve and Jean-Michel Rosenblum, the platform offers, for its Apple-certified products, the possibility of dividing the repayment up to 36 monthly instalments, but also of reducing the initial price, thanks to the trade-in of your old device. It also offers free, fast delivery, certified sellers and a 24-month warranty…

Numerous arguments

To convince us to adopt it, the new iPhone 16 range is not lacking in arguments.

First of all, it’s even more beautiful and powerful than its predecessors. Thanks to a slimmer frame, its screen now reaches 6.3 inches for the iPhone 16 Pro and 6.9 inches for the Pro Max. And the frame component – titanium– makes it both lighter and more durable than the iPhone 15. Finally, the new “golden desert” titanium color offered for the IPhone 16 Pro Max Desert Titanium model makes it particularly sexy. For the more affordable versions, the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus, you’ll have to opt for black, pink white, teal (a pretty duck blue) or ultramarine…

But the iPhone 16 is also smarter than its predecessors. Its A18 Pro chip is even more powerful than the A17 Bionic chip in iPhone 15. It takesartificial intelligence functions such as image processing and machine learning tasks up a notch.