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Samsung has had one of the highlights of this year. A few days ago, the new flagships from the Galaxy S series were introduced, specifically through the Galaxy S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra models. Samsung has really put on a show this year and it will be interesting to see how much of this is a harbinger of what's in store for Apple fans in September.

At first glance, the news from Samsung scores with its equipment. Whether it's cheaper models like the Galaxy S20 or S20 Plus, or the brutal and very expensive S20 Ultra. Samsung has completely changed the approach and these models no longer have such an aggressively rounded and curved display, the position of the three (or four) cameras on the back has changed) and in terms of hardware, the best that exists at the moment is inside (including an incredible 16 GB RAM on the Ultra model). What do these changes mean for the overall shape of the market, and what for Apple?

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Looking at the specs of the current iPhones, I can't think of too many changes that would make sense. We will certainly see a new processor, just as Apple will increase the capacity of the operating memory - although it will not reach the level of Apple's Android smartphones - simply because it does not need it. A big change that will hopefully finally arrive in iPhones this year is the presence of a higher refresh rate. And that's exactly 120 Hz at full display resolution.

However, such a step would place high demands on the battery capacity, and in this regard, any more fundamental shift seems unrealistic. Apple made a big leap in battery capacity last year, and unless the shape of the phone and the layout of its components change in some fundamental way, you can't do much magic with the limited space.

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The cameras will definitely see some changes as well. With Apple, we probably won't see bombastic-sounding parameters like "108 megapixels" on one specific sensor. Most of us know that the resolution value of the sensor is only one of the many parameters that ultimately determine the quality of the photos. The same marketing nonsense is also the XNUMXx hybrid zoom. It can be expected that in the field of photography, Apple will set a more prudent pace and there will be partial changes to the sensors and lenses as such. I don't include the completely new "time-of-flight" sensor in this list, it has been talked about for a long time and probably won't make much of a difference to the quality of the photos.

Otherwise, however, there is practically not much to change on iPhones. The audio jack isn't coming back, just as I'd be pessimistic about the implementation of a USB-C connector. Apple will keep it only for iPads, and the next connector change for iPhones will be when the current Lightning disappears completely and Apple fulfills the vision of a smartphone without a connector. In some markets, support for 5th generation networks can also be considered a big novelty this year. Globally (and even more so in our country) it is such a marginal issue that there is probably no point in dealing with it this year. What news and changes would you like to see in the new iPhones?

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