iPhone 16 Review: Tough choice between the base and pro models

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It was five years ago that Apple decided to split the iPhone portfolio into two distinct lines—a regular entry level iPhone ( ₹79,900 onwards), and a Pro model ( ₹1,19,900 onwards) with all the pro-grade bells and whistles for that year.

Over the past few years, the standard iPhone started to look a little less loved, a tad neglected even, getting a bunch of hand-me-down features from the previous year's Pro iPhones. But this year, things are different with the iPhone 16, with Apple significantly reducing the feature parity and performance gap between the base iPhone and the Pro models.

Enough to make you wonder: why go Pro? With new teal, pink and ultramarine colours that are far more vivid thanks to a new manufacturing process that infuses colour throughout the glass back, the iPhone 16 lineup this year really pops with vibrancy in a way that make the titanium colors on the Pro a little too subtle and unexciting. Out and about, the new ultramarine iPhone 16 I had on hand grabbed eyeballs and attention everywhere it went—these iPhones lean hard into the new colors and are the exact opposite of boring.

Also read: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max review: Do you want the same phone every year? Like the Pros, the 16 even has the new Ceramic Shield glass protection and while the use of titanium has made the heavy phones slightly lighter, the iPhone 16 (and its larger Plus variant) still weigh less and are easier to handle. Around the rear is the vertically stacked dual-camera system, reminiscent of the iPhone X, designed to allow for spatial video and photo capture that can be viewed on Apple's Vision Pro headset.