iPhone 14 Pro Review_ This Will Be Copied!

 - iPhone 14 Pro. So it might be a little in-depth, but usually when you're testing a new product , an unreleased product from Apple, they tell you to keep the test a secret. Don't tell anyone you have it. Do not display it publicly. Don't show it to anyone. It would be tantamount to breaking the NDA. And this applies to this new iPhone 14 Pro as well, but let me tell you, I was able to move around, take pictures, message people, pay for things with Apple Pay,

and nobody cares.  Went to it because it looks exactly like the iPhone 13 Pro. Although, of course, this is a new phone right now, for the new year. And so really, there are three major things that are new with the 14 Pro they are the internals, the display, and the cameras. And so I'm going to chapter these things out to describe each of them. But of course, it'salso worth noting that this new MKBHD Edition Chevron Hoodie is finally, finally, available on the MKBHD store, MKBHD.com. It's very comfortable, but still hoodie season. So this new phone does n't have a lot of new parts, but it technicall has a lot more to offer than the baseline iPhone 14 because it's actually got a silicon upgrade to the new A16 Bionic and six GB of RAM. The coolest new four nanometer system on a chip by Apple. Though you could say, when they presented at Keynote, that it would be a very slight improvement from the A15 Bionic as they started comparing it directly to the A13 Bionic that came out a few years ago. In fact though so far, it's benchmarked to the same level as the A15 Bionic, just slightly up, as expected. And that means, to me, absolutely solid performance, butter-like animations, and a fairly reliable all-day battery life from both the 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max, but I 'll talk more about the battery a minute later. Technologically new in the interior is a new set of sensors.

It has an improved gyroscope and an improved accelerometer which is capable of telling whether you have been in a car accident or not. accident detection.

Jhakas characteristic. So it will detect whether you have been in a car accident and then if you d not respond to the screen prompts, it will automatically

call emergency services. Excellent. I'm not going to test it. I'm sure some other youtubers will find a way to test it. But really, my

question was really like, well, if you're gonna test it , what kind of things would you test? And I think the

answer is accidental triggers. For example, if you've climbed a lot of stairs or something else you have automatic workout detection on your Apple Watch

it will show, Oh, have you started exercising 'because you've got a high heart rate' and you've just started working out.  started running.

No, only with me? I don't know I was just wondering if next time it might mistakenly think that something else like there was a car accident. Maybe you

put a debranded case on it and you dropped it on the floor or something. I don't know, it hit the ground hard enough, and thinks it must have

crashed. But then the more you look at it, the more you realiz that there are various sensors and factors in where it sees, well, your GPS was going at 60 mph until it hit zero mph Would reach. And the microphone heard a loud noise. And the barometric pressure changed when the airbags opened. And, the gyroscope also saw that a hard stopping force was present. It knows you were in a car accident. Another thing that the iPhone used to have that it no longer has is the physical SIM card tray. This is actually only for the US and these phones are now e-SIM based only. E-SIM is nothing new, but the absence of a physical SIM tray now has its own advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is basically, well , it took less space to go underwater, less one moving part, but the disadvantage is that for international travel if you just want to get a SIM card quickly through the carrier.  Instead of leaving, it will no longer be as easy. I'll keep an eye on it because I think Apple eventually intends to expand this to all iPhones rather than as it is now, which is just starting out in the US. But the last internal change in the iPhone 14 series , all in all, is satellite connectivity. It's a case in point, an extra feature you'd honestly hope you never have to use, but gosh if you're stuck somewhere with absolutely no cellular service, you're not near a cell tower.  The iPhone's antennas can now also effectively communicate directly with satellites instead of cell towers. So it'll take longer, and you 'll need a clear view of the sky, and the UI will literally help you point your phone up at a certain satellite, but it will also let you send messages to the sender or local emergency services to your location. Helped to reach and get what you need. It's also fantastic. I won't even test it, so it's about the internal parts.

Note I didn't talk much about the externals like I usually do during the phone review because if we're being honest, they're almost the same. There are some new colours. Space Black, which has been my favorite for years, and there's a new purple color as well. From some angles, you can hardly call it purple,

but if the light shines on it, according to a Pro phone, I think it's solid purple. In fact, only the camera bumps change. They are definitely a bit bigger

and thicker than the 13 Pro. But the bottom line is that while an iPhone 13 Pro can fit in the case of an iPhone 14 Pro, then you know it's almost identical.  Display What's Up It's Back Okay, so now, we 're really going to get into the real thing you reallnotice in these new phones. The iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max sport slightly updated 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch OLED displays respectively. So on paper it's still excellent performance with slightly thinner bezels that you won't notice, and slightly higher resolution that you won't notice, and even brighter 2000 nits of peak brightness that you'll absolutely notice when on the phone.  Looking at a bright sunny day. It looks great outside in 100% sunlight. But the two things you'll notice the most are the dynamic island and the always-on display. The Always-On Display is a perfect example of the classic Apple late mover strategy. As such, this is not a new feature.

It's been on hundreds of phones for many years before, but now, it's finally coming to an iPhone. And so it 's being done this time Apple's way. The thing is I really don't know if there is any benefit to this Apple way. So the always-on display looks like this. So you press the power button,

your phone goes to sleep, you put it down, the brightness goes down, the LTPO OLED display drops down to a hertz, and you see the clock and notifications

roll in as you go.  Your lock screen is still on, just at low brightness. It's a pretty brigh always-on display though. You can see it, can't you?

Like, after a few day you get used to it, but I was constantly looking at my phone at my desk wondering if it's still on with low brightness. But yes, it looks like this all the time. The change from the home screen to the always-on display is really cool. It has this smooth fade animation and I think it's Apple's way. For example, the watch, if it is behind something, will face the front of the always-on display. And it retains all the colors and skin tones in whatever wallpaper you were using. So it's not faded or black and white. You still have all the colors. If you have music playing , your album art is front and center. It's overly pretty, but honestly, I don't care about any of that. And there's no additional customization either. As such, I've seen some really creative always-on displays over the years that let me customize and decorate differently than the lock screen. And I really like to use them.

Apple's display settings have only one toggle on or off. that it. Personally, I'm turning it off on this phone because it's

also affecting the battery life a little more than I expected. Now, the Always On display in particular doesn't show up in the battery settings, so

I'm only guessing based on its behavior. Everything else looks normal, but I'm finding the battery life a little worse than I expected and more than what I

got on the 13 Pro last year. And so I guess that's it. It's a little extra sparkle that's advanced quite a bit. It knows when to turn it off, don't get me wrong. If it's in the pocket, it closes. If you are in sleep mode, it turns off. Even when you're wearing an Apple Watch and you walk far enough away from the phone to know you ca n't see it anymore, it turns off the always-on display. But it's kept right here on my desk all day showing me things and I don't really use it that much, so yeah, I'll leave it and move on. But you know what's new on screen that I absolutely love and will never ignore? Dynamic Island, baby. What a dreadful name. He felt the need to name Notch. It's such a small feature in the grand scheme of using the phone, but it's a good one. it's really great. So here is what is happening here. Remember the rumors of the new Pro iPhone replacing the notch with an eye-shaped cutout at the top of the display with all those renders people made up? Well, it's actually the same. It has a circular cutout on the right side for a new selfie camera

and a pill-shaped cutout on the left for the new Face ID hardware, which they've reduced by about 30% to fill in this small area. And then instead of doing just that, Apple cleverly decided to fill this gap with black pixels between them and make it one big tablet. So the idea was that Apple would like us to

think of the tablet more as software than hardware.So built a bunch of software feature around it. So it's just this kind of resting position,

which is not visible in the screenshot or screen recording. This is just a gap. But it does about 30 different things to indicate ongoing and background

movements, and things that are all beautifully animated and super smooth with these fluid physics. It's very friendly and accessible and all the things it does are reflected in the screenshots and screen recordings. The best part is that almost everything works as you would expect it out of the box. So it happened to me during a first impressions video where I was like, oh, I can't wait for Apple Music to get used to it, but then it would take Spotify a year and a half to actually update their app to work with it.  In. But no, everything works straight out of the box, including Spotify, as it already

uses the Now Playing API. They already had the lock screen widget. It was the same with SoundCloud, the same with YouTube Music and Pocket

Casts. So you have the album art and there are waves of mixed colors being created while the media is playing. If you tap it, it will open the app that is running. And if you long press it, you actually get a widget that pops up with some media controls that I can scrub. Pretty much the same widget that appears in the lock screen. So it kind of seems counterintuitive. I think a tap should open the widget and then a long press should open the app, and that makes more sense, but whatever. The point is that the box works fine as soon as it explodes. The truth is, here's what Dynamic Island does from day one as soon as it comes out of the box. So this system gives alerts like for incoming call, when Airpod is connected, when plugging in charger, when ringer is switched to silent mode or volume on, when Face ID is unlocked, when Airpod is connected, and many more.  c things. Here is your complete list. And then

there is also the UI for the live activities that are happening in the background. So can ongoing calls or music playing in the background, any media,

a timer countdown, map directions while navigating in the background, voice memo recording, screen recording, all that stuff. So here is the complete list of that too. And then any third party apps that use the Now Playing or CallKit APIs, including many more. It also has a small space for the indicator,

right between the tablet and the cutout for microphone and camera access. It really becomes next level when you have multipl background activities happening at once because then it quietly becomes like a multitasking app switcher on top of your phone. So one background activity looks like this, but then if I have another, if I start a new background activity, it splits the island into two. So now, you can choose between them and then switch quickly with a single touch. It is very wonderful. I think the name is as fashionable as I will ever say the words Dynamic Island out loud. But I think the most copied feature will be in the smartphone world in about 18 months. I guarantee it. As such, we have already seen some MIUI mods on Twitter where people were trying it out on other phones. But the thing is, copying it exactly like this would be surprisingly difficult at this stage. It sounds so intuitive, too simple,

but there's a lot going on here. As such, the A16 Bionic has a new display engine that handles all these animations. And there are many like those

who can actually do this whole thing. There is physics in this. You poke the cutout and it wobbles and moves around a bit like it's alive. And since there are real cutouts like holes in the display for the camera and the Face ID system, it has to be touch sensitive in areas around the actual cutouts

so that it can register taps when you touch a dead area on the screen. And most of the time, it works very well. Is this a game changing feature in the phone for most people? No. Is this a reason to get one phone in lieu of another? I don't think so, no, not really. Is it a good quality of life touch

that many people will think is really cool and will really like? Yes, yes, I think it's true. Was this feature technicall invented by LG seven years

ago with the top screen in the LG V10? yes of course. Well, if you watch enough iPhone presentations , you know that the Pro iPhone is really and always has been about cameras. Fun fact, he spent 23 minutes on stage talking about the iPhone 14 Pro at the September event And seven of those minutes, about 33%, were just camera talking. And so this is at least on paper the biggest change that has been made to the iPhone camera in many years. Look at this graph.

This is a graph of the megapixel numbers of each iPhone camera since they were first released. They've been confidently repeating the 12-megapixel

sensor since the iPhone 6S, but this year we got a leap. We got better. The primary camera of the iPhone 14 Pro is now a new 48-megapixel sensor. It is 65% bigger than the 12 Pro. It features a second generation focus shift optical image stabilization, 100% focus pixels, and a new F 1.78 lens. I think everyone will agree it 's a great set of specifications that we've come to expect of great pictoriality, but really, the more I play with it, it's just more about what the 48-megapixel sensor is capable of.  which is very good. So a new, larger 48-megapixel sensor, which will be reduced to 12-megapixel for all your normal photos, but you get the advantage of sharpness and more light gathering from the larger sensor which also gives you a faster shutter speed.

To stabilize the speed more often under perfect conditions. And it lets me take pictures in low light with a shorter shutter time, which is very convenient.

But the larger sensor gives you a really nice shallow natural depth of field much more than what we've seen with an iPhone camera, even without Portrait Mode. Now, I've seen other phones do the same, but this introduces new challenges like fringing  and auto focus, but I've been very impressed with how

well the iPhone addresses both. There's absolutely no fringing on close-up subjects and 100% coverage from the focus pixels proved to be fairly accurate at tracking the subject and keeping things in focus even with a shallow depth of field. My only complaint is really the very weak minimum focus distance.  Things get blurry when you get close to the primary camera so you have to switch to macro mode very quickly. Luckily, the Ultra Wide

has some improvements too, so it's not the end of the world. Then, the 48-megapixel sensor also enables this new 2X button. It doesn't sound like such a big deal, but it's really just cropping 12 megapixels in the middle of this massive sensor . So it's essentially like an optical zoom. It's not like you'll lose quality the way anything less than 3X would have happened before the iPhone because it was already cropping into a 12-megapixel image. The 48-megapixel sensor enables this new action mode in video as well, which it's super aggressive stabilization for overly shaky videos. And it does with a very heavy crop,

but it's still able to shoot up to 2.8K in this mode. Little pro tip, it's 0.5X the camera by default. When you do this it 's accompanied by a lot of noise,

so I recommend going back to primary for this. And then if you're chasing a subject or even aiming through a car window, or just anytime you need a lot of heavy stabilization, it's definitely a good one to have. If you want full 48-megapixel files, you can shoot in ProRaw and it'll give you 50, 60, 70 megabyte

DNG files with lots more detail and latitude to use in light rooms and better show them off straight. Compared to the 12-megapixel shots coming from the camera. But I'll leave it up to Peter McKinnon, and to Tyler Stallman, or to many other photography makers that I know will test it. One thing they

didn't do with the new 48-megapixel sensor is 8K video. They could. They haven't been able to until they hit the 30-

megapixel limit. They reached 48, they didn't. That, of course, would probably still be too hard considering that the iPhone Max is

still a terabyte, which sounds like a lot, but then you're dealing with huge five to six GB per minute ProRes files. Those who take infinite time to get out of iPhone through  this lightning port and slow speed. And they should probably switch to USB-C  and that's a rant for another day, so I'll stop it here.

But just know, 8K video will not be available directly from the iPhone camera. I think I can honestly safely place the iPhone 14 Pro as the best

camera system in any phone in 2022. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect. It can certainly bake to HDR sometimes in some harsh shooting conditions. And the new selfie camera, which now has 12-megapixels and auto focus, while it handles a variety of focal lengths better and is sharper overall , still has

a tendency to overexpose people who have dark skin, consistently. I would know. But if I'm just looking for the overall versatility of the entire camera system , improved shutter speed, quality of photos, superior auto focus, color consistency between three different cameras , improvements in the overall image processing pipeline that made the Ultra Wide more Made more usable and less noise in low light, and then of course, ProRes video that I'm really actively running through an entire YouTube channel, then yes, I'm pretty comfortable calling it camera king again  . And yes, I'm going to shoot the new auto focus video  with the cameras of the iPhone 14 Pro. So if you want a big helping of sample footage, there you go. Go there and subscribe.

Besides, the car is about to happen, it's fun. This is going to be a great video, so don't miss it. Oh, also, guess what? guess what? Cinematic mode now

supports 30 fps. Huh, this is funny. Checkmate, 24 fps fans. No, but still, I don't think I 'll be using Cinematic Mode that much because the natural depth of field is pretty good in the primary camera. But yes, 30 fps, is now cinematic. Plus, remember how all those event invitations were sent out a few weeks ago and the subject was far away and there were all kinds of stars. And we thought, oh, they're going to have an astrophotography mode for night time photography, that sort of thing. It did not happen. Turns out they were pointing at satellite connectivity. But just like the iPhone still lags when it comes to super low light, or night shooting, and especially astrophotography. So I'm sad we didn't get that, but otherwise, yes, there's a full camera.

So the iPhone 14 Pro is still worth $1,000 and the 14 Pro Max still starts at $1,100. So those are the best phones that Apple makes right now and

there will be many people considering an upgrade. So is it worth it? Well, in the landscape of other phones that you can get for $1,000, it's going to be competitive. It has the best camera in this group, I think. Best of all, it has the brightest most responsive display of any of these phones. It also has a dynamic island, no matter how you feel about it. But other than that, it will have the classic suite of things on the iPhone, iMessage, FaceTime, Classics.

But there definitely hasn't been anything flimsy here or any crazy design or hardware innovation here. Nothing is turning in half. There's no super fast charging or some massive battery size improvement. The new colors you've seen are like, yes, you can kind of tell they look a little different, but this is a very sophisticated update. And so really, the truth is, if you have an iPhone 11 or later at the moment, the new iOS 16 update that's rolling out to your phone right now is going to make a huge difference to the user experience on your phone.  But as it will probably happen when you get a new phone. So yes, I would say the new lock screen haptic keyboard, all that stuff, I made a video on all the new features. You can see it. But yes, it is a really good phone.

You should pick it up if you want the latest and greatest and best smartphone camera available right now, or if your $1,000 hole in your pocket is

burning, and you just need to have the latest and greatest Pro iPhone. That's it. If you're not looking to get the latest iPhone  , you can skip the upgrade

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