iPhone 14 Plus: Apple's big-screen battery champ - The Guardian

Apple’s caller plus-sized iPhone 14 adds a larger surface and longer-lasting artillery to a acquainted formula, but with a bigger terms tag too.

The 14 Plus is simply a marque caller iPhone exemplary for this year, costing £949 ($899/A$1,579), making it £100 ($100/A$180) much than the basal exemplary 14 but cheaper than the 14 Pro line.

That makes the Plus the supersized Apple telephone for radical who conscionable privation a bigger screen, not other cameras and different bits. It has the aforesaid chips, show tech, cameras, materials, repair-friendly interior plan and bundle arsenic the regular iPhone 14, conscionable made bigger.

The 6.7in screen, accrued from 6.1in, makes it a larger, heavier device. It is importantly lighter and easier to clasp than the iPhone 14 Pro Max, but would inactive payment from a Popsocket oregon akin accessory to assistance you support a grip connected it.

The iPhone 14 Plus (left) is 14mm taller, 6.6mm wider and 31g heavier than the regular iPhone 14 (right). Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian

The surface is bully looking, providing an expansive show for watching video, playing games oregon conscionable maximising the substance for easier reading. But it is somewhat down rivals successful technology. It is constricted to a 60Hz refresh rate, whereas rivals typically person 120Hz, and has a little highest brightness than the likewise sized Samsung Galaxy S22+ oregon Google Pixel 7 Pro, oregon Apple’s Pro model.

The slayer diagnostic for the 14 Plus is its precise agelong artillery life. I tin get a coagulated 3 days retired of it betwixt charges with the surface actively utilized for astir 7.5 hours with assorted apps and services. This is an other time implicit the regular iPhone 14 and longer than astir immoderate different phone.

The telephone afloat charges successful astir 2 hours, hitting 80% successful 63 minutes utilizing a 20W oregon greater USB-C powerfulness adaptor (not included). It besides supports 15W wireless charging.

The iPhone 14 Plus (left) has the aforesaid solid backmost and dual-camera strategy arsenic the regular iPhone 14 (right). Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian

Specifications

• Screen: 6.7in Super Retina XDR (OLED) (458ppi)

• Processor: Apple A15 Bionic

• RAM: 6GB

• Storage: 128, 256 oregon 512GB

• Operating system: iOS 16.1

• Camera: dual 12MP rear with OIS, 12MP front-facing camera

• Connectivity: 5G, wifi 6, NFC, Bluetooth 5.3, Lightning, ultra wideband and GNSS

• Water resistance: IP68 (6 metres for 30 mins)

• Dimensions: 160.8 x 78.1 x 7.8mm

• Weight: 203g

Sustainability

Apple does not supply an expected lifespan for the artillery but it should past successful excess of 500 afloat complaint cycles with astatine slightest 80% of its archetypal capableness and tin beryllium replaced for £105. Out-of-warranty screen repairs outgo £349.

The 14 Plus contains recycled gold, plastic, uncommon world elements, tin and tungsten. The institution breaks down the phone’s biology impact successful its report. Apple offers trade-in and escaped recycling schemes, including for non-Apple products.

Price

The iPhone 14 Plus costs from £949 ($899/A$1,579) with 128GB of storage.

For comparison, the iPhone 14 costs £849, the iPhone 14 Pro Max costs £1,199, the Samsung Galaxy S22+ costs £949 and the Google Pixel 7 Pro costs £849.

Verdict

The iPhone 14 Plus is Apple’s caller super-sized smartphone that takes what was bully astir the base exemplary 14, including its much repair-friendly design, and adds a overmuch bigger screen.

The 6.7in show provides overmuch much abstraction for watching video, speechmaking messages oregon simply having bigger text. But wherever the regular 14 strikes an fantabulous equilibrium betwixt surface and instrumentality size, the 14 Plus is an unadulterated large phone. It is harder to clasp and usage one-handed arsenic a result.

The accrued size enables the 14 Plus’s slayer feature: precise agelong artillery life. Few smartphones past 2 days, fto unsocial up to three, of mean usage betwixt charges.

But it is precise expensive, peculiarly successful the UK due to the fact that of anemic currency rates. You get amended screens and much susceptible cameras connected likewise priced oregon cheaper rivals from Samsung and Google.

If you privation the iPhone with the longest-lasting battery, the 14 Plus is it.

Pros: easier and cheaper to repair, amended cameras, h2o resistant, Face ID, precise agelong artillery life, bully performance, large screen, agelong bundle support.

Cons: nary USB-C, request your ain charger, hard to usage one-handed, nary telephoto camera, surface slower than contention and 14 Pro.

The iPhone 14 Plus has a bully dual camera strategy but lacks immoderate optical zoom and truthful range. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian