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My idiosyncratic telephone is the iPhone 13 Pro Max.

For me, it’s the cleanable telephone — fast, large surface and large cameras.

When Apple introduced their caller iPhone 14 models successful September, I was funny to spot however they improved connected past year’s phones.

The caller phones look identical to past year’s phones, but arsenic usual, determination are immoderate bully updates inside.

Apple was bully capable to nonstop maine an iPhone 14 Pro for this review. It was absorbing moving backmost to a smaller phone.

Four models

As a reminder, Apple has 4 caller iPhone models, the 6.1-inch iPhone 14, the 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Plus and the 2 pro models, the 6.1-inch iPhone 14 Pro and 6.7-inch iPhone Pro Max.

Note that the features and specs I’m penning astir present are for the 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max.

The Pro iPhones are the aforesaid but for the surface size and artillery size.

The iPhone 14 models bash not usage a carnal SIM card; they usage an eSIM, which is simply a virtual SIM card. Usually, I conscionable popular my SIM paper into a caller telephone and I’m acceptable to go. This clip I had to transportation my fig from my SIM paper to the eSIM successful the iPhone 14 Pro, which deactivates the aged SIM card. I conjecture I’ll person to get a caller SIM paper from my supplier erstwhile my investigating is finished.

New display

The 14 Pro has an always-on display, which is an accommodation for me. I’m not utilized to seeing my phone’s surface connected each the time. It felt similar it was a discarded of battery, but the caller adaptive refresh complaint runs astatine conscionable 1 Hertz (refresh per second). The surface tin refresh astatine rates of from 10Hz to 120Hz, depending connected the contented connected the screen. If you crook it look down, the show volition crook off.

The OLED surface is besides ace bright, up to 2,000 nits outdoors.

Dynamic Island

The 14 Pro models bash not person the accustomed surface notch for the beforehand facing cameras. Instead, they person turned the notch into a diagnostic called Dynamic Island, which moves the aged notch opening down a fewer pixels down from the apical of the screen. The opening present has rounded ends, and the opening expands to go a spot to amusement things similar incoming calls, measurement changes, euphony playback information, notifications and the land is adjacent disposable for app developers to use.

I downloaded a sports people app that shows unrecorded crippled scores successful the Dynamic Island.

It is simply a unsocial solution to an country of the surface radical utilized to kick about.

Better cameras, 48MP

The main camera connected the 14 Pro has 24-millimeter wide-angle lens with a 48-megapixel sensor. This is rather an betterment implicit past year’s 12MP camera.

The different 2 cameras are the akin to past twelvemonth — a 12MP telephoto camera inactive has a 3x optical zoom and the 12MP ultra-wide camera. All 3 cameras person caller lenses and amended sensors for genuinely awesome low-light photos.

Overall, the cameras are among the champion I’ve ever utilized connected a phone, but I was hoping for much telephoto zoom range.

The selfie camera has a 12MP sensor and a photos and Facetime calls look fantastic.

Oh, and the camera lenses are rather a spot larger than past year, making the camera bump much pronounced. Adding a lawsuit truly helps to minimize wobbling erstwhile you acceptable it down connected a level surface.

Emergency SOS outer messaging

For the times that you are retired of compartment scope and request help, the iPhone 14 models present person the quality to nonstop substance messages via satellite.

Before you nonstop the message, the telephone volition inquire you a fewer questions to measure the situation, past amusement you which mode to constituent the telephone for the outer connection.

When connected to the satellite, the telephone volition automatically nonstop your accusation including, location, aesculapian ID (if you created 1 successful the phone’s settings) and your phone’s artillery level to a dispatcher.

You don’t get to substance your friends via satellite, conscionable the exigency dispatch service.

You bash person to beryllium extracurricular with a wide presumption of the entity and messages tin instrumentality up to a infinitesimal to nonstop and receive.

The Emergency SOS work is escaped for 2 years.

You tin besides usage the Find My app to stock your determination via outer with those allowed to spot your location.

Crash detection

There is simply a caller precocious g-force accelerometer that tin consciousness utmost accelerations oregon decelerations up to 256 Gs.

This caller sensor, and immoderate others enactment unneurotic to find if you person been successful a crash.

There are sensors that tin measurement abrupt unit changes successful the cabin, abrupt changes successful absorption and the large sounds of impact.

If the telephone thinks you’ve been successful a crash, you’ll spot a surface asking if you are OK. If you don’t admit that you are ok, a telephone volition beryllium placed to section exigency services giving your determination and informing them of a request for help.

Note, determination person been immoderate mendacious crashes detected since the instauration of the phones, particularly connected roller coasters. I’m definite Apple volition beryllium tweaking the settings successful the future.

Specs

The iPhone 14 Pro runs the caller A16 Bionic processor with a six-core processor, five-core graphics processor and a 16-core Neural Engine.

It has Face ID to unlock the telephone and for Apple Pay.

It has mmWave and sub-6 5G, arsenic good arsenic Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3.

I had nary occupation getting a afloat time retired of the battery. Apple doesn’t merchandise the artillery size, but they bash accidental the 14 Pro’s artillery tin get up to 23 hours of video playback oregon 75 hours of audio playback.

It has wireless charging, including MagSafe. It is susceptible of accelerated charging up to 50 percent successful 30 minutes with a 20-watt charger (not included).

The phones are particulate and h2o resistant (IP68). They tin beryllium dunked successful h2o up to 6 meters heavy for up to 30 minutes.

The 14 Pro models are disposable successful Space Black, Silver, Gold and Deep Purple with retention ranging from 128 gigabytes up to 1 terabyte.

Conclusions

Should you update to the 14 Pro oregon Pro Max?

If you person an iPhone 11 oregon 12 model, and you’re acceptable for a caller phone, I’d perfectly urge upgrading.

Owners of the iPhone 13 Pro models (including me), person a harder choice.

The 14 Pro models are a bully measurement up, but determination is thing incorrect with my year-old iPhone 13 Pro Max — successful fact, I’m inactive paying for it.

Next twelvemonth promises to beryllium an absorbing one, arsenic the European Union has passed a instrumentality mandating each phones sold successful Europe to person a USB-C port, which Apple has acknowledged volition beryllium included successful the iPhone 15 models.

I can’t hold to spot if 2023 iPhones volition beryllium much of a redesign, alternatively than a diagnostic bump.