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My idiosyncratic telephone is the iPhone 13 Pro Max. For me, it’s the cleanable telephone — it’s accelerated and has a large surface and large cameras.

When Apple introduced its caller iPhone 14 models successful September, I was funny to spot however it would amended connected past year’s phones.

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

Apple sent maine an iPhone 14 Pro for this review, and 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.

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.

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 feels similar it’s wasting artillery life, 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.

The Apple iPhone 14 Pro. The Apple iPhone 14 Pro. (Apple/TNS)(Apple / TNS)

Dynamic Island

The 14 Pro models don’t person the accustomed surface notch for the front-facing cameras. Instead, Apple developers turned the notch into a diagnostic called Dynamic Island that moves the aged notch opening down a fewer pixels down from the apical of the screen. The opening present has rounded ends, and it expands to go a spot to amusement things similar incoming calls, measurement changes, euphony playback accusation and notifications. 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.

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

The different 2 cameras are the akin to past twelvemonth — a 12-megapixel telephoto camera inactive has a 3x optical zoom and the 12-megapixel 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 12-megapixel sensor, and 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 helps minimize wobbling erstwhile you acceptable it down connected a level surface.

The Apple iPhone 14 Pro's main camera has a 24-millimeter wide-angle lens with a 48-megapixel sensor. (Apple / TNS)

Emergency SOS outer messaging

If you’re retired of compartment scope and request help, the iPhone 14 models tin present 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 information, 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 sky, 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 radical who are allowed to spot your location.

The Apple iPhone 14 Pro tin present nonstop exigency substance messages via satellite.(Apple / TNS)

Crash detection

There is simply a caller precocious g-force accelerometer that tin consciousness utmost accelerations oregon decelerations. This caller sensor and immoderate others enactment unneurotic to find whether 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 whether you’re 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.

There 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 it does 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% successful 30 minutes with a 20-watt charger (not included).

The phones are dust- and water-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.

Is it for you?

Should you update to the 14 Pro oregon Pro Max?

If you person an iPhone 11 oregon 12 exemplary 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 that each phones sold successful Europe indispensable person a USB-C port, which Apple has acknowledged volition beryllium included successful the iPhone 15 models.

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

Jim Rossman is simply a tech columnist for Tribune News Service. He tin beryllium reached astatine jrossmantechadviser@gmail.com.