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00:00Hey what's up, MkBHD here.
00:04Ok, I've already reviewed the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max.
00:08You can watch those at the link below the like button.
00:10The dynamic island, the camera upgrade, all that.
00:13The bottom line is that is a far more interesting set of phones
00:17that has a few things that are actually new to the iPhone,
00:20which is kind of cool.
00:21The iPhone 14, on the other hand, not so much, not so much.
00:25This is almost the exact same phone as last year.
00:29So do you remember those S updates we used to get?
00:31Like we have the iPhone 5 and then the iPhone 5S.
00:34And then S for speed, because it was the same phone but just faster.
00:38This phone is even less of an update than those S upgrades used to be.
00:44And so that's what I want to talk about in this review,
00:46is this new repackaging strategy thing that Apple's been doing,
00:50especially more lately, with a bunch of their products.
00:52So this year we do get an iPhone 14 and an iPhone 14 Plus.
00:57This 14 is out now, and the 14 Plus is coming out in a month, in October.
01:01It's basically the same thing, just bigger.
01:046.1 inches here, 6.7 inches there.
01:07And so many things are the same as last year's phone.
01:12On the outside, the design is the same.
01:15The iPhone 13 cases literally work with the iPhone 14.
01:18Like this is the new Ali Abdaal dbrand grip case on the iPhone 14.
01:22It's pretty sweet.
01:23But then again, here is my iPhone 13 from last year.
01:27And yep, fits perfectly.
01:32But yeah, same squared off sides, same button placement,
01:35same camera arrangement, same antennas, same speakers, etc.
01:39And then on the inside, it's literally the same chip from last year.
01:43It's the A15 Bionic again.
01:45Technically a slight bump up with the extra GPU cores that was in the 13 Pro.
01:49But I mean, yeah, last year's chip too.
01:52Now technically, you could say these are all things that I liked about the iPhone 13.
01:57So hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?
01:59That's Apple.
02:00But that also means that a lot of things that could have stood to improve,
02:04that could have gotten better, also didn't change.
02:07So it's the same display with the same brightness
02:09and the same 60 Hertz refresh rate in an $800 phone.
02:14I mean, it would be so unlike Apple,
02:16but I really would have loved to have seen like 90 Hertz here.
02:19But yeah, same storage options, same battery size,
02:22same charging speeds, same lightning port.
02:25The way I see it, it's an iPhone 13 again,
02:27a year later with some tiny improvements.
02:30Matter of fact, here is a full comprehensive list
02:32of every single thing that's technically new.
02:36Okay, crash detection, satellite connectivity,
02:39display resolution, eSIM, new colors,
02:43better thermal design, better repairability design,
02:46new primary camera and new selfie camera.
02:50Well, this should be easy.
02:51So crash detection is cool.
02:53It uses some new sensors inside the phone
02:55and combines a bunch of data from the GPS and microphones, et cetera,
02:58to notice if you've been in a car crash.
03:00And if you have, it'll notify emergency services
03:02without you having to do anything.
03:04It's cool. It's a nice feature.
03:06I hope I never have to use it.
03:07And then if you're out in the middle of nowhere
03:08with no cell service and you still need help,
03:10the iPhone 14 series can now communicate with satellites
03:13in case of emergency,
03:14to help you get your location and your needs
03:16to someone at a dispatch center.
03:18That's coming to the US and Canada in November.
03:21That's another nice feature that I hope I never have to use.
03:25The display is technically a slightly higher resolution
03:28with slightly thinner bezels,
03:30but you will definitely never notice that.
03:32And the new lineup in the US is now also eSIM only.
03:35To be fair, the setup process and transferring service
03:38from my previous iPhone's physical SIM
03:40was actually super easy.
03:41It took maybe two minutes tops.
03:43And most other phones coming out today, new,
03:46also support eSIM.
03:48So I'm hoping the transfer process in the future
03:50is also smooth.
03:51But yeah, no physical SIM card tray here in the States.
03:54There also is this new blue color.
03:56Then again, most of you,
03:58like an extremely high percentage of you,
04:00have said that you use a case on your phone.
04:03So I wonder how many of those are clear cases.
04:06And then Apple did mention an improved thermal design
04:09inside this phone for the same A15 bionic chip,
04:11which can help performance
04:13at the edges of normal use cases.
04:16So like playing a game for a really long time
04:19or navigating with high screen brightness
04:21with the phone in your dashboard in your car
04:23on a hot sunny day.
04:24Things that might get extra warm
04:26have an added layer of protection against throttling.
04:29I think that's something the pro users will care more about,
04:31but I definitely won't complain that it's also here.
04:34And the better repairability design was mentioned
04:37also near the end of the keynote.
04:38It's a little thing,
04:39but it's actually pretty surprising from Apple,
04:41which is that the glass back is now a separate piece
04:44from the rest of the internals,
04:46making it easier to replace.
04:47Cool.
04:48But easily the biggest physical change
04:49with these new iPhones is going to be the cameras.
04:51So there's a slightly new 12 megapixel primary camera.
04:55The ultra wide is exactly the same hardware
04:57and a new 12 megapixel selfie camera with autofocus.
05:01Now I spent a bunch of time looking back and forth
05:04at pictures I took on the iPhone 14
05:06and the iPhone 13,
05:07trying to pinpoint the improvements.
05:09It's like a game of spot the differences.
05:11And there are some differences,
05:13but they are so slight.
05:15So this new camera is still 12 megapixels,
05:17but it is a larger sensor.
05:18So the individual pixels are bigger
05:20and should let in more light.
05:21And then the max aperture went from F 1.6 to F 1.5.
05:25In regular daytime lighting,
05:27there is pretty much no difference.
05:28Like the iPhone is perfectly capable
05:30of crisp detailed, natural looking photos
05:33when there are no challenges,
05:34just like every other $800 phone always has been.
05:37Really the only difference I'm seeing
05:39is maybe color temperature.
05:40The iPhone 14 can take some occasionally cooler photos
05:43and is noticeable if you have the right colors
05:45in the picture.
05:46But here's a shot from the iPhone 14 Pro
05:48with the 48 megapixel ProRAW shot for context.
05:51Here you can actually see a bit of a difference.
05:54It's a slightly different focal length,
05:56but also more importantly,
05:57there's lots more fine detail here.
06:00And just for fun,
06:01here's the Pixel 6 Pro, same shot.
06:03Another great detailed photo,
06:05but just looks like a different style.
06:07But as expected,
06:08most of the differences between these that I found
06:10were more on the edge cases of normal photography.
06:13The more challenging or extreme lighting situations,
06:16mostly in low light.
06:17And so some of this is enabled
06:19by the slightly larger sensor and faster aperture.
06:22Some of this is also enabled
06:23by the new image processing pipeline
06:25that they've tweaked and fiddled with
06:27that they also named Photonic Engine.
06:30You know, on stage they were saying things like
06:3249% better low light performance,
06:34which I'm not exactly sure what's meant by 49%.
06:38Like, is it 49% faster shutter speed
06:40or 49% less noise in low light?
06:43Unclear.
06:44But as I go through the photos I took on both,
06:47I gotta say they're still remarkably similar.
06:50Okay?
06:51Again, I was looking for the differences
06:53in the amount of noise in the shadows
06:55or dynamic range.
06:56But really what I mostly found
06:58was slight differences in color temperature.
07:00You know, sometimes one might be a little brighter
07:02than the other.
07:03And sometimes it's really hard to tell them apart,
07:05even pixel peeping.
07:06I even looked at shutter speeds,
07:08which may sometimes reveal
07:09that you actually have a faster shutter speed
07:11from the bigger sensor
07:12because it's taking in more light.
07:13And while I found that they were nearly the same
07:15for every shot,
07:16the iPhone 14 was typically maybe 5% to 10% faster.
07:19The one thing I did find
07:21was that in the absolute darkest shots,
07:24in the worst conditions,
07:25there was sometimes a difference
07:26in how much time it would require
07:28to get a night mode exposure.
07:29Like for this one,
07:30it took three seconds from the 13,
07:32but two seconds from the 14.
07:34Even though the 13 actually ended up
07:36focusing more correctly
07:37and had a bit of a sharpness advantage in this shot,
07:39sometimes you just gotta get the shot
07:41a little quicker, if possible.
07:42And then this one from the ultrawide,
07:44it was a one second night mode exposure
07:46from the 13,
07:47but just a regular snap from the 14.
07:49So it's the exact same hardware.
07:51I guess that's the difference
07:52for the photonic engine and image processing.
07:55Even so, the image is a toss-up.
07:58Like it's a little more processing happening
08:00on the iPhone 14 side,
08:01maybe a little more sharpening,
08:02a slightly different color cast,
08:04but that's it.
08:05And then on the video front,
08:06it's even more similar.
08:07So they take basically the same video,
08:09but the iPhone 14 does have a feature called action mode
08:12that's not coming to the 13s for some reason,
08:16even though it feels like a software feature,
08:18but it's basically a super aggressive stabilization
08:21for running around and chasing stuff
08:23on top of the already pretty good stabilization
08:25from the iPhone's video.
08:26And I will say the stabilization part works very well,
08:29but the video itself can be quite noisy.
08:32Also, it seems like in almost every environment
08:35it's just asking for more light all the time.
08:37Like you get this dialogue box that says,
08:39more light required,
08:40but it still lets you shoot.
08:41But the footage is super grainy and soft,
08:44especially from the ultrawide that it defaults to.
08:46But also like I'm in an incredibly well-lit studio
08:49and sometimes it would ask for more light,
08:51even in here.
08:52This is better lit than most people's homes
08:55where you're chasing around a baby or a pet
08:58at a hundred miles an hour,
08:59let alone sometimes going outside on a cloudy day
09:02and it's asking for more light.
09:03That's crazy.
09:04So this may get better over time.
09:05As of right now,
09:06it shows up less on the iPhone 14 Pro,
09:09which makes sense because this one
09:11has a larger primary sensor.
09:13But yeah, the stabilization works really well.
09:16It's a software feature you might use.
09:18And then there is the new selfie camera.
09:19It is 12 megapixels
09:20and has auto-focus for the first time
09:22instead of the fixed focal distance from before.
09:25You can get sharper shots
09:26in some less conventional selfie situations,
09:29which is great.
09:30It's not game changingly different.
09:32I mean, it's another incremental improvement.
09:34It can still struggle
09:35with properly reproducing darker skin tones,
09:38which I mentioned in the 14 Pro review.
09:40Here's the same shot from the Pixel 6 Pro,
09:43which specifically has their real tone optimization.
09:45So you can see what I mean.
09:46So at the end of the day,
09:47what are we left with?
09:49A super incremental update
09:51in the same body basically as before.
09:54And that's what I want to talk about
09:56that they've done a lot more recently.
09:58Some might call it the Tim Cook logistics touch.
10:01See, that's been the iPhone SE formula for years.
10:05I've talked about it in those reviews.
10:07So the first generation iPhone SE comes out.
10:09It's basically the body of an old iPhone 5S,
10:12but with new internals.
10:13Then the second generation iPhone SE comes out.
10:16It's the body of an iPhone 8,
10:18but with new internals.
10:19And then the third generation iPhone SE,
10:21again, that we just got this year,
10:23again is the body of an iPhone 8,
10:25but even newer internals.
10:27And there's rumors of the next-gen SE
10:29being like the body of an iPhone XR,
10:31but the new chip.
10:32And we even saw that with the MacBook Pro this year.
10:36The 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro
10:38is the exact same body as the 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro,
10:42just with better internals.
10:43Now it's not exactly some mystery why they do this.
10:46There's plenty of reasons behind the scenes
10:48why these things are good for Apple.
10:51It reduces risk.
10:52It reduces cost,
10:53because now you don't have to develop as much new stuff.
10:57And then prices go down
10:58and you can offer something more tried and true
11:00that already worked in the past,
11:02but to an audience that will pay less.
11:04And also it sort of insulates them a little bit
11:07from the supply chain challenges
11:08of trying to make a bunch of newer stuff.
11:11So the innovation,
11:12aka the risk,
11:14is saved for the even more expensive phones.
11:17You watch that iPhone 14 Pro review
11:19and you see the dynamic island,
11:21which is a thing that's new to the iPhone.
11:24It'll evolve over time.
11:25You see the new 48-megapixel camera system,
11:28which is new to the iPhone.
11:30And you'll see the always-on display,
11:31which again is the first time they've done this.
11:33Basically, this is all just a long-winded way
11:35of saying the baseline iPhone with this strategy
11:39is just boring.
11:41And that's just the way it is.
11:42So now for those who are thinking
11:43of actually buying one of these phones,
11:44you're thinking,
11:45oh, okay, I know everything about the phones.
11:47I know which one I want to get.
11:48But one last wrench to throw into all of this
11:51is that the iPhone 13 is still on sale
11:55and it's 699 from Apple,
11:57but you can probably find it even cheaper
11:58from other places.
12:00And I think that would be a fine upgrade
12:03for a lot of people.
12:04Like the one extra year of software updates
12:06is maybe the only reason I would get a 14 over a 13.
12:11But aside from that,
12:12you really got to think about
12:13how much the new colors
12:15or the slightly new camera
12:17or satellite connectivity
12:19or crash detection
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13:06But that's been it.
13:07Thanks for watching.
13:08Let me know what you think of Apple's,
13:09this repackaging,
13:11regifting strategy
13:13that they've sort of leaned into more lately.
13:16Either way, it's September.
13:17A lot more is coming up.
13:18Definitely get subscribed
13:19if you haven't already.
13:20And I'll catch you guys in the next one.
13:21Peace.
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