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00:00Hey what's up, MKBHD here coming at you from a hotel room in Cupertino, California because
00:07today was Apple's September event.
00:09And this is your first look, your hands-on, and your impressions, and honest thoughts,
00:13and everything you need to know about the iPhone 14 lineup.
00:16And while the phones do look pretty similar to last year, there is a lot of interesting
00:20stuff kind of tucked in, and I've got a lot of thoughts on it.
00:23But as you might know, the September event, it is the iPhones and iPhone accessories,
00:27and so we did get new AirPods and a new set of watches, including a new Apple Watch
00:32Ultra that I also got hands-on time with.
00:35That'll be a separate video.
00:36I'll link it below the like button so you can check it out when it's live, or hopefully
00:39you're already subscribed here with notifications turned on, in which case you'll see it right
00:42away.
00:43But that's going to be a different video.
00:44But for now, our new iPhones in 2022.
00:46We have the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus, and then the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max.
00:52R.I.P. to the mini iPhone, you had a good run.
00:55So the new baseline iPhones, as you can imagine, are pretty similar.
00:58It's just one is much bigger than the other one.
01:01So the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus have 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch displays respectively.
01:06My prediction on Waveform was that all the prices would stay the same, and that turned
01:10out to be correct.
01:11So the iPhone 14 is $799, and the bigger 14 Plus is $899.
01:16And really what you'll notice is these two phones look very similar to last year, with
01:21some bumps and refinements here and there, of course.
01:23But they both have the same A15 Bionic chip as last year, the same design, the same notch
01:28on the outside.
01:29I'm actually convinced that a case that fits the iPhone 13 will fit the iPhone 14.
01:34But the green is gone, and there is a new light blue that matches my shirt extremely
01:37well.
01:38But there's three main things that are new here.
01:39The display, the cameras, and connectivity, if that makes sense.
01:44So the connectivity is the quirkiest one, as you can imagine.
01:47You know how iPhones forever have always had a little SIM card tray on the side?
01:51Well, in the US, starting with the iPhone 14, they will not have SIM card trays anymore.
01:56They will be moving entirely to eSIM, electronic SIM, which is fine, I guess.
02:02I mean, they work well.
02:03It's typically very easy to upgrade phones or even swap between carriers.
02:07But I have to wonder, naturally, if this is also going to act as a little bit of an extra
02:11wall in the walled garden, because now how hard is it going to be to switch from an iPhone
02:17to a non-iPhone?
02:19Just something to think about.
02:20But anyway, the iPhone 14's also got satellite connectivity for SOS, and this is actually
02:25really impressive.
02:26So in areas where you don't have any cellular connection, but you still need to send a message,
02:30you will be able to talk to satellites to still get a message sent.
02:33So now, satellite connectivity is notoriously pretty difficult.
02:36You'd need a big radio or at least something with large external antennas, and you need
02:41an unobstructed view of the sky, and you have to point it directly at a satellite.
02:45I mean, you've probably seen what a Starlink dish looks like.
02:48So now, Apple's built this sensitivity into the iPhone 14's antennas, and they've actually
02:52built a piece of UI in where it'll actually help you point directly at a satellite, and
02:58it will help you send that emergency message.
03:00It'll actually package it up into a smaller format, and within 30 seconds to one or two
03:04minutes, it can send a message even when you have no cellular connectivity.
03:08It's an edge case.
03:09Hopefully, you'll never have to use it, but that is pretty cool that it can get it done.
03:13And the details where it will be coming to the US and Canada, launching later this year
03:17and it will be free for two years, and then that's all we kind of know.
03:21But as far as things you'll actually use every day, the displays are the same size and resolutions
03:25as before, but they do get a bit brighter.
03:27Now 1,200 nits max for HDR content.
03:30Everything else is the same.
03:32And then there is a new camera system, a larger 12-megapixel main sensor with sensor shift
03:37stabilization, a wider f1.5 aperture for better photos and hopefully better sensitivity in
03:41low light, and there is a new 12-megapixel selfie camera on the front with autofocus.
03:46Plus, they've introduced this whole new photonic engine.
03:49Again, they name everything, but really that's just a better image processing pipeline from
03:54end to end, which should improve across the board low light sensitivity and nighttime
03:59photos, things like that.
04:00There's also a new action mode feature in the camera that does much more dramatic stabilization
04:05on super shaky videos.
04:07I definitely got to try this out for myself.
04:09It seems like it works best with certain types of shots, like the ones they use in their
04:13demos, but we'll see.
04:15Basically, the way I see it is these new iPhone 14s and 14 pluses are essentially an
04:20iPhone 13 Pro, one year later, minus the telephoto camera and minus the ProMotion OLED dressed
04:28in aluminum.
04:29It's a very familiar phone.
04:31I guess on the plus side, pun intended, having a larger iPhone with a 1080p 60 hertz display
04:37means they can promise that this will be the best battery life ever in an iPhone, this
04:43plus.
04:44And I'm pretty sure this plus is going to be a hit.
04:46If I know anything about regular people's phone buying decisions, I think spending an
04:50extra hundred bucks for a way bigger screen is a no brainer.
04:53So that's 799 for the iPhone 14 and 899 for the 14 plus, which actually comes out a month
04:59later in October for some reason.
05:02But then we got the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max, which have a little bit more going on.
05:10It's still got all the new stuff from the 14 and 14 plus that I just talked about, satellite
05:14connectivity, action mode in the camera.
05:17It's even the same two sizes, again, 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches.
05:20But there are three new things here, and those are a new A16 Bionic chip and an even bigger
05:26camera upgrade.
05:28And then this thing called Dynamic Island.
05:32We'll get to it.
05:33So the A16 Bionic chip inside is even more powerful and more efficient, as you can imagine.
05:39It's now a six core chip built on a four nanometer process.
05:42They're quoting 40% better than the competition, sweet.
05:46And there's also actually a slight display upgrade as well.
05:49This is up to 2000 nits max brightness outdoors, which is class leading.
05:54And the Pro iPhones now finally, finally have an always on display.
06:00So you can see still the time and if you have notifications and even updated info on your
06:05widgets when your phone is locked and just sitting around on a table or charging.
06:10That I like a lot.
06:11But the big upgrades, like I said, are going to be the camera and the cut out at the top.
06:16OK, so the camera system is all new and it is bigger.
06:20Like you can tell just by looking at it that everything in here is bigger.
06:23It protrudes more off the back of the phone.
06:25But yeah, technically speaking, this is the first time in about a decade that we're actually
06:28getting a megapixel bump.
06:30This is a new 48 megapixel main camera sensor on the 14 Pros.
06:34So it's still going to bend down to 12 megapixels for normal shots.
06:38You'll get 12 megapixel images out of it, but you'll hopefully be able to reap the benefits
06:41of higher detail, better low light sensitivity from a bigger sensor.
06:46But also if you want to shoot 48 megapixel photos, you can.
06:49You just got to shoot ProRAW.
06:50Then you'll get 48 megapixel shots.
06:52And then they also added a new 2X button into the camera UI, which might not seem like a
06:56big deal, but that turns out to just be an exact crop using the middle 12 megapixels
07:02of the sensor itself.
07:04So you can hit that 2X button to zoom in basically with optical quality, which is much
07:08better than before.
07:09Plus, you still have the further 3X telephoto lens.
07:11The sun is setting real hardcore down here.
07:13So sorry if I start to look orange, but I'm definitely looking forward to testing out
07:16these cameras.
07:17I've already been shooting a lot with the iPhone 13 Pro on the new autofocus channel.
07:22You might've seen that.
07:23If you've subscribed, you've noticed I've been experimenting with the cameras over there,
07:27but it'll be interesting to see if we notice the difference by starting to shoot those
07:31with an iPhone 14 Pro and also comparing it to things like the Pixel and the S22 Ultras
07:35of the world.
07:36But then let's talk about this dynamic island thing.
07:41So okay.
07:42I kid you not.
07:43When they first announced this, that they were going to name it a dynamic island, literally
07:46the entire theater like audibly laughed.
07:49There was a laughter out loud from the crowd.
07:52And I thought it was hilarious.
07:53Like why would they name the pill?
07:55But then they explained it and the more I've used it and the more I've actually played
08:00with it and understood it since, it makes a lot of sense.
08:03And I actually really like it.
08:05So basically what's happening here is Apple's shrunk down all the selfie camera and the
08:08parts of the face ID system down by about 30%.
08:12And so they'll fit in this pill shaped cutout in the top of the screen.
08:16Fine.
08:17If they'd stopped here, that would be an incredibly minor update.
08:20I mean, it's literally just aesthetic, not worth mentioning since we see selfie cutouts
08:23all the time for years now, but then they went a step further with it.
08:27So since it's an OLED and you can turn off any pixels to appear pitch black, they decided
08:32to play with extending the edges of the pill with more UI.
08:37So if you have ongoing notifications or live actions, stuff like music playing or timers
08:42in the background or an Uber notification or whatever, those will show up and it has
08:47this nice little animation to extend and shrink and move around the cutout.
08:52And it works really, really well.
08:55So then you can tap on the icon to open that app and take action, or you can actually hold
09:00down to surface extra information for what's happening, which basically just looks like
09:03the widget that would be in your notifications just without having to pull down your notifications.
09:08This is cool.
09:09It's pretty cool.
09:10It works right away with a bunch of the stock Apple apps, Apple maps, the timer, the voicemails
09:15and all that stuff.
09:16But they say it will also work with third party apps.
09:19Now this will be up to them how fast they want to implement it.
09:22Fingers crossed that my favorite apps like Spotify and things like that get on it quickly.
09:27We'll see.
09:28But yeah, this immediately takes the whole pill cutout thing to a new level.
09:32The more I played around with it, the more I was impressed.
09:35I was trying it with multiple background activities happening at the same time.
09:40And basically what happens is it would show both.
09:42So let's say if you have a timer and maps navigation and music playing all happening
09:47in the background, the dynamic island would low key turn into like a little multitasking
09:52UI and let you quickly switch between these ongoing things.
09:57It was already very intuitive.
09:58It also just seems to be pretty generous about where you're tapping.
10:02So obviously if you tap exactly on just the camera cutout itself, well, nothing will happen
10:07because those aren't actual pixels.
10:09It's just the camera cutout.
10:11But your finger is big enough that it naturally hits some of the pixels around the top and
10:16the bottom of the cutout.
10:17So it still knows to respond pretty much anytime you just tap the black bar.
10:22And there's also some active pixels in between.
10:23You can kind of see them at just the right angle.
10:25So if you touch in there, it still responds.
10:28It's really good.
10:29I think a lot of people are going to really love this.
10:31You remember back in the day when there was like all these really friendly wallpapers
10:35that would take advantage of like a hole punch cutout, they would go viral because it's like,
10:38oh, that's a really thoughtful way of hiding a hole in the screen.
10:43This is just like a next level upgrade moving version of that.
10:48It's really thoughtful, playful, friendly, and intuitive.
10:52So it's just a level of version of that.
10:54So even if the cutout looks a little worse sometimes when playing full screen videos
10:58or playing games, I feel like it kind of makes up for it by being so useful so often.
11:03Also I hope this is the last time I ever have to say the word dynamic island out loud.
11:08It's stupid that they had to name it, but that's how Apple rolls.
11:12So they named it.
11:13But yeah, that's the new pro phones.
11:15Also there's this new purple color, kind of a dull lavender type of purple, but again,
11:19same prices as last year too, $9.99 and $10.99 starting, and they go up to one terabyte.
11:25There's not a lot of crazy innovative hardware design going on here.
11:29Nothing's folding in half.
11:30There's no super fast high-end fast charging or wireless charging.
11:35It's just a bunch of little refinements again.
11:38At this point, we know what the iPhone is.
11:41Everyone knows what the iPhone is, and they tend to be late on the train to picking up
11:45on things and then doing it in the Apple way.
11:49That's pretty much exactly what's happening with the cutout.
11:51And that's what the iPhone 14s are.
11:53Also they sneakily left some of the 13s still in the lineup, the 13 mini and the 13 baseline
11:58are still available if you want them, $5.99 for the 13 mini and $6.99 for the 13.
12:04Now I don't have the new boxes yet, but I think it's pretty safe to assume that none
12:07of the new boxes will have chargers in them because they haven't for years now.
12:11And that's where the sponsor of this video comes in, Anker.
12:14You've heard of them.
12:15So they've got these two things that pair perfectly with the new iPhones, the new Anker
12:19Nano 3 and the new 541 cable.
12:23So the Nano 3 charges with gallium nitride, which allows it to be way smaller.
12:27This little brick is a 30 watt charger, which is good for the iPhone or the iPad or the
12:31watch or even the MacBook Air, but it's literally 70% smaller than Apple's 30 watt brick.
12:37And the USB-C to lightning cable is the first I've seen to use bio-based materials, including
12:42sugar cane and corn, but it still feels exactly like a good high quality cable because it
12:48is one.
12:49It's built to withstand 20,000 bends.
12:51There's a three or six foot version and they both come in five colors, including this lilac
12:55purple.
12:56You can check them out at the link below and pick up your own, but that's been it for this
12:59hands-on and the first look at the new lineup.
13:01Let me know what you think of the new iPhones.
13:02Honestly, I think, I think regular people are going to love the dynamic island, but
13:07let me know what your thoughts are.
13:09And I also believe that the plus is going to be a hit, but I'll see in the comments
13:12below what you guys are feeling.
13:13And also of course, check out the other videos when they come out link below when I talk
13:16about the watch.
13:17Okay.
13:18That's been it.
13:19Thanks for watching.
13:20Catch you guys later.
13:21Peace.