oh it's iPhone time baby are you excited
everyone's excited right I love iPhones I buy everyone
it's not the same thing again I swear they've actually changed things look the
notch it got bigger everyone wanted to get rid of it and
instead they were like you know what let's move it down it's okay I'm not
gonna let that hamper my excitement just I'm trying to elegantly open the box
it's not really working
whoopsies oh look at that is that a dbrand skin they're definitely
sponsoring this video is this a different phone David did we
get the wrong one it looks pretty similar
there's iPhone 13 Pro Max iPhone 14 pro
and iPhone 14. all right as with pretty much every iPhone you're gonna find your
phone in the top a charging cable and no power brick
I wish they would bring that back or at least give us an option but uh no no
power brick the cable is still going to be the same USBC to lightning cable for
some reason these phones still use lightning
come on Apple you're supposed to be a trendsetter but I guess it's not as fun
to set trends when everybody else has already done it and then inside you got
your typical propaganda we do have a SIM
tool still because we're in Canada a lot of the controversy around these new
phones is that in the US there's no SIM card slot so we still we still got the
SIM cards we'll talk more about that in a bit no complaints there do you want a
sticker oh look at this I'm going to debrand this dbrand see oh look at that
it's not a cricket what are you talking about um
oh no oh my God you can see the camera
and sensor array like so obviously the
actual like Dynamic Island thing that they're that they're doing on this phone
where they made the notch bigger and made a fancy word to make an excuse for
it um it's mostly display but it's not
nearly as black as the actual sensor array and the cameras there that looks
kind of bad not gonna lie
now I'm sure you'd get used to it if you look at it head on
looks totally fine right that's a bit nitpicky I will say but um a little
weird honestly it feels a little less polished than usual apple on the outside
these phones are sharing the same aesthetic that a lot of people have said
is inspired from the iPhone 4. I have no idea why they would say that but it's
basically the same as the iPhone 13. on the non-pro you're looking at basically
the exact same screen it's got the same specs same brightness same look no
Dynamic Island nothing like that still a great screen but basically the same on
the 14 pro that's where we start to see some things change a little bit I mean
we talked about this just a little bit already the dynamic Island it's it's
like the mother notch or the the daughter Notch I guess the notch Island
look at how much bigger it is it sticks
out like noticeably more but they have some features around it they swear they
swear there's definitely some cool features now on the pro model you're
getting a brighter screen this time despite being the same size and a new
weird Notch so in HDR you're actually going to get up to 1600 nits versus 1200
on the 13s and the non-pro and then Outdoors supposedly the screen can hit 2
000 nits Peak brightness I feel like the iPhone 13s were pretty good outside but
um more brightness outside is never a problem the refresh rate is also
following suit from the 13 so the non-pro isn't going to have a high
refresh rate screen but the pros do and the new screen on the pro can actually
ramp down to one hurt one Hertz One Singular hurt much pain that means
you're basically only displaying one frame per second on the display which
can help battery and also has enabled Apple to have an always on display
you'll notice that despite you know me touching it a bit this screen hasn't
shut off it's just it's just chilling it's gonna dim down down a bit but
you'll still be able to read things like notifications or the time or I will say
that always on displays have definitely been a thing for like six or seven years
I think it was the Galaxy S7 I mean I'm glad you're here you're at the party
finally Apple it's just a little weird that this hasn't happened before on the
sides the look is basically the same on the pros you're gonna get their surgical
grade stainless steel which um I guess that means you can take your iPhone to
an operating room and then on the non-pros it's going to be Aerospace
grade aluminum you're not that's what it says on their
website I figure apple is kind of above that kind of malarkey but um no no
they're definitely not yeah wow the non-pro does feel kind of crappy
comparatively you got like the nice smooth stainless steel on the Pro Models
this kind of feels kind of feels cheap it's like brushed like I mentioned
before in the US iPhones aren't gonna come with SIM card slots anymore and
that's because you can't put a SIM card in it it's pretty cool I will say sim
cards are really stupid and very archaic
they should have died a long time ago so kind of props to Apple for for pushing
the industry to make this change I do want my headphone jack back still there
has been controversy because many of the US carriers the kind of small ones
aren't really ready for this change yet now I will say because apple is doing
this with iPhones chances are the industry is going to change very quickly
I would suspect that next year in Canada even we probably won't have SIM cards on
our iPhones but who knows on the outside it looks pretty much the same you got
three Shooters still there's gonna be a telephoto an ultra wide and a main wide
shooter the big difference is the wide shooter is now a 48 megapixel sensor Now
by default if you take a photo with these new phones you're not going to end
up with a 48 megapixel file on your phone if you were shooting like that all
the time I think those photos are somewhere between 60 to 100 megabytes
which is kind of crazy you'd run out of of storage very fast although Apple
might like that to sell you more iCloud subscriptions I'm sure now supposedly
they're going to use these extra pixels to help with low light although from my
understanding usually you want you want the opposite you want less
pixels that are bigger so they can absorb more light but that's kind of how
it's going to function I guess Apple says they're going to use four pixels
and merge them together into like one mother pixel to help with dynamic range
and low light I'm not sure if the sensor is actually bigger it probably is so
maybe it will work there's also some new software stuff there what they're
calling their photonic engine which is just fancy fancy app like David camera
guy over here is just like God damn it it's just fancy Apple speak for we take
lots of photos at the same time to improve dynamic range it's like what
they used to call like HDR photos usually when Apple says stuff about
their camera being better in XYZ it usually is better I don't know if it's
actually that much better but new camera Tech is always cool and apple definitely
does a good job of making their phones take good photos and take good videos so
let's just take them at their word for a bit here there's also a new and improved
image stabilization and an action mode on the 14s it very much seems like
software Wizardry so I would like to see it on the 13s because the non-pro
doesn't have improved Optical image stabilization like the pro does so I
don't see any reason why the 13s couldn't do action mode other than
software locking features to sell new phones which you know to each their own
I guess that's pretty much all the changes on the outside so let's take a
look at the software now but before we do that let me tell you about today's
sponsor dbrand and their grip cases I
was just saying this is this is sponsored but my unsponsored opinion
these buttons feel really good this might even be part of the talking
points it's part of the talking points dbrand says they're chaotic but they do
make good stuff like this grip case it's got really clicky buttons a super grippy
texture and it can be customized with any of dbrand's skin like this new
palettes collection the dbrand release just for iPhones that's with it um I
definitely would want a skin here which I guess you can get but uh we weren't
insightful enough to put those on so check them out at the link in the
description down below turn that show oh it's not set up damn it dang it while
this is setting up I realized I didn't really talk about the internals now on
the non-pro you're getting supposedly the same a15 bionic processor on the pro
model you're getting the a16 bionic but
based on how little they talked about it in the keynote I suspect there is not
very much different geekbench scores are a little bit better on the 14s no
surprises there let's try the GPU test
let's look here interestingly a lot better on the 13 Pro
Max than on the 14 non-pro it's probably a size thing and it's hot and just ran a
CPU test but um Pro 14 is faster Flagship phones are
kind of silly because they perform so bloody well it's insane to think that
you have the amount of processing power you get on these phones in your pocket
so that's probably why they're starting to talk about it less it's so good that
you know it's 10 better like who cares it's already way more than anybody needs
to be carrying around every day in terms of battery life supposedly the 14s are
one hour better than the 13s across the board there has been a lot of anecdotal
evidence online the 14s and iOS 16 specifically are not very good for
battery life that's usually pretty normal for a new Apple operating system
give it a couple months and I'm sure they'll figure it out I will note that
on the pro Max the batteries actually technically smaller from the 13 although
on every other model it's a little bit bigger so that probably is helping oh
God I forgot to mention they don't have Wi-Fi 6E if you're like me and you're
you're a little bit of a networking nerd and you wanted to see those six
gigahertz networks those six gigahertz speeds
too bad all of these phones are running iOS 16 so of course they look the same
no surprises there but I am curious about this Dynamic Island feature I
don't know how to use it or interact with it oh there's a little like
oh let me screen record actually hold on the screen recording little icon is
actually part of that Center Bar it got a little bit bigger now what if I like
interact with it oh look at that screen recording that's kind of cute I want a
FaceTime call here I just want to demo what this Dynamic Island looks like for
FaceTime you can see the subtle differences without the dynamic Island
on the 13. it's kind of just over the clock whereas on this phone you can see
there's there's the recording icon there and then there's the call icon if I
click on this it expands
I just there's no way to do that on this phone to swipe down I I don't know this
could totally also just work on this 13. you know
I don't know if this is really that cool apparently Apple maps you can get a good
one here let's see navigate drive you can see there's a little
indicator there that we are navigating if I click on it
that just brings up the whole map okay can I like drag it out
to not open the whole map I don't know if there's a way to make it do this
other than following the directions but I think when you get close to a corner
it'll expand over whatever you have on the screen if you don't have the full
map already and say hey you need to turn right in 100 meters or whatever you can
show a timer it'll give you low battery alerts you can access your music
controls there's a little album art there you can't really see it because the album art for this song is mostly
black how do I do I have to hold on it oh look
at that okay there we go that's kind of cute
so if I hold on the screen recording tells me I'm screen recording if I hold
on the music it shows me the music okay let's try
that with maps one more time then
all right so the music moved over here it has lowered the priority of our
screen recording so we can't see that anymore if I hold on the map ah there we
go proceed to the route I feel like this is just Apple trying to find a cute way
to make up for the fact that they can't have hidden cameras on the front yet
they have to have a notch or a whole punch of some sort so this is kind of a
cool play on it I don't know why they don't just have the same feature set on
these other phones it could just drop down from the top like their existing
things like control center um and I feel like this is just gonna
die by Next Generation this can be like another 3D touch nobody really cared
that much despite it being kind of cool and it just it just dies I actually
forgot to mention something the front cameras on these new phones now have
autofocus oh yeah oh look at that it's
not you have to click to ref wait it's not
refocusing is that just the minimum focal distance though what there's no
way iPhones didn't do this before it's totally not like refocusing on my
face David even clicking it is not doing it
I had no idea yeah it's focused on my nose I can see all my pores on the new
phone can't really see them on the old phone cool I don't I don't know why this
wasn't a feature a long time ago maybe it's hard to do this
cool cool let's take some selfies
yeah I feel like you can see individual hairs of the neck beard a little bit
more more defined
it does look like there's a bit more detail like this just looks like one
congealed blob you can actually see the individual fabric
yeah it I mean both photos look really good
don't get me wrong um I think David's right it's like
mostly mostly just the contrast
this is the ultra wide camera
look this looks like there's way more going on
I mean look at his little you can see the 3D printer lines on this one holy
crap that's quite a bit better
and then let this is the telephoto wow
look at the detail holy crap that's been a major gripe the last few years with
all these phones having multiple sensors as the other sensors are usually a lot
worse it seems like apple has done some
so I've done some work here that's pretty damn good holy crap look at that
wow don't get me wrong 13 camera still
really good 14 camera should we try a low light thing sure
this is the telephoto in a really dark scene
uh yeah wow look at that that's a lot more detail this is one of those photos
where you have to hold it for a few seconds um so it's technically possible I wasn't
as sturdy when I was holding this but I was really trying to keep it still and
that's on a telephoto too that might even be as good as the main shooter on
this phone like there's the main shooter here's the telephoto
that's pretty good
um it did take a couple kind of dark sometimes it doesn't really like get
into that I'm taking a a couple second exposure mode
um and takes dark photos but that's the case with the old iPhones too but let's
try there's the ultra wide yeah again
just looks a little bit more detail a little bit less grain
the contrast honestly
pretty similar I mean maybe I'm crazy but the dynamic range is like
it's pretty pretty similar overall the detail and lower light on the other
Shooters not the main one pretty good it's definitely improved so Apple you've
done your work we should check out action mode Apple says this is supposed
to be just like image stabilization on
crack
I mean it's sprinting now
see I got a little bit of a shaky hand here
not bad it's definitely cropped more
on the action mode one it's quite a bit more cropped wow look
at the difference like I this is when I was lightly
jogging you almost can't even tell it does have a bit of that weird I'm being
stabilized kind of vibe to it but the amount of crop is crazy it's quite a bit
more crop for sure now this is 2.8 K on this phone 4k on this phone because the
action mode limits you that's probably part of it so if you've
got crazy kids and you're trying to film them or you're chasing after your friend
and trying to film it this will work pretty well
foreign
it sounds better on the non-pro and the
13 Pro Max I think sounds the best it does have a
size Advantage so you know take that with a grain of salt but of these two
phones in Crab Rave specifically the
non-pro sounds better considering the size modern smartphones especially Apple
devices sound really good but uh yeah if
you really care about audio maybe the non-pro is the better bet I realized we
forgot to talk about pricing so the 14 is going to set you back 7.99 for the
128 the 14 pro is going to be 9.99 for
128 so it's a thousand bucks if you upgrade to the bigger models of either
so that's going to be the Plus on the non-pro or the pro Max on the pro it's
an extra 100 bucks over the smaller size and that's all going to be for 128 gig
phones overall given my first impressions here I'm gonna say that if
you're on an iPhone 13 the 14
not really a compelling upgrade especially considering the price maybe
if you can sell your 13 for for good value and you didn't buy Apple Care on
it or anything like that you can maybe squeak this out if you're
on an older iPhone cameras really good really cool phone
maybe it's worth it then but on the other hand if you're on an older iPhone
the 13s are going to be coming down in price these could be a really really
good buy especially considering how similar they are and I imagine a couple
of these features like the dynamic Island will come and trickle down into
the other models in a similar form or it's just gonna die off as a a one
version Wonder that's all I've got for you today if you guys like this video
maybe check out the Galaxy watch unboxing I did that was pretty fun maybe
that would be enough to get you to switch I will say the Galaxy watch battery life a lot better than Apple
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