WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.520 No, no, no, no, no. 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:07.040 After being one of the first iPhones to excite me in years, 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:11.520 the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max are absolutely mired 00:00:11.520 --> 00:00:15.320 in controversy right now. Everything from overheating to Apple providing 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:20.880 weird advice regarding charging cables to even a new bend gate. 00:00:20.880 --> 00:00:26.040 But that doesn't mean that I don't still wanna check them out. So let's take a look at not just the phones, 00:00:26.040 --> 00:00:31.160 but also this fun little report card that the Labs team put together for me. 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:37.240 Right out of the gate, boy, are they ever pretty and the beauty is more than just skin deep. 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:42.200 They feature an aluminum titanium hybrid frame, we'll get into that a little bit more later, 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:45.480 a 6.7 or 6.1 inch display, 00:00:45.480 --> 00:00:52.200 depending on whether you go for the Pro or the Pro Max, Apple's new A17 Pro, no longer bionic chipset 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:59.040 featuring two performance cores, four efficiency cores and six GPU cores, along with eight gigs of LPDDR5 memory 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:06.240 and all the wireless fixings, Wi-Fi 6E Bluetooth 5.3 NFC and their ultra wide band chip 00:01:06.500 --> 00:01:11.440 that has some cool new tricks up its sleeve, like the ability to find your friends 00:01:11.440 --> 00:01:15.680 just like you can find an Apple AirTag in a crowd of people. 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:19.800 That is legitimately pretty useful if you have friends. 00:01:19.800 --> 00:01:24.160 Of course, for the folks whose best friends are their dogs or their cars, there's the cameras. 00:01:24.160 --> 00:01:29.520 Each has a 48 megapixel main shooter along with two 12 megapixel auxiliary shooters, 00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:35.520 one ultra wide and one telephoto. That telephoto is 5x optical zoom on the Pro Max 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:41.040 and 3x on the regular Pro. For the avid photographers, I could see that being enough, 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:45.320 especially when you combine that with some of the new software enabled capabilities, 00:01:45.320 --> 00:01:50.280 like the ability to record log raw footage, even to an external storage device 00:01:50.320 --> 00:01:54.200 via the all new 10 gigabit per second USB-C port, 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:56.520 the ability to take a regular photo 00:01:57.960 --> 00:02:02.560 and then convert it to portrait after the fact. So you don't have to make the decision at the time 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:09.440 and the ability to record spatial video for viewing on the upcoming Apple Vision Pro headset. 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:13.340 There's of course some other physical things. In addition to that USB-C port, 00:02:13.340 --> 00:02:16.520 we get our usual volume buttons and okay, 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:21.920 I'm legitimately so excited about this and it should just be on everything, the action button. 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:25.000 Gone is the toggle switch for vibrate and ring mode 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:28.920 and here is the action button. Just click it to see what mode you're in 00:02:28.920 --> 00:02:33.120 and hold it if you wanna switch between ring and silent. Or if you're not into that, 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:36.600 you can reconfigure it to just about anything you want. I have no idea how to do this. 00:02:36.600 --> 00:02:40.040 Let's see how quickly I can figure it out. It's not here for some reason, 00:02:40.040 --> 00:02:44.880 although that would be fairly obvious to me. Nope, I guess we need to dig into 00:02:44.880 --> 00:02:48.360 the old fashioned settings app. All right, well that wasn't that hard to find. 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:53.000 Ooh, configurability, choose a shortcut. 00:02:54.040 --> 00:02:59.040 This is so much more robust already 00:02:59.640 --> 00:03:04.640 than what I've seen with things like the stupid Bixby button that Samsung made extremely difficult 00:03:04.640 --> 00:03:08.200 when they first introduced it to just do whatever the crap I want with it. 00:03:08.200 --> 00:03:13.160 Okay, this is an example. Even things like the double press, the lock button 00:03:13.160 --> 00:03:16.360 to open the camera functionality that's on some Android phones. 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:19.440 The lack of configurability for that kind of thing, 00:03:19.440 --> 00:03:23.280 this puts it to shame. You know, recognized music, man, 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:26.800 can you configure it though to use it in different ways? 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:30.400 Press, hold, double press, that would be next level. 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:35.120 Oh, accessibility features. In some cases, that's just Apple's way of saying 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:39.000 features that you wanted, but we won't admit are a good idea. 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:43.600 Like the mouse support that they added on the iPad as an accessibility feature forever. 00:03:43.600 --> 00:03:46.200 And then we're like, okay, fine, it's a good idea. 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:51.080 Quick camera launching on the iPhone, yes. Look, I know from the lock screen, 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:55.640 I know you can do this, I know. Okay, watch this, watch this, watch, quick, okay, quick draw. 00:03:55.640 --> 00:04:00.440 I pressed the action, but oh, camera's open already. I'm ready, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap. 00:04:00.440 --> 00:04:06.080 Oh, I like it. I got to be honest with you guys. So far, I still kind of love it. 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:09.480 It's amazing how used to giant phones I've gotten though. 00:04:09.480 --> 00:04:14.400 The Pro Max doesn't even feel unreasonably big. I think this is probably the route I'd go, 00:04:14.440 --> 00:04:18.160 though for gamers, that might not actually be the best option. 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:22.800 You see, both of them have the same 460 PPI pixel density. 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:26.640 Both of them will run at anywhere from 10 to 120 Hertz 00:04:26.640 --> 00:04:30.600 with adaptive refresh rate technology. So they'll feel smooth when they need to feel smooth 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:35.800 and can save power when they need to save power. But because the size of the screen of the Pro Max 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:39.480 is so much greater, we actually found in our game testing 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:42.640 that our 1% lows were significantly lower, 00:04:42.640 --> 00:04:47.520 meaning that in periods of intense action, you could experience significantly lower dips, 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:51.080 which could result in you getting killed. I mean, not in real life in the game, 00:04:51.080 --> 00:04:57.160 but you get the point, right? The brightness of these screens is flipping outstanding. 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:02.160 Okay, in SDR, we got 250 nits full screen in a dark room, 00:05:02.280 --> 00:05:06.920 1,000 nits outdoors, and in an 18% window, 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:11.480 we got 2,200 nits in SDR. 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:14.640 2,200 nits on a phone? 00:05:14.640 --> 00:05:19.160 Are you flipping kidding me? In HDR, we didn't see the same kinds of stratospheric highs, 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:22.640 but these are really, really impressive displays. 00:05:22.640 --> 00:05:27.880 For me, the gaming story of the iPhone 15 family though is not mobile games like this. 00:05:27.880 --> 00:05:31.360 It's the AAA games that they were showing off during the announcement. 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:34.640 If we actually get developers porting their games 00:05:34.640 --> 00:05:39.520 to metal for the iPhone, it could be a literal game changer. 00:05:39.520 --> 00:05:45.320 Since I've been gaming for so long, now seems like as good a time as I need to talk about the first big controversy, thermals. 00:05:45.320 --> 00:05:49.660 While we didn't extensively test for thermals, we did perform game benchmarking, 00:05:49.660 --> 00:05:55.800 so we did make some observations. Our devices got as high as 43 degrees on the surface, 00:05:55.800 --> 00:06:00.560 which is not particularly comfortable, but isn't going to do any kind of harm 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:06.880 while we've seen reports of as high as 46. Our best guess is that it's one of a couple of things. 00:06:06.880 --> 00:06:09.880 Either those other outlets were charging 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:14.120 while performing their testing and therefore adding some additional thermal load 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:17.520 to the device, or there could be some variants, 00:06:17.520 --> 00:06:23.000 depending on whether these phones were made in China, where the factories have more experience, 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:26.160 or made in India. So here's a fun little thing you can do. 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:30.040 If you look at the box, you will see blah, blah, blah, 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:33.640 assembled in China, something, something. Yes, right there. 00:06:33.640 --> 00:06:37.280 But if you look inside the USB-C port, 00:06:37.280 --> 00:06:42.920 there's a little engraving that indicates if you got a China or an India unit. 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:46.280 So one of our theories, and this may impact 00:06:46.280 --> 00:06:50.800 some of the other controversies as well, is that there could be some slight differences, 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:54.800 whether they're at the factory or whether they're up the supply chain 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.880 that are causing these phones to be slightly different. 00:06:57.880 --> 00:07:02.880 So my iPhone 15 Pro Max that I ordered on launch day 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:07.660 is China. Our iPhone 15, which the team has already checked, 00:07:07.660 --> 00:07:11.220 is a China model, and my iPhone 15 Pro is also China. 00:07:11.220 --> 00:07:14.860 So I wonder if there's a little bit better consistency 00:07:14.860 --> 00:07:16.100 in these China models. 00:07:18.100 --> 00:07:22.940 Like you can just immediately tell, shot on my phone looks better. 00:07:22.940 --> 00:07:27.500 Sorry, Android. Really, I'm one of your people, but gotta give credit where it's due. 00:07:27.500 --> 00:07:30.780 Now let's talk about the second big controversy, fragility. 00:07:30.780 --> 00:07:35.860 Apple spent a fair bit of time talking about the titanium frame, and that sounds really impressive, 00:07:35.860 --> 00:07:38.900 but in Zach from JerryRigEverything's bend test, 00:07:38.900 --> 00:07:42.180 he actually found that it failed extremely quickly. 00:07:42.180 --> 00:07:47.020 I mean, it's not the kind of thing that I think will just happen sitting in your pocket, 00:07:47.020 --> 00:07:50.440 like we saw with, what was it, the iPhone 6, I think. 00:07:50.440 --> 00:07:54.020 It should be noted that for Zach, the regular Pro, the non-Max, 00:07:54.020 --> 00:07:57.060 didn't have any noticeable bending problems. 00:07:57.060 --> 00:08:02.020 Another thing that happened was AppleTrack had the camera bump break off during a drop test. 00:08:02.060 --> 00:08:05.700 Labz's theory is that the camera module could be introducing a weak point 00:08:05.700 --> 00:08:11.180 due to the way that the glass curves up from the main body or the flex in the subframe 00:08:11.180 --> 00:08:16.820 that pushes against the inside of the glass during a drop. The break in the glass is perfectly aligned 00:08:16.820 --> 00:08:21.100 with the inner frame. Enough about controversy, let's talk good things for a little bit. 00:08:21.100 --> 00:08:25.300 Both of these managed to achieve 85% charge in just an hour, 00:08:25.300 --> 00:08:29.980 and that's in spite of the fact that Apple does not support wildly fast charging rates, 00:08:30.100 --> 00:08:33.500 60 watts, 100 plus watts or whatever else, 00:08:33.500 --> 00:08:39.460 like some Android manufacturers do, and they both reached 100% in just over an hour and a half. 00:08:39.460 --> 00:08:42.460 By contrast, the iPhone 15 non-Pro 00:08:42.460 --> 00:08:49.780 took over two hours to reach 100%, but it should be noted, also reaches 85% in one hour. 00:08:49.780 --> 00:08:54.540 So it seems to be just down to the curve that Apple has chosen for topping up 00:08:54.540 --> 00:08:58.460 the last 15% of the battery. Another good thing, the USB-C port. 00:08:58.460 --> 00:09:05.540 They've actually given me a little bucket of fun things to attach to the new iPhones. 00:09:06.020 --> 00:09:09.080 Let's start with a microphone. Wait, did I even mention 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:13.260 that Dbrand sponsored this video yet? There's no broken glass this time, right? 00:09:13.260 --> 00:09:16.380 Nope, no broken glass, just iPhone cases. 00:09:16.380 --> 00:09:21.420 We've all seen cases like this in the past. They start out clear, they end up yellow, junk. 00:09:21.420 --> 00:09:26.100 Dbrand's new ghost case is designed to never yellow. 00:09:26.100 --> 00:09:32.500 Wow, never is a really big word. Did they use the word never? Dbrand seems quite confident they have engineered the case 00:09:32.500 --> 00:09:35.540 to solve that problem, so much so in fact, 00:09:35.540 --> 00:09:38.920 that Dbrand is offering free replacements in the event 00:09:38.920 --> 00:09:42.620 that your ghost case ever turns yellow. 00:09:42.620 --> 00:09:47.620 This looks absolutely sick, considering all the torture 00:09:48.580 --> 00:09:52.940 that they've put me through over the years. I'm kinda hoping they do turn yellow and cause a eugenic. 00:09:52.940 --> 00:09:57.220 That must be from our sponsorship team. Yeah, pretty much. 00:09:57.220 --> 00:10:01.220 No, I don't hope they turn yellow because I actually believe in Dbrand's approach 00:10:01.220 --> 00:10:05.060 to product design. I think that they overall do a pretty darn fine job 00:10:05.060 --> 00:10:08.140 and I'm really excited to no longer see ugly, 00:10:08.140 --> 00:10:11.360 yellowed plastic phone cases because when that happens, 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:15.100 people inevitably throw them away and we end up just producing more garbage. 00:10:15.100 --> 00:10:18.380 It's better to produce some plastic thing once 00:10:18.380 --> 00:10:21.380 rather than over and over again and this looks freaking awesome. 00:10:21.380 --> 00:10:26.580 So I'll be keeping this on the phone while we test out all these cool USB-C peripherals. 00:10:26.580 --> 00:10:29.940 What do you think are the odds this microphone is just gonna work? I don't think so. 00:10:29.940 --> 00:10:33.420 There's no way. No. No! 00:10:33.420 --> 00:10:37.900 Holy crap, it just worked. It just worked. Volume control, just working. 00:10:37.900 --> 00:10:41.020 Is that just the headphone volume control? That's wild. 00:10:42.020 --> 00:10:46.340 You could just plug this into your iPhone and be recording audio. 00:10:46.340 --> 00:10:50.300 Oh, oh, we definitely need a Razer Viper 8K gaming mouse, 00:10:50.300 --> 00:10:55.900 though. Is iOS support a mouse? I know iPadOS does, which is a totally different thing. 00:10:55.900 --> 00:10:59.580 Okay. Huh, no way! 00:10:59.580 --> 00:11:03.420 I'm a keyboard mouse gamer, folks. What if I lock it in? 00:11:04.500 --> 00:11:08.460 All right, because Apple arbitrarily decides that, 00:11:08.460 --> 00:11:11.540 well, iPads need to be locked in landscape mode. 00:11:11.540 --> 00:11:15.180 iPhones simply don't. What if I do? 00:11:15.180 --> 00:11:20.340 Apple is apparently warning that using third-party USB-C cables could cause damage to the device. 00:11:20.340 --> 00:11:23.980 My understanding, the last time I looked at this is it was only a handful of stores in China 00:11:23.980 --> 00:11:29.820 and I don't even know if they were official Apple stores, but there apparently is some validity to it. 00:11:29.820 --> 00:11:34.900 There's a slightly smaller gap between the single row nine pin and single row 11 pin connectors. 00:11:35.900 --> 00:11:39.920 Realistically, the same is probably true of any time you're using a third-party cable. 00:11:39.920 --> 00:11:44.420 Apple does apparently have a fuse and an identifier chip in their cable 00:11:44.420 --> 00:11:49.380 to make sure that it's an authentic cable. I mean, that's sort of not the point of USB-C. 00:11:49.380 --> 00:11:53.100 The point is that we can kind of use any cable we want and as you can see, I'm not having any trouble with it, 00:11:53.100 --> 00:11:57.420 but who knows, they may reject your warranty claim if you do not use an approved cable. 00:11:57.420 --> 00:12:01.060 But hey, at least you're getting pretty decent screen on time. 00:12:01.060 --> 00:12:05.140 We weren't able to get anywhere near the 23 and 29 hours 00:12:05.140 --> 00:12:10.020 that they advertised for YouTube playback on the regular Pro and the Pro Max respectively, 00:12:10.020 --> 00:12:15.020 but we did get 17.75 hours and 21 and a half hours, 00:12:15.520 --> 00:12:18.700 which is pretty darn respectable and that was at 200 nits. 00:12:18.700 --> 00:12:23.820 We don't know exactly what Apple's test conditions were. It's possible, for example, that they had cellular turned off 00:12:23.820 --> 00:12:27.020 or they had the screen at minimum brightness. We are not sure, but those are still 00:12:27.020 --> 00:12:32.620 very respectable results and in our stress tests, we saw 3.3 hours, this is running 00:12:32.620 --> 00:12:36.840 through your Mark Wildlife Extreme on the Pro and four hours on the Pro Max. 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:40.580 Those are very respectable results. I want to hook up a monitor. 00:12:40.580 --> 00:12:44.580 No, I want to do what framework did. 00:12:44.580 --> 00:12:47.700 This is so cool. They were meman on their social media. 00:12:47.700 --> 00:12:52.020 All like, hey, Apple, way ahead of you. We got your USB type A adapter. 00:12:52.020 --> 00:12:55.620 Oh, of course it's not compatible with the Dbrand case. Oh, okay, sorry Dbrand. 00:12:55.620 --> 00:12:59.760 Love you guys, go to shortlinus.com to go check it out and get your own ghost case, 00:12:59.760 --> 00:13:03.380 but for now we're gonna have to lose it. Let's go ahead and pop this bad boy in. 00:13:03.380 --> 00:13:08.340 Woo, type A port, anyone? Ah, ah, they also showed adding the headphone jack back 00:13:08.340 --> 00:13:12.300 with their headphone jack module. Of course, that's not what I'm interested in right now. 00:13:12.300 --> 00:13:16.620 I'm just gonna pop out my laptop's HDMI port 00:13:16.620 --> 00:13:19.940 and plug that in. How cool is that? 00:13:19.940 --> 00:13:22.820 HDMI iPhone, HDMI phone? 00:13:23.980 --> 00:13:31.040 I have no idea what this monitor is. It's an LG something, but I don't know what resolution 00:13:31.040 --> 00:13:34.100 or what refresh rate it runs at, but what we're about to find out 00:13:34.100 --> 00:13:41.860 is if the iPhone supports it. Hey, look at that. We got the Chotec USB-C to HDMI cable. 00:13:41.860 --> 00:13:45.340 Oh, okay, well, sorry for your framework. Investment disclosure. 00:13:46.540 --> 00:13:49.260 I mean, that's not the most elegant thing ever. 00:13:50.020 --> 00:13:53.220 Ow, you ready, you ready? I think we got this. 00:13:54.740 --> 00:13:59.740 Hey, even just for doing reviews of iPhones back in the day, 00:14:01.140 --> 00:14:04.180 I would have given my left testicle 00:14:04.180 --> 00:14:09.180 for this easy, seamless, flawless, freaking screen capture. 00:14:10.500 --> 00:14:14.700 Just plug this bad boy into a capture card and you are good to freaking go. 00:14:14.700 --> 00:14:18.640 How did they not go USB-C sooner? This is awesome. 00:14:18.640 --> 00:14:22.040 I mean, you know why they didn't so they could collect their licensing 00:14:22.040 --> 00:14:28.600 and certification fees for the lightning cable, but for the user, how did they not do this sooner? 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:35.640 The best part is that it's super mature because iOS and iPadOS, let's face it, not that different. 00:14:35.640 --> 00:14:39.960 And a lot of this stuff has been awesome in iPadOS for a long time. 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:45.440 That's one of the killers for me. It's just like, how ahead of the game Apple was on USB-C 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:51.200 and then how far behind the iPhone was on it. Not gonna lie, definitely some upscaling going on here 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:55.120 that is more noticeable in the larger display, but that looks not bad. 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:58.720 Oh, what the hell? So if you touch it, it shows up. 00:15:00.280 --> 00:15:04.280 If you're interacting with it, you can see that. 00:15:04.280 --> 00:15:08.160 Interesting. Yep, that's rendered on an iPhone, all right. 00:15:08.160 --> 00:15:11.560 And this video is rendered out. 00:15:11.560 --> 00:15:14.840 Subscribe to ShortCircuit. Don't forget to check out our sponsor Dbrand 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:17.880 with their ghost cases. We've got that linked down below.