1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,540 I've never really been the type of person to go out and buy Apple's new and improved products 2 00:00:04,540 --> 00:00:12,520 that they launch every year, but this might change my mind. This is the iPhone 15, and she's beautiful at first glance. 3 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,960 They've added this very sleek and smooth beveled edge, 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:21,720 which almost creates a more luxury feel, 5 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,520 as well as the very soft matte back, 6 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,720 which is unique to the 15. As in previous years, 7 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:33,480 they've had more of a shiny glass, and it also has a fingerprint-resistant coating. 8 00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:38,920 We have the pink color here, but Apple also launched this with four other colorways, 9 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,680 including blue, green, black, and yellow. 10 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:48,200 I've never really been one for colored iPhones, but I really like the pastel colorings 11 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,840 that they have this year. It's a lot more subtle than previous years, 12 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:55,160 but I kind of find that to be an advantage. 13 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,960 I mean, that is for people who don't put their iPhones in a case right away. 14 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:05,360 The USB-C charging cable. This, I feel, is probably the most important part 15 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,880 of this new iPhone, because it's universal, 16 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,880 and you can charge your Gen2 AirPods with your iPhone, 17 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:16,240 so it essentially kind of becomes a battery bank, 18 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:21,600 and, oh, what is this, instructions? Oh no, this is the sim popper, 19 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,720 which I feel like they're gonna kind of start phasing that out, like the physical SIM cards, 20 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:30,280 and start integrating more eSIM. I guess as long as telephone providers 21 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,120 are comfortable with that. Do you think I could get it in the room behind? 22 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:39,560 Yeah. Ah! Wow, great job, bro. 23 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,720 So on the 15 Pro and Pro Max, 24 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:50,080 I know they have like a button here, but for the standard 15, they've kept the little switch. 25 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:55,360 We've got our volume buttons. Of course, the beautiful USB-C port on the bottom, 26 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,320 and then your standard on and off button. And I am noticing, actually, 27 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:03,680 there isn't a lot of fingerprint markings showing, 28 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,800 which means that the coding is working. First things first, let's talk about the screen. 29 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,880 While in previous models, they have also had the Super Retina XDR screens. 30 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:17,200 This time around, they've also improved the screen brightness, which is supposedly two times brighter 31 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,280 than its predecessor, the iPhone 14. 32 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,680 I'd love to try it out, but unfortunately, it's raining outside. 33 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,720 So Labs has done some testing for us. Let's take a look. 34 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:34,120 I specifically want to point out the HDR brightness, which in a dark room is about 850 nits. 35 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,800 Brandon, one of our lab teams members, pointed out that 850 nits is actually 36 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,120 pretty crazy for screen brightness, and is much higher than the average 500 nits 37 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,200 that you'd see in a regular phone, or a standard phone. 38 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:51,920 Another thing to mention is Labs pointed out that in the SDR outdoor test, 39 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:58,120 they were able to measure 2,200 nits versus the 2,000 nits that Apple claims. 40 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,800 Quite impressive, seeing that it's higher. In contrast to my own iPhone 12, 41 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:09,000 I've also noticed that on the 15, we have the Dynamic Island, so no more notches. 42 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,120 And I've actually never utilized the Dynamic Island, 43 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,880 or I guess I've never tried the Dynamic Island, so I'm interested to kind of look into that. 44 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,400 Now, I've never really been impressed by iPhone cameras. 45 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,920 I attend to frequent concerts, and that's where I get the best test 46 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:27,680 out of my iPhone cameras, as I find a lot of the artifacting 47 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,200 doesn't really make the pictures turn out as great as they could. 48 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:36,160 There's also oftentimes in dark lighting a bit more of a lens flare, which sometimes 49 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,240 you don't want that. But with this phone, the camera has been 50 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:45,960 one of the biggest features that has been advertised and talked about, and so I think this might change my mind. 51 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:51,360 It's got fingerprints on it. If only they could add a fingerprint-resistant finish 52 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:58,240 to the camera lenses. Now that would be a good feature. So the new iPhone 15 has a dual-lens system. 53 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,600 So we've got the standard camera, which is 48 megapixels, 54 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,520 and then our ultra-wide, which is 12 megapixels. 55 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:11,040 One feature I'm really excited about is Apple has added essentially controls for the user 56 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,080 so that they can control the depth and the focus 57 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:19,600 on photos after they're taken. I love Apple's like portrait mode, 58 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,920 but I find sometimes when I'm taking pictures of my dog, it kind of blurs the wrong areas. 59 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,720 This kind of allows you to control where the blur is and where it isn't. 60 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,160 Let's try it out. Do you want to come take a selfie with me? Ha ha ha. 61 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,520 Beautiful. All right, let's try it. Edit. 62 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:42,600 Portrait. Oh, whoa. It can get really blurry. 63 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,600 I don't know if you could see that very well, but. Belle, you don't even exist in this photo. 64 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,720 You're just a... You're a photo baller. Yes, true. 65 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:55,800 Wow, that actually works quite well. So initial, I guess, impressions is, 66 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:01,040 that feature is awesome. So we'll do a bit of a blur, and then, whoa! 67 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,080 That's great. Who needs Photoshop anymore? 68 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:11,600 Just kidding. We've got 0.5 zoom out for ultra-wide shots, 69 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:16,200 and now I'm going to take a picture of me at that. 70 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,520 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh, it's starting. 71 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:23,880 Ha ha ha. 72 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,920 How many people have done that on short-circuit? Ha ha ha. 73 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:37,480 Oh no. It doesn't look very good, I'll be honest, 74 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:42,560 but like Andrew said, it's kind of a tricky shot with the light being directly facing the camera. 75 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,160 Then we have the 1x zoom option, which is for like mid-distance shots. 76 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:50,360 I'll just take a picture of Belle this time. Oh no, it's on timer still. 77 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:54,360 Three, two, one, yay! 78 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,000 That looks pretty good. I'm so torn. 79 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:06,520 I'm like not a photographer either by any means, so me judging the photos may not necessarily be 80 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:10,760 like the best point of view, 81 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,800 but you know, it's all right. 82 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,440 And then we have the 2x zoom distance for close-up shots. 83 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:22,120 One thing to mention is the 2x zoom is only 12 megapixels. 84 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:23,400 Let's take a selfie. 85 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:27,280 Selfie cam seems all right. 86 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:34,520 As soon as I zoom in on the photo, I'm like maybe it's not as good, 87 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:39,640 because like when I'm looking at it on the screen, it looks fine, it looks great, it looks super clear, 88 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:43,880 but as soon as I take the photo, maybe that has, like maybe I just need to fondle 89 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,640 with the settings a bit more, but I kind of expected more to be honest. 90 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,760 Here are a few other photos for you to take a look at. 91 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:52,960 I guess you get to make that decision. 92 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,560 Now that we've tested the camera, let's test the audio. And what better way to do that 93 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,600 than with our absolute favorite banger? 94 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:06,240 Let's put some crab brave on. It sounds like I'm on like a tropical island. 95 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,960 There is a very good range to this speaker. 96 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,880 It sounds really good. I've never really compared phone speakers per se, 97 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,600 but in comparison to my iPhone 12, this sounds fantastic. 98 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,560 I could listen to that all day. 99 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:31,400 The standard iPhone 15 has an A16 bionic chip, 100 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,920 which is the same as in the iPhone 14 Pro. We got Labs to check out the performance. 101 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,760 Here is data to look at. Wow, data. 102 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:45,240 I'm not much of a mobile gamer, but I mean, hey, if you can get a better phone 103 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,960 for playing mobile games, then maybe it's worth it. 104 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:53,840 I don't, like what kind of mobile games do you play? Oh, I guess Labs has done the testing for us. 105 00:07:55,080 --> 00:08:00,240 I kind of noticed in their marketing a little bit, it was kind of weird because they said like the iPhone 15 106 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:05,200 can go up to 26 hours of battery life with whatever video, 107 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:09,680 but they don't like specifically say the iPhone 15 108 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,920 and the iPhone 15 plus. So you're like kind of led to believe 109 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:17,080 that it's the regular standard iPhone 15 that's 26 110 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:21,960 until you actually look at like the side-by-sides of the regular and the plus, 111 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,320 then it says up to 20 hours, which is six hours less, 112 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:31,640 which isn't an insignificant amount. In our endurance YouTube playback test, 113 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:37,040 we were able to get 18 hours. And in the stress test, we got 3.3 hours. 114 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:42,080 We also did a charging test and we were able to get it from zero to 85% in an hour. 115 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:46,680 Here's the data for how long it took to get it to full. 116 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:50,720 I feel like the battery is always something that Apple should continue to improve. 117 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:57,520 And this is something that I felt a lot towards like the iPads and also AirPods and Apple Watches. 118 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,560 Honestly, please just improve battery life for everything 119 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:03,640 because I don't want to have to charge my phone every single night. 120 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:08,280 And I feel like that's a universal experience. 121 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,280 However, I know it's not as easy as I'm making it sound. 122 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,440 What if we could just throw a car battery in a phone? 123 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:20,080 We haven't really talked much about iOS 17. One feature I find incredibly helpful is that 124 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:24,160 along with their emergency SOS, they have also included a roadside assistant 125 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,880 similar to AAA. Another feature that I find super awesome is 126 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:31,520 with me and my partner is we have an air tag on our dog. 127 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,560 And with only one person being able to see where the dog is at a time, 128 00:09:35,560 --> 00:09:41,040 if we were both having to like go out and search for her if she ran away, I feel like that would be 129 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,400 a lot less convenient. 130 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:48,000 So like the fact that you can add two people to an air tag 131 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,500 is, I mean, it should have been something that they had from the beginning, 132 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:54,920 but it's nice that they're adding it now. I don't know about you, 133 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,320 but I've definitely woken up in the middle of the night 134 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:03,200 and checked to see what time it is on my phone and absolutely blinded myself. 135 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,680 Apple has since implemented a standby mode, 136 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:10,920 which we're gonna try now, but... 137 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:18,720 Oh, there. Oh, no, I did it. 138 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:23,720 I just shifted it a little bit. Oh, there, okay. Welcome to standby. I love this feature so much. 139 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:28,520 You can showcase some of the widgets that are more important. 140 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:31,720 So when you are sleeping in the middle of the night and you wanna check on what time it is 141 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,840 and you don't have a digital clock or anything else, 142 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:38,800 you could just glance at your phone. In comparison to the iPhone 15 Pro, 143 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:43,800 which hasn't always on screen, the standard 15 doesn't have that feature. 144 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:48,480 However, with a simple tap, you should be able to bring up the standby mode. 145 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:53,360 It's so weird how simple a feature can be, but also so helpful. 146 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,640 Every morning I ask Alexa what the weather is gonna be like, 147 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:00,400 but if I could have my time and my weather right beside me when I wake up, 148 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:04,560 I wouldn't have to do that. It's just one simple step that I can skip 149 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:10,240 using this feature, which is super cool. Is there anything else? Oh, they've got like a wide, wide, wide. 150 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:16,960 Very wide. Apple has also added this thing called Name Drop, 151 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:23,600 where you can easily share contacts by simply putting the phone tips together. 152 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,160 Shall we try it? All right. 153 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:32,360 Wow. 154 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:40,240 That was wonderful. Oh, I need to set up my card in my contacts. 155 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,960 Oh, there we are. Wow, so fancy. That was fantastic. 156 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,480 Don't dox me. So I think if I go back to my initial question, 157 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:51,360 where I ask, does the iPhone 15 make me wanna go 158 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:55,000 to an Apple store, wait in a line, or make an appointment? 159 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:00,440 Probably not. I think between my iPhone 12 and the iPhone 15, 160 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:05,800 the features haven't changed too much. I mean, the Dynamic Island is cool 161 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:11,360 and is a very aesthetic feature and sharing contacts by simply touching tips. 162 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:15,080 I think the camera is the part that always gets to me, 163 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:20,560 because it's not really a feature that I am generally super stoked about, 164 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:24,400 but when you hear all of these positive things about it, try it out for yourself, 165 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:28,760 and then aren't as impressed as everybody's telling you you're going to be. 166 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:30,560 I don't know, maybe that's just me. 167 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:37,440 Everybody can make their own decisions, and if you're the type of person that wants to go and buy every single new version of iPhone 168 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:43,160 and try it out to its fullest and really get to pick at the positives and the negatives 169 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:47,160 as you go through kind of the cycle, that's not me. 170 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:51,760 The iPhone 15 starts at 799 USD. 171 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:56,760 Oh yes, depending on the storage that you go with, they go all the way up to 1099, 172 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:02,720 and that's just the standard. Then you have the choice between the iPhone 15 Plus, 173 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:07,600 which is 6.7 inches, and it's $100 more for each, 174 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:11,880 or you can choose the Pro or the Pro Max, 175 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:17,080 which again, ends up being a bit pricier. I haven't checked out the features of the Pro, 176 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,680 but based on the iPhone 15 that I looked at today, 177 00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:27,000 I'm not convinced that I need to upgrade. I do find that adding USB-C is a convincing addition. 178 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:32,120 However, I don't know if it really would make that big of a difference to my personal workflow, 179 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:37,440 but maybe it will to yours. So at the end of the day, it's a cool phone. 180 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,880 I hope you enjoyed this ShortCircuit. Like, comment, and subscribe, 181 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:47,200 and if you're interested in seeing another Apple unboxing, you can check out my Apple Watch 7th Gen unboxing, 182 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:51,360 or stay tuned for Linus's unboxing of the iPhone 15 Pro. 183 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,040 Thanks for watching. Thanks.