WEBVTT 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 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. 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:16.960 They've added this very sleek and smooth beveled edge, 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:21.720 which almost creates a more luxury feel, 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:25.520 as well as the very soft matte back, 00:00:25.520 --> 00:00:28.720 which is unique to the 15. As in previous years, 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:33.480 they've had more of a shiny glass, and it also has a fingerprint-resistant coating. 00:00:33.480 --> 00:00:38.920 We have the pink color here, but Apple also launched this with four other colorways, 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:42.680 including blue, green, black, and yellow. 00:00:42.680 --> 00:00:48.200 I've never really been one for colored iPhones, but I really like the pastel colorings 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:51.840 that they have this year. It's a lot more subtle than previous years, 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:55.160 but I kind of find that to be an advantage. 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. 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:05.360 The USB-C charging cable. This, I feel, is probably the most important part 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:09.880 of this new iPhone, because it's universal, 00:01:09.880 --> 00:01:12.880 and you can charge your Gen2 AirPods with your iPhone, 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:16.240 so it essentially kind of becomes a battery bank, 00:01:16.240 --> 00:01:21.600 and, oh, what is this, instructions? Oh no, this is the sim popper, 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, 00:01:25.720 --> 00:01:30.280 and start integrating more eSIM. I guess as long as telephone providers 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.120 are comfortable with that. Do you think I could get it in the room behind? 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:39.560 Yeah. Ah! Wow, great job, bro. 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:43.720 So on the 15 Pro and Pro Max, 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. 00:01:50.080 --> 00:01:55.360 We've got our volume buttons. Of course, the beautiful USB-C port on the bottom, 00:01:55.360 --> 00:01:59.320 and then your standard on and off button. And I am noticing, actually, 00:01:59.320 --> 00:02:03.680 there isn't a lot of fingerprint markings showing, 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:07.800 which means that the coding is working. First things first, let's talk about the screen. 00:02:07.800 --> 00:02:11.880 While in previous models, they have also had the Super Retina XDR screens. 00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:17.200 This time around, they've also improved the screen brightness, which is supposedly two times brighter 00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:20.280 than its predecessor, the iPhone 14. 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:23.680 I'd love to try it out, but unfortunately, it's raining outside. 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:27.720 So Labs has done some testing for us. Let's take a look. 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. 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:38.800 Brandon, one of our lab teams members, pointed out that 850 nits is actually 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:43.120 pretty crazy for screen brightness, and is much higher than the average 500 nits 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:46.200 that you'd see in a regular phone, or a standard phone. 00:02:46.200 --> 00:02:51.920 Another thing to mention is Labs pointed out that in the SDR outdoor test, 00:02:51.920 --> 00:02:58.120 they were able to measure 2,200 nits versus the 2,000 nits that Apple claims. 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:02.800 Quite impressive, seeing that it's higher. In contrast to my own iPhone 12, 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. 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:12.120 And I've actually never utilized the Dynamic Island, 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. 00:03:16.880 --> 00:03:20.400 Now, I've never really been impressed by iPhone cameras. 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.920 I attend to frequent concerts, and that's where I get the best test 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:27.680 out of my iPhone cameras, as I find a lot of the artifacting 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:31.200 doesn't really make the pictures turn out as great as they could. 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:36.160 There's also oftentimes in dark lighting a bit more of a lens flare, which sometimes 00:03:36.160 --> 00:03:39.240 you don't want that. But with this phone, the camera has been 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. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:51.360 It's got fingerprints on it. If only they could add a fingerprint-resistant finish 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. 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:01.600 So we've got the standard camera, which is 48 megapixels, 00:04:01.600 --> 00:04:05.520 and then our ultra-wide, which is 12 megapixels. 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:11.040 One feature I'm really excited about is Apple has added essentially controls for the user 00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:14.080 so that they can control the depth and the focus 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:19.600 on photos after they're taken. I love Apple's like portrait mode, 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. 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:27.720 This kind of allows you to control where the blur is and where it isn't. 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. 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:36.520 Beautiful. All right, let's try it. Edit. 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:42.600 Portrait. Oh, whoa. It can get really blurry. 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. 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:50.720 You're just a... You're a photo baller. Yes, true. 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:55.800 Wow, that actually works quite well. So initial, I guess, impressions is, 00:04:55.800 --> 00:05:01.040 that feature is awesome. So we'll do a bit of a blur, and then, whoa! 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:05.080 That's great. Who needs Photoshop anymore? 00:05:06.880 --> 00:05:11.600 Just kidding. We've got 0.5 zoom out for ultra-wide shots, 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:16.200 and now I'm going to take a picture of me at that. 00:05:16.200 --> 00:05:19.520 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh, it's starting. 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:23.880 Ha ha ha. 00:05:29.400 --> 00:05:32.920 How many people have done that on short-circuit? Ha ha ha. 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:37.480 Oh no. It doesn't look very good, I'll be honest, 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. 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:46.160 Then we have the 1x zoom option, which is for like mid-distance shots. 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. 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:54.360 Three, two, one, yay! 00:05:56.400 --> 00:06:00.000 That looks pretty good. I'm so torn. 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 00:06:06.520 --> 00:06:10.760 like the best point of view, 00:06:10.760 --> 00:06:14.800 but you know, it's all right. 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:18.440 And then we have the 2x zoom distance for close-up shots. 00:06:18.440 --> 00:06:22.120 One thing to mention is the 2x zoom is only 12 megapixels. 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:23.400 Let's take a selfie. 00:06:25.760 --> 00:06:27.280 Selfie cam seems all right. 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, 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, 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 00:06:43.880 --> 00:06:47.640 with the settings a bit more, but I kind of expected more to be honest. 00:06:47.640 --> 00:06:50.760 Here are a few other photos for you to take a look at. 00:06:50.760 --> 00:06:52.960 I guess you get to make that decision. 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 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.600 than with our absolute favorite banger? 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. 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:08.960 There is a very good range to this speaker. 00:07:16.840 --> 00:07:20.880 It sounds really good. I've never really compared phone speakers per se, 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:24.600 but in comparison to my iPhone 12, this sounds fantastic. 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:26.560 I could listen to that all day. 00:07:27.760 --> 00:07:31.400 The standard iPhone 15 has an A16 bionic chip, 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. 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:39.760 Here is data to look at. Wow, data. 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 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:48.960 for playing mobile games, then maybe it's worth it. 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. 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 00:08:00.280 --> 00:08:05.200 can go up to 26 hours of battery life with whatever video, 00:08:05.200 --> 00:08:09.680 but they don't like specifically say the iPhone 15 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:12.920 and the iPhone 15 plus. So you're like kind of led to believe 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:17.080 that it's the regular standard iPhone 15 that's 26 00:08:17.080 --> 00:08:21.960 until you actually look at like the side-by-sides of the regular and the plus, 00:08:21.960 --> 00:08:26.320 then it says up to 20 hours, which is six hours less, 00:08:26.320 --> 00:08:31.640 which isn't an insignificant amount. In our endurance YouTube playback test, 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. 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. 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:46.680 Here's the data for how long it took to get it to full. 00:08:46.680 --> 00:08:50.720 I feel like the battery is always something that Apple should continue to improve. 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. 00:08:57.520 --> 00:09:00.560 Honestly, please just improve battery life for everything 00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:03.640 because I don't want to have to charge my phone every single night. 00:09:03.640 --> 00:09:08.280 And I feel like that's a universal experience. 00:09:08.280 --> 00:09:11.280 However, I know it's not as easy as I'm making it sound. 00:09:11.280 --> 00:09:14.440 What if we could just throw a car battery in a phone? 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 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.160 along with their emergency SOS, they have also included a roadside assistant 00:09:24.160 --> 00:09:27.880 similar to AAA. Another feature that I find super awesome is 00:09:27.880 --> 00:09:31.520 with me and my partner is we have an air tag on our dog. 00:09:31.520 --> 00:09:35.560 And with only one person being able to see where the dog is at a time, 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 00:09:41.040 --> 00:09:43.400 a lot less convenient. 00:09:44.880 --> 00:09:48.000 So like the fact that you can add two people to an air tag 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:51.500 is, I mean, it should have been something that they had from the beginning, 00:09:51.500 --> 00:09:54.920 but it's nice that they're adding it now. I don't know about you, 00:09:54.920 --> 00:09:58.320 but I've definitely woken up in the middle of the night 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:03.200 and checked to see what time it is on my phone and absolutely blinded myself. 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:06.680 Apple has since implemented a standby mode, 00:10:06.680 --> 00:10:10.920 which we're gonna try now, but... 00:10:14.920 --> 00:10:18.720 Oh, there. Oh, no, I did it. 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. 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:28.520 You can showcase some of the widgets that are more important. 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 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:34.840 and you don't have a digital clock or anything else, 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:38.800 you could just glance at your phone. In comparison to the iPhone 15 Pro, 00:10:38.800 --> 00:10:43.800 which hasn't always on screen, the standard 15 doesn't have that feature. 00:10:43.800 --> 00:10:48.480 However, with a simple tap, you should be able to bring up the standby mode. 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:53.360 It's so weird how simple a feature can be, but also so helpful. 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:56.640 Every morning I ask Alexa what the weather is gonna be like, 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, 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 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. 00:11:11.800 --> 00:11:16.960 Very wide. Apple has also added this thing called Name Drop, 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:23.600 where you can easily share contacts by simply putting the phone tips together. 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.160 Shall we try it? All right. 00:11:31.520 --> 00:11:32.360 Wow. 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:40.240 That was wonderful. Oh, I need to set up my card in my contacts. 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:43.960 Oh, there we are. Wow, so fancy. That was fantastic. 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:47.480 Don't dox me. So I think if I go back to my initial question, 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:51.360 where I ask, does the iPhone 15 make me wanna go 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:55.000 to an Apple store, wait in a line, or make an appointment? 00:11:55.000 --> 00:12:00.440 Probably not. I think between my iPhone 12 and the iPhone 15, 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:05.800 the features haven't changed too much. I mean, the Dynamic Island is cool 00:12:05.800 --> 00:12:11.360 and is a very aesthetic feature and sharing contacts by simply touching tips. 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:15.080 I think the camera is the part that always gets to me, 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:20.560 because it's not really a feature that I am generally super stoked about, 00:12:20.560 --> 00:12:24.400 but when you hear all of these positive things about it, try it out for yourself, 00:12:24.400 --> 00:12:28.760 and then aren't as impressed as everybody's telling you you're going to be. 00:12:28.760 --> 00:12:30.560 I don't know, maybe that's just me. 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 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 00:12:43.160 --> 00:12:47.160 as you go through kind of the cycle, that's not me. 00:12:48.160 --> 00:12:51.760 The iPhone 15 starts at 799 USD. 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, 00:12:56.760 --> 00:13:02.720 and that's just the standard. Then you have the choice between the iPhone 15 Plus, 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:07.600 which is 6.7 inches, and it's $100 more for each, 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:11.880 or you can choose the Pro or the Pro Max, 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, 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:20.680 but based on the iPhone 15 that I looked at today, 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. 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, 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. 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:41.880 I hope you enjoyed this ShortCircuit. Like, comment, and subscribe, 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, 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:51.360 or stay tuned for Linus's unboxing of the iPhone 15 Pro. 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:54.040 Thanks for watching. Thanks.