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I've never really been the type of person to go out and buy Apple's new and

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improved products that they launch every year but this might change my mind this

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is the iPhone 15 and she's beautiful at

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first glance they've added this very sleek and smooth beveled Edge which

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almost creates a more um luxury feel as

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well as the very soft matte uh back

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which is unique to the 15 as in previous years they've had more of a shiny glass

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and it also has a fingerprint resistant coating we have the pink color here but

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Apple also launched this with uh four other colorways including blue green

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black and yellow I've never really been one for colored iPhones but I really

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like the pastel colorings that they have this year it's a lot more subtle than

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previous years but I kind of find that to be an advantage I mean that is for

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people who don't put their iPhones in a case right away the USBC charging cable

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this I feel is probably the most important part of this new iPhone

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because it's Universal uh and you can charge your Gen 2 airpods with your

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iPhone so it essentially kind of becomes a battery Bank uh and oh what is this

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instructions oh no this is the uh the Sim popper which I feel like they're

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going to kind of start phasing that out like the physical SIM cards and start

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integrating more eim I guess as long as telephone providers uh are comfortable

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with that do you think I could get it in the room behind

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yeah W great so on the 15 pro and pro Max I

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know they have like a button here but for the standard 15 they've kept the uh

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the little switch uh we've got our volume buttons of course the beautiful

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USBC port on the bottom and then your

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standard on andof button and I am noticing actually there isn't a lot of

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fingerprint um markings showing which

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means that the cating is working while the phone itself feels really nice I

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always get self-conscious about potentially dropping it which is why I

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have a dbrand grip case on my phone and guess what dbrand is also the sponsor of

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this video they're chaotic but make good

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stuff like their grip case it has a super grippy texture and is impact

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resistant they also just launched their new ghost cases according to dbrand

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you'll die before the ghost case turns yellow only 1.2 mm thin with 10 ft of

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impact resistant protection available for pro iPhone models Ultra Samsung

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models and proxel models check out both today at Short lines.com first things

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first let's talk about the screen while in previous models they have also had

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the super retina xdr screens this time around they've also improved the screen

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brightness which is supposedly two times

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brighter than its predecessor the iPhone 14 I'd love to try it out but

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unfortunately it's raining outside so Labs has done some testing for us let's

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take a look I specifically want to point out the HDR brightness which in a dark

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room is about 850 nits uh Brandon one of

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our lab team's members pointed out that 850 nits is actually pretty crazy for

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screen brightness and is much higher than the average 500 nits that you'd see

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in a regular phone or a standard phone another thing to mention is Labs pointed

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out that in the SDR outdoor test

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they were able to measure 2200 knits

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versus the 2,000 knits that Apple claims

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quite impressive seeing that attire in contrast to my own iPhone 12 I've also

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noticed that on the 15 we have the dynamic Island so no more notches and

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I've actually never utilized the dynamic island or I guess I've never tried the

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dynamic Island so I'm interested to kind of look into that now I've never really

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been impressed by iPhone cameras I tend

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to frequent concerts and that's where I get the best test out of my iPhone

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cameras as I find a lot of the artifacting doesn't really make the

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pictures turn out as great as they could there's also often times in dark

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lighting a bit more of a lens flare which sometimes you don't want that but

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with this phone the camera has been one of the biggest features that has been

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advertised and talked about and so I think this might change my mind it's got

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fingerprints on it if only they could add a fingerprint resistant finish to

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the camera lenses now that would be a good feature so the new iPhone 15 has a

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dual lens system so we've got the standard camera which is uh 48 maps and

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then our Ultra wide which is 12 megapixels one feature I'm really

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excited about is Apple has added essentially controls for the user so

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that they can control the depth and the focus on photos after they're taken I

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love Apple's like portrait mode but I find sometimes when I'm taking pictures

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pictures of my dog it kind of blurs the wrong areas this kind of allows you to

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control where the blur is and where it isn't let's try it out do you want to

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come take a selfie with

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me beautiful all right let's try it

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edit portrait oh waa it can get really blurry

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I don't know if you could see that very well but Belle you don't even exist in

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this photo you're just uh yes true wow that actually works

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quite well so initial I guess Impressions is that feature is awesome

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so we'll do a bit of a blur and then

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wow that's great who needs Photoshop

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anymore just kidding we've got 0.5 zoom

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out for Ultra wide shots and now I'm going to take a picture of me at that

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I'm sorry I'm sorry oh it's

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hold it how many people have done that on

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ShortCircuit oh

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no it doesn't look very good I'll be honest but like Andrew said it's kind of

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a tricky shot with the light being directly facing the camera then we have

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the 1X Zoom option which is for like mid distance shots I'll just take a picture

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of Belle this time oh no it's on timer still three

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yay that looks pretty good um I'm so

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torn I'm like not a photographer either by any means so me judging the photos

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may not necessarily be like the best um

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point of view but uh you know it's all

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right and then we have the 2x Zoom distance for close-up shots one thing to

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mention is the 2x Zoom is only 12 megapixels let's take a

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selfie selfie cam seems all

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right every time it's like this is good as soon as I zoom in on the photo I'm

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like maybe it's not as good cuz like when I'm looking at it on the screen it

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looks fine it looks great it looks super clear but as soon as I take the photo

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maybe that has like maybe I just need to fondle with the settings a bit more but

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I kind of expected more to be honest here are a few other photos for you to

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take a look at uh I guess yes you get to make that

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decision now that we've tested the camera Let's test the audio and what

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better way to do that than with our absolute favorite Banger let's put some

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crab rave on it sounds like I'm on like a tropical island there is a very good

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range to this

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speaker it sounds really good I've never really compared phone speakers per se

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but but in comparison to my iPhone 12 this sounds fantastic I could listen to

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that all day the standard iPhone 15 has an a16

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bionic chip which is the same as in the iPhone 14 pro we got Labs to check out

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the performance here is data to look at

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wow data I'm not much of a mobile gamer but

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I mean hey if you can get a better phone for playing mobile games then maybe it's

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worth it I don't like what kind of mobile games you play oh I guess laabs

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has done the testing for us I kind of noticed in their marketing a little bit

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it was kind of weird because they said like the iPhone 15 can go up to 26 hours

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of battery life with whatever video but

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they don't like specifically say the iPhone 15 and the iPhone 15 plus so

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you're like kind of led to believe that it's uh the regular standard iPhone 15

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that's 26 until you actually look at like the side by sides of the the

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regular and the plus then it says up to 20 hours which is 6 hours less which

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isn't an insignificant amount in our endurance uh YouTube playback test we

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were able to get 18 hours and in the stress test we got 3.3 hours we also did

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a charging test and we were able to get it from 0 to 85% in an hour here's the

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data for how long it took to get it to

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full I feel like the batter is always something that Apple should continue to

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improve and this is something that I felt a lot towards like the iPads and

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also airpods and apple watches honestly

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please just improve battery life for everything because I don't want to have

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to charge my phone every single night and I feel like that's a universal

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experience however I know it's not as easy as I'm making it sound what if we

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could just throw a car battery in a phone we haven't really talked much

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about iOS 17 one feature I find incredibly helpful is that along with

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their emergency SOS they have also included a roadside assistant similar to

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AAA another feature that I find super awesome is with me and my partner is we

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have an air tag on our dog and uh with

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only one person being able to see where the dog is at a time if we were both

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having to like go out and search for her if she ran away uh I feel like that

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would be a lot less convenient um so like the fact that you

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can add two people to an air tag is I mean it should have been something that

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they from the beginning but it's nice that they're adding it now I don't know

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about you but uh I've definitely woken

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up in the middle of the night and checked to see what time it is on my

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phone and absolutely blinded myself Apple has since implemented a standby

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mode which we're going to try now

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but oh there oh you P the button no I didn't I

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just shifted it a little bit oh there okay welcome to standby I love this

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feature so much you can showcase some of the uh widgets that are more important

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so when you are sleeping in the middle of the night and you want to check on what time it is and you don't have a

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digital clock or anything else uh you could just glance at your phone in

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comparison to the iPhone 15 Pro which hasn't always on screen the standard 15

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doesn't have that feature however with a simple tap you should be able to bring

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up the standby mode it's so weird how simple a feature can be but also so

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helpful every morning I ask Alexa what the weather is going to be like but if I

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could have my time and my weather right beside me when I wake up I wouldn't have

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to do that it's just one simple step that I can skip uh using this feature

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which is super cool is there anything else oh they've got like a wide wide

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wide very wide Apple has also added this

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thing called name drop where you can

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easily share contacts by simp simply

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putting the phone tips together shall we try it all

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right wow crazy on that was wonderful oh I

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need to set up my card and my contacts oh there we are wow so fancy

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that was fantastic don't do me so I think if I go back to my initial

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question where I ask does the iPhone 15

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make me want to go to an Apple Store Wait in a line or make an appointment

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probably not I think between my iPhone 12 and the iPhone

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15 the features haven't changed too much

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I mean the dynamic island is cool and is a very aesthetic feature and sharing

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contacts by simply touching tips I think the camera is the part that always gets

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to me because it's not really a feature

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that I'm generally super stoked about

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but when you hear all of these positive things about it try it out for yourself

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and then aren't as impressed as everybody's telling you you're going to

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be I don't know maybe that's just me

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like everybody can make their own decisions and if you're the type of

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person that wants to go and buy every single new version of iPhone and try it

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out to its fullest and really get to pick at the positives and the negatives

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as you go through kind of the cycle that's not me the iPhone 15 starts at

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$79 9 USD I gu depending on the storage

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that you go with they go all the way up to $10.99 and that's just the standard

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then you have the choice between the iPhone 15 plus which is 6.7 in and it's

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$100 more for each or you can choose the

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pro uh or the pro Max which again ends

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up being a bit pricier I haven't checked out the features of the pro but based on

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the iPhone 15 that I looked at today I'm not convinced that I need to upgrade I

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do find that adding USBC is a convincing

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addition however I don't know if it really would make that big of a

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difference to my personal workflow um

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but maybe it will to yours so at the end of the day it's a cool

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