I've never really been the type of person to go out and buy Apple's new and
improved products that they launch every year but this might change my mind this
is the iPhone 15 and she's beautiful at
first glance they've added this very sleek and smooth beveled Edge which
almost creates a more um luxury feel as
well as the very soft matte uh back
which is unique to the 15 as in previous years they've had more of a shiny glass
and it also has a fingerprint resistant coating we have the pink color here but
Apple also launched this with uh four other colorways including blue green
black and yellow I've never really been one for colored iPhones but I really
like the pastel colorings that they have this year it's a lot more subtle than
previous years but I kind of find that to be an advantage I mean that is for
people who don't put their iPhones in a case right away the USBC charging cable
this I feel is probably the most important part of this new iPhone
because it's Universal uh and you can charge your Gen 2 airpods with your
iPhone so it essentially kind of becomes a battery Bank uh and oh what is this
instructions oh no this is the uh the Sim popper which I feel like they're
going to kind of start phasing that out like the physical SIM cards and start
integrating more eim I guess as long as telephone providers uh are comfortable
with that do you think I could get it in the room behind
yeah W great so on the 15 pro and pro Max I
know they have like a button here but for the standard 15 they've kept the uh
the little switch uh we've got our volume buttons of course the beautiful
USBC port on the bottom and then your
standard on andof button and I am noticing actually there isn't a lot of
fingerprint um markings showing which
means that the cating is working while the phone itself feels really nice I
always get self-conscious about potentially dropping it which is why I
have a dbrand grip case on my phone and guess what dbrand is also the sponsor of
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models and proxel models check out both today at Short lines.com first things
first let's talk about the screen while in previous models they have also had
the super retina xdr screens this time around they've also improved the screen
brightness which is supposedly two times
brighter than its predecessor the iPhone 14 I'd love to try it out but
unfortunately it's raining outside so Labs has done some testing for us let's
take a look I specifically want to point out the HDR brightness which in a dark
room is about 850 nits uh Brandon one of
our lab team's members pointed out that 850 nits is actually pretty crazy for
screen brightness and is much higher than the average 500 nits that you'd see
in a regular phone or a standard phone another thing to mention is Labs pointed
out that in the SDR outdoor test
they were able to measure 2200 knits
versus the 2,000 knits that Apple claims
quite impressive seeing that attire in contrast to my own iPhone 12 I've also
noticed that on the 15 we have the dynamic Island so no more notches and
I've actually never utilized the dynamic island or I guess I've never tried the
dynamic Island so I'm interested to kind of look into that now I've never really
been impressed by iPhone cameras I tend
to frequent concerts and that's where I get the best test out of my iPhone
cameras as I find a lot of the artifacting doesn't really make the
pictures turn out as great as they could there's also often times in dark
lighting a bit more of a lens flare which sometimes you don't want that but
with this phone the camera has been one of the biggest features that has been
advertised and talked about and so I think this might change my mind it's got
fingerprints on it if only they could add a fingerprint resistant finish to
the camera lenses now that would be a good feature so the new iPhone 15 has a
dual lens system so we've got the standard camera which is uh 48 maps and
then our Ultra wide which is 12 megapixels one feature I'm really
excited about is Apple has added essentially controls for the user so
that they can control the depth and the focus on photos after they're taken I
love Apple's like portrait mode but I find sometimes when I'm taking pictures
pictures of my dog it kind of blurs the wrong areas this kind of allows you to
control where the blur is and where it isn't let's try it out do you want to
come take a selfie with
me beautiful all right let's try it
edit portrait oh waa it can get really blurry
I don't know if you could see that very well but Belle you don't even exist in
this photo you're just uh yes true wow that actually works
quite well so initial I guess Impressions is that feature is awesome
so we'll do a bit of a blur and then
wow that's great who needs Photoshop
anymore just kidding we've got 0.5 zoom
out for Ultra wide shots and now I'm going to take a picture of me at that
I'm sorry I'm sorry oh it's
starting
hold it how many people have done that on
ShortCircuit oh
no it doesn't look very good I'll be honest but like Andrew said it's kind of
a tricky shot with the light being directly facing the camera then we have
the 1X Zoom option which is for like mid distance shots I'll just take a picture
of Belle this time oh no it's on timer still three
two one
yay that looks pretty good um I'm so
torn I'm like not a photographer either by any means so me judging the photos
may not necessarily be like the best um
point of view but uh you know it's all
right and then we have the 2x Zoom distance for close-up shots one thing to
mention is the 2x Zoom is only 12 megapixels let's take a
selfie selfie cam seems all
right every time it's like this is good as soon as I zoom in on the photo I'm
like maybe it's not as good cuz like when I'm looking at it on the screen it
looks fine it looks great it looks super clear but as soon as I take the photo
maybe that has like maybe I just need to fondle with the settings a bit more but
I kind of expected more to be honest here are a few other photos for you to
take a look at uh I guess yes you get to make that
decision now that we've tested the camera Let's test the audio and what
better way to do that than with our absolute favorite Banger let's put some
crab rave on it sounds like I'm on like a tropical island there is a very good
range to this
speaker it sounds really good I've never really compared phone speakers per se
but but in comparison to my iPhone 12 this sounds fantastic I could listen to
that all day the standard iPhone 15 has an a16
bionic chip which is the same as in the iPhone 14 pro we got Labs to check out
the performance here is data to look at
wow data I'm not much of a mobile gamer but
I mean hey if you can get a better phone for playing mobile games then maybe it's
worth it I don't like what kind of mobile games you play oh I guess laabs
has done the testing for us I kind of noticed in their marketing a little bit
it was kind of weird because they said like the iPhone 15 can go up to 26 hours
of battery life with whatever video but
they don't like specifically say the iPhone 15 and the iPhone 15 plus so
you're like kind of led to believe that it's uh the regular standard iPhone 15
that's 26 until you actually look at like the side by sides of the the
regular and the plus then it says up to 20 hours which is 6 hours less which
isn't an insignificant amount in our endurance uh YouTube playback test we
were able to get 18 hours and in the stress test we got 3.3 hours we also did
a charging test and we were able to get it from 0 to 85% in an hour here's the
data for how long it took to get it to
full I feel like the batter is always something that Apple should continue to
improve and this is something that I felt a lot towards like the iPads and
also airpods and apple watches honestly
please just improve battery life for everything because I don't want to have
to charge my phone every single night and I feel like that's a universal
experience however I know it's not as easy as I'm making it sound what if we
could just throw a car battery in a phone we haven't really talked much
about iOS 17 one feature I find incredibly helpful is that along with
their emergency SOS they have also included a roadside assistant similar to
AAA another feature that I find super awesome is with me and my partner is we
have an air tag on our dog and uh with
only one person being able to see where the dog is at a time if we were both
having to like go out and search for her if she ran away uh I feel like that
would be a lot less convenient um so like the fact that you
can add two people to an air tag is I mean it should have been something that
they from the beginning but it's nice that they're adding it now I don't know
about you but uh I've definitely woken
up in the middle of the night and checked to see what time it is on my
phone and absolutely blinded myself Apple has since implemented a standby
mode which we're going to try now
but oh there oh you P the button no I didn't I
just shifted it a little bit oh there okay welcome to standby I love this
feature so much you can showcase some of the uh widgets that are more important
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
digital clock or anything else uh you could just glance at your phone in
comparison to the iPhone 15 Pro which hasn't always on screen the standard 15
doesn't have that feature however with a simple tap you should be able to bring
up the standby mode it's so weird how simple a feature can be but also so
helpful every morning I ask Alexa what the weather is going to be like but if I
could have my time and my weather right beside me when I wake up I wouldn't have
to do that it's just one simple step that I can skip uh using this feature
which is super cool is there anything else oh they've got like a wide wide
wide very wide Apple has also added this
thing called name drop where you can
easily share contacts by simp simply
putting the phone tips together shall we try it all
right wow crazy on that was wonderful oh I
need to set up my card and my contacts oh there we are wow so fancy
that was fantastic don't do me so I think if I go back to my initial
question where I ask does the iPhone 15
make me want to go to an Apple Store Wait in a line or make an appointment
probably not I think between my iPhone 12 and the iPhone
15 the features haven't changed too much
I mean the dynamic island is cool and is a very aesthetic feature and sharing
contacts by simply touching tips I think the camera is the part that always gets
to me because it's not really a feature
that I'm generally super stoked about
but when you hear all of these positive things about it try it out for yourself
and then aren't as impressed as everybody's telling you you're going to
be I don't know maybe that's just me
like 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 and try it
out to its fullest and really get to pick at the positives and the negatives
as you go through kind of the cycle that's not me the iPhone 15 starts at
$79 9 USD I gu depending on the storage
that you go with they go all the way up to $10.99 and that's just the standard
then you have the choice between the iPhone 15 plus which is 6.7 in and it's
$100 more for each or you can choose the
pro uh or the pro Max which again ends
up being a bit pricier I haven't checked out the features of the pro but based on
the iPhone 15 that I looked at today I'm not convinced that I need to upgrade I
do find that adding USBC is a convincing
addition however I don't know if it really would make that big of a
difference to my personal workflow um
but maybe it will to yours so at the end of the day it's a cool
phone I hope you enjoyed this ShortCircuit like comment and subscribe and
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