do you want to literally die buy an Android then
seriously that's the takeaway of today's apple event if you go to work eat food
hike drive a car or ovulate without an apple watch ultra and an iphone 14 you
are as good as dead at least i'm pretty sure that's what
apple wanted to be the takeaway of their event today
behind their appeals to worrywarts and helicopter parents though is some
genuinely cool tech and of course a bunch of stuff that everyone else has
had for years that apple has slapped a new name on and called it revolutionary
so what tech here is actually a step forward and what's just a shiny new
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in past years apple has shied away from calling attention to the notch to the
point where they got sued over it but for the iphone 14 pro the notch is on
full display now it's pill-shaped and apple calls it the dynamic island
around the front sensors the pill expands to show you useful information
while you're in other apps things like timers music sports scores flight
information maps navigation and more can
go up here i will personally need to actually use it for a bit before i
decide if it's a gimmick or not but what i know now is that it still looks bad
while watching full screen video and it also pretty much guarantees that
you're going to have fingerprints all over your front facing camera every time
you go to use it which is too bad because the front-facing camera now has
autofocus which is pretty sweet as far as i can tell this is the first
time a front-facing camera has been able to properly focus typically front
cameras have a fixed lens that is focused at roughly an ARM's length away
with everything else being i don't know probably good enough
this saves on the space that's needed to have a movable focusing element but
completely eliminates any chance of natural bokeh
both the base and pro iphone 14 models then now do have this feature and
there's a good chance that these new front-facing cameras will be better than
many of the rear shooters from a couple of years ago on that subject around back
on the iphone 14 pro we get a new 48 megapixel quad pixel sensor that is 65
larger and has a cool trick up its sleeve pixel binning
when there's heaps of light you get the full 48 megapixels but in low light the
iphone 14 pro is able to take four pixels and turn them into a single
better pixel this does decrease the resolution of your photos from 48 to 12
megapixels but it dramatically improves low light
performance to be clear this technology is nothing new for instance the samsung
galaxy s21 ultra and s22 ultra have a version of this that actually combines
nine pixels together but it is a very welcome addition to the iphone 14 pro
along with the main camera on the pro we get a 12 megapixel 48 millimeter
telephoto and a 12 megapixel 13 millimeter wide and every iphone 14
camera benefits from apple's new photonic engine which is basically their
deep fusion photo ai but more better and apparently it can
nearly double their low light performance while the base iphone 14
gets the same a15 chip from the old iphone 13 pro the 14 pro gets a fancy
new a16 chip the a-16 sounds similar to
the a15 we still get two performance cores four efficiency cores and five GPU
cores but through the magic of four nanometer it's able to reduce power
consumption on the performance cores by 20
according to apple this is the most efficient mobile CPU in existence
and given that they've been crapping on everyone else in terms of performance
i'd say that's probably accurate and
it's probably more power than you'll be needing in a smartphone for quite some
time unless you're a very heavy user the biggest advancement with the a16
though is the display engine which brings better anti-aliasing the ability
to reduce the screen refresh rate down to one hertz to boost battery life and
finally and always on display for the iphone
i know i know everyone on Android totally floored right now that apple
hasn't had an always-on display until now but guys
credit credit where credit is due they have
finally done it only took them nine years
three times as long as it took us to design our screwdriver which is available at lttstore.com
but apple giveth and apple take it away in this case take a thing the sim tray
actually in most of the world you'll get a nano sim tray but if you buy an iphone
14 in north america you do not instead
you get two e-sims now for the vast majority of users this
absence of a physical sim tray is never going to be a problem you just connect
your carrier to the e-sim and you never think about it again
but if you're someone that regularly travels between continents and doesn't
have a travel plan or you go places where it's not supported
then it's going to be a bit of a change see right now if you want to change to a
local carrier when you're on the road you go grab a sim card put it in your
phone and you're done going forward with a north american
iphone 14 you're gonna have to register
that carrier to one of your two e-sim slots that assumes they even support
esim and then if you need a third carrier for some reason you're gonna
have to go through the rigmarole of removing one of your carriers and adding
another one switching it's just a giant what fart
anyway if there was one thing that brought a sparkle to apple's eye during
the event it was the thought of you being in grave danger like
wow they laid it on pretty thick they do have some pretty cool technology
to show for it though previously if you wanted to connect your
cell phone directly to a saddle knight you'd need a rod jeremy spec antenna and
well you still do if you want to have a proper conversation without involving a
cell tower but this is really cool by having an app
that shows you how to point your phone directly at a satellite you can manage
just enough of a connection to send out an emergency message and your location
to make this easier they have a form with typical emergency questions so all
the information a rescue team needs can be sent at once and even if you're not
in grave danger you can use this feature to send location data to your loved ones
if you're the kind of person that goes on weeks-long treks across the yukon or
whatever the case may be also integrated into the iphone 14 is
new car crash detection this is accomplished by using an improved
gyroscope as well as a fancy accelerometer that can measure up to
256 g's at a 3 000 hertz polling rate as
well as data from the barometer and mic to tell if an airbag has gone off
apple apparently recorded a thousand hours of crash test data and from that
they were able to tell what type of car crash you've been in and automatically
alert emergency services if you don't respond to the prompt
crash detection is also a feature on the new apple watch ultra which frankly
looks pretty sick the case is titanium the face is a
sapphire crystal and you get a new orange programmable button
i doubt the majority of apple watch ultra users will ever need it to
function as a dive computer a wayfinder or to measure the length of their stride
but in addition to those it has improvements for the rest of us like more battery
life the watch ultra can last for 36 hours of regular use and up to 60 when
it's in low power mode it has dual frequency gps for higher accuracy and an
all red night mode that looks sick i think Anthony probably put it
best when he said this is the apple watch that makes people that didn't want
an apple watch want an apple watch the
standard apple watch series 8 is largely unchanged compared to the series 7
except for two improvements that it shares with the watch ultra the
aforementioned crash detection and some really accurate thermometers one on the
outside and the other against your skin these sensors were designed with women's
health in mind specifically cycle tracking and a retrospective analysis of
ovulation all of this information is encrypted on the device and not even apple has a key
to decrypt it which shouldn't be that big of a deal but unfortunately women's
rights in the states recently took a huge hit and cycle tracking information
could be weaponized against you if it falls into the wrong hands anyway the
atrial fibrillation will be able to pick up your distress when you find out the
apple watch ultra starts at 800 us dollars good gravy while the series 8
starts at 400 with the sc starting at 250. moving on there's a second
generation of the airpods pro that's actually the one i'm most excited about
that features new h2 silicon that apparently has greatly improved spatial
audio now you're able to use an iphone camera to create a 3d model of your ear
to better tune the spatial audio for your specific ears something the likes
of sony have been doing for a while overall the new airpods pros just seem
to be like better than the old ones more battery
life better active noise cancellation and an improved transparency mode the
improvement i'm most excited for concerns the case though it finally has
the ability to charge with an apple watch charger and also you can easily
locate the charging case thank you apple like you can already
easily find the headphones but i find that i constantly lose the charging case
around the house because i'll just leave it somewhere when i put my
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Linus tech tips if you guys enjoyed this video maybe
you'll enjoy i don't know our review of the airpods pros
sure yeah i can't wait to get my new ones my old ones are starting to have some problems
i'm getting the same kind of rattling in one of the drivers that i had with my my
old ones