Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iPhone 15/15 Pro Impressions: Not Just USB-C!”.
All right so today I got a hold of and got to poke around the new iPhone 15 and the iPhone 15 Pros. I do remember flying here and I’m thinking what could Apple possibly do like what could they possibly introduce with a new iPhone the 23rd iPhone? That’S actually interesting. Now there is more stuff than just the iPhone that was mentioned at this Wonder, lust event that Apple hosted, including some stuff – that straight up wasn’t mentioned on stage at all, so we’ll get to that. But this is just the new iPhone stuff. So stay tuned to get subscribed to see the rest, but let’s just talk about the new iPhone, 15 and 15 Pro. So here’s a lens to look at all this stuff through coming into this. Basically, everything Apple, just added to their newest Flagship phones, falls into two buckets: it’s either something we’ve already seen in some other phone for years or it’s some ecosystem feature that only works with other iPhones, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s just just a Lens to look through this stuff at just to keep an eye on it, so this is the iPhone 15 there’s the same two sizes again iPhone 15 and iPhone 15, plus and yeah. You know there’s some small changes like the slight soft Corner, radi on the aluminum rails and the one piece glass back fading between a lighter and darker version of the same color like this new pink one. It’S pretty seamless, also satin soft touch backs across the whole lineup instead of glossy.
I definitely like that, but the big headlining feature really is it’s USB now lightning is officially dead. These new iPhones are all USBC across the board. Now, on one hand, this is a huge deal like there’s only ever been one Port change in the iPhone ever back. In 2012, we went from that 30 pin connector thing to this new lightning thing which we’ve had ever since and now the second one ever is USB type-c, but on the other hand, it’s I don’t know it’s just USB like it’s the same port. All these other laptops and tablets all over the planet, I’ve had for the past couple years. I imagine it might be another year or two before the whole lineup like the Baseline, cheap iPad and the iPhone SC and everything else gets USBC but yeah. I don’t know we knew it was coming, but it’s still kind of surreal to look at an iPhone and see a USB port on it.
So what does this enable? It’S a real question right, uh. First of all, it’s the one cable that you can ideally use to charge all your stuff. So your Mac, your iPad, your iPhone, your friends, Android phone, the new airpods, which just got a new USBC case, all that stuff, one cable, oh and now you can charge accessories like the new airpods with the wire. So there’s no Wireless reverse charging right now, but that ctoc cable that comes in the Box. So you can like plug it in the iPhone plug it into the airpods and charge the airpods up from the iPhone battery.
So that’s pretty cool, but they did hold back on one very key thing and they saved it for the iPhone 15 Pro so I’ll get to that in a bit. But that’s USBC, aside from that. Really it’s a slightly updated phone. It’S a little bit of a new display.
You know you get the dynamic Island here, of course, on these Baseline iPhones and there’s also now a higher Peak brightness 2,000 nits now, which is twice as bright as the iPhone 14s and there’s a new camera. The primary camera is now a 48 megapixel chip, presumably the same one, that was in the iPhone 14 pro last year and all the benefits that come with that and then the rest of the phone really follows that same formula. They do this thing where the new Baseline phone is basically last year’s Pro phone repackage, so it inherits the same a16 Bionic chip from last year’s Pro phone. The coolest feature of this phone, though – and you know it’s also in the Pro phone, but I still think it’s pretty solid.
Is the camera? Has this new Next Generation portrait mode, but basically automatically detects when there’s a subject in a photo and captures all of the depth information needed to be able to turn it into a portrait mode photo later? So you don’t have to remember to switch it to portrait mode necessarily every time and if you ever forget, but want to add that blur later you can do it with high quality results. So that’s cool aside from that the rest of the phone I mean it’s the same thing right same sizes, guys same ceramic Shield, same dust and water resistance and same starting prices $ 7.99 for the 15 and $ 8.99 for the 15 plus. So then there is the pro phones, the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max. There is some more new here, a lot of it.
I’M actually want to going to want to test just to see if it’s actually what they say but make sure you get subscribed to see those full reviews when they come out later this month and we can figure out if the phones are worth it. But basically it’s not bleeding edge stuff that we’ve never seen before. It’S just welcome stuff and those are mostly in build quality, the chip inside and the cameras. So, let’s just start with the chip inside.
First of all, it’s a brand new chip, that’s called the A7 Pro it’s the first time, they’ve used the word Pro in an iPhone chip and it’s their first 3 nanometer chip. So it promises some performance and efficiency improvements. As a result, I think they said it’s like 10 % faster high performance cores and the neural engines up to twice as fast bunch of other stuff, not sure how much of this you’ll actually notice in everyday use. But hey future proofing and Headroom is never a bad thing, so this is clearly a powerful chip.
They showed a demo of a game with like faster raid tracing which isn’t new, but you know it helped make their point. But the interesting thing to note here with this chip is they mentioned. The chip has a new usb3 controller on it, which means the 15 and 15 plus don’t have that. So basically, that means the pro iPhone’s USBC Port actually gets upgraded.
Usb3 speeds: the faster data transfer speeds up to 10 gbits per second, but the base iPhones. Without that controller they get USBC but they’re going to be stuck at USB 2.0 speeds. Basically, the same we’ve always had with lightning like 480 megabits per second. Now.
This probably won’t make a real difference to most people. Like I don’t know, when the last time you plugged your phone in was but it’s kind of a bummer that not all of the benefits of USBC come to all of the phones uh, but for the pro phones that are going to be shooting more prores, video Or Pro Raw photos, I mean it takes forever if you’ve shot this stuff. Like I have you know it takes forever to get those off of the phone cuz they’re big files, so I kind of wish they’d gone all the way I wish they’ done.
Thunderbolt speeds. 20. 30 40 megabits gigabits per second uh, but yeah. It’S it’s just going to be USB 3 on the pro iPhones and USB 2 on the bass iPhones. You know what is disappointing, though no fast charging like this. I talked about this on the podcast on waveform I’ll, try to link the episode below but like switching the USBC you’d. Think oh, this is a huge opportunity for Apple to like explain why they’re doing it and we know why they’re doing it.
But oh, why are you giving us this new port and all this, this big new USBC deal and it’s it’s just the same 20 or so watt charging we’ve had for the iPhone for forever, no new, fast charging kind of figured. They would try to do that. Better but yeah this will still take an hour and a half 2 hours to charge, but anyway, the new design is what most people are fawning over at the moment with the pros. So they have switched the rails from that shiny, fingerprint, stainless steel to this new grade, five titanium alloy with a brushed texture and it’s nice.
It is first of all it’s noticeably lighter in the hand which I love and it seems like. It’S also enabled them to shrink the body of the pro iPhones just a little bit, so they have the same screen sizes, but the screens now get even closer to the edges and there’s even thinner, slightly thinner bezels, and I actually do notice that now a lot Of people are also quoting stronger as one of the benefits too, but I really don’t think this is going to make as much of a difference as people are thinking like the pro iPhones have had this stainless steel rails for a while. Now I’ve dropped this phone.
As you know, I don’t have a case on the ground. I’Ve dented the stainless steel rails, it’s fine, it doesn’t break it’s, not the stainless steel that breaks it’s a glass that breaks and as far as we can tell it’s the same ceramic shield, glass on the iPhone 15 Pro that hasn’t changed. So if you drop it on the glass you’re still going to have not great results, uh but yeah technically sure titanium is stronger either way. The new colors are black white and this new blue, which is really subtle and then natural, which I guess it kind of Embraces the raw titanium, feel reminds me of Starlight. If you’re curious kind of like this warm tone weirdly, I think I like it the most but also something else Apple said on stage and this this was pretty quick, so you might not have even picked it up, but they did mention that they have redesigned a Bit of the interior of the chassis to make the back glass more replaceable, so it’s a more repairable iPhone design.
Technically, it’s a small thing. It’S just one little step, but it’s a step in the right direction for a more repairable iPhone, but my favorite feature and before we get to any of the cameras. I honestly think this is my favorite feature is uh the new action button, a new customizable button on the side of the iPhone just the pro iPhone. So it replaces the mute switch which is pretty iconic, but it’s in the same spot as the mute switch and it it’s actually customizable. So it’s a pretty small button, basically about the same size as the switch and by default it actually behaves just like the mute switch did so you you actually hold it down to switch between muted or ringer on great.
But if you dive into the settings, there’s actually a section for this action button and it’s actually really in-depth and super solid. It basically lets you go through and pick the function of the button and there’s way more here than I expected. So you can keep the mute switch on or you can have it switch you in and out of a certain Focus mode like do not disturb or you could pick whichever other one you want. You could also have it auto, launch the camera and pick whichever camera mode it opens. You could also do flashlight turning on or opening up voice memos or it can toggle the magnifier or the last option actually is.
You can have it trigger a series shortcut which, as you know, can technically do almost anything, including basically launching any app on your phone. I think there may be a bit of a delay from the button press to the app opening. If I’m thinking about this correctly, like it’s done in the past, but I’ll have to test that for the full review, but theoretically you can map this button to open whatever your calendar app your to-do list app whatever app you want, which is totally not what I Expected to be on the list of things, you could do with a new button on the side of the iPhone, but now you can, but then, last but not least, the new cameras across the board here, there’s a new larger 48 megapixel main sensor for the pros And improved Ultra wide and then the pro Max, just the pro Max gets a new intricate folding 5x telephoto camera, I’m guessing. If I asked Apple, they would say that there was only enough room in the bigger Pro Max to fit this folding lens I’ll.
Ask we’ll see what they say, but until then the regular 15 Pro is going to still have the 3x telephoto the regular 3x from last year, and then we found this seemingly random feature it’s in the settings. They also talked about it in the keynote, but where you can change your default focal length to be either 1X or 1.2x or 1.5x for some reason, so it’s buried in the middle of the camera settings, but you can tell it to default to one of these Specific three focal links, so if you switch back to the camera app that 1X button is now always going to take you to the new focal length that you’ve chosen and you can still get to 1x or whatever other focal length you want. But I just found that interesting. So maybe if you somehow, if you’re someone that takes 1.2x photos so often that you want a button to get there as fast as possible, because it’s the perfect focal length for you, then sure, maybe if you’re a photographer, you don’t want to do the work of Digital cropping just hit that focal length every time sure, but there’s been a lot of comments that, at the end of the day, it feels like USB is literally the big biggest headlining new feature of this year’s new iPhone, which is crazy.
I I can’t quite get rid of my lightning cable, yet there’s still some accessories, there’s like mag, safe Duo, there’s airpods Max there’s like the magic Trackpad there’s a couple things that still are lightning now. Maybe they’ll switch that in the next couple months. But now I’m genuinely curious if there’s going to be a bunch of new USBC phone accessories because of the iPhone getting USBC uh similar to our sponsor of this video ankor. So they’ve made a whole new lineup products for the iPhone 15 headlined by the anchor Nano which is like this little small But Mighty USBC power bank that can crank out 30 Watts with the built-in USBC cable. And you can also charge it up.
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