Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iPhone 15: a worthy upgrade? – Apple iPhone 15”.
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 this video they’re chaotic, but make good stuff like their grip case. It has a super grippy texture and is impact resistant. They also just launched their new ghost cases according to dbrand you’ll die before the ghost case turns yellow only 1.2 mm thin with 10 ft of impact resistant protection available for pro iPhone models, Ultra Samsung 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 short circuit? 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.
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