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iPhone 14 Review

TNot a lot has changed since last year. And on top of that, the gap between the iPhone 14 and the Pro models is wider than ever. So is this phone still a relevant choice?
a new model with some incremental upgrades. That’s pretty much par for the course when it comes to the iPhones, but just how incremental can we get? It seems like we might find out with the new iPhone 14.
This year’s vanilla model gets a couple of features from last year’s iPhone 13 Pro. The a 15 Bionic chipset with A5 core GPU and the main camera. There is also a new selfie Cam which has autofocus.
Another new feature is that the internals have been rearranged so that the iPhone 14 is easier to service and repair. There are a couple of additions when it comes to connectivity as well. There’s new Bluetooth 5.3 and a region specific satellite connection that you can use to contact emergency services. Handy if you don’t have network coverage. And that’s about it for the meaningful changes.
The compact design is exactly the same and is premium as ever, with IP68 rated ingress protection against up to six metres of water. Holding the phone in hand, you’d be hard pressed to tell if this is the new model or the old one.
It’s not like the Pro models are breaking the mould this year either, but they do bring a new hyped up selfie cut out with extra functionality, and they also supported an always on display for the first time on an iPhone. It’s too bad that we don’t get anything new like that here.
Even just an upgrade of the screen refresh rate to match the pros would have been awesome. But no, it’s still 60 Hertz, and compared to most phones in this price segment, swiping and scrolling feels a bit choppy.
It remains a nice screen though, a 6.1 inch OLED with a pixel density of 460 PPI and ceramic shield protection.
This display is quite bright, achieving a maximum of about 800 nits with a brightness slider, the same as last year. Unlike the Pro models, there is no auto brightness boost. Beyond that, content on the iPhone 14 looks great too. The panel is sharp, contrasty and colourful, and the colour accuracy is excellent here. There’s also HDR, 10 and Dolby Vision support. Of course the notch cut out is into the content of it, but that’s expected here.
For audio, the iPhone 14 has a pair of stereo speakers with the earpiece doubling as the second one. They sport very good loudness and the sound quality is excellent, with great mids and highs and nice bays.
I’m wide awake, but you’re my and for storage you get your choice of 100 and 28256 or 512 gigs on board. Last year’s iPhones ran on the A-15 Bionic chipset, but they weren’t all the same. The vanilla models had four GPU cores, while the Pro models had five cores. That a 15 bionic chip with five cores is being reused in the iPhone 14, and as you’d expect, it provides excellent benchmark performance on par with last year’s iPhone 13 Pro.
There’s an edge over the regular iPhone 13 when it comes to GPU tasks, but CPU wise is quite similar. And when it comes to thermal management, the iPhone 14 throttles its performance quite a bit with prolonged stress, but does so in a gradual way without sudden dips that might cause hiccups or lag.
The iPhone 14 has a 3279 million hour battery capacity as opposed to 3240 and the iPhone 13. It’s basically the same thing.
We did however, measure an increase in the screen on time with the iPhone 14, but the overall endurance rating was similar at 90 hours.
Once again, there is no charger bundled with the new iPhones and you’d have to get your own. Now back to our review, let’s talk about the interface Apple’s new iOS 16. It’s not a ground breaking update over iOS 15, but there are a few changes worth mentioning.
The lock screen doesn’t double isn’t always on display here, but it brings a few refinements. It houses your notifications which swipe up from the bottom. There’s widget support and you can customise several different layouts for the lock screen and switch between them on the fly.
Lock screen layouts can also be linked directly to specific focus profiles or within settings. In each profile, you can set up its preferred lock screen.
The focus profiles are already there to philtre your messages and notifications, but now they can even connect to your mail and messaging apps to philtre them right from the source.
And plenty of apps have seen upgrades, including FaceTime and the Wallet app among many others. Finally, let’s go over the cameras. The 12 megapixel main Cam is the same as the iPhone 13 Pros, and compared to the vanilla 13, has a brighter aperture and larger pixels. The 12 megapixel ultra wide canvas, identical to the one on the previous model.
This year Apple also brings an update to the HDR image stacking tag, Where before it was called Deep Fusion, now is the photonic engine. Anyway, in daylight, the 12 megapixel photos from the main Cam are great and typical for an iPhone. There’s plenty of detail, low noise and natural looking colours. The dynamic range is good, but not too wide.
As we’ve observed on previous iPhones. Find details like foliage have an unnatural, overprocessed look that not everyone is a fan of.
And compared to the iPhone 13, the main cameras on both phones produce remarkably similar photos.
Portrait shots from the main Cam are very competent, The subject detection and separation are nearly perfect, and the background bouquet is convincing.
12 megapixel photos from the ultra wide camera are pretty wide and there’s a solid amount of detail, good contrast and accurate colours. Like the main Cam, the dynamic range is balanced but not too wide. Unlike some of the other recent iPhones, there’s no autofocus on this camera and that means you can’t use it to shoot macro close-ups
when shooting with the main Cam and low light conditions and automatic night mode will kick in and it generally does a great job. The photos are clean looking and detailed with well controlled light sources. Dark areas also contain plenty of detail as well.
Despite having a brighter main camera lens and the new photonic engine, the iPhone 14’s low light photos are very similar in quality to those from the iPhone 13. The most notable upgrade was that the overall capture time was much faster on the new model. Low light photos taken with the ultra wide Cam also make use of the auto nad mode. The images have balanced exposure and nicely saturated colours, but they still remain on the soft and noisy side.
Onto the 12 megapixel selfies and they are excellent. The detail level is great and the skin texture and colours look very natural. There’s low noise and the contrast and dynamic range are praiseworthy too. And the iPhone 14 has Phase Detection Auto Focus, which is quite reliable.
The iPhone 14 can record video and up to 4K60FPS with any of its three cameras, and all modes also feature an expanded dynamic range thanks to the Smart HDR. 4K videos from the selfie Cam are awesome. They’re very clean and detailed with nice looking textures and skin tones. The stabilisation could be better but the bigger bumps and shakes are still handled well.
4K videos from the main camera are excellent, there’s plenty of detail, vibrant yet true to life colours and solid dynamic range. We have no complaints whatsoever.
The 4K videos from the ultra wide camera are equally brilliant. They excel in everything and have to be among the most detailed we’ve seen as far as ultra wide cameras go.
The iPhone 14 has excellent stabilisation all around. There’s optional EIS for all of its cameras, and the main one also gets the benefit of OIS.
Plus there’s a new action mode which offers an extra smooth effect at the cost of some resolution and a narrower field of view. It does a splendid job.
So that’s the iPhone 14. You get a compact form factor and the high quality you expect from an iPhone and that pretty much sums it U actually there is autofocus on the selfie Cam now, which is nice, but the other changes are small and hardly noticeable. You don’t even get the signature new look of the iPhone 14 generation or the dynamic island or the new always on display. Overall I would call the iPhone 14 more of a refresh than an actual upgrade and while it is a great phone, you can save some money by getting the iPhone 13 without sacrificing that much. Thanks for watching guys and see you on the next one.

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