Our new iPhones in 2022 we have the iPhone 14 and 14 plus and then the iPhone 14 pro and 14 pro Max rip to the mini iPhone you had a good run so the new Baseline iPhones as you can imagine are pretty similar.


IPhone 14 Features -

It's just one is much bigger than the other one so the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus have 6.1 inches and 6.7 inch displays respectively my prediction on waveform was that all the prices would stay the same and that turned out to be correct so the iPhone 14 is 7.99 and the bigger 14 plus is 8.99 and really what you'll notice is these two phones look very similar to last year with some bumps and refinements here and there of course but they both have the same A15 bionic chip.

As last year the same design the same notch on the outside I'm actually convinced that a case that fits the iPhone 13 will fit the iPhone 14 but the green is gone and there is a new light blue that matches my shirt extremely well but there's three main things that are new here the display the cameras and connectivity if that makes sense. So the connectivity is the quirkiest one as you can imagine uh you know how iPhones forever have always had a little SIM card tray on the side well in the US starting with the iPhone 14 they will not have SIM card trays anymore they will be moving entirely to esim (electronic Sim) which is fine I guess.

I mean they work well it's typically very easy to upgrade phones or even swap between carriers but I have to wonder naturally if this is also going to act as a little bit of an extra wall in the Walled Garden because now how hard is it going to be to switch from an iPhone to a non-iPhone just something to think about but anyway the iPhone 14's also got satellite connectivity for SOS and this is actually really impressive so in areas where you don't have any Cellular Connection but you still need to send a message you will be able to talk to satellites to still get a message sent.


So now satellite connectivity is notoriously pretty difficult you'd need a big radio or at least something with large external antennas and you need an unobstructed view of the sky and you have to point it directly at a satellite.

I mean you've probably seen what a starlink dish looks like so now Apple's built this sensitivity into the iPhone 14s antennas and they've actually built a piece of UI in where it'll actually help you point directly at a satellite and it will help you send that emergency message it'll actually package it up into a smaller format and within 30 seconds to one or two minutes it can send a message even when you have no cellular connectivity it's an edge case hopefully you'll never have to use it but that is pretty cool that it can get it done

The details where it will be coming to the US and Canada launching later this year and it will be free for two years and then that's all we kind of know but as far as things you'll actually use every day the displays are the same size and resolutions as before but they do get a bit brighter now 1200 nits Max for HDR content everything else is the same and then there is a new camera system a larger 12-megapixel main sensor with sensor-shift stabilization a wider F 1.5 aperture for better photos and hopefully better sensitivity and low light and there is a new 12 megapixel selfie camera on the front with autofocus plus they've introduced this whole new photonic engine again they name everything but really that's just a better image processing pipeline from end to end which should improve across the board low light sensitivity and night time photos things like that there's also a new action mode feature in the camera that does much more dramatic stabilization on super shaky videos I definitely got to try this out for myself it seems like it works best with certain types of shots like the ones they use in their demos but we'll see basically the way I see it is these new iPhone 14s and 14plus s are essentially an iPhone 13 Pro.I think spending an extra 100 bucks for a way bigger screen is a no-brainer so that's 7.99 for the iPhone 14 and 8.99 for the 14 plus which actually comes out a month later in October for some reason but then we got the iPhone 14 pro and 14 pro Max which have a little bit more going on.

It's still got all the new stuff from the 14 and 14 plus that I just talked about satellite connectivity uh action mode in the camera it's even the same two sizes again 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches but there are three new things here and those are a new A16 bionic chip and an even bigger camera upgrade.

We'll get to it so the A16 bionic chip inside is even more powerful and more efficient as you can imagine it's now a six core chip built on a four nanometer process they're quoting 40% better than the competition sweet and there's also actually a slight display upgrade as well this is up to 2000 nits Max brightness Outdoors which is class leading and the pro iPhones.

Finally have an always-on display so you can see still the time and if you have notifications and even updated info on your widgets while your phone is locked and just sitting around on a table or charging that I like a lot but the big upgrades like I said are going to be the camera and the cutout at the top. So the camera system is all new and it is bigger like you can tell just by looking at it that everything in here is bigger it protrudes more off the back of the phone but yeah technically speaking this is the first time in about a decade that we're actually getting a megapixel bump this is a new 48-megapixel main camera sensor on the 14 Pros. So it's still going to bend down to 12 megapixels for normal shots you'll get 12 megapixel images out of it but you'll hopefully be able to reap the benefits of higher detail better low light sensitivity from a bigger sensor but also if you want to shoot 48-megapixel photos you can you just gotta shoot Pro raw then you'll get 48-megapixel shots and then they also added a new 2x button into the camera UI which might not seem like a big deal but that turns out to just be an exact crop using the middle 12 megapixels of the sensor itself so you can hit that 2x button to zoom in basically with Optical quality which is much better than before plus you still have the further 3x telephoto lens the Sun is setting real hardcore down here so sorry if I start to look orange but I'm definitely looking forward to testing out these cameras.


What's Happening Here is Apple's shrunk down all the selfie camera and the parts of the face ID system down by about 30 and so they'll fit in this pill-shaped cutout in the top of the screen fine if they'd stopped here that would be an incredibly minor update I mean it's literally aesthetic not worth mentioning since we see selfie cutouts all the time for years now but then they went a step further with it so since it's an OLED and you can turn off any pixels to appear pitch black they decided to play with extending the edges of the pill with more UI so if you have ongoing notifications or live actions stuff like music playing or timers in the background or an Uber notification or whatever those will show up and it has this nice little animation extends and shrink and move around the cutout and it works really really well so then you can tap on the icon to open that app and take action or you can actually hold down to surface extra information for what's happening which basically just looks like the widget that would be in your notifications just without having to pull down your notifications this is cool it works right away with a bunch of the stock.

Apple apps Apple Maps the timer the voicemails and all that stuff but they say it will also work with third-party apps now this will be up to them how fast they want to implement its fingers crossed that my favourite apps like Spotify and things like that get on it quickly we'll see but yeah this immediately takes the the whole pill cut-out thing to a new level.

Let's say if you have a timer and Maps navigation and music playing all happening in the background the dynamic Island would low-key turn into like a little multitasking UI and let you quickly switch between these ongoing things and it was already very intuitive it also just seems to be pretty generous about where you're tapping.

So obviously if you tap exactly on just the camera cutout itself well nothing will happen because those aren't actual pixels it's just the camera cutout but your finger is big enough that it naturally hits some of the pixels around the top and the bottom of the cutout so it still knows to respond pretty much anytime you just tap the black bar and there's also some active pixels in between you can kind of see them at just the right angle.


So if you touch in there it still responds it's really good I think a lot of people are gonna really love this you remember back in the day when there was like all these really friendly wallpapers that would take advantage of like a whole punch cut-out that would go viral because it's like oh that's a really thoughtful way of hiding a hole in the screen, this is just like a Next Level upgrade moving version of that.

It's really thoughtful playful friendly and intuitive so it's just a level-up version of that so even if the cutout looks a little worse sometimes when playing fullscreen videos or playing games I feel like it kind of makes up for it by being so useful so often also I hope this is the last time.

 That's how apple rolls so they named it but yeah that's that's the new Pro phones.
Their prices as last year too 9.99 and 10.99 starting and they go up to one terabyte there's not a lot of crazy Innovative Hardware design going on here nothing's folding in half there's no super fast high-end fast charging or wireless charging it's just a bunch of little refinements again at this point.

We know what the iPhone is Apple knows what the iPhone is and they tend to be late on the train to pick up on things and then doing it in the apple way that's pretty much exactly what's happening with the cutout and that's what the iPhone 14s are also they sneakily left some of the 13s still in the lineup.

The 13 Mini and the 13 Baseline is still available if you want them 5.99 for the 13 mini and 6.99 for the 13. Now I assume that none of the new boxes will have Chargers in them because they haven't for years now.