Iphone 14 Review

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                       Iphone 14 Review


  • Pros

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      Familiar design and quality build

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      New heat dissipation interior

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      Better TrueDepth camera

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      Emergency satellite communications

    Cons

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      The notch remains

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      Last generation A15 Bionic chip

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      Mostly minor upgrade


Design 



Aside from new colors – we tested the tasteful pale blue model – the 6.1-inch iPhone 14 looks very much like the iPhone 13. Its aluminum frame, button placement, stereo speaker grilles, Lightning port, and even the screen, all appear unchanged. There are, though, tiny structural differences.

At 146.7 x 71.5 x 7.8mm, it’s just a hair thicker than the iPhone 13. It’s also two grams lighter than the last phone, which we assume is down to the new thermal architecture inside the device. Despite the chassis similarities, the iPhone 14 doesn’t quite fit in an official iPhone 13 MagSafe case – the body slides in just fine, but the iPhone 14’s two-lens camera array is slightly larger.

All the materials – including the Ceramic Shield covering the display – are the same, and the dust and water resistance remains unchanged from the iPhone 13, as well. Naturally, we ran our iPhone 14 through a sprinkler, just to ensure it could handle it. It was fine – and it may have enjoyed the respite from the New York heat.

Display


With a 2532 x 1170, 460ppi resolution, the iPhone 14’s Super Retina XDR display is almost entirely unchanged from the iPhone 13. The notch that’s been banished from the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max lives on in this now somewhat aging design. It encompasses an updated TrueDepth camera (it’s still 12MP, but backed by a better light-gathering sensor and has the ability to autofocus), an IR sensor, flood illuminator, and, above it all, the top speaker (the other speaker is on the bottom of the phone). This is likely the last hurrah for the notch, as it seems hard to believe that it’ll survive in next year’s anticipated iPhone 15.

Even though this is a bright (up to 1,200 nits) and colorful (Wide Color) display with (thanks to OLED) inky blacks (boasting a 2,000,000-to-1 contrast ratio), it automatically feels out of step with the latest in Apple display technology. There’s no adaptive refresh rate, and not even the120Hz ProMotion that we first met on 2021's Pro models. Just 60Hz. That might be hard to swallow when the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max offer adaptive refresh rates that range from 10Hz to 120Hz. Plus, those phones have a new always-on display mode that can stop down to just 1Hz, for extra power efficiency. Again, this is what you pay extra for.


Camera 




The iPhone 14 has just two rear cameras:
  • A 12MP main (26mm, f/1.5)
  • A 12MP ultrawide (120-degree field of view, 13mm, f/2.4)

These are good cameras with better sensors and overall low-light performance compared to their predecessors. The front camera – also 12MP – now has autofocus too, which should make group selfies somewhat easier.

All the cameras benefit from a new imaging pipeline. The Photonic Engine prioritizes Deep Fusion neural image processing earlier than previously, so it can work with uncompressed images.

Photography with the iPhone 14 is good, though having also tested the iPhone 14 Pro, we do miss having optical zoom and macro abilities at our fingertips. Even so, this level of photographic capability and the high-quality output should satisfy most users.

Like the rest of the iPhone 14 line, this model can shoot up to 4K video, and Cinematic Mode has now been pumped up to support 4K at 30fps.

Brand new is Active Mode, which is enabled by selecting the running person icon in the top right-hand portion of the camera app’s viewfinder. This is a surprisingly effective way of removing much of the shake from action videos. No, there isn’t a new gimbal in the iPhone 14; instead, Apple employs over-scan and advanced roll detection – which is a fancy way of saying it rapidly and on-the-fly crops the video to keep the center (usually a subject) more smoothly in-frame. This processing does discard some video information (resulting in a cropped frame), but the results are GoPro-smooth. I’m not sure how wildly useful this is, but if you’re an action fan it might be a godsend.


Some camera samples






  • Audio

At least Apple has been consistent on the audio side. All four iPhone 14 models have stereo speakers and spatial audio support, and create loud (if you want), clear, and bright sound. In movies and music that support it, spatial audio adds a sort of surround-sound effect. There are titles on Netflix, Amazon, and other streaming services to enjoy the feature, plus Apple Music has an entire spatial audio playlist to dive into. Everything we played on the iPhone 14 sounded great. 


Performance 




  • Uses the iPhone 13 Pro's A15 Bionic chip
  • New heat dissipation system gives the processor more breathing room
  • Good performance for the price

Oh hey, last year’s mobile CPU! We need to start out by making clear that there is nothing wrong with the A15 Bionic. It’s a powerful chip that has consistently beaten the best Qualcomm has to offer, and it has substantial headroom, which means mobile games like Asphalt: Legends and PUBG run smoothly. You can edit 4K videos, browse the web, do all the things you can do with the faster and more efficient A16 Bionic found in the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max, with the real-world difference likely only really becoming apparent after years of use.

What Apple did here – bringing the enhanced A15 chip from the iPhone 13 Pro to the iPhone 14 – was kind of smart. It’s a good cost-saving move that will leave nobody wanting.

The A15 Bionic, as it lives inside the new iPhone 14, has a new internal design for more efficient heat dissipation. This, Apple claims, helps with repairability, but a cooler chip should also run better.

While benchmarks were more or less in line with the A15 Bionic we tested in the iPhone 13 Pro, this iPhone does promise better battery life (20 hours of video streaming, as opposed to 19 hours for the iPhone 13), despite having an only fractionally-bigger battery; suggesting Apple’s efforts with the cooling system are responsible for this improved efficiency.


Battery 


  • Enough juice for a busy day
  • Wireless charging + MagSafe
  • Buy your own adapter

As I mentioned above, the iPhone 14 is rated for 20 hours of video playback, 16 hours of streamed video, and 80 hours of audio playback. We got more than a full day’s battery life off a single charge. The iPhone 14 ships with a Lightning-To-USB-C charge cable and no charger.

You can buy a 5W adapter, or spend a bit more for Apple’s 20W charger, which will get you to 50% charge in 30 minutes. The phone is also MagSafe and Qi wireless charging compatible. 


Software 




  • All iPhone 14 models ship with iOS 16
  • Filled with new features
  • Custom lock screens, unsending texts, and cleaner notifications are highlight

All Apple iPhone 14 handsets ship with iOS 16. It’s a worthwhile upgrade that offers some of the most significant platform changes we’ve seen in a while.

Highlights include a new lock screen. Instead of one static screen, you get multiple screens, each with their own focus mode attached.

There are powerful image tools that let you take any photo and use it on your lock screen with, for instance, a portion of someone’s head peeking over the redesigned time readout. You can also add widgets (different ones for each lock screen) to really personalize the experience.

There are other cool features, like editable and retrievable texts, multi-stop directions in Maps, live text in videos, and more.

It’s a good OS update, and we think it enhances any iPhone running it.


Verdict 

This is now Apple’s lightest and cheapest iPhone 14. It’s more than 30 grams lighter than the similarly sized iPhone 14 Pro, which starts at $899. It lacks the latest screen technology, still has a notch, and only has two rear cameras, which for some, may feel like big trade-offs, in order to save $200, but for others, the Pro might be overkill.

The iPhone 14 is Apple's 'good enough', which, as it happens, is still pretty superb. It's unlikely to disappoint most users, even if new owners may be left casting sideways glances at iPhone 14 Pro users flaunting their always-on displays and their Dynamic Islands.


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