I do n’t postulate to have a new iPhone every year , just the procedure of transfer over with various authentications is sometimes a bit annoying . What ’s more , the iPhone has matured to such an extent that there are only evolutionary change from year to yr , rarely an innovation that really knocks my wind cone off .
A new equipment every three to four old age , possibly a replacing battery in between — that ’s quite enough . After three to four year , a new iPhone really does sense revolutionary liken to the previous one .
But now I ’m in the situation of get to change every year for professional reason . Because even if the innovations from generation to generation are rather sparse , iI demand to be familiar with each annual upgrade to verify I give our valued reader the well possible selective information . But which model is good for me ?
All iPhone 15s come with USB-C instead of Lightning.
Deciding on a downgrade
In late year , I have had a rediPhone 11 , a greeniPhone 12 , a lilac - colourediPhone 13and a goldiPhone 14 Proin constant use . I did n’t buy any of them myself , most of them were test modeling from Apple that we returned after a twelvemonth , well - look - after and undamaged .
But what does a bad iPhone user steal when they ’ve been using the iPhone 14 Pro for a whole year ? Your milage may vary , but I opted for an iPhone 15 , without the “ Pro . ”
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All iPhone 15s come with USB-C instead of Lightning.
Why is that ? Sure , the price act a function . Would the features of the iPhone 15 Pro justify the special cost ? Six months after making the switch , I have an answer .
Current best price : iPhone 15
The camera: Just as good, minus the zoom
Most people now make their purchase decision based on the smartphone ’s camera , so most smartphone tests are really television camera tests . I had always used the normal exemplar with its wide - angle and radical - wide - angle lens system until I get a telephoto lens with the iPhone 14 Pro .
It made a deviation compared to the previous iPhone 13 , no question about it . On holiday , I was able to leave the other cameras at home for the first sentence ( one a compact digital photographic camera with 6x zoom , one a system tv camera with 3x rapid growth ) , especially as the iPhone simply takes better pictures .
Okay , I like the computational processing of the real picture well on the iPhone , but I ca n’t really gauge whether the icon are really better .
48 megapixels for full resolution – better for zooming
At the remainder of 2023 , Apple also gave the standard iPhone a 2x zoom . The trick is that the scene photographed with the 48 - megapixel sensing element just utilize the center 12 megapixels , which is a sort of crop - rapid growth .
As a resultant role , the 2x magnification puzzle out like an optical rapid climb without the resolution suffering and the exposure becoming grainy . And even at 3x zoom , though digitally blow up , was not a problem .
When the Alps seem to set out just behind Munich on a clear day , you ca n’t capture this adequately on a picture with a triple zoom , whereas the digital zoom shows the Zugspitze big , but quite blurred . The change has not taken away my enjoyment of the iPhone in terms of the tv camera , the 5x zoom ( optical ) of the iPhone 15 Pro Max would have been a good rationality for a bigger investment , but the Pro Max is too large for me .
The best iPhone chip to date will no longer be good enough for some tasks in 2024.
Let ’s see if the rumors are reliable and theiPhone 16 Proalso gets a 5x or even 6x rapid climb in a sizing that I can tolerate . Will I have to go across on the 15 after just one class in the family ? My son with his iPhone 11 might be concerned .
The processor: I don’t notice any difference
What will soon apply to the Mac micro chip of the M serial has been the prescript for the A - Bionics of the iPhones for a few years now : the improvements from class to year are mensurable but incremental , but every few years a new chip causes a sensation thanks to the further shrinkage of the manufacture process .
In 2023 , this happened with the A17 Pro , the first flake make up using the 3 nm procedure . But that ’s no reason for me to grease one’s palms the more expensive iPhone 15 Pro , because I do n’t really need hardware ray trace ; I ’m a casual gamer at best , and then rather cheat .
So my switch from the iPhone 14 Pro to the iPhone 15 intend stupefy with the same chip , the A16 Bionic with its 6 - meat CPU , 5 - heart and soul GPU and 16 - core Neutral Engine : a wonderful piece of technology that is still right smart ahead of the pack and is completely sufficient for my everyday use .
In real life, the colours are much paler than in Apple’s promotional image.
Things will probably not be much different with the next major jump , but if Apple usesmore AI in iOS 18 , its purpose may not fly the coop on all older iPhones . You may get all the latest AI features with the A18 Pro , so even an iPhone 15 Pro would n’t assist me much here . And I would barely have noticed its better public presentation compared to the iPhone 15 . So I do n’t miss anything when it comes to the chip .
Current best price : iPhone 15 professional
Color and shape: A matter of taste
you’re able to take the view that an iPhone is only an iPhone if the casing is black . I respect that , but I do n’t follow it . My second iPhone , a 4S , was lily-white . Then I prefer gold , then cherry , light green , lilac , clean gold and now : light-colored blue . Sure , the titanium colors of the iPhone 15 Pro are very chic , let ’s see what Apple comes up with for the iPhone 16 Pro .
The iPhone 15 ’s colors are a little picket , specially liken to the previous contemporaries , but that does n’t bother me . Green , yellow and even aristocratic are rather white with a pinch of the main coloration , only the black and the pink are a little bolder .
To be true , the iPhone 14 Pro in gold was rather unfortunate in term of color . The gold was very wan , the back more milky - white than anything else .
With a refresh rate of 1 Hz, the iPhone keeps you informed about current events even when locked, which used to be better anyway.
I would have been loath to say goodbye to the damn chic Deep Purple color or the Sierra Blue of the iPhone 13 Pro , but I do n’t overlook anything . On the contrary : I wish the color so much that I do n’t want to obliterate it and have buy a see-through case . But after six month , it ’s already intelligibly yellowed .
I ’ve taken outApple Care+ , so maybe I should employ the iPhone without the case ? It feels really comfortable in my hand , far better than the iPhone 14 Pro without a sheath .
Display: The main reason to go Pro
Apple passes on some innovations from the Pro model to the even iPhones in the next contemporaries , such as the sensor shift image stabilisation , which was ab initio only built into the iPhone 12 Pro Max and a year later into all iPhones 13 .
Other features are reserved for the Pros for long , or end up not being included in the second class at all . ( Or should we rather talk about Champions League and Europa League ? The even iPhones are far better than second division ! )
So far , this let in ProMotion , the adaptative screen refresh charge per unit that Apple has been including with the iPad Pro for years and has only been using with iPhone since the iPhone 14 Pro . critic of the iPhone have complained that there is still no 120Hz display for the no - Pro models , but that is only one end of the spectrum .
A higher refresh charge per unit head to a better experience in many games , which , as mentioned above , is not so important to me . And I do n’t notice that it ’s smooth to scroll through websites , for example .
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At the other end of the spectrum , however , there is something I miss about the iPhone 15 , possibly the only feature of the iPhone 14 Pro : the always - on display , which use a refresh charge per unit of 1 Hz .
This was a little strange at the time and nothing new for Android drug user , and not every Apple user okay of the feature . However , I liked it and I wish well Apple had at least give-up the ghost this part from the iPhone 14 Pro to the iPhone 15 . But that will hap at some point , and my iPhone 15 is sure not my last iPhone .
This article originally appeared onMacweltand was translated byJason Cross .
This article originally appear on our sister publicationMacweltand was interpret and localized from German .
