iPhone 14 Pro & 14 Pro Max: No Notch, Dynamic Island, 48MP Camera
Apple presented a new iPhone lineup during its “Far Out” presentation, but the most significant upgrades were saved for the higher-end iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models. The absence of a notch on the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max is a new outstanding feature. Instead, a tiny pill-shaped screen cutout holds a redesigned TrueDepth camera unit for Face ID, selfies, and video conversations. Rather of ignoring the cutout, Apple created Dynamic Island, a system of moving alerts and notifications that makes use of the black area surrounding it.
The absence of Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus is just one of the ways Apple has expanded the difference between Pro and non-Pro iPhone models.
iPhone 14 Prices Revealed
The iPhone 14 Pro costs $999, which is $200 more than the iPhone 14, which costs $799. The 14 Pro is priced similarly to previous Pro variants like the 2018 iPhone X. However, some individuals may be turned off by the 14 Pro’s or 14 Pro Max’s starting price of $1,099.
Display & Dynamic Island
From the rear, the iPhone 14 Pro looks quite similar to last year’s flagship, the iPhone 13 Pro. However, when compared to the notch on the 13 Pro, the display cutout on the 14 Pro seems more modern and fresh. The first thing I noticed when I picked up an iPhone 14 Pro was the absence of the dreaded notch. In contrast, the pill-shaped display cutout is substantially smaller.
Apple’s Dynamic Island UI is also excellent. The cutout is, of course, just one component of the Super Retina XDR display, which can now reach 2,000 nits of brightness for improved visibility in strong light. In comparison, the iPhone 13 Pro has a maximum brightness of 1,200 nits. The 14 Pro employs LTPO (low-temperature Polycrystalline oxide) technology to reduce the refresh rate to 1Hz, which may assist preserve battery life and enable Always-On display. The LTPO screen of the 13 Pro has a maximum refresh rate of 10Hz.
The A16 Bionic Chip
There’s also the new A16 Bionic processor, which is only available in Pro versions this year. The A15 Bionic processor used in last year’s iPhone 13 Pro is used in the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus. The A16 chip is more efficient than the A15 processor, using 20% less power. Which means faster Android phone transfers without being a huge drain on the iPhone overall.
The A16 chip has 16 billion transistors on a 4-nanometer process, compared to 15 billion transistors on a 5-nanometer process in the A15. Aside from the increased transistor count caused by the new manufacturing method, the boost in processing capability from the 13 Pro to the 14 Pro may not be as great as it was from the 12 Pro to the 13 Pro. It’s also unclear how much RAM the iPhone 14 Pro will feature, given Apple has never disclosed how much RAM is in an iPhone.
The GPU is also upgraded, with 50% higher memory bandwidth. The A16 Bionic chip’s display engine powers both the LTPO display and the Dynamic Island. According to Apple, the A16 Bionic’s neural engine can do 17 trillion operations per second, which is required for computational photography.
Brand New Camera
The iPhone 14 Pro will be equipped with a 48-megapixel camera. For enhanced light collection, the quad-pixel sensor employs pixel binning to aggregate four pixels into one big pixel. The Pro Raw mode on the phone enables photographs to be recorded at the maximum 48-megapixel quality.
To take use of the new pixel arrangement for improved color accuracy and detail, Apple created a new computational image-processing technology. It’s called Photonic Engine, and it enhances the iPhone Pro’s camera performance in low light by two times over the iPhone 13 Pro. The 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max can also “punch-in” a shot with the 48-megapixel sensor, imitating a 2x magnification using the sensor’s middle 12-megapixels.The Photonic Engine processing also helps the ultrawide camera, improving low-light images by three times and telephoto and front-facing camera photos by two times.
In terms of video capture, Apple said that the iPhone 14 Pro would have Pro Video and Cinematic modes that can now record at 4K resolution and 24 frames per second. Both Pro versions also have Apple’s latest video image stabilization technology, known as Action mode. When shooting a video, the Action mode symbol appears in the top-left area of the camera preview.
Other Features & Battery Life
According to Apple, the iPhone 14 Pro will have an all-day battery life, which is longer than prior generations. It will also incorporate newly announced capabilities featured in the basic iPhone 14, such as Emergency SOS via satellite, a satellite-based method for communication in cellular and Wi-Fi dead zones, and Crash Detection, which notifies the device if you’ve been in a vehicle accident. In addition, the next iOS 16 will be the operating system powering Apple’s iPhone 14 range out of the box.
