The iPhone 15 Pro Max has some impressive features that make it stand out from its competitors. One of the most notable features is the reflective orbs that can appear in photos, particularly in night shots with bright lights. These orbs are not as pronounced on the iPhone 15 cameras, but they are still visible here and there.

As for the multiple focal lengths available on the main sensor, it may seem like just cropping in on a smaller image, but it's actually a more complex process. The iPhone is capturing light data from multiple lenses and then fusing it together to create the image. This is a very interesting technical method that allows for high-quality images with the ability to adjust focus later.

The automatic portrait mode is another feature that stands out. It's able to capture depth data, allowing for adjustments to be made after the photo has been taken without having to press the portrait mode button. The iPhone can detect faces or human faces and pets' faces and use this information to create a beautiful, in-focus image. However, it does require the original shot to have been in focus.

In terms of zoom capabilities, the iPhone 15 Pro Max has a 5x optical zoom lens. While this may not be as powerful as Samsung's 10x optical zooms, it is still a significant improvement over previous models. The fact that the iPhone has a 5x Zoom is great, and its sharpness and detail are arguably better than those of similar devices.

One thing to consider when choosing between the different models is the range of the zoom lens. The base model starts at $800, while the Pro model starts at $1,000. However, if you're just looking for a phone for casual use, such as taking photos of your family and friends, the differences in zoom capabilities may not be as significant.

When it comes to pricing, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is indeed expensive for many people around the world. In fact, according to a chart created by someone on Reddit, it would take a significant portion of yearly income to purchase one of these base model iPhones, with Myanmar being at the top of the list. This highlights the importance of considering affordability when making purchasing decisions.

Overall, the iPhone 15 Pro Max has some impressive features that make it stand out from its competitors. While it may not be the most powerful zoom lens on the market, its automatic portrait mode and high-quality images are definitely worth considering. Additionally, its price may be a barrier for many people around the world, but it's still an option to consider for those who want a premium smartphone experience.

The iPhone Pro Max iPhone 15 Pro Max has a zoom lens that is 5x Optical actually you can see the difference between so this device here is the regular 15 Pro and you can see the lens right there and the 15 Pro Max has a much larger aperture for that zoom lens.

A couple thoughts I don't think that the 5x telephoto is particularly powerful uh Samsung has 10x opticals that just are twice as powerful I think that it's good that they're back they're more competitive in terms of the Zoom game they've been comically behind for years I would say the pixels 7 Pro their 5x Zoom is arguably better uh in terms of like sharpness and detail that's able to capture at that 5x but the fact that the iPhone has a 5x Zoom is great now I think.

The one conversation that might come up is like should you get the pro or the S the pro Max or the pro because when you go with the pro Max your Zoom range is like you start at 5x and anything underneath 5x is not not an optical zoom it's like cropped sensors and on this device because it has the 3x Zoom uh you do have that kind of mid-range telephoto covered a little bit better my take on it is that it doesn't matter it really doesn't matter if I mean if you're getting sweaty over this because you're like a professional photographer that's a whole separate question but if you're just someone who wants to buy a phone and want to take photos like normal human beings of your family and friends and just things that you do in your life don't buy the phone based on its zoom capabilities buy it for everything else that's just my take on it.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay Apple's iPhone 15s we're looking at all four devices here we have the iPhone 15 15 plus the 15 Pro and the 15 Pro Max uh having spent a few days with these devices there's so much more to talk about than I'd originally thought let's start off here with the 15 and the 15 plus so both of these devices have an aluminum build still they're roughly the same size and shape as the previous generation the biggest difference aesthetically is going to be the rounded edges now if you look at Apple's marketing material they do such a good job selling it right it makes it look like they've created some aluminum pillow for your hand it looks so smooth and soft in the imagery it does look really good apple did a fantastic job making these new iPhones look just distinctly iPhone this is the new rounded Edge design and they have that design language right now no one else is doing it and the same thing goes with the pro devices these have the same rounded edges as the non-pro and they just look so cool I feel like the design language on this is nice especially with that nice titanium color but the moment you case it the design language is kind of lost now in terms of the materials the iPhone 15 and 15 plus have that aluminum rail on the side but they also have a new satin finish glass back and during the presentation they're like this is some color infused glass material and I was like what's so special about that but I realized this isn't just regular glass this is I mean it's a derivative of Gorilla Glass right so colored Gorilla Glass is very uncommon and I thought why would they even do this like what is what was wrong with the previous iteration of the iPhone right so this is the iPhone 14 uh and it's just a glass back and the way that they color it is they just add a colored layer on the bottom of it and then just the color goes through that seethrough glass right why why not just run this and I honestly the only thing I can think of like the only thing I think is like okay maybe this is why it's that if you have colored glass you get to vary the kind of intensity of the color based on the thickness of the glass so on this portion of it where there's like a thin layer of glass it's like a faint pink but then when you have have it on the camera hump so it's a thicker layer of glass it's just a more intense color because there's just more of those color particles in it and it's kind of neat but I'm like I don't know it seems it seems a little strange that they focused on this thing but I guess that's what they're going for now the colors are really pale when I started the event I was like those look pretty muted but in person the blue looks like it's like this it almost looks white right it almost look this like a very cool looking white color but all the colors this year are almost pastel the pro device have a titanium Rail and these look really nice to me so they have like a brushed finish to them it's very subtle you kind of have to put it like right up to the camera to see but I think it looks really cool I will say that the fingerprints on the natural color don't show up very readily like it's very good at hiding fingerprints but the black device uh this shows up more readily like this yeah you can see it right here like you can just see the kind of greasy smudges on it also I've noticed that sometimes like the buttons the area around the buttons it just kind of builds up kind of like smudgy stuff but these are just little details I only bring this up because I feel like because this is the flagship device and the flagship material some people just really care and I thought I'd just share my quick experiences with it but I do think that this like the the natural titanium man this is such a nice looking color like everything about this metal just Vibes with me I mean look at me I have a gray set like I love everything gray even my watch is gray right when was the last time you saw an all gray phone they're not common the last one I had I think was like the Samsung Galaxy S9 uh okay in terms of its weight so this with its titanium rail is a lighter phone than the previous generation like the iPhone 14 pro now one thing to keep in mind is that even though the weight difference isn't substantial like numerically I think because of the distribution of weight this is it's just a different feeling kind of phone so this is like if you think about the weight distribution on this thing this now has an aluminum plate and because it's got that aluminum plate with the titanium frame I think the weight is distributed more evenly across the whole device on the iPhone 14 pro this didn't have an aluminum plate and there was also a heavier steel frame that wrapped around the perimeter of this device but when you compared to the 15 Pro Max this device is just the weight distribution makes this device feel a lot lighter than like you know the 8 or 9% weight reduction that it has it's only single digit in terms of like the absolute number but it definitely feels more I want to use the word agile but what are we talking about like agile phones point I'm trying to make is that this device has it feels a lot lighter than just that that what the numbers would seem to indicate right 8 or 9% doesn't seem that much but it feels a lot lighter and it feels good okay I want to move over to the cases so Apple's iPhone cases the ones that are available in the store uh there's like your classic silicone which I'm going to put onto this one just to demonstrate real quick uh but they also have in their kind of environmental efforts gotten rid of the leather cases so this is the fine woven material uh it's sitting on top of a pro Max here so the 15 Pro Max but I have concerns about this material actually let's talk about the silicone this feels awesome right I feel like I'm a a huge fan of silicone and I don't think that the shape of this case has changed much despite the new rounded edges but this fine woven material this stuff for one it scuffs very easily so I'm just going to demonstrate really quick I'm just take my fingernail don't have super long fingernails right I I mark it uh and it's there and it doesn't go away like this is there pretty much permanently uh and if I did it a bunch of times it would just scuff and unlike leather like leather scratches quite easily as well but that kind of patinas nicely it's got this kind of worn leather look to it it's a look worn like cloth I don't know it doesn't it's not a look to me also this doesn't feel particularly premium I understand it's recycled material but this feels like almost like a cheap polyester kind of like bed sheeting it's strange and it's got that like it's not my favorite material and the fabric is quite thin if you compare this case to like the pixel 5 case this is obviously dated case it's quite a few years back but this looked and felt like a very substantial weave case right this is like maybe they had to keep it thin for the magnets like it just I'm just thinking maybe because of Mag safe they need the magnets to be a particular strength they got to keep this material really thin so the accessories stick to it I don't know but it just ain't my speed uh there is a clear case a new clear case from dbrand this is called their ghost case so you can see through it and you can see the language the design language and the materials of the new phones which is kind of cool uh I want to talk about the action button so on the iPhone 15 and 15 plus it still has that standard mute switch we've seen this for well over a decade on the iPhone uh and it's just like your standard switch to turn notifications on and off but the new iPhone 15 Pros have an action button and this is a button that's a customizable input and it's the first kind of customizable button we've ever had on an iPhone which is kind of cool but does take some time to get used to because we're so used to just mute switches from literally over a decade of using stuff like that the software control for muting the phone now is a little bit different but in terms of what you can do with the action button there's a whole bunch of things like uh like you can put different Focus modes you have your camera launcher you can launch a flashlight uh voice memos shortcuts I've personally set it to the camera and for me it's just like anytime I've ever had any kind of like winter sports and just you can't launch the camera without taking off your gloves and like launching the phone or you have to have like touch sensitive gloves that can like you're like poking a screen to be able to long press a button to launch a camera so much easier it's so Android for a lack of a better term but I like it and I think most people will as well it just takes some time to get used to it now I do wish there was some kind of tactile marking on it so you could feel for it in pocket to know that this was the thing that you were long pressing to do your action all right let's talk about the display so the iPhone 15 and 15 plus have significantly improved displays compared to the previous generation I think they changed them in ways that just I wouldn't have expected so these now both have bigger screens than the iPhone 14 and 14 plus from last year these have the same screen size and resolution as the Pro Models these have the same brightness the same Peak brightness the same Dynamic Island up top it's got the same HDR capabilities it's really weird how close they are in terms of the overall screen I'm most surprised by the 2,000 nits in Peak brightness it's just for legibility when you're Outdoors but that's something that companies usually reserve for like their Flagship stuff but the non-pro models are still missing two features first it doesn't have an O on display if that matters to you but the second thing is that this is still running a 60 HZ display on the non-pro amateur model and I really think they use it to distinguish the difference between like the pros and the amateurs because I don't think that the cost of production is that far apart at this point at least not for Apple because the volumes are so high but when I review these phones and you see them side by side the 60 hertz just it's got this stutter right but I really think if I remove myself from this situation I try to like not be a sweaty techer about it I really think like 99% of the world doesn't care about it I've shown it to many of my friends and my family members are like yeah that's cool that promotion is neat and all but like who cares uh and in that line it's like very very little media takes advantage of that stuff very few games take advantage of 120 HZ but it's mostly just the UI right when you're in the UI and you're browsing around your phone you're doing stuff having promotion is just so much nicer to look at if your eyes are used to it and the fact that they don't have it is just ridiculous because there are phones out there that are like 300 bucks that have 120 HZ displays for it to be missing on a $700 phone it hurts uh in terms of the bezels on the uh regular iPhone 15 the bezels are a little bit thinner compared to last year these are more aligned with like the 14 pro models from last year but the 15 Pro Models they're very thin the bezels I will say I this is just anecdotal story here when I'm playing games sometimes the meat of my hand would be touching the screen and because the bezels are so thin it would interfere with the button inputs of my fingers it was uncommon but it did happen a few times on the 15 Pro also I think the front glass on all the new devices is actually slightly curved at the edges if you run your finger against it you can feel it so screen protectors might not easily cover that full front screen uh and in terms of the ports so thanks to the EU we have USBC ports baby we've always wanted this I'm still in disbelief that this is like something I'm staring at USBC ports on an iPhone uh so the regular iPhone has usb2 speeds uh pro model has usb3 speeds there's no like malicious intent I see a lot of the comments are like oh my gosh why does the you know the regular iPhone 15 still have USB 2 I think it was just the chip this chip that's in here the the a16 bionic it was never meant to have USB 3p speeds it was just not a thing when that chip was developed and that's the chip that's in here so no usb3 now if you do frequently dump massive files from your phone onto your laptop and you do need that speed you got to go for that iPhone 15 Pro but you would also need a new cable because the one that comes in the Box is this thing here so this is a very Nic looking braided cable double-ended USBC however this is USB 2.0 I see my Twitter light up with people who are very angry about this it's very normal like I can't think of any phone company or laptop company even that does include a USB 3 cable for charging it's invariably like USB 2.0 that's the industry standard when it comes to charging cables for charging uh okay the other things you can plug up to that hole basically anything with a USB connection you can plug up keyboards and monitors you can get like 4K 60 display port out and you can charge your iPods you can charge the old ones with lightning cable and the new ones with the USBC cable because the new one has a USBC Port now in terms of performance the A7 chip is faster like you would expect and it can sustain a full workload a little bit longer than the previous generations of the iPhone Pros uh but it's nothing crazy like I don't think at this point people are using their phone and be like man if only this phone was faster right that's just really not a thing I will say that the GPU has seen like the biggest jump this year uh they did showcase some games I was able to test out an early build of Resident Evil Village this looks very good for a phone it's a really demanding game I remember benchmarking this thing on like RTX 3080 laptops even last year and to see it running on a phone with all the original assets at a consistent 30 frames per second is very cool it feels like the GPU capabilities on this phone is similar to like a PS4 like an Xbox one it's it's very impressive considering the size of it but it's like in case people are wondering like is it like a PlayStation 5 it's not but considering the size of the device very impressive now in terms of battery life so I ran the same battery testing that I did three years in a row now and I didn't see much of a change in terms of like the overall battery life of the phone but what I did notice was a big spike up in the gaming battery life so Pokemon unite isn't a very demanding game but it does just suck up juice and I ran this test a couple couple times it's a lot better this year I think it's just the GPU on the a17 pro a lot more efficient okay I'm going to wrap up with a conversation about the camera but I'm going to steer this conversation to just how I use the camera like the stuff that I find interesting or important about the camera so all four of the new iPhone 15s this year have a 48 megapixel main sensor both the regular devices and the pro devices the sensor on the pro devices are going to be bigger and better but still 48 megapixels and they also shoot with 24 megapixel files so if you took like the original 12 megapixel file from yester year uh and you added 50% more pickels pickles pixels going up and then 50% more pixels going wide that would be the new shot so it's about 50% bigger in terms of file size I would say on the regular iPhone 15s the shots in 24 megapixels are more detailed slightly but I just don't think worth that extra size uh the extra 50% size is like it fills up your phone faster it's harder to work with you're sending out more data if you're sharing photos it's just it's a lot and I don't feel like the sensor on the regular iPhone 15s really makes good use of that extra resolution but on the pro I would say it is worth it uh they just the detail is there I think it's absolutely worth that larger file size so if it were me my decision if I had either one of the regular phones I would just set it to the 12 megapixel shot just save that file space and then if I had on the pro I mean the 12 megapixel shots still look better anyways but if you want that extra resolution and you don't mind the larger files it can take advantage of it now in terms of low light photography it's still not great I mean Apple talked a little bit about how they improved it but the pixel 7 devices and Samsung's s23 devices look better to me Apple also talks about how they addressed some of the lens flare that has been in some of their photography so sometimes you'll see some reflective orbs floating around some of your shots uh they're definitely less pronounced on the iPhone 15 cameras but they're still visible here and there and it's particularly noticeable still in night shots with bright lights now in terms of the multiple focal lengths that they have for the main sensor I can shoot like 24 28 and 35 mm when I first saw the presentation I was like that's kind of neat but isn't it just like crops like it seems like it was just cropping in on that main sensor it turns out there's a lot more to it so there is a very interesting technical method as how they do it like so they're capturing light data from multiple lenses and then fusing it together to create the image it's very cool in terms of how it's done but in terms of how I use my camera like I don't feel like I've ever taken a shot and switched I wanted to even you know the the difference between a 24 and a 28 mm is very small at least from the stuff that I shoot and then even at 35 not that useful for my personal photography okay but the thing that I thought was the coolest thing by far is the automatic portrait mode and I actually think that this is going to be copied by other phone companies it's the ability to just basically take a shot not think about it and the phone will capture the depth data so you can adjust the focus later and to not think about it like to just not have to press portrait mode and just and just does it automatically is super cool uh so if it detects a face or like a human face or A Pet's face it can supposedly do it I did notice that it only works for like large pets like my kid has a goldfish it didn't work for that but if you have just regular large faces it works and it works really well and just the ability to adjust this stuff in post but not think about it when you take the shot it's so useful like it's just a nice looking shot but you do need to keep in mind that that original shot that you take has to be in Focus like if it wasn't in focus it won't be able to fix it uh using this portrait mode stuff uh okay last thing the zoom so I'm I'm sure you're aware by now the iPhone Pro Max iPhone 15 Pro Max has a zoom lens and this thing is a 5x Optical actually you can see the difference between so this device here is the regular 15 Pro and you can see the lens right there and the 15 Pro Max has a much larger aperture for that zoom lens a couple thoughts I don't think that the 5x telephoto is particularly powerful uh Samsung has 10x opticals that just are twice as powerful I think that it's good that they're back they're more competitive in terms of the Zoom game they've been comically behind for years I would say the pixels 7 Pro their 5x Zoom is arguably better uh in terms of like sharpness and detail that's able to capture at that 5x but the fact that the iPhone has a 5x Zoom is great now I think the one conversation that might come up is like should you get the pro or the S the pro Max or the pro because when you go with the pro Max your Zoom range is like you start at 5x and anything underneath 5x is not not an optical zoom it's like cropped sensors and on this device because it has the 3x Zoom like the original older style 3x Zoom uh you do have that kind of mid-range telephoto covered a little bit better my take on it is that it doesn't matter it really doesn't matter if I mean if you're getting sweaty over this because you're like a professional photographer that's a whole separate question but if you're just someone who wants to buy a phone and want to take photos like normal human beings of your family and friends and just things that you do in your life don't buy the phone based on its zoom capabilities buy it for everything else that's just my take on it okay pricing the base model started at $800 the pro model started at a th000 but I found that chart again where someone on Reddit had grafted out or charted out the percentage of yearly income that it would take for someone to purchase one of these base model iPhone 15s it spread across a lot of different countries but at the top of the list was Myanmar that's the country my grandmother was from and it's just crazy to see how expensive this phone can be for a lot of people in this world I think it's something we should should keep in mind when we look at the prices of these iPhones okay there you have it the iPhone 15okay Apple's iPhone 15s we're looking at all four devices here we have the iPhone 15 15 plus the 15 Pro and the 15 Pro Max uh having spent a few days with these devices there's so much more to talk about than I'd originally thought let's start off here with the 15 and the 15 plus so both of these devices have an aluminum build still they're roughly the same size and shape as the previous generation the biggest difference aesthetically is going to be the rounded edges now if you look at Apple's marketing material they do such a good job selling it right it makes it look like they've created some aluminum pillow for your hand it looks so smooth and soft in the imagery it does look really good apple did a fantastic job making these new iPhones look just distinctly iPhone this is the new rounded Edge design and they have that design language right now no one else is doing it and the same thing goes with the pro devices these have the same rounded edges as the non-pro and they just look so cool I feel like the design language on this is nice especially with that nice titanium color but the moment you case it the design language is kind of lost now in terms of the materials the iPhone 15 and 15 plus have that aluminum rail on the side but they also have a new satin finish glass back and during the presentation they're like this is some color infused glass material and I was like what's so special about that but I realized this isn't just regular glass this is I mean it's a derivative of Gorilla Glass right so colored Gorilla Glass is very uncommon and I thought why would they even do this like what is what was wrong with the previous iteration of the iPhone right so this is the iPhone 14 uh and it's just a glass back and the way that they color it is they just add a colored layer on the bottom of it and then just the color goes through that seethrough glass right why why not just run this and I honestly the only thing I can think of like the only thing I think is like okay maybe this is why it's that if you have colored glass you get to vary the kind of intensity of the color based on the thickness of the glass so on this portion of it where there's like a thin layer of glass it's like a faint pink but then when you have have it on the camera hump so it's a thicker layer of glass it's just a more intense color because there's just more of those color particles in it and it's kind of neat but I'm like I don't know it seems it seems a little strange that they focused on this thing but I guess that's what they're going for now the colors are really pale when I started the event I was like those look pretty muted but in person the blue looks like it's like this it almost looks white right it almost look this like a very cool looking white color but all the colors this year are almost pastel the pro device have a titanium Rail and these look really nice to me so they have like a brushed finish to them it's very subtle you kind of have to put it like right up to the camera to see but I think it looks really cool I will say that the fingerprints on the natural color don't show up very readily like it's very good at hiding fingerprints but the black device uh this shows up more readily like this yeah you can see it right here like you can just see the kind of greasy smudges on it also I've noticed that sometimes like the buttons the area around the buttons it just kind of builds up kind of like smudgy stuff but these are just little details I only bring this up because I feel like because this is the flagship device and the flagship material some people just really care and I thought I'd just share my quick experiences with it but I do think that this like the the natural titanium man this is such a nice looking color like everything about this metal just Vibes with me I mean look at me I have a gray set like I love everything gray even my watch is gray right when was the last time you saw an all gray phone they're not common the last one I had I think was like the Samsung Galaxy S9 uh okay in terms of its weight so this with its titanium rail is a lighter phone than the previous generation like the iPhone 14 pro now one thing to keep in mind is that even though the weight difference isn't substantial like numerically I think because of the distribution of weight this is it's just a different feeling kind of phone so this is like if you think about the weight distribution on this thing this now has an aluminum plate and because it's got that aluminum plate with the titanium frame I think the weight is distributed more evenly across the whole device on the iPhone 14 pro this didn't have an aluminum plate and there was also a heavier steel frame that wrapped around the perimeter of this device but when you compared to the 15 Pro Max this device is just the weight distribution makes this device feel a lot lighter than like you know the 8 or 9% weight reduction that it has it's only single digit in terms of like the absolute number but it definitely feels more I want to use the word agile but what are we talking about like agile phones point I'm trying to make is that this device has it feels a lot lighter than just that that what the numbers would seem to indicate right 8 or 9% doesn't seem that much but it feels a lot lighter and it feels good okay I want to move over to the cases so Apple's iPhone cases the ones that are available in the store uh there's like your classic silicone which I'm going to put onto this one just to demonstrate real quick uh but they also have in their kind of environmental efforts gotten rid of the leather cases so this is the fine woven material uh it's sitting on top of a pro Max here so the 15 Pro Max but I have concerns about this material actually let's talk about the silicone this feels awesome right I feel like I'm a a huge fan of silicone and I don't think that the shape of this case has changed much despite the new rounded edges but this fine woven material this stuff for one it scuffs very easily so I'm just going to demonstrate really quick I'm just take my fingernail don't have super long fingernails right I I mark it uh and it's there and it doesn't go away like this is there pretty much permanently uh and if I did it a bunch of times it would just scuff and unlike leather like leather scratches quite easily as well but that kind of patinas nicely it's got this kind of worn leather look to it it's a look worn like cloth I don't know it doesn't it's not a look to me also this doesn't feel particularly premium I understand it's recycled material but this feels like almost like a cheap polyester kind of like bed sheeting it's strange and it's got that like it's not my favorite material and the fabric is quite thin if you compare this case to like the pixel 5 case this is obviously dated case it's quite a few years back but this looked and felt like a very substantial weave case right this is like maybe they had to keep it thin for the magnets like it just I'm just thinking maybe because of Mag safe they need the magnets to be a particular strength they got to keep this material really thin so the accessories stick to it I don't know but it just ain't my speed uh there is a clear case a new clear case from dbrand this is called their ghost case so you can see through it and you can see the language the design language and the materials of the new phones which is kind of cool uh I want to talk about the action button so on the iPhone 15 and 15 plus it still has that standard mute switch we've seen this for well over a decade on the iPhone uh and it's just like your standard switch to turn notifications on and off but the new iPhone 15 Pros have an action button and this is a button that's a customizable input and it's the first kind of customizable button we've ever had on an iPhone which is kind of cool but does take some time to get used to because we're so used to just mute switches from literally over a decade of using stuff like that the software control for muting the phone now is a little bit different but in terms of what you can do with the action button there's a whole bunch of things like uh like you can put different Focus modes you have your camera launcher you can launch a flashlight uh voice memos shortcuts I've personally set it to the camera and for me it's just like anytime I've ever had any kind of like winter sports and just you can't launch the camera without taking off your gloves and like launching the phone or you have to have like touch sensitive gloves that can like you're like poking a screen to be able to long press a button to launch a camera so much easier it's so Android for a lack of a better term but I like it and I think most people will as well it just takes some time to get used to it now I do wish there was some kind of tactile marking on it so you could feel for it in pocket to know that this was the thing that you were long pressing to do your action all right let's talk about the display so the iPhone 15 and 15 plus have significantly improved displays compared to the previous generation I think they changed them in ways that just I wouldn't have expected so these now both have bigger screens than the iPhone 14 and 14 plus from last year these have the same screen size and resolution as the Pro Models these have the same brightness the same Peak brightness the same Dynamic Island up top it's got the same HDR capabilities it's really weird how close they are in terms of the overall screen I'm most surprised by the 2,000 nits in Peak brightness it's just for legibility when you're Outdoors but that's something that companies usually reserve for like their Flagship stuff but the non-pro models are still missing two features first it doesn't have an O on display if that matters to you but the second thing is that this is still running a 60 HZ display on the non-pro amateur model and I really think they use it to distinguish the difference between like the pros and the amateurs because I don't think that the cost of production is that far apart at this point at least not for Apple because the volumes are so high but when I review these phones and you see them side by side the 60 hertz just it's got this stutter right but I really think if I remove myself from this situation I try to like not be a sweaty techer about it I really think like 99% of the world doesn't care about it I've shown it to many of my friends and my family members are like yeah that's cool that promotion is neat and all but like who cares uh and in that line it's like very very little media takes advantage of that stuff very few games take advantage of 120 HZ but it's mostly just the UI right when you're in the UI and you're browsing around your phone you're doing stuff having promotion is just so much nicer to look at if your eyes are used to it and the fact that they don't have it is just ridiculous because there are phones out there that are like 300 bucks that have 120 HZ displays for it to be missing on a $700 phone it hurts uh in terms of the bezels on the uh regular iPhone 15 the bezels are a little bit thinner compared to last year these are more aligned with like the 14 pro models from last year but the 15 Pro Models they're very thin the bezels I will say I this is just anecdotal story here when I'm playing games sometimes the meat of my hand would be touching the screen and because the bezels are so thin it would interfere with the button inputs of my fingers it was uncommon but it did happen a few times on the 15 Pro also I think the front glass on all the new devices is actually slightly curved at the edges if you run your finger against it you can feel it so screen protectors might not easily cover that full front screen uh and in terms of the ports so thanks to the EU we have USBC ports baby we've always wanted this I'm still in disbelief that this is like something I'm staring at USBC ports on an iPhone uh so the regular iPhone has usb2 speeds uh pro model has usb3 speeds there's no like malicious intent I see a lot of the comments are like oh my gosh why does the you know the regular iPhone 15 still have USB 2 I think it was just the chip this chip that's in here the the a16 bionic it was never meant to have USB 3p speeds it was just not a thing when that chip was developed and that's the chip that's in here so no usb3 now if you do frequently dump massive files from your phone onto your laptop and you do need that speed you got to go for that iPhone 15 Pro but you would also need a new cable because the one that comes in the Box is this thing here so this is a very Nic looking braided cable double-ended USBC however this is USB 2.0 I see my Twitter light up with people who are very angry about this it's very normal like I can't think of any phone company or laptop company even that does include a USB 3 cable for charging it's invariably like USB 2.0 that's the industry standard when it comes to charging cables for charging uh okay the other things you can plug up to that hole basically anything with a USB connection you can plug up keyboards and monitors you can get like 4K 60 display port out and you can charge your iPods you can charge the old ones with lightning cable and the new ones with the USBC cable because the new one has a USBC Port now in terms of performance the A7 chip is faster like you would expect and it can sustain a full workload a little bit longer than the previous generations of the iPhone Pros uh but it's nothing crazy like I don't think at this point people are using their phone and be like man if only this phone was faster right that's just really not a thing I will say that the GPU has seen like the biggest jump this year uh they did showcase some games I was able to test out an early build of Resident Evil Village this looks very good for a phone it's a really demanding game I remember benchmarking this thing on like RTX 3080 laptops even last year and to see it running on a phone with all the original assets at a consistent 30 frames per second is very cool it feels like the GPU capabilities on this phone is similar to like a PS4 like an Xbox one it's it's very impressive considering the size of it but it's like in case people are wondering like is it like a PlayStation 5 it's not but considering the size of the device very impressive now in terms of battery life so I ran the same battery testing that I did three years in a row now and I didn't see much of a change in terms of like the overall battery life of the phone but what I did notice was a big spike up in the gaming battery life so Pokemon unite isn't a very demanding game but it does just suck up juice and I ran this test a couple couple times it's a lot better this year I think it's just the GPU on the a17 pro a lot more efficient okay I'm going to wrap up with a conversation about the camera but I'm going to steer this conversation to just how I use the camera like the stuff that I find interesting or important about the camera so all four of the new iPhone 15s this year have a 48 megapixel main sensor both the regular devices and the pro devices the sensor on the pro devices are going to be bigger and better but still 48 megapixels and they also shoot with 24 megapixel files so if you took like the original 12 megapixel file from yester year uh and you added 50% more pickels pickles pixels going up and then 50% more pixels going wide that would be the new shot so it's about 50% bigger in terms of file size I would say on the regular iPhone 15s the shots in 24 megapixels are more detailed slightly but I just don't think worth that extra size uh the extra 50% size is like it fills up your phone faster it's harder to work with you're sending out more data if you're sharing photos it's just it's a lot and I don't feel like the sensor on the regular iPhone 15s really makes good use of that extra resolution but on the pro I would say it is worth it uh they just the detail is there I think it's absolutely worth that larger file size so if it were me my decision if I had either one of the regular phones I would just set it to the 12 megapixel shot just save that file space and then if I had on the pro I mean the 12 megapixel shots still look better anyways but if you want that extra resolution and you don't mind the larger files it can take advantage of it now in terms of low light photography it's still not great I mean Apple talked a little bit about how they improved it but the pixel 7 devices and Samsung's s23 devices look better to me Apple also talks about how they addressed some of the lens flare that has been in some of their photography so sometimes you'll see some reflective orbs floating around some of your shots uh they're definitely less pronounced on the iPhone 15 cameras but they're still visible here and there and it's particularly noticeable still in night shots with bright lights now in terms of the multiple focal lengths that they have for the main sensor I can shoot like 24 28 and 35 mm when I first saw the presentation I was like that's kind of neat but isn't it just like crops like it seems like it was just cropping in on that main sensor it turns out there's a lot more to it so there is a very interesting technical method as how they do it like so they're capturing light data from multiple lenses and then fusing it together to create the image it's very cool in terms of how it's done but in terms of how I use my camera like I don't feel like I've ever taken a shot and switched I wanted to even you know the the difference between a 24 and a 28 mm is very small at least from the stuff that I shoot and then even at 35 not that useful for my personal photography okay but the thing that I thought was the coolest thing by far is the automatic portrait mode and I actually think that this is going to be copied by other phone companies it's the ability to just basically take a shot not think about it and the phone will capture the depth data so you can adjust the focus later and to not think about it like to just not have to press portrait mode and just and just does it automatically is super cool uh so if it detects a face or like a human face or A Pet's face it can supposedly do it I did notice that it only works for like large pets like my kid has a goldfish it didn't work for that but if you have just regular large faces it works and it works really well and just the ability to adjust this stuff in post but not think about it when you take the shot it's so useful like it's just a nice looking shot but you do need to keep in mind that that original shot that you take has to be in Focus like if it wasn't in focus it won't be able to fix it uh using this portrait mode stuff uh okay last thing the zoom so I'm I'm sure you're aware by now the iPhone Pro Max iPhone 15 Pro Max has a zoom lens and this thing is a 5x Optical actually you can see the difference between so this device here is the regular 15 Pro and you can see the lens right there and the 15 Pro Max has a much larger aperture for that zoom lens a couple thoughts I don't think that the 5x telephoto is particularly powerful uh Samsung has 10x opticals that just are twice as powerful I think that it's good that they're back they're more competitive in terms of the Zoom game they've been comically behind for years I would say the pixels 7 Pro their 5x Zoom is arguably better uh in terms of like sharpness and detail that's able to capture at that 5x but the fact that the iPhone has a 5x Zoom is great now I think the one conversation that might come up is like should you get the pro or the S the pro Max or the pro because when you go with the pro Max your Zoom range is like you start at 5x and anything underneath 5x is not not an optical zoom it's like cropped sensors and on this device because it has the 3x Zoom like the original older style 3x Zoom uh you do have that kind of mid-range telephoto covered a little bit better my take on it is that it doesn't matter it really doesn't matter if I mean if you're getting sweaty over this because you're like a professional photographer that's a whole separate question but if you're just someone who wants to buy a phone and want to take photos like normal human beings of your family and friends and just things that you do in your life don't buy the phone based on its zoom capabilities buy it for everything else that's just my take on it okay pricing the base model started at $800 the pro model started at a th000 but I found that chart again where someone on Reddit had grafted out or charted out the percentage of yearly income that it would take for someone to purchase one of these base model iPhone 15s it spread across a lot of different countries but at the top of the list was Myanmar that's the country my grandmother was from and it's just crazy to see how expensive this phone can be for a lot of people in this world I think it's something we should should keep in mind when we look at the prices of these iPhones okay there you have it the iPhone 15\n"