The New iPhone 14 Series: Unveiled and Ready for Testing

It's finally here - the highly anticipated new iPhone 14 series, packed with innovative features and improvements that promise to take mobile technology to the next level. Our team has been eagerly awaiting the launch of this latest installment, and we're excited to dive into its various aspects and explore what makes it special.

Testing the Always-On Display Feature

One of the standout features of the iPhone 14 series is the always-on display feature, which allows users to view essential information, such as notifications and music controls, even when the screen is in a low-power state. This technology enables the phone to detect ambient light levels and adjust the brightness accordingly, ensuring an optimal viewing experience. We were able to test this feature in various environments, from bright sunlight to dimly lit rooms, and it performed impressively.

Another clever feature is the ability to turn off the display when the phone is not in a position where it can be seen by the user. For instance, if you place the phone on a table or keep it in a pocket, it will automatically shut down the screen to conserve battery life. This intelligent design ensures that the phone remains power-efficient while still providing users with the features they need.

The Phone's Smart Features

The iPhone 14 series boasts an advanced set of sensors, including ambient light sensors located at the top and rear of the device. These sensors enable features such as auto-brightness adjustment and improved camera performance. When using AirPods, the phone can detect when they are removed from your ear and automatically turn off the display to prevent accidental activation.

The New A16 Bionic Chip

Underpinning the iPhone 14 series is a powerful new A16 bionic chip, designed to deliver improved performance and power efficiency without sacrificing battery life. This cutting-edge technology enables users to enjoy faster app switching, improved gaming experiences, and enhanced overall performance.

Setting Up the Phone's Cellular Sim Card

To set up the phone's cellular SIM card, users simply need to access the cellular settings and select "Add eSIM." The transfer process is surprisingly straightforward and intuitive, with the phone automatically detecting your existing SIM card and completing the transition. We were able to successfully transfer our regular phone SIM card to the new iPhone 14, ensuring a seamless handover of our essential services.

Camera Capabilities

One of the most anticipated features of the iPhone 14 series is its camera capabilities. The main sensor delivers impressive results, with a wider field of view and increased detail. We were able to test the ultra-wide-angle lens in various environments, and it exceeded our expectations. The image quality is remarkably high, making it an ideal choice for photography enthusiasts.

Accessories Galore

To complement the iPhone 14 series, Apple has released a range of accessories, including cases and wallets. We took a close look at one of the leather cases designed specifically for the iPhone 14 Pro Max, which features a sleek purple finish. Unfortunately, we found that our eyes were tricked into thinking it was blue - but who needs to be colorblind when there's so much to love about this case?

Additional Accessories Coming Soon

For those interested in exploring the full range of accessories available for the iPhone 14 series, we're planning a follow-up video featuring an extensive collection of cases, wallets, and other must-have items. Be sure to check our social media channels for updates on when this video will be released.

Full Review and Day-in-the-Life Experience

Stay tuned for our comprehensive review of the iPhone 14 series, where we'll dive deeper into its features, performance, and overall user experience. We'll also be sharing a Day-in-the-Life video showcasing the phone's capabilities in real-world scenarios. From photography to gaming, and from productivity to social media, we'll put the iPhone 14 through its paces to give you an honest assessment of its strengths and weaknesses.

What Do You Think?

We'd love to hear your thoughts on the new iPhone 14 series! Will you be upgrading to this latest installment? Share your opinions and experiences in the comments below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on guys it's your average consumer and today we got some iPhones baby so we've got the iPhone 14 lineup minus one but that one's come like you know it's a little bit later we'll get our hands on that don't worry uh but we got most of the lineup right here we got the iPhone 14 14 pro and 14 pro Max so we're going to of course pop open the the boxes and see what that first time experience is like you guys will get some of our Second Impressions First Impressions at home you know so fellas where do we start where do we start okay 14 I I'll call it 14 all right so right here we got the iPhone 14 now Apple dropped the iPhone 14 as well as the iPhone 14 plus they brought back the plus uh this is the 6.1 in display while the 14 plus has the 6.7 in so it's the bigger brother pretty normal box you know they've got these flat boxes now let's pop it open okay so we got the blue color over here this is actually a new blue oh look at these edges too this looks this is nice so we've got the blue one here but they've got some other color options as well they've got midnight Starlight purple as well as that product red let's peel the sticker off there you go now design wise oh look at me jumping the gun I didn't even show you in the box so Inside the Box we of course have our USBC to lightning cable so you can have that fast charging if you have a fast charging brick not included uh but you also get some paperwork in here now interestingly enough it says you no longer need a physical SIM card activate your eim during the iPhone setup so we're going to see what that one's like now I didn't get this from retail so I'm not sure if I'm going to see the exact same eim setup portion during uh startup I think there's a phone number attached to this already uh but we'll see what what it says and if we can add one during the setup anyway I feel like if there's any kind of controversy around this phone it's the fact that there's no longer a SIM tray now me personally I'm not mad at that uh because from what I've learned it should be pretty simple to get the eim set up if you're coming from an iPhone so looking at around the phone itself it's a very similar design overall we still have our dual camera system in the back uh we got the glass back over here this is the shiny back you know with the pros you get that like matte glass this one is just shiny all right we are ready to go now we've all seen the iPhone get set up before but I'm just curious about that e part all right so it's taking a few minutes to activate the phone right now but let's kind of just talk about the 14 so obviously we see the design the body uh but inside we've also got the a15 bionic processor now you might be thinking hey the 13 also had the a15 bionic there's no upgrade here in the processor uh that's not actually true well technically it's true this is the a15 bionic from the iPhone 13 Pro 13 Pro it has the same power with the 13 Pro I see but that was more powerful than the 13 so still a spec bump a small one but still a spec bump now it's also different are the cameras we got some new camera sensors in here we should be getting some better performance of course I'm going to be doing a real Day in the Life with this so we test out all of the different aspects of it see what those improvements really look like so definitely subscribe to the channel if you aren't already if you want to see more of that kind of coverage I believe these are both 12 megapixel we have your wide angle as well as your Ultra wide and in the front we've got our 12 megapixel front-facing camera uh but what's different here is that it now has autofocus that was never on the previous generations uh so that is new to the 14 lineup all right so setting up cellular so this is the number that came with this phone but I think this would be the part where you'd be able to transfer over your sim information right to the phone I believe you can have up to two eims active at a time and it can store a total of eight Sims Al together so we can have a number stored but only two active oh two active so you can I guess maybe if you want to disable one of the numbers throw on one of the other numbers you can do that all right so cellular setup is complete no sim required it just kind of did it now what's nice is that if you purchase this on Apple's website I believe you can select your carrier and all that you can put your ACC in there so when you get your phone your process kind of looks like this but all right so we're in this is the 14 feels good shall we move on to the pro please Jay's like let's go let's go so we got two pro options over here we've got the deep deep I did it again so we got the space black and the Deep Purple so let's open them both kind of take a look at them all right so this is the Deep black and I'm not going to lie you guys I think this is the one I'm going for so check this out the box same experience honestly between the 14 and the 14 pro you get your lightning to uh USBC and you get your paperwork this one also talking about the eim now that that's over let's take a look at the phone this is a listen this is not just like a space gray this legit feels like black you see the edges I think these are the darkest edges that they've made for their black versions especially since there's there's no blue this time around your boy going to go with the black I'm back I'm back with the black I think this is going to be my color for sure now this is the 14 pro do 14 pro Max and here is the this deep purple 14 pro Max not going to lie for purple this is kind of clean Carl would love this Carl Carl would love this this is the one AR's going for AR's going for Deep Purple this time around it's a nice shade of purple right it's it's it's deep deep all right so this is the max this is the standard what color would you go for Jay not the purple not the purple so black I mean they have other colors so oh so there you're right there are two other colors so we got d purple space black and there's silver and gold like reminds me of Pokémon Silver's always better Silver's always better now we still have the same stainless steel frame around the phone now of course no sim cutout and in the back you've got your triple camera system and those lenses look huge so now we've got a new sensor in here a 48 megapixel sensor the most we've ever seen from Apple I'm excited to see what the raw photo capabilities are like here not to mention a low light performance across the board is getting a lot better I'm I'm going to I'm going to do a little bit of testing in here before we get to the real day in the life cuz I'm just super curious so let's turn this bad boy on and I think the first thing you're going to notice oh interesting so you can actually see the sensors and the cutouts for the camera it kind of does look like what the rumors had but I guess the software side of things is what gives it that Dynamic Island okay but you see it all goes away and now it just looks like this I thought that was just one big just one like thought it was a pill right you thought it was just one big pill but it's not so let me go ahead and set this up we've already seen what the setup process looks like let's just jump in oh that's different check this out so the dynamic Island it just expanded all right oh if you see it come into effect right away now I know everyone's kind of heard about this Dynamic Island uh but for those of you who've never heard of it it turns that camera portion into a nice little spot so that you can see special information from apps it's really really cool we'll talk about it a little bit more though I love how it just goes back in that's I I love that it's very smooth it's crazy it feels like there's so much more space at the top right now let's see what's What's So Different Here the notch is actually this little cutout is actually smaller than the notch oh yeah you see that mhm so there is some more real estate M so now we're up to emergency SOS emergency SOS has already existed uh but with the new iPhone 14 lineup you will now get emergency SOS via satellite so what does that mean if you're somewhere with no cellular reception or Wi-Fi you can actually use emergency SOS via satellite to find a satellite to connect to so you can reach out to emergency responders so that you can get the help you need depending on where you are if you need it and alongside emergency SOS these phones also have crash detection so God forbid you get into an accident this phone is going to be able to contact emergency services as well as your emergency contacts after about 10 seconds if you don't alert it that you're just fine just in case you were to pass out or something it'll get emergency services or your contacts on the scene pretty quickly it's amazing stuff all right so we're here with in and we talked about the camera we talked about the overall body but something we didn't really talk about is the super Retina xdr Display so this display is actually really impressive oh oh there's so many little nuggets that we're getting here so just hitting the M slider you can see that it's now silent you can see when you take it off oh and it does a little jingle but what's cool about this is that it hits a peak brightness of 16 00 nits so when you're watching that HDR content you're going to have some really great highs uh but what's also cool is that this thing has a peak outdoor brightness of 2,000 knits absolutely insane now what they've also added with this display is the always on display so when you actually turn it off you can see that the always on display is just it's there it's on now for those of you concerned about battery life because this is a promotion display that can go from from 1 Herz all the way up to 120 HZ basically what that means is it can make your phone go from really really smooth and really fast and responsive all the way down to a much slower speed where it's not refreshing as much that should substantially bring down the energy usage while it's on so it shouldn't be too bad we're going to test it out and see how it works in the real world but there are a couple cool things with this always on display so obviously if you keep it here it's going to be on uh but if it goes if you put it like this the phone is actually smart enough to know that it's not in a position where you can see it so it turns off the display completely so when you raise it it turns on now what's also cool is if You' got like airpods on and you walk away from your phone it can detect that you are no longer close to the phone and also turn off the display when you take out the airphone airbuds it's going to stop yeah kind of like that like when it doesn't detect that your it's in your ear anymore it turns itself off pretty similar now we all know that the phone has a bunch of sensors up top here which is why they've got like that whole notch in the first place uh some of that is actually under the screen now but one of the sensors is an ambient sensor so it can detect how much light is in the room that's how you you know you get that auto brightness feature but what's really cool is that they've added a second one in the back so what this one does is depending on the brightness of your background it can also adjust the brightness all right so we got a good idea of the hardware some of the software aspects uh but what's powering this thing we haven't talked about that that is the new a16 bionic chip we're going to get more power efficiency out of this so you get the better specs better performance without it hurting your battery so now I want to jump back into the eim portion and actually transfer over my regular phone SIM over to this guy so let's see what that process looks like so I see add eim in the cellular setting right there it just pops up now this is the experience I think most people will get when they're setting up their phones for the first time you got your iPhone nearby you just be able to tap this one thing transfer number so transfer Sim activating right now confirm transfer and uh we'll be good to go actually you know what I'm going to download all of my stuff first on this and then transfer over just so I can be all good to go but either way you guys saw it yourselves it's it's a really simple process all right so a big part of me you guys I just really want to try out the cameras so right now we're using the main sensor and this does this looks wider doesn't it yeah there's more in the frame like the space on the table now that is because it's a larger sensor I really I really want to see the ultra wide performance here so now we're in the kitchen where lighting isn't super crazy we're just going to just m look at the level of detail okay that's exciting I love the ultra wide so this is one of those parts where I just really wanted it to get better and it's three times better now all right but we got to save some we got to save some goodness for the real day in the life where we actually spend the full day and test it out and I give you guys my full thoughts on the phone all right now we do have some accessories so let's see we've got the leather case for the pro Max what color is this ink is this their purple yeah ink is their purple this this looks purple to you am I color blind this looks blue blue I mean Don what are you seeing it does look more like a blue you know they say men are more color blind than women that's true I believe it I's probably like it's so purple so we got a leather wallet right here yeah this is purple too or ink rather now we do have some cases for the other phones as well okay is this the silicone for 14 pro that's nice listen man the black is dope and then we also have the blue case for the iPhone 14 bam confirmed blue case so if you guys want to see even more accessories than what we've talked about in today's video let me know we're going to be doing a full-blown iPhone 14 accessory video where you can find just just about everything You' want to make sure your iPhone experience is topnotch I'll have that link down below once that drops but that about wraps this up for this video guys what are you what what do you guys think of the 14 the 14 lineup I I like the the pros itself yeah you upgrading Jay I think so would you consider it dumb definitely all right full review coming soon with the real Day in the Life accessory video and a lot more content till then it's your average consumer peace purple it's growing on me I'm not going to liewhat's going on guys it's your average consumer and today we got some iPhones baby so we've got the iPhone 14 lineup minus one but that one's come like you know it's a little bit later we'll get our hands on that don't worry uh but we got most of the lineup right here we got the iPhone 14 14 pro and 14 pro Max so we're going to of course pop open the the boxes and see what that first time experience is like you guys will get some of our Second Impressions First Impressions at home you know so fellas where do we start where do we start okay 14 I I'll call it 14 all right so right here we got the iPhone 14 now Apple dropped the iPhone 14 as well as the iPhone 14 plus they brought back the plus uh this is the 6.1 in display while the 14 plus has the 6.7 in so it's the bigger brother pretty normal box you know they've got these flat boxes now let's pop it open okay so we got the blue color over here this is actually a new blue oh look at these edges too this looks this is nice so we've got the blue one here but they've got some other color options as well they've got midnight Starlight purple as well as that product red let's peel the sticker off there you go now design wise oh look at me jumping the gun I didn't even show you in the box so Inside the Box we of course have our USBC to lightning cable so you can have that fast charging if you have a fast charging brick not included uh but you also get some paperwork in here now interestingly enough it says you no longer need a physical SIM card activate your eim during the iPhone setup so we're going to see what that one's like now I didn't get this from retail so I'm not sure if I'm going to see the exact same eim setup portion during uh startup I think there's a phone number attached to this already uh but we'll see what what it says and if we can add one during the setup anyway I feel like if there's any kind of controversy around this phone it's the fact that there's no longer a SIM tray now me personally I'm not mad at that uh because from what I've learned it should be pretty simple to get the eim set up if you're coming from an iPhone so looking at around the phone itself it's a very similar design overall we still have our dual camera system in the back uh we got the glass back over here this is the shiny back you know with the pros you get that like matte glass this one is just shiny all right we are ready to go now we've all seen the iPhone get set up before but I'm just curious about that e part all right so it's taking a few minutes to activate the phone right now but let's kind of just talk about the 14 so obviously we see the design the body uh but inside we've also got the a15 bionic processor now you might be thinking hey the 13 also had the a15 bionic there's no upgrade here in the processor uh that's not actually true well technically it's true this is the a15 bionic from the iPhone 13 Pro 13 Pro it has the same power with the 13 Pro I see but that was more powerful than the 13 so still a spec bump a small one but still a spec bump now it's also different are the cameras we got some new camera sensors in here we should be getting some better performance of course I'm going to be doing a real Day in the Life with this so we test out all of the different aspects of it see what those improvements really look like so definitely subscribe to the channel if you aren't already if you want to see more of that kind of coverage I believe these are both 12 megapixel we have your wide angle as well as your Ultra wide and in the front we've got our 12 megapixel front-facing camera uh but what's different here is that it now has autofocus that was never on the previous generations uh so that is new to the 14 lineup all right so setting up cellular so this is the number that came with this phone but I think this would be the part where you'd be able to transfer over your sim information right to the phone I believe you can have up to two eims active at a time and it can store a total of eight Sims Al together so we can have a number stored but only two active oh two active so you can I guess maybe if you want to disable one of the numbers throw on one of the other numbers you can do that all right so cellular setup is complete no sim required it just kind of did it now what's nice is that if you purchase this on Apple's website I believe you can select your carrier and all that you can put your ACC in there so when you get your phone your process kind of looks like this but all right so we're in this is the 14 feels good shall we move on to the pro please Jay's like let's go let's go so we got two pro options over here we've got the deep deep I did it again so we got the space black and the Deep Purple so let's open them both kind of take a look at them all right so this is the Deep black and I'm not going to lie you guys I think this is the one I'm going for so check this out the box same experience honestly between the 14 and the 14 pro you get your lightning to uh USBC and you get your paperwork this one also talking about the eim now that that's over let's take a look at the phone this is a listen this is not just like a space gray this legit feels like black you see the edges I think these are the darkest edges that they've made for their black versions especially since there's there's no blue this time around your boy going to go with the black I'm back I'm back with the black I think this is going to be my color for sure now this is the 14 pro do 14 pro Max and here is the this deep purple 14 pro Max not going to lie for purple this is kind of clean Carl would love this Carl Carl would love this this is the one AR's going for AR's going for Deep Purple this time around it's a nice shade of purple right it's it's it's deep deep all right so this is the max this is the standard what color would you go for Jay not the purple not the purple so black I mean they have other colors so oh so there you're right there are two other colors so we got d purple space black and there's silver and gold like reminds me of Pokémon Silver's always better Silver's always better now we still have the same stainless steel frame around the phone now of course no sim cutout and in the back you've got your triple camera system and those lenses look huge so now we've got a new sensor in here a 48 megapixel sensor the most we've ever seen from Apple I'm excited to see what the raw photo capabilities are like here not to mention a low light performance across the board is getting a lot better I'm I'm going to I'm going to do a little bit of testing in here before we get to the real day in the life cuz I'm just super curious so let's turn this bad boy on and I think the first thing you're going to notice oh interesting so you can actually see the sensors and the cutouts for the camera it kind of does look like what the rumors had but I guess the software side of things is what gives it that Dynamic Island okay but you see it all goes away and now it just looks like this I thought that was just one big just one like thought it was a pill right you thought it was just one big pill but it's not so let me go ahead and set this up we've already seen what the setup process looks like let's just jump in oh that's different check this out so the dynamic Island it just expanded all right oh if you see it come into effect right away now I know everyone's kind of heard about this Dynamic Island uh but for those of you who've never heard of it it turns that camera portion into a nice little spot so that you can see special information from apps it's really really cool we'll talk about it a little bit more though I love how it just goes back in that's I I love that it's very smooth it's crazy it feels like there's so much more space at the top right now let's see what's What's So Different Here the notch is actually this little cutout is actually smaller than the notch oh yeah you see that mhm so there is some more real estate M so now we're up to emergency SOS emergency SOS has already existed uh but with the new iPhone 14 lineup you will now get emergency SOS via satellite so what does that mean if you're somewhere with no cellular reception or Wi-Fi you can actually use emergency SOS via satellite to find a satellite to connect to so you can reach out to emergency responders so that you can get the help you need depending on where you are if you need it and alongside emergency SOS these phones also have crash detection so God forbid you get into an accident this phone is going to be able to contact emergency services as well as your emergency contacts after about 10 seconds if you don't alert it that you're just fine just in case you were to pass out or something it'll get emergency services or your contacts on the scene pretty quickly it's amazing stuff all right so we're here with in and we talked about the camera we talked about the overall body but something we didn't really talk about is the super Retina xdr Display so this display is actually really impressive oh oh there's so many little nuggets that we're getting here so just hitting the M slider you can see that it's now silent you can see when you take it off oh and it does a little jingle but what's cool about this is that it hits a peak brightness of 16 00 nits so when you're watching that HDR content you're going to have some really great highs uh but what's also cool is that this thing has a peak outdoor brightness of 2,000 knits absolutely insane now what they've also added with this display is the always on display so when you actually turn it off you can see that the always on display is just it's there it's on now for those of you concerned about battery life because this is a promotion display that can go from from 1 Herz all the way up to 120 HZ basically what that means is it can make your phone go from really really smooth and really fast and responsive all the way down to a much slower speed where it's not refreshing as much that should substantially bring down the energy usage while it's on so it shouldn't be too bad we're going to test it out and see how it works in the real world but there are a couple cool things with this always on display so obviously if you keep it here it's going to be on uh but if it goes if you put it like this the phone is actually smart enough to know that it's not in a position where you can see it so it turns off the display completely so when you raise it it turns on now what's also cool is if You' got like airpods on and you walk away from your phone it can detect that you are no longer close to the phone and also turn off the display when you take out the airphone airbuds it's going to stop yeah kind of like that like when it doesn't detect that your it's in your ear anymore it turns itself off pretty similar now we all know that the phone has a bunch of sensors up top here which is why they've got like that whole notch in the first place uh some of that is actually under the screen now but one of the sensors is an ambient sensor so it can detect how much light is in the room that's how you you know you get that auto brightness feature but what's really cool is that they've added a second one in the back so what this one does is depending on the brightness of your background it can also adjust the brightness all right so we got a good idea of the hardware some of the software aspects uh but what's powering this thing we haven't talked about that that is the new a16 bionic chip we're going to get more power efficiency out of this so you get the better specs better performance without it hurting your battery so now I want to jump back into the eim portion and actually transfer over my regular phone SIM over to this guy so let's see what that process looks like so I see add eim in the cellular setting right there it just pops up now this is the experience I think most people will get when they're setting up their phones for the first time you got your iPhone nearby you just be able to tap this one thing transfer number so transfer Sim activating right now confirm transfer and uh we'll be good to go actually you know what I'm going to download all of my stuff first on this and then transfer over just so I can be all good to go but either way you guys saw it yourselves it's it's a really simple process all right so a big part of me you guys I just really want to try out the cameras so right now we're using the main sensor and this does this looks wider doesn't it yeah there's more in the frame like the space on the table now that is because it's a larger sensor I really I really want to see the ultra wide performance here so now we're in the kitchen where lighting isn't super crazy we're just going to just m look at the level of detail okay that's exciting I love the ultra wide so this is one of those parts where I just really wanted it to get better and it's three times better now all right but we got to save some we got to save some goodness for the real day in the life where we actually spend the full day and test it out and I give you guys my full thoughts on the phone all right now we do have some accessories so let's see we've got the leather case for the pro Max what color is this ink is this their purple yeah ink is their purple this this looks purple to you am I color blind this looks blue blue I mean Don what are you seeing it does look more like a blue you know they say men are more color blind than women that's true I believe it I's probably like it's so purple so we got a leather wallet right here yeah this is purple too or ink rather now we do have some cases for the other phones as well okay is this the silicone for 14 pro that's nice listen man the black is dope and then we also have the blue case for the iPhone 14 bam confirmed blue case so if you guys want to see even more accessories than what we've talked about in today's video let me know we're going to be doing a full-blown iPhone 14 accessory video where you can find just just about everything You' want to make sure your iPhone experience is topnotch I'll have that link down below once that drops but that about wraps this up for this video guys what are you what what do you guys think of the 14 the 14 lineup I I like the the pros itself yeah you upgrading Jay I think so would you consider it dumb definitely all right full review coming soon with the real Day in the Life accessory video and a lot more content till then it's your average consumer peace purple it's growing on me I'm not going to lie\n"