This time last year, the author switched from iPhone11 to iPhone12pro Max, and believed that from an industrial design perspective, the iPhone12pro series was already close to the form that the iPhone originally pursued: a single piece of glass. But why did you switch to iPhone13pro Max after only one year?
In fact, the iPhone12pro series has some obvious "transitional" meaning: due to the first 5G and the shrinkage of the battery caused by the change in size, the battery life of the iPhone12pro series is not too outstanding; due to factors such as power consumption, Apple also gave up The LTPO promotion high-refresh screen should have been used in this generation; the A14 GPU system has just started to use self-developed architecture, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in performance;
So I directly chose the 128G version for transitional use, and applied the film as soon as I got it I put on the condom and took good care of it, and it turned out to be a relatively good price (laughing)
Appearance of iPhone13pro Max
In fact, iPhone13pro Max has not changed much from the appearance. The bangs have become narrower, but this is because of the TrueDepth camera assembly. The changes caused by the upgrade and iteration, and in actual use, there is no obvious perception of the bangs. This can also be seen from the fact that Apple did not increase the display content in this area, but chose to enlarge the icon. Apple actually doesn’t pay much attention to this area.
However, in terms of weight, iPhone13pro Max is a little heavier than iPhone12pro Max, which also discourages many people. In actual use, there is no noticeable difference in weight. If you can accept the iPhone 12 pro Max, the 13 pro Max will have no difficulty. If you think the 12pro Max is too heavy, then the 13PM should be heavier.
Screen display effect
As we all know, the most obvious change of the iPhone13pro series is the use of this LTPO promotion screen, which can adaptively refresh between 10 and 120Hz. You can really feel this silky smooth feeling in daily use. But in fact, for the iPhone, high brushing is not the effect of "you can no longer tolerate 60Hz devices after using it".
The fluency of iOS system devices is already very high, the animation is very delicate, and the touch response at the system level is very timely. Unlike some Android devices, which are really difficult to use if adjusted to 60Hz. For iOS, the refresh rate is Refresh rate does not have the situation of "refresh rate = smoothness" like Android devices. Secondly, in fact, the iPad Pro already used a promotion screen a few years ago, so it’s not a big deal (laughs). The experience is great, but I haven’t seen anyone who can’t use the iPad Air after using up the iPad Pro, right?
The third thing is that the promotion of the iPhone is to take into account smoothness and low power consumption. In fact, there are not many cases where the screen can reach a refresh rate of 120Hz in daily life. Most daily operations are generally between 80 and 120Hz, with a preference for 80Hz. There are more. Therefore, high brushing has a very obvious sensory experience, but it will not be "completely unusable" when facing the iPhone 13.
However, due to Apple’s experience in high-refresh and the use environment that combines software and hardware, the smooth high-refresh effect of iPhone13pro Max is still not inferior to any Android flagship, and because of this complete global dynamic refresh rate, the power consumption is extremely good. Okay, let’s talk about this later.
Then because the screen’s normal brightness reaches 1000nit and the peak value is 1600nit, the screen of iPhone13pro Max will appear brighter. Moreover, all Apple series now support the HDR high-dynamic playback effect of photos. The brightness performance of the iPhone13pro series is extremely stunning when playing back photos taken by the iPhone.
But after all, this is only the first generation of iPhone using LTPO, and there will still be some regrets. As expected, the next generation iPhone’s LTPO will support: AOD constant display function, VRR adaptive refresh rate and 4k120 preview and playback. one or more functions.
Battery life level
To talk about the iPhone 13 series, we must mention the battery life. When the battery life of the iPhone 11 Pro Max was greatly improved, the author did not choose to replace it from the XS Max. The reason was that "I didn't want to simply switch to a built-in power bank."But the performance of iPhone13pro Max is really good. . It seems that the question of whether a new mobile phone is worth choosing with improved battery life depends entirely on whether the battery life is better (laughs).
The battery life improvement of the entire iPhone 13 series is even more exaggerated than that of the iPhone 11. The battery life of the iPhone 13 mini is comparable to the iPhone 12, and the battery life of the iPhone 13 pro is comparable to the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Who would dare to believe this before the release? What about the battery life performance of iPhone13pro Max? . . It’s not an exaggeration: just as the A15’s performance is ahead of Android machines, the battery life of the iPhone13 Pro Max exceeds that of the iPad Pro.
Among them, the pro series uses LTPO screens, which can be regarded as a successful case for the industry: "LTPO can really save power." The 13 and 13 mini with non-LTPO screens also have good battery life performance because the performance of the small core of the A15 has been greatly improved, and daily operations can use more energy than the extremely exaggerated small core.
Before the arrival of 3nm, the scale of A15 has basically reached its peak, so this generation is more about optimizing power consumption performance, replacing the charge pump, optimizing peripheral circuits and using x60 baseband with lower power consumption to improve mobile phones. sustained performance and energy efficiency. In the test at Station A, the energy efficiency ratio of A15 is better than that of A14 even at the frequency of 3.23GHz. And improvements such as new charge pumps have also improved the charging heat of the iPhone 13 series.
Specific actual measurement, Genshin Impact was adjusted to medium and high image quality, high rendering resolution, and the power saving mode only used 6% of the power for half an hour at 100% power. After using it with iPhone 12 Pro Max for 3 hours under high load, the battery was obviously Better than iPhone 12 Pro Max.
The same is true for the horizontal evaluations of major digital media. Even in the continuous uninterrupted test with the screen on, the 13pro Max achieved a terrifying result of close to 10 hours (previously, most flagship phones could only last for 7 hours, which was a high level of battery life) , it is simply the battery life of the iPad (10 hours of use). After a few months of personal use, the battery life of the iPhone13pro Max is indeed much better than that of the iPad Pro. After using
on iPhone13pro Max for these 4 months, it can be said that it has perfectly cured the problem of battery life anxiety. I pick up the phone in the morning and use it until noon. During the lunch break, I can play Genshin Impact for a few hours or a round of LOL. In the afternoon, it often still has more than half of the battery, and I can use it until I get home from get off work. Nowadays, I have developed the habit of not bringing a power bank when I go shopping on weekends. And to add some arguments about "Wi-Fi saves power and 5G consumes electricity": in fact, I use 5G to play games outside.
Performance
In fact, there is nothing to say about performance now. . . We cannot say that we are number one in the world, we can only say that we are alone and seek defeat. . . Routine tests can show that the CPU and graphics performance of iPhone13pro Max have been improved to a certain extent compared with A14, among which the GPU performance improvement is more obvious.
Let’s take a brief look at the test chart. It’s basically like this. In winter, Geekbench5 can reach close to 1700/4900 points. If you have to say what level it is. . . X86 thin and light notebook level. . .
Think it’s exaggerated? Because Geekbench alone is not enough? Then you can take a look at R23. . Although there is no test of A15 running R23, it can be calculated based on the M1 score of the same IPC that if A15 runs R23, it should score around 4200-4800 points (two large cores contribute 3000 points, and four small cores contribute 1800 points), from NanoReview What can be seen in the icons of the same level? 1135G7. . .
is only limited to the heat dissipation and power consumption control of the mobile phone. The actual complete performance is not as good as that of a notebook with good heat dissipation. This is the same as the actual performance of the M1 on the iPad Pro is not as strong as the M1 on the MacBook Pro13. .Of course, it can be compared with notebooks that use passive cooling and push the CPU to less than 10W (laughs)
When it comes to actual performance, you can say this: "iPhone13pro Max is the only one that is complete in terms of performance, heat generation and battery life." "The mobile phone that conquered the medium and high-definition Genshin Impact" consumes only a little more than 4W. When paired with the large battery of the iPhone 13pro Max, it can run Genshin Impact smoothly for several hours with acceptable image quality. Here is the experience. Speaking of which, I personally use shortcut commands to automate operations. After starting the game, I delay 60 seconds to automatically turn on the power saving mode. This ensures that the system uses the strongest performance to load the game when the game starts, and then the effect becomes stable and switches automatically after 1 minute. Go to the power-saving mode for daily gaming. When the game is over, continue to use automated operations to automatically turn off the power-saving mode. A set of operations does not require additional manual participation, which is very convenient.
This way, you can get a picture quality that exceeds Yuanyuan Shen. , the smoothness is stable, the loading speed is even faster than that of most PCs, and it only consumes about 15% of the power per hour.
Photography
The iPhone has been making steady progress in camera performance in recent years, but there may be a problem. Because it is "too stable", it seems a bit behind compared to the big changes in Android flagships every year. But after watching some evaluation videos a few days ago, you can find that when the flagships from 2 years ago are compared in 2021. iPhone11 to iPhone13 are of the same origin, with stable shooting styles and really steady improvement in shooting quality. On the contrary, many flagship models from that year have found that there are many gaps in photography after years of use. It shows the absolute advantage of wear resistance. Which one do you prefer in terms of afterimage shooting and wear resistance?
I won’t go into details about dynamic video shooting. The video shooting capabilities of the iPhone have always been ahead of the times, and the iPhone13pro Max , the video shooting capability is the same as the performance of the A15. It cannot be said to be the best in the world. It can only be said that Dugu Qiubai is at this level whether it is movie mode or normal 4K60 frame Dolby Vision video shooting. It is more interesting, but it can only shoot 1080P30 frames, which is more suitable for daily shooting of interesting short films. In addition, the Dolby Vision videos shot by the iPhone13pro series are in Dolby Vision HLG format. If you need to edit them on the computer later, the color The space should be set to bt2020, HLG. If you need to use PQ, for example, FCPX needs to use HDR tools to convert HLG to PQ format. When exporting, H265 encoding needs to select the HEVC10bit format containing HLG information, so that you can get a complete Dolby Vision video.
iPhone 13 has added the function of system preset color scheme. If you use the camera APP that comes with the original machine, this function is quite easy to use. I personally like to use high saturation style to shoot some food and small objects.
However, after iPhone 12, the iPhone still has some aesthetic conflict problems in static photography. Photos taken by the two generations of iPhone will have serious over-sharpening. In fact, over-sharpening is also a common trend on Android flagship phones, but the over-sharpening of the iPhone 13 is indeed very obvious. If you take the photos taken by the iPhone 13 series and look at them on a computer, you can basically tell at a glance that the sharpening is particularly awkward. Seriously affects the look and feel of photos other than textual content.
It’s just that I personally didn’t notice this problem at first. . . Why is it that almost the entire Internet is saying that iPhone 13’s over-sharpened photos are unusable, but I don’t feel anything about it? Later I learned that this was because when iPhone, iPad, and even Mac play back photos taken by iPhone 13, the display effect is completely different from that on Android devices and Windows computers. . .Photos will appear very bright on Apple devices, which is basically as bright as a screenshot when playing Dolby Vision video. Therefore, when played back on Apple devices, as the saying goes, one bright spot covers all the ugliness, creating a highly dynamic look and feel. Getting the iPhone 13 series is a real win. The actual look and feel is that the realism is very strong. The parts of the picture that should be bright are bright, and the parts that should be dark are dark. The bright parts seem to shine through the screen, which is just like watching real Dolby Vision HDR. The video is just as shocking. Therefore, oversharpening is less noticeable. . .
When these photos are played back on Android devices and Windows computers, the photos cannot display the HDR high dynamic effect, which is equivalent to showing only dull SDR content, and the problem of excessive natural sharpening becomes particularly obvious. Therefore, to evaluate the photography level of the iPhone13 series, we should distinguish between the display effect on a device with HDR photo display capability and the effect on an SDR device. The actual look and feel of the same photo on the screen of the iPhone13 Pro Max is like this :(Because it is very difficult to truly restore the display effect of photos on HDR devices such as iPhone13Pro, we can only use other mobile phones to shoot the iPhone13 Pro Max screen to simulate the look and feel. HDR screen shots taken with mobile phones will cause serious overexposure. You can only Just look at the brightness of the expression)
is also like this: (Photo effects of MBP14 playback on iPhone13 Pro Max taken by mobile phone)
And the display on the SDR device is like this: (The original HDR photo is uploaded, but after the network After uploading and compressing, even if you use iPhone 13 to view this article, the photo should have lost the HDR high dynamic and high brightness effect)
This function is supported by iOS, Mac and other systems after a major update, and is now supported by all Apple products It can be applied to all products, including devices with LCD screens. Apple also provides good solutions for displaying HDR photos and content. This true global link Dolby Vision color management gives photos taken by iPhone 13 an excellent look and feel on Apple devices, but is mediocre on other systems.
And now devices including iPhone 12 can also support high dynamic HDR photos. However, according to the reply obtained by netizens consulting customer service, the HDR of the iPhone 13 series is "embedded", and the lens and module support this ultra-high sensitivity. For iPhone 12, you need to turn on the HDR photo switch in the camera settings. This kind of photo display principle is designed to EDR technologies such as brightness masking. It can be said that Apple has already set a good example in terms of HDR support and display.
Then let’s talk about the problem of over-sharpening. This sharpening effect is actually good if you shoot text, but when shooting other scenes, it will easily make the picture look weird. You can also use brightness to mask it on an HDR screen. On an SDR device But really all that's left is sharpening. . .
Therefore, if you want a better photo look and feel, the iPhone13pro series can try to take photos in RAW format, and then fine-tune the exposure parameters to remove the built-in deep fusion sharpening effect of the photos.
But if it is not a pro series, or if you think it is too troublesome to do so, I personally choose to use NOMO RAW software to take pictures, and there will be no over-sharpening problem caused by deep fusion. The fly in the ointment is that the proRAW format only shoots a single frame at this time, and you cannot use techniques such as intra-frame synthesis, nor can you use the night scene mode. However, the image is saved in the same way as the camera. You can choose to shoot the RAW format and then compress it into JPGE. It also includes a variety of LUTs from well-known cameras can be used (this is not a filter), and there is no over-sharpening, so the shooting effect looks better. HDR high-dynamic photos are still supported.
If you want to try free software, you can also use the built-in shooting function of LR and import your favorite LUT into LR on the mobile phone to achieve similar effects.
The photo above was taken using the default set of LUTs of NOMO RAW 2.0. When the APP is opened, the default intermediate level comes with proRAW sharpness adjustment, color space Display P3, HDR photo function is turned on, and everything else is automatic.The shooting format is forced to use proRAW to shoot and then compress it to HEIF. Although the depth fusion without over-sharpening is not that high in definition, the overall texture and look and feel are much more normal.
Summary
iPhone13 Pro Max is a very balanced flagship machine. In today's era where the Android camp has weak performance, mediocre LTPO effect, and long battery life, iPhone13 Pro Max is actually the strongest flagship machine of this generation. It is stable in all aspects. Surprisingly, there are almost no shortcomings.
In terms of shortcomings, the lack of fast charging was generally criticized in the past. In fact, it is not that important because of the overwhelming advantage of battery life. After all, although I can’t charge that fast, the battery life is more than half better than other mobile phones. (laugh). The
signal is also a metaphysical issue. Nowadays, the iPhone also uses Qualcomm's baseband, and everyone is similar. If you think the signal is not good, then you are right.
The more obvious shortcoming is actually that the data transmission speed of the Lightning interface is already too slow now. The iPhone13pro series can shoot 4K60 frame prores video with a capacity of 6G in 1 minute. Shooting a few more segments will directly cost hundreds of gigabytes. . If you have high video shooting requirements, exporting hundreds of gigabytes of prores video from iPhone to Mac is also a relatively time-consuming task. . .
Okay, that’s all the content of this article. Thank you for your patience in reading. See you next time!
