01 It takes time for a third-party "landing" to be held
0 I just started using iPhone 14 Pro. In terms of design, except for the "small bangs" on the front, it becomes a "pill screen", and the others are not much different from iPhone 13 Pro, so I won't waste my time here to introduce it too much. Let's talk about this "pill screen".
Early this year, reliable sources of news broke out that Apple's iPhone 14 series this year will adopt a new "pill screen" design. However, as of the official release of the iPhone 14 series, many friends still don’t believe that Apple would use such an ugly design.
But at the Apple press conference, this "pill screen" really made everyone's eyes shine.
Apple did not choose to "spread" the area of this small hole, but instead used this small hole to implant "an island" on it, and Apple named it "Lingdong Island".
Lingdong Island
What is Lingdong Island? Simply put, Apple transformed the hole area into a symmetrical rectangle in the form of a UI, thereby ensuring the user's visual symmetry. Moreover, this "rectangle" will continue to change with real-time pop-up windows such as reminders, notifications, and activities. Combined with Apple's UI interactive animation, it will form a "small island" that is flexible enough. At the
press conference, the part displayed by PPT made everyone excited, but after getting started, we found that there are very few third-party applications that have "landed" at present, which means that the "island" on the iPhone 14 Pro now seems a bit out of place in many applications.
Third-party applications have not yet "landed"
, so for the first-time users and even the first batch of users, "Lingdong Island" is not "smart" enough at present, and even said that it has a great impact on the user experience. It is not very likely that third-party applications can adapt to "Lingdong Island" in a short period of time, so we can only expect application manufacturers to seize the time to "land".
02 The main camera is the biggest highlight of iPhone 14 Pro
Compared with "Lingdong Island", I am actually more concerned about the upgrade of the main camera lens of iPhone 14 Pro.
In addition to replacing a larger bottom sensor, the main camera of the iPhone 14 Pro has also increased from the past 12 million to 48 million in pixels. However, it should be noted that in normal state, the 48-megapixel main camera of the iPhone 14 Pro will automatically perform pixel 4-in-1, and the output photos are still 12-megapixel. We also compared the 12-megapixel sample of the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro.
iPhone 13 Pro main camera
iPhone 14 Pro main camera
From the perspective of appearance, at 12 million pixels, the main camera performance of the two generations of products is not much different. Could it be that the main camera of the iPhone 14 Pro is so lonely?
When we turn on the 48-megapixel ProRAW format in the camera settings of iPhone 14 Pro, it will bring you a complete 48-megapixel high resolution experience.
iPhone 14 Pro 48MP ProRAW format
48MP ProRAW format Zoom in
Since the platform will bring compression in image quality, I directly used screenshots from the mobile phone to demonstrate to you. When we enlarge the sample shot in ProRAW format, we can see that even if it is just a small part, the main camera of the iPhone 14 Pro still records a very complete detail. This is the new high-resolution experience brought by the 48-megapixel large-solar main camera this time to the iPhone 14 Pro.
However, high resolution also means that the volume of the photo will increase accordingly. Basically, a 48-megapixel ProRAW format sample will be around 60~80MB, and more than a dozen will occupy about 1GB of storage space. So if you want to use ProRAW as a regular output format, the 512GB version of iPhone 14 Pro may be more suitable for you.
In addition, the upgrade of the main camera of the iPhone 14 Pro also brings it the option of 2x zoom.So far, the iPhone 14 Pro has four focal segments: 0.5x, 1x, 2x and 3x.
Zoom options for four focal segments
iPhone 14 Pro 0.5X sample
iPhone 14 Pro 1X sample
iPhone 14 Pro 2X sample
iPhone 14 Pro 3X sample
For ordinary users, more focal segments also bring a broader creative space, especially the 2X focal segment brought by the main photo cropping, which is still very practical in daily life.
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Due to the rush of time, we did not have time to dig deeper into more content on iPhone 14 Pro, and we will also bring more detailed and comprehensive reviews in the future. Judging from the current experience, the iPhone 14 Pro is worth upgrading by users of the iPhone 12 series and earlier models. Whether it is the new "Lingdong Island", 48-megapixel or ProMotion adaptive refresh, it can bring you a new experience. For users of the iPhone 13 Pro series, I recommend using it for another year.
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