iPhone 14 Pro can be said to be a major upgrade of the iPhone in smartphone form in recent years. It abandoned the "notch screen" design that has been used for many years, and instead adopted the "exclamation mark" screen design with double holes in front, and at the system level, the " exclamation mark " holes are hidden in black oval for display. At the same time, it also introduced a brand new "lingual island" interactive design.
After the official release of iPhone 14 Pro, many users expressed their disappointment in the innovative interaction design of "Lingdong Island". On the one hand, it was due to the adaptation problem of early software versions, which led to a large number of display bugs in "Lingdong Island". On the other hand, it was because "Lingdong Island" did not bring a significant upgrade of the interactive experience as expected by the public. After a period of testing, we found that the only disappointing thing about the iPhone 14 Pro is not the only one that disappoints the iPhone 14 Pro. For the specific content, let’s talk to you through the following iPhone 14 Pro review content.
Behind the clever thoughts of the Lingdong Island iPhone 14 Pro Appearance Analysis
iPhone 14 Pro The front of the body screen adopts an "exclamation mark"-style double-hole design. The emergence of this design can be said to be another compromise between Apple in industrial design to the current technical application level.
As we all know, in order to realize the Face ID function, Apple has insisted on using the "notch screen" design since iPhone X, and has continuously reduced the area of the notch area during several model iterations. However, even though the area of the bangs has been shrinking, its visual effect still gives people a feeling of being "an era" behind the current Android flagship mobile phone's mid-mounted single-hole-punch screen design.
Therefore, if you want to achieve a true full-screen design without giving up the Face ID function, it is necessary for Apple to under-screen the entire original deep-sensing front-facing camera module. Although under-screen camera technology is no longer a new thing in the smartphone market in 2022, this technology is still not mature from a practical perspective.
Currently, even Android flagship phones with a front-facing single camera design remain conservative when applying this technology. For example, after "slightly tasting" the under-screen camera technology of Xiaomi flagship MIX4, it still uses a mid-mounted single hole design on the flagship Xiaomi 12 series. Therefore, for iPhones that need to place the original deep front camera module on the front of the body, the under-screen camera technology is still "far-water cannot quench near thirst".
Xiaomi MIX4 CUP full screen technology
In this context, Apple can only once again compromise design with technology, adopting the "exclamation mark"-style double-hole design, and designing the interactive innovation of "Lingdong Island" to make up for the compromise in industrial design. It can be seen that Apple seems to have lost the " Jobs " spirit that will turn the impossible into a possibility, but it still maintains its interactive design capabilities that exceed the industry average.
Next, let’s talk about other parts of the appearance design of the iPhone 14 Pro. First of all, the design idea of the iPhone 14 Pro is not much different from the iPhone 13 Pro series. The larger changes are not only the "exclamation mark"-style dual-hole design on the front screen, but also the large increase in the size of the rear camera module.
Why do you say that the rear camera module has a large increase in size? Because its plane area and longitudinal height have a larger increase compared to the iPhone 13 Pro, the reason behind the huge increase in volume is naturally the addition of the 48-megapixel 1/1.31-inch main camera. The increase in the size of the rear camera module has brought two negative effects. One is that the iPhone 14 Pro is difficult to place flat on the desktop, and the other is that it is difficult to avoid touching the "huge" rear camera module with the left hand when holding it horizontally.
The frame of the iPhone 14 Pro is still made of surgical grade stainless steel, and the back of the body is made of frosted glass material, which makes the overall feel comfortable to hold. However, compared with the standard version of iPhone 14, the weight of the iPhone 14 Pro with up to 206 grams will undoubtedly have a negative impact on the user's hand comfort during long-term holding, especially after matching with the mobile phone protective case.But the good news is that compared with the iPhone 13 Pro, the body thickness of the iPhone 14 Pro is only 0.2 mm, reaching 7.85 mm.
Overall, the appearance design of the iPhone 14 Pro is a state of development in inheritance, and the future generations of bodies are expected to continue this design style. Although the "exclamation mark" double-hole design is currently "commonly praised" in terms of reputation, for Apple, this does not prevent it from continuing and popularizing this design in the next generation of models.
has limited progress, which is disappointing. A16 processor performance test
has a leading advantage in processor performance. It can be said that it is an important means for iPhone to deal with the "siege" of many Android flagship phones in recent years. In particular, the significant performance advantages of the A15 bionic processor for the flagship-level processors of the same generation of smartphones have helped Apple further consolidate its dominant position in the flagship mobile phone market.
Therefore, the performance of Apple's latest generation A16 Bionic processor has also attracted much attention from users. We have also tested the performance of A16 Bionic on the iPhone 14 Pro. The A16 bionic processor equipped with the iPhone 14 Pro is made of TSMC's 4nm process technology . The CPU part has a total of 6 cores. It adopts a large-core design, with 2 performance cores (large cores) and 4 energy efficiency cores (small cores). The GPU part is composed of 5-core image processing cores. In addition, there is also a built-in 16-core neural network engine, ISP, display engine, etc., among which the display engine is an important component that drives screen-off display and dynamic island animation effects.
In the GeekBench 5 test that can accurately reflect the performance of some CPU performance of the mobile phone processor, the actual test score of the single-core running score of the iPhone 14 Pro is 1890 points and the CPU multi-core running score is 5510 points, which is a certain improvement compared to the iPhone 14 equipped with the full-blooded version of the A15.
In the performance test of the GPU part, the iPhone 14 Pro achieved 2770 points in the 3DMark Wild Life EXTREME test and achieved an average of 48.91 frames in the GFX-Aztec 1440p Metal off-screen running score test. The overall performance has a slight improvement from the iPhone 14 equipped with the full-blooded version of A15, or it can be said that there is almost no difference.
In the heavy load test of the well-known mobile phone performance test game "Genshin Impact", the image quality option is set to extremely high image quality + 60 frames, and the test scene is Liyuegang running map: the actual average frame rate of of the 20-minute game of iPhone 14 Pro is 58.9 frames, the frame rate curve fluctuates slightly, and there is no significant frame reduction throughout the whole process. This result is not much different from the iPhone 14 equipped with the full-blooded version of A15, and the frame rate performance of the iPhone 14 is even more stable.
Through the above actual tests, we can find that although A16 Bionic has made progress compared to A15 Bionic, this progress is not enough to help Apple build a difficult-to-cross "performance moat", which gives high-end Android flagship phones the opportunity to catch up with Apple in terms of performance at the beginning of 2023. However, for ordinary consumers, A16 Bionic can fully meet the performance needs of users in various application scenarios except for the super heavy gaming needs.
peak brightness hits a new high. iPhone 14 Pro is equipped with a 6.1-inch XDR screen
For iPhone mobile phone users, screen quality is a configuration that they don’t need to worry about. The iPhone 14 Pro is equipped with a 6.1-inch XDR screen, with an OLED screen material, a screen resolution of 2556x1179, a global maximum screen brightness is 1000 nits, a peak HDR brightness 1600 nits, and a local peak brightness outdoors is 2000 nits, and supports 120Hz ProMotion adaptive refresh rate technology and all-weather screen-off display technology.
All-weather screen-off display technology (AOD) can be said to be a feature that most iPhone users have been looking forward to. This feature has been on Android phones equipped with OLED screens for a long time, but Apple's "super delay" installation did not disappoint. The AOD display screen of the iPhone 14 Pro is not a separate interface, but a "dark painting" version of the lock screen interface. Like the lock screen interface, the AOD interface can display widgets and notification content, but these contents cannot be directly operated. If the user clicks the screen on the AOD interface, he will wake up the phone to the lock screen interface for operation.
AOD screen-off interface displays
iPhone also has a large bottom main camera. iPhone 14 Pro image experience parsing
iPhone 14 Pro image experience can be said to be the top priority of its upgrade. iPhone 14 Pro is equipped with a new generation of Pro-level camera system. The rear camera module is composed of 48-megapixel 1/1.31-inch main camera + 12-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens + 12-megapixel 3X telephoto lens . The main camera supports the second-generation sensor displacement optical image anti-shake function, and also supports Apple's latest optical image engine technology. The addition of
48 million pixel large-sole main camera not only brings imaging improvements, but also adds a lot of "trouble" to the iPhone 14 Pro. First of all, due to the problem of photosensitive performance, the 48-megapixel main camera uses pixel four-in-one 12-megapixel mode for imaging under the default state, but users can also manually adjust their photos of 48-megapixels. Secondly, the iPhone 14 Pro supports Apple ProRAW format shooting, and coupled with the original efficient mode and compatibility mode options, users need to make multiple decisions before shooting with iPhone 14 Pro.
First of all, users must consider whether they choose to use the efficient mode or the compatibility mode to shoot. The advantage of the efficient mode is that it can greatly save the storage space occupied by photos. However, many devices do not support smooth viewing of photos in this format, and the compatibility mode needs to occupy more storage space; secondly, users need to decide whether to shoot Apple ProRAW format. Using this mode to shoot users can obtain a RAW file in DNG format, which will bring greater space for post-processing, but the corresponding file in this format will occupy more storage space.
Finally, users need to decide whether to take 12-megapixel photos or 48-megapixel photos in Apple ProRAW format. The 12-megapixel mode has better photosensitive performance, but its detailed presentation ability is not as good as the 48-megapixel mode, while the 48-megapixel mode will occupy a lot of storage space, and the file volume of its single photo will be as high as more than 70MB.
In the real-life sample test, we chose to use the compatibility format + 12-megapixel mode mode that consumers generally use for shooting. If you are interested, we can test it separately in the future.
Thanks to the addition of the large-solar sensor, the main camera imaging performance of the iPhone 14 Pro naturally has made significant progress compared with the previous generation models. The overall imaging quality is at the first echelon level among current flagship mobile phones, but its disadvantages are still obvious, that is, the problem of detail sharpening.
iPhone 14 Pro main camera sample
iPhone 14 Pro main camera sample
iPhone 14 Pro main camera sample
iPhone 14 Pro main camera sample
iPhone 14 Pro main camera sample
Although the deep fusion algorithm of iPhone can avoid the problem of large-scale smearing of imaging images, its details sharpening problem also makes the picture feel unnatural. Although the more advantageous imaging performance of iPhone 14 Pro main camera can reduce the degree of excessive sharpening of details to a certain extent, this phenomenon cannot be avoided. The performance of the ultra-wide-angle lens of
iPhone 14 Pro in this review is surprising, and its imaging effect is significantly improved compared to the previous generation model. However, compared with the main-camera ultra-wide-angle lens used by many Android flagships, the imaging quality of the ultra-wide-angle lens of the iPhone 14 Pro is still different. In addition, the telephoto lens of the iPhone 14 Pro is also as excellent as ever, with clear image quality and natural colors.
iPhone 14 Pro telephoto lens sample
iPhone 14 Pro telephoto lens sample
iPhone 14 Pro ultra-wide-angle lens sample
iPhone 14 Pro ultra-wide-angle lens sample
still "limited" fast charging iPhone 14 Pro charging test
iPhone 14 Pro still only supports fast charging speed up to 27W PD, the normal charging power is about 20W, and 65W is used With the PD charger + original data cable, through actual testing, the iPhone 14 Pro can charge the battery from about to exhaust to 64% in 30 minutes, and the charging speed performance is not much different from before.
Summary
As a model that costs nearly 10,000 yuan and iterates once a year, users must have higher expectations for the new iPhone, and Apple's upgrade range for the iPhone 14 Pro this time obviously cannot satisfy users. Of course, the limited improvement does not mean that the iPhone 14 Pro is disappointing in its user experience. The overall user experience is quite satisfactory, and there will be some small surprises in some detailed experiences. For users with a well-budget, the iPhone 14 Pro is a pretty good flagship mobile phone choice.
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