iPhone 14, a mobile phone that has been on the hot search almost every day after its release. However, judging from the current discussion, more people still think that there are too few places to upgrade the iPhone 14. It has been nearly a month and a half since the release of the iPhone 14. Let us look back and experience it without prejudice. It is really too few upgrades, isn’t that good? Let's have a good talk about iPhone 14 today. What are the upgrades to
iPhone 14? What are the upgrades of
iPhone 14 compared to iPhone 13? From the official website of Apple and other channels, it can be confirmed that the iPhone 14 has been upgraded in the following aspects:
1. Although both are equipped with A15 bionic chips, the A15 bionic of iPhone 14 is considered a "full-blood version", and has been upgraded from the 4-core graphics processor on iPhone 13 to a 5-core graphics processor.
2, 4GB memory upgrade to 6GB memory.
3, a new 12-megapixel main camera lens with an aperture upgraded from f/1.6 to f/1.5, and a new light image engine function is added.
4, a new 12-megapixel original depth camera in front, the aperture has been upgraded from f/2.2 to f/1.9, and the new light image engine function has been added.
5, movie effect mode is upgraded from 1080p@30fps on iPhone 13 to up to 4K HDR@30fps.
6. New sports mode is added to the rear camera.
7. New car accident detection function is added.
8, Bluetooth 5.0 upgrade to Bluetooth 5.3.
9. The maximum video playback time has been increased from 19 hours on iPhone 13 to 20 hours.
10. In terms of size and weight, the height and width remain unchanged, the thickness increased from 7.65 mm to 7.8 mm, and the weight increased by 1 gram. (This is not considered an upgrade)
is not difficult to see that the main upgrade points of iPhone 14 are focused on image and memory. Currently, the pricing on Apple's official website is that the iPhone 14 is 600 yuan more expensive than the iPhone 13. Do you think these upgrades are worth 600 yuan?
iPhone 14 image experience
iPhone 14 is equipped with a brand new wide-angle main camera and a larger aperture. According to the official statement, the light input of the main camera has increased by 49%, and the low-light shooting ability has been increased up to 2.5 times. Of course, in addition to hardware, the new light image engine is also the focus of the image part introduced at the press conference. The function of the light image engine is to select the best pixels in multiple exposures and blend them together to retain richer image data. Even in dark light environments, the photos taken can still have brighter colors and delicate textures.
I originally wanted to spend a lot of time talking about the photos of iPhone 14, but after taking pictures, there seems to be nothing to talk about. The shooting of daytime scenes is not very challenging to take photos on mobile phones today. Compared with other models, it is more of a difference in imaging style. The iPhone 14 is as excellent as ever, with accurate white balance, realistic colors, and sufficient details. What is important is what you see when taking pictures.
The following set of photos is compared. The above is taken by iPhone 13 and the following is taken by iPhone 14. When comparing the two, the difference between the first impression is really small. You can see that the details are slightly improved when the picture begins to blur, but this also loses the meaning of comparison.
In the night view, the night view mode of iPhone 14 basically takes only 1 second to complete the shooting, and the experience is still good. Many times, night scene photos will look like it is very bright and dark. When magnifying the details and noise, it is better to control it. Perhaps Apple believes that this can better highlight the atmosphere of the night.
ghost problem that has been criticized for a long time. Apple does not seem to care about it. If you take a high-bright light source, you may have too obvious ghosts. If you don’t want ghosts, you need to adjust the shooting angle more. The ultra-wide angle photos taken from
iPhone 14 are of average quality. You can feel the decline in image quality in dark light, and your performance during the day is OK.
video shooting has always been the strength of iPhone, and Android phones are currently incompetent.When the iPhone 13 was released last year, the movie mode was only given 1080p@30fps. I guessed at the time that huge computing power was needed in the movie mode, and the A15 chip may be able to ensure the video recording experience at 1080p@30fps. By the time next year's iPhone 14 is equipped with a brand new A16 chip, it can also increase the movie mode to 4K@30fps or even 60fps.
Now, iPhone 14 has indeed increased the recording specifications of the movie mode to 4K@30fps, but what I didn't expect was that the computing power of the A15 can actually meet the recording specifications of this specification. It seems that the movie mode of the iPhone 13 did not give the recording specifications of the 4K@30fps last year is purely a product strategy, leaving enough upgrade space for the next generation.
It is worth mentioning that the movie mode recording of iPhone 14 can also choose 4K@24fps to record video with the standard frame rate of movie screening. The emergence of the movie mode on iPhone has indeed provided more creative possibilities for many users who love to shoot videos. However, for ordinary users, the threshold for using movie mode is still a bit high, and the newly launched sports mode this year is more suitable for daily use.
"Sport Mode" sounds like you know it is the shooting mode used during exercise. Although the default anti-shake of iPhone video recording is also very strong, enough to cope with ordinary shooting, if you encounter a scene where children and pets are chasing and playing, the "sports mode" is definitely more suitable. With the handheld iPhone 14, the picture can maintain a relatively stable look even when you trot, just like a gimbal and a stabilizer are installed.
I also did a relatively extreme anti-shake test. The above is the old iPhone and the following is the iPhone 14. In comparison, it can be seen that the sports mode of the iPhone 14 is relatively stable. However, as the first new feature to appear on iPhone, Apple still leaves enough room for upgrades for Sport mode.
First of all, in sports mode, the video recording specification is up to 2.8K@60fps. In fact, this recording specification is sufficient for ordinary users. However, after experience, I found that the sports mode has high requirements for light. Even when turning on the sports mode, the viewing interface will prompt that more light is needed. Of course, you can continue to use the sports mode at this time, but the picture will also appear more noise. It is particularly obvious when using the ultra-wide angle of 0.5×. If the scene you are shooting cannot provide more light and want to pursue the purest picture quality as possible, then I suggest you adjust the sports mode to 1× main camera for shooting.
In order to provide a more stable picture, video shooting must also face the cropping of the picture. Apple is clever to set the default viewing angle of the iPhone 14 to 0.5× ultra-wide-angle lens, so when you turn on the Sport mode, you won't feel the clipping of the picture. However, I still want to tell you that the screen viewing angle provided by the 0.5× ultra-wide-angle lens in sports mode is similar to the wide-angle main camera 24mm camera, and the picture is really not that wide.
I seem to be able to see the upgrade of the sports mode on iPhone 15 next year, such as improving the image quality to 4K@30fps/60fps, further improving the video quality in low-light environments, and further reducing the cropping range. Of course, the combination of movie mode and sports mode should not be seen so quickly.
In fact, overall, the image improvement of iPhone 14 is not small compared to iPhone 13. It has upgraded the main camera, brought a new optical image engine algorithm, improved the picture quality of the movie mode, and added a sports mode. It can be said that there are new things in software and hardware. But for consumers, the two most obvious cameras are still the same, and they are still wide-angle + ultra-wide-angle, without giving twice the telephoto, and even the main camera is even more different from the Pro series. Perhaps the iPhone 15 Pro will only give it a 2x telephoto next year. The full-blooded version of
iPhone 14, A15
, was revealed before it was released that the iPhone 14 will be equipped with A15, and that's true. However, in order to show "upgrade", although the iPhone 14 is equipped with A15, it is equipped with a full-blooded version of A15 at the same level as iPhone 13 Pro, and has a 5-core graphics processor.Can
A15 sex be used? Of course it is enough. Geekbench 5 has 1742 points in single core and a total score of 4731 points in multi-core. If nothing unexpected happens, the CPU performance should still be slightly ahead of the upcoming Qualcomm flagship processor Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Antutu run score is close to 850,000, and 3DMark Wild Life Stress Test test, with the best cycle score of 3006 points, the lowest cycle score of 1987 points, and the stability is 66.1%.
In terms of gaming, iPhone 14 naturally has the ability to provide a more stable and smooth experience with its powerful A15 chip, but the challenge facing the compact body is the heating problem. Although it looks no different from the iPhone 13 in terms of appearance, the official introduction has a brand new cooling design. So how does the cooling performance of the iPhone 14?
After our actual test, the iPhone 14 uses 5G network. After half an hour of high-quality extreme special effects game " Honor of Kings ", the highest temperature on the back of the measured body reached 34.9℃, and the maximum temperature on the front screen is close to the border of 32.5℃. The phone can clearly feel the warmth, but it does not have much impact on the feel.
, and " Genshin Impact " turns on the 60-frame mode. With high picture quality and special effects, half an hour later, the temperature on the back of the body reached 39.8℃, the temperature on the front was up to 38.2℃, and the maximum temperature on the border reached 41.2℃. With such a temperature, the touch is naturally not good, especially the temperature of the frame will be significantly higher. In addition, as the temperature intensifies, after more than 10 minutes, you can clearly feel the stuttering during the process of killing monsters and releasing skills. If you want to conquer Genshin Impact on iPhone 14, it is best to bring a cooling back clip.
Although the full-blooded A15 chip on the iPhone 14 does not make it achieve much obvious performance improvement compared to the iPhone 13, the iPhone 14 has 6GB of memory, which may make its use of life cycle longer than that of iPhone 13.
Screen and charging
When I took the iPhone 14 home, my wife couldn't wait to see what Lingdong Island looks like. In the end, I can only explain that Lingdong Island is exclusive to the Pro series, while iPhone 14 is still the same, and she was a little disappointed. Although it is hard to imagine that there will be a smartphone starting at 5,999 yuan in 2022 with a 60Hz refresh rate screen, the unique Apple has indeed done it.
But then again, except that the refresh rate of this screen is not as good as the flagship, there is nothing to be faulted in other aspects. Although it is a notch screen, the bezel is narrow enough. In addition, this screen can also show higher brightness when shooting videos on the camera interface or viewing HDR photos and videos in the album, improving the visual experience. Well, it would be even better if the iPhone 14's screen can also support Always On Display.
In terms of charging, iPhone 14 is still the same. It uses a PD protocol charger with a power of more than 20W and can charge 50% in half an hour. When using MagSafe wireless charging, the speed of charging depends on the temperature of the body during charging. In comparison with 100W fast charging of Android phones, the fast charging of iPhone is not so fast. Perhaps the charging power will only increase faster after the iPhone is replaced with the USB-C interface.
I also encountered a very interesting thing when using iPhone 14. Everyone knows that iPhone has the function of optimizing battery charging, and will learn the daily charging mode. The charging at night will be temporarily suspended to more than 80% until it is fully charged when needed. When I used the old iPhone, I would put my phone on the wireless charging pad at night when I went to bed. Basically, it would be suspended when it was 80%, and then slowly charge to 100% when it was almost dawn. When I went out in the morning, the battery was full.
However, I encountered this iPhone 14 when I put it on the charging pad at around 9 pm. When I charged 80%, it stopped charging. Until 8 o'clock in the morning, it still maintained 80% of the battery. If I had to go far that day, I might be really unhappy. It seems that although the data content of the old iPhone has been transmitted to the iPhone 14, the charging habit has not been conveyed well.
Finally, let’s talk about iPhone 14
Is there many upgrades in iPhone 14? Actually, if you look closely, there are still many upgrades, but these upgrades are difficult to bring consumers a clear experience.For example, the full-blooded version of A15 and the extra 2GB of memory may take a long time to show their advantages; the video function upgrade in imaging is the most obvious, but for ordinary consumers, there are more use scenarios for taking photos. If you really value the video function of the iPhone, maybe it is more appropriate to choose the Pro series. So from the user's perspective, the iPhone 14 still uses the previous generation chip, the camera is still two, and the screen is still the same, so the upgrade is really not big.
But if you are a loyal user of iPhone, using your phone before iPhone 13 and want to choose to upgrade, then iPhone 14 is still a good choice. Moreover, in the near future, third-party e-commerce platforms will have more discounted prices, which is also a good time to buy iPhone 14.
