"Are you iPhone 14?" When playing with iPhone 14 Pro Max in my hometown, my niece next to me looked at the phone in my hand and asked me. She is a sixth grade primary school student. Although she is not sure which model of iPhone 2 I am in hand, she still can tell at a glance that I am in hand with the latest iPhone. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why some people buy the iPhone 14 Pro series.
The high recognition of iPhone 14 Pro/Pro Max is nothing more than the unique screen "Lingdong Island", which is also one of the biggest changes in the appearance of iPhone phones in recent years. On the day of the iPhone 14 series launch, the "Lingdong Island" of the iPhone 14 Pro series caused controversy. Some people highly appreciate the design of this Lingdong Island, but some people think it is "elegant as if taking off your pants and farts."
Lingdong Island
After using iPhone 14 Pro Max for two weeks, I have also gained a further understanding of this "Lingdong Island", of course there are both good and bad things in it. What I want to say is that at least at this stage, without a better full-screen solution for mobile phones, "Lingdong Island" is indeed a commendable feature. It will give it a new interesting and useful interactive experience through software.
Then what can "Lingdong Island" do?
When taking high-speed rail, car, subway, or bus, open NetEase Cloud Music to listen to music. When exiting the music software, the music being played will be displayed in the pop-up window of "Lingdong Island". Press and hold the pop-up window to quickly switch songs. Click to enter the music playback interface. I like this function setting. In the past, when chatting, I had to exit the chat interface and enter the music software. Now you can just click "Lingdong Island" to cut songs, which is very convenient.
"Lingdong Island" can also display map navigation information. When using the map software owned by Apple , after exiting the map software, Lingdong Island can directly display the navigation direction, such as left, right, etc. However, it should be noted that, for example, third-party navigation software for Gaode Map , the pop-up window of Lingdong Island can only display the icons being navigation, and cannot display the navigation icons with directions.
If two software are run in the background at the same time, such as NetEase Cloud Music + Map Navigation, the pop-up window of "Lingdong Island" will be divided into two and become "two islands". Clicking on the island of the corresponding icon will enter the corresponding application interface.
"Lingdong Island" in addition to displaying the above pop-up windows, pop-up windows will be displayed when charging the phone, unlocking the face, and connecting to AirPods. However, not many people support pop-up windows of third-party applications. Fortunately, Apple has now opened the API of "Lingdong Island", so we can only look forward to the subsequent third-party software adaptation as soon as possible.
When playing music or making phone calls, the pop-up window of "Lingdong Island" will show an audio rhythm. The louder the sound, the greater the rhythm, and the more delicate the animation details are. In addition, when the current camera and microphone are working, the "Lingdong Island" area will display green and yellow prompt lights, which can also determine whether the camera and microphone are working to protect privacy.
It should be noted that when "Lingdong Island" is in working state, the screenshot will save the "Lingdong Island" pop-up window together. Although it doesn't look good, you can also use this method to tell others that you have changed to a new iPhone.
Carefully viewing the screen "Lingdong Island" and you will actually find that it is a "!" Exclamation mark shape hole. However, for the sake of beauty, the area between exclamation mark is painted black. Since "hardware black" and "software black", there will be obvious color difference when outdoors. You can feel that the hole hole area of the "exclamation mark" is darker, but the color difference in the indoor hole hole area is not that obvious.
screen-off display
In addition to Lingdong Island, the "screen out display" of iPhone 14 Pro Max also brings a new experience. Although this function has existed in Android phones, it is the first time in iPhone phones, and it is somewhat different from the screen out display of Android phones.
iPhone 14 Pro Max default "screen-off display" is to make the lock screen interface darker, it looks like it is not turned off, so at the beginning I would press the power button again, and the screen lit up, and later I got used to it. However, I will use it with widgets on the lock screen interface, such as adding widgets such as stock market and weather. Without lighting up the screen, you can directly see the weather, stock market, etc.
In addition, some third-party software will also have "magical reactions" in the "screen-off display" of iPhone 14 Pro Max. For example, when NetEase Cloud Music plays on the lock screen interface, it will generate a playback interface with a cover. The background color will change with the cover, which is very artistic. When the mobile phone is turned off, the lock screen interface will become darker, but the playback cover effect will still be displayed.
When using the map navigation built into iPhone 14 Pro Max, lock the screen of the phone, and the navigation map information will continue to be displayed on the lock screen interface, and you can still navigate normally under the lock screen. Turn off the phone screen, and the map screen of the lock screen interface will disappear, leaving only navigation information such as up and down direction and distance. When I pick up my phone, the phone will automatically light up the screen and display the map navigation screen. This navigation method is very convenient.
Of course, the screen-off display is naturally accompanied by higher power consumption, which will have some impact on the battery life of the phone. However, the battery life of the iPhone 14 Pro Max is indeed sufficient, and it can even reach 24 hours with light use. In the past two weeks of my use, I am very satisfied with the battery life of the iPhone 14 Pro Max. Even if I travel far and do high-speed rail or car, the phone still has sufficient battery power when arriving at the destination, and there is no need to carry a power bank at all.
If you don’t like the screen-off display of iPhone 14 Pro Max, you can also turn off "Always Display" in the phone settings - display and brightness.
48 megapixel main camera
48 megapixel is also one of the major upgrades of the iPhone 14 Pro Max. The 12 megapixel that has been around for thousands of years has finally been abandoned, which is 65% larger than the previous generation of sensor size. However, it should be noted that the main camera of the iPhone 14 Pro Max is only 48 million pixels, while the other two cameras are still 12 million pixels, but there are some upgrades. Compared to the previous generation, the rear camera module of the iPhone 14 Pro Max looks larger and more bulging, suggesting its enhanced image strength. Although the
iPhone 14 Pro Max is equipped with a 48-megapixel main camera, the default shooting is still 12-megapixel imaging. However, the photos are from 48-megapixel four-in-one, and the main camera has become a 24mm focal length, which will have a wider viewing angle, and the picture quality is as always on the real style.
If you want to shoot 48 million pixels, you need to enter the phone settings-camera, turn on the Apple ProRAW option in the format item, and select the ProRAW resolution to 48MP, that is, only in the RAW format can you take 48 million pixel photos. Photos in
RAW format are generally used to facilitate post-processing by photographers. If they do not have post-processing, it doesn't matter. RAW photos directly from iPhone 14 Pro Max can also be used. You can directly post to Moments or crop them. The color of the picture is roughly the same as in the default 12-megapixel shooting mode, and there is no need to manually adjust the color, which also lowers the threshold for everyone to use RAW photos.
iPhone 14 Pro Max RAW photos straight out
iPhone 14 Pro Max RAW photos crop
However, it should be noted that when taking 48 million pixel RAW format photos, the shooting time will become longer, which takes about 3 seconds. Moreover, the data of the RAW photos taken is very large, and each photo is more than 50MB, which will occupy more mobile phone storage space.
Compared with the 12-megapixel and 48-megapixel RAW format photos of iPhone 14 Pro Max, you can clearly feel that the 48-megapixel is clearer after enlargement. However, compared with iPhone 13 Pro, although the 12-megapixel definition of iPhone 14 Pro Max has improved, it is not obvious.
iPhone 14 Pro Max 48MP crop sample
iPhone 14 Pro Max 12MP crop sample
iPhone 13 Pro Max 12MP crop sample
iPhone 14 Pro Max 48MP crop sample
iPhone 14 Pro Max 48MP crop sample
iPhone 14 Pro Max 14 Pro Max 48MP crop sample
iPhone 14 Pro Max 14 Pro Max 48MP crop sample
iPhone 14 Pro Max The addition of 12-megapixel crop sample
iPhone 13 Pro Max 12-megapixel crop sample
48-megapixel high pixels has added a 2-fold zoom factor shooting, which is equivalent to 48mm focal length, close to 50mm focal length and closer to the distant picture seen by the human eye. It is a good choice for shooting people, scenery or street photos.
As for 3x optical zoom
iPhone 14 Pro Max has two main improvements in shooting videos. One is the anti-shake in the sports mode, and the other is the movie effect mode that adds 4K HDR 24fps video shooting specifications.
It should be noted that when shooting videos in Sports mode, the camera preview interface is shaking when shooting on iPhone 14 Pro Max, but the anti-shake effect of the video is great, the picture looks very stable. In addition, the shooting quality of the sports mode is cropped, and the original 4K picture quality will become 2.8K (highest).
Single-handed iPhone 14 Pro Max running shooting
For users who like to shoot short videos on their mobile phones, the iPhone 14 Pro Max movie mode can shoot 4K videos is considered a surprise improvement. Through the shooting effect of the movie mode, manually or automatically switch and lock the shooting character/subject, and use "focus conversion" to aim at the shooting focus. With the help of 4K picture quality, more post-processing space can be performed.
A16 Bionic Chip
iPhone 14 Pro Max is equipped with an A16 chip that uses TSMC 4nm process technology . However, from the perspective of actual experience and theoretical performance tests, the A16 chip has not improved much compared to the A15 chip. The A16 chip can even be regarded as an overclocked version of the A15 chip. More improvement lies in the optimization of power consumption. The process has been upgraded from TSMC 5nm to TSMC 4nm process, and the large core frequency of CPU has been increased from 3.2GHz to 3.46GHz.
In the GeekBench 5 software test, the iPhone 14 Pro Max's CPU single-core score was 1871 points and the multi-core score was 5395 points. The CPU single-core score of the A15 chip is 1734 points, the multi-core score is 4818 points, the single-core performance is about 8%, and the multi-core performance is about 12%, which has little performance improvement.
iPhone 14 Pro Max in 3D Mark's 20-round Wild Life Extreme Stress Test stress test, the best cycle score was 3359 points, the lowest cycle score was 1887 points, and the stability was only 56.2%. In the stress test of Wild Life Stress Test, the best cycle score was 9845 points, the lowest cycle score was 6257 points, and the stability was 63.6%. The performance was average, probably because the phone temperature was too high, which limited the performance of the phone.
From the theoretical performance point of view, the performance of the iPhone 14 Pro Max is not much improved compared to the previous generation A15, but even so, the A16 chip is still the strongest mobile phone chip . In the " Genshin Impact " game, although the iPhone 14 Pro Max already supports 120 frame mode, even if 120 frames are turned on, the game will still run at 60 frames. Adjust the game quality to extremely high, set the frame rate to 60 frames, and it can still be maintained at 60 frames in the early stage, but the game time will be too long, and the game frame rate will drop, and the screen brightness will also become darker.
summary
Although the iPhone 14 Pro Max may not bring too many surprises, relying on the improvements in 48-megapixel imaging system, better screen performance, powerful A16 bionic chip, etc., it is still the king of the phone that many people think this year.The eye-catching "Lingdong Island" allows others to see at a glance that this is a new iPhone, satisfying the "sense of vanity" and turning decay into magical Lingdong Island software interaction. When the screen cannot avoid holes digging, the interactive experience of this mobile phone is worthy of praise. However, "Lingdong Island" does not support many software now, and we look forward to the adaptation of subsequent third-party software.
I like the lock screen interface style of the iPhone 14 Pro Max mobile phone screen-off display, and the screen-off display of NetEase Cloud and map navigation are very artistic and practical. I also look forward to more applications that bring fresh interactions on the screen-off. The RAW photos taken by the 48-megapixel main camera have significantly improved clarity, but for ordinary people, they may not be able to perceive them strongly. As for the performance of the A16 chip, the performance is slightly improved, but it is still the best mobile phone processor on the market. In addition, iPhone 14 Pro Max still has some old problems, such as the screen will automatically drop brightness when the phone is too high, and there will be ghosts when shooting lights.
In addition, iPhone 14 Pro Max also adds a car accident detection function. When a car accident occurs, iPhone 14 Pro Max will automatically recognize and issue a warning. If no one operates the phone, the phone will automatically call the emergency number. Although this is a function that no one wants to use, it leaves a guarantee for our safety. Spending a lot of effort to create a feature that may never be used may be the reason why Apple's humanistic care has always been praised.
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