Review of iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max

Today’s smartphones no longer offer new and innovative features and innovations like in the past and are mostly updated versions of the previous phones of the respective companies. This also applies to iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. The two new flagships of Apple are not significantly different from the similar models of the iPhone 14 series, and only small but meaningful changes have been made in them.

As always, the important thing about Apple’s new flagships is their price. iPhone 15 Pro, like iPhone 14 Pro, has been launched at the price of 999 dollars, but this year’s Pro Max version is 100 dollars more expensive than last year. The 256GB version of this phone has been launched at a price of $1,199, while there is no news of a 128GB version for this phone this year. Although the 256 GB version of iPhone 14 Pro Max was also sold at the same price, a cheaper 128 GB version was also available in the market.

In general, it can be said that the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max are quite familiar to the fans of Apple phones and only a few new features have been added to them, the most important of which is probably the USB-C port. Of course, Apple was not interested in providing this feature in its new phones, and the European Union forced the company to do so.

Designing

Both the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max are 19 grams lighter than before, the main reason for which is Apple’s use of titanium alloy instead of stainless steel in their bodies. Although these two phones are by no means light, they are undoubtedly much more comfortable than before. This issue is more tangible especially in the Pro Max version, because now using this phone no longer gives you the feeling of working with a heavy weight.

The four corners of both phones are a little more curved than last year, but still, their edges are so smooth that you can tell at a glance that we are dealing with the iPhone series. The screen size of both phones has not changed compared to last year and the Pro version has a 6.1 inch screen and the Pro Max version has a 6.7 inch screen. Of course, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is one millimeter smaller than the iPhone 14 Pro in terms of dimensions, and this, along with its lighter weight, makes this phone much more comfortable to hold than the previous Apple flagship.

The color combination of iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max includes silver, black, white, and blue colors, and blue may be more attractive than other colors, although the choice of the best color depends entirely on people’s taste. However, it is recommended that you do not use Apple’s FineWoven covers for these phones at all, as the slightest wrong contact of the nail with the cover will cause a small but permanent line to fall on the body of the phone.

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All four iPhone 15 models have a USB-C port – thanks to the European Union – but only the Pro and Pro Max versions are USB 3. Although you can experience very high data transfer speeds using 10 Gb cables, Apple has released both phones with a USB 2 cable, which is a shame considering their extremely high prices!

You can buy Apple’s proprietary Thunderbolt 4 cable separately for $69, but we recommend against that, as 10Gb USB-C cables are available on Amazon for $15. Fortunately, all iPhone 15 phones support third-party USB-C cables. It must be admitted that this issue was very strange and unexpected considering the history of Apple.

It was once said that the iPhone 15 will not have any physical keys, and although it is unlikely that Apple will use such a design in its next phones, fortunately, not only has this not happened, but the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max have a single key. They are also equipped with the new action key. This key replaces the volume key of previous Apple phones and provides the function of the same key in the default mode. However, you can customize the function of this key to open the camera app, activate focus mode, and more.

The action key also lets you directly access your shortcuts, though you’ll need to assign shortcuts to it first. In addition, now a new icon for mute and unmute has been placed in the “Control Center” section of the phone so that you can easily customize the function of the action key. This key is equipped with touch feedback technology, with the help of which you can find out whether the phone is on silent or ring mode.

The function you define for the action key will only be activated when you hold the key for a few moments. This has caused the phone to turn off and on with a little delay compared to before. Also, the location of the action key is slightly higher than the volume key on the iPhone 14 Pro, and for this reason, many times you may mistakenly use the volume key instead of this key.

Connections and network

This year, Apple has used Qualcomm’s X70 modem in its new phones, which adds Wi-Fi 6E technology to these phones for the first time. Wi-Fi 6E, unlike the previous 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, is incredibly fast, but the inability to pass through walls and obstacles is known as its main weakness. You can turn off Wi-Fi 6E or set it to automatic mode in the settings section of the phone. In automatic mode, the phone will use 2.4 or 5 GHz bands if the signals are weak or slow.

In the tests, the iPhone 15 Pro managed to achieve a download and upload speed of about 700-900 Mbps using Wi-Fi 6E, which is an impressive speed for a smartphone. However, by moving the router and placing it in another room, the speed of the phone also decreased to something around 60-90 Mbps. This shows the main weakness of Wi-Fi 6E technology. Fortunately, the download and upload speed of the phone after connecting it to Wi-Fi 5 network reached 300 Mbps, which is an acceptable number.

Apple has released several devices equipped with Wi-Fi 6, but the iPhone 15 Pro is the company’s first portable device that supports the said technology. However, it was expected that Apple’s new flagship would come with an indicator to indicate which Wi-Fi 6E band it is using, as such an indicator is currently displayed when using Wi-Fi 5.

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Function

Apple has used the A17 Pro processor in its two new flagship phones, which uses a new graphics chip. This chip supports hardware-based ray tracing technology and is capable of running heavy modern games like Resident Evil Village. Fortunately, the phone doesn’t get as hot when playing games compared to when you’re shooting videos with it.

Considering the high power of the A17 Pro and the presence of a USB-C port on the iPhone 15 Pro, you might think that Apple will probably give you the ability to use this phone as a desktop environment when connecting it to external displays, but unfortunately, such an issue It is not true and the Dex capabilities of Samsung phones are still unrivaled in this sector.

battery

Both iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max have acceptable battery life and you can use them for a whole day with a single charge. However, the worrisome thing about the batteries of these phones is the possibility of their life quickly decreasing because many users have reported that the battery life of their iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max phones has dropped to 90% or even less after only one year. it is arrived. Apple has not commented on this matter, but on the support page of its website, it has announced that the battery life of its phones will decrease to 80% after 500 times of charging.

Nevertheless, the battery life of older phones such as the iPhone XR is still around 90% after a few years, and although the way of charging and using the phone also has an effect on this issue, it seems that the new phones of this company suffer from another unknown problem. They take.

Despite supporting the USB-C port, the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max offer the same 27W wireless, 15W (Mag Safe) and 7.5W (Qi) wireless charging as the iPhone 14 Pro. Also, iOS 17 has a new feature called standby mode, which displays useful information on the screen while the phone is charging. Of course, note that to use this feature, you must activate the always-on feature of the phone.

Camera

iPhone 15 Pro Max has not made much progress in the camera department, and the most important change is the use of a telephoto camera with 5x zoom instead of 3x zoom, which is still used in the Pro version. This 12 megapixel camera supports hybrid autofocus technology and sensor shift stabilization. The combination of other cameras of these phones includes a 48-megapixel main camera with an f/1.8 aperture, a 2.2-megapixel ultra-wide camera with an f/2.2 aperture, and a 12-megapixel selfie camera with an f/1.9 aperture.

The telephoto camera of the iPhone 15 Pro Max has a small size, and for this reason, the problem of noise is a little more visible in the images of bright environments. The phone also uses the main camera in some dark environments and the telephoto camera in some other low-light environments to record zoom images. As always, Apple doesn’t allow you to change this function directly, and you have to use third-party apps to use the telephoto camera in all dark environments.

By comparing the 5x zoom images of iPhone 15 Pro Max and Pixel 7 Pro, we can see that Apple’s flagship telephoto camera has an acceptable performance. Although the color accuracy of Pixel 7 Pro zoom images is better in low light environments, it seems that the details of images recorded in green environments are better in iPhone 15 Pro Max.

However, you won’t need a magnifying glass to notice that the images on Apple’s flagship telephoto camera are darker. Also, the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra has a weaker performance in the 5x zoom department than its two main competitors, but instead, the 10x zoom capability of its telephoto camera is not available in any of the Google and Apple phones.

The main camera of this year’s iPhone 15 Pro versions has three lenses of 24, 28 and 35 mm, and you can switch between them by touching the iPhone 1x in the camera application and specify one of them as the main lens. Also, now the default images of the main camera of these phones are 24 megapixels. This makes cropped zoom images from the main camera have better quality than normal digital zoom images.

According to Apple, the 24-megapixel images on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max when using a 24mm lens are created by combining 12-megapixel frames with information from a large 48-megapixel frame and using artificial intelligence to fill in the gaps. However, when using the 35mm lens, the phone doesn’t need the 48MP frame information.

Although it seems that digital zoom still has a weaker performance than optical zoom, but now it can be said that this technology has made significant progress and it is possible to record wonderful images with it. This year, in addition to 48 megapixel ProRAW images, Apple has made it possible to record 48 megapixel compressed images (in both JPEG and HEIF formats) in its new phones.

Compared to ProRAW samples, these images occupy a much smaller volume of the phone. For example, a HEIF and JPEG compressed 48MP image is about 4MB and 9MB respectively, but the size of a similar ProRAW image can reach 70MB.

Before the release of the iPhone 15 series, you had to first set the dorian to the corresponding mode to capture portrait images, but Apple has solved this problem in the iPhone 15 series and you can apply the portrait effect to them after capturing the images. Now, whenever the phone detects a human or animal face, it automatically saves the depth of field information in the image file.

Then when you go into the camera app, you’ll have access to an option to apply a portrait effect to the image. You can also use this feature to focus the camera on another part of the image. Although this feature is not compatible with night mode, it is possible to use it in telephoto and selfie cameras.

In general, Apple seems to be keeping pace with Google and Samsung in the camera department. Among the three phones, iPhone 15 Pro, Pixel 7 Pro and Galaxy S23 Ultra, Google’s flagship captures better images in dark environments, and Galaxy S23 Ultra also has the best performance in capturing portrait images, but the color accuracy of the iPhone 15 Pro It’s better. In general, the quality of the images of the main camera of these three phones does not differ much from each other, and in fact, it can be said that all three phones have the same performance in this regard.

iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro this year have also received the ability to record videos with a log profile. This image profile allows videographers to control the appearance of the final video. Of course, the log videos are stored in the phone with the ProRes codec, which takes up a lot of space. However, you can connect an SSD to your phone via the USB-C port and save videos directly to it.

Apple’s new flagships also have the ability to shoot videos with 4K resolution at 60 frames, 4K at 24 frames and 4K at 30 frames. Also, in the future, the possibility of 3D video recording will be added to these phones. Apple has announced that you can upload and use these videos in the Vision Pro mixed reality headset.

Conclusion

Although it is unlikely that we will see significant progress in new smartphones, but still, some years the progress of these devices is more tangible than other years. This also applies to the iPhone 15 Pro. This phone is better in terms of design than previous Apple flagships, its USB-C port will make your life easier in the long run, its action key will do almost any task and its camera features will be a pleasure to use.