After unveiling the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, Apple has moved on to present today its renewed range of Pro smartphones. IPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max are equipped with new cameras, a new notch design and a new chipset.
You can also contact the satellite emergency services if you are “off the grid” but under “bright foliage” or in direct view of a satellite. This service will debut in the US and Canada only in November and will be free for the first two years.
The main visual change you’ll notice is the pill-shaped cutout at the top of the screen. It is smaller than the older notch, and this was made possible by the fact that the cameras inside are now 30% smaller. The proximity sensor has also moved below the display to help. Of course, Apple couldn’t help but give the cutout a name – Dynamic Island is what it’s called. Apple is playing with black pixels around the actual crop to create some dynamic effects.
The space around the cutout changes to allow easier access to controls for ongoing background tasks such as Maps or Music or a timer. Third-party apps can also take advantage of this area – for example, you might get sports scores there.
The display itself, 6.1 “on the Pro and 6.7” on the Pro Max, is now brighter, up to 2,000 nits peak for HDR content, and has a new controller that supports refresh rates up to 1Hz. This means Always-On Display is finally available on an Apple product, exclusive to these Pro phones. Time, widgets and live activities will be visible at a glance on this always-on display.
The main camera on the back has a “quad-pixel” sensor, which is a first for Apple but quite old in the Android world right now. The sensor has a resolution of 48MP and by default the phone will shoot at 12MP. The camera has an aperture of f / 1.78 and a pixel size of 1.22μm before binning – 2.44μm with binning. You also get second-generation sensor displacement stabilization, as well as full focus pixels.
The high-resolution main sensor allows for a new intermediate zoom step of 2x in the camera app, cropping from the center, perfect for Portrait mode shots. There’s a new 12MP ultrawide camera in tow, with large 1.4μm pixels, which delivers sharper images with more detail and also improves macro shots. Finally, the 3x telephoto lens is still there and has optical image stabilization.
The A16 Bionic chip is the heart of the two devices and comes with a six-core CPU, with two performance cores and four efficiency cores. The CPU in general should be 40% faster than the competition, while its two high-performance cores require 20% less power than those of the A15. The 16-core Neural Engine included in the A16 is capable of 17 trillion operations per second, while the 5-core GPU is equipped with 50% more memory bandwidth.
iPhone 14 and 14 Pro in Space Gray, Silver, Gold, and Deep Purple
iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max will be offered in space black, silver, gold and deep purple with 128/256/512 GB and 1 TB of storage. Pre-orders begin Friday 9 September, with availability after 16 September. The price in the US has remained the same as last year: iPhone 14 Pro starts at $ 999, while iPhone 14 Pro Max starts at $ 1,099. Like the cheaper non-Pro iPhone 14 models, these also remove the SIM tray for the US market, relying on eSIM only.
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