iPhone 15 Pro
iPhone 15 Pro Max
In brief
The Apple iPhone 15 Pro attracts attention with its new, lighter casing, equipped with a luxurious titanium edge. Apart from the external changes, the device is a less exciting update than you might expect. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any nice little novelties. For example, the device has a new Action button, a USB-C port instead of Lightning, and improved image processing, making the camera image appear sharper. The screen, which has narrower edges and is equipped with a Dynamic Island, is very bright and has excellent color adjustment. Under the hood is a lightning-fast SoC, the software works quickly and receives long updates, and the battery life is above average for a relatively small device. However, the iPhone 14 Pro already had all those advantages, and the disadvantages remain the same, for example the slow charging and meager storage capacity of the basic model – which is already very expensive. The new telephoto camera of the iPhone 15 Pro Max unfortunately ignores this smaller model, and the bigger brother also has a significantly longer battery life as an advantage.
In brief
The Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max attracts attention with its updated, lighter casing with a luxurious titanium edge. Aside from the cosmetic changes, it’s a less exciting update than you might expect. That does not mean that there are no nice little novelties: the device has a new Action button, a USB-C port instead of Lightning, and improved image processing that makes the camera image look sharper. In addition, the iPhone 15 Pro Max has a new telephoto camera that allows you to zoom in a lot further without major loss of quality. The screen, which has narrower edges and is equipped with a Dynamic Island, is very bright and has excellent color adjustment. Under the hood is a lightning-fast SoC, the software works quickly and receives long updates, and the battery life is among the best of all smartphones we tested. However, the iPhone 14 Pro Max already had all those advantages, and the disadvantages also remain the same. Like the old model, the 15 Pro Max charges slowly and is very expensive. In any case, Apple no longer sells a variant with a meager 128GB of storage. Bottom line, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is one of the best smartphones of the moment.
Apple is not a company that constantly experiments with the appearance of its devices. Why would it be; the recognizable appearance is apparently enough to continue selling devices year after year. However, a design update has to be implemented every now and then to keep things going. Apart from an ever-expanding camera island and a new theme color every year, the iPhone 12 Pro, 13 Pro and 14 Pro looked almost identical on the outside. After three years it gradually becomes a bit worn out.
For the iPhone 15 Pro series, which Apple presented last month, Apple is using a new material to make the design special. Starting with the iPhone With the iPhone 15 Pro devices, the steel frame disappears again, making way for a titanium edge with a brushed finish with a luxurious-looking glow. Titanium is not a new material for Apple. Twenty-two years ago, the fruit brand introduced its… Powerbook G4 with titanium housing. More recently, the most expensive variants of Apple watches were made of the light metal. The second Apple Watch Ultra is the latest.
There are rumors that Apple also wants to call its most luxurious iPhone ‘Ultra’, but that is not yet the case this year. The smaller Pro model is again called the iPhone 15 Pro, and the larger variant iPhone 15 Pro Max. If you look beyond the outward appearance of a new design, not much seems to have changed in other respects. Well, the transition to a USB-C port is practical, because you no longer have to use a separate Lightning cable in a world where more and more devices have USB-C. Of course, Apple is building in a new SoC, and the iPhone 15 Pro Max has a special telephoto camera that promises 5x optical zoom. What might convince you is the lower price compared to the previous model. While other products and services have quickly become more expensive in recent years, the prices of new iPhones are actually going down this year. When introduced, the new Pros cost about one hundred to two hundred euros less than the devices from the previous generation.
In addition to the iPhone 15 Pro devices, Apple traditionally also releases two ‘regular’ iPhones, the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus. You can read the review of those models here. In this review we focus on the best that Apple has to offer this fall.
2023-10-07 18:00:00
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