iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max are official, Apple presented them during the Far Out event that we are following live from the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino. The two top of the range thus complete the 2022 offer in the smartphone field of the American brand, alongside the equally new iPhone 14 and 14 Plus (HERE all the details in our dedicated article).
Goodbye notch, therefore, five years after its introduction took place with the iPhone X and as indeed widely anticipated by the rumors of recent months. In its place there are now two holes, a circular one that houses the front camera and an elongated pill-shaped one in which the sensors for Face ID facial recognition are stored. The official name is “Dynamic Island”.
This “dynamic island” is the new center of the iPhone, it is always on and shows information from apps in the background – for example music or directions on Maps. Inside it are in fact displayed new widgets (dynamic) that allow the user to have an eye on all the information.
DISPLAY AND A16 BIONIC
iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max have Super Retina XDR Always-on displays with ProMotion 6.1 and 6.7 inches respectively. The renewed display engine allows you to have a dynamic refresh rate between 1Hz and 120Hz. The display is also brighter (twice as bright as the 13 Pro, Apple says) thanks to the outdoor peak of 2,000nit.
Under the body there is the new A16 Bionic processor made with a 4-nanometer process with a 6-core CPU, 2 dedicated to performance that guarantees energy savings of 20% compared to the previous generation, 4 for efficiency that “consume a third of the chips proposed by the competition”. Alongside the A16 Bionic is a 16-core Neural Engine.
A16 Bionic:
6-core CPU (2x performance + 4x efficiency)
5-core GPU
16-core Neural Engine
In the United States, iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max are only compatible with eSIMs. In Europe, smartphones will be sold with the trolley for physical SIMs.
CAMERAS
Another strong point of the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max is the camera, completely redesigned with Photonic Engine to improve photos taken in low light. The main cam is 48MP with quad-pixel sensor 65% wider than the iPhone 13 Pro. The result is 12MP photos that capture more light, the pixel binning then allows you to get a 2x “real” zoom with a focal length of 48mm.
Main camera: 48MP, f/1.78, 24mm focal length, 2.44um quad-pixel, 7-element lens, 100% Focus Pixel, 2nd generation OIS sensor-shift
Ultra wide angle camera: 12MP, f/2.2, 1.4um pixels, 13mm focal length, 6-element lens, 100% Focus Pixel, macro photography
tele camera
TrueDepth camera, f/1.9, AF
new True Tone flash with 9 leds
Night Mode, Smart HDR 4, Portrait Mode, Apple ProRAW, Action Mode, Cinema Mode
ProRAW shooting at 48MP is also supported, as well as cinema mode can also be applied with 4K recording @30fps and 4K @24fps.
iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max are equipped with a new gyroscope and a dual-core accelerometer capable of detecting measurements up to 256G: thanks to these the smartphone recognizes a serious car accident, thus sending an SOS call automatically. The function is the same that we also find on the new Apple Watch.
It is not available in Italy but only in the USA and Canada the emergency call via satellite, which uses software and the integrated antennas of the iPhone to send messages even when you are not covered by cellular network or WiFi. The service will arrive on selected markets in November and will be free for 2 years.
