![]() ![]() Still, Apple held a strong lead already, and now that leading chip is going into its base model iPhone. The fastest Android phones can almost come close, and the differences are only visible in benchmark tests. I haven’t tried it yet, but I can tell you that the A16 Bionic processor used on the iPhone 14 Pro and now the iPhone 15 is the fastest mobile chip I’ve ever benchmarked, by a wide margin. And the other advantages that the Pro Max model offers over the iPhone 15 are even more superfluous. The telephoto zoom lens is a real step up from past iPhone models, but it’s not the revolutionary advantage that it seems. What I’m saying is that the best selling point for the iPhone 15 Pro Max isn’t actually that impressive. The iPhone 15 is very much like last year's Pro model The subject is visible, and you can make out some details, but these aren’t photos worth showing off, especially when you compare them to the amazing photos that smartphones can take with a stellar main camera. The 10MP images it takes are a blurry mess. Samsung uses a sensor with its 10X zoom that is almost the exact same size as the Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max 5X zoom. If you compute the sensor area (Wolfram Alpha is very helpful for this), you’ll find the 48MP main sensor is more than six times larger than the 12MP telephoto sensor. It measures just over a quarter-inch diagonally. The sensor on the telephoto lens, by comparison, is tiny. The 48MP camera on the iPhone 15 Pro measures more than three-quarters of an inch. Each lens gets its own image sensor, and the main camera, which offers a rather wide field of view – useful for every occasion – uses the best sensor. The reason is because smartphones tend to have one really big, really great sensor, and it isn’t wasted on the telephoto zoom lens. This image is from the main lens, so you get great lighting and sharp details The zoom on the Pro Max also has a special 3D optical image stabilization (OIS) system that Apple claims is a first on smartphones. In order of zoom length – you get no zoom on the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, up to 3X optical zoom on the iPhone 15 Pro, and a periscopic 5X optical zoom lens on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. The Pro model gets a zoom lens, but the Pro Max can see farther and more clearly. You need to invest in the iPhone 15 Pro Max. If you want the new best camera Apple ever made, you can’t just settle for the iPhone 15 Pro. The iPhone 14 camera is no slouch, but the iPhone 14 Pro is the best camera Apple ever made. If you want the best camera quality the iPhone can manage, and the most versatility, you need to buy the Pro model. The real difference has always been the camera. Pro always means a better camera, but is it better? Or, this so-called A17 “Pro” chip could be a sign that the base models will get a downgraded version next year with an A17 Bionic. Last year, Apple separated the Pro models and the base model iPhone even further by endowing the iPhone 14 Pro with the fast, new A16 Bionic chipset, while the iPhone 14 stuck with the same A15 as the iPhone 13 that preceded it.įrom now on, we can expect the Pro models will debut Apple’s newest mobile silicon, while the base model will (hopefully) get last year’s chip. Since then, the divisions have become more and more clear. If you wanted a telephoto lens on your iPhone, even if only a 2X zoom, you needed to spend more and go Pro. The display was much more sharp, but that wasn’t the real selling point. ![]() It had the same processor, Apple’s A13 Bionic. The iPhone 11 Pro was slightly smaller than the iPhone 11. The iPhone 11 Pro ruined us for regular, non-Pro phones (Image credit: Future) It was Apple that fired the first shot in the Pro phone war. There was no more powerful Pro (Ultra) model for Samsung, not yet. The differences were the screen size and the S Pen. You could buy Samsung phones in a variety of sizes, with the most robust set of features around.Įvery Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy S10 still came with the same processor (a Snapdragon 855) and the exact same set of cameras. Less than a week before Apple launched the iPhone 11, Samsung, at the height of its smartphone power, launched the Galaxy Note 10, as well as the first foldable phone, the Galaxy Fold (the Z in Galaxy Z Fold 2 would come next year). How did we get into this Pro phone mess, anyway? That changed with the iPhone 11 family, which included the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max. In other words, you didn’t lose anything meaningful buying the less expensive, smaller iPhone 7, for instance, versus the iPhone 7 Plus. The cameras, the processor, and all the other features were the same. They had a larger display, and of course, that meant a larger battery inside, but there were no other changes. Still, those bigger iPhones were just … bigger. ![]()
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