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The iPhone15 series has been released for a month, and I think many of my buddies have been using it for a few weeks like me. But for most money-holding wait-and-see users, Singles Day at the end of each year is the "great time" to buy a new iPhone.

After all, at that time, the firmware version of iOS had been updated several times, and the relatively serious Bug had been repaired (for example, the newly updated iOS17.0.3 fixed the fever problem of iPhone15 Pro), Foxconn's production capacity also tended to be stable, and users no longer had to experience a longer shipping cycle, coupled with the superposition of various discounts on the e-commerce platform, double 11 for a new iPhone, which became the first choice for many "will live" users.

After two weeks of use, we will give you a detailed analysis of where this year's iPhone15 Pro Pro is. As an ordinary user, do you want to change to iPhone 15 Pro?

First of all, due to many reasons such as system fluency, many iPhone users will not choose to replace a new iPhone,2 every year-a product in 3 years is a more logical replacement cycle for iPhone users.

In terms of appearance, there is no significant change in the "back" of iPhone from the beginning of iPhone11 Pro. This highly unified design makes users accustomed to Android's flagship dazzling appearance feel that iPhone's design is old-fashioned and nothing new.

Image source: Apple official website but it is also this highly unified design that allows others to see from a distance whether a person is using iPhone or not. This highly unified iconic design is deliberately maintained by Apple, not the legendary "one mold for three years", because in fact, the appearance of each generation of iPhone is making subtle adjustments, and we all understand that molds will not be universal in this case.

Another representative of this design with the same elements is Huawei. Starting with Mate30, Huawei has adopted the iconic ring design in its rear lens module, which extends to Mate40 and returns to the newly released Mate60 series after Mate50 briefly disappeared for various reasons.

It is this continuous and highly identifiable appearance that allows users to see whose product you are using from a distance.

"Metaphysics" feel I think the last iPhone model that can be called a good touch dates back to the iPhone12 era.

It was the first time that iPhone changed the curved frame design to a right-angled frame, which made users who were accustomed to iPhone11 and the previous round feel very fresh when they just got iPhone12 and 12 Pro. The design of the straight screen of the whole department also made many users who were not used to curved screens ecstatic. From the weight point of view, the weight of that generation of iPhone12 is relatively moderate.

IPhone 12 image source: LU began with iPhone13, and every year Apple has been stuffing this slightly different body with larger batteries, better lens modules, and more powerful screens, and the weight of iPhone (especially Pro) products has increased year by year.

By last year, the weight of the iPhone14 Pro Max had been exaggerated to 240g, which was exaggerated among the super-large cup Android flagships. Now search iPhone 14 Pro Max on social media such as Little Red Book, and many users are complaining that the weight of iPhone 14 Pro Max is too exaggerated, and my colleagues have resolutely chosen the small size iPhone 15 Pro because of the weight of iPhone 14 Pro Max.

Due to the persistence of the company's design department, Apple uses a large number of metal + glass design language in both product and retail store design. Therefore, iPhone has never considered the weight loss scheme of "plain skin" in the design process. The biggest weight loss source of this generation of iPhone 15 Pro is the fusion design of titanium and aluminum in the middle frame.

Image source: the addition of titanium to Apple official website changes the frame of iPhone 15 Pro from the shiny stainless steel design to the "matte" effect of metal wire drawing. But it should be noted that this generation of iPhone 15 Pro a total of 4 colors, in addition to the primary color titanium metal, the remaining three colors of the coloring process is still anodizing process, after a long period of use there should be varying degrees of decolorization (non-silver iPhone Pro frame will appear this problem), so this year I am the first to promote iPhone 15 Pro primary color titanium metal matching.

Primary color titanium iPhone 15 Pro Max source: what LU photography has not confirmed is that because this generation of frame structure uses titanium + aluminum fusion design, titanium is a relatively "soft" material relative to stainless steel, so the drop strength of this generation of iPhone 15 Pro series may be weaker than that of the previous generation.

Finally, compared to the right-angled frame of the iPhone12-14 series, the iPhone 15 series adds a round chamfer to the frame, so that bare-metal users of iPhone 15 Pro will no longer be bothered by frame cutting.

Image source: Apple official website does not seem to upgrade the image system significantly, in fact, the image flagship is promoting a 1-inch outsole, 200 megapixels today, iPhone 15 Pro 4800W pixels may be "not enough to see". Since Apple never publishes the specific data of its own lens sensor, many unknown users think that there is no difference between the 4800 million of this generation of iPhone 15 Pro series and the 15 standard version.

But a video from the famous disassembly website iFixit shows that the sensor size of the iPhone15 Pro series is significantly larger than that of the standard iPhone15. Apple equipped the iPhone15 Pro with a 4800W sensor of 1.28 inches and 1.22 μ m per pixel, while the iPhone15 sensor is a 4800W sensor of 1.56 inches and 1.0 μ m per pixel.

Image source: iFixit, so although the number of pixels is the same, the dark light performance of iPhone 15 Pro must be better than that of iPhone 15.

Nighttime performance source of iPhone 15 Pro Max 24mm main shot: LU photography in addition, this generation of iPhone 15 Pro can make more choices on the default focal length of the main shot. Users can switch between 24mm (1x), 28mm (1.2x) and 35mm (1.5x). Like me, I think users with too much 24mm will have more choices (Nubian users are ecstatic).

Image source: LUiPhone 15 Pro Max brings users a 5x telephoto lens for longer shooting distances.

The key point here is that apart from the size, the difference between iPhone15 Pro and 15 Pro Max is that 15 Pro carries 3x light variation, while 15 Pro Max is 5x light variable. Users should be clear in the selection process that 5x does not have to be better than 3x.

Image source: LU measured iPhone 15 Pro Max because there is no excessive optical lens between 3 and 5x, which makes the image quality "collapse" between 2.1x-4.9x is more serious than that of iPhone 15 Pro with 3x light variation, so you need to think carefully before choosing 15 Pro or 15 Pro Max: "do you use more 3x or 5x every day?"

3x is more suitable for portrait shooting, food close-ups and other scenes, while 5x is the focus commonly used in outdoor activities and scenery photos. The reason I chose iPhone 15 Pro Max more is: "I don't want to get enough shots when I need to take high-rate photos or videos." And I can accept the disadvantage of the decline in picture quality of about 3x.

The source of the picture taken by 24mm: LU

Image source under 120mm 5x: another thing about LU photography is that at present, the magnification switch in many third-party camera App software still uses the 3x parameter by default, so it is impossible to call this 5x lens when using software like ProCCD, and you need to wait for the developer to update it.

In addition, this generation of iPhone, whether standard version or Pro, supports the automatic portrait mode in the default mode. When the iPhone15 recognizes that there is a pet in the picture, it will automatically enable the portrait mode, and the user can also directly adjust the focus of the subject in the photo after the shooting is completed. This is an advanced function that can only be used after spending a lot of money to buy a "light field camera". Now it can also be used directly in the mobile phone.

In addition, this generation of iPhone15 can take photos up to 2400W pixels by default, and users can also manually set ultra-clear images up to 4800W JPEG Max, which is more suitable for magnifying and viewing details than the default shooting (4800W pixels and live photo cannot be turned on at the same time).

Image source: LU and in terms of video recording, iPhone's position has never been "shaken" by Android's so-called video flagship, and it is still a proper first echelon. This generation of iPhone 15 Pro series can support smooth zoom switching of three rear lenses at 4K 60 frames, but not iPhone 14 Pro and previous models.

Image source: the biggest upgrade of LU generation iPhone 15 Pro is due to the upgrade of the USB-C3 interface, so 15 Pro supports hard disk external recording of up to 4K 60 frames of Apple ProRes, which is very attractive for professional video photographers, because the size of a 1 minute 4K 30 frame ProRes file is about 6GB, so 60 frames to support external recording is still very necessary.

The improvement of the network is a bit obvious. On the day my colleague got iPhone 15 Pro, he told me that the improvement of iPhone 15 Pro over iPhone 14 Pro Max was "a little obvious" and could be directly perceived by users.

After using it for two weeks after I got the iPhone15 and 15 Pro Max, I found that the limit signal performance of iPhone15 (such as aircraft take-off and landing, elevator, basement environment) is about the same as the Samsung S23 Ultra at hand, whether it is the standard version or the Pro version. Compared to the 14 Pro Max signal, it has a certain improvement in terms of network speed and network stability.

Shahram Mokhtari of the well-known dismantling website iFixit confirmed on Twitter that Qualcomm's X70 modem has been used in the entire range of iPhone15 this year. Although the standard version of iPhone15 uses the previous generation of processors, Apple does not directly put the 14-Pro logic board directly into the standard version of iPhone15, and does not directly use the Qualcomm X65 modem on 14 Pro.

According to benchmark tests on the SpeedSmart website, Qualcomm's X70 modem has brought a huge boost to the 5G performance of the iPhone 15, with a 24% increase in 5G speed compared to the iPhone 14 series.

However, compared with the Internet grab artifacts such as Huawei Mate40 Pro and Glory Magic 5 Pro, the signal performance of iPhone 15 is still not good enough. The signal enhancement we are talking about is only aimed at the previous iPhone signal.

The first thing to say about other seemingly unimportant upgrade points is Smart Island.

Some time ago, because the iPhone 14 Pro Max was so heavy, I briefly replaced the main phone with the old iPhone 13 Pro. At that time, I thought it had an adaptive refresh screen and weighed a little less than the 14PM. During the month of using iPhone 13 Pro, what affected me most was not the peak brightness and round-the-clock display of these functions, but the sense of gap between the smart island interaction and the bangs.

Smart Island is scoffed by many users.

When 14Pro first appeared on the market, people thought that Smart Island was equipped with less software, ugly and interactive logic. However, a year after arriving on the island, software such as Didi, Shuangxiang and ele.me, which need to pay attention to the process all the time, has been on the island, and it has become a habit for iPhone users to check messages on the smart island during their daily use.

Smart Island Source: although Apple has added "live news" to the non-Smart Island model, LU only exists on the lock screen page. This is definitely different from talking about Wechat and browsing Little Red Book and glancing at it to see the status of the news. So Smart Island, like Apple's ProMotion, belongs to the deep experience function of "you can't go back if you use it."

IPhone15 has been upgraded to Smart Island, which officially marks that the third-generation interaction based on Smart Island has been officially released in the full series of iPhone. There are three interaction modes available on Apple's official website, and their positioning is very clear:

The first generation of interaction is entry-level iPhone, only iPhone SE.

The second generation of interaction is the advanced version of iPhone, including iPhone13 Standard Edition, 14 Standard Edition and iPhone14 Plus.

The third generation of interaction is the latest interaction that Apple wants to present to users, and all four iPhone15 models belong to it.

As for the "action button" that replaces the mute button on the iPhone 15 Pro, there are two mainstream uses, one is to continue to use it as a mute button, and the other is to use it as a camera start and shoot button.

Operation button source: LU, I think this change does not bring much experience to the user. The only confusion may be that it is always accidentally pressed when blindly manipulating the volume key.

Finally, with regard to USB-C, its biggest improvement is that it makes it much more convenient for me to travel with multiple devices, and it is a convenient point for me to take one less lightning cable, both for the charger interface and for storage.

Image source: LU photo another is that when iPhone users use AR glasses like Thunderbird Air, they no longer need an external screen device or HDMI converter. Now a USB-C cable is used directly.

Photo Source: LU was on a business trip a few days before the flight was delayed. After waiting for a long time at the airport, when I was running out of iPhone power, I was frantically rummaging through the lightning cable in my bag, and then suddenly found: Oh! It turns out that iPhone is now a C port.

Shopping advice I mentioned at the beginning of the article, in fact, I do not recommend that iPhone users must change every generation. My advice is:

If you are still using iPhone13 Pro and previous models, then this generation of iPhone 15 Pro is worth replacing. Smart Island, the new imaging system, and the weight of the Menghui iPhone 12 Pro series will all give you a big sense of surprise when you get the iPhone 15 Pro.

If you are using the iPhone14 Pro series, and you do not have a "that big" need to replace the USB-C port, and the weight is acceptable, the iPhone14 Pro will be fine for another two years. Within two years, iPhone 14 Pro, Apple's hardware and software interaction, will be available. Of course, if you are not short of money, forget it.

With regard to the Standard Edition, my advice is that this generation of iPhone15 Standard Edition is well worth replacing, whether you are using any standard edition of the iPhone digital series.

Because it in the image, interaction, signal performance and other aspects of the improvement is very obvious, blind guess iPhone15 will become a new generation of "nail households" iPhone model after iPhone12, about the standard version of the content we will issue a separate article, interested friends can pay attention in advance.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: non-objective Laboratory (ID:gh_719281df296b), author: Lu

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