iPhone 14 Review – The Hindu BusinessLine

‘Tis the season of iPhones and after having reviewed the Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max final week, I used to be questioning how I’d expertise the quintessential primary mannequin — the iPhone 14.

At 6.1 inches, it’s completely compact and pretty light-weight. However, for somebody who’s at all times admired Apple’s {hardware} greater than any of its different options, it’s disappointing to not see design enhancements.

Yes, the iPhone 14 remains to be a chic, lovely system, but it surely additionally seems like Apple’s simply taking part in it secure. The vivid OLED show comes with as much as 1,200 nits of brightness — greater than ample for visibility open air — and is a deal with to devour multimedia on.

At 6.1 inches, it’s completely compact and pretty light-weight

The vivid OLED show comes with as much as 1,200 nits of brightness

It’s disappointing to not see main design enhancements

Camera

The iPhone 14 has a brand new 12-megapixel foremost digicam with a bigger sensor and a brand new entrance TrueDepth digicam. The improved depth notion between the topic within the foreground and a minimally blurred background makes for some good portraits.

However, that is one thing that Apple has executed pretty nicely even up to now, and different firms, too, do nicely now.

The iPhone 14 has a brand new 12-megapixel foremost digicam

Photos taken open air at evening had been devoid of an excessive amount of grain, most likely due to the brand new Photonic Engine which drives low-mild pictures.

While total, the images seemed nice, they aren’t stunningly completely different from what the iPhone 13 lineup is able to.

Here are some unedited images taken with the iPhone 14.

Safety options

The iPhone is the most cost effective telephone with Crash Detection, a smartphone trade-first security service. And, not like different options that you simply may use extra typically, that is nonetheless a passive security characteristic that you will see helpful within the occasion of an emergency.

Apple additionally launched an Emergency SOS operate by way of satellite tv for pc, which is totally unusable in India.

Equipped with 6 GB RAM, there are not any lags by any means and the mannequin I reviewed comes with 1 TB storage. The iPhone has the identical A15 Bionic chip as earlier-gen iPhone 13 fashions however with a brand new 5-core GPU. On the AnTuTu benchmark, the iPhone 14 scores 8,50,910 factors, falling a bit wanting the iPhone 14 Pro Max and the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra.

With a 3,279 mAh battery, this stayed on for greater than a day solely after I didn’t play too many video games or movies on it. On the times that I did, I positively needed to plug it by evening.

Verdict

I racked my brains attempting to reply who the best client for the brand new Apple iPhone 14 is. If you employ an iPhone 11 or an earlier era system, I can see how the iPhone 14 is likely to be an improve.

But even with the marginally higher battery life, new digicam system, and Crash Detection, it nonetheless seems like a tough promote in comparison with the iPhone 13 lineup, which is out there now at significantly better charges.

Price

Pros

• Compact type issue, first rate battery life

Cons

• Not sufficient worth-packed upgrades