FEATURE Reviews Special
iPhone 14 Pro
This may be the perfect iPhone
From £1,099 apple.com/uk FEATURES 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR display (2556x1179 pixels), A16 Bionic chip, 128/256/512GB/1TB of storage, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, 5G mobile connectivity, Lightning port, MagSafe charging, 48MP Main camera with Ultra Wide, Wide and Telephoto lenses
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I nmany ways, the iPhone 14 Pro is the best iPhone out there. It has a bunch of fresh new features, and is the first (along with the Pro Max) iPhone in five years without the notch (it has something new!), while an Always-On display, improved adaptive-refresh-rate screen, and pixel binning for photography finally bring the iPhone 14 Pro series into alignment with its Android competitors.
It’s worth noting that Apple doesn’t ramp things up quite so much on most of the new features. We get more zoom options on the cameras, but not greater zoom range. We’ve got pixel binning, but at four pixels-per-large-pixel, not, say, nine, as on Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra.
We consider the new Dynamic Island to be the biggest innovation. It’s a clever way of retiring the TrueDepth module notch, introduced on iPhone X, while retaining most of the technology that’s made Face ID, selfies, and front-facing AR operations so effective. A combination of hardware and software, the Dynamic Island floats a few millimetres away from the top edge, is touch-sensitive, and is remarkably fungible. Watching it transform when, for instance, a call comes in might make you wonder “How’d Apple do that?”