is the new iPhone 14 worth a hundred dollars more than the iPhone 13 well
there are a ton of differences that reviewers did not talk about so today
I'm gonna make the most detailed comparison covering everything from the
new internal changes the displays speakers the performance differences
including the new thermal system of course the camera differences and much
more and I think you're gonna be very surprised now the first thing that Apple
doesn't tell you is that the iPhone 14 can accept more than the 20 watts from
the charger that they sell you separately because of course it's not
included in the box so pick up anchors which is smaller it's a 30 watt so it'll
actually charge your iPhone faster we'll leave a link in the description and well
guys while I was saying that look at this red color that's a lot brighter
than in their photos I think that's my favorite product I think you're right
our iPhone 13 is in Starlight now externally it doesn't seem like there's
that many differences but let me points them out to you first off on the right
hand side the 5G antenna is quite a bit larger now nobody is mentioning this but
that's because the four teens have a new 5G chip just like the 14 pros and when
we tested that out outside the 14s were almost twice as fast as far as
downloading outside and over 50 percent faster in terms of uploading and it's
not only a difference in terms of 5G when I switched over to LTE inside of
this office the download speed was over four times faster and the upload speed
was almost four times faster that is a massive difference now that was on the
14 pro Max but the 14 has the same chip and antenna as this phone so if you
either upgrade or you choose to get the iPhone 14 you will have better reception
and much faster speeds now with that upgrade Apple also ditched the Sim slot
which is a downside for a lot of people if your carrier doesn't and support it
or if you like to swap Sims but on the plus side this thing can now have up to
eight or more e-sims with two enabled at the same time where on the iPhone 13 you
can have two e-sims plus the physical but overall I think that's still a
disappointment none of the buttons have changed on this model so you might think
that you can reuse the same case but nope because the camera bump has gotten
larger and with that it also is a little bit thicker as well so you will have
more rocking on the table that is because the camera's been updated as
larger rings and we also have a new brighter flash that's more uniform which
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that the 14 is basically just a copy paste of the 13 but they're not talking
about a massive difference and that is the internal changes with a 13 and
previous phones you would open them up from the front and access all those
components but with the 14 you actually open it up from the back glass and that
makes it much easier to replace it now all the components are also completely
shifted around and there is now a metal plate that we see from x-rays that can
also help with thermals so Apple had to go through a ton of trouble changing
this up for people say it's the same phone now what is the benefit to all of
us well on the iPhone 13 it costs you 449 dollars to replace a back glass if
you don't have AppleCare now it is only 169 dollars a much more palatable repair
so if you're not somebody that buys app care that difference alone can make up
for the extra price of the 14.
now a couple awesome features are the new
crash detection and emergency SOS via satellite features now these things are
awesome for safety crash protection is great but you can also get that in the
new watches but the satellite connectivity will allow you to connect
no matter where you are at so if you're stuck you can send a message you can get
some help and that is something that is great if you're going to be keeping this
phone for a long time the extra layer of security the 14 also has a slightly
better battery life one extra hour of video streaming and that's because it
does have a slightly larger battery now the rated charging speeds haven't
changed but we know from our own testing if you're using wireless charging while
you have the phone on for example if you're using GPS in your car the
wireless charging slows down quite a bit and because the new 14 has a new thermal
system it will charge faster now another Hardware change is that the iPhone 14s
have Bluetooth 5.5 3 compared to 5.0 and that will work great with the new Apple
watch series 8 or the new airpods Pro because that Bluetooth uses less power
it has better range and also better call Quality and audio quality so even if you
don't have one of those new devices now chances are in the next one two three
years you will so that's definitely a benefit the 14 also has dual ambient
light sensors which will help with auto brightness on the front so if it didn't
work well for you in the past it's going to get better and then on the back it
will help for camera exposure as well the next thing that I want to test is
the speakers Apple didn't mention any differences but the 14 pro Max is way
louder and sounds a lot better than the 13 Pro Max so I'm really curious about
these regular iPhones so let's go ahead and take a listen
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you guys let me know your thoughts but personally I think that if there is a
difference it might be extremely minor so unfortunately the iPhone 14 does not
get the same nice speaker upgrade as the 14 Pros did now as far as it displays
some people have said that there are some changes some pixels maybe the
bezels but it's not that noticeable but in fact there are no differences
whatsoever the display is identical as far as the maximum brightnesses the
colors the contrast HDR everything is the same now I am a bit disappointed
that we don't have the promotion from the Pro Line even if they did a worse
version of that that'd be nice because all the Android competitors have that
and it would make people a lot more happy to get the new 14.
now one thing that has changed that a lot of people
are downplaying is the new a15 processor and what comes attached to that now yes
it is the five Graphics core model compared to a 4G Graphics cores and
we'll test that out in a sec but what is more important to me is the fact that
the 14 comes with six gigabytes of RAM compared to four gigabytes and I don't
know why people don't talk about this in my daily usage I compared these last
year the pro and the regular 13 and the pro that had six gigs it kept apps open
way longer whereas the 13 model with four gigs I would constantly be finding
myself with a YouTube app that closed I have to go find that video again other
programs so it is so nice to have the extra RAM and it definitely is a lot
more future proof now as far as the actual CPU performance itself let's go
ahead and run geekbench and see what we get so here are the first results and
it's a bit disappointing we have a very slightly higher single core score pretty
much doesn't matter but in the multi-core score it is actually lower by
about 250 points and yes this has been updated to latest version of iOS that
actually makes it form better so that is interesting now of course the main
change is in the graphics with that extra Graphics core so let's go ahead
and run that and here are the results this is a lot better we're seeing a
difference of 18 and a half percent in terms of graphics performance and that
is a great thing but that brings me to Thermal performance will this chip slow
down will the screen uh be dimmed automatically because it gets too hot so
that's why I'm using antutu here I maxed out the brightnesses on the display just
like if you're using it outside and we're gonna see if we get any difference
in dimming I really hope the 14 is a lot better so far both of them are exactly
the same I do see the iPhone 14 is smoother because of its more performance
it also means that it's putting out a bit more power and heat than the iPhone
13 but it's handling it oh look at that the iPhone 14 dimmed not by that much
but you guys can see the clouds are a lot brighter here on the 13 than it is
on the 14 so the screen is still dimming because it's getting hotter right there
the 13 dimmed as well so it kept up a little bit longer but now they are
pretty much matched up now I pulled out my thermal camera and you guys could see
the iPhone 13 on the left it's at 39 degrees Celsius and has a smaller Hot
Spot compared to 40 on the 14 and that heat is spreading out much more so now
that is actually a good thing because Apple's thermal solution is taking that
heat away from the chip and putting it into the body but that also means that
even though they haven't proved the internals and The Thermals that extra
thermal performance is eaten up by the increased graphics performance from that
fifth core and now let's talk about the cameras because we do have a lot of
differences on stage Apple made it seem like it was a huge upgrade and in some
cases they underplayed some things but in other cases I think they exaggerated
starting out with our selfie camera we now have an upgraded model that's the
same as on the 14 Pros but the biggest change being the autofocus with the
front-facing camera so I took this shot right here way too close up on purpose
it kind of looks weird but we could definitely see that we have more detail
in the 14s photo the highlights pop a little bit more we also have a little
bit more contrast and then I took one from a further distance to see if the
autofocus matters and honestly to me I mean I'm not seeing that much of a
difference now the real change comes when you're shooting in low light they
set as up to two times better low light performance and you can see here that we
have way less noise on the 14s photo now this shot right here was done without
the night mode so when I enable that the difference kind of goes away this is
slightly sharper it's slightly warmer in fact it always does that with the 14s
but it's not that huge Improvement that they talked about on stage now the
weakest camera on the iPhone 13 was its Ultra wide and with the 14 they actually
didn't change any of the hardware but they talked about their new photonic
engine and being able to use better processing and using deep Fusion earlier
on for sharper images and when I zoom in here honestly guys I'm not seeing much
of a difference actually slightly more noise on the iPhone 14s photo but as far
as everything else I'm just seeing a slightly more contrast now when you're
shooting in lower light with that Ultra wide that is when we start to see a
difference with the 13 we have a lot more noise here and less detail but the
new processing on the 14 reduces that noise gives a little more contrast less
noise overall so that is a nice Improvement now the lens that they
really focused on was the main camera it is actually the same one from the iPhone
13 Pro It's a larger sensor has image stabilization and in regular shots it's
hard to tell a difference in terms of detail but we do see a difference in
terms of contrast so it's a little bit warmer and more contrasty you can also
see those color differences with portrait shots but as far as detail it
is not really that much better so as far as quality it's not really that big of a
difference but what we do get is a difference in low light that larger
sensor gives us a bit more detail less noise we have a warmer image but what
you don't see with most images online is the usability in that shot the 14 only
took one second for night mode compared to 2 seconds and in reality it feels a
lot longer so you are going to get sharper shots if you hold your phone for
just a little bit of time and it's just a lot more convenient now the regular
iPhone 14s don't have a telephoto camera so when I did the five times Zoom which
is the maximum and took these shots I was hoping for some improvement in
detail but when we go ahead and zoom in even more so if you're gonna crop
digitally we do see that we have a little bit less noise because of the new
processing but if you look at that sign where it says value Mission Center it's
readable on the old one but not on the new one because it's just over processed
the iPhone 13 could do cinematic video but it's only in 1080P and without HDR
so the new iPhone 14 enables 4K HDR it definitely gives you extra detail and
extra dynamic range that the scene calls for it so if you're somebody that uses
cinematic mode that is definitely a nice Improvement for long-term quality of the
video now that also comes into play with the front facing cinematic mode on the
iPhone 14 we see that we have better dynamic range and we have 4K selected
but that's not the only difference you can actually switch over to 24 frames
per second so if you're shooting with the rear camera and you're trying to go
for that cinematic look that is the frame rate that you want to go for and
only the 14 offers that now the 14s 1X sensor is larger so in the shot you
could see that we get a little bit more background blur because of that so that
is a positive thing but one thing that I did not expect is that if you're taking
a close-up shot the larger sensor still allows you to get just as close if not
slightly closer whereas last year the pros they couldn't get as close because
that larger sensor that means that Apple changed something up with these lenses
they've optimized it and it's actually even better than it was before it is not
a downside and the last thing is the new action mode that is exclusive to the 14
and 14 pros this is a software feature that Apple could add to the 13 but they
didn't and as you guys see this footage it's definitely a lot more smooth on the
iPhone 14 than the regular stabilization now on stage when they announced this
action mode we saw a massive massive difference and that is because Apple
turned off the stabilization on the 13 and had the action mode which is really
good on the 14.
I was running outside in the shot and as you guys could see the
difference isn't as big as it was on stage but it still is a nice improvement
with just a little bit hit of quality because it can't record in 4k so overall
I would say that this is a nice Improvement in camera quality may be not
amazing in certain cases but just the usability the lower light and the faster
shutter for night mode is really nice to have along with those video upgrades so
if you want a better camera and you're trying to decide I would definitely push
it towards the 14 and now getting into should you buy the 14 over the 13 at 100
less well when I looked at videos online and the specs it didn't really seem like
it is a nice upgrade at all kind of like Apple's ripping us off but once we
factor in the new crash detection the satellite we factor in the better
battery life the better performance that six gigs of RAM of course that really
nice Improvement in cellular speed and uh reception when you look at it it is
definitely worth spending the extra hundred dollars on the 14.
if I was going to recommend one of these to
friends and family even those that are not into Tech I would absolutely say buy
the 14.
now if you already have a 13 should you upgrade to 14 no I don't
think so you should save up a bit more money for the 14 pro or just wait
another year for the iPhone 15 or maybe even the 16 but there you guys go those
are all of the differences what oh so many of the reviewers did not mention so
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