hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this is the iPhone 14 pro Max we'll go ahead and
unbox it set it up and take a first look and this year it comes in four different colors we
have purple which I have here as well as a new space black then we have silver and gold just
like we've had for many years now it starts at the same price as last year in the USA at
1099 and goes up to 1599 and that will get you 128 gigabytes all the way up to one terabyte
depending on the size that you pick now let's go ahead and unbox this so here is the iPhone
14 pro Max and as you see if we flip it over it says iPhone 14 pro Max and this is actually the
256 gigabyte variant so let's go ahead and open it up that's more than enough storage
for me personally but let's pull off these pull tabs here and we'll switch over to the other one
there we go and let's open the box up now I typically use about half of the storage so
let's open this up and you can see this is the purple color and this is the new purple
unfortunately the space black just wasn't available although I wanted to try that
one as well but you can see the purple let's take this out for just a moment set it aside
and let's take a look at what's in the box so it looks pretty typical what we had last year
although in the United States we only have esim options so we have a little pamphlet that says
you no longer need a physical Sim activate your e-sim during iPhone setup for more information go
to apple.com esim of course we have our normal warranty information and then an apple sticker
Unfortunately they don't match the colors of the Apple sticker inside of course we also get them
cable so we have a USBC to lightning cable so typically what we get every year so far no USBC
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can check them out now let's go ahead and take the cover off the front of the phone
we'll take a look around the phone and of course it looks pretty familiar but we do have that cut
out here which originally we called the pill and hole punch but they're calling Dynamic Island so
in the front at the top you'll see the speakers just above that and then of course on the left
hand side we have our silent switch and volume buttons a couple different antenna lines around
the bottom it looks pretty familiar we've got our microphones our lightning port and then our
speaker and then also we've got our millimeter wave antenna at least in the United States and
then a power sleep wake button no SIM card tray on top there's nothing there just a couple couple of
different antenna lines and then of course our cameras and the camera bumps are even bigger
this year to compare with the previous generation you'll see here here's the 13 Pro Max and they've
actually moved the power sleep wake button down a little bit the camera bumps significantly larger
as you can see there side by side so definitely a difference there and then on the other side
not really too much of a difference but Tech technically they've moved the silent switch a
little bit down and the volume buttons down a little bit but otherwise it's pretty much the
exact same now let's go ahead and turn it on now the display this year is the same sort of 6.7 inch
display at a higher resolution so it's 2796 by 1290 at 460 pixels per inch it's also the same
weight so before I turn it on here the weight is pretty much the exact same however in ounces it's
.01 ounces more in grams it's the same so 8.47 ounces 240 grams let's go ahead and turn it on
so we'll give it just a moment to turn on here there we go and let's see what we get we'll have
to transfer that esim to this since we only have that option here in the US now it says hello I'll
slide up I'll select my language and I'll bring in my other phone right next to it so we'll bring
in the other phone and then it wants to pair to my phone so we'll hit continue and then we'll
use its sort of QR code it's sort of a different digital look there we go we'll bring it up here
it recognizes it and then it says getting things ready so we'll give it just a moment and that
screen is super bright hopefully it dims there we go and now it says who will be using this
phone you can set this iPhone up for yourself or a child in your family so you'll see here it's me
or my son we'll go ahead and hit continue you could create a new child account and then it's
going to enter ask you to enter the passcode of the phone that you were using before so I'll do
that so we'll give it a moment to activate and now it's asking us if we want to set up an e-sim
and you'll see here it's actually talking about an esim allows us to conveniently and securely
move across but now we can transfer from another iPhone from one to the other or set it up later
but we'll transfer we'll tap on transfer number so you'll see it gives us the option to transfer
and it says it will stop working on your other phone so we'll go ahead and tap on transfer number
and let's see what happens it says confirm transfer on your other phone follow the
instructions so we'll see what happens here it may take a moment and you'll see it says confirm
transfer so it's sort of a face ID unlock we'll double click and then it says confirm transfer and
it should transfer on the other phone so now it's saying set up esim still we'll give it a moment
to finish and see what happens at the bottom it actually says activating so let's see what
changes here now it actually says connecting to network so again it may still take a few moments
and now it says cellular setup complete so that's all there is to it I guess to
move from one to the other it deactivates the physical SIM card though which is a
bit unfortunate so now we can tap on continue now we'll set up face ID so we'll hit continue
and it says how to set it up we know how to set it up if you've ever used it although
it does look a little bit different it came down from the dynamic Island
positioning my face we'll try here there we go we'll move our face around get it set up
okay it's initialized and then it says do you want to use face ID with a mask
if we ever need to in the future it will be here it'll just scan our face again
and then we'll move our face around in the frame and we're done so you'll see
that came from the dynamic Island up at the top we'll tap continue
and now we're going to transfer our data now we can download from iCloud or we can transfer
directly from another phone this could depend on whether or not you have a beta on your phone
whether or not which one you have to use if you have a beta this is going to have an older version
on it so if you're running iOS 16.1 betas on your current phone you'll need to install this update
then go back and transfer everything although it will give you the option during setup so
we'll transfer from iPhone we'll hit agree and it says make this your new phone we'll hit continue
and then keep your phone up to date now it says iMessage and FaceTime people can
contact you on your devices with imessage and FaceTime we'll go ahead and hit continue
and now because it knows we're in the beta program it's asking us if we want
to continue to take part in that because if we have to do a direct transfer he'll need to be
updated to it if you don't continue you can just download an iCloud backup so we'll hit continue
then it's talking about emergency SOS press and hold for emergency SOS we also have crash
detection this time around with new sensors and then also via satellite coming in Fall 2022 so
that's something that will be available in a few different regions we'll hit continue and now
we'll have to update to iOS 16. it comes with a different version pre-installed so we'll download
and install we'll hit agree as we're waiting for the software update to install let's talk
about the specs a little bit now the display as I mentioned earlier is slightly higher resolution
but it's also brighter so it's 120 hertz Pro motion a thousand nits of brightness typically
1600 Peak brightness in HDR and 2000 nits in Peak brightness Outdoors so that's something that's all
new and super bright it also has ceramic shield and haptic touch then internally we have an a16
bionic chipset a six core CPU with two performance cores and four efficiency cores a five core GPU
and a 16 core neural engine and we believe six gigabytes of RAM we can check that a little
bit later when it comes to the cameras they're all new both front and back the front camera is
a 12 megapixel F 1.9 and now has autofocus so that's been updated and then the rear cameras
we have a 48 megapixel camera with sensor shift stabilization and updated version of that with
an F 1.78 aperture we also have two additional 12 megapixel cameras a wide a telephoto and an
ultra wide with the telephoto we have an F 2.8 and the ultrawide is an F 2.2 of course we have
apple Pro raw three times optical zoom up to six times digital zoom and then 4K Dolby Vision
HDR is 60 frames per second we have a new action mode and a new cinematic mode and a new photonic
engine algorithm for the photos Also the battery is 4323 milliamp hours and should last about an
hour longer according to Apple but we'll have to wait and see it's ip68 this year just like last
year at six meters for up to 30 minutes has 5G and is available for most carriers and no CDMA
support this year it does have Wi-Fi 6 not 6E 802.11 ax and also Bluetooth 5.3 now let's see
if we can wait for this to set up and then we'll continue now you can see everything is restoring
let's go ahead and turn on dark mode here and this is going to take a while for everything to restore
but if we go into our settings you'll see it says ReStore in progress and let's go in and take a
look at the wallpaper so we'll go under wallpaper we'll go to add new wallpaper and you can see some
new collections here so this is the new options with iOS 16 but just for this phone so we have
deep purple we also have gold silver and space black so if we want to pick the one that goes with
this phone we can do that we'll add some widgets here we'll just add this one and just a couple
for now I'll change these later change the font maybe change to the weather like I normally like
and there we go we'll hit add to the home screen and hit done so now we have the new wallpaper now
of course let's see what this Dynamic island is like so if we go into music you'll see here maybe
I'll just select a song we'll drop the volume down and so if the song is playing we'll just swipe up
and it goes up to the dynamic Island the album art is there and then you can see this here if I tap
on it it brings us back but to get to the widget you have to press and hold this seems a little bit
counterintuitive so let's go back Play the song swipe home press and hold and now we're in the
dynamic Island I wish it was just a tap to bring this up I've heard others complain about this it
does look pretty good though so if we do that and then let's lock the phone we'll unlock via face ID
and you'll see the island shrinks now it's also an always on display so this is what it looks like
it's not very dim it's similar to what you have with an Apple Watch so that looks a little bit
brighter than many would expect but it does look pretty good it's the best always on display as far
as the information at least from what I think I've used the different Android phones with it
and it looks pretty good although this does need to update a little bit and as widgets get added
it will get better also in some other reviews I saw that the always on display was really
noticeable as though you thought your phone was on I think that's definitely true I noticed that
just while filming this video so it seems like it doesn't go dim enough maybe we have an option we
can turn it off though if we want to so if we unlock our phone here we've unlocked and it's
this Dynamic Island looks pretty good but it does look a little different in sunlight too so again
let me know what you think of that now also with the dynamic Island I can't wait for more apps to
use this and it will actually split it depending on the apps you're using so if we go back in and
start a timer then we go into to music and play a song swipe home you'll see it actually splits
the dynamic Island into the music on the left with the album art and then the timer on the
right if you've got a pro Max I'm not sure what I think about having to tap the top of the screen
all the time but it does seem like it's something that should be very helpful so if we cancel this
swipe home you'll see the dynamic Island changes the music is playing and then again if we tap in
it and then actually close it it goes away so it's kind of neat to see that overall and I didn't turn
on the battery percentage but that's what it looks like here basically what we had with the
update to iOS 16 many people suspected it would be a little bit different now with this display comes
pwm since it's an OLED let's see how bad it is as I really had no issues on the previous iPhone so
let's see it under slow-mo just to see what it's like now the display is at about half brightness
let's go to our phone and see what it looks like in slow-mo and as you can see the display should
be flickering a little bit although I can't see it here but when you play it back in slow motion
you can but typically they're high enough and we normally have what we have with the latest
iPhones which seems to be DC dimming so I really had no issues with them bothering my eyes let's
see if we have geekbench we do have that installed so let's see how much RAM we have for sure we'll
give it just a moment and then we'll check a few more things so it looks like we do have about six
gigabytes of RAM it says 5.49 gigabytes as far as magnets in the back I would expect it to be the
same but let's take a look so here's some magnet paper we have that magnet Ring Of course as we
would expect and on the front you'll see some here there's some magnetic areas here and there so not
a whole lot going on mostly where the speaker is and the magnets on the back like you would expect
now as far as the display let's take a look at this because this should be the brightest
display on any phone so if we go up to the top brightness that should be a thousand nits so it
won't look right in the camera here and then let's go outside and see what this looks like
under sunlight and see if it's easier to see I'm betting that it is at 2000 nits now you can't see
the lines with your eyes that's because of pwm but it's plenty bright in sunlight now something else
I wanted to test that many people asked about is since I record videos in 18 by nine aspect ratios
they're a little bit wider than normal if we go into YouTube Here's my iOS 16 video you can see
here that it actually does cut into the dynamic Island quite a bit so you'll see that in my video
so maybe I should change them back to regular resolution but if you expand past that of course
it goes around the dynamic Island so that's something to keep in mind it's a little bit
different this year with that so let me know what you think about that in the comments below Also
let's take a listen to the speakers they should be about the same but let's listen to them anyway
so there's not really any perceptible difference in sound at least to my ears from the 13 Pro Max
speakers overall now the cameras get an update this year like I mentioned before and if we go
into our settings and then formats you'll see that we actually have Pro raw resolution at 48
megapixels so we have the option to change this to 12 megapixels or use 48 megapixels where it's
actually using 4 pixels per one and then combining them down to 12 megapixels so you see that a lot
but if you want full raw you can do that if we go into the camera itself you'll see we have some new
options here so we have a two-time zoom which is actually just punching into the sensor but that's
how a lot of these cameras work these days go to three times and then you can zoom in further back
out to 1x then also you'll see here we have under our video mode we have a new Mode called action
mode so if we go into our settings in the top you'll see action mode so we can turn that on
and off if we'd like so action mode is something that should work really nice but it's not 4K
because it uses some of that footage to fix the stabilization and then also this year in cinematic
mode we have 4k24 and 4K 30 options so try that again it's not changing so it may be a bug in the
software let's see if we can get that to change there we go it's a little bit of a bug there
but 4K 24 4K 30. so it didn't respond for just a second for whatever reason but now it's working
so we'll take a closer look at the cameras in the full review of course and the back
of the phone is quite warm from doing all the processing so it's still quite hot processing
in the background installing all my apps and so that's everything with the iPhone 14 pro Max of
course I'll have to review it for the next few days and this is actually being recorded from the
forward-facing camera on the 14 pro Max so this is without a microphone or anything else and I
wanted to have you here and see what it's like just put it in video mode 4K 30 hit record let
me know what you think about that in the comments below also if you've picked up an iPhone 14 I'd
love to hear from you there as well and if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe and
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