hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this is the iPhone 14 plus this is the
last iphone 14 to launch this year and it's the larger size which now replaces
the mini so we'll unbox this set it up and take a first look now this comes in
at 899 dollars goes up to 1199 however if you buy it unlocked meaning not through a
carrier it's an additional thirty dollars so we have three different options 128 256
and 512 gigabytes this is the blue color but we have purple midnight Starlight and red or
product red now let's go ahead and open this up this is the 128 gigabyte model you'll see
it says iPhone 14 plus so let's open it up we'll compare it in size to the 14 pro Max
and we'll open the bottom part
and let's go ahead and open the box so we can see inside here's the 14 plus in blue and it looks
pretty much just like the iPhone 14 just sort of a little bit bigger let me set this aside we'll take
a look at what's in the box so just typically like we have every year since this year we don't have
a SIM card it says you no longer need a physical SIM card activate your esim during iPhone setup
and we have a warranty card and then an apple sticker also we have a charging plug so we have
USBC to lightning and that's it we don't get a charger in the box and I'll link some in the
description if you want to check them out now let's go ahead and take the cover off the phone
and we'll set that aside now this is the less expensive phone this year so it means that it's
made out of aluminum so we have aluminum around the outside edge or aluminum depending where you
live we have a power sleep wake button on the right side a millimeter wave antenna on the same
side and then some antenna lines on the bottom of course we still have lightning although next year
we may have USBC we have a microphone and then a speaker and also an antenna line and then on
the other side we have volume up volume down and our silent switch nothing on the top now
the front is ceramic shield and we have glass on the back with wireless charging with magsafe and
two cameras instead of three cameras now if we take a look at the 14 pro Max next to it you'll
see the size is very similar however the size of the 14 plus is similar more similar to the
13 Pro Max so the overall size is very similar there and you'll see side by side they're very
close but the 14 plus is ever so slightly narrower it seems but not very much of a difference you can
see the camera bumps are significantly different we have a much smaller one on the 14 plus and of
course it doesn't stick out as far either since we don't have the upgraded cameras to 48 megapixels
so very similar there and of course we don't have the dynamic Island on the front we still have the
notch now let's go ahead and we'll turn it on and this comes in at 7.16 ounces or 203 grams let's
boot it up here give it just a moment and this has a 6.7 inch display similar to that of the 14 pro
Max however it's not the 120 hertz display with a dynamic Island instead it's a 60 hertz display
at 2778 by 1284 with 458 pixels per inch so very similar in resolution overall but it doesn't go
as bright it goes up to 800 nits for regular use as opposed to 1 thousand nits on the 14 pro Max
and up to 1200 nits with HDR video instead of 2000 with the 14 pro Max so we'll go ahead and set this
up we'll swipe up here we'll bring a phone nearby so now we'll bring the little QR code in it says
getting things ready and we're going to move the SIM card from this phone to this one so I'll show
you how that works so now I have to put in the passcode of the other phone now it's asking me
to transfer the number via an esim we can transfer now or set up later let's go ahead and transfer
and it says transfer your sim to this iPhone so we'll go ahead and tap on transfer number
now you can always transfer it back later through the cellular settings it says confirm transfer on
your other phone we'll hit ok now it says confirm transfer we double click the power
sleep wake button and it will confirm the transfer and transfer the esim from this phone to the other
so it says finish on the new iPhone you'll see at the bottom it says activating so we'll give
that just a moment now it says cellular setup complete we'll tap continue and now we'll set
up face ID so this is just like any other phone with face ID we'll tap continue and we can set
it up tap on get started and just put your face in the frame and move your head around
and usually we have to do it twice or we can use face ID with a mask or don't use it we'll
set it up for don't use for now and tap continue now we can transfer the data so we can download
from iCloud or we can transfer it directly from the phone typically transferring from the phone
is really nice but it takes a long time if you download from iCloud it's usually a little bit
quicker and you'll see it says it will start or it can start using your iPhone in about 15
minutes so we'll do that for now we'll wait for it to set up the Apple ID and let's get things
moved over now it says make this your new iPhone and we'll bring everything over tap on continue
it's going to set up Apple cache and all of your different cards that you use and this is one of
the new features it has crash detection built in using the accelerometer and other sensors and it
says press and hold for emergency SOS crash detection and coming fall 2022 emergency SOS
via satellite that's probably arriving with iOS 16.1 after you put in your account information
now it restores from iCloud so we'll give it a moment to complete and then we'll continue now
everything's restored it's restoring all the different apps right now but now we're at the
main home screen and so it's actually copied over the wallpaper here and let's go ahead and take a
look at the wallpapers we have and what version this is on so if we go to settings then we go
down to General then about you can see it came pre-installed with version 16.0.2 so this is the
current public version I thought maybe we'd have 16.0.3 but it came pre-installed with this one
if we go back and go down to wallpaper let's see what we've got so we can add a new wallpaper and
built in of course we have featured if we scroll down we've got our Collections and at the end we
have the new wallpaper for the current phone so if we go in here we have midnight you can see at
the bottom as we swipe to the right we have Starlight red blue and then purple so we'll
switch it to Blue we'll just hit add for now we can customize everything a little bit later
we'll hit done and now we're on this wallpaper so that's the pre-installed wallpapers that come
with it and this feels very much like I'm using an iPhone 13 Pro Max so very similar other than
its weight because it's aluminum and it feels very lightweight and now one of the major updates the
Apple said with this phone is that it has the best battery of any iPhone however that's a little odd
because it actually doesn't have better battery than the 14 pro Max depending on what you're doing
so it has a 4 325 milliamp hour battery and apple says that's good for 26 hours of video playback
however on the 14 pro Max they say it's good for 29 hours of video playback but if you go to the
music playback or audio playback it's good for a hundred hours on the 14 plus and only 95 on the 14
pro Max so it really depends on what you're doing as to whether or not it will have the best battery
life however because it doesn't have promotion and it doesn't have an always on display that
may really improve battery life but will have to test that over time now one thing that's a bit
disappointing for some people is that this has last year's processor from the 13 Pro Max the
a15 bionic not the upgraded a16 so as a six core CPU and a 5 Core GPU with a 16 core neural engine
it's super fast no issues there but it's just last year's processor so that may just be disappointing
for some if we go into geekbench we can see how much RAM we have and every single phone this year
appears to have about six gigabytes of RAM so 5.54 gigabytes according to geekbench so that's
good that all of the phones have that but for some reason we still have the older processor
but that seems to be more than enough to handle this display and everything else going on with it
now the cameras do get an upgrade this year the forward-facing camera gets upgraded with
autofocus so if we spin this around let me take off my glasses here and let's switch to video
now we're recording with the forward-facing camera of the iPhone 14 plus so this gives you an idea of
what it looks like what it sounds like and it's keeping pretty good autofocus overall so I think
it should be a great camera I've been using it in different videos and in fact every video where I
appear in it is actually filmed with an iPhone 14 pro typically and it's the same camera so it
looks pretty good so let me know what you think of that in the comments below and then of course
with the camera we do have rear cameras with 12 megapixel sensors we don't get a 48 megapixel
sensor in this but we do have an F 1.5 aperture on the main camera and then the ultrawide has an
F 2.4 we have the photonic engine this year and a couple different features so if we go into camera
switch it around here to the back camera you'll see 4K 30. we have 4K cinematic mode this year so
we can switch over to 4K and 30 frames per second and also 24 frames per second but we also have an
action mode so if we go into video you'll see that we have this little icon here tap on it
and it gives us an action mode so as we move fast or the phone is actually jiggling around it should
stabilize that footage as you can see here so as we move quickly it really stabilizes the footage
but you do go down to 2.8 K so that makes a little bit of a difference but you can upscale that in
any editor other than that the cameras should should be better when it's dark out but again it
shouldn't be any different than what we have with the 14. so the 14 and 14 plus are basically the
same phone to give you an idea of size compared to an 11 Pro Max just in case you haven't seen
one of the newer phones the 11 Pro Max is still heavier due to its stainless steel construction
but feels a little bit smaller because it doesn't have the squared off edges but it's still a little
heavier at 226 grams versus 203 however overall it's a little bit narrower a little bit shorter
and it's about the same thickness very similar but in general the 14 plus feels like a little
bit bigger phone and definitely a lot lighter but it's very very similar as far as everything
else even though it has a larger display now you can see we have a bunch of fingerprints on
the back so I would recommend a case or skin or something else but these feel very similar as
far as what we've had for the past few years you really feel like the newer phones have all of the
great features however the 14 plus seems to have some good ones but for a thousand dollars I would
probably opt for the 14 pro over the 14 plus but that really depends on what you're looking for
of course we have ip68 ratings for six meters for 30 minutes and that's about it nothing is
really different compared to last year's phones we have upgraded cameras a larger size and we no
longer have the mini but let me know if you have any specific questions in the comments below I'd
love to answer any of those as many people may be looking at this are you going to be picking
up a 14 plus are you going to opt for maybe the 14 pro Max the 14 pro or something else let me know
in the comments below if you haven't subscribed already though please subscribe and if you enjoyed
the video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time