- Do you wanna literally die? Buy an Android then.
Seriously that's the takeaway of today's Apple Event.
If you go to work, eat food, hike, drive a car,
or ovulate without an Apple Watch Ultra and an iPhone 14,
you are as good as dead.
At least I'm pretty sure that's what Apple wanted
to be the takeaway of their event today.
Behind their appeals to war rewards
and helicopter parents though,
is some genuinely cool tech
and of course a bunch of stuff
that everyone else has had for years,
that Apple has slapped a new name on
and called it revolutionary.
So what tech here is actually a step forward?
And what's just a shiny new label?
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- In past years, Apple has shied away
from calling attention to the notch,
to the point where they got sued over it.
But for the iPhone 14 pro, the notch is on full display.
Now it's pill shaped and Apple calls it the dynamic island.
Around the front sensors,
the pill expands to show you useful information
while you're in other apps.
Things like timers, music, sports scores,
flight information, maps, navigation,
and more can go up here.
I will personally need to actually use it for a bit
before I decide if it's a gimmick or not,
but what I know now is that it still looks bad
while watching full screen video.
And it also pretty much guarantees
that you're gonna have fingerprints
all over your front facing camera,
every time you go to use it, which is too bad
because the front facing camera now has auto focus
which is pretty sweet.
As far as I can tell, this is the first time
a front facing camera has been able to properly focus.
Typically front cameras have a fixed lens
that is focused at roughly an arms length away
with everything else being, I don't know,
probably good enough.
This saves on the space that's needed
to have a movable focusing element,
but completely eliminates any chance of natural bokeh.
Both the base and Pro iPhone 14 models then
now do have this feature and there's a good chance
that these new front facing cameras will be better
than many of the rear shooters
from a couple of years ago.
On that subject, around back on the iPhone 14 Pro,
we get a new 48 megapixel Quad-pixel sensor
that is 65% larger and has a cool trick up its sleeve.
Pixel binning. When there's heaps of light,
you get the full 48 megapixels
but in low light, the iPhone 14 Pro
is able to take four pixels,
and turn them into a single better pixel.
This does decrease the resolution of your photos
from 48 to 12 megapixels,
but it dramatically improves low light performance.
To be clear this technology is nothing new.
For instance the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and S22 Ultra
have a version of this
that actually combines nine pixels together,
but it is a very welcome addition to the iPhone 14 Pro.
Along with the main camera on the Pro,
we get a 12 megapixel 48 millimeter telephoto
and a 12 mega pixel 13 millimeter wide,
and every iPhone 14 camera
benefits from Apple's new photonic engine
which is basically their deep fusion photo AI
but more better.
And apparently it can nearly double
their low light performance.
While the base iPhone 14 gets the same A15 chip
from the old iPhone 13 Pro,
the 14 Pro gets a fancy new A16 chip.
The A16 sounds similar to the A15.
We still get two performance cores, four efficiency cores,
and five GPU cores,
but through the magic of four nanometer,
it's able to reduce power consumption
on the performance course by 20%.
According to Apple,
this is the most efficient mobile CPU in existence.
And given that they've been crapping on everyone else
in terms of performance, I'd say that's probably accurate
and it's probably more power
than you'll be needing in a smartphone for quite some time
unless you're a very heavy user.
The biggest advancement with the A16 though
is the display engine, which brings better anti aliasing,
the ability to reduce the screen refresh rate
down to one hertz to boost battery life,
and finally and always on display for the iPhone.
I know, I know everyone on Android totally floored right now
that Apple hasn't had it always on display until now
but guys, credit. Credit where credit is due.
They have finally done it. Only took them nine years.
Three times as long as it took us to design our screwdriver
which is available at lttstore.com.
But Apple giveth and Apple taketh away.
In this case takething the SIM tray.
Actually in most of the world, you'll get a nano SIM tray.
But if you buy an iPhone 14 in North America, you do not.
Instead, you get two eSIMs.
Now for the vast majority of users,
this absence of a physical SIM tray
is never going to be a problem.
You disconnect your carrier to the eSIM,
and you never think about it again.
But if you're someone
that regularly travels between continents,
and doesn't have a travel plan,
or you go places where it's not supported,
then it's gonna be a bit of a change.
See right now, if you wanna change to a local carrier
when you're on the road, you go grab a SIM card,
put it in your phone, and you're done.
Going forward with a North American iPhone 14,
you are gonna have to register that carrier
to one of your two eSIM slots
that assumes they even support eSIM.
And then if you need a third carrier for some reason,
you're gonna have to go through the rigmarole
of removing one of your carriers and adding another one,
switching it's just a giant wet fart.
Anyway, if there was one thing that brought a sparkle
to Apple's eye during the event,
it was the thought of you being in grave danger.
Like wow they laid it on pretty thick.
They do have some pretty cool technology
to show for it though.
Previously, if you wanted to connect your cell phone
directly to a satellite,
you'd need a rod Jeremy spec antenna,
and well you still do
if you wanna have a proper conversation
without involving a cell tower,
but and this is really cool
by having an app that shows you
how to point your phone directly at a satellite,
you can manage just enough of a connection
to send out an emergency message and your location.
To make this easier they have a form
with typical emergency questions.
So all the information a rescue team needs
can be sent at once.
And even if you're not in grave danger,
you can use this feature
to send location data to your loved ones,
if you're the kind of person that goes
on weeks long treks across the Yukon,
or whatever the case may be.
Also integrated into the iPhone 14,
is new car crash detection.
This is accomplished by using an improved gyroscope
as well as a fancy accelerometer
that can measure up to 256gs, at a 3000 hertz polling rate
as well as data from the barometer and mic
to tell if an airbag has gone off.
Apple apparently recorded a thousand hours
of crash tested data, and from that,
they were able to tell
what type of car crash you've been in,
and automatically alert emergency services,
if you don't respond to the prompt.
Crash detection is also a feature
on the new Apple Watch Ultra
which frankly looks pretty sick.
The case is titanium, the face is a sapphire crystal,
and you get a new orange programmable button.
I doubt the majority of Apple watch Ultra users
will ever need it to function as a dive computer,
a way finder, or to measure the length of their stride,
but in addition to those,
it has improvements for the rest of us.
Like more battery life.
The Watch Ultra can last for 36 hours of regular use,
and up to 60 when it's in low power mode.
It has dual frequency GPS for higher accuracy,
and an all red night mode that looks sick.
I think Anthony probably put it best when he said,
"This is the Apple Watch,
that makes people that didn't want an Apple Watch,
want an Apple Watch."
The Standard Apple Watch Series Eight is largely unchanged
compared to the series seven,
except for two improvements
that it shares with the Watch Ultra.
The fore mentioned crash detection,
and some really accurate thermometers,
one on the outside and the other against your skin.
These sensors were designed with women's health in mind
specifically cycle tracking,
and a retrospective analysis of ovulation.
All of this information is encrypted on the device
and not even Apple has a key to decrypt it
which shouldn't be that big of a deal
but unfortunately women's rights in the states
recently took a huge hit and cycle tracking information
could be weaponized against you
if it falls into the wrong hands.
Anyway the atrial fibrillation
will be able to pick up your distress,
when you find out the Apple Watch Ultra starts
at 800 US dollars. Good gravy.
While the series eight starts at 450, SE is starting at 250.
Moving on there's a second generation of the AirPods Pro.
That's actually the one I'm most excited about
that features new H two Silicon
that apparently has greatly improved spatial audio.
Now you're able to use an iPhone camera
to create a 3D model of your ear
to better tune the spatial audio, for your specific ears.
Something the likes of Sony have been doing for a while.
Overall, the new AirPods Pros just seem to be
like betterer than the old ones.
More battery life, better active noise cancellation,
and an improved transparency mode.
The improvement I'm most excited for,
concerns the case though.
It finally has the ability to charge,
with an Apple Watch charger,
and also you can easily locate the charging case.
Thank you Apple.
Like you can already easily find the headphones,
but I find that I constantly loose the charging case
around the house 'cause I'll just leave it somewhere
when I put my earphones in and forget where that happened.
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- If you guys enjoyed this video,
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I can't wait to get my new ones.
My old ones are starting to have some problems.
I'm getting the same, like kinda rattling
in one of the drivers that I had with my old ones.