The moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived.
Apple on Wednesday unveiled its iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus handsets at its “Far Out” media event.
The new product expands the iPhone lineup while finally cutting out the mini model. Here, Apple has offered the iPhone 14 as a model with a 6.1-inch display while the iPhone 14 plus offers a 6.7-inch display.
The Super Retina XDR display is OLED, with a wide color gamut, 2 million:1 contrast ratio, and 1,200 nits of peak HDR brightness. That HDR support covers HDR10, HLG, and Dolby Vision.
Apple is reusing the A15 chip in the iPhone 14 as opposed to using an all-new chip, albeit with “Pro-level” enhancements. This marks a significant departure for Apple, as it typically upgrades the chip with each successive iPhone generation.
The A15 chip features a five-core GPU, six-core GPU with two performance cores and four efficiency cores, the 16-core Neural Engine and the Image Signal Processor.
Where photography is concerned, the main camera will be a 12-megapixel unit with a larger sensor, using an f/1.5 aperture and 1.9-micron pixels, as well as Sensor Shift OIS. Apple claims this results in a 49-percent improvement in low-light photography over the previous generation.
For the front camera, the previous TrueDepth camera has been updated with a 12-megapixel model, complete with an f/1.9 aperture. Also, TrueDepth has autofocus for the first time.
Apple’s computational photography has been updated by setting its Deep Fusion processing earlier in the process of taking a shot. Now known as the “Photonic Engine,” this apparently improves low-light performance and how it renders color.
Video has also been improved in Action Mode, and a new stabilization system is present that uses the entire camera sensor for a less shaky shot.
Apple has added an unexpected change relating to SIM, and in the United States, the iPhone 14 will be sold without a SIM tray, requiring instead the use of eSIMs. SIM trays will continue to be included outside the United States.
The company has followed through on rumors of satellite connectivity, and has introduced Emergency SOS via Satellite. Users can send an emergency text message via satellites if they are in a low-signal area. Through the use of a compression system, the new feature can reduce the size of text messages to a third, and send a text message in less than 15 seconds using the technology. Relay centers set up by Apple will pass on the messages to emergency providers who only deal with phone calls. The satellite feature will be free for two years after purchasing an iPhone 14.
The iPhone 14 will retail for $799 and up for the base model, and $899 and up for the Plus model. The company will begin accepting pre-orders on September 9. The iPhone 14 will be available from September 16, with the Plus from October 7.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via AppleInsider