[Music] so Apple's September event just went down where they showcased some new phones and some watches I'm going to focus this video on their phones the iPhone 15s and 15 Pros so I'm gonna start with the pro the thing that makes the pro model this year the defining feature for me is the build so this is now using a titanium frame it still has an aluminum kind of inner chassis but the outer frame the thing the grip is titanium now this Frame when you see it in the videos it's it looks really cool but when
you hold it in person when you see it in person it's actually a very different kind of vibe so when I looked at the four colors it was a a black a white a blue and then a kind of natural gray looking color I would have assumed that that blue was like the it would be my favorite color right it's blue but when you see it in person there's something about that natural gray color that looks so cool it's got this like satin like matte finish that's just I think it looks pretty awesome so this
titanium material is both lighter and stronger than the traditional steel frame they've had in the past and the Pro Models and it's a little more fingerprint resistant because it's got this nice brushed texture to it but it's also lighter it's not like a massive difference when I look at the numbers it's like eight nine percent so it's still single digit percentage change in terms of the weights from the last year's steel framed models but it is noticeable I do think that the biggest benefit for the consumer picking up one of these Pro Models uh in
terms of titanium for one you have to flex the fact that you have a titanium iPhone but the other thing is that I think it's just much more scratch resistant so on the titanium Apple watches like the Apple watch Ultra I've banged mine up a bunch and anytime I've made contact with even something like metal or stone it just does not seem to scratch this material it's very durable and I imagine the same would be for the new titanium iPhone Pros now in terms of the design they still have the Fairly iconic Apple iPhone look
that they've been running for the past five or six years they didn't do anything crazy even with that new material but there is a action button that's replaced the kind of mute switch that they've been running for since the beginning of iPhones and this is quite interesting so in its default state it serves as a mute notification still so you'll tap it to kind of check the state that it's in but if you hold it down for a second it'll actually toggle between the mute or the kind of regular unmuted version and then you can
go into the software in settings and change what this action button does and they actually have just right out of the box a lot of different options you can launch the camera system you can open up certain apps you can obviously use shortcuts and just basically do whatever you wanted to do and we're not just talking about opening up a custom app because of shortcuts you can sequence a whole series of stuff that it can do just off a press of that action button now it sounds really cool but my immediate thoughts and this is
just after having used it for a very short period of time is that for a lot of people that are used to the kind of standard mute switch of a regular iPhone the ability to customize a button is almost like too much too much choice right so if you do switch it to say like launching your camera You've Lost That functionality on the kind of exterior buttons of the phone which we've been used to for over a decade right so now you'd have to go into the pull down menus to mute your phone if you
want to but the best feature that I think that they announced was the inclusion of USBC on all of the iPhones obviously including the iPhone 15 Pros now on the pros you get the fast USB 3 speed so it's excellent for offloading files off of these devices if there's like huge video or photo files you can just dump them off way quicker than on a previous iteration of iPhone but for one I never thought this would happen I'll be honest I thought this would be like some some pipe dream that we all been hoping for
but the other thing that came to my my mind was like I wondered how they were going to announce this if they ever did because I was like are they going to pretend like they've somehow invented this amazing connectivity technology but they just mention it as some like passing thing now has USBC and it was received very well by the audience but do keep in mind that that fast USB 3 speed is only going to be available on the Pro Models the regular iPhone 15s will have slower USB 2 speeds okay we can wrap so
it's possible that I wasn't supposed to even be in that era shooting uh so I decided to move everything back to the hotel to finish this video off but USBC 3.0 in the iPhone 15 Pro is awesome and because you have that high speed connection you can now connect an external SSD to an iPhone 15 Pro and it now enables 4K 60 prores being shot onto an external drive like an eight terabyte SSD plugged up right up to the phone which is higher like frame rate than if you've just used the internal storage of that
device pretty neat okay I'm gonna move this conversation over to the cameras because the camera system this year on the iPhone 15 Pros is really neat you don't need to switch the phone to a portrait mode you have to take portrait shots like you can just use the default camera mode and if you're shooting like a human face or A Pet's face it'll automatically detect the fact that it's shooting a face those are the shots that look best with portrait photography and I'll just switch it to that mode automatically and even better is that post
like once you've taken that shot you can adjust the focal point in your photo it really feels like almost like light field camera stuff it's super cool now keep in mind that the demo that they showed in the marketing material seemed amazing and I wasn't able to test it out with the hand on units they had available now in terms of the zooms the iPhone 15 pro has a 3X Zoom so just like last year's zoom capabilities but the iPhone 15 Pro Max that has a wild new kind of telephoto capability so it now has
a 5x zoom and it uses a prism a Tetra prism to be precise so the light bounces four times before it hits the sensor and this sensor is 25 bigger than the sensor we saw on the iPhone 14 pro Max last year but the thing I found really interesting is that this technology was not what we had expected so I think a lot of the rumors pointed to a more powerful zoom and the obvious kind of comparison was a periscope Zoom the stuff that we've seen on a lot of Samsung devices and other Chinese phones
where the whole idea of any this kind of Zoom Technologies really to extend the distance between the front of the lens and then the sensor and so there's obviously many ways to do it but with this apple variant of it or the Apple kind of iteration of it they've done it using a very small device it's a prism that is much smaller than the traditional Periscope stuff that we've seen from Samsung and because of that it allows the sensor to be quite big on this iPhone 15 Pro Max also the thing I noticed is that
the stabilization at least from my very quick demonstration of it was really good so I had it up at 5x which isn't nearly as you know zoomed in as a 10x Samsung product but when I had this held up I was like very surprised at how steady that shot was the other thing that's interesting is the main sensor has three focal lengths that you can toggle between or you can cycle between just by pressing the 1X button on the camera app so go between 24 28 and 35 millimeter focal lengths all being shot off that
main sensor and you can also set the default focal length that you want like when you launch the app it's just so much more customization than what iPhones have ever offered for their Pro Camera devices so pretty cool the chip that powers the iPhone 15 Pro devices is the new a17 Pro chip this thing is the world's first three nanometer chip in a smartphone and well it's tsmc's three nanometer Tech it's bound to be faster and more energy efficient than anything we've seen from Apple before now a lot of the other features that are on
the 15 Pro Models are also shared by the regular 15 so I think this is a good point to kind of transition to the regular iPhone 15. the colors seem kind of pale to me this year they're almost muted not that they're bad looking I think they're actually really nice looking devices but the color isn't as vibrant as some of the older iPhones of the past now one of the kind of design changes that they've made is that the back glass has a tint to it they use some kind of process to color the glass
and it gives it this almost like hard candy kind of look to it I think it looks really nice and then the texture on that back glass has this frosted almost satin finish to it it's like a very smooth kind of buttery feel to it now you may have noticed that at this point of the video I haven't mentioned anything about the rounded edges of these phones either the Pro Models or the regular iPhone 15s and it's simply because I forgot to uh in my time spent outside I was I think I was going to
get to it and I just I had to move so I got to mention it now both of these devices have rounded edges I personally think it's a very big difference in feel uh I don't think it's something that like really defines the product though I think it's something that you just get used to regardless of what the marketing material tells you when I pick this thing up it does feel different but it's not like oh my God this phone feels so much better because it's got rounded Corners it's different but I do think that
it looks not as nice I think the clean sharp edges of the existing iPhone models look really nice uh the other thing I want to mention real quickly is the screen so this year's iPhone 15 models have much brighter screens at the top end so it's great for outdoor viewing and they also have a dynamic Island on this year's iPhone 15 models now when I found out these were still 60 hertz screens I was convinced that the animations would just be really choppy and laggy but they actually look perfectly fine that being said I think
it's criminal that they have a device of this this caliber that has so many amazing features except it still has a 60hz screen it's just really weird to me but I think they just do it because they got to separate that pro model from the regular model and this is like one of the last things that they can really do that affects most people the the 60 hertz versus promotion screen it has a USBC Port I love to see that even though it's still the slower USB 2.0 protocol but it does have just Universal charging
that's really the main feature that we're looking for here and the camera system looks to be nicely upgraded as well it's also running a 48 megapixel sensor and it also does that automatic portrait mode trick that I was talking about earlier but because I'm running out of light I'm going to wrap up this video foreign
