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There are some iPhone 14 specs Apple simply prefers not to publish but luckily we have one of the first iPhone 14 Pro teardowns to help fill in some of the gaps.
A new video reveals that the iPhone Pro does indeed feature faster LPDDR5 RAM and the Qualcomm X65 5G modem. The speedier memory comes in handy and likely supplies the additional graphics bandwidth Apple boasted about during the Apple event. And the new modem enables faster 5G downloads and wider mmWave spectrum support.
We wrote earlier about our iPhone 14 Pro benchmarks, and just how powerful Apple’s new A16 Bionic chipset is, but what about the base iPhone 14?
While it didn’t get the newest chip, it did get an upgrade to the A15 Bionic that was found in last year’s iPhone 13 Pro — so a more powerful version than the one in the standard iPhone 13.
What this boils down to is that the iPhone 14 has a fifth GPU core, compared to the 4-core GPU in last year’s model — and we’ve run some iPhone 14 vs iPhone 13 benchmarks to find out just how much faster the new iPhone is.
Good morning. Editor in Chief Marc McLaren here for a couple of posts. It’s now just about 24 hours since the iPhone 14 range went on sale in the U.K., where I’m writing from, but availability appears to be even worse than it initially was.
Yesterday morning, I could order an iPhone 14 Pro for next-day pick up in London; today, none of the 128GB variants are available from any of the 12 Apple stores nearest to me, so I’d have to jump up to the more expensive 256GB model to get my hands on one this weekend.
The iPhone 14 Pro Max is still unavailable for next-day collection whichever model you chose — so you’re looking at a wait time there of around five or six weeks.
There are no such issues with the base iPhone 14, though — I can order that right now and pick it up today.
We’ll call it a night — more launch news in the morning — but before we do, let’s just check the status of iPhone availability after Day One of in-store sales. From the San Francisco Bay Area, we went shopping for the 128GB model of the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, selecting an unlocked phone in Midnight or Space Black (for the Pro models). Here’s what the wait times were as of 10:55 p.m. ET on Friday, September 16.
- iPhone 14: Delivered by September 20; in-store pickup available on September 18.
- iPhone 14 Pro: Delivered by Oct. 17-24; no in-store pickup available.
- iPhone 14 Pro Max: Delivered by Oct. 24-31; no in-store pickup available.
Those dates may change based on color, storage size and your part of the world, but that gives you a pretty good idea of what supplies are like at the moment. It seems as if the iPhone 14 can be had with relatively little delay, while the Pro models won’t show up until October. That’s not surprising, given how many features Apple added to the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max.
One other thing to note: In the San Francisco Bay Area at any rate, you can pay an extra $9 for next-day delivery, even for those iPhone 14 Pro models that might otherwise not show up until October. So that’s a possible course of action if you absolutely need to get your new iPhone now.
In case you happen to be in the market for a new phone carrier at the same time that you’re doing your iPhone 14 shopping, you’re probably not alone. A lot of iPhone 14 deals are designed to convince shoppers to switch carriers in exchange for a lower cost Apple device. But one of the requirements for these deals is usually that you have to sign up for an eligible unlimited data plan.
A few weeks back, we took a look at the cheapest unlimited plans at all the major carriers. Not all of these plans are always eligible for big phone discounts, but if they…
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