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Long awaited review iPhone 15 Pro is here. Wedding in Bratislava, wedding in Italy, expecting the first child, trip to WWDC, a trip to F1, buying a new house. In short, so much has happened in my life this year that I almost forgot that since the moment I first held a iPhone 14 Another year has passed and it's already on my desk iPhone 15 ProSo all that's left to do is take a good look at it and see if, amidst all the things I've experienced over the past year, it can also iPhone 15 To put a smile on my face and see if the ladies and gentlemen from Cupertino have once again managed to put at least a pinch of that famous "Apple Magic". Review iPhone 15 Pro will tell us, and I firmly believe that you will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed testing it.

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Review iPhone 15 Pro

iPhone The 15 Pro comes with a new design after years, and although at first glance it might be a fairly small change, after a few minutes in your hand you will find that it is much larger than it seemed. The phone has newly rounded edges and thanks to this it is much better and more comfortable to hold in your hand. However, I recommend reaching for a case that really copies its shapes and you will still have that pleasant grip in the case. Regarding the action button or changes Lightning port behind USB-C, none of this has any effect on the design of the phone. What it has iPhone You will hardly notice the port in terms of design, and the fact that it has another button instead of a switch will not impress you in any way.

What will amaze you, however, is the weight. When you pick up the phone, it may not seem that much lighter than before. iPhone 14 Pro, but once after a few hours or days of use iPhone 15 For you will take in your hand iPhone 14 Pro, you won't believe how heavy it could have been. The difference is really nice and you'll feel it both when you have the phone in your hand and when you have it in your pocket. I like that this time the material used has an impact not only on how iPhone looks, but also how much it weighs. Most people put their phone in a case, which in most cases completely hides its design or surface finish, and we might not care whether our phone is made of metal, aluminum or titanium. However, the use of titanium brings such a significant reduction in the weight of the phone that you can feel the new material even when you can't see it.

The use of titanium itself also results in a change in the appearance of the frames themselves. These are newly formed from ground titanium, and although Apple in the photos it shows how much the titanium structure is visible, in reality it is just how well the photographer was able to light the presentation photos. In practice you will only notice the brushing when looking at it from a very close distance and under good light. The frames themselves are neither matte nor shiny, but somewhere in between. They definitely have fewer fingerprints than previous models, but it is definitely not possible to say that there is no visible smudging. If, like me, you were surprised after looking at the photos on the website AppThey were afraid that the frame and back of the phone were in completely different shades and the phone looked strange, but in reality the colors were the same and the phone looked more compact and smaller than the previous generation. Apple He also mentioned smaller bezels around the display, but they are basically unnoticeable even when you hold it in one hand. iPhone 14 For and in the second iPhone 15 Pro. They are probably here. I don't believe they would Apple lied, but the difference is so slight that you have no chance of noticing it. Likewise, the difference in size is so small that the original silicone case from the previous generation holds almost perfectly even on iPhone 15 Pro.

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Not only the phone itself received new material, but also USB-C on USB-C cable, which is part of its packaging. It is newly braided and has a more premium feel than before. Of course, it is just a cable, but when you pay up to 48 CZK for a phone, it is nice to get a corresponding cable, and now it isoneyou really get it. The older I get and the more places on our planet I've had the chance to see, the more I appreciate that companies like Apple they are truly changing the world and trying to make their products as eco-friendly as possible. It's the little things that mean a lot more to me than getting on the Highway at 7 a.m. on a Monday in leather shoes with a hamburger in hand and pretending you're fighting for a better planet. I know most people probably don't care, but it does for me personally Apple big thumbs up for using recycled materials.

USB-C, with which he can iPhone to conjure

It's been 11 long years since Lightning konewhich replaced the 30 pin k used until thenonewhich. Today, eleven years later, it has been replaced by USB-C. Whether it is the EU's fault or Apple itself, we simply have in iPhone new to after a long timeonewhich, moreover, should remain there until the moment when Apple decides definitively toonewhich completely excludeschat.

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What seems like a small change at first glance is actually something that will make your life easier. When you go on vacation, suddenly you only need one cable to charge everything from your GoPro, to iPhone until MacBook. iPhone The 15 Pro now also allows you to charge from your USB-C port of another device. This works simply by connecting it to AirPods, iPhone and Apple Watch with less than 100% battery capacity, they will start charging from your iPhoneWhether you will use this function in practice in a situation where, for example, AirPods lasts much longer than alone iPhone, it's up to you. It's not a big deal, but it's good to know that you have this option. Plus, you can top up your friend's iPhone it will definitely come in handy.

Another novelty that USB-C brings, is the ability to link your iPhone 15 Pro with a TV or monitor. However, here we come across one big BUT. While monitors with USB-C on the market you will find, if you look at TVs, then it currently offers USB-C port in 2 TVs, from HiSense and Xiaomi. So the function is nice, the presentation is also good, but the use with the TV is zero. In the case of a monitor, the possibility of use is much greater, because monitors that are equipped with USB-C port, there are many more on the market than TVs. iPhone I added 15 Pro to my Apple ProDisplay XDR with a resolution of 6K and I was quite curious to see what would happen. In the phone settings, the connected monitor immediately appeared, which has its own setting item. In the settings, in the Display and Brightness section, you will find not only the display of your iPhone, but also the display to which the phone is connected. Here you can adjust the brightness of the connected display, switch between SDR and HDR, and enable automatic display switching.

As soon as you connect your phone with the cable to the monitor, you can immediately see in real time what you are doing on the phone. Just like he showed before Apple on your presentations. There are no lags and everything is truly 1:1 on your phone's display and on the monitor. If you are in the main menu or on homescreen, then of course you only see a section of the monitor showing the phone's display in its actual aspect ratio so that it fills the entire height of the monitor in portrait. However, as soon as you launch any application or video that is displayed in iPhone In full-screen mode, you automatically see the entire screen. You can watch movies, play games, show photos, or do anything you want.

For example, if you launch Disney+ and have your phone connected to a monitor, the selected movie plays in full screen and iPhone serves as a controller through which you can select subtitles, soundtracks or rewind the movie. Games such as True Skate also allow you to display different elements on the phone screen and others on the connected monitor. The True Skate game is about using your fingers to control a fingerboard, which is also true when connected to a monitor, but while you only see the fingerboard on the phone screen, there is a slider on the monitor itself that does what you do with your fingers on the phone screen. Developers can thus use the phone screen only as a controller and you can really turn your phone into a game console. Or you can directly connect a console controller to your phone and connect your phone to the monitor and you have a console from it. Of course, there is also the option to connect USB-C hub and to it mouse, keyboard and monitor and phone transform just like iPad with a keyboard in something like a computer, where you can work in email in a classic way, Wordand so on.

As for transfer speed, I personally send small amounts of data betweenMacin the iPhonem, that I always have more than enough AirDropHowever, if you need to move larger amounts of data, then USB-C significantly faster than LightningWhile through Lightning port you could send data to maxat least 480 Mb/s, in the case of USB-C is up to 10 Gb/s. You can use this both when transferring data between your computer and iPhonem, but Apple also for the first time in history iPhone comes with the ability to save video while recording to external storage. Simply connect an external SSD drive and you can save video recorded in ProRes 4K resolution and 60 fps to it in real time. So if you are serious about recording long shots, then now you have the opportunity to take advantage of iPhone fully.

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USBSo -C is definitely a step forward. How big depends a lot on how you use your iPhone If you record video to an external drive, you will be transferring it between Macin the iPhonem tens of GB of data, then you will be out of what you USB-C offers, much more excited than someone like me who actually uses the port twice a year when I need to charge my phone as quickly as possible. Anyway, no matter what category of user you fall into, complaining about USB-C You definitely won't.

Action button - once you get used to it, you'll love it!

The action button, which replaces the silent and loud mode switch, is located just above the volume up and down buttons. It allows you to call up any of the functions you set up in advance with just a press of the button, even when the phone is locked. I have to say that I fell in love with it! The options you can set for the action button include silent mode, focus mode, camera, flashlight, voice recorder, translate, magnifier, shortcut and accessibility. So if you use any of these functions often, you can get to them with just a press of the button. I chose the flashlight and now it really works like a classic flashlight just by holding down the action button. Yes, of course, you can and have controlled all the functions, including the flashlight, from the control center, but thanks to pressing that action button, the feeling of using them is different, more real and youipadYou feel as if you were holding a real flashlight or, for example, a dictaphone in your hand.

You can set what you want to use as an action in the settings. iOS and of course change it at any time. The function you activate with the button will then be announced to you during startup and shutdown,macwithin dynamic island. Apple created neithermace for each function and things such as a dictaphone or voice notes will only be launched in dynamic islandwhich looks great and you can also use the rest of the display to work with the phone.onem. If you are wondering how to find out which ringer mode you have active, then you can change the silent and loud mode settings in the control center and if you set silent mode, it will show in the status bar itself iPhone next to the operator logo.

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The idea of ​​a programmable button replacing the mute/loud mode switch is great at first glance, and as I mentioned above, I absolutely love it. However, be aware that once you start using the Action Button, you'll find that you're essentially limited to just one option. If you haven't used the mode switch, you'll have tooneThis will give you the feature you use most often. That's great, but again, it'll only be one feature and you'll have to call up the others from the control center. However, if you've been using mode switching quite a bit, then you'll have the same button with the same feature, just in a different form. Whatever feature you decide on, it'll be the only one you'll be able to control until you change it. That's understandable, but limiting, and your only choice is which feature you want to control.

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What is also a matter of habit is the activation of the button itself. When you hold the phone in your hand and have, for example, an original silicone case from Applu, then your index finger is naturally placed on the volume button, not the action button. In addition, you can't distinguish the buttons in any way other than by size, so you have to feel whether your finger is on the first button and whether you are activating a function hidden under the action button or just increasing the volume. I believe that Apple in the future software - so be it iOS 18 or any of the versions iOS 17 – will offer the ability to set multiple functions on the action button and select them using the length or number of presses. For me personally, the action button is definitely a step forward, although as I said, for some it may just be another button for changing the ring mode.

A17 Pro – performance you won't enjoy yet

Apple equipped iPhone 15 Pro with a completely new generation of chips. For the first time in the history of smartphones, we are seeing a chip made using 3nm technology, which has allowed the number of transistors to be multiplied as well as the performance itself, without significantly increasing the consumption or size of the chip itself. On paper, the chip is absolutely incredible and what it should be able to handle is breathtaking. Unfortunately, Applu failed to do what everyone would have expected. To have at least one game, one single application, or simply anything that can utilize the power of this chip on the day of its launch iPhone 15 Pro.

No game or app to show the potential Apple The A17 Pro chip is not currently available and it seems that the first game that should reach console quality, including things like ray tracing (perfect lighting of scenes corresponding to reality) will be Resident Evil Village, which we will see in more than a month. It's a shame that Apple couldn't get at least one developer to come up with a game on launch day that would take advantage of what the chip is supposed to be able to do and make all of our jaws drop. It used to be a Apple already during the presentations of its new iPhones, it showed games that were available together with the launch of the phone on the market and used gadgets such as a digital accelerometer or a digital compass, possibly a higher performance of the phone.

I would like to tell you about Apple A17 Pro said more. I would like to write in this review that you can throw away your PS5 and you are enough iPhone 15 Pro, but unfortunately I can't. What I can tell you, however, and I understand that it is not for the owners iPhone 14 For he will not delay, is that iPhone The 15 Pro is simply faster in every way than its predecessor. I understand how that might seem, but really anything you do is instantaneous, including things like connecting to CarPlay, making a FaceTime call, and so on. I completely understand that the owner iPhone 14 Pro will say it's not possible and nothing faster than his phone can be, but once you try it iPhone 15 Pro you will find that it can. What do you notice the most in terms of speed and performance compared to iPhone The 14 Pro is capable of shooting 48 Mpx photos, both in JPEG and RAW, where you basically won't notice the difference in which format you shoot.

Quite frankly, the A17 Pro chip interests me a lot, both as a weekend gamer and PS5 or as someone who simply enjoys technology. That's why I promise you that we will not only tell you about games that use the potential iPhone 15 For a iPhone 15 Pro Max inform, but when the first such game is available, we will do a detailed review of the chip itself and what happens when playing iPhone he really can.

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A slightly different camera iPhone 15 Pro

When you look at the camera specifications iPhone 14 For a iPhone 15 Pro, the only difference you'll find is in HDR. While the predecessor uses HDR 3, the new one "boasts" HDR 4. The problem is that while HDR 3 takes nice photos that are sometimes a little embellished and have rich and mostly bright colors, in the case of iPhone 15 Pro and HDR 4, you may be surprised as a regular user how your new iPhone takes photos. It doesn't take better or worse photos, it simply takes photos differently and I believe that for most people it is less pleasing. It takes photos more without embellishment, more as you actually see it, but the question is whether this is what a completely normal user who simply wants to have the most beautiful photo possible wants. Detailed comparison of photos from iPhone 14 For a iPhone 15 Pro face to face can be found in the following article.

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Among other things, HDR offers iPhone The 15 Pro also has the new ability to take standard photos up to 24 to 48 Mpx instead of 12 Mpx. That's a huge step forward for me! If you've never printed a photo, used it as a background on a high-resolution monitor, or wanted to make a poster out of it, and you only look at photos on your phone's display, iPhone then you can forget about this feature and you won't miss it. For all those who want to capture a life photo and have the opportunity to put it as a background on their monitor or print a high-quality image from it, brings iPhone 15 For the option to always take photos in a resolution that amply meets these requirements.

Unfortunately, shooting up to 24 Mpx instead of 12 Mpx only works at 1x zoom and only during the day, it does not apply to night photos. However, it is a great advantage for anyone who wants to deal with post-production or wants to be able to use photos that they forgot to switch to JPEG. Max or ProRaw to create an already modified poster or background. Another new feature is the ability to switch the focal length on a standard camera and choose between 24 mm, 28 mm and 35 mm. However, if you are not an experienced user, then you will only appreciate this option as additional intermediate steps of the zoom, which is otherwise standard maxat least 3x optical.

Overall, it can be said that iPhone The 15 Pro gives you a lot more room for creativity and offers a lot more options when it comes to photography. You just need to take into account that you have to be able to do something yourself. You don't have to be a professional photographer, but you do need to know at least the basics of how to use what you have. iPhone 15 Pro can work to their advantage. Unfortunately Apple it won't guide you through it and show you the way the news shows in iOS 17, for example, what each lens can do and what the difference is between 24, 28 and 35 mm and when it is appropriate to use which one. You either have to know this or figure it out yourself. Suddenly it is no longer about having an amazing photo every time you press the shutter, it was much more true with iPhone 14 Pro. Maybe just Apple made a mistake in HDR and a fix will be coming soon, thanks to which the photos from iPhone 15 For even better for the average user, but currently they are simply different and it is clearly visible that Apple to the entire camera iPhone 15 Pro approaches things differently than ever before.

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As for the night photos, they are nice. They are not perfect and sometimes distort the colors, but iPhone allows you to take pictures for this price in conditions where a regular camera has no chance of succeeding. However, they would be significantly better than those of iPhone 14 Pros and Cons Apple I personally wouldn't say much about the portraits mentioned. On the other hand, those from iPhone 14 Pro are very good indeed.

Quite frankly, as far as the video goes, I'm not going to play someone who knows what Apple now allows. Simply put, you can now record in ProRes format with Log encoding and iPhone 15 Pro is the first smartphoneone in the world that supports ACES, the Academy Color Encoding System – a global color standard used by major film productions. I believe that if you know what it means, then anything I would write would be completely irrelevant, because you understand it much better than I do. If, on the other hand, you have no idea, then believe that the following video was shot on iPhone 15 Pro, but with slightly different types than me.

Battery life and charging

Who would have expected that with the arrival of USB-C will see faster charging, unfortunately I have to disappoint. iPhone 15 For a iPhone 15 Pro Max charges just as fast as their previous generations, both when charging via USB-C port, even when charging via MagSafe or Qi charger. Unfortunately Apple did not speed up charging by even a single percent, so it still applies that iPhone You can charge the 15 Pro from 0% to 50% in 30 minutes. When charging from 0% to 100%, it will take about 1 hour and 55 minutes to fully charge the phone. Apple on paper, it didn't even improve the phone's durability and it's still the same, so how Apple states – “all day”.

Quite honestly, endurance is very difficult to judge because the only thing I can compare it to is my memories from a year ago. iPhone 14 Pro with a brand new battery or current experience with a year old battery in iPhone 14 Pro, which although I still don't understand, has a capacity of only 88% of its original value. However, if I think back to the first months with iPhone 14 Pro, then I went to bed at night with the battery level at around 10 to 15% during daily use. Now, with the same use, the battery level at iPhone 15 Pro is moving slightly over 20%. So I really see some improvement, despite the fact that Apple they claim in their documents that nothing has actually improved.

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Of course, it depends on how much you use the phone, but I believe that there are not many users who use it more than I do. I'm one of those crazy people who have the brightness at 100%, have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, location services and 5G turned on. Even in that case, and despite the fact that you spend many hours a day in front of the screen, you won't run out of juice in the evening, and the phone just needs to be charged overnight, with the fact that you can rely on it all day.

If you're one of those users who worry about the health of your battery, he added Apple do iPhone 15 For two tricks just for you. The first is the option directly under the optimized charging item in the system settings nochat charge your phone maxat least to 80% of the battery capacity. This should save the battery, because it is the remaining 20% ​​that puts the most strain on the battery. The second interesting thing I found iPhone You've never seen anything like this before, and you can now view battery cycles directly in your phone's settings. This gives you more control over your battery than ever before, and you can also see how it's doing.

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iPhone 15 Pro now supports Wi-Fi 6e, Thread and NavIC

Apple He also worked on improving some things that were minor for some, but essential for others. This is the first time in iPhone seWe are talking about the Wi-Fi 6E standard and also the Thread standard. As for Wi-Fi 6E, it is necessary to take into account that you must have a home Wi-Fi network built on it in order to be able to use Wi-Fi 6E to the fullest. Today, commonly available routers for a few thousand crowns offer Wi-Fi 6e and allow you to use another frequency band and channels, thanks to which you have a greater range and the ability to use more of the theoretical speed of Wi-Fi 6. Wi-Fi 6e itself is not faster, but thanks to the wider frequency band, it allows smartphones to reach speeds of 1-2 Gbps. Of course, again, it depends on how specifically you have your Wi-Fi network built on the Wi-Fi 6e standard at home, but if it is good, then you can count on the fact that 5G will no longer be faster than your home Wi-Fi.

Standard Thread then allows the iPhone to communicate directly with other products without the need for a special hub type. HomePod etc. However, this is a standard that developers must use to allow you to access your washing machine, refrigerator, smart light bulb, and so on without having to own a special hub for each brand or product.

Another interesting feature is another navigation network that is newly offered iPhone 15 Pro. New to the well-known and previously used navigation networks GPS, Glonass, Galileo, QZSS and Beidou, NavIC has also been added. This is a network that you may also know as IRNSS, the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, and as the name suggests, it is a network operated by the government of India. It will be used primarily by travelers, because it operates with its satellites mainly over the territory of India, but also parts of South America, Australia and the Balkans. So if you are planning to travel to these areas, your iPhone se will connect to the satellite a little faster and more reliably than before.

A few words to conclude the review iPhone 15 Pro

If I ask myself what I would like to iPhone 15 For improvement and I will stick to the technologies available today, I must say that I honestly can't think of much and I understand it quite well Applu, why it has been innovating in small steps in recent years. Basically, the only thing that is realistic today and could Apple do iPhone bring is faster charging, both wireless and wired, which is one of the things I personally have been expecting since iPhone 15 Pro, but we will see it sometime in the future. Another thing is the 5x optical zoom, which currently only has iPhone 15 Pro Max and it's a shame that to get better zoom you have to go for a bigger phone, which is quite impractical for me.

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However, I am honestly listing what I iPhone is really missing and it is possible to add it to the phone, it ends. Yes, better battery life would be nice, but with everything that today's iPhone 15 Pro can handle it, it's probably unrealistic to get two or three days of battery life. So for me Apple sells the best that is possible today and if we forget about unrealistic desires, then basically except for these two, (maxAt least if you add in battery life, then the three improvements are nothing that could Apple add and he hasn't added yet. Besides, if he added everything to iPhone 15 Pros, what we would look forward to all next year. There would be no way to improve iPhone 16 Pro.

All standards that iPhone 15 Pro supports are the latest, most widespread and best that we commonly use today. Yes, some might think that Thunderbolt is missing, but if you are able to data from maxat least 1 TB iPhone transfer at a speed of 10 GB/s, I believe that will be more than enough for most of us. Everything else is the best that today has to offer, from materials to processing to the technologies themselves.

Apple This year, too, it brought enough innovations to ensure that everyone who buys a new one after two or three years iPhone, were literally and figuratively thrilled by all the new things it can do. However, those who want to switch from iPhone 14 Pros need to consider very carefully whether the three major innovations are worth it for them to actually switch to iPhone 15 Pro. If you take away the titanium body, the action button and the A17 Pro processor, there is almost nothing left. I am not in a position to recommend it to anyone. iPhone 15 Pro to buy or not to buy, you have to consider it yourself. I have described my impressions and feelings about it as best as I could and I believe I have made your decision at least a little easier. iPhone 15 Pro has become more professional in every way and it's up to you whether you can appreciate it and, above all, take advantage of it.

 

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