How light is your iPhone? Recharging my iPhone with a battery and using a USB-C port to charge my laptop, my Android, and my iPhone
If you found your way to this review, you already know you don’t want to spend a lot of money on an phone. You don’t find metallurgical advances alluring, you don’t care about an extra Action Button, and you don’t fancy yourself a budding filmmaker—pardon me, content creator—who at any moment might go viral. You own it and are a normie.
You don’t want to fall in love with your phone. You just want an iPhone, preferably one with a battery that raves late into the night and a camera that snaps better photos in that dying light.
That’s an action button, titanium, andusb-c. The frame of the iPhone 15 Pro is titanium, a metal that’s lighter, moredurable, and more scratch- resistant than the STAINLESS steel that was used before. Durability is nice, but I am more interested in how light it feels. The phone is so light compared to the iPhone 14 Pro that it initially felt cheap, but I quickly got used to it. The switch to titanium gives the Pro a weight savings of roughly 10 percent. That’s not a lot on paper, but it really makes a difference when you’re holding the phone above your face as you doomscroll in bed.
When I arrived at JFK Airport in New York City to fly out for the Apple event last week, I forgot a Lightning cable to recharge my iPhone. I packed my own cables. That’s because my camera charges with USB-C. So does my on-camera video light, my wireless microphone system, my laptop, my Nintendo Switch, my Android phone … you get the idea. The new port means I can finally charge all my devices with one, glorious cable. I’ve been able to share my laptop with the aniphone too. It’s a brand new world.
Why Should An Upgrade of the Pro Pro Model Come With a Cable? A Case Study: Apple 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max Review: Befit the Name
The Pro Max’s improvements come with a higher price than the larger Pro model, but you will have to accept that if you want the best mobile hardware.
Here’s the problem. To take advantage of the many high-performance features that USB-C enables, like data transfer speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second, connecting to an external display, and writing to a solid state drive to record videos in ProRes 4K at 60 frames per second, you will have to buy another cable instead of using the one Apple provides in the box. It’s an upgrade of the Pro iPhone. Why couldn’t Apple include a Pro cable with the beefier specs required to do Pro work?
Source: Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max Review: Befit the Name
The Action Button: A User-Programmed Mute Switch in the X10 Proton and the Proximum
Since the beginning of the device, the mute switch on the side has been replaced by a user-programmed Action Button. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that I’ve seen phones with a configurable button for years. Apple lets you press and hold the Action Button to trigger things like the flashlight, the camera, voice memos, and even Shortcuts. Anyone who thinks they might miss the Mute switch should know that the Action Button is a Mute switch by default; tapping it toggles the phone’s ringer to vibrate. We would’ve liked to have a few more capabilities with this button. The placement is also a little awkward and hard to reach, specifically on the Pro Max.