When there is not that many changes,

it really puts a magnifying glass

on the few changes that there actually are.

Have you ever listened to a car reviewer

describe the latest generation Porsche 911?

Like, this is a car that's looked more or less the same

for the past 50 years with slight evolutions

with each new generation.

And literally, every time you watch or read a review,

they always say every single time,

"Oh, it's so refined,

oh, this is an engineering masterpiece

that's been perfected over generations.

It's a formula that's been developed

in the same direction for years."

I actually, as a kid,

I used to actively dislike Porsches because I just,

I knew they were expensive,

but I thought they're all so boring,

they all look like the same thing.

Why would you get one of those, when you could get

a way more exciting Ferrari or McLaren instead?

But as I've gotten older,

I can appreciate the Porsche formula a little more.

I don't love it or anything, I wouldn't say I love it,

but I can appreciate it more, does that make sense?

I hope that makes sense.

♪ Bling ♪

♪ I am the one at optimum ♪

♪ I got the drum, I got the drop on 'em ♪

♪ I got the lock, stock and barrel on top of them ♪

♪ I got the chopper for the block they knocking on ♪

♪ Act tion tion ♪

♪ Look at the crowd, the way they packed in in ♪

♪ Lone wolf hear the howl, where the pack then then ♪

♪ Is he packing then ♪

♪ Shooting off at the mouth like rat tat tat bling ♪

♪ Anybody in a pine for life ♪

♪ Your size ain't nothing for you to die for ♪

♪ All up in my eye for ♪

This is the iPhone 15 Pro.

Not a lot of changes.

(logo whooshing)

So, okay, I think people gotta get this thought

out of their head that you've gotta upgrade every year

to the newest phone.

Like, I realize most of us already know this,

but for some reason, people are still stuck on this thing

where they say, "Oh, last year's phone

is barely different from this year's phone,

it's not worth upgrading."

But like, that's not new,

like the Zenfone 10 I just reviewed

is just a refinement of Zenfone 9.

Like the bleeding edge ROG phone

has looked the same for three years now,

the Pixel is finding its stride with design.

But what we're really looking for

is for them to fix anything that's wrong or bad,

and then just find ways, clever ways,

good, interesting ways

to just get a little bit better every year,

so that over a long time, over a bunch of improvements,

it adds up to a bigger, more significant change.

So that's what's happening here with this iPhone 15 Pro.

I've been using it for about two weeks now.

They've made some improvements,

but now we're starting to also see some possible problems,

some new issues that have risen up, so let's talk about it.

So there's basically four new features they've added here.

I'm gonna go over some of the more fundamental

and existential stuff in the regular iPhone 15 review,

so definitely make sure you're subscribed

to see that when it comes out.

But for the Pro,

it's time to deep dive on the stuff

that's unique to this one, the professional stuff.

That being the build, the chip,

the cameras and the Action Button.

So easiest place to start

is the way they've built this phone.

So Apple made an update to the build

and the materials of the iPhone this year,

they've softened the corners a little bit,

it's clearly still a boxy design, but, you know,

now, instead of a completely flat glass at the front,

there's this gentle little curve just at the very edges.

I think that'll maybe make screen protectors

slightly more intricate,

but I think it has a nice look to it.

And then the screen sizes are exactly the same,

but now the bezels are actually a tiny bit slimmer

all the way around.

So technically the phone

is like one millimeter smaller diagonally

and the rails have famously switched from

that shiny stainless steel

to a lighter, coated and brushed titanium.

The result, it's very slightly better, I think.

It's kind of funny,

I've always associated a heavy phone

with like expensive feeling, you know?

Like, the ceramic phones are like extra heavy,

they feel like substance.

But I understand why people want it to be lighter.

And so, this phone is actually noticeably lighter

than the previous Pro.

It's 10% on paper, but it feels like more than 10%.

And then, there's a new set of colors too

so I'm sticking with it,

this new natural titanium is the best color,

this is the first year I am not ordering

a dark or black iPhone.

They still look good, don't get me wrong,

but they get all kinds of fingerprints on them like crazy.

And also, my worries about the light colored scratches,

if you go deep enough,

were all confirmed by Zack, JerryRigEverything,

in his video cutting the thing up.

So because I'm on team no case,

I'm going with the all gray phone,

I think it looks dope, so I'm going with that.

I think basically the idea is,

if you have a perfectly working phone,

there's no world where you should upgrade to this one

just for the titanium build

or just for the slightly thinner bezels.

But you have to appreciate,

put this up next to an iPhone 11, then, yeah,

you can see the differences compounding over time.

Just like if you sat in a 992 generation 911 right now

after sitting in a 997 generation car.

But the real highlight of this build here, let's be honest,

is there's a new port at the bottom, that USB type C,

which makes a big difference to people like me

who have other gadgets in their life,

computers, headphones, mouse, keyboard,

I just bring one charger, it works with everything.

I have already had this rite of passage moment that everyone

who gets this phone is gonna have

where you have an existing Lightning cable

and you try to plug it in and then you're like,

oh right, new cable.

But now I've gotten used to it.

But the thing is,

I could have sworn Apple would do more with this port.

Like, okay, we know that

they were basically forced into doing this by the EU,

so shout out to the EU for that.

Now we have a USB iPhone,

but like the only pitch is just,

hey, one cable for everything.

That's it, Apple really?

So like with 30 pin to Lightning all those years ago,

the benefit was obvious,

it's just so much smaller of a port

so that let them fit more stuff in the phone,

plus it's reversible now.

Now with this USB type C, it's like okay,

it was already small, it was already reversible,

charging speed did not improve at all, it's still 25 watts.

There's no extra like desktop mode,

plug it into a monitor and get,

there's no decks or anything like that, right?

It's just one cable for everything.

Okay, fine, sure, welcome to the club.

You know, iPhone users can now take advantage

of the U in USB-C.

I talked about the handshake it does

with plugging directly into other phones

and reverse charging them at four and a half watts

in the unboxing video, that's pretty neat.

You can also plug in other things,

plug in a keyboard and type with it, plug in a monitor,

it'll mirror your screen at up to 4K 60.

And the Pro phone now supports

USB 3.0 data transfer speeds

so you can get that ProRes footage

off the phone noticeably faster,

and you can actually, for the first time,

shoot video directly onto an external drive.

Now there's some talk about the cable that comes in the box.

Remember that nice high quality braided USB-C cable

that comes in the box?

But it's only USB 2.0 transfer speeds, it's a slow cable.

So if you have a Pro phone,

you need get a faster separate cable for it?

That seemed weird to people,

but it's not, that's very normal.

Most smartphones come with

just a USB-C cable just to charge.

It's a charging cable.

If you wanted a data cable,

you'd have to buy a thicker, more robust cable

that looks the same but is a data cable.

It's kind of confusing and annoying actually.

Welcome to the world of USB-C, my friends,

it's good to have you.

But that is a good segue to the main enabler,

the new powerhouse chip inside this phone with a new name,

the A17 Pro.

So the base iPhone 15s

got last year's A16 bionic from the 14 Pro.

And so, here's this new more powerful chip

in the highest end phones and it's not the A17 Bionic,

this is the first one with the Pro name, A17 Pro,

and this thing goes kind of crazy on paper.

This is their first three nanometer chip,

actually, the first three nanometer chip in any phone

that we'll probably see for at least another year or two.

I ran some benchmarks,

it's literally approaching M1 chip levels

of synthetic benchmark scores, and compared to last year,

it's 10 to 20% more powerful

on both the CPU and the GPU, which is very respectable.

But more power is like more horsepower in a car.

It's only really useful or noticeable

if it lets you do more things with it.

I'm gonna live in this analogy a bit more for a minute,

but like the last generation Porsche 911 Turbo S,

it was already so ballistic fast

that you never approached that limit

anywhere on public streets

until you get to the highest end of performance,

on the track.

And the highest end iPhone is the same way,

like, the Pro iPhone's been great

at just surfing Instagram and texting

and doing all the normal web browsing,

basic stuff you'd do on a phone.

And so, the only place you'd really notice

the extra performance is, well, we got a gaming demo.

Apple showed these wild demos

on the new iPhone at the keynote.

And just a disclaimer,

I'm not much of a phone gamer

so I'll defer the commentary on this to Dave2D,

you can go watch his video, linked below.

But they literally launched exclusive games on the iPhone,

that are like "Resident Evil: Village"

and "Assassin's Creed",

but not on cut down mobile versions,

these are literally the same versions with the same assets

and same textures and everything

from the PlayStation version

'cause it literally is the PlayStation version.

That's impressive.

Plus you know, performance headroom is never a bad thing.

But I think also for me and for a lot of other people,

the more impactful things