IPhone 14 Plus Review: Big Battery, old design, but still light

 The iPhone 14 Plus product is one of the variants of the iPhone 14 series that Apple has released for this year in addition to the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max.

the iPhone 14 Plus replaces the previously released iPhone mini series with the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 13 mini types.



Why did Apple release the iPhone 14 Plus? It's simple, now everyone wants to use a phone with a larger size. But some of these potential users do not want to buy the most expensive series (iPhone 14 Pro Max).

Then is the iPhone 14 Plus worth buying for those of you who want to upgrade from the previous series or maybe just use the iPhone for the first time?

In this article The MakeMac team will discuss the experience of using the iPhone 14 Plus for a few days to write this article. Let's listen directly!

IPhone 14 Plus Review

Body and specifications

the iPhone 14 Plus uses a screen diagonal of 6.7 inches aka the largest screen, along with the iPhone 14 Pro Max series.

Despite the large screen size, the body turned out to be quite light.

With dimensions of 160.8 mm long x 78.1 mm wide and 7.80 mm thick, the body weight of the iPhone 14 Plus is only about 203 grams.

This weight is only about 30 grams larger than the iPhone 14 (172 grams).



For comparison, the iPhone 14 Pro weighs 206 grams and the iPhone 14 Pro Max weighs 240 grams.

For the screen, the iPhone 14 Plus uses a Super Retina XDR display (2778 x 1284 pixels), 458 ppi.

The screen specs used are arguably not much different from last year's series on the iPhone 13.

It features HDR, True Tone, Wide color (P3), Haptic Touch and Face ID.

New technologies that Apple did not bring to the iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14 are Dynamic Island and Always-on Display.

In addition to last year's technology that is still carried over to the iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14 is the A15 CPU. While the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max already use the A16 CPU series.

For casual users, the A15 CPU spec is actually still very capable of doing various activities on the iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14.

Even for a variety of heavy processes such as playing games or editing videos and enjoying AR content, there are no slow or other problems with the A15 CPU.

For comparison, the iPhone 14 Pro weighs 206 grams and the iPhone 14 Pro Max weighs 240 grams.

For the screen, the iPhone 14 Plus uses a Super Retina XDR display (2778 x 1284 pixels), 458 ppi.

The screen specs used are arguably not much different from last year's series on the iPhone 13.

It features HDR, True Tone, Wide color (P3), Haptic Touch and Face ID.

New technologies that Apple did not bring to the iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14 are Dynamic Island and Always-on Display.

In addition to last year's technology that is still carried over to the iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14 is the A15 CPU. While the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max already use the A16 CPU series.

For casual users, the A15 CPU spec is actually still very capable of doing various activities on the iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14.

Even for a variety of heavy processes such as playing games or editing videos and enjoying AR content, there are no slow or other problems with the A15 CPU.

Photonic Engine features can be used automatically, without any settings or behind the scenes work by the system.

Then for all iPhone 14 series have Auto Focus feature in the front camera TrueDepth.

Another new feature is Action Mode to record videos more stably when you are moving fast such as walking or running.

This Action Mode feature will do cropping at the edges of the video frame so that the result will be more zoom in than regular video mode.

In addition, Action Mode should also be used during the day or outdoors with very bright light.

For the camera part, the iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14 do not support some of the professional camera features that are in the Pro Series.

Such as macros, ProRAW, video ProRes, Night Mode, Time Lapse Night Mode, photo RAW 48MP and several others.

Experience using iPhone 14 Plus, battery all day!

One of the most interesting things about the MakeMac team's experience using the iPhone 14 Plus is its durable battery that can be used all day.

This can be done because the battery capacity is large (4,323 mAH) and there is no Always-On Display technology like in the iPhone 14 Pro Type.

In addition, despite the large body, the iPhone 14 Plus remains light because it does not use 3 cameras on the berlakang and without LiDAR sensor.

As noted above, the weight of the iPhone 14 Plus is not far from the iPhone 14 Pro which has a smaller size but there are a variety of additional features such as a telephoto lens and the latest screen.

For those of you who like to play games or read articles on the web and want to get a relieved view, the iPhone 14 Plus is the right answer plus a more affordable price than the iPhone 14 Pro Max.

The difficulty that I had time to feel when using the iPhone 14 Plus is to use this smartphone with one hand only and keep it in a narrow trouser pocket.

But this problem will not be found if you have a wide palm or a large body, and want to carry the iPhone 14 Plus in a bag when traveling.

The iPhone 14 Plus product is suitable to be an upgrade phone or replace the old type of iPhone that you have used before, for example iPhone 11, iPhone XR, or iPhone XS Max with dimensions that are not much different.

With a large body, long battery life and the latest camera capabilities used, the iPhone 14 Plus could be an option for an upgrade this year.

Yes even though one of the most crucial things from this phone aka the CPU used is still the same as last year's type, the A15 Bionic CPU.

Plus the Notch size used, body and screen design, and other physical details also tend to be identical to the iPhone 13 series.

If you are now using an iPhone 13, the MakeMac team does not recommend switching to an iPhone 14. We recommend switching to the iPhone 14 Pro or iPhone 14 Pro Max.

Interested in buying an iPhone 14 Plus? The iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14 devices come with 5 colors, namely Blue, Purple, Midnight, Starlight and (PRODUCT)RED.

The available storage capacity options are 128GB, 256GB and 512GB.

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