Apple iPhone 13 vs iPhone 14: Ripoff vs Value.

this is the iPhone 13. is it worth

upgrading to the iPhone

14 especially that fancy purple one well

folks my name is me Kevin and in this

video we're going to talk about my

thoughts between the iPhone 14 and the

iPhone 13. first I'm going to tell you a

little bit about the hopes that I had

for the always-on display I'm going to

give you a different solution for that

always on display that doesn't actually

cost you anything if you've already got

some of the old devices from Apple and

I'm going to do a comparison of the

video quality and audio quality of these

two devices as well as giving you a

little bit of a secret into how you can

solve your audio problems with the

iPhone and ultimately we'll wrap this up

into a verdict about whether or not I

actually think the iPhone 14 pro Max is

worth it now do keep in mind I use both

phones one of them I use for business

one of them I use mostly for personal

reasons however I have both of them with

me almost always and I feel the

differences between the two in that I

really feel almost no differences

the biggest difference that I noticed

between the two devices should be

obvious it is that one has a display

that turns off after you stop using it

the other one just dims dark as this one

just did and it's essentially the

always-on display where to preserve

battery life the refresh rate of this

monitor declines to about 1 Hertz which

is kind of like one refresh per second

and you don't really get a lot of change

here whereas here you have to pick up

the phone to wake it to see what time it

is now I think that's pretty neat I also

like that you could throw a couple

little widgets in over here take a look

for example here at mine I have a little

widget for the Apollo app for Reddit and

I have a couple little ticker symbols

there that I like to track including

Enphase and Tesla but I have to say I

wish I had a lot more space for widgets

on that home page we've got plenty of

room for widgets like a very large

calendar or news segments within the

actual phone once we unlock the phone

but the widgets page I have to say a

little bit disappointing on the lock

screen you don't get a lot of room for

notifications and even when you disable

notifications grouping iPhone still

groups notifications as soon as it

defaults to the always-on display look

at how it collapses your notifications

this is unfortunate because I was really

hoping that when I put notifications on

list mode in the settings I would

actually have a list of notifications

that would stay open on that always on

display that's actually not what you get

when you have the always on display

instead what I've done in my home office

is I've taken an iPad that I no longer

use on a daily basis I mounted it onto

this little arm that clamps under the

bottom of my desk and hangs over and I

just sort of holds my iPad floating so

it's not taking up desk space and here's

what I did I turned on notifications for

Seeking Alpha and Twitter and some other

apps and I just turn off auto lock for

the iPad and I pull down from the

notification center at the top and I get

a list of all of my notifications that

just stay there and it becomes really

easy for me to scroll up and down that's

kind of the hope that I had for the

always-on display on the iPhone except

it always seems to collapse once the

device actually locks into these little

collapsed groups even though I have

groupings off that then makes me have to

essentially unlock the phone to see the

full list and then I'm like well crap

then I may as well be using the old

iPhone 13. so in terms of the always-on

display had a lot of enthusiasm for what

we'd be able to do with it and since

that's just software maybe we'll be able

to get some better features for that in

the future but is that always on display

really worth it in my opinion not worth

upgrading but what about the camera and

audio quality well as usual I think it's

best to let your eyes decide here's a

recording at 4K 60 on both of the phones

on the left side we have the iPhone 13.

on the right side we have the iPhone 14.

both of these are being held out

extended while I'm riding a Segway so

it's a little bit smoother than if I

were walking and both of them are on a

DJI stabilizer also helping smooth out

the shot so you've got sort of a double

stabilizer action going on here but what

I really want you to compare is is that

wide angle camera really that much

different in these various different

lighting settings that we're getting

from shade to light to Interior to

exterior in a weird way and it almost

feels Blasphemous to say it but there

are some angles where I like the raw

iPhone 13 better and there's some angles

where I like the 14 better and I'm like

ah would I pay fifteen hundred dollars

for you know know a toss-up probably not

and so I promise I was shocked when I

also compared the audio of these two

devices this morning I recorded on the

iPhone 14 and the iPhone 13 on the

Segway to purposefully see if I can get

some wind introduced to see how they

would both handle it so basically I'm

holding my hand on the opposite end of

where that forward-facing camera is and

blocking some of that oncoming wind

noise from going into the little mic

input section and I have to say it was

really hard to tell a difference and in

some cases again the iPhone 13 felt like

it did better now by no means was my

test by far the most perfect but I'm

just saying if on average Everyday Use

it's hard to discern the difference is

there really much worth paying an

upgrade for if you're trying to get

always on display better camera or

better audio if those are debatable

benefits and most of the other benefits

you get through the software upgrade to

iOS 16. in which case I'd much rather be

an advocate for you checking out this

okay folks this is it it's a pretty

inexpensive sure wired microphone which

just plugs directly into this XLR end

and look at that right into lightning

let me show you how the audio sounds on

that also on the Segway now there are

Wireless options for mics like these but

personally I'm not the biggest fan of

Wireless I think you get too much

interference you get too much

frustration dealing with batteries and

when you need the darn things they're

just not as quick as having a little bit

of a wired connection which is what I

have here it does mean I have a dangling

cord though between my hand and the

other end of the iPhone but that's okay

because I get that quality I believe

that this drive around on the Segway is

almost perfect audio not only that but

by having this little muff on top which

I think you get like a seven or eight

pack of these for like 10 bucks they're

super inexpensive I'll link all these

products down below the mic the muffs

and the cable this gives you some of the

most pure audio you could ever ask for

from an iPhone so now all of a sudden

I'm getting 4K 60 Resolution on the

iPhone 14 and that excellent quality

audio now you can look at the first part

of the video where we compare the video

side by side in some of those different

lighting arrangements and I think you

can determine whether it really makes

sense to jump up to that iPhone 14 on

that forward-facing camera camera one of

the reasons I personally really love one

using these particular mics is they're

really good at canceling out noise

that's far around you so sometimes when

I'm filming outside my biggest

frustrations are airplanes helicopters

loud motorcycles police sirens or

sometimes if you're at an airport just

like getting on the plane and the plane

being noisier quite frankly sometimes I

filmed on the plane and it's extremely

noisy you just constantly hear the

whirring of the plane this kills a lot

of that so this is probably one of the

best tools to have in your Arsenal if

you are somebody who is trying to film

with an iPhone so does that mean you

really need to upgrade to the 14 again

TBD on what you think regarding that

video quality having both of them I

personally don't think it's very

necessary now what about other features

I mean we've got that pretty awesome

wider screen now because you've got that

smaller cut out up top for the cam

camera and you get a little bit more of

a graphic kind of uh interactive feel

when you unlock your phone or when you

play music or when you watch a YouTube

video or when you silence your phone you

get slightly different indicators but is

that really worth upgrading personally

on a daily basis I use the iPhone 13 and

the 14. that's because I use one mostly

for personal things and one mostly for

business things and really I use the

phones almost interchangeably with the

exception of when I need to grab the

camera when I use a portrait mode

forward facing to do thumbnails for for

uh YouTube thumbnails or whatever I'm

exclusively using the latest phone

because why not if I have both of them

but otherwise have I noticed a personal

difference in either of the phones and

functionality when I'm switching between

the two do I really notice any kind of

speed differences do I really notice any

functionality differences between the

male apps or the other apps I use or

messaging or it's connection to to the

watch or it's 5G speeds quite frankly no

I I don't actually as a user notice the

differences are they there probably

because we know there are differences in

the tech specs now to help you with that

determination something that I did do is

I just switched from the iPhone 14 to

the 13 within my last little segue right

here on this and that's all just to try

to help you determine is that camera

quality really a noticeable difference

let me know in the comments what you

think and we'll see in the next one

thanks bye