Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max review

28 September 2023


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  • Anonymous
  • Ja@
  • 03 Oct 2023

A phone is a phone is a phone... they all have cameras, play music and connect to the internet... plus have that amazing ability to make and receive phone calls.

All Apple is doing is tweaking the spec a bit and calling it the 'next generation phone' so that they can maintain the cycle of at least some users buying 'this year's model' and junking their old 12 or 18 month old model which is, of course, perfectly OK. This allows Apple to maintain an all important income stream to boost their bottom line.

God forbit that customers should realise that any mobile is good for at least four or five years use and not keep on buying a new one every year.

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    • tVq
    • 03 Oct 2023

    AnonD-1121190, 02 Oct 2023Once iphone will have 1000% clean clear screen without any ... moreAgree ! like what Sony did for the market.

      we have seen enough reviews

      if the S24Ultra is just a bit better than S23U...then it will dismantle this I15 promax

      its up to samsung now

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        • 39y
        • 02 Oct 2023

        Once iphone will have 1000% clean clear screen without any notched or some Maldives or bora bora islands.. and half or 0.25 0.50mm thin edge black borders, I will buy it..

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          • Dobermann
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          • 02 Oct 2023

          Anonymous, 01 Oct 2023At a store, I compared the 15 Pro Max camera with my 7 Pro ... moreWhich phone is the best in your opinion in terms of camera quality ?

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            • ASL
            • Fvd
            • 02 Oct 2023

            Overheating issues, battery expands in a result of this.
            Rear glass shatters from 1 st drop.
            They must be nuts! All the pros the ihpones over android are now gone - rock solid strong, not overheating, not battery exapnsions.

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              • ASL
              • Fvd
              • 02 Oct 2023

              They up the power and lower the cooling parts ? That's so clever.

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                • Sqx
                • 02 Oct 2023

                hard to believe with a software update the thermal conductivity of titanium solves the problem

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                  • Anonymous
                  • aq@
                  • 02 Oct 2023

                  Basic 15's photos are three times better than those taken with the Pro Max and everyone imcluding the article seems to ignore this. how come?

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                    • Anonymous
                    • 9i6
                    • 01 Oct 2023

                    Kaloyan, 01 Oct 2023Thank you. We are aware of this and that is why we start ou... moreYou should post the standby time results for all reviews, once you do the revamped battery tests :)

                      Anton., 01 Oct 2023but the 13 and 14 are the best phones with battery life!! ... moreThe 13 is the fix for the 12.

                        potato4k, 30 Sep 2023Now it seems like on every new redesign, Apple intentionall... morebut the 13 and 14 are the best phones with battery life!! I don't think that's the case.

                          ashrobb, 01 Oct 2023Good stuff. Something I'd like to point for battery te... moreThank you. We are aware of this and that is why we start our tests after a couple of cycles. This applies to the charging test, too.

                            Even so, and taking out the s23 ultra, which is a good phone, this is the best so far* the pixel 8 pro is missing, I don't know if Mororla will release something else, or Sony, the vivo x100 is coming...

                              Kaloyan, 01 Oct 2023It is downloaded. But! We are working right now on complete... moreGood stuff. Something I'd like to point for battery tests on Android devices is the need for them to optimize properly in the few days of usage, they usually required to be on idle and charging overnight after the usual setup for apps to optimize in the background. You can read some info about the technicals behind it here https://source.android.com/docs/core/runtime/jit-compiler

                              I say this because this affects the standby drain a lot, thus lowering your scores in many phones that haven't been optimized properly.

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                                • Anonymous
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                                • 01 Oct 2023

                                At a store, I compared the 15 Pro Max camera with my 7 Pro at approximately 370mm and I used Google's Night Sight (the iPhone didn't let me choose a night mode). The 7 Pro was much better (even without Night Sight). Actually you would expect the 7 Pro to be better due to the higher resolution of the sensor, but the difference was actually even more severe. The 15 Pro Max was noisier and it also produced a ton of machine learning fake details (an issue that already previous iPhones had). This becomes obvious when you take a photo of distant text. The text in the 370mm 15 Pro Max image looked sharper than in the 7 Pro image, but the text consisted completely (!) of wrong words and characters whereas the 7 Pro showed the correct characters/words. So regarding true details, the 7 Pro was much better. Overall, at 370mm, the 7 Pro was in a different league when compared with the 15 Pro Max.
                                Recently I also compared my 7 Pro with the S23 Ultra at 360mm (approximately 15x). I used Google's short Night Sight mode and the 7 Pro definitely slightly outperformed the S23 Ultra.
                                Most reviewers compare the 7 Pro's periscope without Night Sight or at 30x (a 2x crop from a 15x photo looks significantly better than a 30x photo because Google's image processing is very bad at 30x due to machine learning artifacts, which are usually not present at 15x) (and at 30x the S23 Ultra has similar machine learning problems as the iPhone), this makes a significant difference and makes the 7 Pro's periscope look worse than it actually is because it is actually class leading at 360mm + Night mode. But I also experienced that the sharpness of 7 Pro units varies, when I bought the 7 Pro.

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                                  • 01 Oct 2023

                                  Jeffrey Kyle JACKSON, 30 Sep 2023It's a best cellular phone. But, I will wait for 8K 12... moreHahaha
                                  It will arrive 10 yrs from now, since its iphone we are talking about.

                                    Anonymous, 01 Oct 2023Please for the battery life. Do u guys stream the video or ... moreIt is downloaded. But! We are working right now on completely revamping our battery life test and the new one will include video streaming, and a new better web browsing test with touch simulation every few seconds, so it can stay relevant with the new displays with dynamic refresh rates. We will launch it soon and we are going to test again many of the most recent phones we've reviewed since March/April.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • X5u
                                      • 01 Oct 2023

                                      Kaloyan, 30 Sep 2023You are welcome. And I thank you, too, for the suggestion. ... morePlease for the battery life. Do u guys stream the video or it's already downloaded? Thanks

                                        Adam, 30 Sep 2023Thank you for talking about "signal reception". ... moreYou are welcome. And I thank you, too, for the suggestion. I have recently experienced some awful receptions with different phones and I intend to take notes of this in the future.

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