iPhone 14 an iPhone 14 Pro review: Come away to my Dynamic Island

Apple’s iPhone is a cultural phenomenon - the first truly usable touch-screen smartphone that everyone else followed, and still setting the tone some 15 years after it changed everything. The appetite for information about what the latest handsets will do remains insatiable - there are still myriad web sets that trade solely in rumours about upcoming models.

The Pro models this year do away with ‘the notch’ - the black cutout at the top of the screen that houses the front-facing True Depth camera and sensors. Instead we get the Dynamic Island - a grand name for sure for what is a pill-shaped cutout that houses all the stuff that last time was in ‘the notch’.

Always-on display The 14 Pro models are the first to have a display that never goes off - when you send it to sleep it dims the screen, and the screen's refresh rate slows down to save battery. But you can still see the time and your lock-screen photo, as well as some customisable widgets showing things like weather and your activity, and any notifications that have come in. More widgets will arrive when third-party developers add support.

Mega megapixels New on the Pros this time, too, is a massive 48MP sensor in the main wide camera. It can be used at that resolution, of course, but by default it’ll spit out 12MP images, grouping four pixels together to help gather more light. It’s a sacrifice of resolution in favour of light capture, but being able to snap in low-light conditions is what most people want.

The beautiful OLED screen on the phone has also received a brightness update - it can now boost to around twice its previous peak brightness for use in strong sunlight. And another addition to the hardware is various sensors that can detect if you’ve been in a car crash - and then call the emergency services if you don’t respond. I’m happy to report I’m unable to tell you how well this works.

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