I believe that many people will inevitably struggle with how to choose when considering **iPhone. One of the more common questions is, which one to choose between the iPhone 15 and the iPhone 15 Pro?Which one is more worth buying?
Many times, what really makes people tangled with these two mobile phones is not the price difference of 2000 yuan. In fact, there are many people who can give the iPhone 15 Pro budget, but because some of the Pro-level promotions are not used at all, but, some Pro-level features are desirable, so this will make personal decision-making difficult.
So, let's take a completely fresh look at these two products, combined with your real needs and purchasing power, you may be able to find the most suitable iPhone for you!
What exactly do iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro have in common?
Both are the same size, both are 61 inch, this size is really friendly for one-handed operation.
The two are also Super Retina XDR displays, 460ppi, OLED material.
Both are the same 1000 nits typical brightness, with 1600 nits HDR display and 2000 nits of outdoor peak brightness. This is actually a particularly big improvement in the perception of the iPhone 15, which has a typical screen brightness of only 800 nits.
Both support the Dynamic Island function, a very convenient and fun interactive design. From my own experience, the interactive mode of the Dynamic Island is really interesting and quite useful. The interactions that used to need to jump to the full screen can now be transformed into animations that are partially unfolded on the Dynamic Island. For example, now scenes such as NFC and payment authentication have become animations around the Dynamic Island.
Both are the same 4800 pixel main camera, supporting ultra-high resolution ** 24 million pixels and 48 million pixels), but one is 16 apertures, one is 178 aperture.
Both also have 2x optical zoom. The 2x optical zoom is still very practical in daily use, and I use it the most, such as shooting food, or shooting some digital products.
Both also feature next-generation portrait features, with support for focus control and depth of field control. And when you take a portrait with the camera app, you don't need to deliberately switch to portrait mode!
The front camera is also exactly the same, but Pro supports ProRes output for post-production.
Both have also been replaced with USB-C ports, and this year they are equipped with braided cables, which will have a much better texture.
However, the iPhone 15 only supports USB 2 and can reach transfer speeds of up to 480MB S, and the iPhone 15 Pro supports USB 3 with speeds of up to 10GB S. Of course, you will need to use an additional USB 3 cable.
Both have the same second-generation ultra-wideband technology chip. With the second-generation UWB chip, you can pinpoint the iPhone 15 series and Apple Watch Series 9 with the chip.
Precise Lookup provides distance and direction information, as well as visual, haptic and audio guidance to help you locate your location. As you get closer, haptic feedback, chimes and visual signage guide you to find it exactly.
Both have curved edges for a better grip than the previous generation.
Both have 128GB 256GB 512GB storage options and the Pro also has an additional 1TB specification, but most people can ignore it completely.
Both are also IP68 rated for dust and water resistance.
Both support dual SIM dual standby, the same 5G frequency band, Face ID face unlock, etc.
What exactly is the difference between iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro?
The iPhone 15 uses a super ceramic crystal panel + aluminum metal frame + melt glass back panel. Melting glass backplate is a special process in which colors are mixed into the glass.
The matte texture is also presented, rather than the smooth glass back of the previous generation, and the actual feel is a bit close to the matte back panel of the iPhone 15 Pro. The sense of luxury is taken to the next level.
The iPhone 15 Pro uses a super ceramic crystal panel + titanium bezel + matte textured glass back.
The iPhone 15 still uses an aluminum bezel and one less camera, and the overall body weighs only 171 grams, plus 7With a thickness of 8 mm, the thinness is its advantage.
One of the major disadvantages of the previous iPhone Pro was that the body was a bit heavy, but this year, the iPhone 15 Pro uses a new titanium frame, which greatly reduces the weight of the body, and now it is only 16 grams lighter than the iPhone 15, which is a very big change!However, compared to the iPhone 15, it is still a bit thicker.
In terms of body color, the iPhone 15 is still a more lively and beautiful color, providing pink, blue, green, yellow, and black, each color is a favorite of the wow!
The iPhone 15 Pro's color scheme is less fresh and lively, and more inclined to be professional. In addition, it has been changed from the previous stainless steel frame to a titanium frame, which lacks a shiny texture, and is replaced by a brushed texture. This can only be said to have their own preferences!
iPhone 15 Pro Another big change on the body is that the original mute button has been canceled, and the buttons have been changed to solid-state buttons, and long and short presses will have corresponding vibration feedback.
The default is to switch between ring and silent mode, and there are also a lot of new features that you can adjust according to your actual needs in the settings. For example, if you often take pictures, then set it to the camera function, and you can use it with a single touch. Another example is audio recording, flashlight, translation, magnifying glass, and so on.
What's more, it also allows you to use shortcuts to open apps or perform a task, which means that the functionality of this custom button will be very rich
Whether it's the iPhone 15 or the iPhone 15 Pro, the screen quality is actually top-notch. Apple has always called the screen used by the iPhone as the Super Retina XDR display, and has never used the exaggerated 2K screen of the Android phone, in fact, it is not that Apple does not use a better screen, but Apple has the ability to customize the screen according to actual needs, and it has always been used to exceed the resolution that most people's eyes can perceive. If someone else says to you that the resolution of the iPhone is not high enough, or the screen quality is not high, it is basically either stupid or bad.
But if you really want to have a tough screen quality, the screen of the iPhone 15 Pro is still better.
Because in addition to the brightness of the screen, this screen of the iPhone 15 Pro also supports the promotion adaptive refresh rate and all-day display.
For promotion adaptive refresh, I think too many people have been led astray, so that they have an obsession with high brushing.
In fact, the iPhone itself has strong GPU rendering capabilities, as well as very good animation effects, so the 60Hz refresh rate experience is not bad at all, and it is nothing more than a high frame rate game that will indeed suffer a little. However, I think the game is more about human skills, and the refresh rate of the phone is just the icing on the cake!Isn't it?
The second is that when you turn the page at high speed, it's not as silky as Pro. But what's the purpose of this high-speed flip!
In fact, in most cases, the real advantage of promotion is that it can reduce unnecessary refresh rates. Yes, the iPhone Pro's screen refresh rate is often not as good as that of a standard iPhone. In this way, the battery life is guaranteed.
Another advantage of the iPhone 15 Pro screen is that it can be displayed around the clock, and the content of the entire screen can be displayed after the screen is turned off, which is equivalent to the screen being darkened, and the widgets and various background information will be displayed directly in the screen-off display interface, and information such as wallpapers, **, etc., can also be displayed when the screen is off, which is not only good-looking, but also very personal.
Coupled with today's standby display function, choose a personalized ** display, and your iPhone can be a beautiful scenery on the table!
So obviously, in terms of screen quality, the iPhone 15 itself is already extremely high, while the iPhone 15 Pro is superior in terms of refresh rate, always-on display and other characteristics.
Not surprisingly, the iPhone 15 uses the A16 chip of the previous generation iPhone 14 Pro, which is still a certain improvement over the A15.
The iPhone 15 Pro uses a new generation of 3nm chips, and this chip is directly called A17 Pro.
I saw someone say that the CPU of the A17 Pro has only increased by 10%, and it is a proper squeeze of toothpaste. However, know that that this was achieved when the A16 was already more than 30% ahead of its opponents. According to the so-called squeezing toothpaste, the CPU performance of this squeezing toothpaste A17 Pro is nearly 40% ahead!
And A17 Pro uses the strongest chip production process on the surface at present, and it is no exaggeration to say that the 3nm production line is currently raised by Apple.
In addition, the number of transistors in the A17 Pro is 19 billion!
What concept?Remember Apple's previous release of the desktop-level chip M2?That is, the chip used by MacBook Air is only 20 billion transistors!
To be honest, on the basis of the performance of the A16 chip, even if it is a 10% increase in the CPU and a 20% increase in the GPU, it is already very good-looking. And Apple is also stunned to add hardware-level ray tracing, smoother graphics, more realistic lighting effects, and the game picture quality can reach a high level.
And more convincingly, "Resident Evil: Village", "Resident Evil 4", "Death Stranding", "Assassin's Creed: Mirage" and other console games will also be available on the iPhone platform, let's wait and see the game experience!
On a further note, the A17 Pro also integrates a dedicated USB controller, bringing what is probably the fastest USB-C port on the phone, and even directly supports ProRes 4K 60FPS** recording to external storage. In addition, there is **1** decoder, which doubles the performance of the NPU!
For game lovers or ** shooting enthusiasts, this A17 Pro is really powerful!
Of course, for ordinary users, it may be difficult to directly feel the advantages of this chip, after all, the iPhone has never lacked performance!
The iPhone 15 still uses a dual-camera system on the rear:
Main camera: 48 million pixels, 16 aperture.
Ultra-wide angle: 12 million pixels, 24 aperture.
And the iPhone 15 Pro has a rear triple camera system:
Main camera: 48 million pixels, 178 aperture.
Ultra-wide angle: 12 million pixels, 22 apertures.
Telephoto: 12 million pixels, 28 aperture.
The iPhone 15 offers 05x, 1x, 2x optical zoom options. The iPhone 15 Pro offers 05x, 1x, 2x, and 3x optical zoom options.
There are even 7 lenses extended.
Of course, the iPhone 15 Pro still excludes night mode portraits, macro photography, Apple ProRaw and ProRes formats, and even uses USB 3 ports to shoot directly from external storage.
And with the blessing of the A17 Pro chip, the iPhone 15 Pro can support Log mode** shooting, support the college color coding system, is a carnival for shooting enthusiasts!
In addition, the iPhone 15 Pro supports space** shooting!Bring memories to life with Apple Vision Pro**.
This year, the iPhone 15 is 6GB, and the iPhone 15 Pro series has been upgraded to 8GB of RAM. Obviously, this is for the more powerful gaming and imaging needs of the Pro series.
However, for ordinary iPhones, users don't need to pay attention to the size of running memory. Because Apple's product strategy has always been a problem that can be solved by software optimization, Apple will never directly increase the cost of hardware. For example, the iPhone provides better battery life with a smaller battery, and users always care about the battery life, not the size of the battery. At this time, look at the Android phones advocating large batteries, isn't it a bit funny!
And Apple has never advertised the memory size, nor will it simply increase the memory capacity to solve the problem of application memory usage. In fact, too many Apple users don't know how much memory they have at all, and they only care about whether the phone runs smoothly. So for Apple, the first priority is to make the phone run smoothly, not to advertise how much running memory it uses. At the extreme, if the manufacturer has the ability to use 4GB of running memory to make 8GB of effect, it is estimated that it will not emphasize how large the running memory is!
Today's iPhone battery life includes both the iPhone Pro Max and iPhone Plus, which are unbeatable, as well as the iPhone and iPhone Pro that rely on small capacity batteries to stiffen Android phones.
In fact, Apple rarely mentions the battery capacity of the iPhone, but directly tells the user the battery life of the iPhone. After all, for people who are Xi to 5000mAh large battery Android phones, if they tell him that the iPhone 15 Pro battery capacity that supports high brushing is only more than 3000mAh, it is estimated that they will be scared away.
However, it is very interesting that Apple has been solving the battery life problem since many years ago, not simply competing for battery capacity, but system optimization, screen energy efficiency, chip energy efficiency, etc., for example, even if it supports all-weather display iPhone 15 Pro, as long as the screen is facing down or in a pocket, or turning on sleep mode, the screen will gradually go out. For energy efficiency, all the way to the end, so that now the iPhone battery life is very good.
As for which iPhone 15 or iPhone 15 Pro has better battery life, it actually has a lot to do with the specific usage scenario. Because Pro supports the promotion adaptive refresh rate, it saves power in some scenarios and can provide a better experience in others, but it will consume more power. But on the whole, there is basically not much difference in the battery life of the two.
In terms of charging speed, there is basically no difference between the two. Anyway, after changing the USB-C interface, Apple has not made any optimization in charging power. Therefore, as long as it is a charging head that supports PD protocol and is 20W and above, it can charge more than 50% of the power within 30 minutes.
There are two main ones, one is the LiDAR scanner, which was first used on the iPad Pro, which mainly plays a role when shooting and using AR scenes at night, and the perception is not very good at other times.
The other is that PRO supports the thread network protocol, which is mainly connected to smart home devices, which is more convenient, reliable and secure.
The iPhone 15 is sold at 5999 yuan, while the iPhone 15 Pro is sold at 7999 yuan, with a price difference of 2000 yuan. The above description of the similarities and differences between the two is very clear, the price difference of 2000 yuan, iPhone 15 Pro must still be able to afford it.
To put it bluntly, when it comes to value for money, the iPhone 15 is still the highest. And seriously, both the quality of the screen and the design of the fuselage have reached a fairly high level. The daily use experience is really good. Not to mention, the iPhone 15's color scheme is really good-looking!
The Pro-level improvement of the iPhone 15 Pro itself is actually difficult to benefit all users indiscriminately. For example, the LiDAR scanner may not be useful to everyone, and even the Pro-level rear triple camera system is completely redundant for many people who hold their mobile phones and just scan the code.
But it must also be admitted that the quality of the iPhone 15 Pro itself is really high. It can even be said that it is the ceiling of similar mobile phones at present, which seems to have no attractive characteristics of bells and whistles, but everything is as stable as an old dog.
In general, for people with a sufficient budget, if you are interested in the photography system of the mobile phone, or the game performance of the mobile phone, then it is recommended to give priority to buying pro!For color, you can give preference to white or primary colors.
For those with limited budgets or light mobile phone users, you can also look back at the similarities and differences between the two mentioned earlier, and if the Pro-level improvement does not have any substantial effect on you, then the iPhone 15 is also a very good choice. The most important thing is to recognize whether you want to choose the iPhone, rather than comparing it with a bunch of messy products!