The iPhone 15 series has been released for nearly a week, have you grabbed it? At 8 p.m. last Friday, the iPhone 15 series officially opened pre-sale, as in previous years, this year's machine went on sale within 10 minutes, Apple's official website crashed 6-7 minutes. More dramatically, "this year's iPhone 15 is not as difficult to grab as in previous years" and "the first batch of iPhone 15 Pro was robbed in one minute" also appeared on the hot search together.
If we look closely, we can find that this year's good grab is the standard version, and there is even a breakout phenomenon, and the price of some platforms is 400 yuan to 500 yuan cheaper than the official price. According to Jingdong platform data, the number of reservations for the iPhone 15 series exceeded 3 million, the reservation volume of the iPhone 15 Pro exceeded 1.27 million units, and the reservation volume of the iPhone 15 Pro Max series exceeded 920,000 units.
Although the price of the Pro series starting at 7999 yuan is more expensive, it is clear that this high-end model is more attractive to everyone. Even the estimated delivery time of the official website of the iPhone 15 Pro Max has been scheduled for late November, which means that many users who have booked a new machine will have to wait two months to get a new machine, and its popularity can be seen.
To be honest, since the release of the iPhone 13 series, Apple has begun to deliberately open the gap between the standard model and the high-end model. At present, the A17 Pro chip on the iPhone 15 Pro series has been exposed, and the score is close to the Intel Core i9-13900K, AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, the two top desktop processors. At the same time, the official website also announced the maintenance price of the whole series, and the replacement glass back plate price of the Pro/Max model directly dropped by 64%, of course, the price of other parts is still not cheap.
It can be said that the iPhone 15 standard model and the high-end model may have reached the largest gap ever.
According to the released information, this time iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max use a more repairable internal design, the redesigned frame can make the back glass panel more convenient to remove, this design has also been used in iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, and now put on Pro and Pro Max models.
That is to say, the price of the iPhone 15 series to replace the glass back panel is significantly lower than that of the previous generation, and it supports replacing the glass separately, without having to replace the entire body structure as before. According to the iPhone 15 series repair costs announced on Apple's official website in China, the back glass damage of the iPhone 15 Pro / Pro Max is charged 1298 yuan and 1548 yuan. For comparison, the cost of iPhone 14 Pro / Pro Max is 3598 yuan, 3998 yuan, good guys, directly save more than 2000 yuan.
And if the user buys the Apple Care+ service plan, the glass back plate repair price of the iPhone 15 series 4 mobile phones is only 188 yuan. So in the absence of AppleCare+, the specific iPhone 15 series repair price is as follows:
Overall, the price of core components is not cheap, take the battery that everyone cares about the most, the iPhone 15 is as high as 809 yuan, this price is almost catching up with a new Airpos second-generation headphones. There is also the screen, the front damage repair to 2298 yuan, iPhone15 Pro is 2698 yuan, iPhone15 Pro Max is as high as 3198 yuan, now everyone drop the phone or try to pray that the fall is the back...
In terms of configuration, the iPhone 15 Pro series is equipped with Apple's A17 Pro chip, as the world's first chip using 3nm process, the performance is really expected. Although it seems that the CPU is still 6 cores, only 10% faster, the GPU has increased to 6 cores, and hardware light tracing, but it is only 20% faster, which is still peak performance, and the performance from the running score is a big surprise.
In the GeekBench test project, the A17 Pro performance is fierce, almost crushing the current Android camp, and even surpassing its own M2 Ultra. The data shows that the main frequency of the A17 Pro processor on the tested model ranges from 3770MHz to 3777MHz, achieving single-core 2999 and multi-core 7779, setting a running record for this model.
For comparison, the A17 Pro single-core score is 2914 points, while the Intel Core i9-13900K single-core score is 3223, and the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X has a running score of 3172, which is already a small gap. According to this speed optimization, the A17 Pro's Geekbench single-core running score can still pull Intel's Core i9 14900KF down. Some bloggers said that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 "most likely can't catch up" this multi-core achievement, but the Dimensity 9300 frequency is temporarily undecided, "you can work hard."
At the same time, there is also data that the A17 Pro processor has a large core frequency of up to 3.77GHz, and the small core is temporarily unknown, which is only 310MHz faster than the A16, that is, 9%.
Compared with the two top desktop processors of Intel Core i9-13900K and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, A17 Pro is only 10% and 8% behind, and the latter two frequencies are as high as 5.8GHz and 5.7GHz respectively.
Of course, the multi-core performance of the A17 Pro is incomparable, 2+4 cores can not see the taillights of 8+16 24 cores and 32 threads, 16 cores and 32 threads, and the gap is still very large.
At this year's press conference, the official has indicated that the native versions of 3A masterpieces such as "Resident Evil 4: Remake" and "Death Stranding" will be confirmed to land in the series, and Apple also firmly believes that in such a hardware background, the iPhone 15 Pro series can provide game rendering effects and quality, which is the same as the effect on PCs and game consoles, and the new machine can still be connected to 4K displays.
In other words, the iPhone 15 Pro series has evolved into a host that users can carry with them, and the performance is not inferior to the current host, while the portability is better, and buying a mobile phone kills two birds with one stone.
In the words of Jeremy Sandmel, senior director of Apple's GPU, the iPhone 15 Pro series is currently the world's best gaming phone, and it looks like the "golden age" of Apple's gaming is coming.
At present, the specific data of the battery capacity of the iPhone 15 series has also been released, and the whole series has changed, but there is not much change, the 3349mAh battery equipped with the iPhone 15, as a comparison to the 3279mAh battery equipped with the iPhone 14. The iPhone 15 Pro changes even less, equipped with a 3274mAh battery, as a comparison to the iPhone 14 Pro's 3200mAh battery. The iPhone 15 Pro Max is equipped with a 4422mAh TV, as a comparison to the 4323mAh battery on the iPhone 14 Pro Max.
Overall, the iPhone 15 has increased by no more than 100mAh, but in the eyes of the official this is a big upgrade, the detail page comparison object is the iPhone 12 series, a bit of spring and autumn brushwork that means. In terms of speed, according to foreign media reports, the highest charging power of the iPhone 15 series model is the same as the previous generation, and the highest charging power is 27W (9V/3A)...
Although it is not so satisfactory in terms of charging power, the good thing is that the iPhone 15 is not encrypted as earlier rumors on the data cable or accessories, and the existing USB data cable and charger can be used normally on the iPhone 15.
However, the familiar "knife method" is coming again, the four models of the new machine data transfer speed gap is also quite large, iPhone 15/Plus only supports USB 2.0, the data transmission speed is up to 480Mbps, and the iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max supports USB 3.0, data transfer speed, up to 10 Gbps.
In terms of interface output, the iPhone 14 series with Lightning port has a maximum output of 300mW (3.3V/100mA), and after the iPhone 15 series changes to USB-C, the maximum output power reaches 4.5W (5V/0.9A), then the accessories of the new machine will be further enriched. In addition, the iPhone 15 Pro Max can also connect an external hard disk through a USB 4 full-function data cable, and the current test 16TB mobile hard disk can be recognized and read normally, without picking cables and hard disks.
This upgrade is very heavy, which means that the iPhone 15 Pro Max can directly plug an external hard disk to record 4K 60 frame video, which is more convenient to use as a creation device.
Next is the familiar "complaining session", after each generation of iPhone is released, various problems will follow, and this year is also the same. Shortly after the release of the iPhone 15 series, some netizens broke the news that the iPhone 15 Pro had problems such as color change and fingerprint adsorption. Judging from the newly exposed hands-on video of the real machine, first of all, there is a noticeable discoloration near the volume keys and operation buttons of the new machine, and it is said that the blue and black versions are more obvious.
The second is the problem of fingerprint adsorption, which is very easy to leave fingerprints during use. For friends with obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is obviously not very friendly. It is not clear whether this problem is related to the new titanium material, and Apple has not officially responded to this.
In any case, regardless of whether Apple's dominance in the domestic high-end mobile phone market has been weakened, at least for now, the iPhone 15 series is not "cold". At present, in addition to the three mainstream e-commerce platforms, there are many platforms such as Suning, Meituan, and Ele.me or announced support for pre-ordering new machines, and even Hema has sold the iPhone 15 series, focusing on the fastest 18-minute delivery.
However, this year's iPhone also has to face the biggest impact and challenge in recent years. In addition to the Huawei Mate 60 series of "the return of the king", there is also the Xiaomi 14 series that was promoted from the end of the year to the beginning of November, which should not be underestimated. So friends, which model did you choose in the end? I'll have to struggle with it this year.