It almost feels like the iPhone 12 was the last generation before a substantial jump in Apple’s phones. Is it time to finally upgrade three years later?
With phones lasting longer and new generations generally offering small improvements over the previous ones, the time which we spend with one phone before buying another has increased throughout the years. That being said, if we are talking about comparing the from three years ago to the just-announced , than upgrading sounds like a sound choice to make.We are here to pit these two iPhone models against each other and see how much Apple has improved its entry-level flagship in the last few years. Spoiler alert! The it might look like it is a very similar phone, but the is better almost everywhere across the board, from its highly improved camera system to its faster and more power-efficient chipset, and more.Let’s take a closer look.
Even though the came out three years ago, there aren’t any drastic changes with the . Well, with a couple of exceptions. The more obvious one is, of course, the death of the notch as we know it, which is now replaced by the Dynamic Island that debuted with the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max.The second change is less noticeable in comparison, and funnily enough, is also a type of « death » — no more Lightning port. Yes, you heard that right, we have all lived to see the day Apple replaces the ancient Lightning Port with the more universal USB-C.Apple has also included a new USB-C to USB-C braided cable with the , which we expect to be more durable than the rubberized USB-C to Lightning one that came with the iPhone 12.Besides these two alterations, the glass back panel now has a matte finish to it, so we expect it to feel differently in the hand compared to the glossy back of the .Apple puts top-notch (no pun intended) displays on its phones, especially since the series, but there is still room for improvement. The new base iPhone still sports a maximum screen refresh rate of just 60Hz, which is disappointing when compared to some of the Android options out there in the same price range.
