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The iPhone 15 Pro Max is the quintessential Apple product, one in which the sum of several small improvements adds up to a terrific upgrade. And that’s especially true for those who waited three or four years—or more—to do so: Between its lighter body, smaller bezels, impressive Apple Silicon innards, full-featured camera system, configurable Action button, improved Dynamic Island, faster communications, and USB-C port, the new Pros are a big step forward for this mature smartphone family. And the iPhone 15 Pro Max is an even bigger step forward, thanks to an all-new telephoto lens with 5x optical zoom.
As a reviewer, I don’t usually get to wait long enough to appreciate these things. But I inexplicably opted to not review any new iPhones last year, which is unusual. And I had switched from the iPhone 13 Pro I had been using to the Pixel 7 Pro back in April, so my time apart from the iPhone was perhaps useful: While nothing is ever perfect, the iPhone 15 Pro Max comes tantalizingly close. It addresses some of my previous key concerns, which is obviously welcome. But it has also provided some unexpected and delightful moments that speak to Apple’s relentless push for quality.
Design
From a distance, the iPhone 15 Pro Max doesn’t look all that different from the iPhone X that debuted in 2017, and the bug-eyed three-lens camera system design on its rear looks much like that on the iPhone 11 Pro Max from 2019. But get a bit closer, put your hands on the iPhone 15 Pro Max, and you will immediately see and feel the difference.
First and most obviously, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is noticeably lighter than its curiously dense predecessors. That’s thanks to the move to titanium instead of the heavier stainless steel used by the previous two generations of Pros, and it’s a significant and quite welcome improvement. That said, while the band that runs along the sides is subtly brushed for a bit of differentiation, the finish of the back of my “Natural Titanium” iPhone 15 Pro Max is a dull matte gray color. It is nothing like the sandstone beige shown in Apple’s product shots, which was a bit disappointing, though I will never see it anyway, as I always protect this expensive device in a protective case.
Display
Apple loves its fancy brand names, and the iPhone 15 Pro Max, with its Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion, nails it in the display category. But cut through the marketing, and you’ll find a stunning and wonderfully flat 6.7-inch OLED panel with a resolution of 1290 x 2796 (460 PPI), rounded corners, a non-skinny 19.5:9 aspect ratio, and HDR10 and Dolby Vision capabilities.
The ProMotion in that name is Apple’s way of saying that it supports not just high refresh rates (up to 120 Hz), but also variable refresh rates that adapt on the fly as needed, which helps spare battery life. The display gets incredibly bright—1000 nits or, with HDR content, 1600 nits indoors and 2000 nits outdoors—and if anything, it can almost be too bright, especially in low light.
Hardware and specs
Apple has long enjoyed performance and efficiency advantages over its Android-based rivals, but the iPhone 15 Pro Max extends this lead with the A17 Pro, which Apple describes as its first true Pro-class chipset. It’s a 3-nm design, a 64-bit CPU with two high-performance cores and four efficiency cores that offers a minor performance advantage over its predecessor, the A16 Bionic. But it’s the GPU that puts the word “Pro” in its name: This is a “brand new” (according to Apple) six-core design, with support for hardware accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading, and it provides a 20 percent performance boost over its 5-core predecessor. More on that in a moment.
The A17 Pro in the iPhone 15 Pro Max also provides a 16-core Neural Engine (NPU) for accelerated AI and machine learning (ML) activities, though Apple is mostly silent on the best
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