iPhone 15 Plus vs iPhone 14 Pro Max - Which To Buy?

so what is up guys Nick here helping you to master your technology and welcome to the iPhone 15 plus versus the iPhone 14 pro Max comparison video we're going to discuss the value of each and which to buy this is always a question I think a lot of people might have every year should I just get this last year Pro Max or should I go with the current plus model because honestly speaking they're both around the same price point now for the colors you can get this in this black color option here they also have a couple other ones like the pink the blue the yellow but they have more of a pastel white color on the back kind of like my green iPhone 15 over here I'll show you in a minute let me grab this green 15 and I'll show you what the other colors look like so they do have like this light color on the back and then you'll see the actual color of the other 15 there now the iPhone 15 Pro Max or 14 pro Max have you does come in this space black which actually funny enough looks just like the new M3 MacBook Pros you can also get this in a silver a gold and a deep purple and so you know picking this up it still feels very premium we do have ourselves the stainless steel edges here and uh just Hefty it just feels like a tank whereas this one feels like a lightweight comfortable ergonomic everyday phone to hold now from a price standpoint both of these do come in in at around the same price point um the iPhone 15 plus can be found now around $8.99 929 without a car without a carrier deal if you're buying it unlocked and it could go up well past a th000 depending on the storage you go with now the iPhone 14 pro Max now is not officially available at Apple stores but some carriers still have to get rid of some old stock so there still is some available and they typically go for around the same price now used you'll be able to find the iPhone 14 pro Max pretty close if not under the price of an iPhone 15 plus but the iPhone 14 pro Max will give you a definitely a third camera here so that might be an upgrade for you and potentially better resale value still in the long term because the premium phones typically hold their value stronger when it comes to trade-ins so that's something to keep in mind as well okay so when it comes to the build and the body the iPhone 14 pro Max feels heftier it feels like a more premium phone and it definitely feels thicker to hold the iPhone 15 plus is a more comfortable light model this weighs only 201 G on the scale so this thing is super light and at the corners when you are using this phone it just feels smoother to touch in the hand um also it does bring the new USBC which is potentially the deciding factor right there if you want to use USBC you have to go with the iPhone 15 plus uh but yeah just at these edges it just feels really smooth comparatively to the iPhone 14 pro Max and right here the bezels are actually about the same so they didn't really get a big reduction on the plus you can see it looks about the same on the iPhone 14 pro Max now at 240 G you really feel this thing in the pocket it feels quite heavy and both do have ip68 dust and water resistance but after using these iPhone 15s for only about a month I got to tell you man this lightning Port feels it definitely feels old at this point so if you are looking at um getting a newer iPhone charging standard you'll want the newer 15 plus and I'm not really missing the fingerprints to get picked up on the stainless steel but if you're looking for more durability I do think the 14 pro Max is where it's at the 14 pro Max is built essentially like a tank okay so when it comes to their designs there's not really anything to speak of they look like the exact same phone unless you flip them around then you know the triple camera is the more premium phone I think if you have a K on some people wouldn't know if you have the 15 Pro max if you have the 14 pro Max but they also wouldn't know if you have the 14 plus or the 15 plus from the back so Apple sticking with basically the same designs but let me know do you like the matte black more or the space black which one are you more into I feel like this is more like a graphite color closer to graphite with more of a black on the stainless steel which I quite liked um and the matte black is pretty stealthy so I quite like both but yeah from just a pure but yeah from a pure look standpoint design Wise It's essentially the same look so I wouldn't uh say either is better here um I would just say that pick it based on which one feels more comfortable the size and the weight that's really well it's mostly the weight they're the same size so it's the weight and ergonomics that's what you're going to be picking on between these two so I would encourage you to feel both of them out if possible before purchasing so there hasn't been really any wins yet for either phone but the first one that's going to be a win is going to go to the 14 pro Max and that's in the display now while they do retain about the same resolution on both the same brightness there's a difference here the iPhone 14 pro Max has always on display so for the same money you can get this always on display feature that you would typically find in the 15 Pro Line there you go the next one is that it's promotion so it's smoother buttery smooth in fact and this alone could make the difference in your decision the iPhone 15 Pro Max has a more premium display and that's just the bottom line so for the same money if you want a more premium display the 14 pro Max is where it's at now the iPhone 15 plus is an upgrade over last year's 14 plus in a display Department because it now gets brighter this thing can actually hit 2,000 nits of brightness just like this phone and both of do have the ceramic Shield um the bezel is again not reduced like on the 15 Pro Max but you do have the same aspect ratio the same resolution at 460 pixels per inch and so for me oh I was touching the screen over here preventing it from moving but the 15 plus over here definitely a really nice display as well you can't really go wrong either and one of the major upgrades for the base models is that you now have the dynamic Island however this is just really tough to say get the 15 plus in this area there's no way I could recommend the 15 plus over the 14 pro max if one of the main things you you know Crave in your next upgrade is a better display this is hands down the one you should pick the 14 pro Max now from my experience using both of these software is the same but it feels choppier on 60 HZ so iOS just feels smoother again due to the smoother refresh you'll find on the iPhone 14 pro Max now some people don't care but it kind of adds up when you're using it throughout the day um it just kind of gives you a more consistently smooth experience on this phone and I'm not sure if you could see it right here but I could definitely see it the smoother look of iPhone 14 pro Max and so while the they both have the same chipset the iPhone 14 pro Max feels like a faster phone cuz it visually re refreshes faster and that also plays into gaming like if you're going to be buying one of these phones near 1,000 bucks and you're going to be doing any type of gaming on here you'll definitely enjoy what the iPhone 15 Pro Max or 14 pro Max has to offer over here so really I would say pick up the pick up the right the 14 pro max if you're looking for uh the better overall software experience um mostly because it feels smoother but if we go over to settings there is one enhancement to the iPhone 15 plus that really takes it to the next Notch over the iPhone 14 pro Max and it's mostly in the area of camera although neither of these do have the action button which is exclusive to the iPhone 15 Pro Models if we go over to cameras you'll see right here under cameras there is these formats where you can shoot on 24 megapixel now over here you can't do that but you do have the enhancements of pro raw uh PR reses so there are some Pro features that are still benefits over the iPhone 15 plus so they trade a little bit with those camera features but really the software is enhanced by promotion so I'd pick the iPhone 14 pro Max here considering they both have the same length of updates to come cuz they both use the same CPU and RAM now considering they both use use the same CPU they should have the same performance just about but again I can push home the promotion you will see a little bit of a smoother look and feel and my 15 plus will probably load a little bit quicker right now because I've had this 14 pro Max for over a year um so definitely it might load a few apps faster right now but overall it's not a big difference both these phones are going to be rocket performers in the day day to day so definitely this is not even something to talk about I'm going to just stop here so iPhone 15 plus or the iPhone 14 pro Max and the camera now clearly you could just see three and be like well I'll pick the iPhone 14 pro Max but that's not all there is to the story you have to think about how you use a camera um do you really need more than 10 times Zoom do you really need more than two times zoom and if you really like the colors or you really like the 15 plus I I think this is a nice upgrade and somehow I think it's with the new upgrades to the algorithm software and stuff like that the the way it processes photos after the fact actually yields better results than the iPhone 15 Pro Max um so the the pictures just look a little bit better however if you do want you know the ultrawide um macro shot if you do want three times Optical 15 digital you want more zoom you want the pro raw stuff but you don't want the pay the price of the 15 Pro Max I think you should go with the 14 pro Max but that's really just about it everything else the front-facing camera um the rear camera just if you're using the basic cameras the videos get the 15 plus I think it takes better it gets better results um when you're not shooting on anything past the optical lenses um of course though the macro lack of a macro mode is quite annoying especially if you like macro photography and they can both do 4K 60 and the front-facing cameras are quite the same as well cinematic video on both and that new portrait mode where it kind of detects the face is pretty cool you could do that after the fact on the iPhone 15 plus so definitely the 15 plus has its strengths as well um but I would say literally if you're setting this thing up on a tripod and using the extra zoom and the extra ex raw that's when you should pick the iPhone 15 or 14 pro Max but if you're looking for just the overall better results and easier to use camera I would pick the iPhone 15 plus in this scenario now from the perspective of battery life we are looking at a little bit of a larger battery here for the iPhone 15 plus so the 15 plus should actually yield you better results it's pretty close in the size though but I find the 15 plus to get a little bit better battery life that's probably due to um the 60 HZ panel it's probably one of the best battery life phones I've seen ever for iPhone on the iPhone 15 plus this one's not bad but the 14 pro Max never was my favorite it's pretty much an all day phone and it has gotten better on the latest updates but um the top king of battery life is the 15 Pro Max however these are both really good and they're both strong throughout the day but I would say if you're looking for the better pick here for for battery straight up it's going to be the iPhone 15 plus now surprisingly the audio actually gets louder on the iPhone 15 plus we are looking at around 3 or 4 DB louder on the speaker that's what I found in my testing so if you want the louder audio it's the iPhone 15 plus uh the call Quality reception strength that stuff is about the same and this one is not no weak Boy either but it's just slightly less loud than that of the iPhone 15 plus so if you are looking for a little bit of a louder speaker I would tend to lean you towards 15 plus the resale value is something I would definitely say go with the 14 pro max if you're looking to sell the phone later I think the more premium phone will net you a higher tradein and higher value in the future than the 15 plus that's the only con I would say of the plus models is they tend to drop in value faster because the companies that are giving you the trading values no this is not the top dog phone and that hurts its overall value when you go to resell it now both of these are equipped with emergency SOS features however the 15 plus introduces the roadside assistant update as well so if you think you're going to need that hopefully you never do the 15 plus is a little bit better here as well just a little so hopefully if you already have roadside assistant services like AAA or something like that you probably wouldn't even care about that but at the same time it has that upgrade it's a little bit of a jump nothing major but both of them do have this amazing emergency SOS feature which will detect crashes and stuff like that and send rescue agents out to you or you know police Personnel you people just to help you both of them will just really do a great job with that so at the end of the day which one is the better value which one would I say is worth going for and I think it's um very very close here but I would say if you're paying straight up cash outright I do think the 14 pro Max is the better pick um it just has more premium features it has almost everything this phone has similar battery life Dynamic Island it was the original with Dynamic Island more camera it just feels like um like you're getting more for what you're paying but if you're doing a carrier subsidy you're paying monthly you don't keep your phone forever or you're doing a trade and you're getting a big discount or you just really want the lightweight you want the the nice feel the pink color stuff like that the 15 plus has its pros and in those cases I would pick the iPhone 15 plus especially if you like a lighter weight larger phone that could be the deciding factor for you there as well so whatever you found yourself leaning more towards in this full comparison video I would steer you towards that phone so if you found yourself leaning more towards the lightweight go with this if you find yourself leaning more towards I want the pro features I want the top dog I want the better resale go with the 14 pro Max so I hope that helped you out to make your decision between these two if you found this video helpful entertaining informing do me a favor click the like button for me if you haven't subscribed subscribe to the channel for more I'll catch you all in the next one Nick here be sure to be well and peace

Channel: Nick Ackerman

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Length: 16min 24sec (984 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 02 2023