Apple’s iPhone 14 gets a Plus size, improved cameras; starts at $799
Today at its first indoor, in-person product launch event since the pandemic began, Apple announced the new iPhone 14 lineup.
Like its predecessor, the basic iPhone 14 has a 6.1-inch OLED screen. But missing is the iPhone mini, the smaller one-handed model that was present in Apple's lineup for the previous two years. That phone didn't sell all that well, so the majority of consumers have spoken: Big phones are the way to go. Thus, Apple has replaced the mini with the iPhone 14 Plus, with a 6.7-inch screen—the same size as the recent iPhone 12 Max and iPhone 13 Max. Apart from that, though, the specs and features are the same across the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus.
If you were hoping for a big year-over-year specs bump, you'll be disappointed. Both iPhone 14 models have Apple's A15 Bionic system-on-a-chip, the exact same chip found in last year's model. As a result, big performance improvements are probably not in the cards here. (That said, some early leaks suggested these new phones have more RAM than their 2021 counterparts.) The chip has five GPU cores, like last year's iPhone Pro, six CPU cores, including two high-performance cores and four efficiency ones, and a 16-core neural processing unit.
