Apple iPhone 14 And iPhone 14 Plus Review: Minor Upgrades For A Worthy Contender

The Apple iPhone 14 is the least expensive current iPhone you can buy—and that $200 savings over an iPhone 14 Pro is its main appeal. It’s the first iPhone to consider if you don’t want to splash out on an iPhone 14 Pro and don’t need the three cameras or always-on display the extra money buys. The iPhone 14 is a worthwhile contender, even if its external design appears largely the same as last year’s model. Inside, it is an all-new handset. The larger iPhone 14 Plus—the first 6.7-inch iPhone introduced without the corresponding price bump that comes with being a Pro model—shares those new internal guts of the standard iPhone. Now, the biggest iPhone is accessible to many more pockets.

The iPhone 14 starts at $799 and has a 6.1-inch display, the same size as on the iPhone 14 Pro. Its processor makes a lateral move, coming up to the standard iPhone from last year’s iPhone 13 Pro. This year’s model also gets a refreshed main camera and noticeably improved front camera.

The iPhone 14 Plus starts at $899, $100 more than the standard 14 and has a larger 6.7-inch display, the same as found on the $1,099 iPhone Pro Max. Aside from its larger size, larger battery and higher price, the Plus matches the regular iPhone in features and design, including that processor from the iPhone 13 Pro.

New to all of this year’s iPhones are a handful of features like improved computational photography, the ability to detect that you’ve been in a car crash, enhanced video stabilization and even the ability to send emergency messages via satellite. Read on for my take on whether the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus are worth the rather substantial investment