iPhone 15 How NOT to Order

So the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro, well, it just got announced yesterday, big fanfare, you know, usual Apple event

People get excited for new iPhones. I was talking to Mo about it. We're watching, we're like, wow, iPhone 15, 15 times we've done this

I mean, it's changed a little bit as far as these keynotes are concerned, but 15 times

Anyway, a lot of people are interested and want to know, hey, which one should I buy and which one should I not buy

Or at least which one is best for me? What is the preference and so forth

Now, I can't necessarily know. Like, I don't know exactly what your needs are

But I'm going to go through the ordering process in order to determine some of the things I think are like a better value

These are very expensive phones. And of course, we've seen all the memes

people saying oh it's the same phone over again well listen it has usb type c all right and that's

already a big enough improvement for me to get interested plus i like titanium titanium's cool

look look i don't know you decide what you want to do with your own two grand or 1500 or whatever

it is but let's go through the ordering process and find out what i like and what i think you

should and shouldn't pay for so the first thing you're going to see obviously is the decision

between the 15 Pro and the 15. Now, I'm just going to go out and say it

I think for a lot of people, the 15 represents the better value for money, especially if you haven't upgraded in a while and you've been resistant because of cost

So let's go ahead and first look at the pricing on the 15. Pre-orders are starting at 5 a.m. on 9-15

You'll be watching this video before that, and then they'll ship on 9-22

So pricing on the iPhone 15 starts at $799. Of course, Apple is also going to show you, you can pay it off over a couple of years

That's the number one thing I don't recommend you do. Don't pay it off over 24 months

If they're writing years and months, you know that they're probably trying to finesse you a little bit

So just avoid that. Pay it up front if you can. Trade in your old model

I'll get to that in a second because there's probably ways to actually get more money for your old model

if you can skip out on some of the convenience. So 15 or 15 plus 6.1 inch display versus 6.7

This is kind of a big gap. This is a substantial difference in your pocket

I think the regular size is going to actually be optimal for the majority of people

unless you are looking for enhanced battery and a slightly better multimedia experience

Otherwise, these things are fairly interchangeable. So I'm gonna say if you go 15

go baseline. Get in there for $799 because you're looking for value for money

And well, if you were looking for value for money, I don't know that you'd be looking at an iPhone

But if you're looking for value for money in an iPhone, then I think the baseline iPhone 15 is kind of the way you want to go

Now, the next step is what kind of color should we get if we are going for baseline

You know me, I would likely go for black, but that is way too boring of a selection

So I'm gonna go for this nice new blue, which is almost white and kind of confusing

It's gonna look something like this right here. For the do not buy things to avoid I probably gonna pick the yellow Sorry yellow I mean you barely yellow anyways so I haven even really even I don know what or who I could offend

I'm not sure that anyone I've talked to is a huge fan of this color

It's not really vibrant enough to even call itself yellow. It's more like urine

Oh my god. In fact, if you're talking about, like, this is a relatively healthy urine because it's lacking pigment

dehydrated urine may have been a better color than this type this color of urine the green i don't

mind either but for me i'm going to say go ahead and go for the blue or the black those would be

my preferences now when it comes to storage this is a topic of conversation here in the studio

we have our ongoing debates over what is the right amount of storage and then how much do you want to

have in the cloud what are you actually doing on the phone are you storing a lot of video and

multimedia because that can eat up your storage and then bandwidth i suppose if you're constantly

uploading and so forth so maybe i mean this is kind of a cop-out but probably the middle ground

is where you want to be spend the hundred more get the 256 over the 128 the 512 i think gets a

little crazy going up to 1100 bucks i don't think i'm going to recommend max storage in either of

these, at least for my personal usage, I find it, I personally am satisfied with cloud-based storage

for most things. Where I would run into storage issues is if I was using one of these for content

creation, where the vast majority of the footage I shot would be on one of these phones, then maybe

we can talk about 512 in this case, or even the one terabyte on the Pro model, but that's just not

my workflow. I use cameras for the majority of like production. So the majority of footage is

being offloaded and sitting on cards and drives and so on. So it's not such a big deal. But this

is a very personal thing. However, I'll recommend the middle ground of 256. Now let's talk about

trade ins because Apple does want your trade in. However, they don't want your trade in if it isn't

an existing iPhone. I thought this was kind of funny as you look at the website here. It's like

oh, you have an iPhone 14 Pro Max? Do you have an iPhone 14 Pro? That'll be up to 570

Maybe you've only got an iPhone 8. We'll give you 60 bucks for it

But you get to the very bottom and it says, oh, we have some other options

We have some S22s. We have some Pixels. They're like, okay, those have a little bit of value to us

They have a OnePlus 10T for 70 bucks. That's kind of strange addition

but I like the one at the bottom. Other, recycling, not one of these. we'll take care of that for you we'll chuck it right in the bin i would say in most of these

cases you can get more money for your device than what they're offering like the 14 pro max for 650

talk about a drop off however this is a convenience thing so if i were to say head over to ebay

iphone 14 pro max now obviously there's a lot of people selling these right now but you can see

some of the pricing still I mean this was got 80 this is 81 bids 810 bucks we

head back over to Apple site and you look at the same model up to 650 and that

auction was still going on so you probably gonna get closer to a thousand this is no kind of revelation like you probably already know this but if you all about convenience you could do your trade directly on their website Now the other thing to keep in mind

you get almost nothing in the box anymore other than the device and the charge cable

Now, the nice thing this year is you are going to get a USB-C charge cable

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with your new iPhone 15. First off is this little guy. This is the Nano Pro charger, and look how tiny that is

This is about the same size as Apple's old five-watt power adapter

and it's providing 20 watts of power. Apple's old form factor matching this

which was like five watts of power, charged faster for a cheap price

and in something that basically fits into your pocket. So this is a 5,000 milliamp hour power bank

that just plugs into the bottom of your new USB-C iPhone. How sick is that

22.5-watt capable power bank. So fast charging power bank. So then you've got this in-out port on the side

so we can charge up the power bank itself or charge other devices via this port

And the whole thing folds down. So look how pocketable that nice little Type-C unit is

Of course, this is cross-platform. Since we're USB Type-C, We're now plugging in to our Samsungs and our Pixels and well, even our iPads because they were already on Type-C

Maybe you want a little bit more power. Plus, it seems like you can just hang it up

Look how genius the little design will. You hang it off something, don't you

And then Anchor has other stuff for nice little desktop charging stations

You know about Anchor. They've got something for everyone. And now even more so for iPhone users since we can say goodbye to the lightning stuff

All right. So let's talk about the Pro model, which is going to be, it's going to be my iPhone of choice

So I gave you like a little bit of criteria for purchasing the non-Pro and sort of what I would do in that case

But for me personally, the way to order is to get the 15 Pro

And the reason I say for me personally is because I put a huge emphasis on the camera components and using these things for shooting photos and shooting video

And that's why I got to go all the way to the Pro Max this time around

Yes, they're a little bit large. Not for everyone. Great for multimedia

Battery life has been pretty good on many recent generations of iPhone

I expect the same thing to happen here. We're up to $1,200 now to start, and we're into this kind of scale right here, 6.7 inches

That'll be $50 a month for two years. Again, careful with the payment program over there, you know

If you only got $50 in the bank right now, don't buy a $1,200 phone. Just an opinion

I don't know. I'm just saying. Put $50 into Apple stock because they're going to sell a few

with it. Alright so the colors over here they're more subtle I don't know

sophisticated I don't really know what you want to call them there's been a lot of talk about these options and how nothing is vibrant enough I don't know

this one's actually easy for me and it's that's weird because I expect it to just

pick up the black titanium and call it a day but I gonna flip it I gonna flip it around I gonna flip it upside down I gonna go with natural titanium and call it a day but I going to flip it I going to flip it around I going to flip it upside down I going to go with natural titanium And the reason being is because we

have this new material now, and this showcases the fact that it's that new material the best

If you appreciate material science and you love the attributes of titanium, then I want to be

reminded on a regular basis that my brand new $1,500 phone is made of titanium. Like

oh, I paid for something. It's glass. It's titanium. It still watches YouTube and

I respond to messages on it. It's titanium and glass. $1,500. It matches your ultra watch

If you're Mo running around in circles around the office training for a marathon

So I'm going to go for the titanium, natural titanium model. I get to the storage here

And honestly, for me, because everything is so cloud and I'm not shooting a feature film, I can get away with the 256 in this regard

I think 128 is cutting it way too tight. But I can get away with 256

The safer bet is 512. That's 200 more bucks. And then one terabyte takes it to $1,600, which is just like, all right

you got to know that you want it i think a lot of people that will step up to that are just those

that want to have the maximum spec and never have to worry about anything and this is back into the

category of like is this a production tool for you i don't know how many people are living in that

in that universe where they're shooting pro res on their iphone 14 pro max or upcoming 15 pro max

but if you if you are shooting pro res and raw then this is going to take up a lot more space

and all of a sudden the storage conversation is gonna get a little bit different. This is not something that I do on the phone

on a regular basis. It's fun to play with from time to time

but if you were doing it on a regular basis, you would quickly run out of storage. So that's another consideration

So things to avoid, I think maxing it out. I would say maxing it out would be a thing to avoid

I would say avoid buying Apple's first party chargers. I would say if you go with the iPhone 15 regular

go for the base and just up the storage ever so slightly and maybe pick this cool new blue color

And if you go for the 15 Pro, maybe take the max for the added camera functionality

with the extra reach on the zoom. Probably don't sell your old one to Apple

if you can put up with the hassle of selling it privately and probably avoid that new yellow color

iPhone 15, another year, another iPhone. Is it necessary? No, don't feel left out

These are small incremental improvements every year now. When I sit and watch the keynote and I go

oh, here we are on number 15. What does it do? It still does roughly the same things

for a number of generations now with slight incremental improvements. If you don't think you need an upgrade

you probably don't. And I don't think you should stress too much about not having the 2G sitting around

or the 1 grand or whatever it happens to be. These are just my opinions

Obviously, you have to do you, as you've heard the phrase, you know you better than anyone else

But those are just my takes. That is my take. And when this pre-order opens up, I'll be ordering a natural titanium 15 Pro Max with 512 storage