Apple iPhone 15 Pro review – Review

It is the first iPhone to deposit a Lightning port and be updated, providing flexibility to users. Apart from that, there are other improvements in the camera, design and ‘guts’.
After using the iPhone 15 Pro for some time, here’s our take on Apple’s flagship phone of the year.

The first big change appears from the moment we hold the device in our hands. It’s about 20 grams lighter (now 221 grams), thanks to this year’s preferred construction material: titanium replacing stainless steel in last year’s model. The dimensions remain similar but are slightly smaller (159.9 x 76.7 x 8.3 cm), so one-handed use is a little easier. The four curves and flat sides remain unchanged, maintaining the design philosophy of the company’s last few models.

There weren’t many changes to the back, apart from the materials. Sure, it’s nice to the touch and doesn’t slip as much as we expected, but it’s pretty certain the phone will always wear a case – it remains IP68 certified for water and dust protection. In the upper left corner is the now classic camera piece, with rounded corners and transparent material, housing three lenses.
On the right side is the power button, but on the left is a surprise. Instead of a mute button, there’s now an action button, which is as simple as the two volume buttons below it. The action button offers something more useful than muting, or at least, for those who have their iPhone on silent mode almost all the time. On the same side there is a SIM card slot.

The action button is useful, as we’ll see in more detail later, but by design it could be more intuitive to use. As it stands, it’s indistinguishable by touch from the volume rocker, so until we got used to its presence we thought twice about which button to press.

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