𝟵𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗶𝗣𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟭 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱! 🇮🇪 𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲!🔥

The beating heart of the Pros, and also the 11, is Apple's new A13 Bionic chip. Its two performance cores are up to 20 per cent faster and, perhaps more importantly, use up to 30 per cent less power than the performance cores in the old A12 Bionic chip.

The new GPU is up to 20 per cent faster and uses up to 40 per cent less power than the A12. Its Neural Engine, for machine learning tasks, is up to 20 per cent quicker using up to 15 per cent less battery than before.

These savings result in proper, real-world battery bumps: the iPhone 11 Pro lasts four hours more than iPhone XS, and iPhone 11 Pro Max lasts five hours more than iPhone XS Max. Of course, it still depends on what you do with the Pros as to how they drain power – but be assured they do last longer than the last lot. The Max in particular will see you right all day practically whatever you do it.

More power is lovely and all, but I'm still most excited to see what Apple does with the new embedded ultra-wideband U1 chips for spatial awareness (Apple calls it "GPS at the scale of your living room"). It should go far beyond making AirDrop file-sharing "directionaly aware", and could truly be revolutionary. Time will tell.

Verdict

So are the Pros the best iPhones yet? Yes. They have the bells and whistles the 11 doesn't have, but such additions are few. The new A13 chip, the spatial U1 chips, the bulk of the new camera abilities and more are in all iPhone flavours.

The fact that the Pros are the best iPhones also doesn't mean in any way they are the best smartphones out there. What these considerable improvements from Apple do is bring the iPhones up to date with the existing top of the market.

For example, Huawei introduced the triple-camera setup with an ultra-wide angle lens on its Mate 20 series in October 2018. Samsung followed with its Galaxy S10 and Note 10 launches in February and August this year. Huawei's P30 Pro can last two days of regular use, somewhat pouring cold water on Apple's battery life improvements of one to five hours.

But you don't care about this, do you? You're not at all interested in switching from Android to iOS. You'd rather eat your own feet. So really your choice is down to which iPhone to go for. If you have your sensible head on, considering you get nearly all the kit for as much as half the price, you should clearly go for the standard 11. If you simply must have a Pro, because, well, it's a Pro, then go for the normal Pro and avoid the Max, you'll save both your pocket and wallet some extra pounds. But you don't care about that either, do you?