Apple iPhone 14 (128 GB) – Yellow

About the phone
Apple phone without a second delay, I would say it is better than all android phones I have used. The phone is like water, it flows in a way you want and shaping in your way. In a best way possible, the phone is designed to only show what the user wants and eliminating unnecessary ads, features that I have seen in android.

Why it is better than Android?
You pay too much money for Apple products, obviously you experience the features, physical components , camera lens etc. Apart from basic things, you can also enjoy the best applications available in app store. If you are a developer you might know the app store policy for application publish and their security posture towards handling payment apps etc. They publish best application and the way the apps, its modules switches is just flawless. Due to the so called strict policy of privacy program with Apple products, iPhone can pop up a box in your screen if any apps wants to track your activity with other applications. +1 respect for apple to show such concern with user.

Apple phones are same ? like 13 vs 14
The reason 14 is same as 13 may be business practice followed from 11th edition. But please note that iPhone making changes internally like physical components (small change in battery performance, lens in 14 edition), additional features but that may not satisfy you to buy 14 edition. If you do not find “the very few changes” interesting in 14, go for 13. Because physical and even cameras are not visually very much different in 13 vs 14 comparison. Also you get 13 for cheap 🙂
14 is just added features but that is not for daily use, the features real time use is rare case. But the best part is there is no extra cost between 13 vs 14 prices (except extra 10k slash)

Concern you must have.
Apple is not giving chargers and their silicon cases are very expensive (but very good in touch and scratch friendly in back due to silk layer). This is an issue for sure. You have to buy charger not coming with USB C and claiming that you help carbon footprint, understandable but not customer friendly business model. Even after the purchase I had to spend at least 7k for charger and case.

Apple care.
I am not buying it, I pay for phone which is already expensive for this premium and apple care does have strict policy that if you understand that is waste. Instead I find a private insurance to make things better.

It is just a review from my side so that its good for you to know before buying rather than regretting later.

Positives:
* Showoff
* Camera
* Sound
* Security (they say, bt that blocks so many accessibility options for me)
* So many awesome features as all iphone users say (which probably I will use once in a lifetime)

Negatives for me (You may like it):
1. No shortcut to change between vibration and no vibration frequently.
2. No end call button on the lock screen.
3. Call list is nonsense. It shows phone, whatsap and all other calls in same list.
4. Go to a specific contact in call history n you can see only history of one day. Total length of call history is 100. Most probably you will not be able to find call history of previous week for a specific contact.
5. Need of Itunes to copy music from PC to phone.
6. No file manager like android where we can see and access complete folder structure.
7. No silent and vibrate mode notification on screen.
8. Need to buy separate adapter n earphones after already spending double.
9. Cannot remove torch icon in iphone14 from lock screen. You may end up switching it on unwillingly.
10. BT and WiFi shortcuts will just disconnect them. To turn off you need to go to Settings screen and turn it off again.
11. In so many places, either text or files, there is no Select All option. (I’m waiting for android users to get all pics received in whatsapp after a trip).
12. Takes a lot of time to get detected by devices when hotspot is on.
13. At some screen you get stuck and you will miss the back button.
14. Copy some mp3 files to your iphone and you will never be able to find it with default music app.
15. Every app will be either on lot of home screens or organised under some groups. You will never get a clean home screen with 2 or 3 most frequently used apps and all other apps in a swipe up menu like android.
16. No fingerprint sensor.

Adding to the list after using for 2 months:
17. Cannot turn off camera shutter sound in general mode.
18. No option to flag contact as spam/scam.
19. If you connect wireless BT device, it won’t show battery percentage of BT device.
20. You get a notification while using phone and you miss to open it, then you will not see it until you remember yourself to open notification screen. Notification icons won’t be pinned on top of the screen like Android.
21. If you use 2 SIM and want to switch mobile data between SIMs, there is no shortcut than going to Settings screen. Also, cannot see current amount of data used or left.

List goes on and on, try it yourself.. No iphone owner speaks about limitations. Some people like iphone for these and others hate it for these. If you can pay double and handle these adjustments with work arounds, go ahead. Once you unlock and give your phone to someone, or once you give access permissions to apps, even iphone is not most secure. Fr example, If you are driving and someone wants to use your phone for music/maps etc., then you have to give your password, because there is no fingerprint option and face recogniton feature will become dangerous option.

Excellent product. Have been using Apple for 8 years now.

Amazon Review-
Don’t buy from Amazon
Wanted to write down as I regretted every second of this purchasing experience. Pathetic delivery experience. Amazon took orders more that they could handle and the delivery associates cannot keep up. The system needs more transparency. If it was going to take time that could be mentioned and particular slot of 3-4 hours could be given instead of wasting 2 full days of my time. The whole system is either designed in a stupid way, or a fraudulent way, but not both.

A product worth 70k was roaring on the streets and no one knew where. Customer support telling it’s with delivery associate, delivery associates telling they have not been assigned this consignment. Customer support just keeping the calls on indefinite hold as they had no other answers.