Compare the New iPhone Models

Dynamic Island as a product feature - chef's kiss. Never has a dead area on your screen been marketed so perfectly.

Apple always been the best at selling “it’s a feature, not a bug”. Remember iPod shuffle ?

What is it? It's the fourth listed feature, and even the 'learn more' page doesn't say wtf 'dynamic island' means.

It's a bizarre page really, the entire top section is:

> 6.5" / 6.9"

[Makes sense so far.]

> Super Retina XDR display1

They're proud of the resolution, whatever it actually is, though only know that because they've used 'retina' for years, and Super & XDR sound high tech and better.

> ProMotion technology

Maybe something to do with motion blur of videos?

> Always-On display

That sounds... Undesirable? But presumably it must just mean it's faster to wake up or something?

> Dynamic Island

Absolutely no idea.

Dynamic Island is Apple’s version of the notch. Instead of being attached to the top of the screen, it’s a pill-shaped cutout (actually, two pill-shaped cutouts) and a bunch of software to make those two pill-shaped cutouts act like one cutout that can display contextual information while hiding the fact that there’s a cutout. You can tell what I’m talking about if you look at a photo.

As for the others:

> Always-on Display: The display will show the current time when the phone is sleeping - it uses less power than it would on an LCD phone because of OLED.

> ProMotion: 120 Hz refresh rate, but only when Low Power Mode is off and the app requests it (e.g. games). So basically VRR (in fact, it is actually VRR under the hood)

Remember it? I'm listening to one now.

World's best unitasker.

How is it Apple’s version of the notch when Apple invented that too. I actually perfer a notch over the island. My 13 pro is going strong, but the regular has me very intrigued.