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CHICO, Calif. – Former Chico State JJ Jakovac has made a name for himself as a caddy for some of the best golfers in the world.

Jakovac has been working with 4th ranked Collin Morikawa since 2019. When he gets on the course, he says it brings him back to his days as a Wildcat.

“What I definitely like best is still being able to feel the same feeling as when I was playing in big tournaments,” Jakovac said. “I don’t have to hit the punches, but you’re still invested in the moment you’re out there with a chance to win.”

Jakovac knows all about big tournaments. He won two NCAA championships at Chico State and won the Jack Nicklaus Award in 2004 as the best Division II collegiate player.

“I always said if I played knowing what I know now, I would want a good player to caddy for me,” he said. “It helps to be in the moments and to have experienced the pressure and the big tournaments.”

After graduating, Jackovac tried to turn professional for a few years before turning to the caddy. He worked with Ryan Moore for over seven years. In 2019, Jakovac found himself looking for a new opportunity.

“I got some advice from Paul Tesori, who is Webb Simpson’s caddy, and I really respect him,” he explained. “He told me not to take any job that comes your way but to wait for what you think is a bag forever.”

Enter Collin Morikawa, a promising talent at the time. Jakovac asked a friend to put him in touch with Morikawa’s agent. That same day, they were talking on the phone.

“That was it,” he said. “I left the following week for US Open qualifying in Ohio. We qualified for the US Open when we first met. That summer he took off and got his card and six starts on tour.”

All of this success doesn’t come without a lot of hard work. Jakovac spends hours alone on a course before Morikawa trains.

“I’m going to walk it, get the distances on the fairways, draw the green outlines in my book, check the distances,” he said. “Day of, I’ll get the hole locator sheet to see where the holes are cut that day. Recognize where you want to attack from where you don’t want to miss.”

Jakovac was alongside Morikawa when he won two major tournaments: the 2020 PGA Championship and the 2021 Open Championship. The caddy’s favorite memory was right after that Open victory.

“He told the crowd it was my birthday and 40,000 people sang happy birthday to me,” Jakovac beamed. “I told him afterwards, you spoiled me. You spoiled the rest of my birthdays for the rest of my life. It can’t be better than my life.”

By Adam Lucas

1. It’s going to be fun. Caleb Love’s Today’s announcement of his return for the 2022-23 season means all four eligible Iron Five members will be back for next season. This ensures the Tar Heels will be among the top three preseason picks by consensus for only the second time in the last ten seasons (the other was the 2015-16 season, when the Tar Heels started the season as a as best pre-season team in the country).

2. The schedule will probably suit the best team in the country. Carolina will play the Phil Knight Invitational in Portland Nov. 24-27, a 16-team stacked event that features two separate eight-team brackets. Half of Carolina’s squad, which has already been announced, includes Alabama, Iowa State, Michigan State, Oregon, Portland, UConn and Villanova (the women’s team in charge of Tar Heel will also compete in a four-team women’s event at the same location). The Heels are also likely due for a road game – in what is sure to be one of the showpiece games of the event – in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, and a destination and upcoming game in the CBS Sports Classic. Keep in mind that Hubert Davis also expressed a frequent preference for the Tar Heels to regularly play a game in New York.

3. A previous ACC announcement indicated that the three-year schedule matrix would repeat beginning with the 2022-23 season. If so, that should mean the Tar Heels will have home-and-away games with Notre Dame, Pitt, Virginia and Wake Forest. In this scenario, the Heels would have road games only with Florida State, Louisville, Syracuse and Virginia Tech, with home meetings only with Boston College, Clemson, Georgia Tech and Miami.

4. And, of course, this ACC regular season roster would be capped off with what should be an epic battle against Duke on a Saturday. If both teams play until preseason screenings, and given that this could be the last home appearance for some Tar Heel favorites, this could be one of the hottest Smith Center tickets over the course of the year. of the last decade.

5. The decisions of Armand Bacot and Caleb Love, in particular, highlight the new era of college basketball. It used to be that the decision to turn professional leaned heavily financially in favor of professional gaming. In 2022, however, the equation is quite different. The race to the 2022 national championship game and the storybook victory over Duke, combined with the new NIL rules, have catapulted Tar Heel players into a new marketing sphere. They took advantage of it, and it made their decision to come back easier.

6. As you think about next season – which we will probably be doing every day by mid-November – keep in mind that players and coaches have unanimously declared the presence of Brady Manek that’s what made the difference this year from a spacing point of view. We all know what the four returning starters can do. Ultimately, the success of the 2023 season could be determined by the improvements of the Tar Heel reserves who will compete for that starting fifth spot and the rest of the rotation, as well as the incoming freshmen. Dontrez Styles and Johnson puff both played a few key minutes in the 2022 tournament. Johnson’s three-point shot would be a major asset, and Styles possesses elite athleticism. Justin Mc Koy given Hubert Davis a taller body that can defend taller players inside, and D’Marco Dunn must make the frequent jump from the first to the second year.

7. Perhaps the biggest question will be the progress of Kerwin Walton, who stepped back in his second campaign after an encouraging first year. Walton needs to make significant improvements in defense and attack. But he has shown the ability to shoot from the outside at a productive ACC level, a skill that would make him a valuable asset if he can take the other steps.

8. And what about Tar Heel freshmen? Seth Trimble gets the immediate advantage of going against Caleb Love and RD Davis every day in training, a training ground that will make him much better in his save minutes and then in a much bigger role in his second year. If he’s healthy and ready to contribute, Jalen Washington may be playing the position that needs it the most, as he could give a big man some quality minutes. Tyler Nickel will experience a major competitive breakthrough, but Hubert Davis likes its competitiveness. And Go Shave made the wise decision to spend the spring semester training with the Tar Heels, and will have to continue to work hard with Jonas Sahratian to play meaningful minutes this season.

9. Because Someone Will Ask: The return of love means the Tar Heels are currently maxed out at 13 scholarships. This eliminates the need to chase players from the transfer portal.

10. Just a word of warning. There are no guarantees. It’s true that the Tar Heels are bringing back four key plays from one of the most fun tournaments of the 21st century. It’s as true as Hubert DavisThe evolution as a head coach and tactician has been one of the main reasons why Carolina has been so successful. But college basketball is now in a new era. The four players will essentially have three full-time jobs over the next 12 months: they will play a Division 1 sport at the highest level possible, they will be students and they will be a businessman who will market himself and his opportunities. NO. It’s something Phil Ford or Eric Montross or even Marcus Paige never had to worry.

How they balance those three functions and maintain the chemistry of the past month that made the 2022 team so dangerous will ultimately determine a lot for 2023. Much of the push to national title play proved everyone wrong. (you can find out more about that in the new book, Together, which goes to print this week and features new interviews with the five starting Tar Heels more Hubert Davis). There will be no doubt this pre-season. Expectations will be very different for 2023.

SSE Renewables revealed this week that actor Martin Compston has been hosted at the company’s Toddleburn Wind Farm to film a segment of an upcoming episode of ‘Martin Compston’s Scottish Fling’, which is currently airing on BBC Scotland and BBC Two across the UK.

During the visit, Compston and fellow presenter Phil MacHugh had the opportunity to view the top of one of twelve Siemens turbines located at the site between the villages of Heriot and Oxton in the Scottish Borders. SSE Renewables highlighted that the entire visit took place “under the watchful eye of the team” and revealed that film photography was carried out via drone, traditional television and Go-Pro cameras.

“It was great to receive such a warm welcome from the Toddleburn team. We had a lot of fun on this shoot, and I know Martin and Phil really enjoyed their day as well,” said David Marshall, executive producer of Martin Compston’s Scottish Fling, in a statement posted on the SSE website.

“The episode’s final play comes with a surprise moment for Phil that I’m sure everyone at SSE will enjoy watching. It was clear that everyone present’s priority was the safety of the presenters and the team and I want to thank the team for their outstanding professionalism,” added Marshall.

SSE Renewables Onshore Wind Regional Manager Roy Sloane, who oversaw filming with colleagues that day, said: “It’s wonderful to be able to show what we do in a different type of media than newspapers. commercial or local venues and to bring the work of SSE Renewables to a new audience”.

“We had a great day welcoming Martin and Phil to Toddleburn in April. It was something different from a normal working day and I know the crew enjoyed getting involved and helping with the filming,” he added.

“I am proud of the professionalism of our team. Safety was paramount throughout filming and I hope that will become apparent as colleagues watch the program,” he continued.

Throughout the BBC’s six-part series, presenters travel far and wide across Scotland, meeting different people and adventures along the way. The episode featuring SSE will first air on Thursday this week on BBC Scotland at 10pm and across the UK on BBC Two at 9.30pm on Friday.

Martin Compston’s Scottish Fling isn’t the only energy-related show Compston will be on this year, with an Amazon representative confirming to Rigzone last month that his series The Rig will be released later in 2022.

Amazon revealed a first look at the cast of its series The Rig in September last year. In addition to Compston, who plays communications agent Fulmer Hamilton in the series, The Rig stars Game of Thrones (GoT) stars Iain Glen, who played Ser Jorah Mormont in GoT, and Owen Teale , who played Ser Alliser Thorneon in GoT.

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Tecno has announced new smartphones as part of its Tecno Camon 17 series in the Indian market. The new devices carry the nicknames Tecno Camon 17 and Tecno Camon 17 Pro. They contain great features and are offered at affordable prices. The Camon 17 series is Tecno’s new bet for reach popularity in the competitive mid-range market in India.

Tecno Camon 17 Specifications

The Tecno Camon 17 displays a 6.8-inch Full HD + IPS LCD screen with a screen resolution of 2460 x 1080 pixels. It also has a brightness of 500 nits and a refresh rate of 90 Hz with a touch response rate of 180 Hz. Underneath the smartphone is the MediaTek Helio G85 chipset paired with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage. You can also expand the storage up to 256 GB via a microSD card.

The handset contains a quad rear camera with a combination of a 64 MP main camera, an 8 MP wide-angle sensor and two 2 MP shooters with a quad-LED flash. For the front there is a 16 MP AI selfie camera with f / 2.0 aperture and dual flash. In addition, the phone has an AI TAIVOS chip that helps improve low-light photographs.

The Tecno Camon 17 is powered by a 5000mAh battery and comes with an 18W fast charger. The device runs on HiOS v7.6, based on Android 11 and comes with Game Turbo 2.0. Other features include Dirac powered stereo speakers and an anti-theft alarm. The device also has 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.00, GPS, GNSS, dual SIM and USB Type-C port.

Tecno Camon 17 Pro Specifications

In terms of specifications, the Tecno Camon 17 Pro has a 6.8-inch Full HD + IPS LCD display with the same resolution of 2460 x 1080 pixels. This variant also offers a refresh rate of 90 Hz and a tactile response rate of 180 Hz. Under the hood, the smartphone contains an Octa-Core MediaTek Helio G95 processor as well as a Mali-G76 GPU. The phone is paired with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage.

In terms of optics, the handset comes equipped with a four-camera setup. It includes a 64 MP main camera, an 8 MP wide-angle sensor and two 2 MP shooters as well as a quad-LED flash. For the front, the handset has a 48 MP AI Selfie camera with f / 2.2 aperture and dual flash. In addition, the handset comes with a special TAIVOS AI chip that helps improve low light photographs. It also comes with Movie Master, 4K 0 FPS Clear Recording, Portrait Night Scene Video, and AI Smart Selfies.

The Pro variant is powered by a 5000mAh battery with a 33W fast charger. It runs Android 11 HiOS 7.6 and also offers stereo speakers tuned by Dirac. Other specs are similar to Camon 17 Vanilla.

Pricing and availability

The Tecno Camon 17 will cost INR 12,999 for the 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage (~ $ 175). The device has three colors – Frost Silver, Spruce Green and Magnet Black. The Pro variant with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage will cost INR 16,999 (~ $ 228) and is available in just one colourway – Arctic Down.

Ric Flair has wrestled at the Nashville Fairgrounds in the past, but that venue just isn’t big enough for him these days.

Flair, 73, announced in May that his final match would be July 31 at the historic fairgrounds as part of the Starrcast pro wrestling fan festival. Tickets sold out within 24 hours.

On Monday, officials said the event would move to the Municipal Auditorium, which is a larger venue (9,700-seat capacity), and additional tickets would go on sale Friday at 11 a.m.

Flair’s opponent and the rest of the event map have not been announced. The event will be broadcast on FITE.

“On July 31, I’m still going to walk down that aisle and that style and that profile like I can do,” Flair said. “But now (with) bigger crowds, brighter lights. The Nature Boy can’t wait to do what I do best. Woooooo!”

Additional tickets start at $39 and are available at RicFlairsLastMatch.com. Seats for current ticket holders will be honored and communication about the changes will be sent via email this week.

“Like so many times before, having Ric Flair’s name on the marquee rocks the wrestling world,” said David Crockett, president of Jim Croquet Specials. “On July 31, we look forward to giving fans in the Nashville Municipal Auditorium and our global audience an evening of pro wrestling they will never forget.”

On Thursday, Mayor John Cooper will declare July 31 Ric Flair Day in Nashville. The mayor will also announce that the property located at 500 Wedgewood Ave. for the weekend of July 29-31 will be known as Nashville FLAIRgrounds, in conjunction with the three-day event.

Former Tennessee State player and assistant Chelsea Hudson, who also served as an assistant at Pearl-Cohn, is the new coach at Panola College.

Hudson played at TSU from 2011 to 2015 and became the Tigers’ 11th all-time leading scorer. She led TSU to the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament Championship and an NCAA berth as a senior.

TSU’s Chelsea Hudson lands head coaching job

Former Tennessee State player and assistant coach Chelsea Hudsonwho was also an assistant to Pearl-Cohn, is the new coach at Panola College.

Hudson played at TSU from 2011 to 2015 and became the Tigers’ 11th all-time leading scorer. She led TSU to the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament Championship and an NCAA berth as a senior.

She returned to TSU as an assistant from 2019-21.

Hudson was an assistant at Panola from 2017 to 2019. She spent last season on the Tyler Junior College team.

Hudson was on the Pearl-Cohn staff in 2016-17 when the Firebirds went 25-5 and earned a berth in the Class AA state tournament.

I’Tavius ​​Mathers returns to MTSU as a graduate assistant

I’Tavius ​​Matherswho ended his playing career at Middle Tennessee State in 2016, returns as a graduate assistant.

As a running back, Blackman Mathers was the Tennessee Gatorade Player of the Year and the Tennessee Titans Mr. Football winner.

He rushed for 5,569 yards on 584 carries and scored 65 rushing touchdowns for his career at Blackman. He was the first running back in Rutherford County history to rush for 2,000 yards in 10 regular season games in 2010.

In three seasons at Ole, Miss Mathers rushed for 1,061 yards on 189 carries and scored seven touchdowns.

He was traded to MTSU for his senior season. He led the Blue Raiders with 1,561 yards on 232 carries and scored 17 touchdowns in 2016.

Mathers began his coaching career as an assistant at Blackman before joining Wilson Central and then returning to Blackman throughout the 2021 season.

West High and Austin Peay great Ronnie Fuqua dies at 73

Two-time Midstate Track Champion and 1967 Nashville Tennessean Interscholastic League Tracker of the Year Ronnie Fuqua of West High died on June 18. He was 73 years old.

Fuqua set the NIL record in the 440-yard dash at 50.2 seconds.

He was also a quarterback on West’s football team and made the 1966 All-NIL team.

He continued to play football where he moved on to running back and running track at Austin Peay.

From 1992 to 2004, Fuqua coached several sports at Clarksville High and in 2005 was named a football coach at Clarksville Academy.

Fuqua also worked as a TSSAA official for 40 years. He refereed college football games in the SEC and OVC for 16 years.

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In the office? Fully remote? Hybrid? The choice is yours: live your best life while helping us build the best business in the world.

GoPro recognizes that there is no single policy for work preferences. And as we roam our future worktops around the world, GoPro prioritizes employee preferences and flexibility to meet our talents where they are to enable them to live their best lives.

Our Founder and CEO, Nicholas Woodman, set the tone for GoPro’s working policies for the future:

GoPro fully supports its employees who wish to relocate for any reason, whether to pursue their passions, be closer to their family or otherwise. We proactively encourage our employees to relocate if it makes them happy and appreciated, as we believe that happiness leads to increased productivity and general well-being.

Additionally, we believe people should be paid for their expertise, no matter where they live. For this reason, GoPro employees will not suffer a pay cut if they choose to relocate.

GoPro is as good as its people, and we believe our employee-centric approach can help us attract and retain the best talent possible to help us take our business to new heights.

Since 2015, we have regularly surveyed our employees to get their feedback, understand levels of engagement and take action to seize key organizational improvement opportunities. As we navigate COVID-19, these investigations continue to serve an even more important purpose.

In response to the pandemic, GoPro employees began working from home in March 2020. In the months that followed, GoPro employees performed a camera launch, re-app launch, and hikers. GoPro subscription the heart of our product offering.

In addition to recognizing operational improvements and this consistent execution during the pandemic, employee data surveyed revealed that 85% of our team would prefer to work remotely at least three days a week. Given the data, GoPro management continues to support remote and hybrid work preferences.

We’re proud of the dedication, resilience and level of execution our team has demonstrated throughout the pandemic, and it’s clear that the flexibility of remote working isn’t just a temporary fix. It will be an essential part of GoPro’s DNA going forward.

Through surveys of businesses, we’ve also learned that many employees want the best of all worlds: the ability to work remotely when they want and need it, and the ability to travel to a physical space to connect with them. others. We are committed to supporting both options to foster work-life balance and a fulfilling career at GoPro.

Our philosophy also extends to salary practices, as we will not penalize employees by lowering compensation if they choose to relocate to an area with a lower cost of living. We believe that your skills, abilities and contributions to the business are more important than where you live.

That’s why we’ve decided that compensation for all US-based positions will be aligned with our California-based offices, with a similar regional philosophy extended to our global offices. Full stop, we believe that employee compensation should be determined by their contributions to the organization.

GoPro’s mission is to be a force for positivity, to celebrate all the great in the world, and to inspire people to lead active lives. Our work philosophy carries the same message, allowing employees to live the lifestyle they desire while being able to present themselves at work as the best versions of themselves, whether in a GoPro office, in the remote workspace of their choice, or a bit of both.

The New York Giants twice signed Pro Bowl tight end Kyle Rudolph early in free agency, but then learned he had to undergo surgery to fix a previously undiagnosed foot problem. Big Blue has nonetheless honored the terms of the two-year deal which could be worth up to $ 14 million, and Rudolph explained on Wednesday that he should be ready to go when the regular season begins in September.

“As far as football is concerned, I have been extremely fortunate that the Giants’ organization and everyone involved [caught it], and how they were able to handle my situation, that I won’t miss any football, “the 31-year-old said of the potential setback, per Pat Leonard from the New York Daily News. “At this point it’s about taking each day and seizing this opportunity not only to be healthy, but to improve myself. It’s one thing to be healthy, it’s one. other to be ready to go play in an NFL game. So I take that day by day. “

On being cleared by coach Joe Judge and company for the Week 1 showdown with the Denver Broncos on September 12, Rudolph added:

“I want to do everything to make sure that I get better every day, and whatever it is, it’s up to Joe, [offensive coordinator] Jason [Garrett], [director of rehabilitation] Leigh [Weiss] and everyone else involved. “

Much like star running back Saquon Barkley, who is work to recover ripped ACL he suffered on September 20 of last year, the Giants have no reason to rush a veteran like Rudolph onto the field for meaningless training camp sessions or exhibition contests if he’s less 100% during the summer months.

Apple is expected to start receiving 3nm chips from TSMC later this year, but they will arrive too late to be used in the iPhone 14 series which will be unveiled in less than six weeks. And once Apple starts using 3nm chipsets next year, you won’t find them in all iPhones until 2024. For those unfamiliar with this nomenclature, 3nm is the last process node used to produce the most advanced chips available today. The lower the number, the greater the number of transistors in a particular chip. The more transistors in a chip, the more powerful and energy efficient it is.

Apple isn’t the only chip designer that TSMC manufactures 3nm chips for. By 2024, the world’s largest independent foundry is expected to deploy 3nm silicon for AMD, MediaTek, Qualcomm and others.

GoPro is used to battling DJI and Insta360 in a Squid Game-style battle for action camera supremacy, but this year an unexpected competitor entered the fray: Apple.

This week we saw the arrival of the highly anticipated GoPro Hero 11 Black, a direct successor to what we believe is the best action camera money can buy. But just a week earlier, Apple heckled GoPro by launching its iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro smartphones with a shiny new video feature called Action Mode.

This feature is actually Apple’s version of GoPro’s HyperSmooth technology, a powerful form of digital video stabilization that works by cropping into the camera‘s wide-angle view, leaving the outer edges of the frame free to correct shake. and vibration.

This creates a gimbal-like effect without the need for additional accessories, with HyperSmooth having been a staple of GoPro action cameras since it was first introduced on the GoPro Hero 7 Black in 2018.

So has Apple finally cornered the lucrative action photography market? Tim Cook and company would certainly like to think so, but the reality is a bit different. While the iPhone 14‘s Action mode was certainly impressive in our first tests, it has more limitations than the stabilization effects possible on the Hero 11 Black. And the latter, naturally, maintains a degree of durability that Apple’s smartphones simply can’t match.

Lost horizons

Why is Apple’s Action mode more limited than GoPro’s HyperSmooth? For starters, Action mode primarily uses the iPhone 14 Pro’s ultra-wide (13mm) lens, which has a relatively small 1/2.55-inch sensor and f/2.2 lens (the iPhone 14 standard has an even smaller sensor and a slower f/2.4 lens). Both setups mean you need plenty of light for Action mode to work effectively, and it’s likely to struggle (or be entirely unavailable) in dark environments.

The Hero 11 Black, on the other hand, has a larger 1/1.9-inch sensor, which means its HyperSmooth feature can work in moderately lower light conditions. It’s still not brilliant in these situations, but you’ll definitely get more versatility from the GoPro than the iPhone when you’re in the mountains, on the water, or anywhere else you like to get your adrenaline pumping.

That 1/1.9-inch sensor, and in particular its 8:7 aspect ratio, also gives the Hero 11 Black leeway for more stabilization tricks, like the very impressive 360-degree Horizon Lock.

The GoPro Hero 10 Black already uses “Horizon Leveling” technology to correct images that have been skewed up to 45 degrees, but the Hero 11 Black goes a step further by keeping images straight even when the camera is rotated 360 degrees.

It works with all resolutions and frame rates (except for 5.3K/60p, 4K/120p, 2.7K/240p, or 1080/240p, where you’ll get standard horizontal leveling for angles up to 27 degrees), and In our brief experience testing the Hero 11 Black, we were very impressed with the effectiveness of Horizon Lock.

Apple’s Action mode doesn’t give you the same degree of freedom to randomly move your iPhone’s camera up, down, left, and right without losing the stable orientation. Granted, most users won’t launch their devices into a horizon-changing spin – and Action mode has some roll correction – but the inclusion of Horizon Lock in the Hero 11 Black marks another small victory over the iPhone-as-action-cam.

Smooth operator

The same goes for how much control you can have over the level of stabilization of the GoPro. The Hero 11 Black offers varying degrees of HyperSmooth – standard, Boost, and AutoBoost – that allow you to tailor stabilization to specific activities.

For example, you don’t always want a super smooth floating effect for things like mountain biking, where a little jolt can create a more realistic look. The Hero 11 Black – unlike Apple’s Action mode – allows for more relaxed cropping, and these different HyperSmooth strengths are available in just about any resolution, frame rate, or digital lens.

At present, GoPro’s stabilization also beats its rival Apple for resolution options. The Hero 11 Black gives you stabilization for footage shot at up to 5.3K/60p, compared to just 2.8K on the iPhone. Then there are the additional effects available to you with GoPro, like TimeWarp, which combines timelapses with HyperSmooth to let you capture super stabilized timelapse videos as you move through a scene.

Naturally, the durability of the GoPro is also a factor. Apple reinforces the structural integrity of its iPhones on a yearly basis, but there’s no way a four-digit iPhone 14 Pro would be taken to the mountains or on the water without some form of additional protection.

The Hero 11 Black, however, is ready to go out of the box. Its housing is pretty much indestructible – we put its scratch-resistant lens cover through its paces in a particularly ghastly mountain biking incident, and the camera remained completely undamaged – and its built-in mount allows attaching it to action objects like handlebars and surfboards a breeze.

Replay the action

To be clear, we’re certainly not discrediting Apple’s Action mode. We were happy to see the feature announced at the company’s launch event in September, and it’s so far proven to be an effective (if not gimbal-level) method of occasional stabilization in our early tests. .

We also expect Action mode to become much more powerful in the coming years. Cinematic mode, for example, was recently upgraded to 4K resolution, having been limited to 1080p at launch.

But Apple’s first major foray into action videography remains, for now, a feature primarily designed to enhance footage captured while walking and running. Action mode isn’t, as some have suggested, GoPro’s killer – at least not for those into more adventurous sports (read: most outdoor activities).

The Hero 11 Black offers higher quality video, more granular stabilization control, and a host of useful effects like Horizon Lock and TimeWarp, along with the obvious durability benefits granted by its rugged design.

Apple’s shiny new mode may well hurt the Hero 11 Black’s appeal to vloggers, which could impact the popularity of GoPro’s Hero 11 Black Creator Edition and other vlogging cameras like the Sony ZV -1. Between an improved cinematic mode and action mode, the iPhone 14 series could definitely carve out a place among the best vlogging cameras.

We’ll be doing a more comprehensive side-by-side comparison between the GoPro Hero 11 Black and the iPhone 14 Action Mode soon, so stay tuned to TechRadar for our final verdict. If you have been trying to figure out how GoPro’s new flagship really differs from its predecessor, you can also check out the comparison between GoPro Hero 11 Black and Hero 10 Black.