iPhone 12 Pro Max - Long Term Review (3 Months Later) By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iPhone 12 Pro max has been out for a few months, and this has been my main phone every single day, except when I was testing out, the iPhone, 12 and 12 pro and 12 mini when I did reviews on that. Otherwise, this has been my main phone for the past few months, and so I want to talk about overall durability, its performance, my daily use battery reception, and maybe, if you should wait for the iPhone 13 and what features to expect with that, and so the first thing is its size going from the iPhone 11 Pro max to an iPhone 12 Pro max is a slight change in the overall size. Now it's not huge compared to that, but if you're familiar with these rounded corners from say the 6s plus all the way up to the 11 pro max, this phone will feel a little bigger because of It's squared off edges. However, I do think that that makes it feel a little better, more like the iPhone 5 or the 5s or iPhone 4. I prefer the squared off edges, and it makes it a little easier to grip onto or hold on to without dropping it. So I think the rounded corners were nice for a time, but I prefer the squared off edge of the newer 12 series phones.

So, overall it's been very durable, and I think some of that has to do with the display and the back glass sitting flush with this frame around the outside edge. Now the frame is stainless steel on the 12 pro max, and it protects this glass not only on the back but also on the front, and so it's been perfect as far as how well it's held up so on the frame itself, because this is the pacific blue, color, there's not really any scratches or anything you'll see it does catch some dust and use. It does catch a lot of fingerprints and I have been using it without a case. But overall it's held up incredibly well. I do expect some scuffs and scratches from time to time to build up, that's just from using it and that's just what you normally would expect with normal use, but it seems to polish right up really well and the glass has zero scratches on it.

So the glass on the back, the cameras being that they're, sapphire or semi sapphire apple, says they're sapphire, but they have no scratches. They haven't cracked or anything. Some people have seen dust under here, but I had. I don't have that, and they've held up really well, but the front glass being that it's similar to last year's glass actually has held up better than I expected. I don't have a single scratch on here, that's from regular use.

Furthermore, I do have a scratch that was caused by the phone slipping off my desk. When I was setting up a shop for a video, it fell off my desk onto a light, stand and actually scratched a corner. So of course that could have been prevented with a screen protector, but you can see the scratch right there by my finger. It's a deep scratch it's there, but when the display is on, you can't really see it. It's just annoying that it's there, since the entire display is free of scratches, unlike last year's iPhone 11 Pro max, which I had a ton of scratches on at this point and after a year of using that phone, it was completely covered with scratches this has none except for where I said right here.

That was completely my fault. So not really something I would have expected this year, but I think the display being that it's recessed or set down into the frame. That makes a big difference. I think, and of course you could use a screen protector if you wanted to prevent that altogether, but I think these screens are much more durable than what we've had in the past. Now when it comes to the display, I know some people say the display is a little warm.

I find that it's very accurate. I like the way it looks and whether that be in light mode or switching to dark mode. Furthermore, I think it looks great. The viewing angles are great. This year, there's now off axis shift in color, so you don't get that blue tint, sometimes that you would get with the 11 series phones, and I think it's pretty good overall as far as the display, so whether that be you're just using your phone to browse social media check emails or play a game.

The display looks great all the time, especially when you're watching HDR video. So if you're watching a HDR YouTube video- and you can see here's my iPhone 12 Pro review that I did in HDR. If I tap on this- we'll just go back a little, and you can see that it's completely in HDR, and it'll be blown out on the screen where you can't see it, because the display is so bright compared to what you had with a nonuser display. So when I hit play you'll see it's super bright when it's playing, and you won't be able to see it because this video is not a HDR and if you're, watching a HDR with a newer phone or even the iPhone 10. For example, you'll see that the highlights are very bright, and the dark are very dark because it can turn off the pixels being that this is an OLED the using this with PWM, and things like that.

Since that does bother me, this one has not bothered me as far as the display goes. It's at a high enough rate, where the display, despite what brightness it's at, doesn't seem to bother my eyes. So that's good news this year with PWM and those things that can affect your eyes if you're sensitive to that and can see higher frame rates. Now the speakers are great too. I think they're quite good.

In fact, let me go to another video where you can hear some music with this. Now I've moved my microphone, so you can hear what it sounds like directly out of the phone. So let's go ahead and hit play on a comparison of mine, so the speakers overall sound, very good. You've got great stereo sound from the top to the bottom and, if you're watching a video playing a game or something like that, it just sounds great overall. So I think they've done a great job with the speakers at the highest of volumes.

You probably want to back it off a little as it sort of starts to distort and not sound as good, but generally it sounds great goes nice and loud, and I think most people will really enjoy the speakers on this if you're not using headphones. For example, now the performance on this phone is fantastic, with its a14 bionic CPU and six gigs of ram. I've had no issues, whether that be going back into a video game. This has been loading there or sitting there the entire time. So if you want to play a game, for example, whether that be Call of Duty or something else like among us or any racing games, anything like that, it just is superfast all the time ram management is good, and you can see that I went into well YouTube here with my video.

Then, if we go back over to Call of Duty, for example, it just works fine, every time it loads right away, I'm in, and I can use it. So it's superfast, no issues there, and you could edit a video with it. Maybe record 4k video export that video, and after you've edited it, and it's just superfast all the time I'm really impressed with the chipsets not only this year, but the previous years' apple just seems to be so far ahead of the game when it comes to that. So if you look at geek bench, for example, now with geek bench, for example, the scores are great overall they're, really high they're better than most processors out there, and they're really only competing with themselves with the previous years of apple's processors or the CPUs, that are in say the m1 MacBook or the iPad Air for example. So this is just superfast six gigs of ram you don't have any lag or anything really with anything you're doing whether it's going into a video game or going back out.

It's just superfast all the time and if you edit, a video, for example, there's a lot going on that. You don't see that really puts this above some other phones out there. So what I mean by that is this: can record 4k, 60 frames per second adobe vision, HDR and when you're recording this sort of frame rates, it's actually using the neural engine to calculate what's in the background, and it does a better job than many very expensive cinema cameras at computing, not only what's in the background, but what it's focused on and what those colors and the overall light should look like with its dynamic range, so 4k 24, all the way up to 60 frames per second with Dolby Vision. HDR is something that I really like with this phone. So when you record in HDR, it's amazing that you can do that with a phone.

So if you go into the frame rate selection, you can select HDR, video and record in super high quality, and it's just surprising that it's so easy to use and looks great. So I'm very happy with the cameras on this, not only the rear cameras being able to capture 4k video, but you've got ultrawide and telephoto with LIDAR. So the fight, the focus is even better at night, and they've just really improved these, especially with the raw photos as well. I'm really impressed and of course the forward-facing camera is fine as well no issues there. I've shown this at length in other videos, but it just works really well overall, so you've got 4k.

If you want to use this as your main camera for YouTube videos, you could definitely do that. I've used it for many videos already, and I plan to do so in the future, but many videos. In fact, I wanted to record this outside, but the weather is just awful right now, and so if the weather was great, I would have recorded this video outside using an iPhone 12 Pro max. So it's a great phone overall for that now. As far as my daily use, I normally use this not only for my camera, but mostly social media and watching YouTube from time to time.

So I don't play too many games on this. I usually default to the iPad for that, but if I'm using Twitter or Instagram or YouTube or telegram or discord which I have links for all of those in the description below, I use this mostly for that. But reception on this is quite good. In fact, I haven't lost a single call. I haven't dropped a single call.

My calls have been nice and clear, and that's thanks to the new Qualcomm modem in here. So this has 5g like you're familiar with at this point, you have 5g with millimeter wave, so there's 5g you've got my millimeter wave antenna, but I don't have millimeter wave being that this is actually on T-Mobile, but the speeds are good. I don't know that it's a huge jump for me over 4g, but I've had zero issues with reception and I think that's what's key. As far as that goes, I have had a few issues with Wi-Fi from time to time when it just wouldn't connect and that's more of an iOS update thing where it just won't connect. I turn off Wi-Fi go to 5g, and then it works.

So that's more of an issue. I think they'll fix with software, but in general I've had no issues. It's superfast with not only 5g but also Wi-Fi with Wi-Fi six. So if you have the correct router, it's nice and fast that way, so I have great reception with this no issues there, and I actually have pretty good battery life as well. This phone I'm getting about 10 hours of screen on time.

So if I go to my battery and over the past three months, I haven't lost any battery health and I generally charge this at night I'll fast charge it from time to time, and I'll put it on a wireless charger. Most of the time, usually I use MagSafe with it, or I use it in a wireless charger in my car when I'm driving and then from time to time. If I need to bump it back up I'll fast charge it so. Here's yesterday's battery life, and you'll see I got four hours and one minutes of screen on time, 43 minutes of screen off time and use just under 50 percent of my battery. It varies from day to day, but generally about ten hours is what I'm seeing on this phone regularly and that's running not only regular, updated versions but also betas.

As you know, I cover those as well so using mostly social media, and things like that. Twitter consumes probably my most battery along with safari and messages, but usually I'll get through a day and not even think about it, and it will be 50 at the end of the day, no problem. So I've had great battery life myself with this, but that leads me to should you wait for the iPhone 12s or iPhone 13, whatever apple decides, to call it this year and the reason I say that is many people, including myself, expect them to include a 120 hertz display on the next phone, which means that, while this is nice and fast and smooth, it will get even smoother if you've seen that on android phones. It's super smooth when you're scrolling through pages, so I would expect the same sort of experience on iPhone, even better, though similar to what you get with an iPad Pro with the pro motion display where it ramps up speed and slows it back down. So if Apple can figure that out and then give us better battery life because it can slow the actual screen refresh rate way down, like Samsung, does with the s21 ultra, for example, they can slow that way down to about 10 hertz saving battery.

When you're on a static page like this, and when you go to scroll, it speeds right back up. If they can do that, implement that technology, I think it will be really nice to see. Also, it should have even better cameras. So, while the cameras are great now, if cameras are a huge thing for you, they're going to get even better and then of course, many people are saying, touch ID will be coming now, we're not sure about that, because the iPhone is using touch ID with iOS, 14.5 and Apple Watch. So it's using that to authenticate with a mask, for example, so touch ID.

Some people say they don't think it's coming, but I think I'd love to see it under the display with face ID also as an option. That would be ideal for me. I prefer touch ID in many cases and I would love to see them. Add that whether they're doing that this year is hard to say, but you may want to wait if you want any of those things, or you value any of those things on your iPhone. So if you're coming from an older phone like a 6s plus- and you really like touch ID well, there may be hope that they'll bring some form of it back eventually, whether that be on the back.

Where you place your finger down or on the front I'd love to see it either way, whether we do it's hard to say, though, but that's it for the iPhone 12 Pro max after a few months. I really like this phone. I like using it every single day. Furthermore, I don't have any issues with it and I think the camera is phenomenal, but let me know what you think about it in the comments below, of course, I'll link this wallpaper in the description like I normally do and if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe and if you enjoyed the video please give it a like, as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll, see you next time.

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