iPhone 12 Pro Max vs iPhone 11 Pro Max - Which should you choose? By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and the iPhone 11 Pro max and the iPhone 12 Pro max are both basically flagships or the largest available size from each year of phone, and so I want to help you decide if you should update from the iPhone 11 Pro max to the 12 pro max or maybe upgrade to the 11 pro max now. The first thing you need to know is that apple no longer sells the 11 pro max new from apple. com or the Apple Store. They will sell it to participating retailers or authorized retailers, but it's not available from apple anymore, other than being refurbished. It comes in at $999, $1149, or $1349, usually with a carrier contract. So it really depends on where you get it.

The iPhone 12 Pro max comes in three different variants as well: $1099 to $1199 or $1399, and each of them are available in different storage options. With the 11 pro max, you have 64 256 or 512 gigabyte storage options with the 12 pro max. You get an additional 64 gigabytes at the low end, 128 gigabytes, 256 or 512. So you get a little of an extra bonus if you get the lower end, iPhone 12 Pro max this year. Now, when it comes to the colors, the 11 pro max comes in a few different colors.

Now it does have space gray, as you can see here, and we had a new color last year, midnight green. We also have gold and silver with the 12 pro max. The green has been replaced with this new pacific blue, and then we also have a silver. Then we have gold, and we also have what they call graphite, which is basically the exact same thing as space gray on the 11 pro max. So you can see here they're, basically the exact same thing now as far as their build and overall design.

Well, both are made of stainless steel. Of course, this year the edges are a little different and there are some changes with the 12 pro max. But overall the build is the same stainless steel on the outside edges, glass front and back so let's go around the phones and then talk about the materials and everything else now, on the right hand, side of the phone. We have our power sleep, wake button like we always have and on the 11 pro max, we have a sim card tray on the 12 pro max. We have a millimeter wave antenna for 5g in the United States, so in the United States, you'll have this little cutout around the world.

You won't necessarily have that on the top. There's nothing really there, it's not very exciting and then, on the left hand, side. You've got your silent switch with your volume buttons and your sim card tray on the 12 pro max. So on the bottom you have lightning, just like you do on all the other phones. And then you have asymmetric speaker and microphone holes.

So the microphone you've got four holes, the speaker, you have six different holes on either one of them, so it's a little different on either and, as you can see, the 12 pro max is squared off. We've gone back to the design that we had, basically with the iPhone 5 and 5s and kind of combination between that and the four because we have glass front and back now this year with the 12 pro max, you have ceramic shield, which makes it four times less likely to break in the event that you drop the phone. You have this matte finish on the back, which is really nice around the camera bump. You can see it's more of a glossy or just regular glass and then on the front. Furthermore, you have ceramic shield now this particular glass, like I said, is less likely to break, but I'm not sure that it's less likely to scratch with the 11 pro max after a year of use, there are a ton of scratches on it.

So far, I've had yet to scratch the phone, the 12 pro max, the 11 pro max scratched, much easier. In my experience, so it seems like it should be a little more durable, but still, if you're worried about that, of course use a screen protector. Now the overall weight is a little different. The 11 pro max is 7.97 ounces or 226 grams, where the 12 pro max is 8.03 ounces or 228 grams. So it is a little heavier and that's because of the cameras and a few other things.

So we'll talk about those in a moment now before we talk about the displays you can see, the phone is a little bigger with the 12 pro max. So not only is it a little heavier, but it's a little taller width it's about the same, so it is a little taller, and it feels much larger because of the squared off edges. Now, as far as the displays well, the display is larger too, because of the larger squared off frame. So with the iPhone 11 Pro max, you have a 6.5 inch 2688 by 1242, with 458 pixels per inch display with the 12 pro max. You get a 0.2 inch size increase of 6.7 inches with 2778 by 1284 pixel resolution with 458 pixels per inch, so they're both fantastic displays. They both support true tone wide color p3.

They have the same 800 nits of brightness in regular use. Furthermore, they also both go up to 1200 nits of brightness when playing HDR content, so they're very similar. That way they both have wide color p3 as well and have great viewing angles: you're not going to have any issues, viewing them outdoors or in sunlight or anything like that, and they look great overall, so in general they're. Basically, the same. Some have said that the screen on the 12 pro max is a little warmer, but in Tess it's shown that it's more color accurate, so the 12 pro max seems to be a better display in many people's tests that have tested it professionally.

Now, both phones being super retina Dr displays means they're OLED, so they have PWM. That means that's how it's controlling the brightness using flickering of the display, that's just how OLED displays work or most sleds, I should say on phones and as you bring it brighter, it's flickering the screen faster, bring it down. It's its flickering slower. You can't see this with your eyes, but it does bother some people, so both phones have the same thing. Neither of them bother me and in fact the 12 pro max seems to bother me less for some reason: the 11 pro max.

If I was tired, it would bother me a little causing me to get headaches, but with the 12 pro max. I don't notice that at all, so that might be a little of a help to those that it bothers you it's about 1 in 10 or so now the iPhone 12 Pro max and the 11 pro max can both play 4k HDR video, like I said so, if we go into YouTube, we'll take a look at my iPhone 12 Pro review one month later, and we're in HDR. So if we go to select the video resolution, let me switch to either one here. You'll see that on both phones we have the option for 4k or 2160p HDR. So you have that option.

If you have one of these newer phones so either one you'll have a higher nitrate, and you'll be able to watch this video. So you'll see it might look blown out to you on the display right now, but I can see super bright brights in the background and really deep blacks around the whole screen. So if you don't have a HDR display, it's hard to understand what it looks like, but you'll still have 4k video as well. So let's switch over to a different video, the iPhone 12 one month later. So you can hear the speakers, so we'll switch to this.

So I'll press play on the eleven prompts. I used it for an entire week and also my daughter's been using it full-time, and so I wanted to share her battery life with you as well, since I've been using the 12 pro max as well and now, let's try the same thing on the 12 pro max, at least alongside the iPhone 12 Pro, and I've been using it on and off. I used it for an entire week and also my daughter's been using it full time, and so I wanted to share her battery life with you as well, since now when comparing both of them, they sound very similar. The 12 pro max does seem a little clearer at the highest of volumes, but basically they're very close. But again you can hear that, and hopefully you could hear the difference between both of them they're both plenty loud.

They both have great stereo sound as well now as far as overall speed well they're a little different as far as their CPU and ram with the iPhone 11 Pro max. You have the a13 bionic with four gigabytes of ram, and it had what apple called the next gen neural engine with the iPhone 12 Pro max. You have the a14 bionic with six gigabytes of ram and the third generation neural engine, so it should be a little faster doing specific types of apps. Now, if you're just opening certain apps you're going to find the experience to be basically the same, I already had music open on the 12 pro max, so it took a moment to load. If I close, those out go back in you'll, see that they're going to load it basically the same rate.

If I go into something like weather, the same sort of thing is true, and then again, if I go into say settings and just want to scroll you're going to have the same experience on either one when you go into the cameras, it's going to be fast for either one and snapping a photo. There are no slowdowns here whatsoever. Now, when you're doing intensive tasks, maybe editing a photo if we go into edit on either one of them and maybe auto, adjust it takes about the same amount of time, so you're really not going to see huge benefits there, but when you're doing intensive tasks such as exporting 4k video, you may see a difference. So let's go ahead and try that, so I'll go into iMovie. Now in iMovie I have the same video imported.

It's the exact same video in every way. I just imported it on each one. It's 3 minutes and 46 seconds, and I added a title to a couple parts of it so that it would have to re, render and re-export everything. And so you can see it's the same video and what I'll do is I'll bring in an iPhone 12 Pro as a stopwatch here slide them over, and I'll export them, and we'll see how long it takes we'll hit done on both, and then we'll hit, export or share, and then we'll save video we'll try and do this at the same time start and let's see what happens, and they should be fairly close. The extra ram may help a little, but let's see what they can do and, as you can see, the differences were very minor in exporting video, so a few seconds or a couple seconds difference between each, so both are superfast and even with the added ram you're not really going to see a huge benefit with exporting video.

Unless the file is over 10 minutes long now, after exporting a video, the phone will usually heat up a little. It did get a little warm right around the CPU which is near here and then on the back of the 12 pro. It's actually not as warm. So, depending on what you're doing they will heat up a little, but that's normal, and it seems to be handling it. Just fine exporting video like that now, with the iPhone 12 Pro max, you have 5g this year, so you get Qualcomm modems with 5g millimeter, wave and sub 6.

Now, where I live, we don't really have millimeter wave depending on the carrier. You have that's mostly Verizon and doesn't pertain to most of the world, so I don't really count it too much until it's readily available, but sub 6 is available in just using the iPhone 12 Pro max since using the 11 pro max, which both are my main phones depending on the year, the 11 pro max. I did occasionally have issues because it had an intel modem in it and with 5g g. I do notice a double the speed difference when downloading things from the internet, so a speed test will show very different speeds, depending on where you're located and what your signal strength is. But I was getting double the speed with the 12 pro max versus the 11 pro max on 5g versus 4g.

I also noticed that I haven't dropped a single call on the 12 pro max, so I'm seeing better connectivity overall, that's my personal experience, and it will vary depending on where you live and what carrier you have now. As far as the cameras are concerned, both are really great cameras. The forward-facing cameras on both of these are identical. They're both 12 megapixel, f, 2.2, apertures, and they both have face I'd so face ID, is going to be the same on either turn it on swipe up, and they're going to unlock quickly. So again with that face ID camera, it's just going to unlock quickly you're, not going to see a difference between either but the forward-facing cameras are pretty much identical in every way, so you're not compromising there other than the lack of HDR video on the 11 pro max.

So we'll talk more about that in a moment with the rear cameras. There's a bigger difference, though you can see right away that the camera module is much larger on the 12 pro max and that's because on the 12 pro max, they have a much larger sensor and some changes to the lenses. So, for example, with the 11 pro max, you have triple 12 megapixel cameras. You have an ultra-wide f 2.4, a wide f 1.8 and a telephoto f 2.0, and you can record up to 4k 60. With the 12 pro max.

You again have triple 12 megapixel cameras, but you have a wide f 1.6 this time and then an ultra-wide f 2.4 and a telephoto f 2.2, with a 5x optical zoom and up to a little more zoom range 12x versus 10x. You have 4k 60, but you can also record in Dolby Vision, HDR and so as far as everything else in the camera, you have better low light as far as the 12 pro max is concerned, and you can take night photos on any of your cameras this time, and you also have night portrait as well with the 12 pro max, and we'll test that in a moment now. Furthermore, you also have apple pro raw coming later in this year, or it may already be here depending on, if you have it already and that's an option in your settings. So if we go into settings we'll go down to camera, for example, and then we'll go into camera on both, and I'll show you the difference so camera on the 11 pro max. If we go into our video, you can see that we have HDR video on one on the 12 pro max and regular 4k 60 on the 11 pro max, so there's slight differences there also again pro raw.

So if we go into the camera under formats, you have apple pro raw as an option for the 12 pro max. That's only for the 12 pro and the 12 pro max, where you can take raw photos and get more data in detail and then modify it a little later. Also with the zoom, you can see the little of a difference here. The 12 pro says 2.5, where the 11 pro max says two. So the 12 pro max is 2.5 versus two. So let's go ahead and take a look at what these are capable of with the video from the forward-facing camera, rear-facing camera some photos and night as well.

So this is the forward-facing camera of the iPhone 11 Pro max and the iPhone 12 Pro max. Both forward-facing cameras are very similar, but the iPhone 11 Pro max cannot do HDR, where the 12 pro max can also. You can hear the difference in the microphones on both so here's the iPhone 11 Pro max that I'm recording from and here's the iPhone 12 Pro max. So let me know which one sounds best to you and looks best in the comments below now. When it comes to the battery life apple says they both support up to 20 hours of video playback.

That has nothing to do with being connected to the internet or to LTE or 5g. That's just if you had the video downloaded onto them, despite the iPhone 12 Pro having a little smaller battery, so the 11 pro max has a 3969 William hour battery and again that will last 20 hours of video playback. The iPhone 12 Pro max has a 3687 William hour battery. Now those are both pretty good as far as their overall size, but because of the newer chipset in the 12 pro max you're getting about the same battery life with my day-to-day use, I'm seeing about the same with the 11 pro max. I could get an l 10 to 12 hours of screen on time with the 12 pro max.

I'm seeing about the same at the end of the day, I have 50 left, and you can see some of my battery usage here, and it's going to vary greatly and honestly. I think I'm getting more battery life than this is saying because it's easily getting me through a day and a half to two days with regular use, so I'm seeing similar battery life so much so that I don't really have to pay attention to it, because they're both great now both fast charge up to 50 in 30 minutes, if you're using a wired connection and say a 20 watt charger like this, that's not included in either box now, so you'll need that and then also you have MagSafe on the 12 pro max. So this helps it fast charge, wirelessly it centers itself and allows up to 15 watts fast charging. Now this also allows for certain accessories with MagSafe in them as well such as cases. You can see the little magnet ring here, and so it helps adhere to the back and then there's other accessories for MagSafe such as car mounts and more, so you'll see more of that.

In the future, where you have a magnetic adhesion to the back of the phone it locks it in gives it a little of a special animation and that's for the future, and I think that's for a wireless future of iPhones a little later, maybe with iOS or iPhone 13 or so now. As far as anything else. Well, the iPhone 12 Pro max and the 11 pro max have slightly different IP ratings or water resistance. So the 11 pro max has an ip68 rating of up to four meters for 30 minutes. So that's pretty good, but the 12 pro max goes a little further ip68 6 meters up to 30 minutes, so they've increased the depth that it can handle.

It seems to be a little better. Water sealed now both are fantastic phones but which one should you buy? Well, that really depends on which phone you already have now, if you have an iPhone 11 Pro max. I'd, probably hang on to this for an additional year, because with the 11 pro max you're, basically getting the same sort of phone, but with the curved edges. Now I really like the new form factor of the squared off design. I think it feels a little more premium.

It makes it a little easier to grip, but it is a fingerprint magnet and, of course, if you use a case that helps with that, but in general I think it feels a little nicer. I've been waiting for a squared off phone for a while, but I know not everyone likes that, and many people prefer the rounded edges and the rounded edges of the screen. It's very different feeling in your hands. So if you have the chance to try one out, I would try one before switching, but if you have an 11 pro max, I'd, probably wait until next year's phone before I upgrade it. However, if you're coming from an older phone, a 10s max anything older than that, I think you'll really like the 12 pro max and that's what I'd look for in the future.

It's going to have one year extra support, based on what we've seen in the past, with iOS updates, and so each one is good for about five years of updates. In general, but I would really go for the newer phone if you're on an old phone. If you are already on an 11 pro max. Well, then I would stick with that, but let me know what you're choosing in the comments below which color are you picking up or if you're sticking with your older phone I'd love to hear from you in the comments below, if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper, of course, I'll link it 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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