iPhone 12 (Pro) Review By Dave2D

Okay, so the title of this video has the pro in brackets, it's both the iPhone 12 and the iPhone 12 Pro in one video and when I first started using these phones, I had originally planned on doing two separate reviews, one for the pro one for the non-pro, but as I use these phones more, I realized that they had to be done in one video for me on my channel. This had to be a one video, because there's so much that's like intertwined between these two phones, there's so many things in common between them. They have the same flat: edge, design, the same dimensions, same screen, size same screen, res the same notch sizes same MagSafe, compatibility, same charging speeds; they even have the same charging brick. So clearly, there's a lot in common between these two phones. So if you have a conversation about one, it's just highly dependent on the other. Now, if you take a step back, and you look at the pricing, the iPhone 12 is an 800 phone and for 25 more pay a thousand bucks and get the iPhone 12 Pro now for apple.

This is a little strange to have phones that have a pretty different price point, but to have such a similar feature set, but here's the thing- I don't think this was the original plan, I think for apple. The iPhone 12 Pro was supposed to be a more substantial step up from the iPhone 12. Like this was supposed to have a 120 hertz display. We saw the rumors in the summer. This was going to have the high refresh screen, but somehow it didn't make it to these units, whether it's a supply chain issue or whatever the reason being.

These don't have high refresh screens. So it's pushed the 12 pro closer to the 12 in terms of feature set and keep that in mind, because it's going to come back into play towards the end of the video. Now both of these phones are excellent iPhones. I love the flat edges and the super flat screen. The form factor is really nice, and the pacific blue on the pro is just a phenomenal color.

This is like it's so hard to showcase this thing properly in videos. It's something you get to see in real life, but this is a really, really nice. Looking color to me and the displays on these phones are very similar. They're, both 6.1 inches high resolution, OLED tech they're nearly impossible to tell apart the iPhone 12 Pro gets a little brighter, but I think the vast majority of people will find both of these screens really, really good and seriously indistinguishable unless you're, looking at them side by side and really looking for a difference in regard to ceramic shield. That's the tech, where apple claims a four times improvement in drop protection.

That may be the case for drops and like shattered glass, but in terms of scratches, I don't think there's a noticeable improvement, at least not for me. I had this in my pocket in the same side as my keys, I normally try to separate it, but occasionally your phone goes into your key pocket right, and I got a scratch it's unfortunate. But if you are someone who cares about this kind of stuff, you're still going to need a kind of screen protector, there's a new one from brand that uses tempered glass, and it has a perfect fit on these devices. Now in terms of the battery, both of these devices have the same battery size they're, both around 2800 William hours and the iPhone 12 lasts longer than the iPhone 12 Pro the 11 pro with the bigger battery and the smaller screen lasts the longest, but the 12 pro is kind of short. I don't know why.

I can't explain it. Maybe it's a difference in software tweaks. Maybe it's the extra ram on the pro. Maybe the screens are actually more different from it seems on paper, but that's just that's just what I'm getting right now in terms of 4g versus 5g connectivity. I can only test for 4g up here in Canada, so the battery life is good, but I have no idea what it'd be like.

If I connected these two 5g towers now MagSafe the tech is neat, but it's not super impressive to me. I haven't seen anything from the MagSafe accessories that really jump out to me as being like you know, I have to have this right now the magnetically attached wireless charging is nice, but it's not. It doesn't feel super new to me. I originally thought, though, that having a ring of magnets on the back of your phone, isn't it doesn't impede anything right for the people that don't want to use MagSafe anything. It doesn't change the phone experience, but I don't know because having a series of magnets embedded into the chassis of these phones, it has to take up some room in there right.

Maybe they have to use smaller batteries in there this year to implement MagSafe. So it's cool that it's there, but I think we have to wait a little to see the true potential of what this tech is going to bring to the iPhone ecosystem. Now onto the cameras. The difference between these two phones lies in the camera system. They both now have low light ultrawide, it's something that the iPhone 11s and the 11 pros really lacked, and they have them now.

They are pretty good, but they're. Not amazing right. I feel, like ultra-wide photography done in low light conditions is really tough, there's just a lot of data that has to collect and there's not a lot of light when it's dark, and it's a difficult shot to do. The iPhone 12 and the iPhone 12 Pro handle them reasonably well now, in terms of the regular wide lens, because the 12 pro has the LIDAR scanner, it often shoots better when it comes to tough conditions and in terms of portrait photography, it can also take advantage of that tech, it'll focus faster and give the system better depth information. Now, in terms of the regular photos, I find that the 12 and the 12 pro shoot better than last year's iPhones, particularly it comes to shots with more dynamic range, as well as shots that are showing more detail, there's just more clarity in the shots taken from the iPhone 12s.

The 12 pro does have the benefit of the 2x optical zoom, but they can both shoot in something called Dolby Vision, HDR. Now because I use Adobe Premiere, and it can't even handle this new kind of footage, I can't show it to you at least not unless I use a completely different editing program, but this tech is seemingly quite good, so, john from TLD, he shot a pretty cool HDR video with these phones that I'll link below, but it's tech that isn't easy to kind of visualize right now, because not a lot of phones can even support this type of visual experience, but the iPhone 12s can shoot view and edit it all on the device. Now I want to talk about pricing. This is a very important part of the conversation. The iPhone 12 at 800 is an expensive phone, certainly not cheap, but it's a well-rounded phone this year, it's a strangely well-rounded phone, and I use the word strangely because it has such a similar feature set to the more expensive 12 pro the significantly more expensive 12 pro.

So the 12 gets an easy recommendation for me. If you've been eyeing it, and can afford it, it's a's- a very solid phone, the 12 pro when I first saw this on day one my kind of knee-jerk reaction is it's overpriced. It's too similar in feature set to the 12, but once you match the storage option, you're getting a better build quality, you're, getting a more robust camera system. Although battery life is slightly less you're, not paying a huge amount of money for that extra 12 pro experience, but there is one last kind of twist to this story. At the beginning of the video I talked about how this phone was likely going to be upgraded to a 120 hertz panel next year right.

I think those panels will only appear in the pro options like that would be the best way for apple to distinguish their pro phones from the non-pro phones. That's my guess! So! If you're someone who cares about high refresh screens- and you buy one of these this year, when the iPhone 13 pro whatever they call it, when that comes out next year, you're going to be extremely tempted to buy that one as well, and so a phone that should last three four five years is now going to last one year now. This is only for people that care about high refresh screens and on this channel. I think a lot of my viewers do I'm just putting it out there. So, if you're someone who's drawn to either of these phones this year, keep that in mind, because this year the phones are weirdly similar, but next year I think the difference will be more substantial, possibly in price as well, and that is my iPhone 12 and 12 pro review.

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Source : Dave2D