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The iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max are a great refinement over last year’s 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max, but there have been some let downs in certain areas, no high-refresh-rate display, decreased battery performance, and then of course Apple’s making the phone a bit more expensive for those of you who don’t already own a Type-C charging brick. But is it still worth it?
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Why is this in HDR?!
Love my 12 Pro Max and 12 mini.
I love my two 12 pro
I love my 12 Pro Pacific Blue. I did get a screen protector.
I got the Zagg one cause it’s cheaper and have a lifetime warranty when it breaks
@Unic Ok. Is it good?
@Unic if I could install my own screen protector, I probably would have made another choice.
@UnkDuDe40 yea, it’s good so far. I’ve done a lot of research with screen protectors and Zagg is one of the most scratch resistant screen protectors out there, at least in its price range which is $24 in Best Buy
@Unic Ok. Thanks!
Great review bruh. I will definitely say the speakers are definitely a win on the 12 Pro. Low end is unlike anything I’ve heard. Coming from a Xs Max by the way.
Just got my iPhone 12 pro max today!
Which colour
@UMESH CHANDRA PANIGRAHI why would you wanna know?
@UMESH CHANDRA PANIGRAHI pacific blue
Got mine…loving it max
I just upgraded from the iPhone XS Max. I got this phone and I absolutely LOVE the ultra wide angle camera!
12 Pro max is still a battery champ
Video quality is so amazing :0
Thanks for the music Miles! Finally some new music to jam at! Love it!
My iPhone 12 already has 2 tiny scratches on the right side of the screen
Oh no! Do u have a screen protector? U can’t believe Apple with screen durability
@Chief King I don’t
i love the HDR please carry on filming in HDR
Did a test with 5G long wave and LTE advanced in Arlington Heights (a Chicago suburb) and got 124 down and 10.1 up for 5G Auto, 130 down and 6.67 up on LTE advanced. I turned 5G off.
Saves battery, get better speeds. LTE advanced on these phones gets a maximum of 2 gbps max vs. 1 gbps max on the Intel modems, so at least there’s a small advantage with these expensive Qualcomm modems (which is probably where the money for the charging brick and EarPods went and then some).
IMO, the A14 makes the biggest difference is in video. The ability to encode 4K 10 bit Dolby Vision HDR frames 60 times a second realtime is mind blowing. And what I probably appreciate most with the cameras is HDR 3 and Deep Fusion on all the cameras. I actually use the iPhone cameras to record itsy-bitsy labels with serial and model numbers because Deep Fusion cleans up the images and clarifies the characters. I realized this last year at the bank recording savings bonds my daughter received as a child – every image cleaned up and clarified so well that we now have a great record of each bond.
BTW, the 2020 iMac 5K has a 10 bit EDR display, so even thought it can’t reach the stratospheric 1000 NIT minimum, it does allow you to view 4K HDR content now under Big Sur. Magnificent. Thanks for the 4K HDR video. And thanks to Apple for including the av1 support. (I assume it’s not vp9).
I think the incremental value of the 12 Pro to the 12 Pro Max is a steal at only $100, and probably eclipses the incremental value of $150 from the 12 to 12 Pro – I say $150 because I think it would be foolish to buy any phone supporting Dolby Vision HDR with only 64 GB of on board storage.