so i've been using the iphone 12 for a couple of
weeks now and today i'm going to be telling you exactly what i think.
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depth on the iphone 12 and help you guys decide if this is going to be the right device for you
we're going to start with the unboxing and then delve into the iphone 12 and what this phone
actually has to offer you can see it's a much thinner box than usual and as many of you may know
the reason for this is that apple no longer provide the power brick inside the box
if we open it up you can see the iphone 12 and as you can see i've gone for the white color option
here but it's also available in black blue green or red there's no plastic protection on the rear
of the iphone 12 but we've got a piece of paper protecting the display on the front now the iphone
12 is a big design change from its predecessor and it's proving to be very popular among consumers
while we get the same notch that we're used to seeing on previous releases we get this new
flat edge design the iphone 12 has an aluminium frame and this flat edge is around the whole of
the phone while it is flat there is also a sharp curve towards the front and the back
just to add that little bit of comfort when holding it's refreshing to see a different
look to the iphone 12 and as well as looks it actually feels much more sturdy than before
even though it's relatively lightweight we've got the power button on the right hand side and the
separate volume up and down on the left and of course the return of the silent switch we also
have new protection on the front screen as it's using corning's new ceramic shield the new ceramic
shield protects from drops and scratches and it's reportedly up to four times more drop resistant
than before this has been proven by many in drop tests where the iphone 12 has survived
some big falls so it looks like a great form of protection for peace of mind from others testing
though the scratch resistant is only a very minor improvement and unfortunately the ceramic
shield is only on the front display it doesn't protect the rear glass now onto the display
we've got a huge upgrade from its predecessor as we get an oled instead of an lcd panel the iphone
12 has a 6.1 inch super retina xdr oled display it's a resolution of 1170 by 2532 and a 19.5 by 9
aspect ratio now this provides us with 460 pixels per inch with this display we get some deep blacks
some great color accuracy we also get the true tone white balance adjustment in the dolby vision
we get 625 nits brightness and while that's not as bright as the pro model is still plenty bright
enough and no issues using the phone even in direct sunlight now everything looks great on this
display and it's nice that apple have provided this on one of the lower priced iphone models the
display is a 60hz display though and i've actually found that i've got used to it although i did want
to see 90 or even 120. thanks to the smooth and snappy interface though it's really not so bad but
if you compare it side by side with a 90 or 120 Hz display then yes there is a noticeable difference
we don't get any physical or an in-display fingerprint scanner on any of the iphone 12 models
and instead apple have continued to focus on their face id the face id works just as
well as always it's fast secure and simple to use thanks to the 3d scanning technology
the only downside here is that during current times if you're wearing a mask then things
get much more problematic and you either have to remove the mask or use the pin number
the iphone 12 comes pre-installed with ios 14.1 which brought with it some huge improvements after
a little break from ios this has brought back many of the things that i wanted to see we finally have
widget support on the home screen providing plenty of choices to display useful information and have
customization to our liking widgets can also be placed on top of one another in a smart stack
that will then rotate automatically or you can go ahead and change it with your finger
it's great for those that have many widgets and don't want to clog up their home screen
the upmost left panel gives us a dedicated space for all of our favorite widgets that
we can customize to our need so whether it's the latest news or the latest stocks that you want
it's all there easily accessible we've got the app library where many apps are sorted into categories
and this again it can be customized to your liking it can make it much easier for those
of you that do have a lot of apps on your iphone we've also got a new picture in picture mode that
allows you to back out of an application and keep the video playing in a small window and
this of course allows for great multitasking one downside is that it's not working with the
native youtube app at the moment but it will at least work through youtube in safari and there's
also another workaround to quickly get there using shortcuts and finally we've got the new app clips
that let you use a mini snapshot of an app without actually having to download the full application
and i think this is really great now watching media on this phone is great thanks to its new
display and it's made better thanks to the stereo speakers on the iphone 12. we've got a bottom
firing speaker along with the cool speaker for the secondary and for phone speakers they really
aren't that bad at all we get some good highs and mids and even a little bit of bass well not a huge
amount of bass it's definitely better than most smartphones out there so we'll take a quick listen
now using the device is incredibly satisfying with everything just being so smooth and responsive
the iphone is of course powered by the latest a14 bionic chipset which is the most powerful
smartphone chip available today the a14 is a five nanometer chipset that offers great improvements
over the a13 in terms of power and its efficiency you can see from geekbench we get a cpu single
core score of 1 604 and a multi-core score of 4092 so that's a very respectable score on the compute
benchmark we get a score of 9294 we also get some improvements on the gpu which is of course
great news for the gamers the iphone 12 comes with four gigabytes of ram and as you would expect from
an iphone there's no option for expandable storage so you have to choose wisely when purchasing we
had a choice of 64 128 or 256 gig storage for the standard iphone 12. now when it comes to the
battery it is on the smaller side but of course it is a smaller smartphone the iphone 12 has a 2
815 milliamp hour battery but thanks to the a14's efficiency it doesn't perform badly and it does
last the day it's becoming clear however that using 5g greatly increases your battery drain
and can take off a couple of hours in your daily battery life thanks to the new fast charger though
i was able to use my anker powerport 3 nano to charge my iphone 12 to 56 in just 30 minutes
now the phone does support wireless charging along with the new magsafe chargers and accessories
the magnets in the back of the phone help align for charging and these new accessories
it allows them to snap into place and it's something i can actually see many other phones
adopting in the future now onto the cameras of course we get a dual camera setup on the iphone 12
in the form of a 12 megapixel wide angle and a 12 megapixel ultra wide out in daylight the camera
is great we get great photos accurate colors and good dynamic range not much effort is needed just
simply point and shoot at the subject or scene we get great results we get good detail on all
of the photos but it's not the best camera i've seen however it is still good with the smaller
sensor than many of the other flagship competition out there we do start to notice the lack of some
finer details especially when there's a bit of distance involved though it's not bad it's just
if we focus on some finer points you can see slight bending and loss of sharpness in the detail
if we head to the ultrawide camera again we get some great photos and we're able to capture much
more in the frame one thing i did find and of course expectedly is that little bit less detail
when using the ultra wide camera especially when we're zooming in on the photos personally though
i'm a big fan of ultrawide lenses and prefer it over a telephoto but of course it is always
nice to have both when it comes to night mode this actually happens automatically and it's indicated
by the icon in the top left corner while taking the photo and the indication also lets you know
if it's a one or two second exposure time there's been a huge improvement here and it takes some
great night photos with plenty of details and contrast now best of all it takes them quickly
so you don't have to be there holding the camera still for more than just a couple of seconds we've
also now got night mode support for the ultra wide camera which is a very welcomed addition
i found a little bit more noise from the ultra wide night shots but it was still able to capture
some great photos portraits are also great on the iphone 12 from the main camera we've
got the same great color accuracy and detail and the edge detection for the bokeh effects
is consistently working well the portrait mode works well on both pictures and objects
on the selfie camera i also found it was great for taking well detailed accurate photos it offers a
choice of 7 megapixel cropped or 12 megapixel standard and personally i've been keeping it to
the 12 megapixel we get great photos with good color accuracy contrast and detail and thanks
to the front 3d camera we get great quality selfie portraits with incredible edge detection now when
you're in the portrait mode on the selfie camera it does change it to the 7 megapixel crop setting
now we also get a night mode on the selfie camera while it works i personally wasn't as impressed
here and found the photos were a little bit noisy and nowhere near the quality we see on the rear
now when it comes to the video capture we get 4k videos it's 60 frames a second
and it really is incredible we get 4k video with great color accuracy and contrast pretty much the
same we're seeing with these photos so some really great videos just sometimes we are lacking in the
finer details stabilization however is incredible using this camera is incredibly good you don't
have to worry too much about holding still because as you can see from these videos the stabilization
is just great one of the newly added features we've got on the iphone 12 is dolby vision support
in your video recordings but they've limited this to 30 frames a second when recording in 4k
now videos from the selfie camera are also great quality lots of detail great colors and we also
get great sound across all of our videos thanks to the microphone now we move on to the selfie
camera of the iphone 12 and you can see we really do get some great quality video from the selfie
now next up we've got gaming and unsurprisingly it's just incredible is the latest flagship so
it was always going to perform well here whether it's a 2d classic or a new 3d game the iphone 12
has you covered all the games perform incredibly well are very responsive and this is an area where
iphones have always excelled for those who like that casual mobile gaming it's also great to have
this good speaker as i find some other smartphones can ruin this experience with the tinney speakers
and not everyone likes to wear headphones of course any game on the app store is going to
run very well on the smartphone and having an oled display just adds to the experience whether
it's angry birds call of duty or pubg you're gonna have a great time playing games on the iphone 12.
now that pretty much sums up my thoughts on the iphone 12. they've done a lot of impressive things
with the smartphone and they haven't reduced the specs greatly as we've seen in the past and we
sort of expect the flat edge design feels a little bit weird at first but you do slowly
get used to it and for what is one of their more budget-friendly models it's got some great specs
now the only downside for me is that i would have been a lot more excited to have even a 90 Hz
display here and given that in display fingerprint scanners are very common these days it would have
been nice for them to include that as well it is close to the pro in many ways although the main
difference is a lack of a telephoto camera now personally if you don't need the telephoto then
i would save yourself that little bit of money and stick with the 12 unless of course you do see
a great deal on the 12 pro when it comes to the pricing for the 64 gig version of the iphone 12
it's 799 dollars in the usa and 799 pounds for the uk for 128 gig it's 849 or 849 pounds if you want
the 256 gig version it's 949 dollars in usa and 949 pounds in uk it's also worth mentioning for
usa users if you want a sim free unlocked phone it's also an additional thirty dollars so that
about covers my thoughts on the new iphone 12 i'm not going to be getting the iphone 12 mini
as it's just too small for me but i have already pre-ordered the iphone 12 pro max so i'll let you
know my thoughts on that as soon as it arrives as always though there's a lot about this phone
so if there's anything i've missed or you guys have got any questions simply ask them in the
comments and i'll get back to you as soon as i can but thanks for watching this video if you liked it
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