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so we've been following the leaks and the rumors all of the way for the iphone 12 on this channel
and now we've finally got the iphone 12 to unbox and review there's been a few disappointments
for many with some rumored and leaked specs that never happened but we're going to take
a look and see what the iphone 12 actually has to offer before we get started please like the video
if you're a fan of apple and let me know in the comments what device you're watching this video on
but if we start with the unboxing 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 a power brick in the box
if we open it up we see the iphone 12 and as you can see i've chosen the white color but it's also
available in black blue green or red there's no plastic protection on the rear of the iphone 12
we've got a piece of paper protecting the display on the front next we've got the lightning to usb
c charging cable we've then got the sim ejector tool the quick start guide and a sticker the power
brick was removed for environmental reasons but clearly a cost saving as well which means
you're either gonna need a usbc charging brick a wireless charger or a magsafe charger looking
at the iphone 12 it is actually smaller than the iphone 11 but on the rear it's got the same camera
module the dimensions are actually smaller in every aspect it's 4.2 millimeters shorter 4.2
millimeters narrower and 0.9 millimeters thinner although it is smaller it still provides the same
6.1 inch display as the iphone 11 and this is of course thanks to the reduced bezels all round the
iphone 12 is also lighter than i expected coming in at 164 grams which is 30 grams less than the
iphone 11. i actually found this a little bit too light at first but i did quickly get used to it
most notably we've got the return of the flat edge design which we saw on the iphone 4 and 5.
i much prefer the look of it and it's still very comfortable to hold but it has to be said it's not
as comfortable as a curved smartphone it's not an issue but it's definitely something to consider
and i'm wondering how this is going to feel on the much larger iphone 12 pro max on the left
hand side we've got the volume buttons and the silent switch and then we've got nothing on top
but the antenna on the right hand side we've got the power button and usa users will actually have
the millimeter wave antenna here but i'm in the uk so unfortunately we don't get one and then further
towards the bottom we have another antenna on the very bottom we've got the lightning charger port
in the middle along with a mic and a speaker now the display of the iphone 12 is a 6.1 inch super
retina xdr oled display it's got a resolution of 1170 by 2532 and a 19.5 by nine aspect ratio
this provides us with 460 pixels per inch we've got the notch at the top as usual and this
gives us a screen to body ratio of 86 the display supports true tone dolby vision a wide color gamut
haptic touch in hdr 10 and many people are wondering what the difference is in displays from
the iphone 12 pro and the iphone 12 well they're both 6.1 inch displays in an actual fact they are
different displays the main differences between them is brightness is the iphone 12 has a max
brightness of 625 nits whereas the iphone 12 pro goes up to 800 nits max that being said it's still
a great quality screen with plenty of brightness the display is also protected by the new ceramic
shield to protect from drops and scratches and this supposedly is four times more drop resistant
as well as being slightly more scratch resistant but we're gonna have to wait and see from other
users experiences now the selfie camera we have here is a true depth wide angle camera it's got
an aperture of f 2.2 and it supports 4k video at 60 frames a second 1080p at 120 and it's got
electronic stabilization as well as face id the iphone 12 has an aerospace grade aluminium frame
which is another difference from the pro as that has a surgical grade stainless steel on the rear
we've got a dual camera setup and this consists of a 12 megapixel wide angle with an aperture of f
1.6 and a 12 megapixel ultra wide with an aperture of f 2.4 we get dual led dual tone flash hdr
and dolby vision hdr support now the rear camera we get 4k at 60 frames a second 1080p at up to 240
and the only restriction we have here is that if you want to use dolby vision in 4k
you can only use 30 frames a second for the iphone 12 cameras we get two times optical zoom with five
times digital and we get phase detect auto focus and optical image stabilization inside we get four
gigs of ram and the user can choose between 64 128 or 256 storage and this phone is of course powered
by the a14 bionic the phone has a 2 815 milliamp hour battery that supports 20 watt fast charging
and 15 watt wireless charging and it of course ships with ios 14.1 so overall the phone looks
pretty good i do prefer the flat edge design but as i said it's that little bit more uncomfortable
to hold but still not a problem we of course still have the notch but that was always to be expected
and we do also have some thick bezels all round but they're not too big and at least they are
symmetrical for new users the phone is very easy to set up and comes with all of the usual setup
options on first boot depending on whether you're backing up from an older phone or just a complete
fresh start so as most of you out there would have already seen ios 14 it looks exactly what
you'd expect for those interested in wallpapers it seems that the standard ones are the same
but under live we actually have some new additions and i think i'm gonna go with this orange design
if we take a quick look at the camera settings we can record up to 4k at 60 frames a second
we've got slow-mo options stereo sound recording and more one of the new features here as i
mentioned earlier is hdr video with dolby vision it's a great feature that many are going to like
but again it's restricted to 4k at 30 frames a second you cannot use dolby vision at 60.
we'll cover one of the main concerns first and that is of course the battery
unsurprisingly because we've got a smaller phone overall we also get a smaller battery
the iphone 11 was a 310 milliamp hour whereas this is a 2815 now reportedly battery life is
the same on both thanks to the a14's efficiency but there's also reports that having 5g enabled
all the time it can reduce its battery life by one to two hours now i'm going to keep an eye on
this for my in-depth review but i've only had this phone a few hours so i can't report much on it yet
now both photos and videos from the camera look pretty good we'll test them in further detail
in my in-depth review but i currently have 12 days of lockdown left where i'm not allowed to
leave the house so i can't take any pictures outside properly the iphone 12 cameras are a
minor improvement from last year with night mode now on the ultra wide and improved hdr
so don't expect huge improvements but they definitely are better so this is 4k at 60
frames a second using the rear camera as you can see it's very smooth the stabilization is actually
pretty good on this and the audio is actually quite good as well no problems with that
just zoom in and you can see high levels of detail everything's nice and smooth
not bad for the rear camera now we'll try the front facing camera again it looks
pretty smooth but we don't have optical stabilization here it's just electronic
quality looks good for the front camera nice and smooth audio is gonna be just as good and
we have got some difficult lighting there and it's still doing okay but lots of glare although
that ring light is very bright when it comes to the photos we're getting some great photos here
again i wasn't able to fully test this because of my restrictions but it's taking good photos
with plenty of detail and some nice dynamic range it's not the best mobile camera that i've
ever seen but it looks good so far and of course we're gonna look at this much more in depth later
when it comes to charging we've got the choice of the lightning port or wireless
for those of you that don't already have a usb-c power brick you will of course need one so you
can either get one from apple which is going to be very expensive or there are plenty of third-party
companies on amazon and ebay who provide them for much cheaper now it's a bold move for apple
to not give a power brick inside the device and as some of you may have seen that samsung have even
taken a dig at them it's going to be interesting to see how long it takes until samsung follow
now i don't have a magsafe charger to hand but if we give it a charge you can see a nice charging
animation that clearly shows us how much is charged there are also special magsafe covers and
these actually change the color of the charging ring depending on what color the case is now i'm
noticing a bit of warmth from the back of the phone under heavy use or long charging but it's
nothing too bad and to be honest it's pretty much what we're getting from all smartphones these days
now unfortunately i can't run a 5g test for you guys as my network still doesn't have 5g coverage
in my area but i can run a geekbench test for those who want synthetic benchmarks you can see
from geekbench that we get a cpu single core score of 1604 and a multicore score of 4092 and that's a
respectable score but was always to be expected because of the a14 and then on to the compute
benchmark we get a score of 9294 now the phone is snappy and smooth and everything is working great
exactly what you'd expect from an apple product now one of the main issues that's going to be
not for this one because we didn't expect it but on the pro is not having 120 hertz now it's
personally something i really wanted to see on the pro models and i mean looking at this it's not too
bad and if you're not used to 90 or 120 it's not going to be making a difference for you so make
sure you keep that in mind but i would say as i have used a lot of 120 hertz displays lately i
definitely can see that little lack of smoothness in the display but overall the iphone 12 is pretty
much exactly as we expected some minor upgrades in a new shell and of course powered by the a14 for
the 64 gig version of this phone it's 799 dollars in the usa and 799 pounds for the uk if you want
128 gig it's 849 or 849 pounds for the 256 it's 949 or 949 pounds it's also worth mentioning for
usa users if you want a sim free unlocked phone unfortunately it's an additional thirty dollars
but overall it's a great new smartphone from apple that delivers exactly what we expected is it worth
upgrading from the 11 or even the 10 in my opinion probably not but if you are on an older model and
it's time for a new one then it's definitely going to be a good choice now my opinion may change as i
get a bit more time with this as i've only had it a few hours but we'll be covering everything in a
more in-depth review shortly we've also got the iphone 12 pro and the iphone 12 pro max reviews
coming in the next few weeks so make sure you check those out as well now as always i'd like
to know your thoughts in the comments who's upgrading to the iphone 12 and if you are then
what phone are you upgrading from but thanks for watching the video if you like to smash the
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