hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and the iphone 13 pro has been out for a little over
six months at this point and this is a phone that i still think is the perfect phone for most people
it's a phone i find myself coming back to over and over because it's a very manageable size
even though i have huge hands it's still a manageable size where i can easily reach across it
to maybe scroll or just something else one-handed use and with the 13 pro max that i find myself
using a lot of the time also it's just more of an unwieldy phone it's heavier it's much larger
and of course that comes with some advantages but i really really like the 13 pro so i thought we'd
talk about durability scratches pwm the way it manages brightness as far as the display
speakers reception and more now the first thing is durability this is a stainless steel phone so
because it's stainless steel if you're not using a case you can expect a few scratches
they could be micro scratches or you can see here while this is not heavily used it does have some
scratches around the outside edge even though it's kept in a case from time to time so that edge does
develop some scratches whether that be from setting it down maybe you're plugging in the
lightning cable bumping it into the wrong spot multiple times sometimes it can develop scratches
and it's a fingerprint magnet around the glossy edge as you can see there's already
some fingerprints here and that's just from me recording this video i typically clean it before
i record the video and we've still got a ton of fingerprints however durability wise it holds
up well and the back glass holds up really well also being that we've got ceramic shield on it
and then also matte glass on the back it holds up well to the point where you can't notice any
scratches even if there were some light ones also the camera lenses have held up really well
despite the level of sapphire they may be or grade of sapphire they seem to hold up really well the
only thing i've seen on some of these is where some of the surface coating wears off around the
outside ring so that i've seen on the 13 pro max and other 13 pros but if you're using a case you
generally don't see that as far as the forward glass well the front glass is pretty durable so
ceramic shield does seem to hold up well although i do have one small scratch right there from some
reason i'm not sure what that's from and of course all of this is avoidable by using a case or screen
protector so if you do use a screen protector regularly of course you won't have that issue
and now i do use a case on this from time to time in fact this is sort of a field camera that i use
i record a lot of videos on the weekend and use this for the cameras when i'm outside oftentimes
so i'll use this and then have a case on it just because i'm outside and i find that's where i am
the most careless and develop the most scratches whether that be setting it on a picnic table
maybe hitting it against a nail that's sticking out a little further than it should things like
that so i typically use this case and the silicone case is actually held up pretty well also so
durability of this case because they don't have the cutout on the bottom seems to hold up better
but it seems to do a good job it's not super thick will help with some drops and has kept that camera
off the the table and things to maybe stop it from developing that wear so it's held up well
these cases seem to be fine for that now other than scratches though the display is something
that's really great probably the best thing on this phone you've got a 120 hertz pro motion
display so super smooth scrolling but not only that you have great viewing angles it's super
bright a thousand nits at regular brightness 1200 with hdr and it just looks good overall
so this is the best display apple's ever had this along with the pro max version
and then of course because it can control the the hertz down to 10 hertz up to 120 hertz
you actually get better battery life because of that because it can bring the screen refresh rate
down when you don't need it just we're on this it doesn't have a problem with that and then
it helps with the battery life and then of course with pwm many people ask me pretty much every day
still does the 13 bother your eyes does the 13 pro bother your eyes and with the 13 pro and pro max
it does appear that apple is not only using pwm to control brightness or pulse width modulation
what it does is flash the screen faster and slower to make it look brighter or dimmer or more dim and
what they do with this is typically raise the rate up high enough that it doesn't bother your
eyes however with the 13 pro and pro max some people are saying that they think they're using
dc dimming which means that it's at a constant and not necessarily flashing all the time
that would explain why this display doesn't bother me at all in fact at 240 frames under slo-mo
you can't really pick up the screen flashing this again leads me to believe they're using dc dimming
to help with maybe eye strain so zero eye strain on the pro and pro max so if you're looking for an
oled display you want to try one that shouldn't bother your eyes if you're sensitive to that
then this is the one i would try out now there have been some issues for some people with green
tin i haven't noticed any whether that be at dim levels or the phone is hot or anything like that
i haven't noticed that on the 13 pro some people say that it's on all of them i haven't seen it i
have seen it on one pro max but i have not seen it on this 13 pro so it is something that some people
do see from time to time i haven't experienced it thankfully but it does seem to maintain its color
accuracy it's nicer than the previous generation of the 12 pro it seems to be less warm now with
the 12 pro on the left and the 13 pro on the right you can see obviously there's a difference with
the notch but also the colors are a little bit different and this is more noticeable when you
have a white background so maybe in settings here you can see on the left the 12 pro is a bit warmer
i think most people like the look of the 13 pro a little bit better and the 12 pro could technically
be more color accurate but either way i think most people will be pleased with the 13 pro display
like i said it's super vibrant and goes really bright when in hdr so here's one of my hdr videos
so you do have up to 4k hdr as far as viewing this on youtube it's an hdr display you can go up to 4k
and it looks really good so it's super bright and we're not even at the highest brightness
and it's probably not showing properly on the display so it gives you an idea of just
how bright this really is and so it does a great job in sunlight there's no issues there
and everything else about this display is great now the speakers have held up well also so the
speakers on the phone are nice and loud they're vibrant they have a good sound to them and good
stereo sound and they've held up well over time so take a listen just in case you haven't heard them
so the speakers have maintained their loudness we're getting almost 80 decibels out of it
at least according to what we have on the watch with the noise meter and as far as just sounding
clear they're clear at the highest volume so they've held up well as far as that goes now when
it comes to reception it's pretty good overall but it's really hit or miss when it switches between
5g and other modes now this could be just t-mobile or something else but you can see we're on 5g now
and we have a couple bars and reception is pretty good i haven't had any dropped calls or anything
like that and maybe if we go to speed test here we can just check what it's like in my area but
this can vary of course depending on your carrier how busy it is where you live how many people are
on those cell towers and more but this gives you an idea i'm inside a brick building so the signal
isn't the greatest and we're getting about 60 to 65 megabits per second so it's not amazing
but it's definitely fine 4k video is 15 megabits per second so it's more than enough to watch video
and of course we're getting about five megabits per second up this varies greatly if i go outside
by where i live i can get well over 200 sometimes down and sometimes much faster upload speed so it
just depends where you are and of course the the saturation of the cell tower but it seems to work
fine the main issue i have is with its switching between different modes so maybe you're switching
between 5g and 5g uc or 4g sometimes it drops for a moment and then it will pick back up so
if you're in the middle of streaming something you could have an interruption there that's something
i find to be true on most different phones that have the later modems now i don't know if it's
a modem issue or a carrier issue but with ios 15 it seems to have improved but it still is an issue
from time to time so 15.4 seems to fix most of those issues but it still could be an issue the
cameras on the 13 pro and 13 pro max are the exact same so we have no compromises there and they're
really phenomenal in fact i could have recorded this whole video with them and most people would
love the way the footage looks they have fast focus they may be a little over sharp at times
but they're really great especially if you have the correct lighting there is one thing that makes
it even better is prores so you have prores but my only complaint about prores is the files are so
large you'll see here it says 19 minutes left as far as the amount of footage we can record in 4k
the files are so large that getting them off of the device is a bit of a hassle whether you're
using lightning or maybe you're air dropping them or waiting for them to upload to your
photo library and then download them after i tried this the other day with a 10 minute video and it
took about a half hour to get it off the phone and it failed once so i had to do it again this
is something that i think apple really needs to improve with the next one as you have 200 gigabyte
files you really need usbc or maybe a new version of airdrop to get that off of your device quickly
that's something i think they need to fix otherwise i love to use prores but i
often don't because of how long it takes to offload the footage so i'll just hit a video like
this or hit record and this is the front-facing camera from the 13 pro so i'm recording handheld
and that's all there is to it hit the button it looks good handles the audio and everything else
and it's the audio directly from the mic from the 13 pro so this is good enough to just use maybe
you want to vlog take it on a walk or just record it for a youtube video it's much better than i
think most people realize whether or not you're using prores doesn't seem to matter in certain
lighting conditions so it really doesn't seem to make a difference depending so oftentimes i'll
find myself not using prores just so i can get the footage off the phone more quickly when it
comes to battery this phone will get me through a day without a problem typically by the time
i go to bed at night i'll be down to about 30 to 40 percent on this phone on a pro max i'll
stay a little bit higher around 50 percent so it definitely doesn't get the battery life of the
pro max just because it has a smaller battery but it easily will get you through the day and i have
no issues there when it comes to battery health this is something i tell people not to worry about
you can try and manage it all you want by keeping it below 80 or anything like that
and using slower chargers but you'll end up with maybe saving three percent of your battery when
most people swap their phones every couple of years anyway you can just swap the battery i
personally don't worry about it there's other things going on in the world that i find to be
much more important than worrying about that so i wish apple would change this from a percentage to
a good or bad and it's time to change your battery but you'll see i'm at 100 here i'm at 100 on my
pro max that i've used even more than this phone and i would expect that to drop down to 99 or 98
80 after two years is completely normal and then it's time to swap the battery if it can no longer
provide voltage that you need for the phone to perform at the highest rate so it will just tell
you here we're at peak performance capability it'll tell you to replace the battery bring it
to apple or a nearby service center or you can even do it yourself and swap the battery and
you're back up to normal and fast performance so something i don't really worry about it's 60 to 70
dollars to swap the battery every few years if you need it if you're not swapping your phone as far
as the overall speed well because it has the a15 bionic the latest chip with six gigs of ram it's
just super fast all the time between pro motion and the chipset it's fast to open just about
everything you would want go back in out go to different apps you're out control things as fast
as you want change settings whatever it just seems to respond incredibly fast it's the fastest chip
out there from any manufacturer and it probably will be for a couple of years so it's super
fast no concerns there and of course this came installed with ios 15 which means apple is going
to be supporting this usually for at least five years maybe even six like the iphone 6s plus or 6s
so that means ios 20 or ios 21 maybe something along those lines before it would end support
so obviously it's going to get all of the latest updates for years and years
so there's no concern there and of course you'll get new features with ios 16 and whatever red
regular version releases they have with different features and more as far as if you should pick one
up today well that depends on a couple different things of course whether or not you want to have
the latest and greatest or about six months out probably from the iphone 14 or 14 pro and pro max
i would probably wait if you want the latest phones however if you don't care about that
mid-september is typically when they release the next phones if you don't care about any of that
then of course it's the best phone you can buy from apple right now it's probably the best size
and it's really a great phone to use overall like i said before my main complaint is just getting
prores footage off of it other than that i really have no complaints and it's the best iphone apple
has ever made i'd love to hear what you think about it though in the comments below and of
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