Hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and the iphone 12 mini has been out for
about a month or so and this is a phone that i think a lot of people really like
but initial sales may be a little bit lower than expected according to some things online
now the thought about this that i'm thinking is i think it's because people that upgrade to say the
mini or the 12 are going to be upgrading over this coming year where the early adopters are
going to pick something like the 12 pro and the 12 pro max and so that may be why you're not seeing
a ton of these out in the wild at least i haven't i've seen more of the 12 and the 12 pro out than
anything else of the new phones so it really depends on who the individual is of course but
i want to talk about durability what it's like to use whether or not you should get this size
for yourself talk about battery life and more and so the first thing is durability now this phone
is going to be pretty good i think durability wise for a lot of people because it's smaller
and easier to hold on to as a whole compared to some of the larger phones
now this phone is aluminum on the outside edge and has this sort of anodized or painted aluminum
on the outside ring and so far it hasn't chipped this is the black iphone 12 mini and
on the iphone 5 when it first came out and i have one here we had some chips on the anodized
coating you can see one right there so they chip over time if you're not careful and then apple
improved this with the 5s and moved on but they never really came out with a really dark
black anodized phone again until the 12 or 12 mini in this sort of series with this aluminum band
so hopefully this proves to be more durable over time now during this time of using it it's been
protected in this case if you've not been watching my channel for any amount of time you know i don't
usually use a case but it's been in this leather case protected like this it's the magsafe case
and it does a good job so there's no issues with the back of the phone or the sides of the phone
and the screen doesn't have a single scratch on it it may have some fingerprints from just
picking it up in this video but there's not any scratches on it or anything like that
nothing to be concerned with and it seems to hold up well now i did have a scratch on my iphone 12
i've shown that before here it is let me wipe off the screen so you can see it a little bit better
but in the upper right there's a little scratch i don't know how it got there i'm not sure where
it came from but i haven't seen a scratch like that on any of the other iphone 12 series devices
so i do expect them to hold up pretty well they should be more drop resistant but again you could
put a screen protector on these if you want them to last over time of course just like most people
do now let's take the case off here and talk more about what it's like as far as size now size wise
for me this is a super small phone so if i put it in my hand here you can see to get an idea if
i take the 12 pro max in my hand you'll see that it looks like a normal size phone in my hand so
the 12 mini is way too small for me and that's just my personal preference and the reason for
that obviously is my large hands but coming from something as big as say a 12 pro max to a mini
really cramps my hand up so when you're trying to type i could get used to it i used to you've used
an iphone 5 the original iphone and got used to it but going from a larger phone back to a smaller
one doesn't really work well for me so if i go into notes and then i wanted to type something
like hi how are you today i can do it but it's my hands are just so big that they kind of get
in the way of everything and it just works better for me on a larger display however this is going
to be perfect for a lot of people depending on the size of their hands so as you can see
like i said this is a small phone to me and then i can touch my fingers on the 12 pro max wrapping
them around here most people can't do this so it's going to be very different for the different users
now size wise if you're coming from say an iphone 7 for example maybe a seven or maybe an eight
it may be a perfect size for you and the reason is you'll get a larger display but you'll get a
smaller body overall with decent battery life and i'll talk more about that in a moment but you'll
get a smaller phone overall but a larger display as you can see here with the 7 and the 12 mini
and with this jet black 7 you get sort of the same overall aesthetic but you get some advantages with
the 12 of course and that advantage is the speed you've got all of the latest processors in here
and ram so an a14 bionic with four gigs of ram so you get all the advantages of speed touch
responsiveness and everything else along with face id so if you haven't had face id of course you may
prefer touch id but if you haven't had face id you'll have that option so if we go into say a
game like minecraft you'll see it was already loaded we'll give it a moment you're going to
get great frame rates you'll be able to play all the latest games pair your controllers to it with
ios 14 and you won't have any issues with that whatsoever so you'll have good frame rates overall
no issues there and then of course you could play among us or call of duty mobile whatever
works for you or whatever you want to use it for but you'll be able to do all of that without any
compromise or slowdowns it will compete with the latest phones for at least a couple years because
apple's processors are so fast and then it has an amazing display you have great viewing angles
and the display is vibrant it goes up to 1200 nits when playing hdr video and then also can record
hdr video with its camera now before i talk about the camera the phone does use pwm to
control brightness and this doesn't seem to bother my eyes on this display in fact apple's displays
keep getting better this way and it's caused less and less eye strain coming from the iphone 10
10s to the 11 pro or 11 pro max to the 12. it's better and better and i have zero eye strain
whatsoever with that so if that's a concern for you most likely unless you're in a very
small group of people this is going to be a good choice for you even if you do have an issue where
pwm causes eye strain because you can see those faster frame rates now other than that like i said
the camera can record hdr video which is amazing on this phone so if we move over this phone here
let's switch to say 30 frames per second so we can use hdr and this may be so bright now because it's
an hdr that you can't make out what's in the actual display on this video because the video
itself that i'm recording this with is not an hdr so it may be so bright that you can't see it
and that's sort of what you can see super bright as opposed to just normal video if
i switch to 60 frames per second it can't do hdr in 60 frames so you can now see the display
like you normally would but if you have an iphone that's capable of hdr and viewing hdr
you get the idea that you'll be able to see amazing colors on this and it's great for watching
movies and video and the speakers are nice and loud so the great thing is with this phone there's
zero disadvantages going from an older phone that's small to a newer phone that's small
you're not losing out on anything this time around and i think that's a huge win for a lot of people
and then the other thing is battery life battery life on this phone because it's smaller obviously
is going to be a little bit lower and so some people are having great battery life with it in
fact a lot of people are easily getting through the day with it now i asked people on twitter
what kind of battery life they were having overall because when i was using it i was getting about
five hours of screen on time which is pretty average for most people throughout the day but
you're not going to get the same battery life as you would with say a 12 pro max so if we take a
look at twitter i asked if you use an iphone 12 mini what is your normal screen on time and quite
a few people responded and what i found is most people found to have about five to seven hours
depending on who you are so mark here from mark's tech sent over a screenshot let me show you that
and he was saying six to seven hours and here's his last day or so five hours and 36 minutes and
36 minutes of screen off time and he's still at about 75 battery life this is going to depend
heavily on what you're using your phone for so if you're using your phone to record hdr video or
you're using it to play games all day well you're going to get less battery life overall but if
you're listening to music or just checking email or going on safari or watching youtube it can vary
depending on what you're doing so you could get through a day without a problem for most people
but then of course you can charge it with things like magsafe now so you can charge with lightning
and get 50 battery life in about 30 minutes that's what all of the phones in the last year
or two have done from apple and then now this year you have magsafe so magsafe you may either love
or may not it depends on who you ask but you'll get ok charging faster than you would with normal
qi charging with magsafe on the mini you won't get the full speed compared to the other phones
though because of the smaller battery but it will charge up in the same amount of time
you've also got accessories and i think we're going to see a lot more of this in the future that
uses magsafe whether it be more car mounts or more accessories and maybe wireless communication in
the future for a portless iphone in the future and so i really like the 12 mini it's just too small
for me personally but i think it's a perfect size for a lot of people and so if you have smaller
hands or you just want something that doesn't take up a lot of space to throw in a purse or maybe a
pocket where a normal 12 pro max wouldn't normally fit or something like that i think a lot of people
will enjoy this phone and i think we'll see a ton of these sold up until the next time this year or
this this time next year rather i think we'll see a lot of them sold now personally i think
the 12 pro is the perfect phone for most people as far as size you've got the better display but if
you really want something compact that you're not really compromising on other than the lack of one
lens which isn't really that big of a deal and that's really it it's a great phone the 12 mini
is highly recommendable and definitely i would pick one up if you're looking for a smaller phone
so let me know what you think about it though in the comments below if you're using one if you'd
like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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