what's up guys my name is brandon and the iphone 13 lineup has been officially revealed and just
like last year, we have 4 brand new iphones this year. So we have the iPhone 13, the 13 pro, 13 pro
max, and the 13 mini. And with this year's lineup there are not only major differences between the
13 and the 13 pro but there are even changes and differences based on the storage option
that you choose so in this video we're going to discuss nine things that you probably missed about
the iphone 13 and some mistakes you need to avoid making before ordering an iphone 13 and then of
course we'll discuss which iphone 13 is right for you so let's start off with the pricing because
this is something that is a little bit deceiving just like last year so apple advertises that the
13 starts at 7.99 but that is only if you immediately connect it to a carrier so if
you want to buy the iphone unlocked and use it on any carrier and have no obligation or no contracts
it's actually 829 for the 128 gigabyte model but the pro models do not have this discounted
pricing based on carrier activation they remain at the same at 9.99 and 10.99 starting prices
and the base model remains at gigabytes and speaking of 128 gigabytes that is now the base
storage option for the iphone 13 lineup so it used to be 64 gigabytes now apple has doubled
that to 128 for the starting model of the iphone 13 and 13 mini for the same price as they were
last year so that's a good value but just to make things a little bit more spicy apple also
threw in a one terabyte option for the pro and pro max so you now get the option to select 128
256 512 or one terabyte of storage on your pro or pro max and if you're curious about the price
of the one terabyte iphone 13 pro max the macdaddy it's 15.99 before tax so yeah gonna be a pretty
expensive year if you want to get the maxed out the highest end iphone you can get but i will
say that this year if you're going for the pro models you might actually want to get a higher
storage option than you would previously and that's because of apple's interesting decision
that they made with limiting a specific feature on the 128 gigabyte models so apple didn't mention
this during the event but if we dig into the specs right here you can see that prores video
recording one of the major new features coming to the 13 pro and pro max can only be shot in
up to 1080p on the 128 gigabyte model 1080p but if you get the 256 512 or one terabyte model you
can record that prores video and up to 4k 30fps so if you plan on using that prores video recording
feature which you probably are if you're going for the pro then just go ahead and get 256 or above
so you're gonna have to spend a little bit more than you maybe wanted to but apple is limiting
that feature to 256 and above this year just make sure you have that two terabytes of storage
in your icloud because i'm sure that this video you know this format is going to eat up a lot
of storage which is probably why apple you know required 256 gigabytes or higher and to ensure
that your iphone will not die while recording one of those videos apple decided to increase the
battery size the physical battery size across the board for all iphone 13 models now obviously last
year the iphone 12 mini just had horrendous battery life it had the smallest battery
and it just kind of flopped because the battery life was so bad so apple listened and they threw
in a bigger battery not just on the 13 mini but again across the board so now with the iphone 13
mini you'll be able to get an hour and a half of extra battery life over last year's model and it's
the same deal with the iphone 13 pro you're going to get an additional hour and a half of battery
life over the 12 pro meanwhile the iphone 13 and the iphone 13 pro max both get an additional two
and a half hours of battery life over the previous generation so pretty big bumps for the main
you know iphone 13 and then the highest in the 13 pro max so the 13 pro max is just going to
have like multiple day battery life at this point because the 12 pro max already had amazing battery
life but to add an additional two and a half hours it's crazy so improved battery is nice and all but
it does come with a minor caveat and that is that all of the new iphones this year will be slightly
thicker and slightly heavier so the iphone 13 is now going to be 10 grams heavier than the 12. the
13 pro is going to be 15 grams heavier than the 12 pro the 13 pro max is going to be 12 grams heavier
than the 12 pro max and the 13 mini is going to be 6 grams heavier than the 12 mini and the
thickness of the phones is also going to increase by about 0.25 millimeters so this is one downside
of having a physically larger battery inside these iphones but in my opinion it's worth it for that
much of an increase in battery life now as for the display all iphone 13 models will have the same
super retina xdr display as last year but the big addition this year is going to be the 120 hertz
pro motion display that's being added to the pro and the pro max and unlike a normal 120
hertz display the iphone 13 pro does not just stick to 120 hertz when the option is selected
instead it has an adaptive refresh rate so the screen refreshes at a rate from 10 to 120 times
per second based on what you're doing on your phone in order to either deliver amazing graphics
performance when you're gaming or something like that or to save battery life when you're maybe
scrolling slowly through a news article so it's going to be adaptive and just change based on
what you're doing on your phone which is awesome and this is going to be a massive feature and this
is going to be one of those features that a ton of people upgrade or transfer over from an android to
iphone 4. and i know that because a lot of people were talking about it in my live stream when it
was first announced so i have a good feeling that a lot of people are going to be switching over
to iphone this year mainly for that 120 hertz display now looking further into these displays
you can see that the 13 has the same brightness as the pros from last year and the 13 pros now have
1 000 nits of max brightness compared to 800 last year on the 12 pros and we also have the same 1200
nits of peak brightness when watching hdr content so every iphone 13 across the board is going to
have improved brightness now another big design change that apple introduced with the iphone 13
is a smaller notch so we have a smaller notch on all four of the new iphone 13s it's smaller by
about 20 percent but what's interesting is that yes it's smaller horizontally but it's actually
a little bit taller than it was in the past on past iphones so like i said apple calls this a 20
smaller notch but i have a sneaky suspicion that this will look even smaller than 20 when we get
these in hand so i cannot wait for that and then finally let's discuss the a15 bionic chip so this
is apple's new chipset the successor to the a14 bionic and of course all iphone 13 models will be
getting the same a15 bionic chip inside with the same four and six gigabytes of ram that we had on
last year's models now apple didn't really specify how much faster the 13s are compared to the 12s
so that alone leads me to believe that the performance difference is going to be very minor
year to year so from last year's to this year so i would not expect a big jump however with
the pro models we do have a 5 core gpu versus a 4 core that we had on last year's pros and
also what we have on the 13 so the 13 has a 4 core gpu while the 13 pros have a 5 core gpu so
that could improve graphics performance and gaming but it's probably not going to be anything major
so stay tuned for my speed test videos because of course i will be doing the speed tests here on
the channel once i get all of those iphone 13s in the studio all right so now for the big question
which iphone should you buy and let me start off by saying that if you have an iphone 12 or
12 pro then i would not upgrade this year i mean there's really nothing too compelling to warrant
an upgrade in my opinion unless you just are in love with the thought of a pro motion display
i would say just wait for like the iphone 14 or maybe the 15. now if you have an iphone
11 or older i would say you should strongly consider upgrading to an iphone 13 or 13 pro
because you're going to have a significantly better camera about the front and the back
you're going to have a significantly better battery life and even a significantly better
display if you opt for the 13 pro or pro max with that promotion display but aside from which device
you're coming from let's talk about which iphone 13 is right for you so i would say that the iphone
13 this year offers the best value so i went back and forth on this because i thought for a while
that the 13 pro and pro max just had better value because of the display and the better battery life
and things like that but when i started really thinking about it i think that the iphone 13
still brings the best value i mean you're getting most of the features that you have
on the pro especially the camera the difference in the camera quality between the 13 and the 13 pro
and pro max is going to be very minor most people are not going to be able to tell a difference
whatsoever and again if you do not care about that pro motion display that 120 hertz display
just go with the iphone 13 and save yourself a couple hundred bucks not to mention you have
more fun colors to choose from with the 13 as well now if you have smaller hands or if you
just prefer a smaller iphone then i would go with the iphone 13 mini because we're going to have an
hour and a half of additional battery life over the iphone 12 mini which was a great device
but the battery life was a big pitfall and really one of the main reasons that people did not like
the 12 mini so i think the 13 mini now that it has that better battery life is going to be a great
device and one that i can really recommend and the only reason i don't have that
as the best value and the one i think everybody should get is because it might just be too small
for a lot of people so if you have not held a mini phone the 12 mini then i would go into the apple
store and hold it and just see if it's right for you before you go ahead and pre-order or order the
iphone 13 mini now as for the iphone 13 pro this is going to cost you an additional 200 at least
over the iphone 13 which is a decent amount of money so for the extra 200 you are going to be
getting better battery life a better camera you know with that additional ultra wide lens
that 120 hertz variable refresh rate a brighter display and a 5 core gpu for slightly better
graphics performance and then for the pro max that's going to be 300 more than the iphone 13 and
really there's no big difference between the pro and pro max this year so really the only reason
i think you should get the pro max over maybe the pro or the regular 13 is just simply for the size
of course you do have better battery life the 13 pro max is going to have the best battery life of
any iphone ever so that's another reason but you have to be willing to put up with the big weight
and size of the iphone 13 pro max so just imagine the 12 pro max but just slightly slightly heavier
so basically it comes down to whether or not you want the best of the best or if you're just fine
with having the regular 13 and saving two to 300 bucks because really there's nothing major nothing
really that's a must-have in my opinion on the pros this year aside from maybe that promotion
display so if you don't think you're going to be able to tell a difference you know if you don't
really care too much about that then i would say again go for the 13 and save yourself a
couple hundred bucks but if you want the best of the best if you want the you know pro res
video recording and you want the best of the best cameras you want the best battery life you
want the pro motion display all of that then sure spend the extra money but in my opinion i think
90 of people are going to be getting the iphone 13 and i think that's the right decision for 90
of people now of course if you can wait a little bit and you do not need to get your iphone 13
asap like right on launch day just wait for me to get mine in studio i mean i'm gonna be doing
a ton of videos and comparisons on the iphone 13 series and my opinions could change so maybe just
wait for those videos to come out before making your decision if you do not need to get the iphone
asap but anyways guys there you have it that is my opinion on which iphone 13
you should buy so let me know what you guys think down in the comments below and also down there
let me know which iphone 13 model you are going to be ordering so if you guys enjoyed this video
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