- Before you buy an iPhone 13,
there are a few things that I think
are really worth considering.
So the Apple event just wrapped up,
where they announced a ton of new products
including the iPhone 13 mini, the regular 13,
the Pro, the Pro Max Chungs edition,
as well as stuff like the new iPads and the Apple watches.
But I think the decision between which iPhone,
if you are considering upgrading to the 13 this year,
is way easier to make than it's been in previous years.
Okay, so let's start out with what's actually new
with the iPhone 13.
So there's some new colors.
So specifically there's red, black, blue, gray, and sunrise,
which I think is the replacement for like rose gold.
So the camera bump has been slightly changed.
So unlike the 12 mini, which has the vertical cameras,
it has them as like a horizontal thing.
And that's because you now have upgraded module.
Not only with the main camera,
but also you have sensor shift,
which was originally from the 12 Pro Max.
We'll talk about the camera stuff later.
There also are some other aesthetic changes
on the front of the display.
So the notch across the entire iPhone 13 range
has now been shrunken.
Now, look, until I see this in person,
I will reserve judgment.
It looks very similar to me.
You'll find those some more on the mini,
where it was basically like two thirds
at the top of the display,
but hey, you know what?
A smaller notch is better,
even though of course, no notch would be best.
The display has also been upgraded.
So it's about 28% brighter.
So you're looking at about 800 nits in standard usage
and up to 1,200 nits for peak brightness.
Very nice.
Not really a huge concern,
but what you don't get on the display is Pro Motions.
Skipping ahead a little bit,
the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max this year
finally get high refresh rate displays
at a smooth 120 frames per second.
So one of the big things is that it does have
an Apple A15 bionic chip.
Surprise, surprise.
After the A14 comes the A15.
It has the same general layout.
You have two high-performance cores,
four low performance cores or efficiency cores,
and you have a four core GPU.
However, again, unlike last year
where, you know, the Pro and the regular iPhones
had the same 60 hertz display and the same specs,
the Pro models actually have slightly more powerful GPU's.
So on the iPhone Pro as well as Pro Max,
this year you're getting a five core GPU
as opposed to the four core on the standard iPhone 13.
They've always had the exact same chip
across all the iPhones, right?
So if you have an A15, it is the exact same
as an A14 or A13.
But this year, if you purchase the standard
iPhone 13 mini or the standard iPhone 13,
you are getting a less performance chip than on the Pro.
But that being said,
they didn't really make it seem like the A15
was a huge jump anyway.
So traditionally they look at, you know,
the A15 compared to last generation and be like,
oh, it's 713% faster.
Well, the quotes that I got here
were the A15 is the fastest CPU in any smartphone,
which is not a surprise because the A14 was.
But they say it's 50% better than the competition
on the CPU side, and 30% faster on the GPU side
on the four core.
I can believe those numbers.
But what I also believe is that it's probably,
if you compared it to the last generation iPhone,
not as huge of a leap.
The iPhone 13 cameras have also been improved,
but yet again, they've been improved somewhat.
And the Pro has been improved a lot more.
The main wide angle camera on the iPhone 13
seems to be very similar to what we got on the 12 Pro Max.
So it is a larger sensor.
It lets in about 47% more light.
It also does have the sensor shift stabilization.
All great upgrades, but the Pro just has
even bigger sensors with even better specs.
Same thing goes for the Ultra Wide.
So the Ultra Wide has been improved on the 13,
but it's been improved a whole lot more on the 13 Pro.
Kinda getting the trend here?
There are other improvements.
So they showed off what was called cinematic mode,
which is a little bit into the weeds.
But essentially what it allows you to do
is to cleanly rack focus between subjects.
So Ken, I'm gonna go throw something on the fly at you.
Can you rack focus the camera?
So here, I'm right here.
Oh, look, Ken just rack focused the camera.
Oh, look, he racked focused it back.
Look at that amazing real world example
of what cameras are like.
Well, in some small way, you'll be able to do that
on the iPhone.
- [Ken] The iPhone is apparently smarter than me
because I racked to the thing behind you.
(reviewer laughs)
- Okay, look, so that's actually one of the big differences.
So unlike a traditional camera that we're using here,
where Ken is using his hands to control it,
this is actually an automatic process.
So the iPhone when you're in cinematic mode,
will do its best to determine like,
oh, it sees this person and it, you know,
I turn and it will change focus or whatever.
You can still mainly select it.
It's a cool feature, but again,
there's this better cinematic mode on the Pro.
I feel like a broken record here.
Everything is better on the Pro this year.
- [Ken] Everything is funnier when you're not in focus.
- Am I still out of focus?
Focus the camera, Ken.
I'm gonna replace you with an iPhone 13 Pro Max.
- [Ken] Does that mean I get to keep it?
- No!
So outside of that, probably the biggest upgrade honestly,
on the iPhone 13, is gonna be battery life.
The iPhone 12 mini, as much as I love this-
- Terrible. - Adorable little phone.
- [Ken] Terrible.
- Had let's say less than spectacular the battery life.
And so with the 13, as well as the 13 mini,
you're getting more battery life.
So the mini is getting an hour and a half more battery life,
and the standard iPhone 13 is getting
two and a half more hours of battery life.
Do you want to guess what I'm about to say?
Go guess what?
The Pro's also have better battery life,
but it's improved by more.
Oh, Austin beating the dead horse yet again.
Now the one thing I will say
is that thankfully across the entire iPhone range this year,
the prices have remained the same.
So it's 699 for the mini, 799 for the standard iPhone 13.
And at that price,
they've actually now given you more storage.
So before, the baseballs came was 64 gigs of storage,
now it defaults to 128 gigs.
So essentially you're getting a roughly $50 price cut
for the 128 gig iPhone 13, which is great.
I'm not gonna say it,
but you know what I've about to say.
- The Pro's better? - Yeah, the Pro's better.
Yes. Thank you.
Thank you, Matt for completing that sentence.
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So now that we've gone over
what's upgraded on the iPhone 13,
which is a reasonable amount,
but it's very much like an S Malia, right?
You know, the iPhone 6 to 6s, it looks basically the same.
There's some tweaks here, the camera, the battery
but it's very much similar.
The Pro is a much more significant step forward.
So first of all, they've got four colors.
There's graphite, gold, silver, and the light blue,
they call Sierra blue, which I personally think
looks very nice.
It's not like Pro, like I feel like the Pro colors
have always been like it's titanium, alloy, aluminum,
or I don't know, whatever.
- [Matt] Those are three different-
- I know they're three different things, okay?
This is not a very Pro color, but I'm absolutely about it.
It has a similar design to last year,
although I will say on the standard Pro,
the camera modules look absolutely chalk tastic.
Like, I tweeted this earlier,
it's like, you're buying a camera
and an iPhone comes with it.
Like, this is absolutely ridiculous.
But that being said, guess what?
Larger cameras mean that they're better,
and especially they're better than the iPhone 13.
Okay, so one of the big upgrades is on the screen side.
So now they do have a brighter display again this year,
but you also have, like I was saying,
that Pro Motion that can go all the way from 10 hertz
up to 120 Hertz.
Although to be fair, the Pro Motion is on both
the Pro and the Pro Max.
So unlike last year where some features
were only on like the Max,
the Pro and the Pro Max are essentially identical
except for the size of the batteries
and the sizes of the screens, which is very nice.
Let's talk a little about why the 13 Pro
I think really deserves consideration
if you're gonna be upgrading this year,
which are the cameras.
All the cameras are a major step forward.
So first of all, on the telephoto side,
something that you're not going to see on the iPhone 13,
we now have a 3x telephoto,
which is a roughly 77 mil equivalent.
That is a big jump.
Last year it was like, they went from two to 2.5X.
Now it's 3X across the board,
which is definitely going to be nice.
I know Ken specifically uses it
to take a lot of his car photography.
The telephoto camera, especially the 3X,
to me that's a really nice kind of zone to live in.
On top of that, the wide angle camera
is the largest sensor they've ever had.
Frickin sweet. Awesome.
I'm all about it.
But you know what one of the bigger upgrades
I think a lot of people are going to like,
is the Ultra Wide.
So last year, all the iPhone 12 had the same,
let's say, not great Ultra Wide.
Like it was fine in like really good light.
But other than that,
it fell apart. - It was basically the same
as the previous generation one too.
- It was rough, right?
This time, we have not only a much wider aperture
on that ultra wide a different sensor,
but we also have auto-focus and macro mode.
This is something that I believe the first one I saw do this
was one plus.
However, this is a big deal.
So essentially you can take your macro phone,
or sorry, you can take your macro mode with the ultra wide,
get it right on top of your subject,
and get what I think are some really, really
striking looking images.
It gives you a lot more sort of opportunities
to not only go from macro to super ultra wide,
to standard with a large sensor, to telephoto,
there's a lot to the camera, and again,
the Pro and the Pro Max have the upgrades.
The iPhone 13 has a regular slightly improved ultra wide.
There's a bunch of other stuff.
There's like a bunch of photography modes,
which allow you to bake.
They're not filters, but they allow you to bake
different like contrast and color.
- It gives you- - Profile.
- [Ken] Yeah, it gives you control
over your base image basically.
- Yeah, yeah, so essentially if you're familiar
with like a DSLR or something,
where you can tweak your picture profile,
it seems vaguely similar to that
where you can kind of have that baked in
while you take the image,
as opposed to taking the photo
and then trying to edit after the fact.
Seems cool, and then there's some big video upgrades.
So not only do you have the cinematic mode,
but it has been improved.
Basically portrait mode for video.
They were very quick on sort of mentioning this,
and the actual demo video they showed,
it looked a little bit off.
This is actually not really a new feature
because devices like Samsung has had this for quite a while.
Generally speaking, portrait mode works well in photos.
I think in video, it's probably gonna be like 80% there,
especially considering that they've
very briefly mentioned it.
But, hey, it's nice to have.
You also have all the focus racking stuff.
And for people like us,
I think we're really excited about something called Pro Res.
So a lot of the video that we shoot
on our professional cameras is shot using the Pro Res codec,
which just has a lot more data
and is gonna take a lot more space.
But that is something that's gonna be coming
to these Pro model phones later this year.
Now, as far as the prices, they are the exact same.
So 999 for the Pro, and a 1,099 for the Pro Max.
They still start with the 128 gig,
but you can go all the way up this year
to a one terabyte iPhone 13 Pro,
which I actually think is probably worth it
if you're gonna be shooting a lot
of like ProRes and whatnot.
And it's $1,600 for the one terabyte iPhone 13 Pro Max
Chungas edition, which is- - I cant wait.
(soft music)
(phone thuds)
- Is this your way of asking
for an iPhone 13 Pro Max Chungas one terabyte edition?
- [Ken] Yes.
- So I personally think if we're just talking
about iPhones here, that the iPhone Pro
makes a lot more sense.
In the past, I've been a little bit sort of iffy
on why the Pro deserves Pro name,
because really it's been like a slight different design,
couple of minor tweaks, and that's it.
This year though, there's some real differentiation,
especially if you're looking at these standard size
iPhone 13 and Pro, which are the exact same size
and physical dimensions primarily.
For $200 more, you're getting a far better display,
you're getting a majorly improved camera setup.
These phones have really earned the Pro name
in a way that makes the iPhone 13 and the mini look weak.
They look like very minor upgrades,
whereas the Pros have gotten
all of the good, fun, shiny toys.
Speaking of shiny toys, I think one of the things
that I was most excited for beyond just purely the iPhone,
was the new iPad mini.
They finally redesigned the iPad mini
for what certainly feels like the first time
in a very, very long time.
Now I know a lot of people might not be
a huge fan of the mini.
But those who are, I think are going to really
love this upgrade.
It basically is a shrunken down iPad Pro.
So you have that same design language,
you have a number of colors,
including some stuff like purple and gold
and pink and whatnot, but importantly,
it now fits in the same size form factor.
An 8.3 inch liquid retina True Tone 500 nit edition.
One thing I do think is a little bit hard to swallow
is I guess the mini price tag.
So it is now from $400, they've upgraded the price
to 500 bucks this time.
So if you want to get this new shiny iPad mini,
it starts at $500.
But what probably is the thing
that is gonna excite more people than that,
is the new Apple Watch Series 7.
I love Apple Watches.
I have been an Apple Watch user since the very beginning.
I use an Apple Watch more than I use an iPhone, right?
A lot of times like this phone kind of sticks around
to make sure the Apple Watch works,
because this is such a better smartwatch
than anything that's out there.
So before the event, there was a lot of discussion
about there would be a much more kind of like,
you know, iPad, iPhone 13 style flat design for the watch.
I'm very happy to report that that was not correct.
This looks very similar,
which some people were kind of like complaining on Twitter
that that's a bad thing.
But personally, I have always liked the look
of the Apple watch.
And now we have a much larger display,
and actually a curved display underneath to sort of match.
So it's a 20% larger screen than the Series 6,
and a 50% larger than the Series 3.
You have a 1.7 millimeter border
that goes all the way around, which is 40% thinner.
Like it's pretty much a full screen watch face,
which I personally think is a no-brainer, right?
I mean, you've got the same size.
Why would you have any bezzle?
If you can just make this watch as big as possible
without actually making the physical size bigger, why not?
We didn't see the other things
that were rumored for the event,
like the Mac Books or Air Pods or anything like that.
But to me, just kinda putting a little finer point
on the entire video,
if you are considering upgrading
from any iPhone to the iPhone 13s,
strongly consider that Pro.
Yes, you can save a little bit of money
by going with the regular iPhone 13.
And if you really like the smaller size,
the mini is still, I think a solid device
which is better this year.
As much as I've loved the last year on the mini,
these upgrades that we've seen on the camera
and across the iPhone 13 have pretty clearly convinced me
to go with the iPhone 13 Pro.
We use the cameras for video all the time.
We use it obviously for like social.
There's a lot that I can see as far as value on that phone,
and the fact that it is at the same price,
and it seems such a comprehensive upgrade,
not only makes the iPhone 13 look bad,
but I've got to give the props.
I mean, they'd given us more of everything.
So for a regular S model year,
I think it's a very solid upgrade.
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