Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iphone 8 plus and the iphone 12 pro max are
both the top of the line when it comes to their respective sort of overall design inversion
meaning a phone with touch id and the lcd as opposed to an oled display and what's
the top of the line today or the latest and so i want to help you decide if you
should choose maybe the iphone 8 plus still or maybe upgrade to an iphone 12 pro max
so i'll talk about price and everything from speed to the cameras and more if you'd like
to see exactly what i talk about and when check out the description for the time codes below and
so the first thing is the price the iphone 8 plus is no longer sold new by apple but you can get it
from different websites and many times even new on different websites that have them left over
and they're about five hundred dollars so they range from anywhere from about 500 to 600.
and currently or the last generation that they made come in at 64 and 128 gigabytes
they come in space gray silver gold and a special red edition as well this is the space gray version
with the iphone 12 pro max well it's more than double the price at this point it starts at 1099
goes up to 1 399 and has three storage options 128 gigabytes 256 gigabytes and 512 gigabytes comes in
pacific blue gold graphite and silver and this is the pacific pacific blue model in 256 gigabytes
now both of them are built quite a bit different the iphone 8 plus is a very large phone as well
but this is made of aluminum and glass so it has aluminum on the outside edge glass front and back
where the iphone 12 pro max is stainless steel on the outside edge and again glass front and back
the 12 pro max also has a nice matte finish to the glass except around the cameras where it's
a little bit like normal glass or more glossy and then also the iphone 12 pro max has ceramic shield
which is four times less likely to crack in the event that you drop your phone from say compared
to the 11 pro max so it should be even better than the 8 plus and some of that i think has to do with
this the screen being flushed to the actual frame of the phone so that should help with that as well
now the 8 plus is a little bit lighter because it is aluminum it's 7.13 ounces or 202 grams
and the iphone 12 pro max is 8.03 ounces or 228 grams now size wise they're very comparable the
8 plus seems to be a little bit wider just a tiny bit wider at least it feels that way
and the 12 pro max is a little bit taller so they're very similar in size but the 12 pro max is
a few millimeters taller so you may or may not notice that difference but it definitely feels
bigger with the squared off edges if we go around the outside edge let's take a look at them you
can see that we have the power sleep wake button on the right hand side just like we always have
and then on the 8 plus we have the sim card tray on the 12 pro max we don't have a sim
card tray on the right hand side but we have a millimeter wave antenna if you're in the
united states on the top we don't really have anything there except for an antenna line on
the 12 pro max now on the left hand side we have our silent switch followed by our volume rockers
and on the 12 pro max we have our sim card tray so they've put it on the left hand side of the 12 pro
on the bottom of the phone of course they have their their lightning ports and then you have
asymmetric speaker and microphone holes on the 12 pro max where they're symmetrical on the 8 plus so
that's a little bit nicer looking on the 8 plus in my opinion and the obvious difference between
the two on the front is of course face id versus touch id so with face id you simply pick up your
phone look at it and swipe up at the same time with touch id well it's been a lot around long
enough that you know you just press hold and it unlocks so it's very fast about the same on both
and you'll unlock quickly on either one it's just really down to what works best for you
and in today's current environment touch id may be a little bit better for you right now
but of course you have those large bezels from top to bottom and the displays are both very
different on these phones so the iphone 8 plus has a 5.5 inch lcd display with 1920 by 1080
pixels or basically 1080p with 401 pixels per inch it has 3d touch so when you press and hold on an
icon it just pops right up it's much faster than what we have on the 12 pro max with haptic touch
and it works really well it's pressure sensitive and it still has that feature so that part's built
in it goes up to 625 nits of brightness so it's not as bright as the 12 pro max but the 12 pro
max has a different display on it a 6.7 inch super retina xdr oled display with hdr it's 2778 by 1284
with 458 pixels like i said it has haptic touch but it has the regular brightness of 800 nits
when you turn it all the way up and it can go up to 1200 nits of brightness when you're watching
hdr video so it's very bright and works really well and has great viewing angles so when you
look at the display as you can see they look about the same right now obviously there's a very big
difference in size but you're not going to see the pixels on either one of them they both have very
good viewing angles and the 8 plus even though it's 625 nits still goes plenty bright outside
so there's not really an issue there however the iphone 12 pro max because it's an oled uses what's
called pwm or pulse width modulation to regulate the overall brightness of the display by flashing
it now this is not something you can see but seems to bother about 1 in 10 people and under
slow motion you can capture this and you can see the display is flickering just from sitting there
if it's at full brightness it's not but it has to be at full brightness as you bring it down it
actually slows the the flickering to reduce that brightness on an lcd it doesn't do that it's just
on all the time and it won't bother or strain your eyes so if you're someone that suffers from this
it's much much better with the 12 pro max than any other generation of the iphones so it probably
won't bother you but if you are sensitive to that then the eight plus may be the option for you
because it doesn't do that at all now internally they're very different as well the iphone 8 plus
has the a11 bionic cpu with three gigabytes of ram where the iphone 12 pro max actually has
an a14 bionic with six gigabytes of ram so there's a very big difference as far as
that with the neural engine on them as well it's newer in the 12 pro max and should help with much
faster operation of more complex tasks now with using the phones for everyday tasks you're going
to have about the same sort of experience if you open things like music for example
it should be nice and fast everything from opening the camera should be nice and quick you're not
going to have any delays really there and just going into settings and doing average tasks you
really shouldn't see a difference however when you're doing things maybe opening a game or maybe
exporting 4k video you could see a difference so let's go ahead and try a game quickly see how
quickly it loads we'll go into minecraft we'll rotate the phone here now remember the 12 pro max
has six gigabytes of ram so we'll go ahead and hit play on both we'll hit create new create new world
then we'll hit create wait for it here hit proceed on that one let's see how long this takes and
what i find oftentimes is the older phone actually loads some of these games more quickly
and usually that's due to the way it can ramp up the speed of the processor so when you're doing
things that are simple like minecraft for example it loads nice and fast framework frame rates are
nice and smooth all the time and you're really not going to see much of a difference between
the devices when it comes to something like that however when you're exporting 4k video well that's
going to be a little bit more intensive so let's go ahead and close out of minecraft here
close out of all of our apps now i've closed out all apps except for imovie so let's go into imovie
and see how quickly we can export 4k video now this is video that was recorded on an iphone
in 4k quite some time ago in fact you can see it was modified today and what i did is if i
go into edit you'll see if we go all the way to the end it's three minutes and 46 seconds that's
the same on both of these and i've put the same titles at the same point on both of these as well
so they're the exact same video so let's see how quickly we can export them since
one should be much faster than the other you can see that they're the same with the same titling
so we'll slide these over here then i have another phone i'll use as a stopwatch
so we'll bring these in there we go we'll hit done and then we'll go ahead and hit share
so let's go ahead and see if we can save the video at the same time save and start and let's
see which one exports faster and they'll probably be closer than you would expect
so you can see how close both of them exported at and there's really not that
much of a difference between either one sometimes you can export more quickly on a different device
that's a little bit older than you can on a new one and sometimes it's the other way around but
usually it's within seconds of one another so that part's really great on both phones now they
are a little bit warmer at least the eight plus is a little warm right around here the 12 pro
max doesn't feel warm at all but it will get warm from time to time when doing intensive processes
now as far as the overall cameras well there's a big difference between the forward-facing cameras
now the forward-facing camera on the iphone 8 plus has basically a 7 megapixel camera with
an f 2.2 aperture and can record 1080p at 30 frames per second where the 12 pro max has a 12
megapixel forward facing camera f 2.2 again but can record 4k 60 has night mode deep fusion 4k
60 dolby vision hdr as well along with animoji and momoji so you can do a lot more with the forward
facing camera on the 12 pro max the rear cameras are very different as well so the iphone 8 plus
has decent rear cameras but there's only two of them and so what we have on the back is
dual 12 megapixel sensors with a wide f 1.8 and a telephoto f 2.8 it can record in 4k 60 as well
and on the 12 pro max there's a very big difference so these are all new cameras that
are larger sensors are better in low light but also are triple 12 megapixel cameras you have an
ultra wide f 2.4 a wide f 1.6 and a telephoto f 2.2 that can do two and a half optical zoom
up to 5x punching into this sensor it also has apple pro raw support night mode on all cameras
night mode portraits smart hdr3 for photos and night mode time lapse as well as well as hdr dolby
vision hdr so if we go into the settings go down to the camera here on both of them you'll see that
the settings are very different so the formats are very different as well so we have 4k 60 on
both let's go back here 4k 60 on both but you have hdr video on the 12 pro mac so you have the
option to record in 10 bit dolby vision hdr which is incredible if you've ever seen any of that
let's take a look at some of the photos and videos from the forward-facing and rear cameras as well
this is the forward-facing camera of the iphone 8 plus and the iphone 12 pro max
and with the iphone 12 pro max you have 4k with hdr so if you have that enabled you have that
ability to record dolby vision hdr but with the 8 plus you don't have that you only have up to 1080p
so there's a huge difference in the quality of the cameras you can also see that the
background looks a little bit better on the 12 pro max as the neural engine is processing the
highlights and giving a little bit better dynamic range also the 8 plus has
a decent microphone and you can hear the difference here with the 8 plus
and then the 12 pro max let me know which one you think sounds best in the comments below
now like i said the iphone 12 pro max supports hdr so if we go to youtube for example you can
watch hdr there in the youtube app here's my iphone 12 pro review i filmed in hdr and if you
look at the actual options for the quality we have 1080p now this is a 1080p display on the
iphone 8 plus so it really makes no difference whether or not you're going to use that or not
4k may be an option for some but basically it's a 1080p display and it will scale however we have
4k hdr on the 12 pro max so you may be seeing 4k some people are on the 8 plus but in general
it's a 1080p display the display on the 12 pro max is a little bit higher than that also let's
take a listen to the speakers so you can hear the difference between both of them and see what you
pro max to think this out and so far i'm really enjoying it but i want to talk about the good
and the bad and so the first good thing is the key has been my main phone for the past
five to six days i've been using it full time i switched from an 11 pro max to test this out
and so far i'm really enjoying it but i want to talk about the good and the bad so those
are the speakers of the 12 pro max versus the 8 plus and the 8 plus has decent sound but there's
far less stereo sound coming from the top of this this speaker here or the earphone at the top so
it makes a very big difference between the both of them and the overall sound quality is much better
from the 12 pro max now both of them obviously have cellular connectivity but the 12 pro max has
5g so you have 5g plus millimeter wave depending on your carrier and you will get faster speeds
depending on your coverage it really depends where you are but you do have that option it's
not a huge reason to upgrade to this or to buy a 12 pro max but it will get better over time so
it's sort of future proofing if you don't have coverage in your area you also get wi-fi 6 with
the 12 pro max where it doesn't have it on the 8 plus so you do have all of the same wi-fi bands
except for wi-fi six with the eight plus and they both have bluetooth 5.0 also water resistance is
a little bit different so the eight plus has ip67 for one meter for up to 30 minutes the 12 pro max
is a quite a step up at ip68 6 meters for up to 30 minutes so it has much better water sealing
around the outside edge and there's just a very big difference between them as far as that goes
now when it comes to the battery the iphone 8 plus has a 2691 milliamp hour battery which is the same
as the 7 plus basically and will give you about five and a half to six hours of screen on time
the 12 pro max has a larger battery almost by a thousand milliamp hours and it's three thousand
six hundred and eighty seven milliamp hours and has similar battery life to the eleven pro max you
can expect about ten to twelve hours of screen on time with regular use so it has almost double the
screen on time in regular use than the 8 plus that is a very big difference and very noticeable when
you're using them regularly day to day now both have the ability to fast charge 50 in 30 minutes
they both have wireless qi support or wireless charger support but the 12 pro max has mag safe
support so this will be more relevant in the future but basically it allows it allows 15 watt
fast charging vo wireless connection and it will charge the phone wirelessly that way it's magnetic
and will adhere to it you can get things like car mounts that will help attach to the phone and keep
it secure so you do have that option as well and that will be nicer in the future now which
one should you choose well that really depends on whether or not you think the 12 pro max is worth
over double the cost of the 8 plus and so if it is then it's obviously going to be an easy choice
with the oled display the better cameras and just the newer build with the squared off edges
however the 8 plus is a great phone you could get over two of these for the price of the 12 pro max
and it's still relevant today and will get updates for many years to come you'll get about five to
six years of updates generally from apple so we still have a few years left with the eight plus
so i would expect maybe up to ios 18 or so with the 8 plus where it will get regular
updates so it's still relevant today in that way and of course it doesn't have pwm and it has touch
id which is much easier in today's environment so it really just depends on which one works
best for you if you're more budget conscious but you want a larger display go with the eight plus
if you have to have the latest and greatest go with the 12 pro max you'll love the camera on
here and the battery life let me know which one you would choose in the comments below
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