Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iphone 13 pro max has been out for about three
months at this point i've been using it most of the time and the entire time i've been using it it
has not had a case or screen protector on it so i want to talk about durability scratches what it's
like to use the display and much more and this video is brought to you and sponsored by anker
we'll talk more about that a little bit later now the first thing is the design and size the
design is basically the same as last year's phone the iphone 12 pro max we've got squared off edges
and i really like these as far as being able to hold on to it i find it more grippy when you have
squared off edges than you do with rounded edges now i like the rounded edges and i find them to be
more ergonomic but with the squared off edges it brings me back to the iphone 5 days where it just
feels a little bit more premium in my opinion and more solid but it's less ergonomic when swiping
across the display it's not as smooth of course because you have this edge so you either love
this design or you don't like it as much as the other but most people seem to like it quite a bit
as far as its overall size well i keep coming back to the max size phone and some people
thought maybe i'm holding a pro sized phone or 13 and you can see here's the 13 right here my
hands are quite large and so i find myself going back to the 13 pro max just because it looks like
a normal phone in my hands so it's easy to reach across the display so if i want to reach across
all the way over the display i have no problem and even going up to the top of the display it's not
an issue so i can reach to the top with my thumb i do have to do a bit of stretching with my hand but
i can do that without a problem and it feels like a normal size phone to me so for that reason it
seems to be the perfect size for me personally i have found myself going back and forth between the
pro and the pro max but i typically come back to the max for a couple different reasons and one of
them is its overall size and display and of course battery life we'll talk about that in a moment
the 13 pro max is a little bit heavier than it was before it has this larger camera module which does
take better photo and video in most situations and it does add some additional weight along with the
internal battery being larger it just feels a little bit heavier to me it was noticeable at
first it still feels like a very heavy phone but it's solid and i really don't have any issues
with that personally now as far as its durability goes i've shown this in a different video where i
actually dropped one of these on concrete by accident i was setting it up to film with it
and actually it slid off a table and landed face down on concrete i shared this in a different
video but that was not this phone this is my main phone this was the phone that actually did that
in that fall it doesn't have a single scratch on it and if i zoom in here or go into a macro
mode here with cameras you'll see along this outside edge there's some little dings on the
metal but it didn't even touch the ceramic shield on the display so it's incredibly
strong glass as far as dropping it and dropping it straight on concrete it held up really well
the frame just has a couple small dings you can't really notice it just looking at it at the front
of the phone itself you can't tell it's ever been dropped maybe a couple little things here in the
bottom right maybe you would notice if you were looking very closely otherwise it's incredible
and the same is true for my 13 pro max that i use normally there's not a single scratch on it
that i can find anywhere under bright sunlight i don't really see any micro scratches it's
just been very durable similar to last year's phone when apple started using ceramic shield
so i haven't had any issues as far as durability it seems to hold up really well and of course if
you want an added layer of protection you can just put on a screen protector or put on a case
and of course avoid those problems even further because you'll have that additional protection
however you'll add bulk to the phone and wait as well now when it comes to battery i think that's
one of the number one reasons people upgraded to this phone this year with its larger battery
it gets through a day without a problem in fact last night i put it on the charger and i was over
60 percent and had been off the charger for over 12 hours easily if we go into settings and go to
battery you'll see my battery health is at 100 since it's a newer phone it hasn't degraded just
yet it does typically degrade about 10 percent a year depending on usage but if we go and take
a look at yesterday i had three hours of screen on time or three hours and 25 minutes of screen
on time 5 hours and 50 minutes of screen off time and used about 50 percent of my battery however
depending on the day it varies greatly some days it gets amazing battery life depending
on what you're doing if you're doing things like facetime and you're heavily using it well you're
going to get less battery life but typically i haven't had a single day since i've used this
that i'm really below 50 percent by the end of the day this is a two day phone i think for most
people unless you're playing games heavily using the video camera heavily and more now if your
battery is low and you're out and about or on the go while there are many ways to charge anker is
my go-to anker is the official charging partner of zollotech and they've sponsored this video
and i genuinely use their products and love their products because they keep coming out with better
devices or better ways to charge anker has a new mag go lineup and this is one of them and this
is a battery pack that can charge your phone and give it an additional 17 hours or so of life on
the iphone 12 or 13 series so it's a magnetic battery that has 5 000 milliamp hours of power
and can charge at 7.5 watts and unlike some of the competition it has a built-in stand so if
we pull this top down here it's a magnetic stand you can just place it on the back like that and
if you want to watch a video you can watch it in portrait or you can tilt it to landscape as it's
strong enough to hold the phone up in landscape so it's a nice little battery pack of course it
has a status light on the bottom to show you what battery power is left and you charge it via usbc
and you can use one of their other chargers as well it comes in this color here misty blue
interstellar gray dolomite white lilac purple and buds green i'll leave a link to the 622 magnetic
battery in the description below so you can check it out i think this will be great and it's a much
better alternative to some others i've seen now as far as the display goes while the display is
fantastic on the pro devices of course we have a smaller notch and this is something i haven't
really noticed it doesn't get in my way personally but the notch is smaller so it's more out of the
way than it was before but it does protrude down a little bit more but the best thing of this display
is probably pro motion where it's just super smooth now some apps don't support it yet and
that's up to the app developer to enable that they could support it but they just haven't chosen to
do that yet in some cases so it's pretty smooth if you go into different things that are apple made
and it's hard to show on this camera since we're not at 120 frames per second or 120 hertz
so the refresh rate you're not really going to see that smoothness but it's definitely noticeable in
slow motion next to an iphone 13 for example so when you're scrolling left to right or up and down
it's just a much smoother experience it's the same experience you get on the ipad pro
and it's definitely something i appreciate but of course you could turn it off if you don't want to
but because it has the 120 hertz display it can go down to 10 hertz and it saves battery and that's
some of the reasons it gets incredible battery life like i mentioned before now some others
have asked me about pwm or the way the display controls brightness oled displays typically
control brightness by flickering faster or slower at a rate you can't see with your eyes but under
slow motion you can see it the pwm on the 13 pro max for me is a hundred percent unnoticeable only
the most sensitive people are going to be able to notice that it's causing some sort of eye strain
or giving you a headache or causing you to feel nauseated typically the slower the pwm rate
the more susceptible you are to these sort of effects but personally i haven't had any
issues with this and it typically bothers me on some phones i've not even thought about it it's
been such a great thing on this phone for me to use because even on the 12 i didn't really have
an issue this one is just even better than that now as far as the cameras the cameras
on this are phenomenal they're good enough that you could use them for this video making this
video if you really wanted to so not only do you have the new features from apple but you
also have that macro mode which i appreciate getting up nice and close if you want to
really getting in that detail on devices i really appreciate that there's a macro mode here and i
do use it for certain videos in fact i've used it for videos like this to show you the damage around
the outside edge of the phones things like that it's also really nice because it records in hdr
and it's 4k 60. so 4k 60 hdr just like last year but of course we have that prores video
and that's something you could use it definitely looks better but it is a huge file size
so i typically don't use that because most people once you compress it and put it on youtube can't
tell the difference but the camera is a jump from last year i wouldn't say that it's worth upgrading
for unless you want something specific but other than that it's a great addition if you want macro
or prores then definitely it's worth the update now in my daily use i'm typically using this for
things like social media so twitter i have twitter blue that's why the icon is a different color
i also use it for music a lot my car lock is here and then of course i have different social media
apps such as telegram and discord which i'll link in the description i typically leave those there
but we have those communities you can check those out and normally i use the apps on the
home screen so instagram twitter telegram discord and then social media it's a tool for me it's not
a gaming device for me for the most part except for maybe on the ipad i typically play these games
but i really like using the phone for that i don't watch a whole lot of youtube on here
and again if we go under my battery you can see what i'm using here in my apps so those are the
things i typically use it's mostly a tool for social media email websites and things like that
so that's my daily use of course if you're using it more heavily it may drain the battery quickly
but for the most part it's not an issue and the phone doesn't typically get very warm for me some
people have complained that iphones have gotten warm in the past specifically with the iphone 12
pro models this one seems to stay much cooler for me and i've noticed that over the past few months
now as far as the speakers i haven't noticed any degradation in the speakers over time they
still sound loud and clear sometimes in the older phones such as my iphone 11 pro max the speakers
start to sound pretty poor after a half a year or so or even a few months these have really held up
to be the same as they were when they were new so that's a nice thing maybe they've made some
improvements there and also the reception seems to be pretty good initially there were a lot of
issues for me but once apple came out with ios 15.2 it seems to be much better in my use case so
i really haven't had too many issues switching between 5g and 4g and lte and wi-fi those sorts
of things 5g uc it seems to be okay for me phone calls never really drop and i don't have too many
issues with that i know some people did especially with earlier versions of ios but i think they've
really ironed that out for this one and so that brings me to should you pick up an iphone 13 pro
max if you haven't already or should you wait for next year's iphone 14. the iphone 14 is said
to have maybe a better display a different display without a notch and a hole punch display and maybe
some additional features as well such as 8k video and more of course we'll have to wait and see on
that but apple does update their phones every few years i don't know if i'd expect a full redesign
next year as they typically do that every three years now but maybe we'll have the same framing
with upgraded cameras and a different display again and of course different internals for speed
and performance speed and performance on this really are not an issue and that's why i don't
hardly mention it as it's super fast it doesn't really slow down whether that's playing music
or watching video or using picture in picture or playing a game it's super fast and always is fast
so no issues there but if you should wait for a 14 i don't know if you want to do that unless you
really want something specific maybe you really don't like the notch you may want to see if apple
does eliminate that on the pro models otherwise it's a great phone i can highly recommend it
and it's something i'll continue to use as my main phone regularly let me know if you have one in the
comments below if you're planning to pick one up or if you're going to wait until next year
or maybe a few years out if you're happy with the phone you have you could have an iphone 8 or 6 and
still be happy with it i'd love to hear from you and what you're using in the comments below if
you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like
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