Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iphone 13 mini is a phone that many people
absolutely love you're either in the camp that loves this phone thinks it's the best thing
since maybe the iphone 5 or you just don't think about it much because it's far too small but this
year it got some significant upgrades and after being out for about three months or so i wanted
to talk about the durability the battery life the cameras and more and before we get started
this video is sponsored by anker now the first thing is the iphone 13 mini is maybe the last
year that we'll see a mini iphone from apple it's rumored that the iphone 14 won't have
a mini sized version due to poor sales in fact last year according to counterpoint research by
the time january came around and we actually had the iphone 12 sales figures basically based off of
inventory going to stores and more the iphone 12 mini only accounted for about five percent
of all sales of iphone however that's still hundreds of millions of phones per year so many
companies would love those kind of sales either way many people absolutely love the iphone 13 mini
and so the price is probably the first thing that's right for a lot of people
this year you get 128 gigabytes to start at about 699 dollars if you want the base model
and i know a lot of people that just opted for that since 64 wasn't enough last year at the base
they got the base this year with 128 so that really worked out for a lot of people
also the size being perfect for a lot of people for me personally it's just way too small i'm more
of an iphone 13 pro max type of person since my hands are so large but the mini is perfect
for a lot of people including my brother and he actually tells me why aren't you using this phone
he loves this phone and thinks it's one of the best things apple's come out with since
the invention of the iphone 5 and 5s so if you're someone that really loves the iphone 5 and 5s well
then the iphone 13 mini is going to be the right phone for you just because of its overall size
but of course it has many advantages over the five since then so with its size and this year with its
larger battery it's really been a great upgrade and the durability of the phone is the same as
last year so what we have along the outside edge is aluminum and if you're not using a case it
seems to hold up pretty well i haven't really had any chips on this sort of midnight color as apple
calls it or black color there's no chips along the outside edge this has not been kept in a case
and it's holding up really well and you can see there's no issues here my brother who uses a black
iphone 13 mini has the same experience also there's no scratches on the camera lenses and
while these are technically sapphire crystal they may not be the highest quality sapphire
crystal but they're holding up really well no issues there so durability wise it's the same
as last year and the same is true for the display the display this year again is ceramic shield and
i've actually dropped a 13 pro max on concrete and not had a single scratch on it or had it break so
it seems to be very durable this year again it's the same glass you get on the pro series phones
so it's holding up incredibly well also you've got face id just like all the other phones this time
and it's nice and fast no issues there as you can see it unlocks very quickly and also it charges
fairly quickly despite its smaller battery because it has a smaller battery you get lower charge
times so you're going to charge about 50 percent in 30 minutes or so and when it comes to charging
the official charging sponsor of zollotech anchor has sponsored this video and i wanted to show you
their new maggo 623 magnetic wireless charger this is a can style shaped dock charger and it allows
you to charge it 7.5 watts wirelessly it's magsafe compatible with the iphone 12 and 13 series phones
and you'll see it just attaches like that and will charge and let you know it's charging with
the little ring at the bottom and it can tilt up to 60 degrees so it's a stand and a dock at the
same time so if you want to set it down and watch something you can tilt it horizontally
and view whatever you'd like but the nice thing is is once you tilt this up you've got a little space
here on the back you can place some air pods there or something else and charge that as well at 5
watts so it will charge at 7.5 watts for the phone and 5 watts for something else or you can just
leave it maybe on a nightstand or your desk like this and charge it's fairly heavy so if you want
to remove the phone you just tilt it off the stand and the stand stays put and then again you can
tilt it like this and watch your content again it lets you know it's charging with the ring on the
bottom it's available in four colors misty blue interstellar gray dolomite white and lilac purple
and if you pick one of the other colors you get a color matched cable with it as you can see here's
the blue color here with a color matched usb c to usbc cable i'll link this in the description
below if you want to check out the 623 magnetic wireless charger now from many people asking me
about the iphone 13 mini one of the number one things they ask is how long will the battery last
well this year apple increased the battery size from 2227 milliamp hours in the 12 mini to 2403
milliamp hours in the 13 mini and that typically gets most people through the day so i reached out
to my brother who uses a 13 mini full time since its release to have him send me over
some screenshots of how he uses his phone since i'm not really a typical user he is he uses it
all day long it's his only device and he charges it every single night and so let's take a look at
what he has here this is a screenshot he sent over he has 100 battery health he charges it
every night before he goes to bed leaves optimized battery charging on and charges it on a 7.5 watt
qi compatible wireless charger he also puts it in the car sometimes and charges it wirelessly there
otherwise that's how he charges it he never uses the lightning cable on the bottom and he doesn't
typically use a case and if we take a look at his battery life you'll see here's his best day
where he had 5 hours and 51 minutes of screen on time 1 hour and 34 minutes of screen off time and
used about 90 percent of his battery so six hours six and a half hours of screen on time is normal
we can take a look at a different day when he was on a different version of ios as well and you'll
see again with ninety percent of his battery health used or battery life used he used three
hours and 28 minutes of screen on time 9 hours and 21 minutes of screen off time playing music
again for four and a half hours or so and 12 hours of screen off time and about a hundred percent of
battery usage so typically between five to six hours of screen on time he says he gets through
the day without a problem most of the time unless he's traveling he does use an external battery
pack so you could use something like that if you needed to but typically it gets them through a
day where the 12 mini didn't last as long for him so this is working really well and i think
for most people it will get them through the day unless you're a heavy gamer or maybe you're
using the camera to record video all day now the display this year is really nice it's a little bit
brighter than what we had last year we get the same resolution and everything else but it goes
up to 800 nits for regular daily use and 1200 nits for hdr content so not really a difference there
we do have a slightly narrower notch but it does protrude into some content when you're watching it
we don't have pro motion like we do on the pro displays though so if you want pro motion which
means it's ramping up the display refresh rate to 120 hertz you'll need the pro model
for that otherwise this display is just as good as last year's but a little bit brighter
same viewing angles everything looks great no issues with green tint or anything like that
this time around also hdr content looks great on it so if i go into youtube to one of my videos
and i play it back in hdr so here you'll see we have options for hdr on youtube so you have those
options now with this video being not recorded in hdr that you're watching now you won't be able to
see it but i wanted to show you how bright it is it's actually blown out on this camera because
of how bright the display is but if i brought it way down in brightness you'll be able to see it
so when you're watching it it looks great and again viewing angles are great you have hdr
content and that video was recorded with a camera from an iphone 12 series device and so the cameras
are very very capable and this year apple has upgraded them a bit so it can record 4k 60 so
last year they limited that to 30 frames per second now you have 60 frames per second so
you have that you also have a few new features in your camera as well so if you go into your camera
you go to video of course you have hdr like i said but not only do you have hdr in photos you
have different photographic styles so if you want a different style for your photo you can
switch between different photographic styles that look more what you want it to look like
or you can customize it all together you also have cinematic video in 1080p and so here's cinematic
mode where it sort of blurs the background in real time using sort of a portrait video style
but also at the same time when someone's looking at the camera it will keep them in focus when they
look away it will focus on the background or what they're looking at it uses the neural engine to
do that this year so that's something that's new in the camera again 4k 60 on the forward facing
camera as well so if we spin it around here and record some video let me rotate it here
let's record video and now i'm recording from the 13 mini it's very capable 4k 60 hdr if you want
and it looks great as well so you have that capability built in to the smallest phone all the
way up to the top of the line 13 pro max you have the exact same forward facing camera so you're not
really compromising there you also have great speakers despite them being small they're nice
and loud so if i hit play on my video again turn it up like i said it's 4k hdr and hopefully you're
seeing the 4k resolution it does take a little bit of time for youtube to process that but it's
nice and loud you're easily able to hear it and it has a better stereo sound maybe based off the new
speaker design this year so you've got the speaker at the top instead of down a little bit now when
it comes to accessories well unfortunately the case that i have here doesn't work with the 13
mini so maybe you're moving from a 12 minute to a 13 minute if you place it in this case in the 12
mini the display will change to the time it uses magsafe to do that and unfortunately you need a 13
mini specific case this year so apple has changed that a little bit so if you have accessories
you may need to change them out as the camera bump is slightly different as well you'll see here side
by side the camera bump is just ever so different so slightly different here it's a little bit wider
where the other one is a little bit narrower and so with the different camera design it's changed
a little bit compared to the cameras on the pro models well you're not getting pro raw as far as
the photos are concerned and you're not getting pro res video or macro where the pro devices have
macro capability using the ultrawide but they're very capable cameras now as far as reception
is concerned this is probably an area that's going to vary greatly depending on your carrier
and the reason i say that is if you have t-mobile and you're switching between 5g and other sort of
bands such as 4g and other things like that there was some issues with earlier versions of ios 15.
it does seem to be resolved with ios 15.2 but quite a few people had those issues depending on
which carrier you're on however reception seems to be quite good the same as last year since it has a
qualcomm modem and you also have 5g millimeter wave if your carrier supports it in your local
area so where i'm at t-mobile really doesn't have that but generally the reception is quite good
along with wi-fi and bluetooth i really don't think you're going to see much of a difference
between this year and last year's model when it comes to reception overall now if you're wondering
if you should buy an iphone 13 mini well i highly recommend it especially if you were considering
waiting until iphone 14 because it's said that apple may not be making an iphone 14 mini
due to sales of the 13 mini and 12 mini devices so i highly recommend picking one up now if you're
looking for a smaller phone those that have them absolutely love them and they hope that apple
continues to make the mini iphone since they love the form factor overall so it's definitely a plus
for a lot of people from the great cameras to the great display and more and of course ios will be
supported on this typically for at least five years so you'll have updates for the next five
years not just security updates but features and more with ios 16 probably all the way up to ios
20 or 21 at this point so i think this is a great device and i highly recommend it to most people
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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