Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is the iphone 12 pro max i've been using it for
about a month now it's been out to the public a little bit less than that but i've been using
it full time for about that amount of time now before we go any further this video is in hdr
so make sure you're watching it on the youtube app on an iphone or if you're on a mac make sure
you're not using chrome instead use safari since it will show up properly so if you have an hdr
display you'll see it if not you'll just see what looks like normal video so apple tv it should work
fine as well and so 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 in general the camera looks amazing and
it's recording from an iphone 12 pro now this particular phone like i said i've been using it
for a month and i absolutely love it in fact every time i pick it up because of the squared off edges
it just feels a little bit more premium to me than the previous generation now this is going
to be very subjective and not everyone's going to feel this way but because i've been wanting these
squared off edges for so long to come back since the 4 4s 5 and 5s now we have it with the premium
line of phones the 12 and 12 pro max and all of the new lineups so i really appreciate the overall
squared off design the stainless steel is holding up well i don't have a single mark on it but it is
a fingerprint magnet so if you're not using a case or anything like that then it will definitely show
a lot of fingerprints especially if you're using anything other than i guess the silver phone the
darker the phone it seems to be a little bit more of a fingerprint magnet now the nice thing is the
frame overall really seems to protect the display so this particular display doesn't have a single
scratch on it and i'm not using a case or a screen protector i prefer the overall texture and feel of
the glass and the back and i'm not using a case full time anyway and it seems to hold up really
well i've had no issues whatsoever with it and the 12 the iphone 12 seems to have a couple scratches
on it for some reason my 12 pro max does not and i think one of the reasons is i'm careful with
it but the other thing is is the screen does not protrude past the frame of the phone so it doesn't
stick up over the edge like it does on the 11 pro max so i've had zero scratches i'm very careful
with it either way but i don't drop my phones or anything but it's held up extremely well
although this did fall behind my nightstand when i was trying to put it on the the magsafe duo
charger and it doesn't have a scratch on it and it fell onto a carpet about a foot away so it's
not that big of a deal but in general it's held up well i have no scratches on the lenses or anything
like that even though they protrude out a little bit further than i'd like you'll see they stick up
above the top of the lenses so even with that they seem to hold up really well and i've had
no complaints as far as that part goes now as far as the display overall it looks great it's bright
in sunlight it is turned all the way up so as you can see it's all the way up and it does use
pwm i've mentioned this before but that's not really much of an issue for me with this phone
it seems to be at a high enough rate it doesn't bother my eyes at all i've only heard from a few
people that say that it still bothers their eyes on any of the iphone 12 series so it seems to be
holding up really well and in general it's just fantastic when it comes to that so it seems like
no issues there the display is great it's bright and great for watching video if you're watching it
in landscape it doesn't really matter it's just great overall now the display when watching 4k
hdr video is super bright so here's my hdr video on youtube about my iphone 12 pro review
and as you can see it's super bright now listen to the speakers as well because they're very loud
thoughts on it now this video is in 4k hdr and if it looks all and so this particular phone has been
my absolute favorite to watch video on and listen to things because the speakers are pretty good
now i would say it's much better with airpods airpods pro or maybe even the new airpods max
if you have those since those aren't out until this coming week but in general speakers are great
they're loud they're clear and i think that's a win for this phone now as far as its overall
size well yes it's a huge phone and for me it was even big going from the 11 pro max so if i put my
finger around it i can touch my fingers together but it's hard to do that but you really need huge
hands in order to do that and so this is not going to be the right phone for everyone but for me size
wise once i got used to it i love the huge display on it i think it's great and it really i just
think it feels like one of the best phones apple has ever made now as far as overall connectivity
you'll see i have 5g here with three bars 5g is pretty good in most cases it just depends
where you live what carrier you have and what your signal strength is but let me go into speed test
and so we'll go ahead and hit go i'm currently on t-mobile and we'll give it just a moment here
and let's see what we get now we're kind of in the middle of nowhere and you'll see i'm getting
about 72 down now in my office with one or two bars i get faster speed so it really depends
where you're located it doesn't necessarily matter how many bars of service you have so
sometimes i get phenomenal speed and other times i don't now depending where you live you're going to
get the 5g millimeter wave and that's the antenna here on the side i don't currently have that
through my carrier so it's not something i use regularly but that's more line of sight and still
after using it a month i don't think 5g is that big of a deal 4g lte was almost as fast in some
cases it's fast most of the time 5g is faster for me but in general it's just not that big of a deal
and i think it's not a reason to run out and get this phone however connectivity overall has been
much better than when using an intel modem and the reason i say that is because i haven't dropped a
single call with my iphone 11 pro max where they were using intel modems sometimes the phone calls
would just drop i would have terrible connectivity and just in general this seems to be much better
wi-fi seems to be about the same this has wi-fi six just like any of the other ones so any of
the past iphones for the past year or so and so i don't really notice a difference there but
connectivity with phone calls and things seems to be phenomenal now as far as overall speed of use
well being that it's the latest a14 there's not really ever a slowdown you can go into whatever
you'd like it's super fast it's smooth all the time and apps don't necessarily reload all the
time you'll see i just went into youtube there it didn't reload and so if we go into the camera this
will typically cause a reload we're in the camera and then we'll go back to say youtube it's working
just fine so speed and ram management and overall just use feels like an iphone it's super fast
fluid just like you'd expect now the camera the cameras are phenomenal as you can see the camera
here i'm actually recording with a 12 pro camera which is basically the same in this sort of light
at night you may see a difference but the cameras are just phenomenal so we have this regular view
then we can go to wide or zoom it's hard to to go wide when you're actually using the camera
but we can go back out and now i've switched to ultra wide so you have all of these options you
can see behind you no problem of course with the 12 pro max you can zoom in a little bit further
so there's zoom let me zoom even more we'll zoom all the way in to 7x when we're using
video or if i switch over to photo we can zoom even further so let's zoom in a little bit more
to 12x and you can see it's kind of blurry but you can see way across there to that dock over
there you can see it now in this camera so you've got great photo options again wide
regular and zoom and they're all pretty great you've got night portraits
it's not something i use a whole lot but just in general it's great the forward facing camera
again is quite good no problems here and you'll see i'm recording with the 12 pro like i said so
it's just a phenomenal camera in general and i have no complaints whatsoever it's something you
could use for a main youtube camera without any problems so now we're back at 1x and as you can
see it's doing computational photography in the background or video where the background's not
blown out it's hdr it looks phenomenal so just in general the 12 pro max is something i could highly
recommend yes it's expensive and if you have an 11 pro max i don't know that i'd necessarily upgrade
but it is a good upgrade if you want those cameras if you want microphones that are great just like
the 11 pro max and you want good battery life so let's take a look at that so battery life over
the past few days has been okay you'll see i had three hours and four minutes of screen on time
one hour and 59 minutes of screen off time and i used about 40 30 to 40 percent of my battery
so i'm getting 10 to 12 hours of screen on time i'm hearing the same from others with this phone
and i have no complaints whatsoever when it comes to screen on time overall so it seems to be really
good now as far as magsafe i'm not a huge fan of it i think it's great it's easy to connect
and use your phone when it's charging wirelessly but the cable did the same thing and charged a
little bit faster i think it points more to a completely cableless future or portless future
where we won't have a lightning port but rather just sort of wireless connectivity or
connecting by touching it to a magsafe connector for example so i think that's more in our future
than what we have as far as the wireless fast charging and if you have a wireless charger
already you may want to just stick with that since that's actually charging at about 7.5 to 10 watts
and may preserve your battery a little bit better over time anyway so i don't think it's great to
just rush out and buy magsafe since you already have lightning and you can connect and actually
get faster speeds charging that way so i think it's great that it's there it's nice that it's
an option but i don't think it's necessarily something you need to run out and buy a phone for
the accessories are nice i think we'll see more in the future when it comes to that
so that's really all i have to say about the 12 pro max yes i highly recommend it i love it after
using it for a month and i'm going to continue to use it as my main phone i thought i was going to
use the 12 pro since it was a little bit easier to handle but i really like the extra screen real
estate and the additional battery life that you get with the 12 pro max so i highly recommend
this phone if you're looking for an upgrade from say a 10s max or a 10 or an 8 or 8 plus this is a
phenomenal upgrade and i think you'll enjoy it now as far as the 12 pro max and if you should
buy one well if you don't have one already and you're looking for a way to upgrade from say
an 8 plus or something like that then absolutely i would upgrade this is by far my favorite phone in
a very long time and i actually really like this blue color it's almost gray in certain light so
i just like it in general but let me know what you think about it in the comments below and of course
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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