hi everyone aaron here for zollotech and
this is the iphone 12 mini
i have three iphone 12 minis here i have
one in black
one in green and one in blue and so i
wanted to help you decide if you should
pick one of these up this year
and the first thing many people ask me
is how big is it or
what can i compare it with so let me
move two of these out of the way
and show you a size comparison we'll
start with an older phone the iphone 4s
and the iphone 5s next to it to give you
a general size idea
then we'll bring in the iphone 7.
so if you have an iphone 6 7 or 8 those
are all basically the same size
and then an iphone 10r
an iphone 12 and an iphone 12 pro max
so this gives you a general idea of
their size overall
it's smaller than a seven it's about the
same
thickness as a seven and here's a 6s
plus
also if that helps with size overall
comparing the different ones so
this should give you a general idea of
their overall size
but it's somewhere between the 5s and
the 6 7 and 8.
they're very similar in size and if i
put them face to face so you can see the
actual size difference here
that gives you an idea of size so the
mini is very mini
and let me put it face to face with the
5s
so you'll see it's really in between the
5s
and the 6 7 and 8 like i said so it's
got a nice size screen
and keep in mind the 7 is the same size
as the second generation se
also so that gives you a general idea of
what its size is
overall now let me move these out of the
way and the overall design of the phone
is pretty standard this year on the
right hand side we have our power sleep
wake button we have our millimeter wave
antenna in the united states for 5g
on the bottom we have our microphone
speaker and lightning
port on the left hand side you've got
your silent switch at the top
your volume buttons and then you've got
your sim card tray
now this sim card tray this year is 5g
but it's 5g
and an esim you cannot use them
concurrently
at least currently many people say this
is a hardware limitation
others are hoping for a software fix
later on but you can use one or the
other in 5g
but not both at the same time for
whatever reason now also
you've got glass front and back so you
can see it collects a lot of
fingerprints just from me handling the
phones during this video already it's
got this many fingerprints on it
so i would definitely maybe get a case
from apple
something like this which looks really
good this is the
the sort of tan leather color we'll put
this on the black and it looks great
so it goes goes along really well with
this particular iphone
and i think for most people even with a
case this is super small you can see it
in my hands my hands are huge
and next to a 12 pro max like i said
it's very different in size
and it may be the perfect size for
people this year it's easy to hang on to
you can bridge your fingers across it no
problem for most people and
for those looking for a smaller phone of
course you're going to appreciate it
now like i said we have glass front and
back and we have ceramic shield this
year
and ceramic shield makes the glass four
times less likely to break
in the event that you drop your phone
now the glass is flush to the frame the
aluminum frame of the body so that helps
if you drop it since it's not hitting
the edge of the frame
like some of the curved displays we've
had in the past with the iphone 7 for
example where it sticks up a little bit
so you're not going to drop it directly
on the glass so that combined with
ceramic shield should help you
maybe protect this phone a little bit
better than we've had in the past
and let's talk about the display because
this year we get oled displays in all of
them
and they look really vibrant so whether
you're inside or outside
the display looks great now as you can
see the display is easy to see in the
sunlight it's very bright out i'm just
shaded by some trees
and the brightness is all the way up it
goes up to 625 nits of brightness so
it should be plenty for outdoor use and
then 1200 nits if you're watching hdr
video so
the display in general looks great and
the display does use pwm to control
brightness that means it's flickering
the display all the time to control
brightness the lower the
brightness the slower it's flickering
the higher the faster you can't see this
with your eyes
but it does cause some people to feel
nauseated gives them headaches or
eye strain i have not experienced any of
that with any of the 12 oled panels this
year
and so because of that i can recommend
this to most people
even the iphone 10 and 10s and 10s max i
couldn't use because of that flickering
with the iphone 11 it got better and i
think with the 12 it's not even
noticeable at all even if that bothers
you so
hopefully this is a better panel than
what we've had in the past and i don't
think you'll have an issue with that
now this is an hdr display that on
youtube can play
4k 60 in hdr so you can see
you have the 2160p hdr option if you can
use that
and it's super vibrant and nice and as
you can see this is my
iphone 12 pro review the good and the
bad in 4k
hdr so let me go ahead and hit play and
turn it up so you can hear how loud the
speakers go
so you have that stainless steel on the
outside like an iphone 4
but you have sort of the flattened edges
of the iphone 5 and 5s
so this is a great design it's one of my
favorite so you have the options
of hdr displays great speakers
that go really loud and i think this
will be a great phone for those that
really want something that's a little
bit small
and the next thing is the camera the
camera in this is phenomenal
as you saw in that last video i just
showed you on youtube
that was recorded with an iphone 12 pro
and this camera is the exact same camera
we have the same ability up to 4k 60
hdr up to 30 and it's just a phenomenal
camera
it looks great it has great quality
decent stabilization
and take a look at some of these photos
and videos that i shot with this just a
moment ago
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this is the forward-facing camera of the
iphone 12 mini i'm just
hand holding it on a tripod and this
year the iphone 12 mini 12
12 pro and 12 pro max all have the same
forward facing cameras
so you get 4k quality you can do this in
hdr
as well although you wouldn't be able to
see it if i use that but as i move
you'll see that it's adjusting in real
time the exposure of the sky
my face and everything else to give us
the best quality possible so i'm pretty
impressed with it but let me know what
you think about it in the comments below
we get night mode on the cameras this
year as well so with
wide or ultra wide you can take a photo
at night 30 second exposure on a tripod
and it looks amazing the amount of light
a small camera is of
able to actually capture and then expose
using the neural engine and
ai it's pretty incredible now with the
iphone 12 series
we have 5g and 5g is pretty nice it's
fast i've shown it in other videos
i get about double the speed with my
current carrier than if i'm using 4g
but if you really want those crazy fast
speeds that apple showed in ideal
conditions well you're going to have to
find a specific spot be on verizon or
maybe a t
and use the millimeter wave antenna and
that's not widely available
for example in the charlotte metro area
near where i live
it's on a few different corners within
the city right in the middle of the city
otherwise you won't get those speeds
you'll get normally about 100 to 200
megabits per second so
i wouldn't run out and get one of these
just to have 5g but it's nice that it's
there for future proofing as it gets
more and more readily available where
you are and from your carrier
but if you have t-mobile or someone with
a lot of sub 65g coverage well then it's
going to be great
it's going to give you double the speed
of probably what you had with 4g but it
really depends on where you live it's
not really that much faster than 4g
depending on your area and what kind of
coverage you have now with the iphone 12
mini of course it's
really easy to hold and it's easy to use
especially if you have huge hands like
me i can easily reach across the screen
do whatever i need to do but also you're
not going to notice any slowdowns or any
compromises here because this has
apple's a14 bionic cpu and this one has
four gigs of ram
whatever you're doing whether it be
imovie maybe you're editing a 4k
video this is the first time i'm opening
imovie on here maybe you're editing a 4k
video it's just going to be super fast
all the time
if you're opening weather if you're
opening music and then you're going back
and playing a youtube video everything's
just going to be super fast and fluid
and it doesn't matter what you're doing
it just acts like that all the time it's
just the normal use case for this phone
it's just super fast and a joy to use so
there's no compromises there and of
course
you have a smaller screen so it's easier
to use for a lot of people as you can
just reach across the display
easily or even if your hands are small
it should be a much better
use case than maybe last year's iphone
11 for example
which was much larger now a lot of
people have asked me how's the battery
life with the iphone 12 mini i think
that's the second
most asked question what size is it and
how's its battery so
the battery life for most people seems
to be about
five hours i would say in most tests
that i've seen
as well as my use you're going to get
about five hours of screen on time with
this
some people are getting less is around
three hours
some people are getting more at six to
seven hours it really depends on what
you're doing if you're just playing
music
you're going to get more battery life if
you're doing something
like watching or recording online video
or you're using the camera to record 4k
hdr video well then you're going to
drain the battery much faster it just
depends what you're doing
but i would say overall it's impressive
this year with its battery life so
expect around
i would say probably around five hours
but again this really depends on how you
use it if you're on facetime calls
or something that's using the camera and
the cpu heavily well then it's going to
actually use that battery much more
quickly
and if you look at some of the earlier
days on this particular black iphone 12
mini
you'll see here i only got 32 minutes
and 50 percent while it was doing
background activity
but then the next day 30 minutes of
screen on time use 25
so it really depends on obviously which
one you're using and
how you're using it but if you're
watching a lot of youtube for example
and you're streaming that it's going to
take a more of a battery hit than if you
were just listening to music so it
really depends on what you're doing
but overall i would say it's good
battery it's better than the second
generation se
but not quite as good as the iphone 12
or 12 pro max in my experience
now this year we get magsafe and magsafe
is a wireless charger that magnetically
adheres to the back of the phone
and it's a really nice way to charge
your phone it holds on nice and tight
and on the mini it will charge at 12
watts so you'll see i can hold
the cable and it holds on to the phone
and because the mini's so light it
sticks on there quite nicely
and you'll charge the phone if you're
using a wired connection the same speed
as all the other phones
even though it's charging at a slower
rate with the wireless charger
if you use the wired charger you'll get
about 50
battery in 30 minutes and then it slows
down just like any of the others so it
charges nice and fast
no problems there even though the
magsafe charger charges a little slower
in the smaller phone
and this is a fantastic phone and i
think people that have been wanting a
small phone for a long time will be
really happy with this phone
because it's all of the best things of
this year's phones in a compact package
and i know a lot of people that have
been looking for this sort of thing for
a long time
the squared off edges make it easier to
hold and so
should you pick one up i would say if
you're looking for a small phone
then absolutely if you're concerned more
about battery life
and you don't care about the size well
then you could go with the 12 pro max
which will give you over 10 hours of
screen on time
so it really depends on what you want to
do and what
sort of thing matters most to you if
battery matters most then maybe a bigger
phone would be better for you
but if you need the compact phone with
no compromise of camera quality
and the night modes and hdr adobe video
well then the mini is an excellent
choice and given that it's the least
expensive and there's a lot of carrier
deals
well then it's easy to recommend
especially if you can get a deal on
these
but let me know if you're picking up the
mini in the comments below i'd love to
hear from you
and if so which color did you pick up if
not what other phone did you get or are
you holding off this year i'd love to
hear from you in the comments below if
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as always thanks for watching this is
aaron
i'll see you next time
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