hi everyone aaron here for zollotech and
this is the iphone 12 mini the new
sort of super small iphone 12 which i
think will be great for a lot of people
looking for a little bit smaller phone
now this comes in five different colors
this year black white
green product red and blue this is the
black variant
now this is also the least expensive of
the newest phones this year at 699
dollars that will get you 64 gigabytes
of storage
for 50 more 749 you get 128 gigabytes of
storage
and then if you want the top of the line
256 gigabytes of storage
that will cost 849 now if you want this
unlocked and you don't buy this through
your carrier you need to add an
additional 30 dollars
this is something we haven't seen before
they started doing this year with the
iphone 12s
now let's go ahead and unbox this and
take a look this is the black
256 gigabyte variant so let's go ahead
and open up the iphone 12 mini
take the wrapper off here
and take the top of the box off
and it's definitely mini it's about the
size we expect
and inside the box again just like all
the other boxes this year
you've got a usb c to lightning cable
and then a little bit of paperwork
with a sim card removal tool and a tiny
apple sticker
and a little bit of i guess warranty
information or
sort of notices for your phone now let's
go ahead set this aside and take a
closer look so here's the iphone 12 mini
let's go ahead and take the
cover off the screen
and this is definitely a small phone
let's go around the outside
edge and as you can see on the left side
just like you'd expect you've got your
silent switch
your volume buttons and then you have a
sim card tray
on the bottom you have your lightning
port just two holes for a microphone
four holes for speakers and then on the
right hand side you have a 5g millimeter
wave antenna in the united states
and then a power sleep wake button on
the top
nothing here and then of course we've
got a couple cameras in the back we'll
talk more about a little bit later
and then a little bit smaller screen
than the other phones now this is a
fairly light phone
it's pretty small comes in at 4.76
ounces or 135 grams
and here it is next to an iphone se so
this is the first generation iphone se
so a little bit bigger we'll set that
down
and then here's the iphone 12 pro so
this gives you an idea of size
and then also the iphone 12 pro max
so there's a very big difference in size
there may set them down so you can see
them
side by side so you can get the idea of
what the sizes are
so next to one another here are all the
different sizes
as far as thickness they're about the
same on all of them
especially the mini and the se they feel
about the same
maybe a little bit thicker with the pro
max but overall
that's the overall sizes and what they
look like now one thing i didn't mention
is the frame is aluminum so it feels a
little bit lighter
so it's mini and light like i mentioned
the weight already but it just has a
little bit different build
similar to that of the iphone 12. so
let's go ahead and boot it up
and take a look at the display in the
cameras
there we go now inside we should have
the a14
bionic with four gigabytes of ram i'll
confirm that a little bit later
and on the front we have a new display
or a smaller display i should say
that's 5.4 inches diagonally it's 2
340 by 1080 with 476 pixels per inch
it's an oled just like all of the iphone
12s this year
and it goes nice and bright it has a
normal brightness of 625 nits and can
peak at 1200 in its max brightness when
playing hdr footage
now before we set it up we'll take a
look at the forward-facing camera and
it's the same camera we get with the
iphone 12.
so it's a 12 megapixel f 2.2 with a 4k
60 recording ability and then also on
the back we have
dual 12 megapixel cameras we have a wide
f 1.6 aperture and an ultra wide f 2.4
you can use them both for dark mode and
also or night mode and also they record
in
dolby vision hdr at 30 frames per second
so impressive cameras just like all of
the iphone 12 you're not really
compromising this year
so let's go ahead and flip this over get
it set up and take a look at it
now you can see the size difference is
very different so you've got the
pro max on the left the mini on the
right it's a huge difference in size
now we'll wait for this to set up it can
take a few minutes to activate
and then we'll see what it's like to use
now it's asking about data and privacy
we'll go ahead and hit continue
we're talking about it then we'll hit
continue and set up face id
there we go
move our head around from up down and
around
to set up face id
there we go should be set up there we go
we'll hit continue
and now we have to create a passcode now
it should have already carried that over
from the previous phone but let's go
ahead and do that
wait for it here and it's asking me if i
want to restore a backup i don't want to
transfer any data right now i just want
to get this set up quickly
and apparently it didn't pull my data
over from the iphone 12 pro max for some
reason so i'll just sign in
now we have to agree to the terms and
conditions
and we'll wait just a moment here now
it's asking about express settings we'll
go ahead and hit continue
keep your phone up to date again
continue
we'll wait for it we'll take just a
moment here it's asking if i want to set
up apple pay i'll skip that for now i
can always do that later
and then icloud keychain and yes i want
to use that
and also it's asking if i want to use
siri
go ahead and hit continue it's telling
me how to use it
and now it's asking if i want to share
audio recordings i'll hit not now
it's asking about screen time app
analytics
light mode dark mode like continue
display zoom
and then swipe up and now we're on the
home screen
now this particular phone well no i
don't want to use my
location here now the phone overall the
display looks okay it's great it's got
great viewing angles it does have pwm
that means it will flicker
just like any other oled to control its
brightness so as you can see here it's
actually flickering
and you can't see this with your eyes
but it is flickering and may bother some
people's eyes however in using the
iphone 12 pro the 12 pro max i haven't
had any issues with it bothering my eyes
i know it will bother some but it seems
to be at a fast enough rate where it
won't be a problem
now other than that the display looks
great let's go ahead and take a look at
the wallpaper that are installed i don't
think there's anything different but
let's go to settings
wallpaper choose new wallpaper here's
some stills
and it looks like we don't have the ios
14.2
update so we'll check that in a moment
and you can see these are the
pre-installed wallpapers let's switch to
i guess the black one or dark bluish
black one here
and let's see what version we have
installed on this
iphone 12 mini we'll go to general then
about and you'll see it came with ios
14.1 so i'll need to update that
and i saw the 12 pro max come with the
same thing so that's not really a
surprise so i'll go ahead and update
this in a little bit now i'll go ahead
and install a couple apps so we can take
a look at the ram
and more now i've installed speed test
and geekbench 5 let's go into geekbench
5
give it just a moment there and you'll
see we have the a14
with 3.63 gigabytes of ram or 4
gigabytes of ram so it does have 4
gigabytes just as we expected but i
wanted to verify
let's go into speed test and we'll see
what 5g can do so we'll turn off
wi-fi here should switch over to 5g now
i did this earlier
when i was doing the iphone 12 pro max
video so let's go into speed test
we'll hit next allow and let's go ahead
and hit go
now i don't have millimeter waves so
this antenna that's over here won't
really do a whole lot where i'm located
but you'll see well i hit 80 megabits
per second 96 megabits per second which
is really impressive
and these use qualcomm modems which
should help compared to previous years
at least they do in my tests
and you'll see i'm getting 20 megabits
per second up so this is better than i
was getting earlier in the day
and i've got two bars of signal now one
area where i'm not sure this will be
great is battery life using 5g all the
time of course you can turn this off
and as you can see before we leave speed
test i got 96.2 megabits per second down
20.8 megabits per second up if we go
into the settings
we can go over to our cellular settings
and under the cellular data options we
can
toggle on or off 5g leave it on lte
and that could help with battery if you
don't have 5g coverage or
you're just using a lot of data and you
really need to save some battery
but it does do a good job of auto
switching and this seems to be
working just fine now it does seem to
get a little bit warm on the back
since it's doing some new things as far
as processing
updating icloud in the background and
i think it'll be fine though it's nice
and fast and smooth of course we would
expect that being that it's brand new
and before we look at the cameras let's
take a look at magsafe now
this phone has magsafe in it just like
all of the iphone 12s this year so
there's the magnet on the back
and i also have a case for it here so
this is the leather case the saddle
brown leather case
and again this has magsafe on it as well
so
let me put this down you'll see the back
is also
magsafe and then let's go ahead and put
this on
so you'll see that the case is on as
soon as you put the case on
it kind of lets you know what color it
is and it recognizes it
there we go you can see that if that was
a red case it would be red
so that's really nice that that's on
there now if we go ahead and put magsafe
on the back it holds on nicely but one
thing is
magsafe does not charge at 15 watts on
this phone
it's reduced a few by a couple watts but
that doesn't really make too much of a
difference as it still will fast charge
with a wired connection and it's got a
smaller battery which is a bit of a
concern
hopefully it will last throughout the
day of course i'll have to test that i
can't know that for sure right now
without trying it for a while
but as far as using this throughout the
day it'll be interesting to see if it
can make it through a day
now it is a smaller display with less
pixels so that may help as well
now let's go into the camera settings
and you'll see record video up to 4k
60 or you can do hdr video at 4k
30. i'll turn it off since i'll record
the end of this video using this camera
just like i did with all the iphone 12
unboxings
so you can see what it's like see if
it's any different but it should be
pretty good
if we go into the camera here hit
continue of course we can
snap a photo quickly and you can see
those are the boxes behind there
it's a little bit of behind the scenes
look there and then also
let's go into video
and of course take a video i'll go ahead
and hit record
now we're recording from the iphone 12
mini so you can see what it looks like
so hopefully the microphone sounds
decent of course i'm talking at the
screen and not behind the screen
and then let's go ahead and flip the
camera around again
4k 30 go ahead and hit record it's
tracking my face and here's the sound
right from the front camera of the
iphone 12 mini so
should be just as good as any of the
others this year and i would expect
really no compromise between any of the
devices with the forward facing camera
so that's it for that camera and just in
general i really like this size it may
be too small for a lot of people
but it does have stereo speakers as well
one at the top
one at the bottom and this year they all
get nice and loud
and then also it has ip68 water
resistance
so it's water resistant up to six meters
for 30 minutes so
it's got all of those things you can
expect from a gray phone and this is
getting quite warm now
the side is quite hot to the touch but
again it's doing a lot of background
processing and i was using the camera
so i think it's a great phone i don't
know how many people will go for the
mini as opposed to say the 12 or 12 pro
i think the 12 and 12 pro is the right
size for most people the 12 pro max is
probably too big for most people
but let me know what you think in the
comments below now i'll be using the
phone for
probably a few days but it's going to
take a few days to get to that point
since i'll be testing the iphone 12 pro
max first
and then switching to the 12 mini to see
what it's like as far as battery life
and overall usability now this video is
completely being recorded with the
microphone and camera on the iphone 12
mini so let me know what you think of it
in the comments below if you'd like to
get your hands on the wallpaper i showed
in the video i'll link this as well as
the other iphone 12 wallpapers in the
description below
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