Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and we're going to unbox the all new iphone 13 and 13 mini
these are available in five different colors this year and as you can see i have blue and midnight
but it's also available in starlight pink and red or product red now these start at about the same
prices as we had last year 6.99 for the mini and 7.99 for the 13 and you can go all the way up to
1099 on the 13 at its top storage this year you get an extra 64 gigabytes of storage for free
the bottom starts at 128 gigabytes so we have 128 256 and 512 gigabytes of storage available
now these are also available for thirty dollars more if you buy them unlocked again like last year
with the thirteen and thirteen mini they're thirty dollars more with an unlocked option if you buy
them through a carrier you'll save thirty dollars overall so pretty similar to last year as far as
overall prices let's go ahead and unbox these and take a look now here's the iphone 13 mini and the
13 and we're going to unbox them together because they're so similar other than their size i'll talk
about the differences in a moment but the iphone 13 mini as you can see is in midnight or it's
their black color now these boxes were not sealed when i received them apple sent them early so i
could take a look at them this is not sponsored by apple but let's go ahead and unbox this
so we'll take the top of the box off and as you can see this is the iphone 13 mini in midnight
it does have the wrapper on the display still we'll set it aside for just a moment and in
the box you can see we have our lightning to usbc cable so usbc just like you would expect
nothing really different there from last year and we also have a little bit of paperwork here
so we have a sim card removal tool or ejector tool a little piece of paperwork talking about
the warranty and then we have an apple sticker to go along with it so we have that in the box
and that's everything we get so let's go ahead and take the wrapper off the iphone 13 mini
and you can see there already we have that smaller notch we'll talk more about that in a moment but
let me set this phone aside and take a closer look at the iphone 13 and then we'll take a look at
what the differences are so the iphone 13 you can see is in blue here and this is a
different blue than we had last year sort of a lighter blue similar to what they have with the
iphone 13 pro and pro max it's a different color blue this year and again the exact same thing
only the contents inside is a little bit bigger as far as the overall
packaging so other than that we have a little bit bigger sticker it looks like compared to the mini
so in the iphone 13 mini box it's a little mini apple that comes with it so that's really the only
difference is as far as what's included now we'll go ahead and remove the cover from the iphone 13
and that's the iphone 13. so from the face of it it looks pretty much the same as last year but
i wanted to do a quick comparison just in overall look and here you can see the iphone 13 versus the
iphone 12. so the iphone 12 on the left the camera arrangement is a little bit different the phone
is slightly heavier this year now on the iphone 13 compared to the 12 the first thing you notice is
the power sleep wake button is a little bit lower or move down on the iphone 13. the millimeter
wave antenna looks to be in the same place and also the camera bump is ever so slightly larger
so you can see that here and you do get a little bit of extra weight it's 6.14 ounces or 174 grams
on the top they're basically the same now on the left hand side you can see that the volume
buttons and silent switch again are moved down slightly and the sim card tray is actually moved
up slightly so it's just a little bit different there ever so slight difference and then on the
bottom they're basically the same so we'll spin this around here you can see that they're the same
now you can see the iphone 13 mini and iphone 12 mini are very similar except for that camera bump
again you can differentiate them that way and the camera bump again is a little bit larger but as
you can see the power sleep wake buttons and the 5g millimeter wave antenna are basically the same
on the 13 mini and the 12 mini on the top you can see it's the same and also on the other
side the volume buttons and silent switch and sim card tray are all in the same spot
so they're very similar that way again on the bottom they should be the same as well
so not too many differences between the minis other than the camera module this year and most
likely the displays we'll take a look at that in a moment but the weight is different as well it's
now 4.97 ounces or 141 grams so ever so slightly heavier now the displays are the same as last year
as far as the overall specs so let's turn this on so we can see the notch a little bit better
we'll turn them both on and we'll set them up in a moment but they both have ceramic shield on them
and they are the same sort of size and resolutions as last year 5.4 inches on the mini and 6.1 on the
13. now the 5.4 inch you can see and the 13 the displays look about the same but the notch is a
little bit narrower and maybe a little bit deeper into the display so it's a little different you'd
have to determine for yourself whether or not you like that or not but the 5.4 inch display
is 2340 by 1080 pixels with 476 pixels per inch just like last year and the iphone 13 again has
the same sort of resolution as last year 2532 by 1170 with 460 pixels per inch this year they both
go up to 800 nits of regular brightness and 1200 nits peak brightness basically when you're viewing
hdr content they have true tone but on the 13 and 13 mini there is no 120 hertz pro motion display
that's reserved for the pro models so you also have haptic touch like you would expect
and let's compare the notches quickly as well now you can see the differences in the notch
here where we have the iphone 12 mini and 13 mini and iphone 12 and 13. the notches are
definitely different you can see they're narrower and again they may protrude a little bit further
into the display now this year we have an all new a15 bionic cpu with a new six core cpu with
two performance cores and four efficiency cores a new four core gpu and a new 16 core neural engine
i do believe we still have four gigs of ram we'll check that out a little bit later and we'll talk
about the cameras later as well but let's get these set up so we'll go ahead and set them up
i'll set up one and then i'll set up the other after but let's pick our language here so we'll
go back and you can select english now the easiest way to set this up is just have another
phone nearby to add it to your account whether that be an iphone or not so i'll get it set up
so you'll see if i bring it close here it says set up a new phone we'll go ahead and hit continue
i'll scan it here now we'll put in the passcode of the other phone now we'll get face id set up
and i'm setting up the other phone at the same time but we'll go ahead and get started here
we'll scan my face
just move your face around if you've never set this up before
we'll just move in the opposite direction fill in all of the ring here and then we'll hit continue
now it's asking if we want to transfer data from another phone i'm going to set this up as new for
now we'll go ahead and hit other options now you'll see it says make this your new iphone
and it just gives you your latest backups that you might have had from other devices and also
your settings you can customize them here we'll go ahead and hit continue now we can
either share audio recordings with siri or not and then app analytics you can share those or not
and then it says restore from icloud so it's going to restore my settings from icloud but not all of
my apps and everything now you can see we're at the home screen on both phones and if we take a
look at what version comes pre-installed with it we'll go to our settings then general then about
and you can see we're on ios 15. so that came pre-installed with the phone and also i wanted
to take a look at the wallpapers since we didn't really have any new wallpaper with ios 15 but we
do have some new ones with the new phones so we can go to live here and you'll see there's five
different wallpapers to go along with the five different colored iphones so if we go into maybe
this one in the middle here we can press and hold and it's a live wallpaper so we can haptic press
and have a little effect on each one of them so a very similar effect on all of them but this
gives you an idea of what it looks like so it's a nice little addition although they aren't added to
other iphones just the newer ones now as far as the cameras go this year the cameras are
not too much different however they did move the camera over to the left of the notch and move the
speaker up but the camera is similar to last year where it's a 12 megapixel f 2.2 aperture camera
and it can this year according to apple record 4k 60p in hdr so if we go into our settings go over
to camera here we'll go down find camera under camera you'll see we can record video at 4k 60
and also have hdr we didn't have that option last year we could record up to 30 frames per second
on the less expensive non-pro models so now we can record an hdr this year if we want to do that
so that's something they've updated and they've also updated the rear camera as well in fact
there's a big update with the rear camera we have a dual 12 megapixel camera setup but we also have
sensor shift stabilization this year and a much larger ultra wide sensor with an f 2.4 aperture
that lets in 47 percent more light and it's should be much much better now also the wide is an f 1.6
aperture which can collect a lot of light and then we also have a 2x optical zoom with 5x digital
zoom with again that 4k dolby vision hdr so these should be really nice and we also have smart hdr
4 which can now recognize up to four different people in a scene optimization so let's go into
the camera and we've got some photographic styles this year so we can choose a style and you'll see
it shows different styles and how this would work so you can have it set to what you like maybe you
like more contrast you want it to be a little bit more vibrant it will do this by default every time
you take a new photo so if we go back to maybe just standard and we're in photo we can tap the
little arrow here and then we have some different styles so we have standard and you'll see if i put
this phone behind it we've got standard rich contrast vibrant warmth and cool and then we
can adjust the tone on each one of them so we can adjust the tone we'll adjust this here and set it
that way and then we can adjust the warmth ourself as well depending on what we like and it will stay
that way the next time you take a photo so if you want it to look this way it will look that way
all the time so that's something they've updated they've also added a new cinematic mode to video
so we can go to cinematic for video and it will add depth of field it's doing real-time processing
with a portrait mode and it adds depth of field although i'll test that out further in a review
but it adds depth of field in 1080p and dolby vision hdr and you can record cinematically and
kind of change the focus it does what's called a focus racking or focus poll
where it will change from one subject to another apparently it will recognize devices as well
or objects and people so i'll be testing that out in my review now again this year we do have stereo
speakers just like we did last year and also we have a much larger battery this year it will last
1.5 to 2.5 hours longer depending on your device in the mini the 13 mini compared to the 12 mini
will last a hour and a half or so more according to apple and also up to two and a half hours more
on the 13 thanks to the new a15 processor and even a little bit more room inside since the
phones are a little bit heavier maybe a little bit thicker as well now it does have upgraded
5g for more carriers around the world although millimeter wave will not be available everywhere
it's still at least having the option for sub 6 for 5g also we have ip68 this year which we
did before which gives us 6 meters for up to 30 minutes now let's take a look at the ram quickly
since a lot of people want to know that we'll let this app load here geekbench and it shows
3.60 gigabytes or 4 gigabytes of ram i suspect the same on the mini but let's go ahead and check
now on the mini you can see we have 3.62 gigabytes of memory or 4 gigabytes of ram
and another thing to note is a lot of people want to know how warm the phones are getting
since the iphone 12 series phones did tend to get a bit warm there's some slight warmth on the back
but it's just normal from booting up the phone for the first time and getting it set up it's not very
warm at all which is a great sign now as far as pwm i know a lot of people want to know about that
since the displays are a little bit different so you can see there is pwm that's to be expected on
any oled it's the way it controls brightness and it does seem to bother about 10 of people or so
but on the iphone 12 series it didn't bother me at all so i'm not sure if this will be any better
i'll have to try it over the next few days but it can cause you to get headaches or feel nauseated
and thankfully it doesn't really cause that for me on the 12 series phones so i would expect the
same from these but again i'll have to use them for a few days to know that for sure
now as far as the magnets in the back i thought we'd take a quick look at that so here i have
some magnet paper let's flip the phones over see if there's any difference this year and
it looks like it's the same you can see the speaker down here at the bottom
and if i bring in the 13 i expect it will be the same so very similar layout although there's a
microphone magnet here maybe it's not as strong on the 13 and then in again on the 13 mini versus
the 13 or the 12 mini you can see it's about the same as well so no real changes here with
magsafe also let's take a look at the cases since i know a lot of people want to know how they fit
so this is the 13 mini case and let's see how it fits on the 12 mini so you'll see the camera
bump is a little bit different and this gives you a general idea of its size overall so you can see
it there but the buttons do seem to work on the the 12 mini with the 13 mini case but it just
doesn't look right then again here's the iphone 13 case we'll put it on the iphone 12 and you'll see
it just doesn't align properly the power button is not aligned the silent switch is not aligned
so the cases are not compatible between the 13 you could get away with the mini cases though that's
probably the only ones you could use this year if you have an older phone you can't really use a 12
case on it but you can use a 12 mini you can also use this leather slip case as well with the 13. so
if we slide this in there we go and it doesn't seem to recognize it though on the 13 mini with
this case so you really should get the specific cases this year if that's what you're looking for
so that's it for the iphone 13 and 13 mini and right now i'm recording with the forward-facing
camera of the iphone 13 mini and i'm not using any external mic plus i'm using cinematic mode
so this gives you an idea of what it can do it's blurring the background naturally and the iphone
13 of course can do the same thing and this year you're really only choosing between battery life
and overall size with the 13 mini and 13 pro all of the other features are basically the same so
you really can just pick whatever you want to use based on size now as far as the cinematic
mode i'd love to hear what you think about it now if i look toward the imac behind me it
should shift focus if it was a person but with an object it won't unless i have someone controlling
it however i can control this in real time or after the fact so if i look toward the imac
you'll see that it's probably still out of focus when i turn back it probably is still on focus on
me but i'll have to see this after i record it of course but i'm really excited to use the cinematic
mode it is only in 1080p i've upscaled it to 4k for the video but it looks like it's going to be a
great feature overall let me know what you think about it if you're picking up a 13 mini or 13
or even a 13 pro or 13 pro max i'd love to hear from you in the comments below and if there's
anything else you'd like to see covered in the reviews after i use this for a little while i'd
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