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we’re only a few months away from getting our hands on the next generation iPhones.
And thanks to Sonny Dickson we’ve got these mockups that give us a general idea of what
these new iPhones are gonna look like.
So today we’re gonna be focusing specifically on the iPhone 13 Pro Max, the flagship.
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Let’s dive in.
This is going to be an S-year for the iPhone.
So this model will be all about refining what was introduced with the iPhone 12 series of
phones.
So from a design standpoint there aren’t going to be a crap ton of changes to expect,
but there are some important details to take notice of.
The back of the Pro will retain the frosted matte finished with a clear camera bump piece.
And you’ll have the glossy stainless steel frame wrapping around the device.
We’re still expecting a lightning port on this iPhone, no USB-C. You’ll have the triple
camera setup on the back as well.
When taking a look at the front of the 13 Pro Max, something you notice immediately
is that the earpiece speaker’s been moved up to the very top of the device.
And this is because we expect the notch to be slimmed down a bit.
It’s definitely not going away completely, but we expect to see it be substantially reduced.
This will apparently be done by Apple changing the position of one of the top receivers to
reduce the size of the trudepth camera.
The size of Pro Max will remain the same this year as well.
It’ll be a 6.7-inch phone.
But it was rumored earlier this year that the new iPhones will be .26mm thicker, which
is reeaallly negligible.
And something most people probably won’t notice in-hand.
And I’m all for an increased thickness if this means we’ll be getting some added functionality.
Overall the design of the new iPhones is not drastically different at all.
But I think the refinements they have made here are all the right ones.
The slimmed down notch is going to give the iPhone the 2021 look I think it could use.
As we’ve had the same design on the front of the iPhones since 2017.
So it’ll be nice to finally get something a little different.
Now while the display on these new iPhones won't change in size; there have been countless
rumors and leaks surrounding a potential 120Hz display coming to this year’s iPhone.
And we’re not sure whether this will only be on the pro models or available across the
entire lineup, only time will tell.
I personally think that we should have gotten 120Hz last year.
But I’ve managed to survive without it so far.
And I think it’ll be great to finally have this on the iPhone.
It’s just another one of those things that made the iPhone stand out as not being quite
up to date on all fronts.
As most of the android flagships to come out in the past 2 years have had high refresh
rate displays.
Now another big back and forth is on TouchID under the display making it to the iPhone
this year.
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported almost 2 years ago that Apple would be releasing
an iPhone with both TouchID and FaceID in 2021.
And in October of 2021, our favorite tweeter Lovetodream tweeted out MESA uts for iPhone.
Mesa is the codename that Apple uses internally for TouchID.
And with that, I think it’s a safe assumption that uts is an abbreviation for “under the
screen”.
And then in January of this year, Bloomberg reported that Apple is indeed testing in-display
TouchID on the iPhone.
But also stated that this feature may not make the cut in this year's iPhone.
I think it’s very much possible that it could make it into the iphone, but I’d say
this is a 50/50.
And I wouldn’t be entirely shocked if there was no TouchID in the iPhone this year.
The iPhone 13’s are expected to feature the A15 Bionic processor.
Which we have pretty little information on at the moment.
But according to TrendForce, we could expect this processor to be built on a 5nm process
just like the A14 Bionic processor.
There’s also been some discussion around M1 and whether we could see that processor
put inside of the iPhone.
And that’s not really how this works.
M1 is based off of the same architecture they’re using for the A processors used in the iPhone
and iPads.
So the way I see it, the naming isn’t really the most important part of this situation.
I think in terms of pure power and performance, we could expect to get an M1-level processor
inside of the iPhone in the next year or so.
But to me, the iPhone has gotten to the point of being fast enough for everything.
And that it’s time for the software to start catching up to the hardware as far as what
you can do with it.
Either way though, my expectations are pretty standard as far as what I’m expecting the
A15 to be.
Perhaps we could get a slight increase in RAM this time around?
We’ve currently got 6GB inside of the Pro Max, maybe we could get 8 the iPhone 13.
Might be slim chances on that though.
We aren’t going to get a whole lot of big changes on the camera side of things for the
iPhone this year.
But we can expect a few tweaks that refine the experiences we currently have on the 12
Pro.
The first physical change is the size of the lenses on the iPhone.
When comparing the camera piece to 12 Pro Max, you can clearly see that there’s been
a slight increase in the size of the lenses.
But I don’t think there’s any functional purpose for this.
As I don’t believe these lenses as all together will be entirely different from what we’ve
got in the 12 Pro Max.
The only noticeable spec bump to the cameras that we know of so far is a higher aperture
on the ultrawide-angle lens.
It’ll be going to an aperture of 1.8 as opposed to 2.4 which is what we’ve got now.
So I think it’s safe to say that we can expect improved low-light performance for
the ultrawide camera.
We can also expect the next iPhones to support portrait-mode video.
This is something we’ve already gotten a taste of with the iOS 15 betas.
On iOS 15 you can turn on portrait mode for use within FaceTime, Sanpchat, instagram.
And presumably a few other applications that utilize the camera for video.
So we’ve already got a pretty solid look at what that experience should be like.
Outside of all of that, we shouldn’t expect anything crazy with the iPhone’s camera
this year.
I’m sure there will be more features revealed in the coming months outside of what we’ve
covered thus far, But I think most of that stuff will be pretty minor.
Getting HDR video on the iPhone last year was already a huge deal, and Apple is just
so ahead of the curb when it comes to certain camera features.
So minor updates on this year's camera system isn’t a huge deal this time around.
The current iPhones max out at 512GB of storage.
But for those of you horrendously filling up your camera roll with coffee and cat pictures
every day, then you’ll be glad to hear that we might be getting a 1TB storage option on
the iPhone this year.
The iPad Pro has 1TB of storage now, so while I don’t even wanna know how much that’s
gonna cost you, it’s cool to know you’ll have that option.
And I’m really curious to see how many people feel like they truly need 1TB of storage in
their smartphone.
Now earlier in the video we talked about how the new iPhone’s going to be slightly thicker.
And I assume that’s partially due to the slightly larger batteries we’re expecting
to get in the iPhones this year.
For the 12 Pro Max specifically, we’re expecting an 18% increase in size for the battery, making
the total capacity of the 13 Pro Max 4352mAh
I think the 12 Pro Max has stellar battery life for the most part.
But the smaller Pro, 12 and 12 mini were kinda lacking in that department if you ask me.
And I think those models specifically should greatly benefit from having that larger battery.
As far as pricing, we expect the Pro Max to come in at the same starting price of $1099
this time around.
Outside of the 120Hz refresh-rate display, there aren’t any super high-cost components
being implemented into the phone this time around that would suggest a higher price tag.
So yes the Pro Max is still not a cheap phone at all.
But at least they won’t charge you more for it.
This year’s Pro Max iPhone isn’t gonna be an entirely new device compared to the
12 Pro Max.
But I think everything being implemented into the device for this year should make for a
great phone.
And a lot of people who held out on the 12 Pro Max for reasons like the lack of 120Hz,
this september’s gonna be your time to shine.
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And shoutout to Sonny Dickson once again for sending over these dummies for me to show
you guys.
Thanks for watching, and I’ll talk to you guys in the next one.