- [Austin] This video is sponsored by Rhinoshield.
The iPhone 13 might look boring, but I have breaking news.
This might be the first iPhone ever where,
I can't complain about anything.
In the past, I've certainly done many videos on iPhones.
I've certainly used iPhones and they've always been good,
but they've never been perfect.
And certainly the perfect device does not exist.
But what I think is been a difficulty for me
is that I've always been tempted
by something on the Android side,
whether it's 5G, whether it's a folding device,
whether it's a 120 Hertz display.
To me, it's always been like, "The iPhone is great but..."
"It's great for everyone except..."
There's always been some kind of qualifier.
But with the iPhone 13 Pro,
that qualifier can really kind of be dropped out.
This phone now does basically everything.
So one of the things I think is most interesting
about these phones, is how similar they look.
I mean, you look at this iPhone 13 mini.
And from the back,
short of the camera being slightly different looking,
is pretty much exactly the same as the 12 mini
that's been living in my pocket for the last year.
Same thing goes for something like the iPhone 13 Pro.
Yes, it's got some new colors
and yes, that camera bump is Chungus-y.
Technically Chungus, wait, Big Chungus-y?
So I always say Chungus, what's the...
- [Ken] Chungi.
- Chungi.
In my first video, when these things were first announced,
I talked about how the iPhone 13 itself,
not the Pro, but the 13,
is I would say, a little bit of a tougher sell this year.
In the past, I think it's been a little bit
of an easier conversation to have,
because when you go between the regular 13 and the Pro,
it's like, oh, it's basically the same phone,
this one's slightly different.
But this year, for not that much more money,
the Pro is a significant step up.
But I would argue that all of the iPhone 13s are actually
a bigger upgrade than most people give them credit for.
So there's a lots to like here.
Of course, you've got those high-end specs,
the Apple A15, take a look at all the benchmarks,
it is incredibly powerful.
But what's interesting this year,
is that unlike on the standard 13 and 13 mini,
this has a more powerful GPU.
So this has five cores instead of four cores.
Realistically,
that's not going to make a massive difference.
But when you think about this as a no-compromise device,
the Pro is really this sort of more complete package,
especially when you consider the display.
The iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max have ProMotion displays
aka Apple's fancy marketing term
for 120 frames per second panels.
Now, the iPhone has always had the performance, right?
For seven, eight years now, iPhones have pretty universally
been the most powerful phones that you can find.
However, over the last few years, in my opinion,
they've been a little bit hamstrung by their displays.
60 Hertz is fine, it seems smooth enough,
but once you experience 90 or 120 frames
per second on a phone display,
you really can appreciate just how smooth things are.
And in a world where $200 Android devices
have 90 Hertz displays,
and even if they have a fraction of the performance,
they have that sort of smooth scrolling
and that kind of capability,
it makes the more powerful iPhones feel inferior.
But no longer is that a downside
because the displays on these phones are terrific.
Now I don't want to sound biased here.
I mean, I certainly spend a lot of time
with my Z Flip 3, for example,
which is still really my overall favorite phone,
but that is a phone that is filled with compromise.
And the iPhone just isn't this year, right?
I mean, yeah this phone looks exactly the same
as the iPhone of last year.
People were like, "Oh, it's an iPhone 12S."
But if you think about what you get with this device
and the upgrades, they are significant, right?
Not only do you get the better cameras,
which we'll talk about in a second.
Not only do you get the better performance,
but you also get a big jump to battery life.
Anywhere between an hour and a half
and two and a half hours more than Apple quotes,
based on which model you pick up.
And in my limited testing, that seems pretty accurate.
I mean, all of these phones,
but especially when you get to the Pro
and especially the Pro Max, they have serious longevity,
which is great when you pair it
with the rest of the package.
Now, are there nitpicks? Sure, absolutely.
Especially when you look at the Pro and the Pro Max.
These things are just heavy.
And while that might not necessarily
be the be-all, end-all of a phone,
if you're using this thing one-handed for awhile,
you've got to get some forearm strength.
Is that the finger strength?
What am I using to hold this right now? I'm using 1, 2, 3.
Yeah, forearm strength.
- [Matt] No, do you think it's called forearm
because there's three fingers and an arm?
(beeps)
- Speaking of iPhones, this video is sponsored
by our friends over at Rhinoshield.
Now we've done a lot of tests
on Rhinoshield stuff over the past.
And these, in my opinion, are the most durable cases
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These have survived some serious drama.
How many times have you dropped my phone
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Why, what are you doing?
(Ken makes gleeful noise)
The nice thing about these,
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as well as a lot of the other earlier iPhones.
I've got my 12 mini here
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- [Jared] We got NBA.
- [Austin] NBA? - [Jared] We got
League of Legends.
- [Jared] League of Legends?
We got NASA.
- [Austin] NASA?
- [Jared] We got Pac-Man.
- [Austin] Pac-Man?
- [Jared] We got dinosaur with soldiers.
- I don't think that's a collab...
Is that collaboration? - [Jared] I don't know.
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So of course, huge thank you to Rhinoshield
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The biggest upgrade on the iPhone 13
that's really noticeable are of course, the new cameras.
Not only on the standard 13 and the mini,
but especially on the Pro and the Pro Max.
So this entire video is being shot on the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
And we've been using a variety
of different lenses and stuff.
And we'll talk a little bit more
about some of the specifics.
But the thing that I really appreciate
is how big of an upgrade this truly is.
What I like about this is the fact
that Apple has put some real effort into...
What are with all the bugs?
Is it because I'm sitting on the bug bench?
'Cause there are like ants crawling on me right now.
So this is the setup we're using
to record the video with right now.
Ken's using the Pro Max,
as well as we're using with some of these Rode Lavs.
Which of course, the audio on an iPhone is decent,
but it's never as good as using something external.
But the nice thing is this is the entire rig, right,
there's nothing else to this.
Which makes a big difference when it comes to actually
making our content simpler and easier to shoot.
So the iPhone 13 sees a slightly smaller camera upgrade.
So the ultra-wide has been improved
and the standard lens is a little bit better.
Essentially, it's very similar to what we had
on the iPhone 12 Pro Max last year.
But the Pro is where it's at, not only do you have
a much improved ultra-wide camera with macro mode,
you've got the new main camera, you also have the telephoto.
And when we put all this together with, more ants on me,
then you'll find that there's a, I would say,
a significant upgrade in iPhone camera performance.
Now, no one would say that the iPhone 12
of last year was a slouch.
I mean, honestly, a lot of videos on the channel
have been shot somewhat or primarily
on an iPhone 12 mini, right?
You've used the 12 Pro Max.
Look, we use iPhones all the time in videos
and it cuts pretty seamlessly
with a lot of our much more expensive cameras.
But the Pro this year,
really does take it to the next level.
I'm gonna wipe some more ants off me before we continue.
'Cause they're definitely on my arms.
- [Ken] I'd say that, especially with people doing
TikTok more. - Yeah.
- [Ken] And Instagram more,
this phone is absolutely meant for those people.
- Absolutely.
The Pro is a true, uh.
The Pro name was always kind of weird to me,
but it does feel like it is meant more for people
who actually rely on these cameras
for more than just taking a quick shot, right.
Like these are something
that you can actually do pro things on.
So the video what you're seeing right now,
is being shot in the standard 4K 24 mode.
However, there's also cinematic mode.
This is an example of what cinematic mode looks like.
Now you can essentially think about this
as portrait mode for video.
Now, as you saw from a lot of the footage
from earlier in the video,
you actually don't always need portrait mode
to get this kind of like shallow depth of field.
But this cinematic mode definitely does lots of amp it up.
There are some sacrifices.
So not only does this not work on the ultra-wide,
so it only works on the 1X and the 3X telephoto lenses,
but it also only records at 1080p 30, which 1080p is fine,
although it'd be nice if we could shoot it 24
instead of 30, for some weird reason.
One thing I will say is that there is still more to come
specifically on the Pro model.
So ProRes, the codec is coming to these devices
at some point later this year.
We shoot a lot of ProRes on our more professional cameras.
And it is a good codec because there's a lot of data there,
but that's, I think,
a little bit more of a minor thing, honestly.
Because I think, at least for a video,
this is the best smartphone you can buy.
- So obviously we use the iPhone a lot for video,
but something that I personally like
is the fact that the iPhone
has really solid cameras for still photography.
So for my social media stuff, for Twitter, @kenbolido,
I actually upload a lot of stills
and I like shooting and editing on the iPhone.
Now what I want to try is, the ultra-wide camera
for normal stuff has never really been that great,
especially when there are people in the shot.
I'm gonna take a photo of Austin here.
Yeah, it's not the most impressive thing,
but it is better than it was before.
- [Austin] It was really bad before,
I think that's the thing. - It was.
- [Austin] Ultra-wide is like,
so if I can switch to ultra-wide right now, right?
So this is what the video looks like on the ultra-wide.
And I actually think the video
is a little bit kinder to it than the photos.
Because like, I mean, this is a cool look,
like I can get right on top of you,
and yet this still looks fine and we have auto-focus.
- Yeah.
- [Austin] But when you go between this
and the standard mode,
there's a pretty significant bump in quality.
Something else worth considering is the price.
So these devices are pretty much universally
the exact same price as their 2020 counterparts.
There is one exception to that,
which is the iPhone 13 and the 13 mini
now have double the base storage,
which is a nice improvement.
That's about roughly a $50 price cut
compared to where they were last year.
But in a year that has been filled with chip shortages
of everything from cars to GPUs,
that has massively inflated prices
and certainly made it more expensive for everyone,
Apple included, to get their hands on chips.
I actually do want to say that it is a good thing
that Apple has been able to deliver these phones on time
and at the same price.
It would have been the easiest thing in the world for Apple
to be like, "Oh, well, you know, due to chip shortage,
et cetera, et cetera, we're gonna bump up the price
of all the iPhones this year by $50 or $100."
And they would have made billions of dollars
in additional profit, but they didn't do that.
Now, I guess on the flip side,
can I really be that happy about a company
who didn't raise their prices?
Probably not.
But in a world where I pay double MSRP
on graphics cards on a regular basis,
it's certainly something to consider.
The iPhone 13 Pro is an incredibly solid package.
And I'm really curious, what do you think it's missing
outside of something like Android?
Seriously, let me know in the comments below,
because as far as I'm concerned,
this is not only one of the most complete iPhones
that they've ever sold,
this is one of the most complete Apple products
that I've tried in a very, very long time.
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