No doubt you've seen that there's a huge influx of iphone videos of course it's just come out
we're all getting our hands on them so this is my unboxing and my first impressions of the iphone
13 pro max model right here now you probably know all the upgrades over the 12 right but
i'll just quickly outline it here better 5g better battery life the new a15 bionic is the new system
on a chip that we have with this improved gpu performance new three rare 12 megapixel cameras
and 120 hertz screen now which of course they have marketed apple as promotion just like the ipad
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and it's a very nice fit fits on a really solid high quality raised lip to protect the cameras
raised edge around here to protect the screen and that wireless charger this is it right here
very nice design really nice and small fits on the back there and there is of course the
kickstand right here our type c port there for charging 15 watts so supporting apple's standard
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that one fits on the back very very solid again high quality plastic build rubber feet right here
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description of this video and you can also win an iphone 13. so a new color for me to test out i got
the iphone 12 pro max in the gray color but this is obviously the gold one here so i don't want to
show my serial numbers on the back there but we've got these little strips here that you need to pull
off so they're not using that plastic anymore which i did have a go at in one of my videos my
videos on the 12 pro max that wasn't very good on the environment so there we go the phone of course
and just the cable so type c to lightning i'm so disappointed that we do not have type c to
type c and of course there is no charger in the box that's just our symmetry tool in there and
a little bit of paperwork there's nothing else in this so it's the same as before we've got the
lightning port right here we've got our microphone loudspeaker there's also a secondary loudspeaker
antenna lines now just to point out too that the transfer rates over lightning
are horrendously slow at least for me on windows using it it's like usb 2 speeds so that is super
outdated so here at the top another antenna line and the build quality is excellent i have to give
them praise we're due that it is superb it's very good to finish on this so of course we've got the
big changes to the cameras here the main camera 12 megapixels still all three of them but it's now a
brighter f 1.5 we now have a three times optical and that does have optical image stabilization
along with the main scene so the main sensor does have the sensor shift two with it and then
the phase detection autofocus the ultra wide now with auto focus so that means it can shoot macro
shots and that has an f 1.8 aperture which is a lot brighter than what the previous gen was so
big improvements to the ultrawide hopefully which i'll be testing out so the left side we've got
our buttons so these are all made out of metal so i'm going to get my sim tray into this apparently
they've improved the 5g support the coverage more sort of global bands and it should be a lot better
hopefully gonna be a lot better on the battery life because i was really disappointed with the
12 pro max that i was getting poor battery life on 5g and here we are with our front screen so the
bezels on this one i guess they're not too bad but of course the notch still there still looking very
ugly a little bit distracting but they reduced the size of it by 20 which is at least something
it shows that they well they're trying aren't they so the resolution on this screen here it's
2778 pixels by 1280 and that gives us a ppi with this screen here of 458 that's the density there
and at 6.7 inches and finally we have 120 hertz promotion as they market it just like
the ipad pros and the camera up at the front of this one 12 megapixels our earpiece here acts as
a loudspeaker and then we've got the tech that's involved in here for that face id so unfortunately
there is no touch id on this one no fingerprint reader which i'm a bit disappointed about now
the iphone 13s are of course running the new a15 bionic and it was already crazy fast the a14 now
the improvements to the gpu now promotion here now you do notice the difference so finally they
are catching up but come on let's face it apple's normally always two three years behind what we get
with android because we've had 120 hertz now for quite some time but at least apple didn't come out
and carry on like they invented it but they've called it and marketed it as promotion of course
we kind of always knew they were going to do that because they pulled that through from
the ipad so look at this performance this is geekbench five i'll just give you a couple
little synthetic benchmarks here that that is crazy that's faster than laptops of god okay that
single core score there that's beating out an 11th gen intel amd's it's just nuts okay this is in the
palm of your hand it does get a little warm right here on the back you do notice that and i hope
that problem with the overheating doesn't rear its ugly head because i had quite a few issues
with my iphone 12 pro max that it would overheat even in twitter doing nothing but in summer it
would come up with that message overheating i did run wildlife so this is checking on that gpu
performance and the gpu just look at this crazy almost 60 frames per second for a mobile
that is great and multitasking here very very smooth to swap over to your various different
apps it really is great performance so iso 15 has some changes i won't go into all of that there's
plenty of other videos out there on that but all up initial first impressions is yes of course
it feels a lot faster now 120 hertz but it was still quite smooth and fast at 60hz before and
the a15 i'm not really seeing any difference it's only in synthetic benchmarks compared to the a14
and my thoughts now on the audio performance so we don't have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
okay your android's missing that as well so i had to use this so lightning to 3.5 millimeter
good quality it sounds great it's not bad at all the speakers do sound very very good so they're
rich sounding they've got a little bit of bass and i'll play you a sample now at 100 volume so
the sound comes out the bottom speaker and then out of the earpiece like we see with other phones
now the gaming performance compared to my iphone 12 pro max it's identical exactly the same here
i'm really not noticing any difference at all so i have it set to the highest possible visuals
with the highest frame rate which is going to burn through the battery the quickest of course now it
is heating up a little bit just on the back there slightly warm but it does feel in that regard
like it's running cooler than the iphone 12 pro max but this is just remember first impressions
here but very very good gameplay visually it looks better than the android phones out there
and look at how crazy smooth it's just silky smooth this gameplay
and a quick look at our video the weather has been really bad at least it's not raining here
at the moment so right now i'm shooting with that 12 megapixel ultra wide which of course is new
now and it has that brighter better lens on it if 1.8 i can swap over now to our main camera so that
transition is really fast i'll go back to that ultra wide and then that's the main camera there
what i do like about apple as much as i criticize them as the video performance for a phone
is the best out there okay i've tested out a lot of android phones and normally when there is an
exposure change like that for example looking at the sky then something is a little bit darker and
then moving about with the android phones you get that jetta that comes through which is terrible
and thankfully you don't get it with apple it really does have the best video quality so an
improvement here i mean this to me looks exactly the same the main camera right now so as i walk
along the stabilization seems to be pretty good and now we do have this which is the three times
now optical zoom looks like a bit of a storm still forming there in the background and then back to
that main camera what i'll do now is just go down these stairs here test out that stabilization
audio quality seems to be quite good luckily the wind has gone now
and now with our front facing camera i'm shooting 4k 30 frames per second you can go 4k 60 so there
is no 8k with the rear camera and of course just tops out at 4k here with the front-facing camera
this is probably why a lot of youtubers and vloggers go for the iphones is because of the
very very solid front-facing camera quality a lot of android phones are never going to
be this good even the top flagships i don't think they can better the front-facing cameras
on the iphone and we're talking about say the iphone 12 series and now the 13. very
very good here as i walk along it's quite steady and even smoother if i was to shoot of course 4k
60 frames per second but because my videos are 4k 30 i will stick to 30 here so excellent quality
so
so battery life i haven't had enough time to go through a full kind of normal days of use
with this now 5g on the 12 pro max would kill my battery life and i never really used it that often
and it seems to be holding up a lot better now i can thankfully say that i am so early on now
still actually i'm seeing some improvements there with the battery life which is really good so it
looks like it's going to be matching their claims of being like two hours or two and a half hours
better than the previous models there so the build quality very very good the step up and the camera
is great the focus is very good the front vlog footage great so if you are someone that for
your profession your profession maybe you're a youtuber maybe you're a photographer or maybe
you are someone in real estate you need a good camera you need good video especially video hands
down the iphones are the ones to go for that is the reason why i go for iphones is because of
their video quality it is really something because it does not drop any frames it does not have that
micro jutter we see with android phones with all my reviews and camera comparisons with the
android phones you'll see as i pan around often in certain scenarios especially in daylight where
the exposure auto exposure if i'm using it which i normally do on the comparisons it has to change
according to dark shadowy areas and then into the sunlight it will jutter and it's terrible
but you don't get it with iphone iphone hands down the best video quality the photo quality typical
android apple sorry i'm so used to saying android typical apple because
portraits are warm but if you don't use a portrait mode they're not so warm now you can go through
the different filters and set this kind of grade of photo that you want for your own personal
preferences which is good there's lots of iso 15 changes and options and different things in there
so far it seems to be good i have encountered one bug though however using the cameras i was just
swapping over the cameras and then i went out of the cameras it completely froze up my screen
became unresponsive everything jammed i did not expect to see that so there are some bugs early on
with this version just with the cameras i feel and there could possibly be more things there going on
so what are the other things i like about this well the performance is just so quick i can have
a game running in the background get out of it and go and do some other things jump into whatsapp and
there's no noticeable frame dips or anything it's just so smooth the whole process and it was like
that before with the a14 with even the 60 hertz so going from the 60 to 120 now with pro motion is a
big noticeable change which is one of the reasons i would go for this phone if you're coming from
the iphone 10 the iphone 11 series this is now a big upgrade if you're going from the iphone 12
pro over to this you're not going to really get that much of a change okay you get those minor
tweaks improve battery life the improved cameras sure 120 hertz is going to feel a lot smoother but
it was smooth to start with anyway before so it's good that apple is finally catching up because
it's taking them they're always two three years behind and the innovation that we get with android
with so many different manufacturers it kind of makes sense we get that level of innovation that
we don't with just apple they're taking it easy minor little tweak and what should have
been called an iphone 12s pro max this particular model here they called it an iphone 13 which to me
really isn't it's more of a 12s i think it's a 12s 12s pro so thanks a lot for watching my unboxing
and well my very opinionated thoughts on the iphone 13 pro max here as a mostly android user