Hello everyone it's SpawnPoiint and welcome back to another video and this is the iPhone 13 mini
apple's smallest phone in this year's lineup now although it's small in both price and size it's
not when it comes to the features that it's packing it's got an upgraded camera screen
and battery and it has the new cinematic mode and image stabilization but let me show you why
i think this is the sleeper phone to buy and it's probably the best value for money in the entire
lineup it's got everything that the iPhone 13 has and some of the features from the pro
(at least the features that you would probably use) and something i've mentioned before is all
of the videos on this channel are actually filmed using an iPhone so over the last year i've either
used the iPhone 12 or the 12 pro max but moving forward i will be using the 13 pro max as well
as this 13 mini that's how confident i am in the quality of this little phone and this phone
is tiny i think over the last five or six years of having the max and the plus size phones it's
really made this phone look even smaller but just to demonstrate how small it is this is it compared
to the iphone 13 and the iphone 13 pro max design wise it comes with the same square light design
that we've seen on the other iphone 13 models as well as last year's 12. But just like with
the non-pro iphone 13 the mini comes with a glossy back and it's got the matte finish aluminium bands
i actually really like the bands being matte it's far less of a fingerprint magnet as the
gloss ones you see on the pro but as it's got a glossy back it means that the back is going
to show just as many fingerprints as the screen to be honest i just want an all matte finish so
a matte rear like we see on the pros and then the matte bands like we see on the non-pro but as for
the color this is the product red and i'll tell you what it really pops it's not a color that i
would normally go for as i play it safe with the graphite or the black but this just works but what
do you think is this a color that you would go for or do you think you would go for one of the others
down the bottom we've got the speaker grilles and we've still got the lightning port as well so
still no usb c this year so obviously this design is nothing new it's what we've seen on last year's
models and the other 13 models but i think it looks really nice so it's no good having a color
this vibrant if i'm going to hide it so i've actually got my first ever transparent case for
it it's one of the apple magsafe cases and as you can see you can see the magsafe on the back here
but it snaps on and it looks great now i've not received my screen protector yet for the phone
but i've actually ordered the spigen full screen coverage this is the same that i've gone for on
the pro and the pro max and they fit perfectly so until that arrives i'll need to be extra careful
with this one even though it's got a ceramic shield on the front i'm still taking no chances as
i have scratched phones in the past and if you'd like to know which screen protector i've gone for
i have a link to that in the description oh and another thing that i've not used before and that's
the max safe wallets they've actually upgraded it this year with the nfc chip so if it's removed
from the phone it will actually prompt you after 60 seconds now this is a great idea if you were
to lose it or if it was to fall off your phone as you would know exactly where you've lost it
now i'll be honest i actually thought the screen on the mini would just feel too
small and almost uncomfortable to use but haven't used it for the last few days and filming
with it i've realized it's absolutely fine plus as the screen carries most of the features we saw on
last year's pro models is actually a pretty decent package so we've got a 5.4 inch oled
super retina display that's the same screen type we've got on the iphone 13. it supports
hdr and it's got a ppi or a pixel per inch of 476 that's actually higher than the pro models
when it comes to the smaller screen there are only a few differences between this and the pro models
the first being is not quite as bright so the max brightness on the mini is only 800
nits that's the same as the 12 pro last year whereas the 13 pros they max out at 1 000 nits
hdr is the same on both models they max out at 1 200 nits and in day to day use 800 nits is
absolutely fine i had no issues last year on my 12 pro max so you'd have no issue with the 13
mini and secondly it does not support apple's new pro motion or the 120Hz response this means you're
still getting last year's 60 hertz screen there's nothing wrong with that as such as most people
probably won't even notice for general viewing personally i really like the 120Hz screen that
we've seen on the pro it's just so much smoother so other than the pro motion and the extra 200
nits of brightness that's basically the difference between the mini and the pro well spec wise the 13
mini once again matches and slightly improves upon lashes 12 pro it's got a new a15 chip 6 core cpu
and 4 core gpu it's actually a step up from the 12 pro and a step down from the 13 pro the fact
that i'm even comparing this 13 mini to the 12 pro tells you just how good this little phone is
i use the 12 pro max to create every single video on this channel since it launched so i
could technically use the iphone 13 mini and get the same results so with that in mind if you want
to replicate what i've done over the last year you get yourself an iphone 13 mini and do exactly that
but the biggest difference between the pro and the non pro models especially the 13 mini is the
camera setup so like with the normal iphone 13 well the mini comes with just two lenses which
have had a new arrangement on the back we've got the wide f 1.6 aperture lens and the ultra wide f
2.4 lens now the quality of the photos i've taken with these lenses have been incredible not only
looking at them back on the screen but viewing them on my mac as well the colors that fulfilled
focus sharpness everything looks great the lenses have had an upgrade too so they are even better
at taking photos in low light with that faster shutter you've also still got modes like portrait
panoramic and it supports night mode on top of this the 13 mini comes with this year's new
sensor shift image stabilization this will make taking photos and videos even easier and smoother
the only thing the 13 mini doesn't have is ProRAW so if you wanted to take photos and edit them in
a lossless raw format well you cannot do that that really is a pro feature all of these photos on my
instagram they were taken with the iphone 12 pro max so similar to what you get from the iphone 13
mini right next up the video capabilities let me start by saying that the 13 mini is better
than the 12 pro now remember i use the 12 pro max to record all the videos on this channel
but the video you're watching now that is also shot on the 12 pro max well the 13 mini can do 4k
60 1080p and slow-mo up to 240 frames per second but the features that sets it apart from last
year's pro you might ask it has the new sensor shift stabilization so footage that you do record
will be so much smoother but it also has the new cinematic mode so if you watched my iphone 13 pro
max video a few days ago you'll see some of the examples i shared but these clips you're seeing
right now these were recorded on the mini so cinematic mode adds this kind of portrait style to
your videos it will autofocus on people or items and it'll create this nice kind of bokeh look but
if you tap on the screen you can actually manually focus as well as using that autofocus you can even
lock onto our targets if you just press and hold it will lock onto that object as you're moving
around on top of that you can retrospectively change the focus point after you finish filming
just edit the clip from the camera roll and you can change the person or item that you're focusing
on this is a really nice feature and it's great to see that we've got it on the iphone 13 mini
one thing to note about the cinematic mode is it only shoots in 1080p at 30 frames per second this
is the same for the pro models this year so this is not a mini limitation and also with the mini
there's no pro res support something that we're going to be seeing added to the pro models later
this year i think the camera on the iphone 30 mini is a real sleeper it's a wolf in sheep's clothing
there's nothing stopping you from using this to create some incredible content with it
the battery on the mini has had a boost in size and efficiency so it comes in at 17 hours roughly
that's up by one and a half hours on last year's mini it's not as good as the iphone 13 or the pro
models but that's a given because of the size of the phone i've easily managed a full day use
out of it so far and i don't see why anybody else couldn't now looking at the available storage and
prices for the mini well it comes in they are 12GB 25GB and 51GB there's no 1TB option this
year like we have with the 13 pro models prices are on screen now for the different sizes and
considering what this phone is packed with and all the features we've gone over today is not bad at
all so how does the iphone 13 mini compared to the iphone 13 pro and is it really worth getting well
the main difference between the two other than the obvious size include the telephoto lens 120Hz
screen the battery capacity and ProRAW and ProRes support if those are features that you don't need
or use the mini is an awesome buy and if you were wondering what you get in the box what is exactly
the same as the 12 models and the 13 pro it comes with the phone a usb c to lightning cable a sim
card remover and the apple stickers and just like with the 12s there's no power brick or plug you
will need to buy one of those separately if you need one okay so my final verdict on the iphone
13 mini and i'll tell you what i think this is the phone to buy if you don't need the pro
features it's the cheapest in the range and it's tiny i think i would actually call this phone the
iphone 12 pro mini because it's packing most of the features from the pro model last year
and it's got some extras thrown in but what about you which size would you go for do you think the
13 mini is too small are you more inclined to go for the normal 13 or the pro models for those
extra features and that was a quick look at the iphone 13 mini so we're so used to having large
phones now every phone each year gets larger and larger and this is obviously the smallest phone
and probably one of the most feature packed smallest phones you can actually buy but you've
made it to the end of today's video so thank you for watching and if you drop an iphone mini with
that little apple icon if you can in the comments i will give you a thumbs up for staying until the
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