`- He's been living with it for three months,
the iPhone 13 pro.
David, what's your favorite part about it so far?
- The battery life is just, it's really impressive.
And I've been running the beta, iOS 15 beta
and betas are notoriously unreliable,
buggy, crash all the time,
cause a whole bunch of issues, including battery drain.
I've never had any issues.
And I feel like I've never been in a situation
where I'm out of battery life in the middle of the day.
With the iPhone 11 Pro,
I noticed that as it got kind of into the early evening,
I would have some battery issues and it'd be, 20% or below
whereas the iPhone 13 Pro it just lasts and lasts.
It's amazing.
Like the Energizer bunny keeps going and going and going.
And when we have these phones flipped on their face,
we can talk about the cameras a little bit.
So right off the bat,
I was taken aback by just how (laughing)
gigantic the lenses are, but you get used to it.
One thing we were talking about earlier with the cases
is that iPhone 11 Pro is just folded in,
iPhone 12 Pro it has a little bit of a Ridge
and then the iPhone 13 pro it really juts out.
So you hold these phones over and you wanna...
- If you have it like flat on the table.
If you wanna use the level app, for instance,
you're not going to work as perfectly on that phone,
as it is on these other ones.
- The camera quality itself to take great photos,
and you know, every year apple says
the camera is the best camera ever.
And that's true again and you know,
modest improvements.
One of my biggest issues with this phone though,
is the ProRes feature that apple kind of talked about
a lot at the apple event, announcing these phones.
First of all, they didn't say
that the 128 base model doesn't include ProRes
- Fortunately, David's smarter than that.
So he got the right phone the first time.
- But we made a video about this earlier,
how the ProRes video, the files are gigantic.
And because the iPhone 13 pro only supports a USB two
the transfer time is just, it's absurd.
- Six gigabytes of data for one minute of prores 4k video,
it took over two minutes to transfer one minute of video.
It's going to take over two hours to transfer an hour
of video from your iPhone.
And this is technology that they built into the
brand new phone that was invented in the year 2000.
So why isn't apple upgrading
the lightning connector? I dunno.
- And one reason we got this phone specifically was to test
out this new feature, maybe,
hey maybe it can work for us for filming too.
And it's just it, no chance.
And that's if, the ProRes feature is
something you are really thinking about,
and you're curious about it, you just, you know,
it's not good.
- No, it's really not a reason to upgrade to this.
- Absolutely not.
- But it does have a great camera.
- It does yeah.
- So what is the thing that you've been
the most impressed by so far?
- It's definitely the display.
And I didn't think that the 120 Hertz adaptive refresh rate
was going to be that big of a difference,
but once you use it and you go back to a phone at 60 Hertz,
it just, you see it and you can't unsee it.
- We don't get these phones for free.
So every other year, one of us gets a new phone.
This was David's year with the 13 pro,
I still have the iPhone 12 pro
and he will not stop talking about
how amazing this screen is.
- Its really great it's brighter too.
I think it has a 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio.
Display is so nice when I was going back to the old 11 pro,
and it's just, you can really see the difference.
It's amazing.
- So I am not upgrading yet.
And I won't even look at his phone because I don't wanna
ruin it for myself until I get the 14.
- One thing that I've seen some people want on the iPhone,
mean not so much, but a little bit,
always on display.
- Its okay to admit you wanted to
- I Kind of want it but some people are
a lot more fired up about it than I am so,
I'll put it that way.
Always on display.
I don't know why that hasn't been built into the iPhone yet.
- Yeah, it is interesting that they've
built it into the apple watch,
but they haven't done anything with it on the iPhone.
And really what we'd like is, you know,
when it's flipped over,
we'd like to be able to see maybe just a little something.
- Sure, maybe some widgets.
- Maybe yeah, a little weather, little clock.
So there's, I mean, you can swipe left to right
to see the widgets.
- Some people can,
- it's an extra swipe.
Let's talk about 5G, Obviously iPhone 12 line,
iPhone 13 line do support 5G.
I don't have 5G in my area,
it's kind of totally useless for me.
Only time I ever have 5G. It's like, I'm going on a trip,
I stopped at a gas station,
that town happens to have 5G.
- You notice it on your phone.
- And this isn't so much a iPhone 13 feature,
I mean, it is kind of an iPhone 13 feature,
but backup over cellular.
I don't know why apple built this into the 5G iPhones,
but it's, it's really bad.
- It's crazy, yeah.
I guess it's for people who, you know,
there's a theory that you could ditch your home internet
and just have 5G.
And before I could have backup and only work if you're
connected to WiFi,
but still 5G plans have high-speed data caps.
If this feature is enabled,
you're going to burn through that entire data cap.
- If you go to settings cellular
and to scroll all the way down,
icloud backup, when not connected to WiFi use
cellular network to automatically backup to iCloud.
This may cause you to exceed your cellular data plan.
Turn that switch off and just tap automatic iCloud backups
when connected to WiFi.
- If you have wifi, this switch should be off.
It should not be on by default,
same thing with the iCloud drive.
- So this is an iPhone 13 pro review,
but that's a tip for all five.
- This is a review,
it's your experience three months later.
- And one thing that happened too,
is that I think I did an iOS update
and the switch got turned back on without my consent,
which was a sneaky little sneaky, it could have been bad.*
- It's not like the time they released the beta,
but then downloaded the entire software update.
It was like a bug in the beta.
- Yeah, in terms of size and weight and feel,
it was kind of jarring at first,
going from the 11 pro to the 13 pro is a lot heavier.
It's bulky, its thicker.
Who's put that up to the side cam here.
You can kind of really see the difference,
but it's a lot thicker.
And it takes... am getting used to, for sure.
- And David was coming from the 11 pro,
if you're coming from a 12 pro,
not gonna notice the difference.
- But one thing I was thinking,
I have some sweat pants and some shorts
that have shallower pockets.
And I've had issues where the phone
doesn't really fit in very well.
I suppose that'd be an issue with the 12 pro too,
but I feel bad for people who are women's clothes,
for instance, where they have no pockets
or they have really those tiny pockets
and that this phone is not fitting there very well.
- Right, and might wanna consider an iPhone 13 mini.
If you've got pocket concern.
- Pocket issues.
- Yeah, pocket issues and who doesn't have those?
- Another thing, the thinner notch,
it definitely gives you some more screen real estate.
It's it's nice.
It's good to have that a little bit extra space.
It's not a huge difference, but just keep in mind,
especially with playing mobile games on your phone,
you want more screen real estate
to see more of what's going on.
- Right, I mean
look at how much more you're getting out of
your phone because of it.
You get the three icons and I get the time and the thing,
but you get a little more space on your side.
- I sure do
- So, yeah.
- It's nice.
- That's Nice, that's a great feature.
Sorry, I might be a little jealous here.
You know, let's put David on the clock here.
I'm just gonna run through the iPhone specs
on Apple's website.
And we're going to get his reaction three months later
because that's what this video is about.
Capacity, how is 256 working for you?
- 256 Is good, I mean, but again,
it's the ProRes is kind of the reason
why you'd want to get the 256, the 512
or the one terabyte version to get those gigantic video
files for an average person,
120 gigabytes is more than enough storage space.
- More than enough, size and weight.
- Size and weight, Yes, I mean, it's a heavy phone.
It's a big phone, if you got small hands,
if you know, it's just, it's heavy.
- Shallow pockets.
- shallow pockets, and you do get, I've gotten used to.
- Yep, display size, what do you think 6.1 OLED.
- Yeah, the display.
I mean, I love the display.
It might be my favorite part about this phone.
Display size is buying, I have an issue I have,
you know, above average size hands,
and some of these gigantic phone displays,
like the 13 pro max it's too big for me.
And like the one plus eight was just...
- Well, the one plus eight is a joke.
- It was very thin and very tall,
it's a good size.
- How about the splash water and dust resistance.
- Yeah. Well, I'm a big IP68 fan.
- How about that chip? Chip inside.
We talked about it earlier is it's faster.
It definitely is faster, you do notice it.
It's it's you know, a small upgrade from the 12 pro.
- Yeah, well yeah .
- Smallish, sorry it's this is your reaction,
not mine, camera.
- Camera, it takes good pictures.
Take them near, that's all you need.
Anything like crazy different between this one
and the 11 pro?
- Not really? No, I mean,
it's a slightly better than the 11 pro, every year.
The iPhone gets a slightly better camera, that's true again.
- Yup, video, so video camera, camera.
They talk a lot about this in the specs.
Just all camera stuff.
- Face ID.
- Face ID works, I don't know.
- Apple Pay
- Apple Pay, I don't really use Apple Pay.
- Okay, carriers.
- Well, that's a good point you know,
I've got no issues with my service switching phones.
- Yeah, it's been solid for awhile.
- So actually One thing I wanna take a look at too,
does this phone have the same antenna
or the same window for the 5G antenna?
- Let's take it out as mine.
- It's been in the case for so long, I don't remember.
Yeah, it does.
So 5G iPhones do have that little window
that's for the 5G antenna.
That just kind of goes to show you how poor 5G services
- In 5G and 5G antenna type,
it doesn't go through walls.
It needs a window to go through the case.
- Here's just a quick color comparison.
iPhone 13 pro on the right there
compared to the iPhone 12 pro on the left.
It's a nice color.
- They're both nice, Pacific Blue versus Sierra Blue.
- And here we have the Space Gray iPhone 11 pro.
I do like the Space Gray.
- I like that I like your phone, I like the 13 pro
I think, can I hold it? I see it, man.
The camera assembly on this phone is ridiculous.
- They're gigantic, one thing, if you are concerned too,
about that flat table issue we were talking about,
you could just get a thicker phone case,
but this is already a very thick phone
and pretty heavy phone.
When you add a bulky case to it.
I started off with a bulky case and it was big.
- Call quality .
- Call quality is excellent on the iPhone 13 pro,
but not improvement...
- Internal buttons and connectors.
- I do like the big buttons then I, you know,
and they're easier to press
- Than the smaller buttons.
- Its easier to press bigger buttons
than it is to press smaller buttons.
- True, alright.
Lightening connector, boo USB 2.0.
About the battery.
- Battery life is excellent.
I've never had any issues with battery charge lasts all day.
Right, MagSafe, you use that at all?
- I don't use MagSafe you know,
I'm always a wired charging person.
I don't really,
I don't find much utility in wireless charging.
- Alright.
And the last thing I'm going to ask you
is the operating system.
How does it feel compared to the 11 pro?
- I mean, it feels faster.
Because the processor, but in both phones run iOS 15.
- Yeah. But it feels fast, its better.
- It's faster, zippier snappier.
- This is a little test I made on Pi Day
to test the processor speed.
Let's see how these all do, ready David, 1, 2, 3, go.
- Wow. Wow.
There's a winner, huh?
I guess here's a pretty fast too,
- But no, that's, there you go.
- I mean, it felt a little bit faster to me
and sometimes it's more of
like a more intuitive and it feels that way.
We don't have anything to back it up and here you go.
- Yes, much faster.
Yeah, it's interesting.
I mean, that's, it did what it was supposed to do.
It's always nice
when things work out the way they are supposed to.
- It's interesting because a lot of the times, you know,
it feels like iPhone to iPhone, there are minor upgrades.
And you know,
this processor is a little bit faster than that process or
in that processor a little bit faster than that processor.
- What do you do with actual calculations after the fact.
But I have a feeling that this one is
twice as fast as this one.
Like this one probably took twice as long.
Yeah, I don't know why they're disappearing.
This is what happens when I make speed tests.
So it worked, okay.
- So if you're thinking about
upgrading to the iPhone 13 pro,
if you're on a 12 pro right now, I mean, I wouldn't upgrade.
It's pretty similar phone.
You will notice a difference when you have 13 pro.
If you're coming from 11 or 11 pro, is it a huge difference.
- When the screen, you think it is.
- With the display? It's definitely a big difference.
Battery life is better, but yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
It's a lot of money, 999, starting price,
the base model of the iPhone 13 pro,
which is the one that I would recommend buying.
I wouldn't pay above the 128 buy in.
- Well for the ProRes, yeah.
But at 128, you know, if you're taking a lot of videos,
even if it's not ProRes, it's not a lot of space for
4K regular video either.
And then once you go back beyond the iPhone 11,
there'll be a big upgrade for you.
Right, absolutely.
- One thing he mind though,
if you do buy this phone, no charger in the box,
like the iPhone 12 line,
Apple's just not sending the chargers to save money,
which is frustrating.
- At least they're sending cables still someday.
We'll hopefully that'll be called up.
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