what's up guys my name is brandon and
i've been using the iphone 13 and the
iphone 13 pro for an entire month and i
wanted to give you guys my full in-depth
comparison to help you decide which one
you should buy and this year the
decision between these two is much
different than it was last year and
there are five main reasons why so let's
go ahead and talk about it so let's
start with the pricing so the iphone 13
starts at 829 or 799 if you activate
with a carrier right away for 128
gigabytes and then goes up to 512
gigabytes for 11.29 whereas the iphone
13 pro is about 200 more so it starts at
9.99 for 128 gigabytes and then goes up
to one terabyte for the first time this
year and that will run you fifteen
hundred dollars for the pro and 1600 for
the pro max the 13 will give you more
fun color options like a pink blue and
red in addition to the midnight and star
light colors whereas the iphone 13 pro
comes in kind of more muted colors like
the new sierra blue along with gold
silver and graphite now as far as the
design goes just like last year the
borders on the iphone 13 are made of
aluminum whereas the 13 pro has
stainless steel borders for a much more
premium look and feel now that does make
the pro model a little bit heavier
coming in at 204 grams compared to 174
grams on the regular 13 and the
difference is noticeable i can notice it
in my hands and in my pockets but i
wouldn't really call it a deal breaker
there's also a big difference in the
coding on the back of the phone so the
iphone 13 has a glossy glass back
whereas the pro has a matte glass black
so it's like a matte coating that gives
it a more dry look and in my opinion it
looks a lot more premium and especially
when holding it in the hand it just
feels more premium than the basic glossy
glass back of the regular iphone 13. not
to mention the pro doesn't get nearly as
many fingerprints or smudges on the back
of the phone thanks to that coating
however you do get a lot more smudging
around the borders of the pro due to
them being made of stainless steel we
also have an additional telephoto lens
on the camera array of the pro model
while the 13 has a wide and ultra wide
camera so a dual camera setup and they
are diagonal for the first time this
year and i actually like it i like it
better than the vertical setup like we
had on the 12. now one thing to keep in
mind is that the size of the lenses are
massive on the pro model this year they
are huge they protrude out a lot more
than the regular 13 and when you set
them on a flat surface it will rock back
and forth if you do not have a case on
if you do have a case on you're not
going to notice it as much but that is a
pretty big design difference between
these two are the massive camera lenses
so overall i would have to say that the
iphone 13 is the more comfortable phone
of these two because it is lighter and
those cameras don't protrude out as much
however it could be a little bit more
slippery than the iphone 13 pro although
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segment of the video all right so
turning these two back over to the
display there's a major difference when
it comes to the display so both have the
same 6.1 inch super retina xdr oled
display with the same at 25 32 by 1170
resolution and the same at 460 pixels
per inch and also the same 2 million to
1 contrast ratio so on the surface they
look and feel identical when you just
have them sitting here at the home
screen
but the big difference here is that the
13 pro has the pro motion technology
which offers that silky smooth 120 hertz
refresh rate and the cool thing about
the pro motion display is that it has a
variable refresh rate meaning that the
phone automatically changes the refresh
rate based on the activity you're doing
on the phone so if you're just sitting
at the home screen the 13 pro will drop
the refresh rate down to 10 hertz or
it's going to refresh 10 times per
second instead of 60 or 120 to preserve
battery life but then it will kick it up
to 120 hertz while playing an intensive
game or when you do something that
involves a lot of rapid movement so that
is really really cool and really
alleviates any concern that this would
cause battery drain and this is
something that a lot of people thought
would be you know not noticeable to your
average consumer but let me tell you it
is every single person i handed this
phone to has noticed a difference in the
smoothness of the 13 pro compared to
their 60hz iphone 13 iphone 12 or any
other previous iphone and when i use the
pro for a week and then switch back to
the 13 like myself it feels like my eyes
like have issues and that things are
like blurry when they shouldn't be it's
really that big of a difference to me
and you know it's gonna be a big
difference to anybody that pays
attention to detail you know so if
somebody doesn't really care they don't
use their phone that often they may not
be able to tell but i could tell you
right now every single person i handed
this phone to could tell a difference we
also see an increase in brightness from
800 nits to 1000 nits on the pro model
and up to 1200 nits when watching hdr
content but one thing that was not
mentioned by apple is that the thermals
on the iphone 13 pro are also slightly
better than on the 13. now the pro did
not dim as quickly when under direct
sunlight or duress and even when it did
the brightness did not drop down as low
as it did on the regular 13. now both of
these are going to be
upgrades from the 12. they both you know
have better thermals than the 12 but
even from the 13 to the 13 pro the 13
pro just performs better under duress or
under direct sunlight and when it's you
know heated up a lot all right so now
let's go ahead and discuss those cameras
because this is always one of the
biggest differences between the base
model and the pro model and that's no
different this year so let me start off
by saying that both phones produce
incredible photos and videos even
compared to the regular iphone 12 and
the 12 pro but this year the big
differences aside from that third camera
lens are the additions via software and
i want to talk about those first so
let's start by talking about pro res
video so this is a high quality video
format that retains more color and
detail than your typical h.264 or h.265
kodak not to mention it uses less
compression so it's going to be much
easier to work with in post-production
so that's all great but there is a big
downside and that is the amount of space
that it takes up and this could explain
the reason you can only shoot prores
video in 1080p on the base 128 gigabyte
13 pro only the 256 gigabyte models and
up can shoot in 4k now of course that
could also be you know something to do
with the power needed to shoot this
strenuous video natively on the iphone
but anyways one minute of storage of
this prores video equates to about six
gigabytes of storage so shooting video
and pro res especially 4k prores is
going to eat through your storage very
very quickly unless you have a one
terabyte model but even there it's gonna
eat through pretty quick now i did test
prores video in a number of situations
and i found that the most noticeable
difference in quality before color
grading is in low light situations so
there is less noise the colors are much
more lifelike and the overall quality
the overall picture is just better but
will your average person your everyday
person who isn't super into video notice
the difference probably not actually
they definitely will not and even if
they did it's likely not worth the
storage trade-off so prores is a feature
that i would only get excited for if you
are a cinematographer or if you just
edit and color grade your videos after
shooting them on your iphone otherwise
the regular 4k video that you shoot
natively from the camera here is going
to be more than enough for 99.9 percent
of people now another great feature that
is a combination of both software and
hardware is macro mode and this is hands
down my favorite feature of the iphone
13 pro aside from that 120 hertz display
because of just simply how much fun i
have shooting these macro shots so
thanks to that ultra wide lens getting
improved and adding autofocus we are now
able to get super close to objects and
have the ultra wide lens focus on the
subject from just millimeters away and
the results are pretty breathtaking and
if you don't like how the phone switches
to macro mode automatically when you get
close to a subject you can actually
toggle this off in settings so this is
especially helpful for video since i
found that it can kind of ruin videos
with that weird animation when it goes
into macro mode and you don't want it to
so definitely keep that toggle in mind
but aside from prores video and that
macro mode the only other major
differences have to do with that
telephoto lens and the crazy zoom
capabilities that it brings so you have
a 3x optical zoom in with a 6x optical
zoom range and also a digital zoom up to
15x so that is three times further
digital zoom than the regular iphone 13
and for video the pro also gets you 3x
optical zoom and 9x digital zoom which
is really awesome alright so now that
i've gassed up the iphone 13 pro so much
it's time to point out the fact that the
iphone 13 shares almost all of the same
features as the 13 pro when you subtract
that telephoto lens from the equation so
they both get the new photographic
styles feature which is exclusive to the
iphone 13s this year and this will allow
you to set photo filters before you take
a photo and you can customize it to your
liking straight from the camera app or
in settings and it applies to every
future photo you take until you turn it
off or change it we also get cinematic
video on both the 13 and 13 pro which
allows you to shoot video that well
looks more cinematic so there's a lot of
bokeh involved and ai is actually used
to detect when a subject's head turns to
look at somebody else and then it will
shift the focus to the person that they
look at or like if somebody comes in
frame it will automatically detect that
and put the focus on their face it's
really really cool and it makes taking
videos really fun probably a lot more
fun than it should be but just keep in
mind this mode is limited to 1080p for
now maybe we'll see 4k cinematic in the
iphone 14 but it is limited to 1080
right now but anyways both phones can
also shoot hdr video they both have
sensor shift stabilization they both
have night mode and night mode time
lapse they both have audio zoom and
pretty much all of the other features
like smart hdr4 and everything else the
only other differences aside from prores
video macro mode and that telephoto lens
with all of the added zoom capabilities
is the ability to shoot in apple pro raw
format the ability to shoot night mode
portrait shots and also slightly better
low light performance with both photos
and videos so the difference is pretty
big for somebody like me who takes
pictures and videos pretty much
everywhere i go and i'm constantly you
know recording something i think it's a
big difference for me between the 13 and
the 13 pro but if you don't always take
pictures and videos then you may just be
fine with the iphone 13 but i think for
200
you're getting a heck of a lot with the
pro this year all right so now that we
have the elephants out of the room aka
the display and the camera we can now
discuss some of the other more minor
differences so let's start with battery
life and the only reason i'd consider
this minor when comparing these two is
because the difference is not as big as
it was last year and that is a huge plus
and a huge win for the regular iphone
13. so i used both of these phones on
and off for multiple days at a time and
the difference in battery life was
almost always under an hour i got better
battery life on the iphone 13 pro
consistently despite the iphone 13
having a larger physical battery but
again the difference wasn't really
anything major and i would be able to
get through almost an entire day on both
phones now the 13 pro max is a whole
other beast this phone consistently
netted me an additional two to three
hours of battery life on a daily basis
which is nuts so if you want the best
battery life possible go for the pro max
but i'm telling you right now the
battery life on the regular 13 is
excellent and i would not you know go
for the pro just for the battery life
because they're both going to be very
similar in that department now as for
the performance this is another area
that is usually not considered minor but
the difference in these two is pretty
minor aside from one specific area so
both phones have the a15 bionic chip
inside and they both perform practically
identical and day-to-day usage like
using social media web browsing watching
youtube videos things like that but the
difference between these two comes into
play when you start gaming and that's
because the pro has a 5 core gpu while
the 13 has a 4 core gpu and that extra
graphics performance is going to
definitely help when playing intensive
games like cod mobile pub g or even when
editing and exporting videos and
something like lumafusion but if you
don't game or use intensive apps at all
you likely won't be able to tell a
difference between these two but when it
comes to ram management you might notice
a difference here i know i have and
that's because the iphone 13 has four
gigabytes of ram while the 13 pro has
six gigabytes of ram and that extra two
gigabytes goes a long way especially on
an iphone with ios and how well it
manages that ram and i noticed that apps
stay open significantly longer than they
do on the iphone 13. so for example i
like to play draftkings and when i go
back and forth between the app and my
safari app to do my research my
draftkings app would reload sometimes
and i would lose my entire lineup and i
would have to start over it was super
frustrating now granted this has also
happened on my iphone 13 pro once but
it's happened multiple times on the
regular iphone 13. so just keep that in
mind the 13 pro is going to be superior
if you multitask on your iphone at all
all right so with all of that being said
which iphone 13 should you buy and this
year i'd say that the pro model is well
worth the additional 200 if you care at
all about the camera and video
capabilities or that 120 hertz refresh
rate on the display not to mention the
pro has a better more durable exterior
shell as well with that stainless steel
the only thing you'd have to compromise
on is the slightly heavier feel in the
hand and in the pocket because again the
13 pro is slightly heavier and you do
have a bigger camera bump on the back
but again to me and most people that's
not going to be a deal breaker and this
is the first year i've ever had such a
strong lean in one direction i almost
always make a case for the base model
but this year i honestly don't think i
can unless you just really don't want to
spend the extra money or if you just
want to have you know the phone only to
text and web browse and that's pretty
much it you know that extra 200 though
it goes a long way with the pro and that
would be the one i would recommend this
year if you were to decide between the
13 and 13 pro if you have the extra
money you know i would definitely go for
it but if you can't afford it honestly i
would just save up and wait until you
can't afford it because that's how
strong i feel about the pro model this
year over the regular iphone 13. but
that's just my opinion let me know what
you guys think down in the comments
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