Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is iphone 12 pro it comes in four different
colors this year graphite which replaces space gray silver gold and this all new pacific blue
now it also comes in at 999 dollars but for 128 gigabytes of storage to start
1099 for 256 gigabytes and then 1299 for 512 gigabytes of storage this is the gigabyte pacific
blue iphone 12 pro so let's go ahead and unbox it and take a look at it so here is the iphone 12 pro
you can see the box here it has a colored logo and just like i showed in the iphone 12 video the box
is very similar sized so it's about two-thirds the size of an iphone se box or the current ones
because it doesn't include a charger now let's go ahead and open it up we'll take the top off here
and this is like i said before the pacific blue iphone 12 pro so i'll set this aside just for a
moment now inside the box we have our usb-c to lightning cable so as you can see here it's our
usb-c to lightning and then also we've got some documentation and that's about it in a smaller
envelope or or pan size so we've got a sim card ejector tool that's included
and then we have a little information about warranty and things like that and then we have
a single apple sticker it's a single white apple sticker again like i mentioned before i would love
to see them match the actual colors of the iphone now let's set the box aside and take a closer
look at the phone itself now the phone doesn't have any wrapper on it other than this piece of
paper on the front display so let's go ahead and take that off and you can see here it's the same
display and the exact same size as the iphone 12. i'll take a look at that together in just a moment
now this comes in at 6.66 ounces or 189 grams so it's heavier than the iphone 12 because it's got
stainless steel around the outside edge it's surgical stainless steel according to apple
so it's a nice blue color with a matte finish on the back which i really like
and let's go around the outside edge now on the right hand side just like we've always had we have
our power sleep awake button and then this little cutout here is for the millimeter wave 5g antenna
that we have in the us only now you may have the cutout on your phone but it's only
turned on in the us then we have an antenna line on the top of the device we have another antenna
line that curves around to the side here now on the left hand side we have a silent switch along
with volume buttons and then we have a sim card tray and then another antenna line and then on the
bottom just like you'd expect microphone speaker and lightning port connector and as you can see
already just from touching this this outside rim is a fingerprint magnet but the back is not so
i would have liked to see the matte finish on the side but that's fine for now but let's talk about
what it looks like compared to the other sizes of phones and then we'll go around and talk about the
specs and everything else so here is the iphone 12 so you can see the blues are very different it's a
very vibrant blue that has a lot of fingerprints on it but we have that matte band on the side
they're the exact same size they fit the exact same cases which i'll show you a little bit later
and everything is the same other than of course the cameras and a few other specs now compared
to the 11 pro you can see here i have the midnight green 11 pro they are about the same weight maybe
the 12 pro is a little bit lighter i'd have to look up the specs but they're very similar that
way if we take a look at the top here you can see the top is very similar as far as the width it's
very close from as far as that width goes and just feels a little bit thinner with the 12 pro
so basically the same of course we have the notch and everything else and then finally compared with
the 11 pro max just to give you a general idea until i can get the 12 pro max so it's definitely
a difference in size there there's a huge difference in its overall size so you can see here
the width is much narrower and the height is much less as well now as far as the overall specs of
course inside we have the all-new a14 cpu and what i believe to be six gigabytes of ram we'll
check that a little bit later and then of course with the display let's go ahead and turn it on
we'll give it just a moment but this is a 6.1 inch display it's the same display or basically the
same specs as we have with the iphone 12 so it's 6.1 inches it's 2532 by 1170 with 460 pixels per
inch it's apple's oled super retina xdr display and you can see it does have the notch like you
would expect at this point until they figure out a way to make it smaller with face id it's
never really bothered me personally but it may bother some people now of course this has 5g with
millimeter wave i'll be putting my sim card in here and doing a speed test a little bit later and
then let's talk about the cameras for a moment now on the back one of the advantages of the 12 pro is
its lidar sensor this helps with augmented reality and even autofocus in dark situations when you're
at night and then we have three different cameras we have an ultra wide f 2.4 aperture with a 120
degree field of view we have a wide f 1.6 aperture and that's very similar to what we have in the
iphone 12 which lets in a little bit more light and then we have a telephoto f 2.0 aperture but it
has 2x optical zoom and then 4x sort of zoom range probably punching into the sensor on the actual
phone itself or into the camera now it also has night mode with portrait mode which is really nice
and then of course on the back they all record in 4k 60 they have dolby vision hdr as well and apple
pro raw is coming later this year they record in 10 bit hdr which i think is really impressive
now let's flip this over and the forward-facing camera is very similar to the iphone 12 it's a 12
megapixel true depth camera with an f 2.2 aperture again it can record in 4k 60. now on the back of
this we have magsafe it's it's new way of charging wirelessly with this magnet paper you can see here
you can see with the magnet paper there's the speaker and microphone and then this ring in
the middle as i move the magnet paper around the ring in the middle is for magsafe and we'll
take a closer look at some of that later but that allows you to fast charge up to 15 watts
and you can hear there's a different sound and it adheres pretty tightly you can actually jiggle
this around it's not going to drop although i wouldn't throw it it might drop that way now also
this has what should be an all-day battery but 5g may affect that again we'll talk a little bit more
about 5g later on and then it's ip68 rated but it has a better rating of a maximum depth of 6 meters
up to 30 minutes which is really impressive now let's go ahead and set this up let's go back here
now i did the initial setup i need to put in the password of my iphone 11 pro max
once you put in the password it will start setting it up and it says finish on the new phone so i'll
set the iphone 11 pro max aside now it may take a few minutes to activate your phone you can put
in your sim card at any time but what this does is bring over all the information such as your
wi-fi network and other settings as well so it's really nice that they've got that just
an easy way to move that over and of course i've shown that in other videos before as well now it
wants me to set up face id i'll hit continue and get started and you can see it grabs onto my face
just move it around like that hit continue
and now my face is registered for face id we'll move on to the next step so we'll hit continue and
then it says setting up your apple id next we have to agree to the terms and services or terms and
conditions now at this point it's asking me if i want to restore from an icloud backup or transfer
apps and data i'm just going to say don't transfer for now so we can get to the main home screen
now it's saying do you want to bring over over settings from your other iphone i'll just go
ahead and hit continue and then it's asking me if i want to keep my iphone up to date
now there is no option to opt out of this you'll have to do it a little bit later so
before there used to be an option for that i don't see it on this one and then it wants me to set
up apple pay i'll set that up later and then it says improve siri and dictation so you can share
audio recordings or hit not now and then also share with app developers the analytics then
the next step is display zoom we'll go ahead and hit continue and it says welcome to iphone
and so it says no sim card installed i'll install that in just a moment
let's go ahead and sure i'll use this one for my location we'll go ahead and hit settings and you
can see now it's set up we'll go to general and then about and we'll we want to take a look at
what the actual version is pre-installed you can see the pre-installed version is ios 14.1 which is
pretty expected now let's go ahead and take a look at some of the settings for cameras and things
like that so this has some pretty impressive settings for camera so we'll go into camera
and the phone is getting a little warm doing a bunch of background activity syncing icloud and
things like that i always like to turn on grid for the camera but you can record video you can see up
to 60 frames per second i'll pick 30 for now and you can lock the camera and then also if we go
down to well there's smart hdr and then under our video settings you have an option for the
hdr video if you don't want dolby vision hdr 10 bit you don't have to have it you can just turn
it off so it's up to you what you want to do and in editing some of the video with the iphone 12
the footage is very vibrant and is actually in hlg hdr when you're actually trying to edit it so now
let's take a look at the camera we'll go to the camera it says new quick take video hit continue
and you can see we have the same sort of buttons we have on the 11 pro and 11 pro max we have
our ultra wide here we have 2x we have one and that's the normal camera if we go over to video
again we've got normal settings for hdr and everything else so just like i did in
the last video let's go ahead and take a video capture of what we see here so we're recording
from the iphone 12 pro and hopefully the video is pretty good you can see we go up there's the
pro display xdr go back down to the iphone 12 pro box and that's it now let's spin this around here
and let's go ahead and hit record so now i'm recording with the iphone 12 pro front-facing
camera so hopefully this footage is good right out of the camera of course i won't edit it for the
video i'll just put it in the timeline and then adjust the brightness so i may have to do that and
so those are the cameras now i'll end the video recording with the back camera of this so you can
hear the microphones and everything else as though you were recording someone else now let's go ahead
and take a look at the ram and also a couple other things such as 5g but i need to install the app so
let me do that now so let's go ahead and install my sim card here pop the sim card tray open
there we go grab my sim card and put it in place now i use t-mobile so i'll have t-mobile 5g here
and we'll put that in place there we go give it a moment to activate now while we're waiting
for everything to set up there let's go into settings and take a look at what wallpapers we
have since this has the pro wallpaper on it so we'll go here and under stills nothing really
special there but under live we've got four different wallpapers so we've got this dark blue
so we'll set this one wait for it here and you've got three different others you have gold and
graphite and silver it looks like so if we go home you can see it's very dark but looks great on this
display if i switch over to well let me go over to dark mode here so with dark mode on they look
pretty good and we'll go back home and you can see it with dark mode now let's see how much ram this
has and then we'll check 5g speed so if we go into geekbench 5 here you can see it has 5.60 gigabytes
or 6 gigabytes of ram just like it was expected to have and it's running at the same 2.99 gigahertz
with the a14 bionic as the iphone 12. now let's go into speed test and we'll set it up here
and you can see i'm on wi-fi so let's get off of wi-fi
now we're on 5g you can see i have two bars here we'll hit go and now this will ramp to
5g or back to 4g lte depending on if it's at an advantage or not so you'll see we're hitting well
i hit 135 megabits per second down give it just a moment and we'll see what it does for upload
there we go that's pretty good where i'm at so it's getting to about 10 11 megabits per
second upload i've seen it hit 14 where i'm at but of course you can do much more with that if
you're you've got better signal and if you have millimeter wave it will be better so i got 114
down by 11.6 up and then if i had millimeter wave that would come into play and i would get gigabit
speeds but in the united states it's mostly just verizon that has that now as far as 5g settings if
we go into the phone go into cellular now within the cellular data options you have 5g auto set as
default now it will switch based on need to try and save you the most power but you do have the
option to turn it on or switch back to lte full time also under data mode you have allow more
data on 5g standard or low data mode so those are options within the phone as well so that may or
may not help the battery depending on what it's doing apple should be managing that by themselves
so battery is about the same as the iphone 11 pro but it may get worse battery some are saying one
to two hours worse depending on normal use so it really just depends on what you're doing now
magsafe is included like i said before but it's not only for charging it does some interesting
things with cases so apple is actually using a magnetometer and nfc to recognize the devices
that are connected to it so here is the plumb case and this will fit the iphone 12 or 12 pro
so let's lock the display and then we'll put this this on and you'll see it shows up as
plum when it connects to the case it's actually using that nfc in the back to do that
now if we take the case off and again let's turn the display off we'll put on the deep navy case
connects and it shows you the navy color so it knows that it's connected to this case now of
course you can charge through it like i said and the magnets hold on really tight especially with
this case because i think it's doubling the power of the magnet so i think it's really on there
so you just pop this off like that we'll take the case off and these cases are great because they
protect the bottom this time too so if you haven't seen that they protect the bottom of the phone
now so now we have mag safe to quick charge at 15 watts and 7.5 on a regular charger so if you want
to use a normal charger wireless charger you still can of course you can use the lightning adapter as
well but you'll need another charger of some sort you'll have to pick one up now when you connect
magsafe there's this really nice animation so we'll connect it and flip it over and you'll see
it shows the actual charge state now it has a nice sound to it too let me see if you can hear that
and so you know it's charging so it's a really nice little animation to go along with it now as
far as the display is concerned it looks fantastic has great viewing angles and one advantage it has
over the other one as far as the iphone 12 is concerned is it can go up to 800 nits of max
brightness and then 1200 nits when viewing hdr the other one can do 1200 nits but it's not as bright
just in everyday use now it also has that ceramic shield on it so hopefully it's more scratch
resistant but apple says it's four times more drop resistant or shatter resistant so that should be
pretty interesting and then of course hdr video and everything else now along with iphone 12 and
any other iphone that actually uses an oled display it uses pwm or pulse width modulation
to control the screen brightness as you adjust the screen it's actually flashing the screen
faster or slower depending on how bright it is and so let me show you what this looks like compared
to an iphone 11 with an lcd display that doesn't do it so as you can see side by side the iphone
12 pro is actually flashing now this is fast enough that you can't see it with your normal
eyes no one can actually see it but it does cause headaches for some people so it could be a concern
the 11 pro and the 11 pro max really were fast enough that they didn't bother my eyes though so
with previous generations they did but this one should be plenty fast so far it's not bothering my
eyes now the other thing is the iphone 12 pro has stereo speakers just like the other iphones so you
have one on the bottom and then one on the top and so far they sound really clear and loud so let me
move my microphone so you can actually hear it and i'll show
you using my watch what the actual decibels are so you can hear or see how loud it goes
so hopefully this footage is good right out of the camera of course i won't edit it for the
video i'll just put it in the timeline and then adjust the brightness so i may have to do that
with the iphone 12 pro front facing camera so hopefully this footage is good right out
of the camera of course i won't edit it for the video i'll just put it in the timeline and then
adjust the brightness so i may have to do that so in that initial test compared to the 11 pro max
the 12 pro definitely sounds clearer at least to my ears now i absolutely love this squared off
edge in fact i've been waiting for this since the iphone 5s i've always preferred the squared off
edges and one thing is the display doesn't stick out past the frame anymore so you'll see that on
the front and the back glass as well it's very very flat so it's something that feels a little
bit different in your hand it's a little bit more premium i think and less slippery to me because it
it's not rounded now that's something that i prefer not everyone will like that of course
but i really like this blue but i'll have to see the other colors to determine which one i'll pick
up for myself later on so that's it for iphone 12 pro of course i'll have to use it for a few
days or a week before i do a full review and give my thoughts on it but let me know what you think
of the rear camera i'm recording straight out of the rear camera no external microphone or anything
and the air conditioner's on so it may be bad it may be great let me know what you think in the
comments below if you'd like to get your hands on the wallpaper that's on this box or on the phone
and on the 11pro max of course i'll link all of that in the description like i normally do
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