Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iphone 12 pro max has been out for a few months
and this has been my main phone every single day with the exception of when i was testing
out the iphone 12 and 12 pro and 12 mini when i did reviews on that otherwise this has been
my main phone for the past few months and so i want to talk about overall durability
its performance my daily use battery reception and maybe if you should wait for the iphone 13
and what features to expect with that and so the first thing is its size going from the iphone 11
pro max to an iphone 12 pro max is a slight change in the overall size now it's not huge compared to
that but if you're familiar with these rounded corners from say the 6s plus all the way up to
the 11 pro max this phone will feel a little bit bigger because of its squared off edges
however i do think that that makes it feel a little bit better more like the iphone 5 or
the 5s or iphone 4 i prefer the squared off edges and it makes it a little bit easier to grip onto
or hold on to without dropping it so i think the rounded corners were nice for a time but i prefer
the squared off edge of the newer 12 series phones so overall it's been very durable and i think some
of that has to do with the display and the back glass sitting flush with this frame around the
outside edge now the frame is stainless steel on the 12 pro max and it protects this glass not
only on the back but also on the front and so it's been really good as far as how well it's held up
so on the frame itself because this is the pacific blue color there's not really any scratches or
anything you'll see it does catch some dust and use it does catch a lot of fingerprints and i
have been using it without a case but overall it's held up incredibly well i do expect some
scuffs and scratches from time to time to build up that's just from using it and that's just what
you normally would expect with normal use but it seems to polish right up really well and the glass
has zero scratches on it so the glass on the back the cameras being that they're sapphire or semi
sapphire apple says they're sapphire but they have no scratches they haven't cracked or anything some
people have seen dust under here but i had i don't have that and they've held up really well but the
front glass being that it's similar to last year's glass actually has held up better than i expected
i don't have a single scratch on here that's from regular use i do have a scratch that was caused by
the phone slipping off my desk when i was setting up a shop for a video it fell off my desk onto a
light stand and actually scratched a corner so of course that could have been prevented with a
screen protector but you can see the scratch right there by my by my finger it's a deep scratch it's
there but when the display is on you can't really see it it's just annoying that it's there since
the entire display is free of scratches unlike last year's iphone 11 pro max which i had a ton
of scratches on at this point and after a year of using that phone it was completely covered
with scratches this has none except for where i said right here that was completely my fault so
not really something i would have expected this year but i think the display being that it's
recessed or set down into the frame that makes a big difference i think
and of course you could use a screen protector if you wanted to prevent that altogether but i
think these screens are much more durable than what we've had in the past now when it comes to
the display i know some people say the display is a little bit warm i find that it's very accurate
i like the way it looks and whether that be in light mode or switching to dark mode i think it
looks great the viewing angles are great this year there's no off axis shift in color so you don't
get that blue tint sometimes that you would get with the 11 series phones and i think it's pretty
good overall as far as the display so whether that be you're just using your phone to browse social
media check emails or play a game the display looks great all the time especially when you're
watching hdr video so if you're watching an hdr youtube video and you can see here's my iphone
12 pro review that i did in hdr if i tap on this we'll just go back a little bit and you can see
that it's completely in hdr and it'll be blown out on the screen where you can't see it because
the display is so bright compared to what you had with a non-hdr display so when i hit play you'll
see it's super bright when it's playing and you won't be able to see it because this video is not
an hdr and if you're watching an hdr with a newer phone or even the iphone 10 for example you'll see
that the highlights are very bright and the darks are very dark because it can turn off the pixels
being that this is an oled the using this with pwm and things like that since that does bother me
this one has not bothered me as far as the display goes it's at a high enough rate where the display
despite what brightness it's at doesn't seem to bother my eyes so that's good news this year with
pwm and those things that can affect your eyes if you're sensitive to that and can see higher
frame rates now the speakers are great too i think they're quite good in fact let me go to another
video where you can hear some music with this now i've moved my microphone so you can hear what it
sounds like directly out of the phone so let's go ahead and hit play on a comparison of mine
so the speakers overall sound very good you've got great stereo sound from the top to the bottom
and if you're watching a video playing a game or something like that it just sounds great overall
so i think they've done a great job with the speakers at the highest of volumes you probably
want to back it off a little bit as it sort of starts to distort and not sound as good but
generally it sounds great goes nice and loud and i think most people will really enjoy the speakers
on this if you're not using headphones for example now the performance on this phone is fantastic
with its a14 bionic cpu and six gigs of ram i've had no issues whether that be going back into a
video game this has been loading there or sitting there the entire time so if you want to play a
game for example whether that be call of duty or something else like among us or any racing games
anything like that it just is super fast all the time ram management is good and you can see that
i went into well youtube here with my video then if we go back over to call of duty for example it
just works fine every time it loads right away i'm in and i can use it so it's super fast no issues
there and you could edit a video with it maybe record 4k video export that video and after you've
edited it and it's just super fast all the time i'm really impressed with the chipsets not only
this year but the previous years apple just seems to be so far ahead of the game when it comes to
that so if you look at geekbench for example now with geekbench for example the scores are great
overall they're really high they're better than most processors out there and they're really only
competing with themselves with the previous years of apple's processors or the cpus that are in say
the m1 macbook or the ipad air for example so this is just super fast six gigs of ram you don't have
any lag or anything really with anything you're doing whether it's going into a video game or
going back out it's just super fast all the time and if you edit a video for example there's a lot
going on that you don't see that really puts this above some other phones out there so what i mean
by that is this can record 4k 60 frames per second adobe vision hdr and when you're recording those
sort of frame rates it's actually using the neural engine to calculate what's in the background and
it does a better job than many very expensive cinema cameras at computing not only what's in
the background but what it's focused on and what those colors and the overall light should look
like with its dynamic range so 4k 24 all the way up to 60 frames per second with dolby vision hdr
is something that i really like with this phone so when you record in hdr it's amazing that you can
do that with a phone so if you go into the frame rate selection you can select hdr video and record
in super high quality and it's just surprising that it's so easy to use and looks great so
i'm very happy with the cameras on this not only the rear cameras being able to capture 4k video
but you've got ultrawide and telephoto with lidar so the fight the focus is even better at night
and they've just really improved these especially with the raw photos as well i'm really impressed
and of course the forward-facing camera is fine as well no issues there i've shown this at length
in other videos but it just works really well overall so you've got 4k if you want to use
this as your main camera for youtube videos you could definitely do that i've used it for many
videos already and i plan to do so in the future but many videos in fact i wanted to record this
outside but the weather is just really bad right now and so if the weather was great i would have
recorded this video outside using an iphone 12 pro max so it's a great phone overall for that now as
far as my daily use i normally use this not only for my camera but mostly social media and watching
youtube from time to time so i don't play too many games on this i usually default to the ipad
for that but if i'm using twitter or instagram or youtube or telegram or discord which i have
links for all of those in the description below i use this mostly for that but reception on this is
quite good in fact i haven't lost a single call i haven't dropped a single call
my calls have been nice and clear and that's thanks to the new qualcomm modem in here so this
has 5g like you're familiar with at this point you have 5g with millimeter wave so there's 5g
you've got my millimeter wave antenna but i don't have millimeter wave being that this is actually
on t-mobile but the speeds are good i don't know that it's a huge jump for me over 4g but i've had
zero issues with reception and i think that's what's key as far as that goes i have had a few
issues with wi-fi from time to time where it just wouldn't connect and that's more of an ios update
thing where it just won't connect i turn off wi-fi go to 5g and then it works so that's more
of an issue i think they'll fix with software but in general i've had no issues it's super
fast with not only 5g but also wi-fi with wi-fi six so if you have the correct router it's nice
and fast that way so i have great reception with this no issues there and i actually have pretty
good battery life as well this phone i'm getting about 10 hours of screen on time so if i go to my
battery and over the past three months i haven't lost any battery health and i generally charge
this at night i'll fast charge it from time to time and i'll put it on a wireless charger most of
the time usually i use magsafe with it or i use it in a wireless charger in my car when i'm driving
and then from time to time if i need to bump it back up i'll fast charge it so here's yesterday's
battery life and you'll see i got four hours and one minutes of screen on time 43 minutes of
screen off time and use just under 50 percent of my battery it varies from day to day but generally
about ten hours is what i'm seeing on this phone regularly and that's running not only regular
updated versions but also betas as you know i cover those as well so using mostly social media
and things like that twitter consumes probably my most battery along with safari and messages but
usually i'll get through a day and not even think about it and it will be 50 at the end of the day
no problem so i've had great battery life myself with this but that leads me to should you wait
for the iphone 12s or iphone 13 whatever apple decides to call it this year and the reason i say
that is many people including myself expect them to include a 120 hertz display on the next phone
which means that while this is nice and fast and smooth it will get even smoother if you've
seen that on android phones it's super smooth when you're scrolling through pages so i would
expect the same sort of experience on iphone even better though similar to what you get with an ipad
pro with the pro motion display where it ramps up speed and slows it back down so if apple can
figure that out and then give us better battery life because it can slow the actual screen refresh
rate way down like samsung does with the s21 ultra for example they can slow that way down to about
10 hertz saving battery when you're on a static page like this and when you go to scroll it speeds
right back up if they can do that implement that technology i think it will be really nice to see
also it should have even better cameras so while the cameras are great now if cameras are a huge
thing for you they're going to get even better and then of course many people are saying touch
id will be coming now we're not sure about that because the iphone is using touch id with ios 14.5
and apple watch so it's using that to authenticate with a mask for example so touch id some people
say they don't think it's coming but i think i'd love to see it under the display with face id also
as an option that would be ideal for me i prefer touch id in many cases and i would love to see
them add that whether or not they're doing that this year is hard to say but you may want to wait
if you want any of those things or you value any of those things on your iphone so if you're coming
from an older phone like a 6s plus and you really like touch id well there may be hope that they'll
bring some form of it back eventually whether that be on the back where you place your finger down or
on the front i'd love to see it either way whether or not we do it's hard to say though but that's
it for the iphone 12 pro max after a few months i really like this phone i like using it every
single day i don't have any issues with it and i think the camera is phenomenal but let me know
what you think about it in the comments below of course i'll link this wallpaper in the description
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