Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iphone 12 pro has been out for a little bit
over a month and i've been using it quite a bit and so i wanted to talk about how it's held up
durability wise how the signal is and talk about whether or not you should still pick one up or
just give my overall thoughts on it now this video is in 4k hdr and if it looks all blown out you
want to make sure you're using this on an iphone or watching this on an iphone on an ipad or a mac
but using safari don't use chrome as it doesn't seem to understand the hdr footage properly
and the same is true on windows so chrome has some issues with different monitors on windows
showing it all blown out but it should work fine on any apple device as well as windows with an hdr
monitor or an apple tv even so hopefully it looks good for you now everything's set in auto and i'm
recording from an iphone 12 pro so the footage that you're seeing now is being recorded with an
iphone 12 pro as you can see here in the camera so there's the camera i'm using a separate microphone
now as far as the overall durability well the iphone 12 pro has been holding up well i've been
using a case on it this is apple's leather case and it seems to protect the phone well i'm not
using a screen protector and i don't have a single scratch on the screen and while glass obviously
still scratches and i did get a small scratch on the iphone 12 this case either protected it enough
or it's just better glass so while it's supposed to be more drop resistant it seems to be holding
up better than the iphone 11 pro did at this particular point it doesn't have a single scratch
on it anywhere to be found so it looks pretty good i'll zoom in here and there's not a single scratch
anywhere on it so that's good now durability wise one thing i really appreciate is the squared off
edges it makes it easier to hold on to less prone to dropping in my experience and i think
it just adds a more premium feel to the device overall at least that's my personal opinion on it
it feels very premium because of it it feels like a solid slab and i really like that about the
phone now as far as reception a lot of people ask how is reception since it has a qualcomm modem you
can see it has 5g i'm using t-mobile here and my reception has been phenomenal in fact i've not had
a single dropped call with this particular phone or any of the iphone 12 series for that matter so
that part it's really good i'm glad to see that apple switched to qualcomm i think they're much
better modems and they're doing well and the same is true for wi-fi now i know some people
have had issues with wi-fi depending on what router they have i personally have not had a
single issue everything seems to load fast and i have no issues with that whatsoever now as far
as the display the display does use pwm to control brightness you'll see we're at full brightness now
you can actually see some of the lines scrolling by because it's bright outside and everything's on
auto being recorded but the pwm from the display doesn't bother my eyes on this display as compared
to say an iphone 10 or 10s max it was better with the iphone 11 but with this phone i find it's even
better so apple either bumped up the rate of pwm so it doesn't bother my eyes so i think that's a
good thing for those that are sensitive to it it just means we can see higher frame rates generally
and we're more sensitive to flickering lights because of that that are at slower speeds
not everyone can see it you can't see it with your eyes but it's definitely a concern as it can cause
you to feel nauseated or cause headaches and this display doesn't seem to do that
now the overall use of the phone well it's pretty good it's very fast of course that a14 bionic
should be fast there's no issues there scrolling of course is smooth going into applications
ram management is great reopening applications reopening applications like youtube i had this
closed in the background but in general everything works really fast as far as that i don't have any
complaints the camera is super fast see if i spin it around there the camera is super fast
it reacts quickly if you want to snap a photo you're not going to miss that photo because of
a slow slow phone or i was going to say computer so the overall feel experience and everything else
is really premium and i have no issues whatsoever the only issue might be with software updates and
we've had a couple we've had a couple updates since the beginning of this particular device
and some are to fix small issues like on the iphone 12 mini for example so you'll see it's
checking for an update this one's actually on a beta and there you can see the pwm most prominent
you can see those streaks through there based on the shutter speed of the camera and so because of
that like i said it's not a problem you can't see it with your eyes but a camera can pick it
up the software is still a little bit buggy i'd say we're leaps ahead of where we were last time
at this point with the iphone 11 pro so the 12 is fantastic and of course the cameras are incredible
the forward-facing camera and the rear cameras both have 4k hdr in dolby vision so
it's pretty amazing what you can get out of these cameras and the microphones i'm recording from now
and of course the rear cameras are amazing i've been recording the entire video from
it but now i'm recording with the audio as well and everything from the regular
to the ultra wide to the telephoto is an amazing camera this is all shot held handheld and i'm just
walking around with it so stabilization is great the overall quality is fantastic and you could
use this as your main youtube camera for this or for vlogging so whatever you want to use it
for it's definitely adequate as long as you have good lighting of course outside you can't really
tell the difference inside if you have bright lights it looks great either way and most people
would not be able to tell that you're using an iphone verse a mirrorless camera they're really
impressive cameras not only for video but photo of course of well as well now as far as battery life
overall battery life is okay it should get you through a day but five and a half to six hours
seems to be pretty consistent on the 12 pro and for some people that won't be enough but honestly
for most it should be fine you may have to charge at the end of the day depending on how heavy of a
user you are that's using social media listening to music listening to podcasts maybe using youtube
from time to time using the camera using video that will get you about five and a half to six
hours if you're just watching video on an airplane maybe that you've already downloaded you can get
many more hours but just doing regular things online using safari mail messages you're going
to get about six hours or so now the overall size of this phone is pretty perfect for most people
it fits comfortably in my very large hands it's easy to hold on to and i was going back and forth
if i should use the 12 pro or the 12 pro max and i decided to go with the 12 pro max for a couple
different reasons the 12 pro max is larger so as that nice larger display has a little bit better
camera and has 10 to 12 hours of battery life so that extra battery life with the 12 pro max
isn't much of a big deal to me but mostly that larger screen and the better camera is why i
wanted it personally the battery i can charge it throughout the day i'm in an office most of
the time so it's not an issue but for those that want more battery i would definitely go with that
unless you can get a battery case for the 12 pro eventually but currently apple doesn't offer that
overall the 12 pro is a fantastic phone i think it's a huge upgrade as far as its design from year
to year i love the squared off edges i just think it's a much nicer higher quality feeling design i
personally don't like the rounded edges so this i think is a much better phone a couple things
i've noticed though is the buttons on the edge seem to be a little bit more mushy to me on all
the iphone 12s i have it's not bad but it's more mushy than we had with say the iphone 11. those
felt a little bit more clicky to me that's just something i noticed personally the volume buttons
feel the same but it's something to do with i'm taking screenshots it's something to do with
the power button maybe because it's a little bit larger it just feels like it's a less clicky
feeling than i'm used to other than that the phone is phenomenal i highly recommend it the 12 mini's
great all of the 12s are great this year and durability i think it's going to be better over
time than even the 11 pro series let me know what you think about them though in the comments below
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