little care package arrived from the good folks at dbrand i'm kidding of
course there are no good folks at dbrand but dbrand did send us both the iphone
13 and iphone 13 pro and i got to confess david i'm at a bit of a loss on
this one because most of the phones we've covered recently have either been
ones that i'm expecting to love or ones that i'm expecting to hate
and everything i've seen about the iphone 13 hasn't inspired any emotions
for me whatsoever it's an iphone you
kind of know exactly what to expect but
that's also not entirely fair because the 13 improves over the 12 lineup as a
whole in a couple of big ways so number one we've got their new a15 bionic chip
which apple no longer advertises as
x amount faster than last generation because the improvements appear to be
relatively small but rather they advertise as
x amount faster than competitors which is still a big fat impressive number
it's still built on a five nanometer process from tsmc i don't think we've
nailed down whether it's their n5 or n5p for performance process but
the the general assumption is that it's n5p they've got improved displays and
cameras and this is a pretty big deal for me anyway
they have reduced the size of the notch the same ceramic shield glass from last
time makes a return we've got the same four gigs of RAM in the non-pro models
and six gigs of RAM in the pro tier models apple has maintained the same 12
megapixel resolution of all their rear cameras though it should be noted that
the ultra wide has a faster lens to allow for better low light performance
not to mention all the software improvements that they've made there and
apple still has not done away with what is now a classic the lightning port now
speaking of the lightning port some people are expressing disappointment
that the iphone 13 range supports only seven and a half watt charging over the
qi standard 20 watts over the lightning port and 15 watts using a magsafe
compatible accessory now included in the boxes are only a lightning accessory
cable type c to lightning no charger nothing like that which i guess we've
come to accept at this point and now
i want to touch them
i don't know what the feelings are like online but i am i am loving the look and
hand feel of the 13 pro it might be exactly the same as the 12 but my only
point of comparison is this really ratty d brand skin that i have on my 12 pro so
i'm actually gonna go ahead and remove it now okay
it feels the same
but it doesn't look the same look at how much bigger these camera elements are
like damn that's crazy i don't know how
to respond to that oh i'm so glad you brought that up siri
so cool feature that apple has added to iOS 15 which of course you can access by
long pressing the power button is siri can now operate at least for simple
tasks offline that's thanks to the a15
bionics npu or neural processing unit i don't think apple brands it that way but
essentially it's a it's an ai processor and it's one of the ways that apple has
dramatically increased performance over the last gen because CPU and well
actually GPU was a pretty big improvement as well but weren't as
marked as the neural processing improvements uh-oh but
before Linus gets to talking about what he was just gonna talk about we gotta
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so check it out at the link below photographic styles now this is a cool
new feature this is supported on the entire 13 lineup
i was expecting there to be a flatter one that's sort of
light room ready but the point is it's effectively applying a like uh a preset
or a lut to your image that will give it a certain look
right out of the camera so let's oh okay so you can go in and
it'll actually tell you as you scroll through here what presets
you're applying wow vibrant is awful i'm not even gonna
take a picture with vibrant i could see people getting into like
that rich contrast look i like your shirt david it's very cowy
how stable is this you know
man the iphone is so good for video like you can just
you can tell right on the display there's a little bit of jutter because
it's at 30fps but you don't have to shoot at 30 in fact they've added 4k
60fps recording now so look at that
clearly and obviously more detail in the 4k capture now one
thing that is not here yet is support for pro res capture i am super jacked
about that uh we're expecting it sometime
later this fall though so for those not familiar
prores capture basically means that you're capturing data from the sensor at
a much much higher bit rate that makes it easier to manipulate and post in
video editing software now i just realized that i haven't even
really talked about the notch yep it's smaller you know if it had been up to me
i would have actually preferred that the notch was
um just as wide but not as
deep but now that i think about it i think apple probably got this right
because this allows them to have much better spacing and potentially more room
for icons up at the top of the screen obviously they're not going to be able
to do away with it entirely because they haven't brought back touch id on the
iphone in spite of the fact that a lot of people would like them to like even
just if the apple logo was a touch sensor
people would be pretty be pretty into that but so they have to have room for
the uh the dot projector for face id and there's
that's just how much space it takes up apparently i'm really not feeling the
120 hertz display it doesn't oh it felt pretty smooth there now hold
on a second oh yeah never mind nope nope i feel it i
feel it i've just gotten so used to it on my daily driver phone that i forgot
how crappy 60hz looks that
is a big improvement and honestly is one of the biggest reasons that i would
consider the iphone 13 pro over the iphone 13
is that those smoother animations that you get i
mean you're already paying for the a15 bionic processor right why not
draw at more frames per second it's costing you nothing in battery life
apple's rated battery life for these devices is higher than last gen across
the board even for these 120 hertz models and part of the reason for that
is that they've made the 120 hertz adaptive so it'll only kick in when it
actually benefits from the additional smoothness oh i guess now's a good time
to talk about connectivity so the iphone 13 lineup has full support for wi-fi six
uh it has support for 5g you want ultra wideband chip for
location stuff you can check out our tech wiki on that if you want to learn more about it sorry i'm just playing
around with the cinematic recording mode it's supported on the front camera which
is super cool look at this uh look at this live preview depth of field effect
not bad now can it manage to blur something that's close
yes it can like very obviously not perfect
but it's not bad onboard speakers are so good man apple has gotten really good at
having great audio on tiny devices lately wow that's a really big bezel
still that just kind of jumped out of the screen at me i mean
everything else about the screen cutting edge but that bezel though i mean sure
the galaxy z fold 3 has maybe even a bigger bezel not by much
though but it's it's foldable like it's got a it's got a like a stopper for when
you close it let's play that 120 hertz game i'm uh
i'm interested
sounds really good i believe it is running at 120 hertz i
gotta say less noticeable on such a small screen for gaming like i'm not
much of a mobile gamer for me the 120 hertz refresh rate experience is really
about navigating the phone touch inputs just feeling way more responsive i mean
i did a whole video about this back when the ipad pro first got 120 hertz support
and it's it's very noticeable to me on a desktop size display but here it's
it's i'd say less of a big deal
yeah me too in case you guys couldn't hear him over the sound of crab rave david was saying
he's heard laptops with worse speakers than this phone enough about the 13 pro
though let's change our focus to the iphone 13 for a little bit because
realistically with how much cheaper it is so it starts at 200 cheaper than the
13 pro this is the one that i see way more people buying it still got improved
battery life over last generation uh the screen is not as good so it tops out at
800 in its peak brightness instead of 1200 in its peak brightness but the
camera is i'm going to expect it's going
to be good enough for the vast majority of people and really
that and not quite having as good battery life are the main differences
between the 13 and the 13 pro oh i guess there's also the depth sensor on the
camera and you know what i did use that once i had to use the depth sensor on
the iphone 12 pro for a bit part that i
had in a movie they wanted me to get a 3d scan of the room that i was shooting
in so that they could use that for vfx later very niche use case it came up
once in the entire year i've had this phone so
your mileage may vary who knows it might be the kind of thing that comes up for
you all the time you know the difference in weight is quite noticeable between
the two i want to see the difference in HDR here you know the interesting thing
once you get up to these crazy screen brightnesses like 800 nits is
very bright is that in any HDR content that's not
specifically mastered to take advantage of that range
you might not get any benefit out of it now it's more likely that we'd see kind
of you know eye searing specular highlights uh and something off of
netflix compared to i mean this is an older HDR upload to youtube uh which is
only hdr10 but the difference between these two to my
eye is just so negligible that i just couldn't
imagine caring uh i think the fold is a
touch brighter that may just be down to metadata interpretation though that it's
probably not because it's actually a brighter display i do not think that's
the case larger screens can also have the perception of being brighter even
though dbrand didn't sponsor this video they did ask if i'm planning a full
review of the iphone 13 or 13 pro and i
kind of said yes because i didn't bother doing a full review of the 12 pro
but honestly i feel like i've kind of said everything that i have to say about
it if you want the best camera that fits
in your pocket then get a 13 pro series
if you want almost the best camera that fits in your pocket get a 13 and if you
don't care about iphones then there's there's going to be nothing here
that's going to make you suddenly start caring about iphones
like what do i subscribe to ShortCircuit they need a foldable they need
their ar glasses that pair to it they need a paradigm shift here because this
is like if i was like david
which one's the 13 which one's a 12. you'd be like oh my god who cares
smaller notch i mean i got to give credit where credit's due
i've been complaining about the notch okay thank you