WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:08.960 Welcome to the official Linus Tech Tips obligatory iPhone event video. TLDDR, 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:12.880 you can now get a 5G iPhone 12 for the same price that you got an 11 last year, 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:17.880 but it'll be a smaller one. The iPhone 12 Pro can shoot cinematic footage of 00:00:15.200 --> 00:00:22.800 galloping horses better than ever. And the HomePod Mini makes yelling 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:27.199 at your kids from anywhere much easier, even if charging your new iPhone isn't. 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:30.960 Confused? Don't worry, we're going to clear everything right up. 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:44.760 Today, Apple diverged even farther from their singular vision for the iPhone by 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:51.920 announcing not three, but four new iPhones. The iPhone 12, 12 mini, 12 Pro, 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:54.719 and 12 Pro Max. Now, the iPhone 11 and 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:59.520 iPhone XR are still for sale with the 2020 iPhone SE replacing the iPhone 8 at 00:00:57.680 --> 00:01:03.520 the bottom of the product lineup. And while this isn't actually the most 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:08.159 populous iPhone lineup ever, Apple was selling eight iPhone models back in 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:14.960 2017, it does have the widest price range of any iPhone lineup, all the way 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:16.720 from $400 to $1,100 starting price. 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:21.600 Apple may not have a monopoly on mobile devices, but you can see they're trying. 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:28.159 With that said, Apple has actually bumped up the price of the mainstream 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:30.720 option, the iPhone 12. At $799, it's $50 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:36.159 more than the iPhone XR's original price and $100 more than last year's iPhone 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:38.960 11. But there's also a new option at the 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:44.799 $699 price point, the iPhone 12 mini, which is in terms of specs identical to 00:01:41.520 --> 00:01:47.200 the iPhone 12, but with a tiny 5.4 4 in 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:50.560 display. Now, I would make a bit of a fuss about Apple's confusing naming 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:56.000 scheme here. That that would be totally on brand for me. It would. But in this 00:01:53.280 --> 00:02:02.399 case, calling it mini actually kind of makes sense since the 6.1 in iPhone 12 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:04.079 doesn't really qualify as a max phone. 00:02:02.399 --> 00:02:12.959 So, you know what? Why don't we all just be grateful that we didn't get an iPhone 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:14.640 11R Plus mini max. Now, as I see it, the 00:02:12.959 --> 00:02:19.120 reason for the iPhone 12's price bump can be attributed to two main things. 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:23.680 One, the iPhone 11's LCD has been replaced with a higher resolution OLED 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:28.160 display with twice the number of pixels. And two, the addition of 5G, which can 00:02:26.239 --> 00:02:33.200 also be found throughout the entire lineup of new products. Like, sure, it's 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:37.680 also thinner and lighter. It's got this super strong ceramic shield on the 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:41.519 glass, and it's got a slightly redesigned wide-angle camera with an 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:46.560 f/1.6 six aperture, but those are all upgrades that I would more or less 00:02:43.519 --> 00:02:48.720 expect in the new iPhone. Apple also 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:53.200 brought back MagSafe as a way for these new iPhones to magnetically lock onto a 00:02:51.120 --> 00:03:00.400 wireless charger or other accessory, which is cool. Um, was anyone asking for 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:02.879 this though? Last time I checked, what 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:08.800 everyone wanted was MagSafe to come back to MacBooks, but apparently Apple is 00:03:06.640 --> 00:03:14.959 really good at compartmentalizing its love for USBC. On MacBooks, it's the 00:03:11.440 --> 00:03:17.920 port of the future. On iPhones, oh, hey. 00:03:14.959 --> 00:03:21.920 Oh, buddy, you got to slow down. You don't want to rock the ecosystem boat 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:25.840 too much. I can only imagine that the real reason Apple priced the iPhone 12s 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:30.959 like they did was because of the release of some recent Android flagships. I 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:37.599 mean, you can't possibly sell a 6.1 in iPhone 12 for the same price as the 699 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:40.080 Google Pixel 5 or Samsung Galaxy S20 Fan 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:44.239 Edition cuz those are phones for the common folk. And actually, in the case 00:03:42.239 --> 00:03:50.319 of the Pixel 5, they are considerably slower, too. The iPhone 12 Pro and Pro 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:52.400 Max, those are not for the commoners. 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:57.040 Because while Apple's iPhone Pro marketing was a bit of a hard sell last 00:03:54.400 --> 00:04:01.280 year, I don't think filmmakers dropped their Canons and Sony's on mass to shoot 00:03:59.040 --> 00:04:06.000 films on a phone, this year, the Pro moniker might make a bit more sense with 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:09.760 a number of features on the Pros that greatly enhance content creation. 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:14.400 Although, to be clear, I I still think people are going to be shooting on their 00:04:11.519 --> 00:04:19.680 Sony's. The 12 Pros can both record 10bit HDR video and are the first phones 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:25.840 to support Dolby Vision HDR video recording at 4K 60fps, meaning that 00:04:23.280 --> 00:04:29.400 highlights, shadows, and color should look better than ever, almost as good as 00:04:27.919 --> 00:04:33.840 you'll look if you uh shop on ltdstore.com. Then on the photo side, 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:38.320 Apple Pro Raw is the company's new proprietary unprocessed image format 00:04:36.080 --> 00:04:42.720 that will let iPhone 12 Pro owners edit color, detail, and dynamic range 00:04:40.400 --> 00:04:47.360 natively in the photos app. Both of the Pro models now also have a LAR scanner, 00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:51.360 just like this year's iPad Pro, which makes autofocus six times faster than 00:04:49.280 --> 00:04:55.120 the iPhone 11 in addition to the benefits of AR content. There are 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:59.919 benefits of AR content. And while the three lens system looks the same as the 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:03.759 iPhone 11 Pro, the wide and telephoto cameras have gotten some subtle 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:08.880 improvements. Interestingly, the 12 Pro Max has a better camera system than the 00:05:06.080 --> 00:05:13.360 12 Pro with a 47% larger sensor on the wide camera along with a faster 00:05:11.039 --> 00:05:17.280 aperture, which apparently allows for an 87% improvement in low light 00:05:15.280 --> 00:05:22.080 performance. Price-wise, this year's Pro models are actually starting at the same 00:05:19.440 --> 00:05:26.320 price as last year's, despite the more drastic upgrades. 00:05:24.080 --> 00:05:30.160 Wow, such value. Seems like only a matter of time before James Cameron 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:34.880 shoots his next film with the new gold iPhone. It's gold. It's gold. And of 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:39.919 course, the entire lineup of iPhones is powered by the new A14 Bionic, which has 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:44.400 40% more transistors than the vanilla A14 that was found in the recently 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:49.280 unveiled iPad Air, and whose GPU is, according to Apple, 50% more powerful 00:05:47.039 --> 00:05:55.600 than any other smartphones, which they showed off by playing League of Legends, 00:05:52.080 --> 00:05:57.600 which is good. But hey, how about Crisis 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:00.639 next time? That would be cool. They could probably do it if they dumbed it 00:05:58.880 --> 00:06:04.880 down enough. I think they could. Now, none of these iPhones are coming with a 00:06:02.479 --> 00:06:09.440 power adapter or earphones in the box, which is 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:13.919 greatish because in theory, everyone already has both of those things. So, 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:18.800 like, yay, protecting the environment except for one small problem. Apple is 00:06:15.919 --> 00:06:24.560 including a cable that is a lightning to USB-C charging cord, which is not going 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:29.600 to work with the USB typeA wall wart that Apple went and didn't include 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:32.960 because they figured you already had it. But then they gave you a cable that 00:06:30.880 --> 00:06:36.080 doesn't work with it. So, I guess that's why the 12 Pro's price is unchanged 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:43.759 because they know they're going to make an extra 20 bucks from everyone who's buying either a charger or a cable from 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:44.960 the Apple store. Well played, Tim Apple. 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:50.160 Now, we haven't even mentioned the HomePod Mini yet, which is too bad because it's actually kind of cool. It's 00:06:48.479 --> 00:06:54.560 got an interesting internal design that puts the Google Nest Mini's single 00:06:51.919 --> 00:06:58.880 upward firing driver to absolute shame. And its U1 chip apparently enables some 00:06:57.039 --> 00:07:02.639 cool intelligent features like automatically pairing in stereo with 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:06.240 another HomePod mini in the same room. Super cool. And Apple's also adding a 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:12.880 feature called intercom, which lets members of a home group send quick messages not only to other HomePods, but 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:16.000 any Apple device in the group. Nice. The real test of this thing though will be 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:20.240 whether Siri has come far enough to justify getting one of these instead of 00:07:17.919 --> 00:07:28.880 a Google Assistant or Alexa enabled speaker. And my guess 00:07:22.039 --> 00:07:32.319 is, come on. get real. Like that's not 00:07:28.880 --> 00:07:34.400 um anyway, the one bit of bad news from 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:39.120 today is that we didn't get to see the fabled AirPods Pro Studio headphones or 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:42.800 any reference whatsoever to an ARMPowered Mac. And it's still unclear 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:47.280 whether we'll see either of those before the end of the year, which is fine 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:50.360 because honestly 2020 has been a little crazy. And I think we could all just use 00:07:49.280 --> 00:07:55.080 a break. Just like you could use a break 00:07:52.880 --> 00:08:00.000 from my Segways to sponsors like Squarespace. Squarespace is the easy way 00:07:57.599 --> 00:08:03.440 for you, yes you, to make a website in minutes. 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