this may surprise you but my favorite
iPhone is the 12 mini it's light it doesn't have a
ridiculous camera bump for pictures I don't take I think the wider Notch looks
better on it and it's the perfect size I
always thought the original five generations of iPhone screens to be just
a little too narrow and the 4.7 in screen that came after to be a little
too big the iPhone 12 mini is right in
between Goldilocks me finally got their
perfect phone what worries me though is with the 14th generation iPhone Apple is
reversing course and committing to big and that's a big deal no it's a it's a
bad deal I'm willing to can see that I'm a
minority here after the launch of the iPhone 12 and 13 mini models stoys were
emerging that production had to be cut due to unsatisfactory sales volume
thereby justifying the inevitable end of this form factor people like bigger
phones for instance I was trying to find a good deal on a used iPhone for a
friend almost a year ago I managed to find her a brand new 12 mini on
Craigslist turns out this seller had bought it for his wife but she didn't
like how small it is his loss our game
and now we'd have to take an even bigger hit with the plus because
the price it costs
$900 $100 more than the base iPhone 14
but crucially it's only $100 less than the iPhone 14 pro all you gain compared
to the 14 is a bigger screen and a bigger battery with the plus phones in
the 6 and 6s Generations though you also got Optical image stabilization with the
7 and8 plus you got a whole other camera plus more RAM but for another $100 to
jump to the for te Pro you get the suite of advanced cameras Dynamic Island
brighter screen new processor stainless steel Pro Design and a partridge in a
pair tree so what are the priorities with the plus not good value surely now
I think I have an idea of what the priorities actually are they're just
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are actually much more than Skin Deep the back glass and I can't believe I'm
saying this is actually replaceable it's the first point of entry into the phone
in a tear down iix it found that Apple actually went through great effort
re-engineering the iPhone 14 improving the repairability back to a 7 out of 10
and reducing the cost to replace the back glass by triple digits so while you
would have no idea looking at it you might well appreciate it the other
improvements include a slightly wider aperture on the main camera and the
implementation of the photonic engine
I'd say that this makes the camera ever
so slightly better than the iPhone
13 but after using this and the 14 pro it's clear that apple is adding a lot of
sharpening to their photos it clearly makes the photos you take pop but the
14's photos don't pop significantly over a 13 The Wider aperture is really going
to help when things are darker if you do care about still photos I should note
that a pixel 7 Pro is the same price and
though it struggled in this overcast evening photo it takes the most
realistic photos and it's the same size as the plus the biggest Improvement is
actually found here at the front the front-facing camera also gets a slightly
wider aperture which is going to be great when you're at the bar at night
with your friends but crucially it also gets
autofocus this means your selfies will look much much clearer if you're someone
who takes a lot of those getting a 14 over a 13 will be worth it and on the
plus you get a bigger viewfinder and the Flash is probably brighter too but what
about this pesky plus if you want a large screen on Android there's one
available at every price point if you want a large screen on an iPhone it up
until now would be the most expensive model however even with this the price
to entry has dropped a mere $200 with
the plus I am able to get up to and sometimes more than two days on a full
charge and I don't care I really don't
like big phones and I have pretty big hands sure there were some times where I
thought maybe I can live with this maybe I can get used to it but then I put it
in my man jeans and bent down to pick something off the ground you can
definitely feel it in your pocket using it is even more annoying like when I'm
trying to bring down the control center or tap a back button I'm stretching so
far this isn't great for onehanded use which is how I use my phone all the time
I always thought that the reason someone would get a big phone is cuz they want
to do more doing big tasks on a big
screen is less honorous and therefore you're going to do more of them and then
when you're done those tasks you have a nice big screen to unwind with so the
thinking goes if you want to live a more focused life off your phone you get a
smaller phone but after using this for over a week I don't feel I used it
significantly more than the mini in fact I feel like I used it less I'm sure I
didn't but perhaps that's because I find the phone so combersome maybe the phone
you'll use less is in the form factor you like the least this then confirms my
distaste for extra-large phones the midsize 6.1 in iPhone I could live with
so splurging another 100 on the pro would make more sense to me actually no
because if I were to buy an iPhone right now I would get a 13 Mini at $600 it's
the best deal on an iPhone right now for that money you get double the storage of
the equally priced iPhone 12 the same camera as the larger 13 and the same CPU
as the new 14 it even has similar gaming performance unless you're playing
against an impact where the 13 mini shines for small screen stalwarts like
me it really is a great phone and it
really sucks that Apple has large screen iPhone users over a barrel it really
does seem that iPhone introduced the plus as a way to get people to upgrade
to the pro and where still it's working
already reports have emerged that Apple has significantly cut back production on
the 14 and 14 plus models to replace them with more Pros in fact from what
I've been reading it appears that the 14 plus is even less desirable than the
minis were then why are you canceling it
maybe they'll bring it back I think I resent the 14 plus thanks
for expanding the size scope and price of this Mac Address if you are a large
phone user give this video a like and if
you are a small phone user then subscribe now I'm
curious if the $900 price tag of the
plus is worth it or you would just get a
pro for even another $100 over for that or maybe you just like the regular
iPhone 14 that's really weird you got to tell
me why