the annual september new iphone ritual was pushed back a month this year for
obvious reasons but nonetheless all eyes were on cupertino again for one day as
the iphone 12 lineup was revealed to the world with all the usual pomp and
circumstance diving right in for the first time
iphones are getting 5g connectivity and with a number of Android devices already
boasting it it would have looked pretty silly for the iphone 12 series to not
have it apple's implementation does support millimeter wave but only on us
sold models then it's got support for the slower 5g standards across the board
so you should be covered regardless of what your carrier offers
under the hood there's a new system on chip as expected the apple a14 bionic
now it doesn't bring much in the way of new features but you do get a pretty
sizable generational performance boost and interestingly it's the first
commercially available chip that i'm aware of on the 5 nanometer process from
tsmc which should mean a more powerful phone without sacrificing battery life
we're also getting OLED screens up and down the stack for the first time even
though the iphone 11 base model was positioned as a high-end smartphone
compared with the rest of the market apple went with a more traditional lcd
display not so with the iphone 12 whose screen is not only OLED but even boasts
1200 nits of peak brightness for HDR
content consumption on the subject of HDR the iphone 12 also
supports recording with dolby vision making it the first mobile phone capable
of doing so of course that isn't to say that it's going to be a replacement for
professional grade cameras it's just that with HDR compatible monitors and
tvs becoming more common and the ability of youtube to support HDR uploads it
could be that the iphone is the thing that finally pushes HDR into the
mainstream it's going to be real handy for content creators both the standard
and wide angle cameras are getting night mode for better results when shooting in
low light and the pro version of the iphone 12 is getting lidar similar to
what police use to give you a speeding ticket but instead of raising your
insurance rates iphone lidar will help map the surrounding environment more
quickly for augmented reality applications and enable the camera to
focus faster in dim conditions when taking a photo
additionally there's a system in the pro models that stabilizes the image sensor
itself with a gyroscope which should allow you to take sharper photos
especially if you're using longer exposure times previously the iphone's optical image
stabilization worked by moving the lens it's also important to note that the
base iphone 12 and the new iphone 12 mini are pretty much the same phone with
the same features with the mini just being you guessed it smaller we're already
used to smaller iphones in the form of the sc models but in this case apple
might have changed the nomenclature to get across the message that the phones
have nearly identical innards regardless of which model you go with magsafe is
making a return you probably remember magsafe chargers for apple laptops from
a few years ago where the magnetic contact mechanism would prevent damage
to the computer or to your body if you tripped over it but while laptop magsafe
has been phased out in favor of usbc
now it's back on the iphone 12 series as a wireless charging mechanism and apple
has already promised that there will be third-party mag safe accessories as well
in less welcome news the iphone 12 is keeping the lightning connector dashing
any hopes that we'll finally be seeing an open connector standard on iphones at
least for one more year so is all of this enough to lure you in for an
upgrade or are you going to stick with your old device let us know down in the
comments and remember that the iphone 12 doesn't come with a charging brick so
you'll have to pick one up for yourself i wonder if an apple produced
self-driving car with optional add-on brakes is going to be far behind what do
you think brandon icar yeah sure you know what else isn't too
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