1 00:00:00,330 --> 00:00:05,890 - Remember when you evaluated a phone based on how smooth it was when you were swiping 2 00:00:05,890 --> 00:00:08,592 from one page to the next? - [Jono] Yeah. 3 00:00:09,430 --> 00:00:13,967 Which iPhone is that? 4? - The iPhone 4. This was my daily driver for almost three years. 4 00:00:13,967 --> 00:00:17,200 - [Jono] Oh, me too! (laughs) - It's a good phone. 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,630 And that is why I'm so excited to check out the iPhone 12. 6 00:00:21,630 --> 00:00:27,850 I mean, we haven't seen an update to Apple's design for the iPhone since the iPhone X. 7 00:00:27,850 --> 00:00:33,603 And before that, it had been, I don't know, about 17 years since they had updated the design 8 00:00:33,603 --> 00:00:36,850 that they originally introduced with the 6. 9 00:00:36,850 --> 00:00:41,920 So here in front of me, I have the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro. 10 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,993 Unfortunately, we don't have the Pro Max or the mini yet, 11 00:00:45,830 --> 00:00:49,323 but surely, we will get our hands on them in due time. 12 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,150 Oh, right! Interesting. 13 00:00:54,150 --> 00:00:58,990 The new Sticker Bomb skin from the one and only dbrand 14 00:00:58,990 --> 00:01:03,540 that is a limited time drop, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, 15 00:01:03,540 --> 00:01:08,530 that you can check out at the link in the video description. Now, what excited me when I watched the Keynote 16 00:01:08,530 --> 00:01:14,420 for the iPhone 12 was this return to kind of a more squared off shape. 17 00:01:14,420 --> 00:01:17,600 I've always liked it, and maybe part of it is just nostalgia. 18 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,680 A lot of people around here assume that I'm some kind of Apple hater, 19 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:27,650 I hate iPhones or something like that, but the truth is I actually daily drove this iPhone 4 20 00:01:27,650 --> 00:01:31,420 for almost three years. And I've been through everything with it; 21 00:01:31,420 --> 00:01:36,360 I replaced the battery at one point, I had to replace the broken home button at one point, 22 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,160 like I really wanted to keep this thing going. I absolutely loved it. 23 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:46,680 And part of what I loved about it was the industrial solid feel of the aluminum frame 24 00:01:46,980 --> 00:01:53,120 with the glass sandwich, front and back. It's a design that I still think stands out today. 25 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:57,720 And so seeing Apple make a return to this squared off design was something 26 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:02,487 that was kind of exciting to me, even as someone who doesn't normally geek out over like, 27 00:02:02,487 --> 00:02:06,017 "Yeah, like the design, the lines, the phone, you know." 28 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:14,660 Honestly though, feeling it in my hand, I can't say that I like it as much as I was expecting to. 29 00:02:14,660 --> 00:02:19,660 Part of what worked so well about the iPhone 4 was its size, 30 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:23,812 like it was very, very holdable. 31 00:02:23,812 --> 00:02:28,030 Remember when the lock button was on the top? Ha-ha, I remember that. 32 00:02:28,030 --> 00:02:31,650 Honestly, this, I find a little bit harder to hold onto, 33 00:02:31,650 --> 00:02:34,840 like it either alternately digs into my palm 34 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:39,910 or kind of slips out of it. To be clear, there is a sticker on it, 35 00:02:39,910 --> 00:02:44,990 a fancy sticker, but a sticker nonetheless. But I'm just finding it a little bit, I don't know, sharp, 36 00:02:44,990 --> 00:02:49,860 in a way that I didn't find the iPhone 4. - [Andy] Maybe if you have a case. 37 00:02:49,860 --> 00:02:54,080 - I don't know, I'm more of a naked guy. You know, I'm a naked boy. 38 00:02:55,330 --> 00:02:59,630 At most, a fancy sticker. I don't really like a bulky thing around my phone. 39 00:02:59,630 --> 00:03:02,910 - [Andy] Speaking of naked, LTTstore.com. 40 00:03:02,910 --> 00:03:06,340 - Don't be naked. Go to LTT Store.com. (everyone laughs) 41 00:03:06,340 --> 00:03:12,140 Swipe around a little bit here. Okay, I got my news, things that can be paywalled, 42 00:03:12,140 --> 00:03:16,110 so I can subscribe to Apple news for $14 43 00:03:16,110 --> 00:03:20,610 or whatever it costs. Thanks for that. This is cool. Got my App Library. 44 00:03:20,610 --> 00:03:23,920 So this is Apple holding the hands of all the people 45 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:28,160 that don't know how to make folders. My wife would benefit from this. 46 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,969 For whatever reason, you still can't just put an icon wherever you want. 47 00:03:32,969 --> 00:03:38,120 Ugh! But yeah, I tend to just make folders and then anytime I don't need folders, 48 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,660 Spotlight is so amazing. If you've been living under a rock, 49 00:03:41,660 --> 00:03:45,110 the main benefits of the iPhone 12 lineup are as follows, 50 00:03:45,110 --> 00:03:48,230 and surprisingly, this is really cool. 51 00:03:48,230 --> 00:03:52,020 Most of them apply to both the 12 and the 12 Pro, 52 00:03:52,020 --> 00:03:56,357 which impressed the heck out of me 'cause Apple's been known to do things like, 53 00:03:56,357 --> 00:03:59,780 "Oh, well, you know, well, you don't need a OLED display," 54 00:03:59,780 --> 00:04:03,160 or whatever the case may be. So we've got higher resolution displays, 55 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:09,270 they're now calling it Super Retina. Apple has finally given into the pixels-per-inch war 56 00:04:09,270 --> 00:04:14,520 but in a way that I still think is reasonably sensible as long as it's not costing us anything in battery. 57 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:19,490 More on that later. They've got support for 5G across the entire new lineup. 58 00:04:19,490 --> 00:04:24,810 As long as that doesn't affect battery too much, that should be okay. although word on the street is that it has. 59 00:04:24,810 --> 00:04:28,640 and we're gonna have to wait for the upcoming iPhone 13 lineup 60 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:33,570 to get a more efficient 5G modem. We've got the A14 Bionic SOC, which to my knowledge, 61 00:04:33,570 --> 00:04:37,670 is the first commercially shipping five-nanometer processor. 62 00:04:37,670 --> 00:04:41,770 So it's got an enhanced neural engine as well as a new image signal processor 63 00:04:41,770 --> 00:04:46,910 which should make the cameras on these better than ever even though they're 12 megapixels across the board, 64 00:04:46,910 --> 00:04:50,260 even on the iPhone 12 Pro. So you've got your telephoto 12 megapixel, 65 00:04:50,260 --> 00:04:54,870 your regular 12-megapixel, and your super-wide 12 megapixel. 66 00:04:54,870 --> 00:04:59,120 And then finally, honestly, as crazy as this sounds, 67 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,960 I don't really care that much about a new super advanced SOC these days. 68 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:07,490 I mean, I am still daily driving a Note9 69 00:05:07,490 --> 00:05:13,620 and finding it to be fast enough for my use. The thing that's blowing me away here is the glass. 70 00:05:13,620 --> 00:05:19,160 On both of these phones, Apple is using a new Ceramic Shield glass technology 71 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,690 that infuses the glass with ceramic 72 00:05:22,690 --> 00:05:27,920 that apparently makes them more shatterproof, just across the board stronger than anything 73 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:32,293 that we've ever seen before by an order of several times. 74 00:05:32,293 --> 00:05:35,920 I mean, is this the end of shattered iPhone screens? 75 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,320 According to some preliminary testing that I've seen, these puppies are surviving six-foot drops 76 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:45,650 and just shrugging them off. I mean, bad news for the third-party repair industry 77 00:05:45,650 --> 00:05:50,410 along with all the other things about the iPhone 12 lineup that are difficult to repair, 78 00:05:50,410 --> 00:05:54,960 but good news for anyone who doesn't like replacing their phone screens all the time. 79 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,120 That's freaking awesome. This video brought to you by drop.com. 80 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,450 Drop's having a sale on all Drop-made keyboards 81 00:06:01,450 --> 00:06:04,600 until November 8th. It includes the ENTR keyboard 82 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:09,850 that offers impressive performance at a solid value. The CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT keyboards 83 00:06:09,850 --> 00:06:13,050 which come with full aluminum frames and hot-swappable key switches, 84 00:06:13,050 --> 00:06:18,770 and their Signature Series keyboards where each component of the keyboard is completely customizable. 85 00:06:18,770 --> 00:06:25,520 So click the link in the description below and use code FLAGSHIP20 for 20% off all Drop-made keyboards. 86 00:06:26,030 --> 00:06:29,600 One other big I-can't-believe-you-didn't-hold-out-on-me feature 87 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,870 is the ability of both phones, the Pro and the regular, 88 00:06:32,870 --> 00:06:37,810 to not only playback HDR content at up to 1200 nits peak brightness, 89 00:06:37,810 --> 00:06:43,940 but also record HDR content. Now both of them will do up to 4K 60 FPS, 90 00:06:43,940 --> 00:06:48,530 but the only difference between them is that the Pro will do HDR recording 91 00:06:48,530 --> 00:06:52,490 at up to 60 frames per second. So I'm actually using the regular one right now 92 00:06:52,490 --> 00:06:55,920 to just try it out. Let's record an HDR clip here. 93 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,690 Whoa! Hey, hold on. Whoa. You could see it just like right there, 94 00:06:59,690 --> 00:07:03,510 switched over into HDR mode. That is mind blowing. 95 00:07:03,510 --> 00:07:07,960 That is absolutely incredible. I don't know how much of this you guys are gonna be able to see 96 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:15,260 through my camera on your screen, but this is not an ideal scenario for recording video 97 00:07:15,260 --> 00:07:20,340 on phones when I'm unboxing them or whatever. There's studio lights shining in my face 98 00:07:20,340 --> 00:07:24,040 and a lot of really deep shadows out there in the warehouse. 99 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:28,580 I have never seen anything pick up even close 100 00:07:28,580 --> 00:07:32,823 to this kind of detail in here. Look how smooth that is too. 101 00:07:34,150 --> 00:07:38,393 Holy schnikes, dude. This is crazy. 102 00:07:39,330 --> 00:07:45,590 Wow. This becomes one of those can-I-wait features, you know? 103 00:07:45,590 --> 00:07:49,340 'Cause that's the question Android users find themselves asking a lot of the time is, 104 00:07:49,340 --> 00:07:53,970 well, iPhone users too for that matter is, "Is this worth switching for? 105 00:07:53,970 --> 00:07:57,730 Can I wait to have this?" Android phone makers are gonna come out 106 00:07:57,730 --> 00:08:02,730 with good HDR video recording eventually, but can I wait? 107 00:08:03,940 --> 00:08:08,517 Damn! Sorry, I swear I will stop. Like holy (bleep). 108 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:16,520 This right here. No, hold on. This diffusion cloth looks so close 109 00:08:16,570 --> 00:08:18,823 to what it looks like in real life here. 110 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:24,780 I'm blown away. Obviously, when you have a really strong light source, 111 00:08:24,780 --> 00:08:27,970 it'll clip, so you can see my main light here, 112 00:08:27,970 --> 00:08:33,590 but my fill light, that looks like the wrinkles in the cloth. 113 00:08:33,590 --> 00:08:39,440 Here, let's just... Okay, let's pull out a mortal video recorder here. 114 00:08:39,830 --> 00:08:43,050 So there's Andy looking all fly. 115 00:08:43,050 --> 00:08:46,760 Let's pan over here. Oh, looks like garbage. 116 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:50,850 Okay, check this out. See how the entire scene dims 117 00:08:50,850 --> 00:08:56,380 as I point towards these lights? And how dark that looks, it doesn't look like that. 118 00:08:56,380 --> 00:09:01,040 But on the iPhone 12, look at that consistency. 119 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,420 Even as we pan across these bright... 120 00:09:05,447 --> 00:09:09,200 Like what? Look at that dynamic range! 121 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,676 It captures the whole thing. Isn't that nuts? 122 00:09:13,676 --> 00:09:16,890 - [Man] It's crazy. (laughs) 123 00:09:16,890 --> 00:09:19,473 - [Andy] We should all switch to iPhone. - Oh! 124 00:09:20,890 --> 00:09:24,590 Okay. Sorry, I will move on now. I will move on now. 125 00:09:25,530 --> 00:09:29,300 The notch is still here. Notch is apparently not going away anytime soon 126 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:34,500 in spite of the fact that we got a global pandemic and without some weird, hacky workarounds 127 00:09:34,500 --> 00:09:38,530 where you hold the mask on half of your face 128 00:09:38,530 --> 00:09:42,590 while you set up Face ID and then an alternate look, 129 00:09:42,590 --> 00:09:45,720 and you do the other half of your face or something like that, really, 130 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,617 Face ID does not work at all with a mask, and Apple has come out and said, 131 00:09:49,617 --> 00:09:54,350 "Well, it's not intended to be used with a mask. You can just use a pin." In spite of that, we're stuck with Face ID. 132 00:09:54,350 --> 00:09:59,230 We're stuck with a frickin' forehead notch in the front of the phone. 133 00:09:59,230 --> 00:10:04,080 I'm not a big fan of that. We're stuck with 60 Hertz displays. 134 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:09,090 Right, I didn't even realize until I was like... Who doesn't use their phone as a fidget toy? 135 00:10:09,090 --> 00:10:14,111 Until I was fidgeting, swiping between home screens. I was like, "Oh yeah, that looks like garbage". 136 00:10:14,111 --> 00:10:20,440 (laughs) I mean, it really does. 90 Hertz, even 80, 75. 137 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:26,580 75 Hertz would have been a big difference. That's all you had to do to make me at least happier, Apple. 138 00:10:26,580 --> 00:10:31,890 But I also understand why they didn't. Word on the street is that, and I haven't tried it yet, 139 00:10:31,890 --> 00:10:36,430 but word on the street is that battery life on the iPhone 12 lineup ain't great, 140 00:10:36,430 --> 00:10:39,510 and a big part of it is due to the 5G modem. 141 00:10:39,510 --> 00:10:44,100 So if Apple had gone and gone, "Okay, we're gonna add 5G, we're gonna add a higher resolution display, 142 00:10:44,100 --> 00:10:47,100 we're gonna throw a high refresh rate display in there," 143 00:10:47,100 --> 00:10:51,550 they would have had endless complaints about battery life unless they sucked it up 144 00:10:51,550 --> 00:10:56,303 and put a big battery in the iPhone, which I don't think they're ever going to do. 145 00:10:57,470 --> 00:11:02,020 One thing they did do though is throw a ton of RAM in these puppies. 146 00:11:02,020 --> 00:11:05,670 So there's a really good test over on EverythingApplePro 147 00:11:05,670 --> 00:11:09,530 where he shows that basically, with 6 gigs of RAM, 148 00:11:09,530 --> 00:11:13,580 that slow task switching that has plagued iPhone users 149 00:11:13,580 --> 00:11:18,250 when you have a lot of apps open in the background is pretty much resolved. 150 00:11:18,250 --> 00:11:23,900 And that's the kind of thing that I also, like the battery thing, was sure that Apple was never going to address 151 00:11:23,900 --> 00:11:27,610 because it dramatically increases the cost of every single unit they sell. 152 00:11:27,610 --> 00:11:33,480 Whereas software optimization is something that only increases the cost of writing the software; 153 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:40,770 the handsets themselves can remain cheap. So you've got the fastest SOC, you've got a ton of RAM, 154 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,310 you've got a beautiful display even if it only runs at 60 Hertz 155 00:11:45,570 --> 00:11:48,720 and they actually didn't raise prices for a change. 156 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,470 What do you think, Andy? iPhone 12, 12 Pro, winners? 157 00:11:52,470 --> 00:11:55,840 - [Andy] Look at my T-shirt. - Oh my God, he's wearing an Apple logo. 158 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,630 (staff laughs) You're buying one, aren't you? 159 00:11:59,630 --> 00:12:03,050 - [Andy] I bought one for my wife. - "I bought one for my wife." - Yeah. - All right. 160 00:12:03,050 --> 00:12:07,470 - Not for myself. - You're gonna test drive it for her though, right? - Yeah. - Yeah, that makes sense. 161 00:12:07,470 --> 00:12:12,180 Which one should I daily drive, the Pro or the regular? - [Jono] Pro. - Just go Pro? 162 00:12:12,180 --> 00:12:17,500 I mean, the difference is so small. You got stainless steel frame on the Pro, 163 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:21,223 aluminum frame on the non-Pro, like, hmm, okay. 164 00:12:21,223 --> 00:12:24,480 It's a little bit heavier. You got the extra camera which honestly, 165 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:29,260 I probably won't use much, ugh. They both have wireless charging. 166 00:12:29,260 --> 00:12:34,490 Obviously, I think Apple is trying to phase us out of the whole plugging things into your phone thing, 167 00:12:34,490 --> 00:12:39,440 one connector at a time here. MagSafe charging, so let's go ahead 168 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,893 and try out the MagSafe charger. Personally, I'm not expecting to be... 169 00:12:42,893 --> 00:12:48,613 What the hell? What is this packaging? Oh, very funny, dbrand. (laughs) 170 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,942 Okay, there, that's an example of the Linus face drop that you can find link down below. 171 00:12:54,942 --> 00:13:00,210 Personally, I'm not expecting to be very compelled by MagSafe charging, but who knows? 172 00:13:00,210 --> 00:13:03,660 Maybe I'll be surprised. Personally, I got one of those multi-device things 173 00:13:03,660 --> 00:13:07,820 that Apple never manage to release. I'm a little bummed that this isn't detachable 174 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:13,480 'cause that means when this wears out, and you can tell just looking at it that it's gonna wear out, it's gonna be a bit of a drag. 175 00:13:14,790 --> 00:13:20,560 Which way does it go? Oh, there you go. Yeah, okay, so what's the key benefit of this 176 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:23,900 compared to just a regular wireless charging pad? 177 00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:27,740 I guess just that it aligns properly in place. Okay, I mean, that's cool. 178 00:13:27,740 --> 00:13:32,780 Oh yeah, we could try the LiDAR thing. What did I say that app was called? Canvas! 179 00:13:32,780 --> 00:13:35,163 How many things are called Canvas? 180 00:13:36,110 --> 00:13:39,810 There we go, Canvas: Pocket 3D Room Scanner. Confirm the side button. 181 00:13:42,270 --> 00:13:47,206 Oh, got the camera right there. - [Man] Keep it up, Linus. 182 00:13:47,206 --> 00:13:51,593 - [Linus] You sound like my wife. - Hold it up. - I'm working on it. 183 00:13:52,537 --> 00:13:57,860 "Preparing to process your scan," this is where your A14 Bionic is gonna come in handy. 184 00:13:57,860 --> 00:14:02,000 Oh, dang! That's cool. 185 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:08,610 Now there's a lot of obstructions 'cause this is a film set, but check out the enhanced scan. 186 00:14:08,814 --> 00:14:12,200 - [Both] Whoa! - [Linus] Neat! 187 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,002 Go away, I'm trying to... (clicks tongue) I'm trying to look at things. 188 00:14:16,002 --> 00:14:20,707 Okay, I don't... Don't show this info anymore. Go away. 189 00:14:24,390 --> 00:14:28,360 Stop! I just wanna look at it. (staff laughs) 190 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:32,463 Don't show this info anymore. Okay, there, if I click it, then will it go away? 191 00:14:33,670 --> 00:14:36,883 Okay. Oh, no. Here we go. 192 00:14:38,088 --> 00:14:41,880 - [Jono] I mean, it's kinda like a panorama. - No, it's not 'cause it has depth to it. 193 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:46,090 See? - Oh, that's true. - Now there's a lot of like... 194 00:14:46,090 --> 00:14:52,870 It's doing a lot of guessing, obviously. You'd need multiple scans to get a really proper room scan, 195 00:14:52,870 --> 00:14:56,962 but that's still really cool. Yeah, it really doesn't like this plant. 196 00:14:56,962 --> 00:15:01,510 Ooh. That's all I really have to share about the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro for now. 197 00:15:01,510 --> 00:15:04,643 I'm gonna do a full review, I'm gonna daily drive it. I guess we'll do the Pro then? 198 00:15:04,643 --> 00:15:09,170 - Yeah. - We'll do the Pro and you'll have to find that over on Linus Tech Tips. 199 00:15:10,690 --> 00:15:12,840 I might never use the Lightning port again, 200 00:15:13,930 --> 00:15:15,630 and that's Apple's plan, isn't it?