1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:04,180 - I am now two weeks in to daily driving the iPhone 12 Pro. 2 00:00:04,180 --> 00:00:09,620 And that might lead you to ask the question, Linus, where is your review of the iPhone 12 lineup? 3 00:00:09,620 --> 00:00:14,230 And the answer is I didn't really feel like I can talk about the iPhone 12 lineup. 4 00:00:14,230 --> 00:00:17,400 And typically we only do one Linus Tech Tips video 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:22,270 per new iPhone launch, until I had met the whole family. 6 00:00:22,270 --> 00:00:25,410 And that is just what I'll be doing today. 7 00:00:25,410 --> 00:00:30,270 One of these two devices is going to replace the 12 Pro in my pocket. 8 00:00:30,270 --> 00:00:36,420 And the reason for that, is I found the 12 Pro to be kind of like a, a tweener, you know? 9 00:00:36,420 --> 00:00:41,360 It's not really small enough for me to totally comfortably use it one-handed, 10 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,720 but it's not really big enough to satisfy my 11 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,830 content consumption, you know, urges, so to speak 12 00:00:47,830 --> 00:00:53,500 because remember guys, the device I came from was actually the Galaxy Fold, 13 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:56,510 well the second one, actually, the Galaxy Z Fold 2. 14 00:00:56,510 --> 00:00:59,900 So going from that kind of a screen to this was like, eh, 15 00:00:59,900 --> 00:01:05,210 yeah, I guess it's okay, It's all right, I guess. So in front of me then is the iPhone 12 Mini 16 00:01:05,210 --> 00:01:09,280 and the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Which one you want to see first, Andy? 17 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:13,480 - [Andy] The bigger one. - The big one? You want the big one? You got it, I thought we were going to say the chunk is 18 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:18,180 for the end. All right, let's go straight to the chunkgest. This is the chungessy, 19 00:01:18,180 --> 00:01:21,210 chungessiest iPhone that we've ever had. 20 00:01:21,210 --> 00:01:25,400 Look at the freaking wait, is that camera bump actually bigger? 21 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,580 No, no okay it just feels gigantic because of probably this 22 00:01:29,580 --> 00:01:33,130 marble skin from D brand. Of course the phones were sent by D brand 23 00:01:33,130 --> 00:01:36,960 because Apple does not send me devices, so there you have it. 24 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:43,970 Well, it's big all right. I really don't know about the squareness at this size, dude. 25 00:01:44,710 --> 00:01:49,560 This is a gigantic feeling device, face ID, man. 26 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:55,910 I'm going to talk about it more in the full review, but face ID is like not great for a COVID world 27 00:01:55,910 --> 00:02:00,960 where I'm wearing a mask anywhere from six to 10 hours a day, it's not a great experience. 28 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:06,590 Some apps don't handle notifications very gracefully if you don't look at it and have face ID work 29 00:02:06,590 --> 00:02:11,760 and you have to like swipe away like Twitter mentions, for example, if you use your passcode to unlock, they're just gone. 30 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:16,510 You can't just pull down the shade or I don't know what Apple calls it, but what I would call a notification shade. 31 00:02:16,510 --> 00:02:19,550 You can't just pull it down and be like, oh yo, all those notifications, they're gone. 32 00:02:19,550 --> 00:02:23,210 So not being able to use face ID all the time. The fact that there's no fingerprint sensor 33 00:02:23,210 --> 00:02:26,410 in these power buttons is driving me freaking crazy. 34 00:02:26,410 --> 00:02:30,140 Anyway, let's go ahead and use Apple's super cool painless 35 00:02:30,140 --> 00:02:35,150 setup system here. I also hate the security or rather the insecurity 36 00:02:35,150 --> 00:02:38,760 of using my pin, my passcode all the time, 37 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:43,560 because you never know if someone's watching, like that's one of the best things about face ID 38 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:48,900 is that your second authentication factor is one that you don't have to have on display all the time. 39 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:53,250 Like I always feel like I'm at a public pin pad. I should be like going like this. 40 00:02:53,250 --> 00:02:56,163 Ah, hold your new iPhone up to the camera. 41 00:02:57,220 --> 00:03:02,950 Apple's probably sitting there going like, what? Who upgrades from an iPhone 12 Pro to a Pro Max? 42 00:03:02,950 --> 00:03:07,110 As with the 12 pro you get a cable and you get a little look at this, 43 00:03:07,110 --> 00:03:11,860 got a little SIM removal tool, get that little applet. Hey, they only give one Apple sticker now? 44 00:03:11,860 --> 00:03:16,620 It's well-balanced. That's something Apple has always done extremely well. 45 00:03:16,620 --> 00:03:21,870 It is, it makes such a big difference in the handling. Like, especially as devices got bigger, 46 00:03:21,870 --> 00:03:26,790 it became more and more important for them to be well-balanced because you'd get like a top heavy one 47 00:03:26,790 --> 00:03:31,700 and you put it in your hand, oh no, what happened to my phone? Don't worry it's not going to be damaged because we got this 48 00:03:31,700 --> 00:03:35,170 three and a half millimeter thick LTT Northern Lights, 49 00:03:35,170 --> 00:03:39,110 mousepad lttstore.com, actually it's not available yet. 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My kids use it all the time. 57 00:04:12,390 --> 00:04:16,840 So check out the link in the video description to enter the giveaway right away. 58 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:20,530 Transferring data, time remaining estimating. I don't think I have a ton of data on here. 59 00:04:20,530 --> 00:04:25,340 I haven't taken like a ton of pictures and video in spite of how outstanding the camera is. 60 00:04:25,340 --> 00:04:29,410 All right now let's have a look while this does its thing. 61 00:04:29,410 --> 00:04:33,533 Let's have a look at the little bitty Linus sized one. 62 00:04:36,230 --> 00:04:39,830 Where is my iPhone 4? Hey Jono, where's that bin of iPhones? 63 00:04:39,830 --> 00:04:44,610 This is tiny. Like this reminds me of the first SE 64 00:04:44,610 --> 00:04:48,860 or like the five, five and 5S or something. 65 00:04:48,860 --> 00:04:53,380 It's even kind of light too. Especially coming from holding one of these more, 66 00:04:53,380 --> 00:04:58,400 more chunkesy ones. There's your Type C lightening. 67 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,800 Ah, yes, good. Here's my iPhone box. Okay. 68 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,730 In terms of size, especially with the case on it's actually not that far off. 69 00:05:05,730 --> 00:05:09,910 It is bigger though. God, that notch looks unholy big 70 00:05:09,910 --> 00:05:14,130 on a phone this small though. That's like more notch than Minecraft, you know? 71 00:05:14,130 --> 00:05:17,520 Know what I'm saying? I won't to try my passcode, but like, wow, 72 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:22,680 this is one handable. Like if you don't do a ton of content consumption 73 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,990 on the go with your phone, boy, is that ever handleable. 74 00:05:26,990 --> 00:05:30,400 I like it. And what's great is unlike what we've seen happen 75 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:34,010 with Android over the years, Apple hasn't crippled this thing. 76 00:05:34,010 --> 00:05:39,490 They didn't go and put like a crappier processor in or anything, this is a full fat iPhone 12, 77 00:05:39,490 --> 00:05:42,650 like it doesn't get obviously the same triple camera setup 78 00:05:42,650 --> 00:05:46,440 as the iPhone 12 Pro. So there, there is, 79 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:52,490 there are definitely some compromises here, but they're small ones, they're small ones. 80 00:05:52,490 --> 00:05:57,350 And I would expect because they're all running the same processor that you would see support 81 00:05:57,350 --> 00:06:02,187 last for a similar amount of time compared to the other iPhone 12 family members. 82 00:06:02,187 --> 00:06:05,970 - [Jono] How much is the Pro Max? - Pro Max? I don't know, if you have to ask you can't afford it. 83 00:06:05,970 --> 00:06:09,802 You know how it is. Should I try and daily drive this thing? - [Andy] Yeah, you should try the Mini. 84 00:06:09,802 --> 00:06:13,219 - You're going to miss the screen size. Do you watch any TV or movies on your phone? 85 00:06:13,219 --> 00:06:19,490 - [Andy] No. - Nothing? - Nothing. - Oh, see, I'm a big mobile mobile media consumer. 86 00:06:19,490 --> 00:06:22,820 Like it. - I would do that while I am popping. - It'd be really tough to have. 87 00:06:22,820 --> 00:06:27,540 (laughs) (beep) - Wow. - You know what really has been bothering me too 88 00:06:27,540 --> 00:06:31,040 in the last couple of weeks? The fact that you can't just put anything you want 89 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:35,600 in command center. And also why the (beep) is there not a settings 90 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:40,140 command center doodad? And what is with the arbitrary sorting in here? 91 00:06:40,140 --> 00:06:44,250 Like why is camera in like where's camera again? 92 00:06:44,250 --> 00:06:47,303 I was looking for camera, it took me like ages. Yeah there. 93 00:06:47,303 --> 00:06:51,790 Why is camera in with like photos and Apple TV 94 00:06:51,790 --> 00:06:55,190 and like game center? And they don't have headers. 95 00:06:55,190 --> 00:06:58,560 So there's no like clear rhyme or reason 96 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,699 behind how these things are grouped here. Why is App Store and wallet and, 97 00:07:02,699 --> 00:07:07,950 (high pitch buzzing) Okay, sorry, sorry. This is not, this is not my review of the phone. 98 00:07:07,950 --> 00:07:15,900 I just want to watch a movie on a big iPhone screen because boy is the screen ever gorgeous with chunk. 99 00:07:16,700 --> 00:07:20,680 It's not even thicker. It's just it's squared off. 100 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:25,360 You know, I thought I wanted this, which is what's really funny about it. Like that was one of the first things that I said 101 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:29,130 I was excited about yet actually using it daily, 102 00:07:29,130 --> 00:07:33,600 really just not as comfortable. So here's the 11 Pro Max for comparison. 103 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:40,620 Very similar width, actually a touch, no, it feels really big, 'cause it just is really big. 104 00:07:40,620 --> 00:07:46,050 Okay. They really haven't done much about how thick those bezels are either, have they? 105 00:07:46,050 --> 00:07:50,120 Touch thinner total. And I guess the squared offness helps with that. 106 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:53,680 So it does mean that the screen is larger. 107 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,940 I am so disappointed that the notch, A continues to be there at all 108 00:07:56,940 --> 00:08:02,090 and B continues to be so darn good. Wait, Andy, I initially said they didn't look different. 109 00:08:02,090 --> 00:08:05,183 Wait, is that camera bump actually bigger? No, no okay. 110 00:08:05,183 --> 00:08:10,660 But I was totally wrong. No, they're totally different. Look how much bigger the one on the 12 Pro Max is. 111 00:08:10,660 --> 00:08:15,750 So that's, that makes sense. 'Cause it does have a longer telephoto lens. 112 00:08:15,750 --> 00:08:22,480 Well, that's one compelling reason to carry a bigger chunkgus phone in your pocket. 113 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,890 Having up to two and a half X optical zoom is pretty nice too. 114 00:08:25,890 --> 00:08:29,870 Let's fire up YouTube for some content consumption. 115 00:08:29,870 --> 00:08:33,700 Man, that is really small. 116 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:37,730 And look at this. Oh my God, look what they did. 117 00:08:37,730 --> 00:08:41,270 When you're watching full screen 16 by nine content, 118 00:08:41,270 --> 00:08:46,300 you're not just dealing with the rounded corners, you get a little bit of notch. 119 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:53,130 Oh, why did you do this? Your Apple, you can create a display in any aspect ratio and form factor 120 00:08:53,130 --> 00:08:57,440 you want, all you had to do was make the phone one millimeter taller. 121 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:03,220 - Oh to be fair, our aspect ration is 2:1. - Oh, oh, that's true it is, it's 2:1, you're right. 122 00:09:03,220 --> 00:09:07,990 It's on us, it's on us. Why couldn't we just make our video one millimeter narrower? 123 00:09:07,990 --> 00:09:11,700 You know what? The more I play with the Pro Max and the Mini, 124 00:09:11,700 --> 00:09:16,460 the more I'm like yeah, the 12 and the 12 Pro are probably the right size. 125 00:09:16,460 --> 00:09:22,240 And given that the features of the 12 Pro, so you get the LIDAR scanner as well as the third camera 126 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:27,190 are like not going to make a huge deal to the vast majority of people, 127 00:09:27,190 --> 00:09:33,350 the 12 looks like the winner, doesn't it? Unless you absolutely must have a tiny iPhone 128 00:09:33,350 --> 00:09:38,350 because you're still rocking the like 5S or something 129 00:09:38,820 --> 00:09:44,380 and you, you can't let it go. If that's you, if you're one of these, 130 00:09:44,380 --> 00:09:47,963 this is going to be wild, woopsie daisies, this is going to be real comfortable. 131 00:09:47,963 --> 00:09:51,720 (deep voice mumbles) The screen is broken or not the screen, the, 132 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,230 the protector that was on it. All right then. So what's stronger? 133 00:09:55,230 --> 00:09:58,660 What's stronger traditional tempered glass or the ceramic glass? 134 00:09:58,660 --> 00:10:02,470 We, we, we mashed iPhones together until we knew for sure. 135 00:10:02,470 --> 00:10:05,660 All right, Andy, I'm gonna do it. I'll try the 12 Mini. 136 00:10:05,660 --> 00:10:11,020 I'll put my SIM in this and what you guys should try is getting subscribed to ShortCircuit for more first impressions 137 00:10:11,020 --> 00:10:13,170 and quick looks and all that kind of stuff.