WEBVTT 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:04.180 - I am now two weeks in to daily driving the iPhone 12 Pro. 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? 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. 00:00:14.230 --> 00:00:17.400 And typically we only do one Linus Tech Tips video 00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:22.270 per new iPhone launch, until I had met the whole family. 00:00:22.270 --> 00:00:25.410 And that is just what I'll be doing today. 00:00:25.410 --> 00:00:30.270 One of these two devices is going to replace the 12 Pro in my pocket. 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? 00:00:36.420 --> 00:00:41.360 It's not really small enough for me to totally comfortably use it one-handed, 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:44.720 but it's not really big enough to satisfy my 00:00:44.720 --> 00:00:47.830 content consumption, you know, urges, so to speak 00:00:47.830 --> 00:00:53.500 because remember guys, the device I came from was actually the Galaxy Fold, 00:00:53.500 --> 00:00:56.510 well the second one, actually, the Galaxy Z Fold 2. 00:00:56.510 --> 00:00:59.900 So going from that kind of a screen to this was like, eh, 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 00:01:05.210 --> 00:01:09.280 and the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Which one you want to see first, Andy? 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 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:18.180 for the end. All right, let's go straight to the chunkgest. This is the chungessy, 00:01:18.180 --> 00:01:21.210 chungessiest iPhone that we've ever had. 00:01:21.210 --> 00:01:25.400 Look at the freaking wait, is that camera bump actually bigger? 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:29.580 No, no okay it just feels gigantic because of probably this 00:01:29.580 --> 00:01:33.130 marble skin from D brand. Of course the phones were sent by D brand 00:01:33.130 --> 00:01:36.960 because Apple does not send me devices, so there you have it. 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. 00:01:44.710 --> 00:01:49.560 This is a gigantic feeling device, face ID, man. 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 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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 00:02:23.210 --> 00:02:26.410 in these power buttons is driving me freaking crazy. 00:02:26.410 --> 00:02:30.140 Anyway, let's go ahead and use Apple's super cool painless 00:02:30.140 --> 00:02:35.150 setup system here. I also hate the security or rather the insecurity 00:02:35.150 --> 00:02:38.760 of using my pin, my passcode all the time, 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 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. 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. 00:02:53.250 --> 00:02:56.163 Ah, hold your new iPhone up to the camera. 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? 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, 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? 00:03:11.860 --> 00:03:16.620 It's well-balanced. That's something Apple has always done extremely well. 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, 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 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 00:03:31.700 --> 00:03:35.170 three and a half millimeter thick LTT Northern Lights, 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. 00:04:12.390 --> 00:04:16.840 So check out the link in the video description to enter the giveaway right away. 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. 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. 00:04:25.340 --> 00:04:29.410 All right now let's have a look while this does its thing. 00:04:29.410 --> 00:04:33.533 Let's have a look at the little bitty Linus sized one. 00:04:36.230 --> 00:04:39.830 Where is my iPhone 4? Hey Jono, where's that bin of iPhones? 00:04:39.830 --> 00:04:44.610 This is tiny. Like this reminds me of the first SE 00:04:44.610 --> 00:04:48.860 or like the five, five and 5S or something. 00:04:48.860 --> 00:04:53.380 It's even kind of light too. Especially coming from holding one of these more, 00:04:53.380 --> 00:04:58.400 more chunkesy ones. There's your Type C lightening. 00:04:58.400 --> 00:05:01.800 Ah, yes, good. Here's my iPhone box. Okay. 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:05.730 In terms of size, especially with the case on it's actually not that far off. 00:05:05.730 --> 00:05:09.910 It is bigger though. God, that notch looks unholy big 00:05:09.910 --> 00:05:14.130 on a phone this small though. That's like more notch than Minecraft, you know? 00:05:14.130 --> 00:05:17.520 Know what I'm saying? I won't to try my passcode, but like, wow, 00:05:17.520 --> 00:05:22.680 this is one handable. Like if you don't do a ton of content consumption 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:26.990 on the go with your phone, boy, is that ever handleable. 00:05:26.990 --> 00:05:30.400 I like it. And what's great is unlike what we've seen happen 00:05:30.400 --> 00:05:34.010 with Android over the years, Apple hasn't crippled this thing. 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, 00:05:39.490 --> 00:05:42.650 like it doesn't get obviously the same triple camera setup 00:05:42.650 --> 00:05:46.440 as the iPhone 12 Pro. So there, there is, 00:05:46.440 --> 00:05:52.490 there are definitely some compromises here, but they're small ones, they're small ones. 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 00:05:57.350 --> 00:06:02.187 last for a similar amount of time compared to the other iPhone 12 family members. 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. 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. 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? 00:06:13.219 --> 00:06:19.490 - [Andy] No. - Nothing? - Nothing. - Oh, see, I'm a big mobile mobile media consumer. 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. 00:06:22.820 --> 00:06:27.540 (laughs) (beep) - Wow. - You know what really has been bothering me too 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 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:35.600 in command center. And also why the (beep) is there not a settings 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:40.140 command center doodad? And what is with the arbitrary sorting in here? 00:06:40.140 --> 00:06:44.250 Like why is camera in like where's camera again? 00:06:44.250 --> 00:06:47.303 I was looking for camera, it took me like ages. Yeah there. 00:06:47.303 --> 00:06:51.790 Why is camera in with like photos and Apple TV 00:06:51.790 --> 00:06:55.190 and like game center? And they don't have headers. 00:06:55.190 --> 00:06:58.560 So there's no like clear rhyme or reason 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:02.699 behind how these things are grouped here. Why is App Store and wallet and, 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. 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. 00:07:16.700 --> 00:07:20.680 It's not even thicker. It's just it's squared off. 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 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:29.130 I was excited about yet actually using it daily, 00:07:29.130 --> 00:07:33.600 really just not as comfortable. So here's the 11 Pro Max for comparison. 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. 00:07:40.620 --> 00:07:46.050 Okay. They really haven't done much about how thick those bezels are either, have they? 00:07:46.050 --> 00:07:50.120 Touch thinner total. And I guess the squared offness helps with that. 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:53.680 So it does mean that the screen is larger. 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:56.940 I am so disappointed that the notch, A continues to be there at all 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. 00:08:02.090 --> 00:08:05.183 Wait, is that camera bump actually bigger? No, no okay. 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. 00:08:10.660 --> 00:08:15.750 So that's, that makes sense. 'Cause it does have a longer telephoto lens. 00:08:15.750 --> 00:08:22.480 Well, that's one compelling reason to carry a bigger chunkgus phone in your pocket. 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:25.890 Having up to two and a half X optical zoom is pretty nice too. 00:08:25.890 --> 00:08:29.870 Let's fire up YouTube for some content consumption. 00:08:29.870 --> 00:08:33.700 Man, that is really small. 00:08:33.700 --> 00:08:37.730 And look at this. Oh my God, look what they did. 00:08:37.730 --> 00:08:41.270 When you're watching full screen 16 by nine content, 00:08:41.270 --> 00:08:46.300 you're not just dealing with the rounded corners, you get a little bit of notch. 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 00:08:53.130 --> 00:08:57.440 you want, all you had to do was make the phone one millimeter taller. 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. 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? 00:09:07.990 --> 00:09:11.700 You know what? The more I play with the Pro Max and the Mini, 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. 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 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:27.190 are like not going to make a huge deal to the vast majority of people, 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 00:09:33.350 --> 00:09:38.350 because you're still rocking the like 5S or something 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, 00:09:44.380 --> 00:09:47.963 this is going to be wild, woopsie daisies, this is going to be real comfortable. 00:09:47.963 --> 00:09:51.720 (deep voice mumbles) The screen is broken or not the screen, the, 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:55.230 the protector that was on it. All right then. So what's stronger? 00:09:55.230 --> 00:09:58.660 What's stronger traditional tempered glass or the ceramic glass? 00:09:58.660 --> 00:10:02.470 We, we, we mashed iPhones together until we knew for sure. 00:10:02.470 --> 00:10:05.660 All right, Andy, I'm gonna do it. I'll try the 12 Mini. 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 00:10:11.020 --> 00:10:13.170 and quick looks and all that kind of stuff.