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The annual September new iPhone ritual was pushed back a month this year for obvious reasons,

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but nonetheless, all eyes were on Cupertino again for one day as the iPhone 12 lineup was

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revealed to the world with all the usual pomp and circumstance. Diving right in, for the first time,

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iPhones are getting 5G connectivity, and with a number of Android devices already boasting it,

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it would have looked pretty silly for the iPhone 12 series to not have it. Apple's

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implementation does support millimeter wave, but only on U.S. sold models. Then it's got support

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for the slower 5G standards across the board, so you should be covered regardless of what your

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carrier offers. Under the hood, there's a new system on chip, as expected, the Apple A14 Bionic.

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Now it doesn't bring much in the way of new features, but you do get a pretty sizable

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generational performance boost, and interestingly, it's the first commercially available chip that

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I'm aware of on the 5nm process from TSMC, which should mean a more powerful phone without

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sacrificing battery life. We're also getting OLED screens up and down the stack for the first time.

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Even though the iPhone 11 base model was positioned as a high-end smartphone compared with the rest

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of the market, Apple went with a more traditional LCD display. Not so with the iPhone 12, whose

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screen is not only OLED, but even boasts 1200 nits of peak brightness for HDR content consumption.

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On the subject of HDR, the iPhone 12 also supports recording with Dolby Vision,

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making it the first mobile phone capable of doing so. Of course, that isn't to say that it's going

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to be a replacement for professional-grade cameras, it's just that with HDR-compatible

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monitors and TVs becoming more common, and the ability of YouTube to support HDR uploads,

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it could be that the iPhone is the thing that finally pushes HDR into the mainstream.

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It's going to be real handy for content creators. Both the standard and wide-angle cameras are

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getting night mode for better results when shooting in low light, and the pro version of the iPhone 12

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is getting LiDAR, similar to what police use to give you a speeding ticket. But instead of

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raising your insurance rates, iPhone LiDAR will help map the surrounding environment more quickly

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for augmented reality applications and enable the camera to focus faster in dim conditions

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when taking a photo. Additionally, there's a system in the pro models that stabilizes the

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image sensor itself with a gyroscope, which should allow you to take sharper photos,

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especially if you're using longer exposure times. Previously, the iPhone's optical image

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stabilization worked by moving the lens. It's also important to note that the base iPhone 12

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and the new iPhone 12 mini are pretty much the same phone with the same features,

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with the mini just being, you guessed it, smaller. We're already used to smaller iPhones in the

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form of the SE models, but in this case, Apple might have changed the nomenclature to get across

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the message that the phones have nearly identical innards. Regardless of which model you go with,

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MagSafe is making a return. You probably remember MagSafe Chargers for Apple laptops from a few

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years ago, where the magnetic contact mechanism would prevent damage to the computer or to your

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body if you tripped over it. But while laptop MagSafe has been phased out in favor of USB-C,

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now it's back on the iPhone 12 series as a wireless charging mechanism, and Apple has already

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promised that there will be third-party MagSafe accessories as well. In less welcome news,

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the iPhone 12 is keeping the lightning connector dashing any hopes that will finally be seeing

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an open connector standard on iPhones at least for one more year. So is all of this enough to lure

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you in for an upgrade, or are you going to stick with your old device? Let us know down in the

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comments, and remember that the iPhone 12 doesn't come with a charging brick, so you'll have to pick

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one up for yourself. I wonder if an Apple-produced self-driving car with optional add-on brakes

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is going to be far behind. What do you think, Brandon? Eye car? Yeah, sure. Thanks for watching,

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