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 U.S. 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 5nm 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 SE 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 USB-C,
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 MagSafe accessories as well. In less welcome news,
the iPhone 12 is keeping the lightning connector dashing any hopes that will 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? Eye car? Yeah, sure. Thanks for watching,
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