iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Mini – What Could be the Biggest Reason to Buy It?

Two days back was Apple’s new October fall event. But of course, since 2020, it was a virtual event. Nobody actually went down to Apple headquarters to see the new iPhones. Instead, we got the prerecorded Apple announcement video. So that means instead of the event ending and then everybody going over to the hands-on area to check out and play with the new stuff, that obviously didn’t happen. There are two new things they just unveiled. Things included homepod Mini and the new iPhone 12. So this blog is all about things that you need to know and our honest take on the new iPhone 12 series which is the iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 pro max.

And there’s a lot of really cool stuff in here. We will be honest, the iPhone 12 series has quite a lot to show. In fact, we think the iPhone 12 is so good that it makes the 12 Pro a little bit less convincing buy for some. First of all, the big overarching headliner feature for all these new iPhones is 5G. They all have it.

They spent what felt like a million years talking about it and they went over the faster data speeds, the higher capacity, how it’s the future, and all this great stuff about it. So here’s what I’ll say about 5G. All right. It’s a two-sided thing right now. Not really ready yet. Like most people don’t have 5G coverage, whether it’s the device they’re on or the network they’re on, it’s just not out there yet. But it’s a good thing that all the new iPhones have 5G. So you don’t have to pick the one that does or doesn’t have it.

iPhone 12

First up, let’s talk about the iPhone 12. Well, honestly the new design to many is pretty impressive. It’s the new flat-sided shape like iPad pro. It’s got the aluminum frame all the way around the flat screen and of course, some new antenna action positioning it well for 5G. There’s IP68 water resistance and there’s a new ceramic shield, specialized glass on the front ceramic shield. It’s an interesting branding of a new glass features Apple didn’t even really want to call it glass. It’s a new composite material with crystallization and they didn’t actually call it glass at any point on stage. But what you should know is it’s offering four times better drop protection.

Hopefully, it’s stronger glass. So the three big new things they talked about on iPhone 12 phone itself are the screen charging and the cameras. So the screen is now much better. It goes from that 720P LCD screen we all talked about on iPhone 11 to now it’s a 6.1inch 1080P OLED display with thinner bezels. It’s a significantly better screen than on iPhone 11. And of course, you will be happy to see this better brightness, much more contrast in an OLED, and better pixel density.

Camera

It’s HDR 10 certified. It’s flat right up to the edges. The whole thing is nice. The new cameras are also pretty nice. It’s a new dual 12-megapixel camera system. So they didn’t change the numbers here. But it is a new ultra-wide and a new standard camera with an F/1.6 aperture. And that should make for better low light and portrait shot performance.

But, you know, most of the smartphone camera improvements that you get in 2020 nowadays are with the software. And we’re going to see stuff like that with their new smart HDR 3 with Night Mode coming to the front-facing camera. That’s pretty sweet. So all the stuff combined should make it a better camera system on iPhone 12.

MagSafe

The new magnets are built into the back of the phone because Mag Safe is back. This to us, this is the coolest new thing in the iPhone 12, to be totally honest. Just like there’s an Apple Watch charger where you just connected with magnets. It lines it up, slaps it on, and charges the watch. Well, now there’s going to be a mag safe, a big wireless charger that sticks on the back of the phone, helps you align it perfectly every time, and charges the phone.

It’s not totally wireless. It’s still has a wire. But you can still use the phone while it’s charging that way. I think Magsafe being back is great. And the best part is just 39 bucks for the iPhone 12 mag safe charger.

Now there’s some mag safe cases and Mag safe Stackable. So it’ll charge through the pretty cool case. Just snap it onto the back of the phone. Also, it’s probably gonna get a lot of people really used to snapping things on the back of the iPhone and not wanting to plugin anymore. Also, speaking of charging, there is officially now no charging brick in any of the iPhone boxes, starting with iPhone 12.

Apple talked about it in the environmental section of the keynote, all the environmental waste savings, and stuff. They showed us a new smaller iPhone box which saves space and shipping. Now, that volume is smaller. That’s more efficient.  But yeah, iPhone 12 now, will just come with the phone itself and a single USB to lightning cable.

There’s, of course, all the new usual year over year iPhone improvements here with iPhone 12. There are new colors, blue, red, black, white, and green. And there’s a new chip as well, a 14 bionic, which is the first 5nanometer chip in any phone, 6-core CPU, 4-core GPU, better machine learning performance and image processing, etc. This is no surprise Apple’s been really good at chips, this is going to be a pretty fast phone for a long time.

And then real quick, they also dramatically unveiled a smaller iPhone 12 mini and it comes out like a month later in the year. But basically the iPhone 12 mini is just a smaller version of everything we just saw in the new iPhone 12 such as mag safe new colors all that stuff, but just smaller and a 5.4inch display. And the iPhone 12 mini is going to be $699. So the price of the standard iPhone did just go up technically, but they brought in. So they made a new mini version to fill in that price gap and it saw the SE. So they still have a whole lineup of phones ranging from a bunch of different prices.