IPHONE 12 VS IPHONE 12 PRO VS IPHONE 12 PRO MAX

Let’s talk about all the features that are worth it, not worth it and which device you should get. Let’s get into those differences really quickly. Let’s cover what’s the same between all of these devices. For one all features are the same. New lab design, very reminiscent of the ipad pro, all are 7.4 millimeters across the lineup. First ever and all four models will support 5G here in USA . They will support 5G millimeter wave. It’s actually what that little cutout smart connector looking thing is on the side. In other countries where millimeter wave is not an option that does not exist in the design.

Now all the models do have new wide cameras so a new seven piece plastic element lens which allows 27 percent more light inside with a 1.6 aperture. All models do support the new magsafe connector system which actually looks amazing so the charger will now snap in on the back of the iphone and if you’re using a magsafe compatible case it’ll do so in the case itself and all the models will feature water resistance at 6 meters for up to 30 minutes incredible and across the lineup a new brighter true tone flash system. The actual unit does appear to be a little bit larger and new slow motion capability 4k and 120 fames or 4k and 240 frames per second so that’s where the similarities end.

Now for the differences first materials between the iphone 12 mini, the iphone 12, the iphone 12 pro and 12 pro max materials are different. So the bands are surgical grade stainless steel on the iphone 12 pro and iphone 12 pro max. Different texture more rugged and of course colors so one less choice than last year on the iphone 11 on the iphone 12 series. Black, white, green, blue and a product red and they all look great. The blue is more reminiscent of that darker navy blue color. We have silver gold and the gold is a somewhat new finish apple applied. New processes to get a more shiny gold look and there’s a new graphite color which replaces space gray and a new pacific blue color which looks like a cross between midnight green and the blue color on the iphone 12.

Now as for screens, across the lineup we’ll find the new super retina xdr organic led display. So now the iphone 12 and iphone 12 mini have the best in screen tech. Also the pior pixel density is the same across the board the 12 mini is the sharpest of the bunch with a 476 pixels per inch density and there’s a key difference in screen brightness between the iphone 12 and the iphone 12 pro. Series so the iphone 12 and iphone 12 mini can sustain 625 nits on non hdr content the 12 pro can sustain 800 nits. Now both displays can sustain 1200 nits max brightness . When needed and moving on to the camera actually most of the differences between the devices are happening in the camera section here so between the iphone 12 and the iphone 12 mini and the iphone 12 pro and iphone 12 pro max notably is the telephoto zoom lens on the standard 12 series.

This is a 2.0 aperture zoom lens providing two times optical zoom on the iphone 12 pro. Now on the 12 pro max this lens is even better. It offers a 2.5 times optical zoom because apple had just a little bit more room to play with the focal length. There’s a 65 millimeter focal length on the iphone max and 52 on the iphone 12 pro. Now the iphone 12 pro max does get an additional 0.5 times optical zoom but because of that extra focal length the aperture is a little bit worse than the standard iphone12 pro at 2.2 versus 2.0 on the standard iphone 12 pro. So because the iphone pro series models get the telephoto lens, apple calls the zoom range four times on the iphone 12 pro. Five times on the iphone 12 pro max and just two times on the iphone 12 and the iphone 12 mini because they can zoom out two times again they’re missing the telephoto lens and there is a difference between digital zoom so the iphone 12 and the iphone 12 mini can do five times digital zoom. The iphone 12 pro can do 10 times and the iphone 12 pro max can do 12 times because of that additional 0.5 times optical zoom now what’s even more confusing is between the 12 pro and 12 pro max. There’s a considerable difference in the wide angle lens so the wide angle lens on the iphone 12 pro max is larger. Due to there being more space in the sensor itself and speaking of it’s much bigger so this is the wrong layout of it but it’s considerably bigger than the iphone 11 pro max sensor apple was able to fit in a 47 larger sensor. As a result larger individual pixels on the sensor 1.7 micrometer letting in more light taking better night mode photos and with this larger sensor on the iphone 12 pro max. Apple also included a sensor shift image stabilization technology which means the sensor itself is stabilized in the housing instead of the actual lenses like on the 12 pro series. This provides better stabilization for night mode photography.

A two second long exposure while holding the iphone 12 pro max now the 6.1 inch iphone 12 pro does get dual image stabilization which means the telephoto and wide angle lens are optically stabilized and the standard 12 mini and 12 series get standard optical image stabilization only on the telephoto lens and an interesting camera detail on the iphone 12 pro max. So the top lens is the telephoto zoom lens on the bottom is wide on the 12 pro series. The top lens is swapped so that’s the wide angle on top and telephoto on bottom. Now only the iphone 12 pro and 12 pro max get night mode portraits otherwise improve deep fusion and night mode across the lineup and also limited to the iphone 12 pro and the iphone 12 pro max is a proprietary raw codec. Apple is calling it apple pro raw which helps you ink even more detail out of your photos for than editing via apple’s editor or third-party applications. And when recording in the new dolby vision hdr codec mode the iphone 12 and the iphone 12 mini are limited to 4k 30 frames per second. The iphone 12 pro and the iphone 12 pro max can do up to 60 in 4K .

The lidar scanner limited to the 12 pro and 12 pro max. This has been taken from the ipad proit allows your iphone to sense depth also helps with autofocus. So in nighttime conditions autofocus is six times faster. Thanks to the lidar scanner. It’s too big of a deal. It’s going to help in some AR applications more accurate AR placement. In certain apps you can map your house. It also helps with night mode portraits but the usage case of just using the sensor is very small not a lot of apps utilize it and quite a difference in battery life largest of the bunch the 12 pro max is capable of up to 20 hours of video playback the 6.1 inch models go down to 17 hours of playback and the iphone 12 mini gets 15 hours of playback. So not too bad for the smallest of the bunch as for storage iphone 12 models start at 64 giga bytes go up to 128 and max out at 256. Iphone 12 pro starts at 128 and goes up to 256 and maxes out at 512 same as iphone 11 pro and prices are very fair. YOU CAN VIEW THE PRICE HERE- IPHONE12PRICE .Finally when it comes to video you can now shoot with 4x optical zoom on the pro and 5x optical zoom on the pro max and up to 7x digital zoom on the pro max. All of these are higher than we could in the prior gen and it’s going to make a big difference when you’re shooting video there are so many new features that we love about the iphone 12 the iphone 12mini the iphone 12 pro and the iphone 12pro max there is still a lot to unpack and stay tuned to CONCEPT OF SCIENCE BLOG because we are going to bring you all the new features everything you need to know about all these new devices tons of comparisons and lots. YOU CAN COMMENT.

Originally published at https://www.conceptofscience.com on October 18, 2020.