iPhone 12 Pro Max deserves a spot in your pocket — if you can get it to fit

With a giant battery, outstanding cameras, and also the largest screen ever on AN iPhone, the twelve professional goop has huge phone energy.

The iPhone 12 Pro Max  professional Georgia home boy features a large screen

Despite being solely two grams heavier than last year’s eleven professional Georgia homeboys, The iPhone 12 Pro Max professional Georgia home boy feels even a lot solid and well-built. The flat edges, the matte-etched glass back, and chrome steel sides area unit another level of premium match and end.

The review unit I tested was gold, and therefore the polished sides gave the look of C-3PO on his best day. however build no mistake, this can be an enormous phone. If you were born it on somebody there is a likelihood they’d sustain a significant injury.

Defining all this premium size could be a half dozen.7-inch OLED screen, that is larger than the half dozen.5-inch one found on the eleven professional Georgia home boy and XS Georgia homeboy ($850 at the best Buy). The new screen makes the twelve professional Georgia home boy a sliver taller and, in conjunction with those flat edges, offers the behemoth iPhone a decent strong look.

 

 

 

On the rear of this chunky phone could be a camera bump that is thicker than an associate degree SD card. once the twelve professional Georgia homeboy is on its back, there is a noticeable gap between the phone and therefore the surface it’s on. I notice the majority area unit attending to place a case on that, which can level things out.

The iPhone 12 Pro Max professional Georgia home boy appearance premium in gold

The iPhone 12 Pro Max professional Georgia homeboy has the longest optical lens found on any iPhone

When Apple proclaimed The iPhone 12 Pro Max lineup there was a bit of confusion regarding that phones had that camera. however, here’s however it all breaks down. All four phones have identical ultrawide angle and selfie cameras. All four phones have a quicker f1.6 aperture lens on most camera lens cameras.

That said, the camera lens camera on the iPhone 12 Pro Max professional Georgia homeboy is completely different, that I am going to get to in a very moment. The twelve professional and twelve professional Georgia home boy even have a measuring system device, that helps with the optical device in low-light for photos, video, and slow-motion in addition to AR apps. Last, each of the twelve professional and twelve professional Georgia homeboys has a 3rd rear camera with an optical lens, however, the lens on the twelve professional Georgia homeboys is longer than the one on the twelve professional.

At a 65-millimeter equivalent, the new optical lens on the twelve professional Georgia home boy features a two.5x optical zoom. Compare that to the 52-millimeter equivalent optical lens on the twelve professional, which features a 2x optical zoom. And that 0.5x additional goes an extended manner. It’s positively obscurity near to the 5x optical zoom on the Galaxy Note twenty immoderate, however, I used to be glad to own a bit a lot of reach on the iPhone.

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Taking photos wherever there’s not a great deal of sunshine could be a weakness of any camera. and therefore the smaller the camera (like those on a phone) a lot of this weakness is amplified. The cameras on the iPhone twelve professional Georgia home boy appear designed around the singular goal of taking outstanding photos and videos in medium and low-light things.

One way Apple has self-addressed this can be to provide the most camera lens camera on the twelve professional Georgia home boy a bigger device. Combined with an associate degree f1.6 lens, the new device gets an associate degree eighty-seven improvement in low-light capability, per Apple.

 

On paper that is spectacular. to assist things more, the twelve professional Georgia homeboy has sensor-based optical image stabilization rather than the lens-based authority found on the twelve, 12 Mini, and 12 Pro. By stabilizing the device, Apple claims you gain the equivalent of a stop of sunshine, that once more, on paper is spectacular.

For the foremost half, of these claims appear true. the professional Georgia home boy takes nice photos in low light-weight, however, when to put next to photos from the regular twelve professionals, the variations do not stand out at you directly. and that is less of a strike against the twelve professional Georgia homeboy, and a lot of of a sign of however sensible the camera’s area unit on the iPhone twelve professional. We’ll be going way more in-depth on photos associate degreed videos from each phone in a coming camera comparison.

 

NETWORK	Technology	GSM / CDMA / HSPA / EVDO / LTE / 5G

LAUNCH	Announced	2020, October 13
	Status	Available. Released 2020, November 13

 

BODY	Dimensions	160.8 x 78.1 x 7.4 mm (6.33 x 3.07 x 0.29 in)
	Weight	228 g (8.04 oz)
	Build	Glass front (Gorilla Glass), glass back (Gorilla Glass), stainless steel frame
	SIM	Single SIM (Nano-SIM and/or eSIM) or Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) – for China
		IP68 dust/water resistant (up to 6m for 30 mins) Apple Pay (Visa, MasterCard, AMEX certified)

 

DISPLAY	Type	Super Retina XDR OLED, HDR10, Dolby Vision, 800 nits (typ), 1200 nits (peak)
	Size	6.7 inches, 109.8 cm2 (~87.4% screen-to-body ratio)
	Resolution	1284 x 2778 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio (~458 ppi density)
	Protection	Scratch-resistant ceramic glass, oleophobic coating
		Wide color gamut True-tone

 

PLATFORM	OS	iOS 14.1, upgradable to iOS 14.6
	Chipset	Apple A14 Bionic (5 nm)
	CPU	Hexa-core (2×3.1 GHz Firestorm + 4×1.8 GHz Icestorm)
	GPU	Apple GPU (4-core graphics)

 

MEMORY	Card slot	No
	Internal	128GB 6GB RAM, 256GB 6GB RAM, 512GB 6GB RAM
		NVMe

 

MAIN CAMERA	Quad	12 MP, f/1.6, 26mm (wide), 1.7µm, dual pixel PDAF, sensor-shift stabilization (IBIS) 12 MP, f/2.2, 65mm (telephoto), 1/3.4″, 1.0µm, PDAF, OIS, 2.5x optical zoom 12 MP, f/2.4, 120˚, 13mm (ultrawide), 1/3.6″ TOF 3D LiDAR scanner (depth)
	Features	Dual-LED dual-tone flash, HDR (photo/panorama)
	Video	4K@24/30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/120/240fps, 10‑bit HDR, Dolby Vision HDR (up to 60fps), stereo sound rec.

 

SELFIE CAMERA	Dual	12 MP, f/2.2, 23mm (wide), 1/3.6″ SL 3D, (depth/biometrics sensor)
	Features	HDR
	Video	4K@24/30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/120fps, gyro-EIS

 

 

SOUND	Loudspeaker	Yes, with stereo speakers
	3.5mm jack	No

 

COMMS	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6, dual-band, hotspot
	Bluetooth	5.0, A2DP, LE
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, QZSS
	NFC	Yes
	Radio	No
	USB	Lightning, USB 2.0

 

FEATURES	Sensors	Face ID, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer
		Siri natural language commands and dictation Ultra-Wideband (UWB) support

 

BATTERY	Type	Li-Ion 3687 mAh, non-removable (14.13 Wh)
	Charging	Fast charging 20W, 50% in 30 min (advertised) USB Power Delivery 2.0 Qi magnetic fast wireless charging 15W
	Stand-by	Up to 20 h (multimedia)
	Music play	Up to 80 h

 

MISC	Colors	Silver, Graphite, Gold, Pacific Blue
	Models	A2411, A2342, A2410, A2412, iPhone13,4
	SAR EU	0.99 W/kg (head)     0.99 W/kg (body)
	Price	$ 1,099.00 / € 1,155.00 / £ 999.00 / ₹ 124,700

 

TESTS	Performance	AnTuTu: 638584 (v8) GeekBench: 4240 (v5.1) GFXBench: 55fps (ES 3.1 onscreen)
	Display	Contrast ratio: Infinite (nominal)
	Camera	Photo / Video
	Loudspeaker	-23.8 LUFS (Very good)
	Battery life	Endurance rating 95h

 

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