iPhone 12 and 12 Pro unboxing and setup (plus MagSafe accessories) By CNET

I have the iPhone 12. I have the iPhone 12 Pro and I have a bunch of mags, safe accessories. Okay, hey uh, just to be completely clear because of things like the time: space, continuum, video and deadlines. This unboxing video is coming out the same day as my review of the iPhone 12 and 12 pro, which you can watch right now. Well, I recommend sticking around with this unboxing because it could be pretty cool but then watch the review. Alright, let's get to it.

So I don't need this because apple products, okay! So what I got here. This is the 256 gigabytes blue, iPhone 12, and this is the 512 gigabytes, blue or pacific blue iPhone 12 Pro on the back of the box. It says the iPhone 12 is in here. It also says an USB c: the lightning cable is in here. Then it says power, adapter and headphones sold separately.

Truth here is an iPhone uh s e box that came out earlier this year, and you could see that it is much bigger uh than this iPhone 12 box. Despite the phone being yeah, you know smaller so iPhone. Se. Goodbye, let's open up this iPhone 12. By the way the box has that embossed um graphic of the iPhones on them, just like the iPhone SD box, oh wow, okay, all right that that looks slick.

So this is the iPhone 12 in blue, okay. Oh, this is a little different so as opposed to there being a clear film on the front. There's like this paper, one on the papers like little icons for the silence, button, volume, up volume, down power, button and lightning on the bottom. Also in the box is that advertised USB c to lightning cable. I think this is great for one reason, because it's going to allow you some fast charging, but we'll talk about that in a second and then there's this little apple paper wallet here.

It's got a sim card tool. It's got some. You know directionally things and, of course, an apple sticker. We have the box there this the phone, and we have the other box top there. We go three two one peel.

Oh, this reminds me of um those like fake tattoos kind of like the backing on one of those, it's kind of crazy. Let's do the iPhone of 12 pro, as I say, 11 pro, I'm so used to saying 11. Let's give this a try here, all right, ready, unbox, okay, wow that look. They both look really slick. What can I say yeah- and this has the that paper front as well with the icons on it, and again we have that USB cable in here nothing extra and the little lovely Apple Wallet again with the sticker ready set.

Oh my goodness, yeah, okay, okay, let's get to these phones here so uh this my right hand has the iPhone 12. My left hand has the iPhone 12 Pro and, as you can see, they are the exact same size, they're the same color, technically they're different, because one is blue and one has a blue finish. Blue finish, blue the other big difference. Obviously, the iPhone 12 has two rear cameras, a wide and ultra-wide and the iPhone 12 Pro has a wide ultra-wide and LIDAR, which doesn't tell if you're lying, but it can help with focus it can help with distinguishing depth of objects for AR and for like video and photo effects. So that's pretty exciting.

The other big difference is the size of this are squared off, which I think look amazing uh. The sides on the 12 are made of aluminum kind of matte aluminum and the sides of the 12 pro are stainless steel, and it's polished, and it looks perfect all right now. One of the things I like about this design is, it reminds me the iPhone 5 reminds me of the iPhone 5s, the iPhone SE, and I have an OG iPhone SE here and my favorite thing to do just do a lot of filming with this. Is it can stand up on its own? I love that I absolutely love this design. In fact, I was joking that in another video I'll just do it here too, that it kind of looks to me like if Apple took the iPhone 11 and the iPhone SE or the iPhone 5 or 5s, whatever your flavor and kind of combined them.

You would get one of these all right. So this is the iPhone 11, and it also has a 6.1-inch screen, and you can see here. Here's the pro again. It's just a little more, you know, kind of little more felt, a little more tight, a little thicker. It looks like, but I can't tell that's just an optical illusion because of the curved edges of the 11.

, all right. Let's put that on the side. So a couple other things here, so here's the power button- and then here are these like cutouts here and the cutout for people who, like android phones like myself, makes me think that there is a side fingerprint reader in here. I know there isn't it just reminds me of one, but I'm wondering if the cutout must be for some antennas. They did say that this design is all about 5g and both phones have support for sub 65g, and both phones have support for millimeter wave 5g, which is impressive, especially when you consider they're a couple of hundred dollars apart.

Let's get to some accessories, so the big thing that apple announced is the return of magazine. Do you guys remember MagSafe used to be like on the mac books, the laptops and stuff, and it had magnets to help the power cable in and if you tripped over, it got a little tug? It would pop off, as opposed to pulling your beautiful laptop to the ground and getting destroyed at the Starbucks. Remember that well they're, taking that magnet formula and the name and applying it to the iPhone now so on the backs of these iPhones, we already have wireless charging, we've had it for a while, but they've repositioned the magnets into strategic places. So that way it can get optimized positioning on certain accessories, aka MagSafe and that can uh provide more efficient charging. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to spend an hour opening these boxes and make it all dramatic, I'm just going to take these out, so we can take a look at some of these accessories.

Okay boom. Now we are talking hey. I found the film. I know some people love that sound. So this is a 20 watt charger.

This could plug right into the iPhones with the included cable, which is really cool, but you have to buy this, and this is 19. This is the mag safe charger. It kind of looks like some sort of sci-fi, like some sort of like future space fashion. Show here, hello, lovey, I'm going to stop with this kind of turning into carrot. Top here, not cool, so the idea of MagSafe is it's.

Going to have a better position with your phone, so you accurately get eight and efficient charge all the time. So you're going to have the iPhone 12 here, and we put MagSafe right there. I don't have it plugged into power, yet we'll do that later. Wow, that that's a satisfying click. That's like a two-stage click, that's really nice, and it feels really strong.

I don't know how much time would do this for my iPhone and then there are these cases. So here's a clear case and again the cases have a MagSafe ring in it, and it does a couple of things. First it is allows it to securely hold the phone in the case, but then you could actually put a MagSafe charger on the back of the case and some other things we're trying to take a look at so here. Let's throw this on the let's do this here now, let's say I want to charge it with the case on such a satisfying click noise, so that would work with the case on here's another case, this one's a silicone case. And again I don't know if you can see, there's like the MagSafe ring right in there awesome and again, let's just try it, and perhaps the most interesting accessory is this little guy, which is a MagSafe wallet uh, and the idea is this can attach to the case ready, set and what's cool about this.

If you're into detachable, wallets and who's not uh is it can do it with the case, but you can also do it without the case. So here it is without the case. The last thing I want to leave you with before we set up is let's turn one of these on. Are you ready set? Go there we go, we got the Apple logo there. I'll put it this way too.

Okay. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a pause here, and we get one of these phones fully set up, and then it will walk you through setting up the other phone, so things might look just a little different but might be better so all right through some magic of editing. Perhaps there was a lunch in there somewhere. The iPhone 12 Pro is all set up, and so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to set up the iPhone 12 for you. So first, I'm going to do is go to unlock here pick my language, and you can see immediately what pops up is on the phone.

That's already set up. It says sub new phone. It has my Apple ID email here, so I can use that to do it automatically and that's pretty nice, so I'm going to hit continue. I did this earlier from the iPhone 11 to the iPhone 12. Now it's saying: hold your new phone up to the camera, so I'm going to actually just take the phone and there's all these blue dots and it just before I could even describe it, went away finished on new phone, so enter the passcode of the other phone, so a little privacy here.

So now we get to set up uh face ID. So let's do that real, quick! Some people have problems getting their face ID to work. All right! Look at this um! Let me put this back down, so you can actually look at it. It says: transfer data from Patrick's iPhone, so that's the new iPhone. I have set up here estimated time for transfer 10 to 15 minutes.

Oh yeah, by the way camera bump Morse code settings from other phone continue, it's going to copy the settings, put them on that phone continue again, and now it says. Oh, oh, look at the screen magic. Okay, the old phone wink wink says transferring data the new phone says transferring data from Patrick's iPhone, that's fantastic! All right now, the original old phone aka, the iPhone 12 Pro that I set up, is done and now the new phone, the iPhone 12, is doing its Apple logo and waiting to get stuff over here. Okay, all right here we go so uh. The new iPhone has restarted now no sim card installed.

That makes sense, because I don't have one let's test out this face ID yeah all right looks good. Well, you look at that. The exact same no game home screen on both phones now, while we're at it um. The only other thing I can think to say is check out those videos on the how to do it all channel. We're going to have more going over more features check out my in-depth review video for both of these phones.

That is live right now, and also I want to hear from you guys what do you think of these new phones? What do you think those smaller boxes? What do you think of not having that power? Brick? Is it just a lot of people are saying it's just a money move on apple's part. Is it just that or is there maybe some like environmental positivity happening there? I want to hear what you think throw your thoughts in the comments thanks for watching.

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