iPhone 12 mini - Unboxing, Setup and First Look By zollotech

Hi, everyone. Aaron here for Zollotech, and this is the iPhone 12 mini the new sort of super small iPhone 12, which I think will be great for a lot of people looking for a little bit smaller phone. Now this comes in five different colors. This year, black, white, green product, red and blue. This is the black variant. Now this is also the least expensive of the newest phones this year at $699.

That will get you 64 gigabytes of storage for $50 more, seven 49. You get 128 gigabytes of storage. And then if you want the top of the line, 256 gigabytes of storage, that will cost $849. Now, if you want this unlocked and you don't buy this through your carrier, you need to add an additional $30. This is something we haven't seen before.

They started doing this year with the iPhone 12. Now let's go ahead and unbox this and take a look. This is the black 256 gigabyte variant. So let's go ahead and open up the iPhone 12 mini, take the wrapper off And take the top of the box off. And it's definitely many it's about the size we expect.

And inside the box, again, just like all the other boxes this year, you've got a USB-C to lightning cable and then a little bit of paperwork with a SIM card removal tool and a tiny Apple sticker, and a little bit of, I guess, warranty information or sort of notices for your phone. Now let's go ahead and set this aside and take a closer look. So here's the iPhone 12 mini let's. Go ahead and take the cover off the screen. Green.

And this is definitely a small phone. Let's go around the outside edge. And as you can see on the left side, just like you'd expect, you've got your silent switch, your volume buttons, and then you have a SIM card tray on the bottom. You have your lightening port, just two holes for a microphone, for holes, for speakers. And then on the right-hand side, you have a 5g millimeter wave antenna in the United States and then a power sleep wake button on the top, nothing here.

And then of course, we've got a couple cameras in the back. We'll talk more about a little bit later and then a little bit smaller screen than the other phones. Now this is a fairly light phone. It's pretty small. It comes in at 4.7, six ounces or 135 grams. And here it is next to an iPhone S E so this is the first-generation iPhone se.

So a little bit bigger. We'll set that down and then here's the iPhone 12 pro. So this gives you an idea of size and then also the iPhone 12 pro max. So there's a very big difference in size. There may set them down so you can see them side by side so you can get the idea of what the sizes are.

So next to one another, here are all the different sizes, as far as thickness. They're about the same on all of them, especially the mini and the se. They feel about the same, maybe a little bit thicker with the Pro Max, but overall that's the overall sizes and what they look like. Now, one thing I didn't is the frame is aluminum, so it feels a little bit lighter. So it's a mini and light, like I mentioned the weight already, but it just has a little bit different build similar to that, of the iPhone 12.

So let's go ahead and boot it up and take a look at the display in the cameras. There we go. Now inside, we should have the, a 14 bionic with four gigabytes of Ram. I'll confirm that a little bit later. And on the front we have a new display or a smaller display, I should say.

That's 5.4 inches diagonally. It's 2,340 by 10 80, with 476 pixels per inch. It's an old led just like all of the iPhone twelves this year. And it goes nice and bright. It has a normal brightness of 625 nits and can peak at 1200 nits max brightness when playing HDR footage.

Now, before we set it up, we'll take a look at the forward facing camera and it's the same camera we get with the iPhone 12. So it's a 12 megapixel F 2.2 with a 4k 60 recording ability. And then also on the back, we have dual 12 megapixel cameras. We have a wide F 1.6 aperture and an ultra wide F 2.4. You can use them both for dark mode and also, or night mode.

And also they record in Dolby vision HDR at 30 frames per second. So impressive cameras, just like all of the iPhone twelves. You're not really compromising this year. So let's go ahead and flip this over, get it set up and take a look at it. Now you can see the size difference is very different.

So you've got the pro max on the left, the mini on the right. It's a huge difference in size. Now we'll wait for this to set up. It can take a few minutes to activate and then we'll see what it's like to use. Now it's asking about data and privacy.

We'll go ahead and hit, continue. We're talking about it. And then we'll hit, continue and set up face ID. There we go. Move our.

Head around from up, down and around to set up face ID. Okay. There we go. Should be set up. There we go.

We'll hit, continue. And now we have to create a passcode. Now it should have already carried that over from the previous phone, but let's go ahead and do that. Wait for it here. And it's asking me if I want to restore a backup.

I don't want to transfer any data right now. I just want to get this set up quickly. And apparently it didn't pull my data over from the iPhone 12 pro max for some reason. So I'll just sign in. Now we have to agree to the terms and conditions and we'll wait, just a moment here.

Now it's asking about express settings. We'll go ahead and hit continue. Keep your phone up to date again and continue. We'll wait for it. We'll take just a moment here.

It's asking if I want to set up Apple pay. I'll skip that for now. I can always do that later. And then I cloud key chain and yes, I want to use that. And also it's asking if I want to use Siri, go ahead and hit continue.

It's telling me how to use it. And now it's asking if I want to share audio recordings. I'll hit not now. It's about screen time. App analytics, light mode, dark mode, like continue display, zoom, and then swipe up.

And now we're on the home screen. Now this particular phone. Well, no, I don't want to use my location here. Now the phone overall, the display looks okay. It's great.

It's got great viewing angles. It does have PWM. That means it will flicker just like any other OLED to control its brightness. So as you can see here, it's actually flickering and you can't see this with your eyes, but it is flickering and may bother some people's eyes. However, and using the iPhone 12 pro the 12 pro max, I haven't had any issues with it bothering my eyes.

I know it will bother some, but it seems to be at a fast enough rate where it won't be a problem. Now, other than that, the display looks great. Let's go ahead and take a look at the wallpaper that are installed. I don't think there's anything different, but let's go to settings wallpaper, choose new wallpaper. Here's some stills and it looks like we don't have the iOS 14.2 update. So we'll check that in a moment and you can see these are the pre-installed wallpapers.

Let's switch to, I guess, the black one or a dark bluish black one here. And let's see what version we have installed on this iPhone.12 mini we'll go to general than about, and you'll see it came with iOS 14.1. So I'll need to update that. And I saw the 12 pro max come with the same thing. So that's not really a surprise.

So I'll go ahead and update this in a little bit and I'll go ahead and install a couple apps so we can take a look at the Ram and more now I've installed speed test and geek bench five. Let's go into geek bench five. Give it just a moment there. And you'll see, we have the a 14 with 3.6, three gigabytes of Ram or four gigabytes of Ram. So it does have four gigabytes just as we expected, but I wanted to verify, let's go into speed test and we'll see what 5g can do.

So we'll turn off wifi here should switch over to 5g. Now I did this earlier when I was doing the iPhone 12 pro max video. So let's go into speed test. We'll hit next allow, and let's go ahead and hit go. Now I don't have millimeter wave.

So this antenna that's over here, won't really do a whole lot where I'm located, but you'll see. Well, I hit 80 megabits per second, 96 megabits per second, which is really impressive. And these use Qualcomm modems, which should help compared to previous years, at least they do in my tests. And you'll see I'm getting 20 megabits per second up. So this is better than I was getting earlier in the day.

And I've got two bars of signal. Now, one area where I'm not sure this will be great. Is battery life using 5g all the time. Of course you can turn this off. And as you can see, before we leave speed tests, I got 96.2 megabits per second, down 20.8 megabits per second up. If we go into the settings, we can go over to our cellular settings and under the cellular data options we can toggle on or off 5g, leave it on LTE.

And that could help with battery. If you don't have 5g coverage or you're just using a lot of data and you really need to save some battery, but it does do a good job of auto switching. And this seems to be working just fine. Now it does seem to get a little bit warm on the back since it's doing some new things, as far as processing, updating iCloud in the background. And I think it'll be fine though.

It's nice and fast and smooth. Of course, we would expect that being that it's brand new. And before we look at the cameras, let's take a look at mag safe. Now this phone has MagSafe in it just like all of the iPhone twelves this year. So there's the magnet on the back.

And I also have a case for it here. So this is the leather case, the saddle Brown leather case. And again, this has MagSafe on it as well. So let me put this down. You'll see the back is also mag safe.

And then let's go ahead and put this on. So you'll see that the case is on. As soon as you put the case on it kind of lets you know what color it is and it recognizes it. There we go. You can see that if that was a red case, it would be red.

So that's really nice that that's on there. Now, if we go ahead and put MagSafe on the back, it holds on nicely. But one thing is man saved does not charge at 15 Watts on this phone. It's reduced a few by a couple of Watts, but that doesn't really make too much of a difference as it still will. Fast charge with a wired connection.

And it's got a smaller battery, which is a bit of a concern. Hopefully it will last throughout the day. Of course I'll have to test that. I can't know that for sure right now without trying it for a while. But as far as using this throughout the day, it'll be interesting to see if it can make it through a day.

Now it is a smaller display with less pixels, so that may help as well. Now let's go into the camera settings and you'll see, record video up to 4k 60, or you can do HDR video at 4k 30. I'll turn it off since I'll record the end of this video using this camera, just like I did with all the iPhone 12 unboxings. So you can see what it's like, see if it's any different, but it should be pretty good. If we go into the camera here, hit continue.

Of course we can snap a photo quickly and you can see those are the boxes behind there. There's a little bit of behind the scenes. Look there. And then also let's go into video and of course, take a video, go ahead and hit record. Now we're recording from the iPhone 12 mini so you can see what it looks like.

So hopefully the microphone sounds decent. Of course, I'm talking at the screen and not behind the screen. And then let's go ahead and flip the camera around again, 4k 30, go ahead and hit record. It's tracking my face and here's the sound right from the front camera of the iPhone, 12 mini. So should be just as good as any of the others this year.

And I would expect really no compromise between any of the devices with the forward facing. So that's it for that camera. And just in general, I really like this size. It may be too small for a lot of people, but it does have stereo speakers as well. One at the top, one at the bottom and this year they all get nice and loud.

And then also it has IP 68 water resistance. So it's water resistant up to six meters for 30 minutes. So it's got all of things you can expect from a great phone and this is getting quite warm. Now the site is quite hot to the touch, but again, it's doing a lot of background processing and I was using the camera. So I think it's a great phone.

I don't know how many people will go for the mini as opposed to say the 12 or 12 pro I think the 12 and 12 pro is the right size for most people. The 12 pro max is probably too big for most people, but let me know what you think in the comments below. Now, I'll be using the phone for probably a few days, but it's going to take a few days to get to that point since I'll be testing the iPhone 12 pro max first, and then switching to the 12 mini to see what it's like as far as battery life and overall usability. Now this video is completely being recorded with the microphone and camera on the iPhone, 12 mini. So let me know what you think of it in the comments below.

If you'd like to get your hands on the wallpaper. I showed him the video. I'll link this as well as the other iPhone 12 wallpapers in the description below. And if you haven't subscribed already, please subscribe. And if you enjoyed the video, please give it a like as always.

Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time.

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