iPhone 12 Mini vs iPhone 12 Pro Max - all the REAL world differences By Gavin's Gadgets

Hi everyone- this is Gavin from Gavin's gadgets, hope you guys are keeping well today, I'm going to give you my honest opinion between what I found between the iPhone 12 Pro max and the iPhone 12 mini, and I'm going to go through whether you should buy the mini or the pro max or something between. But I actually tell you the real world differences, not just the specs, because everyone can read a spec sheet for those that are new to the channel. I focus a lot on audio gear cameras trying to pull the most out of like the cameras and what you can do on the photography front. So we'll talk about both video and photography from both as well, but I also want to go through some screen. Setups. These have a complete mirrored uh set up same apps, same everything, same folders, and we're going to show you what the screens look like close up.

So you can see whether you think you could cope with the smaller screen in real life. Just looking at how different things look. So we'll take a look at that now. Here we have the phone side by side, the same wallpapers same layout, and I just wanted to show you what each screen looks like in terms of density. So you might find.

Obviously you can see you don't lose actually any lines at all. In fact, this is a lot of dead space here, less space wasted here. So if we go, let's start go into the app store here, I'll go into the app store here, and you can see that you know you do lose a tiny amount, but it's not a lot. Look, that's just half an icon gone. What I might do is just show you not sure if the camera will pick this up, but we'll change the brightness and it into my naked eye.

It looks like the uh 12 minute is brighter um, but it's not. This phone actually goes marginally brighter. It's peak brightness, it's just probably the density of the screen, but we'll do a turn that down for the camera because it might over expose it a bit. So let's do that, but you can see it's pretty much um. It doesn't look that much different.

So we'll do now. Are we go to BBC news because again you might want to see what does that look like going to a news channel? So let's just do BBC news, and here is the BBC news, and again you're getting uh, obviously more information, but okay, it's not a lot. So if I just put move that up move that up- and you can just see you're getting an extra bit of line here- but it's actually fine- you really don't really notice too much of a difference, but what about uh photos? So let's pick that one, and I'll show you what these look like sort of side by side, let's tip them up. What do you think does? Does that make a lot of difference on the photo side and again just to imagine if that was a video as well. So here we have two videos playing at the same time.

This was the snow in my village. Probably. I think this was a new year sort of time, but this is the difference when you're watching media gives you an idea of what the screens look like. Okay, let's find something else. So what else, if you look at the clock, the clock's actually quite, quite different.

So if you go to a world clock, you can see it's actually, it's not different, it's just the same stuff, but it's just a lot easier to reach a lot of things go to settings, let's come out and the settings, and you can see that we've got general control center and again, all you're missing is despite the smaller screenings, where it says, display and brightness is pretty much the bits missing. So, if you're worried about missing a lot of stuff on this, you don't one thing that is very obvious and that's when you unbox them, and you see the difference in the size of the boxes here and when I first got to see the size of the 12 mini. I thought: is there really a phone in there? This box is tiny, partly because there's no charger, which is another story um, but there we go pro max, 12, so you've, so you've seen the screens and obviously that will give you a good idea in terms of day-to-day usability. What I will say was I had no issue with the smaller screen on this whatsoever at all. If anything could increase the PPI.

I know it's not much, but it's still pretty good in terms of usability. Obviously, it's a lot easier to reach all the different sides of the foam. That's pretty obvious in terms of fitting into a pocket. It pretty much nearly disappears in the pocket. But if I now drop this in, and you can see, the camera sticks up on my shirt pocket.

So you do have real world usage that when you go out and about- and you want to hide what you've got, this is the better phone to have, but it's not just uh shirt pockets any pocket. This disappears with this, it's very, very noticeable. Normally I have a jacket or something like that or extremely large pockets. In my trousers in my cargo trousers to take this type of phone um, it is considerably heavier considerably. Now, if you look at the spec sheets, it says there's 93 grams difference, but when you put on a case, so this is the apple leather official case on both the same colors, because this case is smaller, the actual case weighs less and because, obviously this case is bigger, it adds more weight.

So actually what you now have, instead of 93 grams difference, you have 103 grams I'll put these on scales, 103 grams difference. This feels like a brick in its weight. This feels super light thin. It feels thinner, I'm not sure how remember it is or isn't, but it just feels something really compact and really fantastic. So in terms of camera, obviously um a couple of photos I'll show you now, so you've seen a few photos just very quickly because you tell which phone took which photo.

I don't think you could just look at this from a YouTube video. You do lose out on the mini on the pro max. As you can see, you lose out on this telephoto. This does have um. The new sensor shift stabilization and the new larger sensor and has the LIDAR.

What does all that mean in real terms in day-to-day use? Going out? Snapping you'll still get phenomenal, video and photos on this. It loses out on video, it's on the advanced stuff at some advanced 60 frames per second in some modes, whereas this not only does that, but it has that LIDAR sensor which helps with lower light focusing, so it faster doesn't mean this can't focus. It just means this will be faster. Furthermore, it also means this does nighttime selfies again because it uses the LIDAR sensor, and you can do handhold one-second shots on this because of a sensor shift technology, so it doesn't go into night mode when it does so. Furthermore, it goes in when it goes into night mode, it's for fewer seconds than using the iPhone 12 mini, but I said the difference for most people is not noticeable.

This doesn't have um the apple pro raw, so you have to use a third-party app to do raw. Personally, I don't think you should, because I think the smart HDR on this is better than standard raw. However, with the 12 pro max using pro raw, you gain all the advantages of smart HDR on the pro raw, and it is therefore does have an advantage. I've done bracketed pro raw shots, blended them in Adobe Lightroom and increased the dynamic range way, way beyond a standard pro raw way, way beyond the JPEG image and tweaks it as I like, so for pure photography, people. This is the one to go for in terms of battery life, because, to be honest, everything looks great on this.

It's a great phone. It's its, I think in some ways it has a many advantages in terms of portability and battery. Obviously it can't have the same size battery it's its an it's a smaller frame, smaller size. So what is the battery life in real world use in rural world juice? You will get through a day. End of you shouldn't have to worry about battery life.

Some people say: oh, you know you look at some reviews. Oh, I had to charge it three. No you don't you use this like you, normally would exactly the same as this. It will 100 get you through to the end of the day and a day for me is six a. m until somewhere between 10 and 11 p.

m. It will last it won't. Last, though, if you decide during that time to push the processor and if you do any graphic intensive tasks that push the processor, it will need topping up, because the battery doesn't last, whereas with the 12 pro max, you should be okay, because the battery is huge, and it's all run it down just as fast, but there's more battery to run down. So what's graphic intensive tasks, um gaming, video production. So if you're editing a video on here, and you can even on the small screen, something like suffusion or iMovie- is great photo editing using stuff, absolutely adobe, Lightroom or start to burn the battery, but predominantly it's using the camera.

So anything you use with a camera will take a hit. So if you're, just taking the old photo here and there, because, when you're out about no big deal, but if you're the sort of person that's going out and trying to catch a sunset or sunrise like I do, you might go out and start moving around taking some shots from different framing angles, and before you know it, you've got 50 shots in a row, maybe 100 and depending on where you are you've, moved to different locations. So you've taken quite a lot of shots. All these photos that you've taken, or video footage does burn the battery, and then it uploads that footage to the iCloud, and it will pause it to save battery because that's a battery saving feature unless you override it. But if you're doing that, that's when you will need to top up especially to get beyond your get back after a nice.

If you've been out, you know for a couple of hours taking photos visiting somewhere. You will need at that point to probably top it up, so you can get from 6 00 pm to 10 pm if you're going away for the weekend. This is the phone you need, but for a day-to-day use this is fine and if anything, I think it's brilliant, absolutely love it. I'll answer any specific questions. I did try and show you many of the apps, but if you've got any questions, let me know this is Gavin from Gavin's gadgets.

Take care, guys bye for now.

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