iPhone 12 Pro Review - 3 Months Later By Tom Scryleus

I got the iPhone 12 Pro, because my wife's brother got it recently, and I was comparing some pictures, and I was just blown away by the difference: the sharpness, the low light performance and everything it was just it just blew my mind that smartphone cameras could do the kind of things that they do these days now, I'm coming from the iPhone 8 plus, and it's a smartphone that I really like, and I don't know I think the switch from that to this is mostly because of the camera. I think that the performance on the iPhone 8 plus is great, but the cameras- that's apple, got me with the cameras. Okay, the whole lineup is very cool. I think that the iPhone 12 mini is probably the coolest of the bunch, like it's tiny and still has that good camera. The iPhone 12 Pro max. It made me really curious with a bigger sensor and sensor shift stabilization, but it is doesn't seem like it delivered when I'm looking at comparison, shots and stuff like that, I just felt like you know what if, if I'm going for a camera, I might as well just go with this one.

This one is good enough. I think that for most people, the iPhone 12, the regular 12 is sufficient, like you still get the perfect camera, the only thing you're not getting is the telephoto lens. So for me, it's important. I take a lot of pictures. I shoot a lot of b-roll with my smartphone, so for me, it actually matters.

Furthermore, I need that tellers. Furthermore, I also got the 256 gigabyte option. The base model has 128, which I think is more than sufficient for most people. The reason why I got it. This is kind of a short story, but I grew up when we were talking about megabytes, and you usually had very little space.

You had to have these discs these flash drives. It was a hassle. I remember my first computer. It had something like 210 megabytes. Like imagine.

Trying to survive with 210 megabytes, yes, 128 gigabytes would be more than sufficient. But to me, it's just such a luxury to be able to have a device where I just don't have to think about storing I'm usually more of a black iPhone type of user, but I just couldn't resist. There was a bit of COMO involved, like I didn't want to miss out on the beautiful design of the pacific blue. So that's why I got it, but looking at all the colors, I would say that the black one probably looks the best. Now I want to talk about the design a little, so everybody has been raving about this design, basically saying that it takes them back to the time of iPhone, 4 and iPhone 5.

You know those straight edges and everything and people have been nostalgic, and I have to admit when I first held it in my hands. I was like yeah that feels good, but the truth is. I don't think this is a better grip. If I'm to be completely honest, the rounder edges are much nicer to hold. I will say this, though.

I think that, with the straighter edges, I think it's less likely that you'll drop it like. You have a perfect grip here and the older iPhones. You know everything from the iPhone 6 to the iPhone 11. It sort of feels like a slippery soap like you can just, and it will just you know, but it's still more comfortable to hold in your hand. I will say that now I also want to talk a little about the size of the iPhone 12 Pro, because this is a.

I don't know how to phrase this. What my thoughts here are kind of difficult to explain, so I don't think it's too big, and I don't think it's too small. It really is in between and for people who really like small iPhones. This one is too big and for people who really like big phones, this one is too small, like it really is in the middle everything not complaining, I'm just explaining that the size is kind of peculiar. Now I like it, I like bigger phones, but I don't want them to be too big, and I think this is actually pretty good.

It's got a 6.1 inch display, which is great. It's OLED. I have mixed feelings about outlet what this is probably the most original statement anyone's ever had about OLED, but there's a couple of things that I think about it. So, first, there is the burn-in issues, and it's not very common. I've never had it on any device, but I think that the strength of OLED screens is a bit overrated.

A lot of people talk about. It's got darker dark son the iPhone 12 Pro the pixels get turned off and some people say well. This is the beauty of all that it becomes darker. But for me, it's sort of like the contrast is very huge. For instance, on my iPhone 8 plus it was always like it was bright or dim.

If you had bright colors, then the entire screen was bright, and here it's like the contrast, is very huge. That's the upside, and you know I'm not picky about screens like there's a lot of people who are complaining that the iPhone swell does not have 90 hertz or 120 hertz. I've never been amazed with the higher refresh rates. I understand why some people like if it's the fluidity. Furthermore, I just don't think it gives anybody an edge.

It's not like we're gaming and the faster refresh rate is giving some kind of advantage when you're browsing the web when you're scrolling through your apps, like. I don't think that the high refresh rate really does that much. It looks smoother you know, but to me 60 hertz is just fine. The performance does definitely feel a bit snappier compared to my iPhone 8 plus, but I'm not going to say that my iPhone 8 plus was slow. Like you know, it's not that much of a difference.

I remember that the biggest leap in performance was between my iPhone 4 and my iPhone 5. That was like a huge leap of performance. I will say this, though I have noticed a positive difference when I'm flipping between apps with the iPhone 12 Pro there are six gigs of ram, and I think I'm noticing it like it does feel snappier when you're swiping between different apps and I haven't noticed that any app has actually rebooted itself, even if I started like a day before. So that's a good thing. I, like that, okay battery life, I'm impressed, I haven't, had to charge it during the day like even once I charge it every evening, and it works great until the next evening, but I will say this, though, when it comes to battery performance, it does decrease over time.

So I'm pretty certain that next year I will not feel that the battery life is this good as it is now. You know like something happens over time. I guess batteries do get worse. Now, the camera, as I mentioned before, I am truly impressed with the cameras. The cameras are really really perfect.

The low light performance is amazing, like I think it's actually better than the mirrorless camera. That's shooting this video right now. I really think so, even though this is a much better and much bigger sensor, I think that the key word here is post-processing. When you have this amazing chip, the A14, it can do amazing things to your photos and videos. There is this, and this is kind of a good and a bad thing.

So when you take a picture, there is a tiny second there when it hasn't been processed and then suddenly it becomes processed. Now I think that it's a tad two process, I'm not saying it's over processed, but I would prefer it if the processing was a bit less. You know it does bring up the sharpness and the noise removal, and it really makes the colors pop, and it looks amazing I just I wish it was a tad less, but I do have one tiny complaint. Is that sometimes, when I'm like taking photos and videos- and I'm just you know really being productive, I've noticed that I can't play videos because it still is doing a lot of processing like I sometimes have to wait. Actually, a couple of minutes before it's finished, it's processing on my iPhone 8 plus, it definitely didn't have any of that.

But then again the iPhone 8 plus didn't have Smart HDR 3.0, enhanced, dynamic range, and all of that I do like that apple has given users the option to turn off smart, HDR and stuff, like that. I keep it on, but I like that they give you the option to turn it off. You know, and then there is the pro raw feature where you get a really nice raw pictures that you can really edit in post. I have actually noticed the difference like you can get some really nice shots, but most of the time I just want to take simple shots night photography. This is like truly impressive.

I can't believe that I get such stable shots from handheld photos in the dark. I don't think I can do the same thing with my mirrorless camera. This is my first smartphone with super wide and I really like that. It just makes photography a lot more fun now. The image quality is not as good as the regular camera.

Obviously, but it is a really fun feature and I use it a lot actually now the video. This is probably my favorite part about this camera image quality when you're shooting video is just amazing, high, dynamic range, it's got decent low light performance. This is probably where my mirrorless camera outperforms my iPhones well, but the biggest improvement on the video area is actually the image stabilization like this. One is amazing, especially and here's a tip if you're shooting in super wide you get such stable shots. It's like on a gimbals or something it's truly remarkable.

I even compared it to my GoPro Hero 9, and it just looks amazing. I won't say it's better than the Hero 9, but it's almost as good. Now the selfie camera shoots in 4K, and I really like that now. This is a new feature that was on last year's iPhones, and this is something that I've actually been looking forward to testing. Okay, so I'm just testing to vlog, with my iPhone using the selfie cam just to test the audio and image quality a big plus- and this is an iOS plus I like that you can switch the frame rate in the camera app directly like we waited many years for that to happen.

Now we can- and now I want to mention some things that I don't like about the iPhone 12 Pro. First, it's the price- I don't like it that they make this thing more and more expensive every year. I think that we're going to reach a time when a lot of people are just not gonna, be able to afford an iPhone, but it's good that they have a whole lineup. You know that you can get the regular iPhone, 12 or iPhone 12 mini, but I think that even they are a bit too expensive. I also want to mention the notch.

I hate the notch. Furthermore, I don't understand why they had to make it so big. They really could squeeze it in just a little make like a teardrop or a punch, hole like there's so much. They could have done differently so the face ID. I have very mixed feelings about it.

This is my first smartphone with face unlocking most of the time. It works perfect, and it's just there are these moments where I hate that I have to lean over the smartphone, and I just wish that there was touch ID also, but I'm not going to complain too much about face ID. It's superfast and most of the time it works so fast that I don't even notice that it's there, the lightning cable and I don't think that any YouTuber has forgotten to mention this. Why is there no USB? My guess is that they're, probably going to remove the cable charging altogether. It's going to be the MagSafe charging, which I think is complete BS.

If I'm to be completely honest because there is no upside to the MagSafe at all, it doesn't charge faster or even as fast as the lightning cable, and also it doesn't have the advantage of wireless. Because with wireless you can just place your phone on the wireless charging area, and you can do that with one hand, and you can just lift it up. You know and because it is magnetic, you have to use two hands, so I don't really see the benefit of it, and I also want to mention the fact that they removed the charger this year to make the package smaller now apple claims that they're doing it for environmental reasons it's less to ship, it weighs less and there are so many charges in the world. So people probably don't need to get a new charger every time they buy a new smartphone and that's true, like this argument sticks. But the problem is that the lightning cable that they do put in the box comes with the USB at the end, and they're doing this to sell more USB chargers, see the hypocrisy here.

Okay, summary time, I'm sorry guys. I know this has been a very long video, but I just had a lot to cover, so obviously I'm very pleased with the iPhone 12 Pro, but then again keep in mind that it's mostly because I really like the cameras, and I'm also an apple fanboy. So obviously I like the latest iPhone. You know it's just an improvement over my favorite smartphone already. You know, so I'm already an iPhone fan, that's what I'm trying to say, and I'm stuck in the Apple ecosystem, I'm addicted to your know stuff like airdrop and iMessage.

So you have to sort of keep that in mind, and I think that this thing is very overpriced and is it worth the money? Probably not. You can get so much more for so much less today for like 500 bucks, you can get a really, really good smartphone. So it's really what you want and not what you need. Nobody needs the iPhone 12 Pro and that's okay, and if you like some of the features that are on IOS and the Apple ecosystem, then this is the crown jewel of it. The iPhone 12 Pro at least it is until next year's life.

Okay, hope you enjoyed this video and if you did, you know what to do.

Source : Tom Scryleus