Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is the iphone 12 pro max i've been using it as my main phone for the past week or so and wanted to share my overall thoughts with you whether you should pick one up
whether you should stick with the smaller size iphones or maybe stick with your older phone this year now the first thing is this entire video is being recorded in full auto from the back of the iphone 12 pro max camera i'm not using an
external microphone and this time i'm recording in 4k 60 but not in hdr so i did the iphone 12 pro video in hdr and this one is not so more people can see what it's like and it's in full auto all i did was hit record after setting it on a tripod and i'm using the microphone and everything from the phone itself now the first thing is the price of the
phone we get 64 gigabytes extra storage this year for the base price so 1099 will get you 128 gigabytes of storage and then you can go up to 512 if you want to for about 1400 it's not necessarily a value but you are getting extra storage for the same price so that's a really nice thing to see this year and then also of course there's the design the design is a design that i really like i'm glad they went back to the squared off edges but that makes this phone feel huge and everyone i've shown this to has said the same
it a little bit easier to grip but it's super huge in fact it's so big i may stick with the iphone 12 pro this year now there are advantages to this phone so we'll talk about those in a moment but the overall size is big it's taller
than the 11 pro max it's also slightly heavier and if you're using a case it just makes it that much bigger it's easier to grip though because of those squared off edges i think it looks and feels more premium and then of
course you have that new pacific blue color and this is graphite and you have gold and silver so i think it's a great look for this phone we went back to the iphone 4 style and it's something i've been wanting for years so
i'm glad they did it now the next thing is the cameras the cameras on this phone are really great in fact the main camera is a 1.6 aperture which gives you really shallow depth of field and i think for many pictures you don't even need portrait mode so for example here's a photo
i took of a flower and it looks really good with natural background blur or bokeh and then here's one in portrait modeand the one i took in portrait mode i don't think looks as good if you get nice and close with your camera to that subject i think you're going to have enough background blur that it looks natural looks good and professional as well and so i think that's a great feature of this camera that means the sensor itself is actually on a float instead of the lens sort of floating around and we see this in larger mirrorless cameras the cameras i've normally used gh5 and a7s3 from sony all have sensor shift stabilization or ibis and what it does is puts that sensor on a float and so when you're walking around it sort of centers itself to try and give you stabilized footage now in my test walking down a trail it looks pretty good but i don't see any noticeable improvements over the iphone 12 pro now that may be because they have a larger sensor and a larger lens so it was better to do the sensor stabilization instead of the lens stabilization but either way it looks good it's stabilized i don't know that it's a huge advantage over the 12 pro for example they look basically the same and of course you have night mode so that kind of makes up the difference using the processor but you do have lidar or laser autofocus basically in the back of the phone that helps you get better focus at night better depth and it's just great for things like not only depth sensing here but also augmented reality now of course you have a regular camera a wide and a telephoto this year you get a little bit extra telephoto with the larger camera as well 2.5 optical zoom and then up to 12x sort of zooming into the sensor and digital zoom so it looks okay compared to the 12 pro you get a little bit of extra length it's still kind of blurry but at the 2.5 it's pretty nice and i think it works well and of course you've got portrait mode on all of them and night mode on them as well for night mode portraits now with the cameras of course they're incredible cameras and i think we're going to see even more with apple pro raw that's coming out with ios 14.3 it looks like so we should see that in the future with more data from the sensor 12 bit of data or 12 bit depth and it should be really interesting to see what we can do with that later on hopefully in a month or so we'll see that
update now other than that we've got some crazy computational photography going on here that really makes everything just look sharp including this video it's everything's in auto like i said and so you're using the new a14 bionic which has a new neural engine in it to help even more with that computational photography and other tasks and it's got six gigs of ram in this phone so it's just super fast all the time there's no slowdowns
and it's really just a smooth experience what you would expect from iphone and so there's no compromises here if you want the best the fastest get the pros with the bigger ram they're super fast and will be updated for years to come probably at least five years like we're seeing with all the other iphones from years past now the display on the 12 pro max is 6.7 inches it has a very high pixel density it's oled and it has great viewing
angles it goes up to 800 nits of brightness so it's easily viewable in sunny weather and it goes up to 1200 nits when you're playing hdr content it has very vibrant colors it's very deep blacks and it does use pwm so for those of you concerned that the screen actually flickers what that means is the screen is always flickering to control brightness except at the very highest brightnesses so the screen is flickering you can't see this with your eyes but at 240 frames per second slow-mo you can see that it's flickering and this can actually bother some people
and cause headaches however with the 12-series lineup of phones since they all have similar oled panels i really don't experience this problem i have no eye strain no headaches caused from the display but this may be a concern for some people now this here we also have ceramic shield which makes the phone four times less likely to break in the event that it's dropped so the glass is a little bit stronger however you still will get scratches on it like any other glass so i didn't find that it was any better at preventing scratches than the 11 pro max at least in my experience because the iphone 12 for example had a scratch on it and i'm not even sure
where it came from i've been very careful with these phones the 12 pro max doesn't have any scratches on it but if you're concerned about that be sure to put a screen protector however it seems to be a little bit less likely to scratch compared to last year's but still it's glass and if you have something that's a little bit harder than glass you of course will be able to scratch it so just keep that in mind and definitely get a screen protector if
you're concerned about it now the speakers are nice and loud they provide nice wide audio and at the highest volumes they go about two decibels louder than last year's iphones from what i've found however at those high volumes it is a little more tinny sounding than last year's i think there's a little bit more bass or depth to the sound with last year's iphone 11 pro max maybe that's due to
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