The new iPhone 12’s have been out for some time now, and whereas we’ve had our arms on them for a couple of weeks, Apple’s information bombardment of the brand new Apple Silicon announcement and launch of latest Apple M1 Mac units has meant the iPhones have needed to be placed on the again burner for a short while.
Having already coated Apple’s new A14 structure in-depth in our protection of the M1, it’s time to fill within the lacking items for the precise new technology of iPhones.
The new iPhone 12 technology of units mark a brand new design restart for Apple, shifting away from the design that had been began with the iPhone X in late 2017. Re-gaining the flat side-frame look that was initially present in previous iPhone generations of the 4, 4S, 5 & 5S collection, Apple is making the previous new once more.
The new iPhone 12 collection can be Apple’s widest vary launch ever, with a complete of 4 new iPhones: the iPhone 12 mini, a brand new compact form-factor on the decrease vary, the iPhone 12, the “standard” iPhone half, and persevering with to supply the Pro fashions within the type of the iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max. We’ll be specializing in the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro for at present’s assessment.
| Apple iPhone 12 Series Specifications | |||||
| iPhone 12 mini | iPhone 12 | iPhone 12 Pro | iPhone 12 Pro Max | ||
| SoC | Apple A14 Bionic
2 × Firestorm |
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| DRAM | 4GB | 6GB | |||
| Display | 5.42″ OLED 2340 x 1080 625nits peak |
6.06″ OLED 2532 x 1170 625nits peak |
6.06″ OLED 2532 x 1170 800nits peak |
6.68″ OLED 2778 x 1284 800nits peak |
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| Size | Height | 131.5 mm | 146.7 mm | 160.eight mm | |
| Width | 64.2 mm | 71.5 mm | 78.1 mm | ||
| Depth | 7.Four mm | 7.Four mm | 7.Four mm | ||
| Weight | 135g | 164g | 189g | 228g | |
| Battery Life | 2227 mAh
-12% video |
2815 mAh
+-0% |
2815 mAh
-5.6% video |
3687 mAh
+-0% |
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| Wireless Charging | MagSafe Wireless Charging as much as 15W
Qi Compatible (7.5W) |
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| Rear Cameras | Main | 12MP 1.4µm
26mm eq. Optics OIS |
12MP 1.7µm
26mm eq. Sensor-shift OIS |
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| Tele- Photo |
– | 12MP
52mm eq. OIS |
12MP
65mm eq. OIS |
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| Ultra- Wide |
12MP
13mm eq. |
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| Front Camera | 12MP f/2.2 |
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| Storage | 64GB 128GB 256GB |
128GB 256GB 512GB |
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| I/O | Apple Lightning | ||||
| Wireless (native) | 802.11ax Wi-Fi with MIMO + Bluetooth 5.0 + NFC | ||||
| Cellular | 5G (sub‑6 GHz and mmWave**) Gigabit LTE with 4×4 MIMO and LAA **US fashions solely |
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| Splash, Water, Dust Resistance | IP68 as much as 6m, as much as 30 minutes |
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| Dual-SIM | nano-SIM + eSIM | ||||
| Launch Price | 64 GB: $699 £699 €809 128 GB: 256 GB: |
64 GB: $799 £799 €909 128 GB: 256 GB: |
128 GB: $999 £999 €1159 256 GB: 512 GB: |
128 GB: $1099 £1099 €1259 256 GB: 512 GB: |
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Starting with the innards, the brand new iPhone 12 collection are powered by Apple’s new A14 SoC. The new chip is powered by two excessive efficiency cores and 4 energy effectivity cores, in addition to a 4-core GPU. We’ll be going right into a bit extra particulars on the SoC in a later web page, however by now primarily based on our protection of the Apple Silicon M1, we must also be aware of the capabilities of the smaller A14 sibling.
In phrases of DRAM, Apple suits the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 with 4GB of LPDDR4X, while the Pro fashions are getting a bigger 6GB pool. NAND storage this technology hasn’t modified all that a lot for the lower-tier fashions that are sticking to 64GB base, with configuration upgrades 128 or 256GB, nonetheless the Pro fashions do now begin out with a 128GB base mannequin, with bigger configurations at 256 and 512GB.
The large new function of this yr’s new iPhones is the 5G connectivity. Thanks to the utilization of a Qualcomm sourced modem, Apple is now enabling 5G connectivity throughout its complete new vary. It’s to be famous…
