sometimes phone reviews are hard there are new pieces to explore new equipment engineerings to explain entirely new camera systems and brand-new patterns to talk about yeah i don’t think this is going to be that kind of review this review should be pretty easy this is the iphone 13 and this is the iphone 13 mini and there are only three things you need to know okay four maybe five will this be easy this might not be quite as simple as i thought i figured it’d be pretty simple because you know when i review an ipad i get to say it’s just an ipad but now when i review a phone i got to talk about this camera and that camera and there’s a third camera in there i compare it to okay let’s just start going over the things and i want to do it in order from the most important thing to the least important stuff i think the most important parts of a phone are the fundamental things that make your life easier and that means that we are going to start with artillery[ Music] apple spawned the batteries bigger apple says that the iphone 13 lasts two and a half hours longer for most people and that the iphone 13 mini departs for one and a half hours longer those are apple’s thinks based on aggregated data so it’s hard to know exactly what they mean you know in the real world for you so i’m just gonna tell you what i got the regular iphone 13 concluded it from 7am to midnight before it tuckered out with about five hours of screen on time that was with some camera testing watching some video and the usual doom scrolling and emails and cultivate and really bad dressers which i’m really bad at so that’s impressive but it’s not wizard when we had a day where we had to shoot a lot more 4k video testing i was looking for a charger by like 7 or 8 p.m now the iphone 13 mini is going to be a different story i just have to admit that i haven’t had a chance to fully test it yet we don’t do precisely video summary research now at the border we like to have real world use and there are only so many telephones i are truly use in the real world at a time i am going to be doing a full longer term battery test on the iphone 13 mini over the next couple of weeks and i will publish a full rundown on theverge.com but i do have an early mark and it’s that apple’s one and a half hour longer claim does seem reasonable nonetheles that’s kind of swoon admire i use the iphone 12 mini a good deal over the last year and what i said when i first remembered it has turned out to be true if you use a little tiny smartphone like it’s a very big smartphone you’re gonna end up draining the artillery by early afternoon or even lunch so my takeaway for the iphone 13 mini is regrettably just waiting determine my takeaway for the regular iphone 13 is that we are back to having really good battery life on an iphone after an off year last year because again the artilleries are bigger now the second thing i want to talk about is also a smartphone fundamental cameras[ Music] apple compiled the main wide-angle camera sensor bigger very and bigger is better when it comes to camera sensors the sensor is so large-hearted they had to switch the camera layout to oblique to fit it all they too must be given to determine the whole thing a little bit thicker so specimen from the iphone 12 aren’t going to fit around this new bigger camera bump this new bigger sensor is the same one that came on the iphone 12 pro max last year and that camera held on to the crown for best photo and video excellence since it was liberated and in my testing the results from this main camera are as good or better thanks to software progress than the top rank 12 pro max from last year which is to say the only better camera than the iphone 13 on the market today is the iphone 13 pro details out of this camera are sharp-witted and precise colorings are rich without being over saturated focusing is fast and reliable sketch state is really good enough to use day to day and low-toned lighter and light perception are both outstanding video aspect is also great the main camera has sensor stabilization which improves when you’re walking around it can do all of the states that matter most in terms of 4k and slow-mo and it handles them all really well the only way to be unhappy with this camera is if you compare photos taken in difficult situations on a big screen head-to-head with the 13 pro the ultrawide sensor was also modernized for better low-grade light-headed achievement but it’s fairly minor what i primarily see is improved white balance and pigment when it’s in nighttime procedure if i could have one wish for this camera system it’s that the selfie camera would have been updated it does have software improvements just like all the other cameras and it is inside a smaller notch on the screen now but the selfie camera is just too important for apple to have left the same for this many years in a row so after artillery and camera my third most important thing to know is a curveball it’s last year’s iphone 12. The iphone 12 has come up a lot already in this video because well you know it’s natural to compare this phone to the one that came last year and it would be totally fair to call this iphone 13 an iphone 12 s it’s mostly the same idea but better but the reality is numerous people looking to upgrade to the iphone 13 are going to be coming from older telephones than last year’s 12 and if that’s you i have very good news nearly everything the iphone 13 is inheriting from last year’s iphone 12 is excellent and a big upgrade all new designing is beautiful and modern the oled screen has deep pitch-blacks and luminous colors it’s got the magsafe structure for wireless charging that ecosystem still needs direct but it’s handy you’re getting everything that’s good about this phone and everything that was good from the phone that came before it[ Music] the fourth thing is just answering this question should you get the iphone 13 or the 13 pro i have a full review of the iphone 13 pro and the pro max which i foster you to go watch if you’re thinking about going the pro what you get with the 13 pro is a better camera arrangement overall and a telephoto camera the 13 pro max has the biggest screen and the biggest battery and both sets of telephones have a fast refresh display which makes animation and scrolling seem and feel smoother are those things worth the extra money well they are to me but i love telephones and i use them enough that every little detail makes a difference in my own experience if you have to have the nicest things get the one with the nice to haves for me the camera increases on the pro are good enough to justify the additional cost plus i’m a sucker for the extra screen all right how many things are we at uh five okay five means we’re going to go back to the camera to talk about some pieces that are recreation but they’re not rationalizations got to go and buy this phone the first of those features is photographic profiles it’s a new alternative in the camera that changes the default look of the pictures you’re taking apple says that these are not filters but instead they modify how the computational photography system starts decisions about things like differ and white equilibrium and shade you know how samsung takes super unforgettable photographs and if you like that ogle then you are eligible to stimulate the iphone make super lucid photos and have that be your new default or you are familiar with pixels are really contrasty and blue-blooded same sort of deal you can start the iphone do that charts are a toggle that puts so each time you open the camera you get that inspect they’re there all the time by default but of course you can turn them off if you don’t want to use them here’s some examples this is the iphone shot with service standards profile next to a samsung zflip3 and now the iphone’s colourful chart now here is the iphone shot and standard next to a pixel 5 and now the iphone’s rich oppose chart apple’s photos are better across the board but in these charts they are tuned in a way that impels them search a little bit more like what those other phones do one thing these charts don’t do is apply these tone and warp settles to the entire picture the iphone knows when it witness grass or faces or sky and so it adjusts how it applies these pigment penchants accordingly so you don’t get strange searching skin atmospheres or purple skies or what it is you likewise can’t vary these in the edit after the fact charts are broiled into the file i get more into the grass on how all this substance works in the iphone 13 pro video if you’re interested okay thing 5.5 there’s another camera thing it’s a new peculiarity announced cinematic state must be considered it like photograph procedure but for video so this is cinematic state and what you’re seeing here is it lock on my face and use software to make the background blurry and then i could if i wanted to choose it to focus on digressing over there now it’s locked on him i could lock it on me what’s interesting is i look at him now it views his face and not my face and so when it attends a face it wants to lock on the biggest face in the formulate and that’s what it does you are eligible to revise this after the fact and so what you’re going to see here is it’s going to switch over to verand but i did that in edit i didn’t do it while we’re just sitting here so that’s kind of fun there are a few more memoes about what it’s like to use cinematic procedure it fastens onto faces or human-shaped figures so just looking apart on your own isn’t undoubtedly enough to trigger a magnitude vary also it is very vigorous at wanting to shift focus to the biggest face but you can double tap on something else to fasten the focus elsewhere if you need to finally it can only shoot at 1080 p and 30 fps now cinematic mode is a software blur only looks for human faces and kind of blurs everything else and that implies it’s the equivalent of likenes state but for video and that implies it is feasible have the same portrait mode difficulties it can’t work very well in low-toned light-headed and it can have weird or bad cutouts around mane for example that’s a little bit less observable because it’s a video and not a still photo but it’s still there all that said i think that cinematic mode generally looks pretty okay for informal video and just so you know it is light years ahead of what samsung was trying to do with portrait mode video you can go in subsequentlies and revise cinematic state including changing the amounts of blur for the entire video and then likewise going through and picking minutes when you want the focus to alter between different parts of the scene it’s actually really instinctive to make love in the apple photos app but if you want to get even more pro and make love in desktop software you have to do it in apple software on mac os monterey like final section or apple photos again this format isn’t something that can be edited in other apps i think of cinematic state in the same way i thought of portrait mode when it firstly came out it’s fun but don’t employment it for anything super important at most it’s maybe good for some corny tick tocks i know i’m particularly grovel i just have to embrace it at this place all right is there a sixth thing i make there’s lots of interesting thing this has an a1 5 processor and it’s fast because all brand-new iphones have fast processors the cornerstone storage has been increased to 128 gigs and that is great thank you the best color of the five iphone 13 colorings that are available is pink it really is ios 15 has a lot of neat pieces but to me it’s starting to feel a little bit complicated heim gardenberg has a full review and he did find a lot to like here i’m just gonna say that the iphone’s camera interface is getting super crowded and hard to understand what with all the disparate gives and strange unlabeled icons all that substance is small potatoes though here’s the most important thing to remember with the iphone 13 just think back to those first three fundamentals better battery life better cameras and you get all the improvements from last year’s iphone 12. It turns out the cliche is true if you improve the fundamentals the whole game gets better everybody thanks so much better for watching we’ve got the iphone 13 pro and pro max video right over there and then right down in the comments you’re all going to talk about whether this is the iphone for you or if you’re going to get the pro or neither probably not both though that would be weird
