![]() ![]() If you know you want a smaller iPhone, just buy it. The 12 Mini is a triumph and a joy to use. If you’ve been waiting for a smaller Face-ID-era iPhone and haven’t yet preordered a 12 Mini - waiting, perhaps, for the reviews, to see if there’s a catch - stop reading and place your order. The whole experience is as close to uncompromising for the smaller size as you could hope for. I hadn’t really thought about it, but I intuitively expected it to sound smaller than the 12/12 Pro, but it doesn’t. The iPhone 12 Mini even sounds great, playing music or video from the built-in speaker. Same exact A14 chip, with the exact same performance. I, of course, will try to explain them below.īut, truly, for all practical purposes as a user, the iPhone 12 Mini is a smaller iPhone 12. The differences that aren’t just “same thing but smaller” are serious footnote territory. ![]() ![]() Well, almost exactly - but the differences are truly negligible. The name tells you just about everything you’d want or need to know - the iPhone 12 Mini is exactly like the iPhone 12, but smaller. That’s a large reading assignment if you haven’t been following along, I’m afraid, but we’re not going to slow down for the benefit of those who haven’t been paying attention. I’ve spent the last week using a black iPhone 12 Mini and gold iPhone 12 Pro Max, and my thoughts on both follow upon my take on Apple’s iPhone 12 event and my review three weeks ago of the mid-sized iPhones, the 12 and 12 Pro. Each phone is a potential story unto itself, but to be truly understood, they need to be compared and contrasted with each other. There is a structural problem with writing reviews of multiple new iPhones when they are released together - Mini and Max sizes, say, or Pro and non-Pro tiers, or, in this review’s case, two phones that span both gamuts. The iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max Monday, 9 November 2020 ![]()
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