Should You Buy iPhone 13 in 2024?

so Happy New Year's 2024 what is up guys Nick here helping you to master your technology should you buy iPhone 13 in 2024 now last year on the same day one year ago I made the same video and it's crazy that I'm making it again here but the 13 still for sale and one of the most popular phones still on the market today Believe it or or not let's go down here we got the pink one on board but you can see apple selling the thing for $5.99 $6.99 for 256 and a ridiculous $8.99 which I wouldn't pay at this point for a 512 gig but if you know where to look some carriers are offering this thing for 0% or zero down uh and low monthly payments if you do that type of way of purchasing a phone and then if you know where to look you can find a thing for in the fours and in some cases even in the twos and the 3es so from a pure price perspective the iPhone 13 is quite a value and I'll explain why now the wife loan me this phone for this content and she did give me some feedback which I will share with you throughout the video so stay tuned I'll share my take and some of her takes on it as well key spec refresh if you don't remember 6.1 in OLED display that is super red xdr but not promotion you'll see right here dual 12 megap camera capable of 4K at 60p this is a 4 GB of RAM iPhone with the a15 bionic also found in the iPhone 14 this only has the 4 gigs so if you want the 6 gigs of RAM you got to buy an iPhone 14 here in 2024 and a 3240 mAh battery housed inside which is pretty sizable for a 6.1 in screen still pretty similar to current iPhone 15 and the size of that battery and this is one of the best ever on a based iPhone okay so how is the dirt durability on this phone if you're looking to save a few bucks the iPhone 13 in 2024 while we have the 15 which basically made the back texture mat this is glass so hit it on the wrong corner it will crack but it doesn't crack easily also the edges are very solid here for the iPhone 13 they just feel really good and they they stay pretty clean unlike some of the smudgy pro iPhones on the market so the iPhone 13 still a beautiful piece of kit here I still love this phone it's durable it looks great we're in 2024 I was praising it last year and it's still holding on so what she told me about the design and the looks um from her perspective as the owner of this specific model I'm holding in my hand is she said that about one more year to maybe 2 years maximum she'd want to hold on to this so she said she still likes the design overall but she's ready to upgrade maybe by the 16 or the 17 so definitely it's still holding on for at least a couple month more years I would say when it comes to the pure design aesthetic it looks more like the iPhone 12 honestly the 15 is a little bit better looking I would say but we have the notch so that's definitely looking a little bit more dated by comparison but because the MacBook still have the notch it doesn't look that bad um the bezels are thicker than usual compared to some of the current 15 models um but they're not horrible either and overall she said the display is still excellent she doesn't really create anything not even the promotion that we tend to love as tech fans so and so I don't think everybody really is um too disappointed with the OLED display here it's quite good here on the iPhone U right here the 13 so overall the design um if you look on the edges they still have that same 5G antenna power buttons pretty similar silent switch volume markers look about the same this design this just looks of it we talked about durability but the pure looks of it it still kind of looks like the latest iPhone like you would have to look closely to see is that the 14 the 15 or the 13 so let's talk about display quality OLED display here it gets plenty bright although if you're looking for more brightness outdoors I do recommend you go to the 15 model if you can afford it if you cannot this one is about the same as the 14 so it's very bright although it can struggle a little bit in pure sunlight that's the only con of it but other than that it's because the knits on this doesn't get as bright other than that it has the true tone dark mode night shift same things it can get plenty dim and accessibility you can dim it even more this does display some pwm so if you are sensitive to pulse W withd modulation or flickering that is invisible to the naked eye but you your eye can still be affected by it you just don't really tell until you start having a migraine this one you want to turn on accessibility crank up the reduced white point and then raise a display to about 50% but if you do go to um something with an LCD you might notice the difference if you're sensitive to that other than that those are really rare rare cases this phone is very good um the 60 HZ display from a technical perspective is starting to feel quite old but somehow even with all these applications and a few years later it still runs like a beauty it's mostly down to ios's optimizations and apple controlling is topped down I also do think that the notch tends to get in the way a little bit during reading and certain content Apple's apps are developed properly for it but there are applications where you'll be reading something and it'll scroll right through the notch so that is a little bit annoying this one also is a little deeper than the one on the iPhone 12 and the dynamic island is even more of an eyesore so this this is not my favorite never was never will be but you just have to deal with that if you're going to be buying this phone right now but you probably won't care due to iOS this is still a great phone for almost anybody I would say you really got to use some Pro features to need more than this I could use a 13 right now run this whole Channel all of 2024 and not think twice about it but you know why would I do that when I'm covering the latest tech but I'm just saying I could if I had to so when it comes to software um the phone it feels like I'm using a 15 it gets all the latest updates whenever you want them it has the latest 17.21 it will be getting 17.3 and iOS 18 will make it here as well now I do think some of the AI based features in iOS 18 might be limited to newer models so we have to see how that gets played out maybe not we'll see if it gets that but iOS 17.2 about the same again the only difference is like what I've said in my previous content is that when you go on a camera your settings are less than Pro Models other than that when you're scrolling through it's about the same you don't have the ability to shoot in a 24 megapixel and the camera doesn't have the extra Zoom which is annoying but it's still has the photographic Styles it still has pretty sharp text and one of the best things about the iPhone 13 has has always been that the camera focus is like perfect it's like the perfect consumer grade camera um it just always Nails it every time it's got some of the best Focus I've ever seen on an iPhone um to be quite Frank with you and it also has some of the best video so I would say software you're good for another 3 years on this phone cuz the 14 got this as well maybe longer we'll have to see how it goes but the 15 nailed it in the software department and still does to this day now when it comes to the storage it's actually a pretty good value if you could find this 512 gig Max model for cheaper than before because you'll pay the same money for a 15 with 1 28 gigs or a 14 with 2 56 gigs for the same price as a 512 gig iPhone 13 so the storage is a lot more important than you might think if you are a heavy iPhone user and you're trying to save a few bucks however I do think the 14 model is a pretty sweet spot value as well if you like the 13 a lot but you don't have to get that if you want to save even more with a 13 so the storage is still strong it's still mvme it's still pretty quick blazing fast although lightning is kind of lame now I don't like lightning on here she tends to love lightning as a matter of fact I just recently got her some airpods Pro with um a lightning cable cuz she didn't want the ones with USBC she's like I'm not switching USBC uh like everything she uses is mostly lightning still so she's not down with that so some people still like lightning but I personally horribly dislike lightning because my cameras my tablets everything is USBC so I like the universal standard but lightning is a thing something I wanted to mention since we're talking about connectivity and storage when it comes to Performance here in 2024 the main thing that I'm thinking about is that the iPhone 13 performs just like an iPhone 15 I asked her too how is the performance of somebody who's using this every day she said it doesn't feel feel any different than your 15 and I'm like okay but how's it perform she said no lag I said How's it perform she said it doesn't lag what do you want me to say it just works and so that's kind of what I can sum this up the phone still just works I said does anything crash he said no I said well do you crave more performance she said not really and then I said what do you crave she says maybe um a nicer like camera a little bit of a better pink she really didn't have anything to say about performance other than it's fine and so what that tells me is that someone who's using this every day and she's got a ton of applications on here the phone works and the a15 should the a15 is the same one used in the 14 and the 16 bionic and the 15 is only slightly better than the 15 bionic so there you go the 15 still a sweet spot value even though we're just entering a brand new year this is just a great used or secondhand option or if you want to trade in an iPhone get this thing for even cheaper it's a great great options still now when it comes to the battery life we are looking at a capacity of 96 now she doesn't really um cycle this properly so she really does kill the battery on here quite a bit I asked her how's it go she said that this phone if I charge it by the morning easily lasts me all day long the only time she's a little worried is if she misses a charge then she could be in trouble throughout the day um but the phone lasts all day the thing is though is you got to top it off now when you enter low power mode because it's a 60 HZ panel you don't really suffer any real degradation and experience because it's already a 60 HZ and that can save you in a pinch it really does help when you're getting really low in battery but the overall battery life on here is an easy all day still a good recommendation it was one of the best iPhone battery lives on a base iPhone in a very long time and then the pro Max 13 Pro Max just took that thing to the next level so can I recommending battery yes be careful if you're buying this used though make sure the capacity is at least 95 or higher or I would recommend looking for something else cuz you don't want something in the 80s or the 70s that would be horrible the battery does definitely start to not last when it gets cycled too much so be careful with that when you are purchasing okay so the cameras dual 12 megapix setup we have talked about them earlier she loves this camera as a matter of fact she had the 14 pro I talked about last year she took it back she was on this for the rest of 2020 3 she didn't like how the focusing was the aperture she doesn't understand the aperture but the aperture was making the 14 Pros photos um the focusing distance was different basically long story short this is a point and shoot beast on the iPhone 13 my big issue is the zoom is terrible I I don't care you could love the 13 or you want I'm going tell you like it is the zoom hold on that was the mic making a little clicky notice the zoom is absolutely trash on this phone so everybody who goes to the 15 that's a great update if you want more zoom please I advise you please get the 15 you'll be much happier but if you don't care about extra zooming everything else on here is A1 the recording is solid the recording goes to 4K 60 it's still nearly a sharp I mean look at this look at the video you're watching and look through this camera here you could see it's just about as sharp as what I'm recording so this is a really good setup here cinematic video comes here which she never really used but the third man an excellent piece of kit for video and photo still now let's go over here flip it around you can see that's me um front-facing camera still decent 12 megapixel we're solid we're good to go it shoots very fast video on the front also very good for vlogging you need a little thing to hold it or it will get messed up other than that man this thing is a beast I love it I'm not going to show a ton of samples we did that already in the past but yeah I I could still recommended it's it's even better than for casual users I think it's good for people or even Beyond casual users um but if you really want a little bit more go to the 13 pro and pro Max those are a little bit better from a connectivity standpoint we have Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 lightning 2.0 5G performance better phone call Quality than what we had before so pretty good I asked her about this too she said no drop calls no issues with reception it's solid I do feel this thing getting a little warm as I've been having it on for a while so you could still feel a little warmth when you are using it heavy long term so put a case on it you'll never feel anything else but it's not burning your hand hot like the initial stages of the iPhone 15 models nothing like that and the last thing I want to cover here before we head up out of here and let you get on with your New Year's Day is the resale value unfortunately it's tanking on this phone funny thing is though is that even when it does tank even more it's probably not going to drop well below 200 bucks 250 bucks so if you keep this a year year or two you should still be able to get at least 200 bucks on this which is way more than you would get for an Android phone I've seen some Android values at like $30 for $700 uh Android phones that are you know it's just like wow unbelievable and those Android phones are only a couple years old the 15's going to nich you or the 13's going to net you a 2 250 even after four or 5 years insane for a phone these aren't these aren't Investments you're not you're not investing in this like a stock I'm just saying that if you want to sell the dang thing you get a little you get way more even for base model iPhones it's insane so that's going to wrap it up here for me if you're looking for an absolute value lower cost iPhone 2024 this is the winner winner chicken dinner if you ask me um the 14 is better if you want to swing another $100 $100 I got almost the same opinions on that one as this one it's nearly the same phone it wasn't worth the when it came out but as its price drops it becomes more worth it because it's a better phone than this by a little bit but you know it's newer so it's a little bit better in that respect that's it for me enjoy your New Year's let me know if you got the 13 you plan on buying one you're holding on till the 16 or not there's still a lot of people that love this phone and plan on getting one maybe even the 13 mini if you want to see a video on that I'll catch you on the next one let's rock out in 2024 I hope you do have a great year crush your goals Nick here I will catch you all in a very next episode be sure to be well and peace

Channel: Nick Ackerman

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Length: 15min 36sec (936 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 01 2024