- Little care package arrived
from the good folks at dbrand. I'm kidding, of course, there
are no good folks at dbrand, but dbrand did send us both the
iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro. And I got to confess David,
I'm at a bit of a lost on this one, because most
of the phones we've covered recently have either been ones
that I'm expecting to love, or ones that I'm expecting to hate, and everything I've
seen about the iPhone 13 hasn't inspired any
emotions for me whatsoever. It's an iPhone, you kind of
know exactly what to expect, but that's also not entirely
fair because the 13 improves over the 12 lineup as a whole,
in a couple of big ways. So number one, we've got
their new A15 Bionic chip, which Apple no longer
advertises as X amount, faster than last generation, because the improvements
appear to be relatively small, but rather they advertise
as X amount faster than competitors, which is still a
big, fat, impressive number. It's still built on a five
nanometer process from TSMC. I don't think we've nailed
down whether it's their N5, or N5P for performance process, but the general assumption
is that it's N5P, they've got improved displays and cameras, and this is a pretty
big deal for me, anyway, they have reduced the size of the notch. The same ceramic shield glass
from last time makes a return. We've got the same four gigs
of RAM in the non-pro models and six gigs of RAM in
the pro-tier models. Apple has maintained the
same 12 megapixel resolution of all their rear cameras,
though it should be noted that the ultra wide has
a faster lens to allow for better low-light performance, not to mention all of
the software improvements that they've made there. And Apple still has not
done a way with what is now a classic, the Lightning port. Now, speaking of the Lightning port, some people are expressing
disappointment that the iPhone 13 range supports only seven
and a half watt charging over the Qi standard, 20 Watts over the Lightning port, and 15 Watts using a MegSafe
compatible accessory. Now, included in the boxes
are only a Lightning accessory cable Type-C to Lightning, no
charger, nothing like that, which I guess we've come
to accept at this point. And now I wanna touch them. (romantic music) I don't know what the
feelings are like online, but I am loving the look
and hand-feel of the 13 Pro. It might be exactly the same as the 12, but my only point of comparison
is this really ratty dbrand skin that I have on my 12 Pro. So I'm actually gonna go
ahead and remove it now. okay. It feels the same. (laughs) But it doesn't look the same. Look at how much bigger these
camera elements are like, damn, that's crazy. - [Siri] I don't know
how to respond to that. (cameraman laughing) Oh, I'm so glad you brought that up, Siri. So cool feature that
Apple has added to iOS 15, which of course you can
access by a long pressing the power button is Siri can
now operate at least for simple tasks offline, that's thanks
to the A15 Bionics NPU, or Neural Processing Unit. I don't think Apple brands it that way, but essentially it's an AI processor. And it's one of the ways
that Apple has dramatically increased performance over
the last gen because CPU, and well, actually GPU was a
pretty big improvement as well. But word as marked it as the, oh, neural
processing improvements. - Oh-oh, before Linus gets to
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white and black ice, ugh, so check it out at the link below. - Whoo, photographic styles. Now this is a cool new feature. This is supported on the entire 13 lineup. I was expecting there to be a flatter one that sort of Lightroom ready. But the point is it's
effectively applying a, like a preset or a lot to
your image that will give it a certain look right out of the camera. So let's oh, okay. So you can go in and
it'll actually tell you, as you scroll through here,
what presets you're applying. Wow, vibrant is awful. I'm not even going to
take a picture of vibrant. (camera clicks) I could see people getting
into like that rich contrast look, I like your shirt, David. It's very cowy. How stable is this, you know. Man, the iPhone is so good
for video, like you can just, you can tell right on the display. There's a little bit of
judder cause it's at 30 FPS, but you don't have to
shoot at 30, in fact, they've added 4k 60 FPS recording now. So look at that, clearly
and obviously more detail in the 4k capture. Now, one thing that is
not here yet is support for ProRes capture, I am
super jacked about that. We're expecting it sometime
later this fall though. So for those not familiar,
ProRes capture basically means that you're capturing data
from the sensor at a much, much higher bit rate that
makes it easier to manipulate in post in video editing software. Now I just realized that I
hadn't even really talked about the notch, yeah, it's smaller, you know, if it had been up to me, I would have preferred that
the notch was just as wide, but not as deep, but now
that I think about it, I think Apple probably got this right, because this allows them to
have much better spacing, and potentially more room
for icons up at the top of the screen. Obviously, they're not gonna
be able to do away with it entirely because they
haven't brought back Touch ID on the iPhone, in spite of the fact that a lot of people would like them to, like,
even just, if the Apple logo was a touch sensor, people be pretty, be pretty into that. But so they have to have
room for the dot projector for Face ID, and there's, you know, that's just how much space
it takes up, apparently. I'm really not feeling
the 120 Hertz display, it doesn't oh, felt pretty smooth there. Now, hold on a second. Oh yeah, nevermind, nope, nope, I feel it. I feel, it I've just gotten so
used to it on my daily driver phone that I forgot how
crappy 60 Hertz looks. That is a big improvement. And honestly, is one of the
biggest reasons that I would consider the iPhone 13
Pro over the iPhone 13 is that smoother animations that you get. I mean, you've already paying for the A15 Bionic processor, right? Why not draw more frames per second? It's costing you nothing in battery life. Apple's rated battery
life for these devices is higher than last gen across the board, even for these 120 Hertz models. And part of the reason for
that is that they've made the 120 Hertz adaptive. So it'll only kick in
when it actually benefits from the additional smoothness. Oh, I guess now's a good time
to talk about connectivity. So the iPhone 13 lineup has
full support for Wi-Fi 6. It has support for 5G,
UI Ultra Wideband chip for location stuff, you can
check out our Techquickie on that if you wanna learn more about it. Sorry, I'm just playing around
with the cinematic recording mode. It's supported on the front
camera, which is super cool. Look at this live preview
depth of field effect. Not bad, now can it manage to
blur something that's close? Yes, it can like very,
obviously not perfect, but it's not bad. On-board speakers are so good,
man, Apple has gotten really good at having great audio
on tiny devices lately. Wow, that's a really big bezel still. That just kinda jumped
out of the screen at me. I mean, everything else about
the screen, cutting edge, but that bezel though, I mean, sure. The Galaxy Z Fold3 has
maybe even a bigger bezel, not by much though, but it's foldable. Like it's it's got a, like a stopper for when you close it. Let's play that 120 Hertz
game, I'm interested. (phone whistles) Sounds really good. I believe it is running at 120 Hertz. I gotta say less noticeable
on such a small screen for gaming, like I'm not
much of a mobile gamer. For me, the 120 Hertz
refresh rate experience is really about navigating
the phone, touch inputs, just feeling way more responsive. I mean, I did a whole video about this back when the iPad Pro
first got 120 Hertz support, and it's very noticeable to
me on a desktop size display, but here it's, I'd say less of a big deal. (cheerful music) - [David] I've heard
laptop with worse speakers. - Yeah, me too. In case you guys couldn't
hear him over the sound of crab rave, David was saying he's heard
laptops with worse speakers than this phone. Enough about the 13 Pro though. Let's change our focus to the
iPhone 13 for a little bit, because realistically with
how much cheaper it is, so it starts at $200
cheaper than the 13 Pro. This is the one that I see
way more people buying, it still got improved battery
life over last generation. The screen is not as good. So it tops out at 800 nits peak brightness instead of 1200 nits peak brightness. But the camera is I'm
going to expect is gonna be good enough for the vast majority
of people and really that, and not quite having as good battery life are the main differences
between the 13 and the 13 Pro. Oh, I guess there's also the
depth sensor on the camera. And you know what I did use that once. I had to use the depth
sensor on the iPhone 12 Pro for a bit part that I had in a movie, they wanted me to get
a 3D scan of the room that I was shooting in so
that they could use that for VFX later, very niche use case, it came
up once in the entire year I've had this phone. So your mileage may vary, who knows it might be the
kind of thing that comes up for you all the time. You know what the difference
in weight is quite noticeable between the two, I wanna see
the difference in HDR here. You know, the interesting thing, once you get up to these
crazy screen brightnesses, like 800 nits is very bright. Is that in any HDR content
that's not specifically mastered to take advantage of that range, you might not get any benefit out of it. Now it's more likely that
we'd see kinda, you know, eye searing specular highlights
in something off of Netflix compared to, I mean, this is
an older HDR upload to YouTube, which has only HDR 10, but the difference between
these two to my eye is just so negligible that I just
couldn't imagine carrying. I think the fold is a touch
brighter that may just be down to metadata interpretation of that. It's probably not because it's
actually a brighter display. I do not think that's the case. Larger screens can also
have the perception of being brighter, even though dbrand
didn't sponsor this video, they did ask if I'm planning
a full review of the iPhone 13 or 13 Pro, and I kinda said yes, because I didn't bother doing
a full review of the 12 Pro, but honestly, I feel like I've kind of said
everything that I have to say about it. If you want the best camera
that fits in your pocket, then get a 13 Pro series. If you want almost the best
camera that fits in your pocket, get a 13, and if you
don't care about iPhones, then there's going to be nothing here that's gonna make you suddenly
start caring about iPhones. Like what do I? Subscribe to ShortCircuit. They need a foldable. They need their AR
glasses that pair to it. They need a paradigm shift
here because this is like, if I was like David, (mimicking shuffling) which one's a 13, which one's a 12? You'd be like, oh my God, who cares? Smaller notch, I mean, I got to give credit where credit's due. I've been complaining
about the notch, okay. Thank you.
