iPhone 12 Pro Max Repair

iPhone 12 Pro Max Summary

Hey, what’s up and CHD here? All right, iPhone 12 Pro Max the big boy. So if you’ve seen the reviews of iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, you probably you basically already know everything you need to know about the new generation of iPhones. So now we have iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max dropping at the same time, opposite ends of the spectrum. So the Pro Max
is the everything phone. It’s the biggest, it’s the most Apple has to offer. Fun fact, even the sticker and the Pro Max box is the biggest of any iPhone box. But also now interestingly, in the past iPhones have all just typically been the same thing across the board, but different sizes, maybe an extra camera and the Pro? This year there’s an entirely new, different special camera system in just the Pro Max that’s not in any of the other new iPhones. So naturally, this was the focus of my testing.
That’s a pun. So I think all the other benefits of a bigger iPhone sort of speak for themselves, right? The display is a slightly higher resolution and it’s of course now a 6.7 inch screen instead of the 6.5 inch from last year’s Max. So this is the biggest canvas of a screen Apples ever put in a phone. I would have really, really liked for them to make it higher refresh rate, but again, in the reviews I’ve talked about why it’s not there. Most likely battery, but in every other metric, this is a top of the line excellent smartphone display. But also Speaking of battery, the iPhone 12 Pro Max does have the biggest battery in any of the new iPhones. And yes, it does last noticeably longer. First of all, it has an incredible standby time and I’ve typically ended days with it around 25%
with six, maybe 7 hours of screen on time sometimes. So if you’re looking for the iPhone with the best battery, this is definitely it. It’s comparable to the 11 Pro Max I would say, maybe just a tiny bit less then. Also, the biggest iPhone does technically also get the biggest speaker. If you look at the bottom of all these phones, the 12 Pro Max has a bigger grill than the others, but honestly it’s not a noticeably louder speaker at all really. I just found it has slightly bassier sound at the highest volumes. That’s about it. And the biggest iPhone also will of course have the biggest viewing area. And also because it’s the same size notch on a bigger screen, the notch kind of feels maybe a tiny bit smaller even though it is still comically big compared to other phones. But this is at least a no brainer of a choice of an iPhone if people
wanna watch videos, do a lot of typing, a lot of texting, a lot of photo editing, big screen stuff like that. If you’re not used to the size of this bigger iPhone, it’s going to feel huge. Like the toughest thing is you’ll notice right from the start Reachability is kind of tough. You can’t reach all four corners of this phone with one hand like you can with the mini for example. But other than that I have no problems with it. Also, side note, this is my first time using the gold iPhone and sheesh, this is a shiny gold outside rail. The back of the phone actually isn’t that gold. It’s more kind of like an off white sand colour with the matte finish and then the rings around the camera and the stainless steel sides are the really gold part, but they’re still going to collect fingerprints like crazy. Honestly, it’s not the colour I would pick,
but they don’t have like a matte black pro iPhone this year so I guess I could just pick any colour and then grab a dbrand skin literally just for the side rails. Did you know you could do that? Yeah, just map black for the shiny sides and all my complaints are solved. Well you’re probably here for is this camera right? The question is, is this new camera system on the 12 Pro Max worth? Like spending the extra money and getting it over the 12 or the 12 pro if you’re a creator if you’re a pro,
no. So first of all OK, I just want to point out it really is a physically larger camera module, like the rounded circle that the cameras live on is bigger and the camera rings and lenses themselves are all also bigger. And that’s to house the new hardware inside, namely the 47% larger main camera sensor that now has sensor shift stabilisation instead of lens based stabilisation. And there’s also a new 2.5 X telephoto lens, so that’s huge. Literally like a physically larger sensor plus better stabilisation just screams like way better light gathering ability. So I’d be looking for improvements not just in regular everyday photos and normal situations, but especially in lower light when you need to maximise
by gathering. So ideally you see better night mode performance. You see maybe even not having to kick into night mode as often because it’s gathering so much light and maybe even not having to hold the phone still for as long when you do have to kick into night mode.
But I found none of these things to actually be true. Now trust me, I really wanted to see a difference. Like this is the one with the actually new camera hardware. This is the first big jump for the iPhone and a little while with the cameras. With the bigger sensor I was hoping maybe to see some more natural depth or some more of that bigger sensor look that photographers know to look for. And I didn’t see much of that to be honest. You could already get a solid amount of natural bokeh without portrait mode on plenty of smartphone cameras, including other iPhones. This one is no different. Still takes great photos and videos with smart HDR, still does all the typical iPhone computational photography. All that’s great. I’m just not seeing much of a difference versus the other new iPhone 12:00. So at this point I’m like alright, maybe to see the difference I I just got to put it side by side
like most people won’t do that. And that’s actually a telltale sign of a feature that probably regular people won’t notice is if you have to put it side by side with something else to even see it in the 1st place. But I want to see the difference. I’m testing them, I’m testing the mini at the same time. So I’m going around with both the 12 Pro Max and the 12 mini taking photos side by side and when I tell you I couldn’t see much of a difference, I mean seriously you’re seeing the results here for yourself. I did a back-to-back photo testing and regular light and even much more here in lower light where I was expecting to see the bigger sensor and better stabilisation shine and show me a difference. And believe it or not, I just didn’t. So the only really noticeable stuff I can point to between the mini and the Pro Max seems to be slightly better edge sharpness in some of those
wider landscape type shots.
But in the dark I didn’t see any noticeably lower noise levels. I didn’t see any shorter night mode stabilisation times. I didn’t see much of the better quality in low light shots I was hoping to. Now again, let’s not forget it is still really impressive photography in this low light and in regular light. It really speaks to I guess how good the computational photography and iPhones has gotten over the years more than anything bad about the Pro Max phone by the way. It also doesn’t fix any of the haloing sort of glowing orbs you see in night time videography. They still show up pretty much anytime there’s a point light in the scene in low light video, something I noticed when I first started testing the 12th. So alright, the main camera, I’ve tested it. It’s physically different, yes, but the results
are very difficult to see any differences with. I’m glad I tested it, but we can’t forget. There’s also a second telephoto lens, there’s the 2.5 X instead of 2X. So my photographer friends out there, that’s about a 65 millimetre equivalent instead of 52 millimetres. It’s not a dramatic difference as you may have guessed, but yeah, it’s right there now. Now there’s a 2.5 X button in the camera now, and the final maximum allowed zoom in camera is 12X instead of the usual 5 or 10X. Yeah, it didn’t make a massive difference for me really. What I actually noticed more is getting locked into two point 5X or 1X for portrait mode shots, because regular iPhone 12 Pro does portrait mode at 1X and 2X. So this one punching in a little bit further, starting to get a little bit further away,
but I still stick with 1X for portrait mode when I can. So yeah, I guess the story is Ale finally made a jump in hardware
and nothing really happened. Not much happened. I mean, I was kind of hoping for a bigger jump
in hardware to be honest. Like if you just pay attention to iPhones you might think, oh, they finally made a 50% bigger sensor, That’s a big deal. But if you look at the rest of the world around the iPhone, there’s a lot of crazy hardware stuff going on. There’s 50-60 hundred megapixel sensors, there is 8K video happening, there is 3X5 X 10X telephotos with Periscope lenses inside there’s incredible computational photography and and gimbal mode stabilisation. Like there is a lot going on with hardware advances available for cameras. But that’s not the Apple way of course. The Apple way is more sit back, take a take the landscape in, see what sticks around for a while and starts to become an obvious
benefit, then grab that. Make it a little better. Make it the Apple thing. Fit into the ecosystem. Puzzle. Unless it’s USB Co. Yeah, the camera in the 12 Pro Max, I’m just going to go ahead and say is not the biggest reason for you to upgrade to it,
but this is definitely the phone you should get if you want the biggest iPhone. I mean, it’s clearly the biggest and best battery. It’s the biggest and best screen. It’s your biggest and best viewfinder, biggest and best keyboard, biggest and best iPhone for sure. That’s what I’d recommend for this.
So I don’t know, maybe maybe the 12 Pro isn’t such a bad move after all. Or just stick with the 12. I don’t know. All the reviews are out now. You can check it out. Let me know what you think. Would you spend the 1100 bucks on the 12 Pro Max or would you settle for a different iPhone?

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