What's a guys, it's TECHY TECH PRO here, and I know, I know guys, a little bit late, but out of my control, nothing I could do. Anyway, we have the brand new iPhone 13s in the house. In this video, we're just going to be looking at the Pros because you guys don't seem to be as interested in the 13 and the 13 mini.
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So if you are, let me know in the comments below and we'll cover those in a separate article . So the 13 Pro and the 13 Pro Max, let's go ahead and get these unboxed. I'll give you my first impressions, and we'll see what they have to offer. This video is sponsored by Nord VPN. Use the link in the description for a special offer. So looking at the boxes initially, we've got slimmer boxes like we had last year, but slightly different because this time we have the picture of the back of the iPhones,rather than the front. I have, there we go,something I made earlier, we have the iPhone 12 Pro here. You can see that we had the front of the display here in the picture, we now have the back, and you can also see that we've got the brand new Sierra Blue color. I just went with the Sierra Blue for both of them. Maybe I should have got one in a different color, but anyway, you may also notice that we don't have any plastic wrapping around the boxes this time. And that's because Apple is trying to reduce its carbon footprint, so yeah, thumbs up for that.
The unboxing experience is identical with both devices, as well as the iPhone 13 Pros,you do get some paper work, a sim card tool under white Apple sticker. Now this is the same white Apple sticker, regardless of whichcolor iPhone you go for. And then there's a USBtype-C to Lightning cable. Now, if you don't alreadyknow, like last year, we do not get a power brickincluded out of the box. And here we are guys, thebrand new iPhone 13 Pros in this new Sierra Blue color,which really does look nice. You can also get themin the Graphite Gold, as well as a Silver, but I'dsay this is the most popular, and the one that stands out most too. Now, the overall design ofthe Pros is pretty similar to what we had last year. So we've got the flat edges andthen we've got the stainless steel frame. The stainless steel frame does look great for the first few seconds whenyou get it out of the box, but then it does attractfingerprints very quickly. Now I know this is more durable, but I do prefer the look ofthe aluminum frame that we have on the 13 and the 13 mini. But then we've got a frosted glass back. This has really nice matte finish. I do like this and the cameramodules also look quite similar to what we had last year. However, these are slightly larger, so quickly bringing inthe iPhone 12 Pro Max here for a side-by-side comparison. You'll see that the height andthe width is actually pretty much exactly the same, but the camera moduleis slightly larger here on the 13 Pro Max, and the13 Pro Max are also slightly thicker compared to theprevious generation. Now, this will mean thatif you've got some cases from the 12 Pro or the 12 Pro Max, they're not going tofit in the new 13 Pros.
The 13 Pros are also slightlyheavier compared to last year. Now this is because they haveslightly larger batteries, but this does make the 13Pro Max quite a heavy device, around 238 grams. And because of the flat edges, it's not the mostcomfortable device to use. So just do keep that in mind. I would definitely try this out in hand if you're coming from a smaller iPhone. Now we still have the sameIP68 water and dust resistant rating, which is great. 30 minutes up to six meters, which is much higher than manyother smart phones out there. But the biggest improvementsare here on the front. (fingers click) Now, although we still havethe same ceramic shield, which is super tough, Appledon't even call it glass. We still have relativelythe same size bezels, but we have a reduced sizenudge, so it's around 20% smaller compared to last year. And although both ofthese are OLED displays, which means that colorsare really vibrant, and things really do pop. The iPhone 13 Pros arenow around 25% brighter compared it to the iPhone 12 Pros. But most importantly, theseare now pro motion displays, which supports up to a120 Hertz refresh rate. I'm so glad this is here. Now, what that means iswhen you're scrolling through your feeds, when you're gaming, things are just going to bethat much more responsive because the screen is going tobe refreshing up to 120 times a second, compared toaround 60 times a second, what we had on the iPhone 12 Pros, these displays also havean adaptive refresh rate, meaning they can go allthe way down to 10 Hertz, which is going to save battery life. So for example, if you've got something static here, it doesn't really need to berefreshing 120 times a second. So it's going to go all the waydown to just 10 times a second. Now I know some of the Androidfans are going to be going crazy in the comments saying that, we've had this for a coupleof years, but nevertheless, it's nice to have this hereand adaptive refresh rates have really become a thing overthe past year, I would say. So it's kind of expectedto have this at this point on the Pro models of the iPhones. Now, one thing I wouldhave liked to have seen on the new iPhones,isn't always on display. If you're somebody who hasn't really used an always on display, youmight not really appreciate it, but for somebody like me, who has, an always on display is really useful.
You could just see the timeand notifications at a glance without having to pick up your smartphone. This is something that'stechnically possible because we have OLED displayswith LTPO technology. So it's a software thing. I hope Apple willintroduce it at some point. Maybe they're going towait for the iPhone 40. Now, before we move on to theperformance and the cameras, a quick thanks to our sponsorfor this video, NordVPN, are you tired of internetservice providers, and other third partiestracking your every move on the internet? Well, with NordVPN, you can easily hide allof your online data. With the tap of a button, you connect to the internetvia a remote private server on pretty much any of your devices. And this also means you canget access to apps and content, which may not beavailable in your country. Personally speaking, being here in the UK, there's lots of moviesthat initially extreme in the US first, which is super annoying. But with NordVPN, I can actuallysee all of these movies. And a lot of other times thesubscription is also cheaper.
Go to NordVPN.com/supersaf toget 73% off a two year plan with four additional months for free. That works out to prettymuch less than a cup of coffee each month, andwith NordVPN's risk-free 30 day money back guarantee, you really have nothing to lose. Right, performance. So the new iPhone 13 Pros are powered by the brand new A15 Bionic chip. Now on the iPhone 13 Pros, this actually has a five core GPU compared to the four core GPU thatyou have on the iPhone 13s. And that's going to meanimproved performance, including the ProMotion display. I mean, if you're playinggames that can support that display, you are going to be needingthat extra performance. In terms of exactly howmuch better this is compared to the A14, this is something that appledidn't really talk about in the keynote. They said, it's certain percentages better than the leading competition. Now, which leading competitionthey were specifically referring to, they didn't say. So we don't know, but nevertheless, I'm very confident thatthe A15, like the A14, is going to be very, very fast and smooth. And also, with the newISP, Image Signal Processor that comes with the A15, we're going to getimproved images and video. So let's talk about the cameras. The front facing camerahasn't really changed from the hardware side of things. We do have that newImage Signal Processor. However, the rear facing cameras have been completely changed. So we have a brand new ultra-wide primary, and telephoto camera.
And this year they are exactlythe same between the Pro, and the Pro Max. You may know that last year, the 12 Pro Max did havesome additional features compared to the 12 Pro, thisis not the case this year. Let's talk about the camera. So we do have 12 megapixelsacross the board. Apple does like to keep things consistent. The primary camera hassensor shift optical image stabilization. This is something that we saw introduced on the iPhone 12 Pro Max is something that I absolutely love. Now it's on all of the newiPhones, which is great. The primary camera alsohas a larger censor size. So it's got around a 2.2 timesimprovement in low light. That's not just going to meanbrighter images in low light, but it's also going to meanthat you're not going to have to wait as long. It's going to have a quickershutter because it's going to be able to capture morelight, absolutely awesome. We then have a telephoto camera. And this time we've gotthree times optical zoom, the most we've ever had on an iPhone. And this will give you the equivalent of around 77 millimeters, which will be really interestingto see for portrait shots. And finally, we have acompletely new ultra wide camera. This will give around 92%improvement in low light, according to the keynote, but it also has the ability to refocus, which will allow it to be usedas a macro camera as well. Now I know macro camerasdo get some bad reputation because of the two megapixelmacro cameras we see on many other smartphones.
However, there are lots ofother smartphones out there, like the S21 Ultra ,someof the OnePlus devices, which actually do use theultra-wide camera for macro shots, and they do a great job. And I'm so glad that wenow have macro photography on the new iPhones. Of course, we'll be comparingthem to the competition, SuperSaf style. Definitely let me know whichsmartphone you'd like me to compare the iPhone 12 Proand the Pro Max two first. And I'll get working onthat as soon as possible. Also, don't forget to subscribebecause you're going to want to see it, as soon as it's dropped. Now, the camera interfacehas also been updated. We have now photographic styles. So the way this reallyworks is it allows you to pick a particular style that you like, and then your images will look like that. We've seen many times whenwe compare iPhone images to say, Samsung images, Samsung images tend to bea little bit more vibrant, a little bit more contrasty. So if that is a look that youlike, you can turn that in. And then whenever you take an image is already going to use that with the computational photography. And it's going to give youthe result that you like. Personally speaking, I think I'm going tojust leave this to normal because I actually quite like the images that come out from iPhones. I would say that they'requite natural, but again, I will be testing this out. We still have the LiDARscanner on the Pro models, which is going to be usefulfor depth information, for focus, as well as lots of AI features.
We also have some solidimprovements for video. So the new iPhone 12 Pros dosupport four key 60 frames a second with Dolby Vision HDR. Now you guys may haveheard me say this before. And some of you are goingto say that I'm biased, but in my opinion, iPhone still take the bestvideo on any smartphone out there, very consistentand very, very good quality. On this year, Apple has tried to take that even further with some new features. One of which is cinematicmode, cinematic mode, think of it as portraitmode, but for video. We've seen certain implementations of this on other smartphones,but honestly speaking, they haven't been too good. So I'm excited to see whatApple has to offer up. In my first impressions, itdoes look pretty promising. And what's unique aboutthe iPhone 13s is that when using cinematic mode, you can actually change focusafter the fact in video. This is something that you can'tdo in any of the smartphone right now. Of course, this is somethingthat I'm going to be testing out lots more, I'll post someupdates on my social media. So make sure you are following me. And we are supposed to be gettingProRes video support soon.
ProRes video is mainly for professionals who want to re-edit theirvideo after the fact, but I really can't imagine howbig the files are going to be. Batteries and charging, soas mentioned earlier on, we do have slightly largerbatteries on both of these devices and with all of theoptimizations of the adaptive refresh rates, as well as the A15 Bionic, we should be getting around 1.5 hours more on the 13 Pro and around 2.5hours more on the 13 Pro Max. This is something that I'mof course going to be testing for my full review, but the 12 Pro Max alreadygave me excellent battery life. So I am very hopeful thatthese will be great too. For charging, these do supportup to 20 Watt wide charging, however, that charger is sold separately, as you guys already know. We've got Qi wireless chargingsupports up to 7.5 Watts on of course, MagSafe. MagSafe will give you up to 50 Watts. So there's not really anychange in terms of charging here on the 13 Pros. Finally, storage in pricing, so the storage models,we still have 128, 256, and 512 gigabytes. However, there is nowa one terabyte option. I'm not sure who's going toget that, maybe I need to, because so far I've taken uparound 400 gigs on my iPhone, but anyway, and for the price, in the US, the price isroughly about the same as what the iPhone 12 Pro andthe 12 Pro Max came in at. However, surprisingly here in the UK, the iPhone 13s are coming in price lower compared to the iPhone 12s. So we're looking at around 50pounds less for each storage version, which I'm not going to lie, I was very surprised about,but pleasantly surprised, of course.
So that is the iPhone 13Pro and the 13 Pro Max. Overall, these do lookvery, very promising. Yes, you could argue thatthe 13 and the 13 mini are more of like 12 as is, but I think the 13 Pros dobring lots of improvements, such as the brand new cameras, the ProMotion display, theA15 with a five core GPU, there's lots to be excitedabout and to test out, what do you guys think of the 13 Pros? Definitely let me knowin the comments below, also let me know if you wantme to do some separate coverage of the 13 and the 13 mini.
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