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This year, I only had to modestly change my behavior. With last year’s 12 Mini, I had to significantly change my phone usage to get it to last through an entire day. When we had a day of a lot more 4K video testing, I was looking for a charger by 7 or 8.Īs for the iPhone 13 Mini, its battery life is much improved over last year’s 12 Mini, but not quite enough for me to throw caution to the wind and recommend it to anybody who wants a smaller phone. On another day with lighter usage, I didn’t see the battery warning until the following morning. It was an intense set of work for the five hours of screentime that day, so that’s impressive. That was with some camera testing, watching some video, the usual doomscrolling, emails, work, and some games. On one day of my testing, the regular iPhone 13 made it from 7AM to midnight before it tuckered out.
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Of all the colors offered on the iPhone 13 and 13 Pro lines, it is the best one.īattery life on the regular iPhone 13 is excellent The best iPhone 13 color is pink. I’m frankly impressed that Apple actually managed to proactively increase the base storage on its own - historically, it’s always done it far too late.įinally, my favorite design improvement over the iPhone 12 is that there’s a new pink color option. One difference that does matter this year: the base storage on the least expensive iPhone 13 and 13 Mini has been increased to 128GB. The Pro models get one more GPU core than the regular models, but I haven’t noticed that make a difference at all. As usual with iPhones, it’s difficult to discern significant speed improvements, but that is only because there’s so much headroom that iPhones tend to feel fast for longer. There is a new processor inside the iPhone 13: the A15 Bionic. It’s only been reduced on the horizontal axis, so the extra screen you get doesn’t amount to much (and Apple isn’t using it to show more info, like battery percentage). The last change is that the notch housing FaceID and the selfie camera has been shrunk down by 20 percent - but don’t get too excited by that. The camera bump is not only thicker, but the lenses have been rearranged to accommodate the giant new sensor that’s in the main wide-angle camera. That means that cases designed for the iPhone 12 and 12 Mini are unlikely to fit the newer phones. The newer iPhones are just a tiny bit thicker overall, with substantially bigger camera bumps. There are some changes to that design, however. The iPhone 13 and 13 Mini keep last year’s new design, which is still beautiful and modern I think it’s fair to give the iPhone 13 and 13 Mini credit for the design they’re based on since so many of the people that are likely to buy them will be new to what the iPhone 12 offered.
It’s worth revisiting all those big changes because people are hanging on to their smartphones for a longer time now - especially iPhones. They also switched over to OLED screens, which offer a superior experience to the LCDs that came before in several ways: contrast ratio, brightness, and power efficiency. And of course, the iPhone 12 Mini was the first phone in a long time to bring a truly great experience to a smartphone with a smaller form factor. The iPhone 12 and 12 Mini introduced a striking and new flat-edged design that I still believe is a massive improvement on what came before. Unless you look very closely, it’s difficult to tell the difference between the iPhone 13 devices and their predecessors. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge iPhone 13 and 13 Mini design and specs Updated on October 5th, 2021 to include results from longer-term testing with the iPhone 13 Mini. The iPhone 13’s battery and camera updates aren’t so flashy, but they’re more important. The iPhone 12 brought new technologies and a fancy new design (and a new, Mini-sized version).
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If you have an older iPhone, the full list of what’s better on the iPhone 13 is almost too long to enumerate.
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If you already have an iPhone 12, this year’s update looks iterative because it is. Those two improvements come on top of the major changes the company introduced last year with the iPhone 12. Those are also exactly the things Apple tried to make better in the iPhone 13 and 13 Mini. Those are the two things that make a fundamental difference in your day-to-day experience of a smartphone (assuming, again, that the basics don’t stink). The first thing on the list is improved battery life. What, really, do you want out of a new phone?Īssuming you’re starting with a good foundation, I think the list of what really makes a big difference in phone upgrades is actually short.