What's changed between the iPhone 12 pro and the iPhone 13 pro. I'm going to let you know and walk through every single difference between these two devices.
Welcome, everybody to my blog, and here you will finally get iPhone 13 lineup. What has changed between the iPhone 13 pro and the iPhone 12 pro? This year there are quite a few notable differences in apple's entry-level pro phone. So, let's go ahead and walk through all the details.
Let's start with the design of these two phones.
With the iPhone 12 line, apple introduced a whole new look and feel to the iPhone going back to the flat sides along with the glass back. So, with the iPhone 13, apple really didn't reinvent the wheel. It kept the same rough design as the iphone12 pro.
But there are changes to note. First the buttons on the sides they've all been shifted. So, if we look at the left side of the phone, our toggle and the volume buttons have all. Slid down just a little bit we also saw the sim card tray relocated that's up a little bit and if we flip things over you can see that the power button and the side button sleep-wake toggle. Whatever you want to call it but it too has shifted down a little bit coupled with the massive difference in the camera bumps. It means that the iPhone 12 pro cases will not fit the iPhone 13 pro. The devices look very similar on those small button movements in the newer camera module but the iPhone 13 pro is just a little bit thicker and heavier. It's actually .01 inches thicker than the iPhone 12 pro and it weighs a little bit more the weight has gone from 6.66 ounces to 7.19 ounces. So, it's a little heavier on the iPhone 13 pro than the iPhone 12 pro.
Let's come to the colors. Both the iPhone 12 pro and 13 pro come in graphite silver and gold but the iPhone 13 pro comes in this new sierra blue which replaces the pacific blue that was on the iPhone 12 pro.
Now let's take a closer look at these displays. Both of these phones have a 6.1-inch super retina xdr OLED display but the iPhone 13 pro has a pro-motion display that can ramp up to 120 hertz. So, the high refresh rate is going to come into play when you're scrolling through safari swiping between your home screens or using third-party apps that have enabled these high refresh rates.
Other than that they're pretty darn similar. They have the same resolution of 2532 by 1170 in a pixel density of 460 ppi they each have a 2 million to 1 contrast ratio. Since they are both old displays apple did make the new display a little bit brighter. It can now get up to a thousand nits of typical brightness in like daylight. Whereas the iPhone 12 pro could only go up to about 800 nits of average brightness in the daylight. Though they both still have a peak brightness of 1200 nits.
Both phones still support face id but the notch has been changed and is now smaller though a little taller on the iPhone 13 pro. It doesn't really make a big difference to me.
What about inside the phones? A lot of the stuff is similar here. They each come in 128 256 in 512-gigabyte configurations. Though the iPhone 13 pro has a new terabyte option available, they each support 5g including the sub 6 gigahertz bandwidth as well as millimeter wave. They support wi-fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 battery has been improved going for about 17 hours on video playback on the iPhone 12 to 22 hours on the iPhone 13 pro. So, that is for video playback in early tests it's looking to be about an hour and a half or so of extra usage time per day which honestly is a great increase in actual day-to-day usage.
Apple used the a14 bionic processor on the iPhone 12 pro. The iPhone 13 pro is employing apple's brand new a15 bionic processor. Both the a14 and a15 are six-core chips. They each have two high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores. Though apple's newer a15 bionic processor is a bit faster, if we look at these geek bench tests you can see that the iPhone 13 pro is scoring higher though not by a huge margin.
What is improved is that the iPhone 13 pro has a 5-core GPU in the a15 bionic processor compared to only a 4-core GPU in the a14 bionic processor. So, the iPhone 13 Pro is definitely going to score better in these benchmarks on graphics. Like the geek bench compute benchmark they're scoring better on the iPhone 13 pro than the iPhone 12 pro. You get that whole extra GPU coming in handy.
Let's talk about those cameras. There are similar areas here. Each of them has three cameras. The iPhone 13 pro and the iPhone 12 pro each have a 12-megapixel ultra-wide lens, a 12-megapixel wide-angle lens, and a 12-megapixel tele lens. But there were changes here, for instance, the tele lens on the iPhone 13 pro is now three times the optical zoom lens, whereas, the tele camera on the iPhone 12pro was only two times optical zoom. So, you're going to get increased zoom on the iPhone 13 pro which also means you're going to get 15 times digital zoom. Whereas the iPhone 12 pro only had 10 times digital zoom, android 3x digital zoom in videos as well. On the iPhone 13 pro the wide-angle lens was improved going from an f-16 aperture to an f 1.5 aperture. It's going to allow more light to come in. It can be a faster shutter and more natural background bokeh the ultra-wide though was the biggest upgrade by far the new ultra-wide lens went from an f 2.4 aperture to an f 1.8 aperture. This lens is so much faster than it was in the past. We're also seeing a lot less grain and noise in medium to low light photos. It's quicker to fire the shutter which means less blur in those photos as well the new ultra-wide lens also enables macro mode on the iPhone 13 pro.
Shared features include night mode and portrait mode. Night mode portrays the lidar scanner deep fusion in general and they both support apple pro. We also have a cinematic mode on the iPhone 13 pro otherwise both of them are capable of shooting 4k video at 60 frames per second in Dolby vision hdr looking at those front-facing true depth camera systems they are both the same f 2.2 12 megapixel cameras they support pretty much the same everything the only difference is on the iPhone 13 pro you get cinematic mode prores support and smart hdr4 so that's it those are the changes between the iPhone 12 pro and the iPhone 13 pro. Let me know what you guys think about it.
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