The iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max are better than you suppose. So, really, there are only three effects about this phone that are authentically better than the regular 13. And one of them, you could argue, perhaps not that numerous people are actually gone a notice, but the other two are enough big jumps. And so, this feels like enough big upgrade disguised in the same design as last time. So, I reviewed the iPhone 13 formerly, it was before this week. There, I go over Cinematic Mode and the new A15 Bionic, a lower notch, et cetera. This Pro phone has all of that. But also on top of that, the three major effects that this phone does better than the regular 13 would be the screen, the battery, and the cameras.
Now, you might be allowed," Indian chum, that is the same list of three effects you said was better about the 13 than the 12." You'd be right, but this takes a bigger vault in all those effects. So, to start with the screen, the 13 Pro is the same size as the 13 and the 13 Pro Max is bigger, again, the same sizes and judgments as last time, but now, there's a lower notch. Neat. Okay, looks a little better on the bigger screen, indeed though there's no further information on that redundant screen, but also the display is actually noticeably brighter then, indeed versus the 13, it hits,000 nits uttermost brilliance versus the 800 on the 13, and indeed,200 nits peak with HDR, and it's really good. It's viewable far and wide, outside, with great responsive bus- brilliance, and it's still one of the most color-accurate OLED panels out there. But what we are really then for, eventually, is Apple's Pro phones now getting ProMotion, meaning, an adaptive high refresh rate display. - It's about damn time.
Now, this has been really intriguing to watch unfold because it's not just a matter of dropping 120 Hertz display into the phone and also calling it a day, there are a couple of different considerations, nuances, and effects to be suitable to do it well, and also there is whether or not people indeed notice. That are two different effects. So, as a tone-placarded pixel sucker, as someone who is seen a lot of phones, Apple has done this really well and it's, of course, an OLED, but also now down to as low as 10 Hertz. It actually has 12 different refresh rates that it cycles between, which is seven further than the iPad Pro. So, this helps it respond to exactly what is passing on the display. So, if you are watching a 24 fps movie, the display only needs to refresh 24 times per second, but if you are scrolling through a website or social media, it will be nice and smooth. perhaps for gaming, it's projected at 120 Hertz, but if you are just sitting on a home screen or reading some textbook, like a dispatch, nothing's passing on the screen, it can go all the way down to 10 Hertz, which can save battery.
So, this tech has been around for times in other phones, and it's great. So, the intriguing part is different phones ramp up at different times, for different reasons, and for different quantities. So, an illustration is like, no matter how high a refresh rate of an Android phone I have, it's always 60 Hertz for Google Charts. Anytime I open Google Charts, the whole rest of the phone announcement panel, using the app, it's each 60 Hertz. presumably, to save battery 'cause it's a GPS-heavy app, but that is one thing it always does. So, it turns out there have been a lot of places where people have noticed the iPhone does not ramp all the way up to 120 Hertz. Now, I have noticed, just from using a whole ton of different apps, that I was actually enough impressed by how numerous are formerly using 120 Hertz robustness. And all of these apps, outside and out, felt smoother and more responsive. But for those that don't, Apple has put out detailed instructions on how to make it easy for inventors to modernize their apps to completely support the creation, exactly the way they want to.
So, when your favorite apps get streamlined, hopefully, the inventors include them. But all that being said, will regular people who get this phone indeed notice ProMotion? And this is a commodity I have allowed a lot about, especially since the advertisement. Of course, lots of other phones have gotten high refresh rates in history, but because it's an iPhone, this is for millions of people who have only ever, this will be first time they saw a high refresh rate screen on a phone. And so, this is the thing I have been talking about for so long. So, when I actually first got this phone, I started handing it to people, independently, of course, but handing it to them like," Hey, do you notice anything different about this phone? Like, swipe around, perhaps hold it coming to your current phone.
Do you feel like it feels any different?" Different people had different things about it that they noticed. Like, there's a really good video by Joshua Chang, where he did that same thing. He handed the phone to a bunch of people and they all had different ways of explaining what they noticed. So, some of them didn't notice, but some of them notice things like texts staying crisper on the screen while you're scrolling. Some people just straight up notice the better smoothness and touch responsiveness, and called that out. So, I'll put it this way. Not everyone will notice ProMotion right away, especially if they're not looking for it, but... But, I don't have... I'm not crazy. It's not like I have special eyes or anything.
So, I guarantee you this, if you get somebody used to 120 Hertz or just high refresh rate in general and they use this phone for a couple weeks, couple months, and then you hand them back a 60 Hertz phone, they will notice that difference and they won't wanna switch back to it. Basically, I think people who buy this Pro iPhone and get used to ProMotion won't wanna switch back to a 60 Hertz iPhone, just like people who switched to a high refresh rate Android phone don't wanna switch back either. But also, I'm kind of hoping Apple doesn't ship another 60 Hertz iPhone next year.
Either way, that's my stance on the high refresh rate, the ProMotion, in the Pro iPhones. It's super color-accurate, it's very bright, it looks great, and it's very smooth. So, despite the notch and some apps needing to be updated, it's one of the best-looking screens on any phone right now and, going with LTPO, led these phones with their new high refresh rates, also be battery champs. So, this is the second big thing about these new phones, which is, holy smokes, man! The batteries got really good. Now, there are a couple of different compounding factors that all pile on top of each other to make this happen. The fact that the ProMotion dips below 60 Hertz to save you battery when you don't need it is number one. But number two, And then the fact that these phones are actually slightly thicker and heavier to support an actually larger battery is a really big number three. So, the battery inside the 13 Pro is about 11% larger than the 12 Pro and the 13 Pro Max cell is about 18% larger than the 12 Pro Max. That's not a small amount and you can actually feel it in the weight. These new phones are about 20 grams heavier than last year and probably heavier than the phone you're holding right now. And the results have been dope. I've mostly been dallying the 13 Pro here and getting six, seven hours of screen on time.
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