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Apple iPhone 12 and 12 Pro first impressions: 5G ready, widgets on home screen, Hollywood-style Dolby Vision processing
- The four handsets in the iPhone 12 series mark Apple’s first iteration of 5G phones, and all run on a 5nm chip, which is smaller, speedier and more efficient
- They look more boxy than previous iPhone models, and the cameras have Hollywood-level processing power
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Compared to rival Android brands, Apple has traditionally refused to rely on raw numbers on a specs sheet to market its phones, because to the company, all that mattered was real-world performance.
It’s hard to argue with that, considering how well iPhones perform, but with this year’s iPhone 12 series, it’s hard not to focus on at least one number: five. It is, after all, Apple’s first foray into 5G – which should be a game changer – and these phones run on Apple’s new chip that’s the first in the world built on 5nm technology.
I’ve spent the past six days testing the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, two of the four phones in this year’s line-up.
Design and hardware
The most notable change in the new iPhones is the boxy look. The 12 and 12 Pro are the same size, with the same 6.1-inch OLED screen, and both run on the A14 Bionic chip.
The differences are mostly found in the cameras: the Pro has a telephoto zoom camera and a Lidar (light detection and ranging) sensor in addition to the 12-megapixel main and ultra-wide-angle cameras, whereas the standard iPhone 12 only has the latter two.
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