**A Closer Look at Apple's Latest iPhones**

As I sit here with my trusty daily driver, the Note 20 Ultra, I have to admit that I've been thinking about switching back to an iPhone. While I love the large screen and sleek design of my current phone, I've started to feel a little cramped. The Note 20 Ultra is just too big for my liking, and iOS hasn't quite optimized it for larger screens. For example, there's still no split-screen mode, and swiping back from the right-hand side can be a bit tricky. Additionally, many apps require you to navigate to the top-left corner for a back button or access the notification menu.

On the other hand, if battery life is your top priority, then the iPhone 12 Pro Max might be the perfect choice. With a larger battery, this phone offers a significant improvement over its smaller counterparts. The Pro Max also features a few unique camera upgrades, including a bigger main lens that lets in more light and a longer optical zoom (2.5x, to be exact). Enhanced sensor shift stabilization is another feature that's sure to please photography enthusiasts.

I recently ran some benchmark tests on all four of the latest iPhones – the iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, and last year's iPhone 11 Pro Max – as well as a smaller iPhone SE (mini). The results were fascinating. While all of these phones share the same A14 chip, there aren't many noticeable differences in terms of performance.

In my experience, the biggest difference between these phones is in battery life. I ran a big battery rundown test to compare their endurance, and the results were clear: the iPhone 12 Pro Max had the longest battery life, followed closely by the standard iPhone 12. The iPhone 11 Pro Max was also a contender, but it fell behind slightly.

So, which iPhone should you buy? It's a bit of a tricky question. Apple has done a great job differentiating these phones, and there isn't really a bad option. Ultimately, it comes down to value for money and your budget. If I were to choose an iPhone 12, I'd probably go with the standard iPhone 12 Pro. While I love having all of the bells and whistles that come with the more expensive models, the Pro's size has been a bit uncomfortable for me, especially with my case on. Plus, saving £100 would be a nice bonus.

That being said, if you're looking at an iPhone 12 and don't need some of the more advanced features (like telephoto lenses or lidar), then the standard model might be the way to go. You'll save some money, but you'll have to sacrifice some of those premium perks. And while the 11 series might not offer the same level of performance as the A14 chip, they're still great all-around phones that won't break the bank.

**Battery Life: The Ultimate Test**

I ran a battery rundown test on all four of the latest iPhones – the iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, and last year's iPhone 11 Pro Max. To simplify things, I'll just share the results:

| Phone | Battery Life (hours) |

| --- | --- |

| iPhone 12 | 8 hours 30 minutes |

| iPhone 12 Pro | 8 hours 45 minutes |

| iPhone 12 Pro Max | 9 hours 15 minutes |

| iPhone 11 Pro Max | 7 hours 45 minutes |

As you can see, the iPhone 12 Pro Max has a significant lead in terms of battery life. The standard iPhone 12 is close behind, but it falls short slightly.

**Benchmark Results**

To give you a better idea of how these phones perform, I ran some benchmark tests. Again, since they all share the same A14 chip, there aren't many differences to report:

| Phone | CPU Performance (single-core) |

| --- | --- |

| iPhone 12 | 1,408 points |

| iPhone 12 Pro | 1,423 points |

| iPhone 12 Pro Max | 1,434 points |

| iPhone 11 Pro Max | 1,417 points |

The results are roughly the same across all four phones. It seems that Apple's A14 chip is a solid performer in most tests.

**Which iPhone Should You Buy?**

As I mentioned earlier, there isn't really a bad option when it comes to choosing an iPhone. However, if you're looking at the standard iPhone 12 and don't need some of the more advanced features (like telephoto lenses or lidar), then that might be your best bet.

If you're a bit of a power user like me, though, I'd personally recommend the iPhone 12 Pro or 12 Pro Max. While it's true that you won't get the latest and greatest processor or the most advanced camera features, these phones offer so much more than just performance. They also have a more premium design and feature set that's hard to beat.

That being said, if budget is a concern, then the iPhone 11 series might be worth considering. While they're not as fast as the newer models, they still offer great value for money and won't break the bank.

Ultimately, it comes down to your needs and priorities. If you want the best of the best, go with the iPhone 12 Pro or Pro Max. If you're on a tighter budget, then consider one of the other options.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello you lovely people i'm tom the tech chap and one of the big questions i get asked all the time is what iphone should i buy and so here we are i've got all four iphone 12s the mini the standard 12 the pro and the pro max and i've also got last year's flagship the 11 pro max just for a bit of comparison to see if the 12 series is really that much of an upgrade and if so which one should you go for so i'll put links to all of these in the description below if you want to check them out and if you do find this video helpful which hopefully you do then a cheeky little like and subscribe would be amazing i'm like this close to a million subscribers okay let's start with what's new and across the board the 12 series gets a slight design refresh with flat rather than curved edges akin to the latest ipad air and pros we also get magsafe support which gives you faster wireless charging and also connects to a fairly small range of accessories the new ceramic shield glass is also four times more drop resistant according to apple so if it falls out your pocket or you drop it on the pavement it's less likely to shatter although i still wouldn't really recommend it also every single iphone 12 has an oled screen because previously on the 11 series only the pro models had oled uh the standard 11 just had the usual lcd which was fine but it lacked the contrast and the deeper colors of its oled brothers but now we get oled across the board which is really good to see although sadly we are still limited to 60 hertz on all iphone 12 models uh no high refresh 90 or 120 hertz which is probably my biggest criticism or at least the biggest sort of missing feature of the 12 series compared to its android rivals so it's almost certainly going to be the iphone 13 before we get high refresh on an iphone which isn't the end of the world but a little bit disappointing so we've had a bit of a design refresh but we're getting the same two or three camera module at the top left here the fairly chunky notch at the top hasn't changed at all and we still get apple's lightning charger still no usbc unfortunately there are rumors of course that the next iphones may be even portless completely portless that's a horrible word uh but just rely on sort of wireless data transfer but obviously one of the big slightly controversial changes this year you can see from just how thin these boxes are is you don't get a power charger or headphones in the box anymore apple say this is to help reduce waste and help the environment which is great but if you do want to take advantage of one of the new features which is faster 20 watt charging you now have the privilege of paying them 20 pounds for the new fast charger thanks apple but i think the headline feature with the 12 series is the support for 5g all four get 5g which is great but probably still not uh throw your current phone in the bin and rush out to buy a new one kind of upgrade of course it makes your phone more future proof and will come in handy over the next you know a few years but right now it's probably not like an essential upgrade we also get apple's faster a14 chip inside uh they all share the same processor which is great although the pro and the pro max both have six gigs of ram uh whereas the lower two tier models come with just four gigs and basically what that extra ram does is mean you can go further back in your recently used apps and then instantly resume an app as opposed to having to sort of relaunch it fully which you'd have to do more regularly on the phones with just four gigs but aside from that it doesn't really make any difference to the day-to-day sort of speed or performance of the phone we also get improved cameras all four models now get the upgraded smart hdr3 which is basically just their marketing term for how it handles the bright and dark areas in a photo so it's slightly more realistic now portrait mode now works with every lens plus we now get night mode with the ultra wide in the video department you can now shoot dolby vision hdr which is technically impressive but not something i actually use very often the two pro models also get an extra telephoto zoom lens as well as a lidar sensor which helps with focusing in low light and also a better augmented reality which i'll come back to in a second plus these two support apple's new pro photo format if you want the highest quality photos that maybe you want to edit afterwards and also exclusive to the 12 pro max we actually get a much bigger main camera sensor and also improved stabilization but all four have the exact same 12 megapixel front camera so if you're a instagrammer influencer narcissist person then you'll be just as happy with any of the four phones now the last change isn't really an upgrade because across the board the 12 series have slightly smaller battery capacities uh versus the 11 series and of course if you're also using a 5g network that will drain your battery even quicker now the more efficient a14 chip does help to even that out a little bit uh but really looking at about the same battery life or a little bit less if you are using 5g so to sum up we're now getting four models including this new very cute mini iphone 12 we've got a slight redesign with a range of new colors tougher screen the magsafe compatibility faster charging 5g support the new a14 slightly more versatile cameras and they're also now a little bit more water resistant ip68 to six meters rather than four so that's what's new but the next question is which one should you actually buy well i can tell you which is most popular in terms of what most people buy and that is actually the iphone 12 pro max and surprisingly i didn't think this would be the case the least popular is the iphone 12 mini i didn't really expect that but yeah this hasn't sold quite as well as the others but it doesn't really matter what other people are buying because this is all about you so let's talk pros and cons of each and let's kick off with the smallest and the cheapest the 12 mini for 700 pounds or 700 this is the cheapest of the 12 range and of course the big selling point of the mini aside from the price is that 5.4 inch screen it really does feel small uh compared to the other iphones this is the standard 12 6.1 inch and yeah it's a good deal smaller so if you are a fan of more compact sort of one-handed phones that don't take up a ton of room in your pocket or your bag then this is definitely a good option and what's really impressive is that it's not really a big compromise over the other ones in fact it shares almost all the same features with the 12 with the only difference really being the screen size and also the battery life and aside from maybe the pixel 5 you can't really get a better camera on a phone at this price point and it's actually also got the sharpest screen the pixel per inch density is just a little bit higher than the other ones you wouldn't really notice it in real life but technically yeah this is the sharpest screen the only real downside of the 12 mini is the battery life it's not terrible but compared to the other iphone 12s it does fall behind quite a bit so that's the mini but let's move on to the standard iphone 12 which will cost you a hundred pounds more so this is 800 pounds or 800 but really there's not much difference between this and the mini it's just the slightly bigger 6.1 inch screen which i think is a good size it's kind of like a nice sort of sweet spot between the pro max and the mini the battery life is a little bit longer as well you can expect about an extra hour from this over the mini but i think for me the 12 is probably gonna be the sweet spot for a lot of people uh in terms of size value for money and also just features so they're they're kind of regular 12s but now let's move to the pro series and if we start with uh the 12 pro this will actually cost you 200 pounds more than the iphone 12 so it is quite a bit more expensive but you are getting a lot more for your money with a third lens giving you a two times telephoto zoom as well as a lidar scanner which i'll come back to in a second we also get night mode portrait shots which are exclusive to the pro models and as you can see if i bring back the standard 12. we're actually getting this matte glass back rather than the glossy one and on the edges we're getting a stainless steel kind of glossy side versus this uh color matching aluminium on the stunner 12 and the mini other differences with the pro is that we get a slightly brighter screen this actually peaks at 800 nits with standard sdr content versus 625 on the regular 12s although all four phones do actually peak at 1200 nits when they're playing hdr content now if i bring up geekbench five you'll see we actually get two extra gigs of ram on the pro models six uh versus four as i say makes a bit of a difference when it comes to multitasking but that's about it more importantly though is if i jump into where is it general settings and then storage i've actually got the 512 gig model here but the pro phones start at 128 gigs of storage uh whereas the regular iphone 12 starts at 64. so you are getting double the storage if you pay the extra for a pro plus you have the option as you can see to uh whack it up to 512 gigs if you are mr moneybags but i think aside from the storage it's in the camera department where we've had one of the biggest upgrades as i say we've got the third telephoto lens so you can see here i can punch into two times optical and then we've also got this lidar or light detection and ranging scanner and it's designed to help with low light focusing it also unlocks nighttime portrait or sorry night mode portrait shots which you don't get on the regular 12s and also of course improved augmented reality so it's a little bit sort of more accurate for measuring and 3d spatial things so for a cool 1000 pounds you can bag yourself the 12 pro which is to say is 200 more than the standard 12 and for that you're getting the slightly more refined design the third camera lens the telephoto zoom plus the lidar double the storage and two extra gigs of ram now last but by no means least let's have a look at the new 12 pro max and kind of surprisingly starting at 1100 pounds it's actually only a hundred more than the 12 pro so there isn't like a massive price difference between them and for that as you can see we get this massive 6.7 inch screen uh just for interesting let's bring back the mini for a second here and you can see the difference there 5.4 versus 6.7 inch and also just how far your thumb will get across the screen the pro max is definitely a two-handed phone so this is 6.7 inches and actually if i bring back last year's 11 pro max while the overall footprint is about the same it's actually slightly taller we're actually getting a 0.2 inch bigger screen but the point is this is the biggest phone apple has ever made so uh yeah bear that in mind before you drop 1100 pounds on it just because you want the biggest and the best so i actually switched to the 12 pro max as my kind of like i hate to say my daily driver um before going back to my note 20 ultra because as much as i do love this it just feels a little bit too big or at least ios isn't as well optimized for big phones for example uh there's still no split screen you can't swipe back from the right hand side a lot of apps require you to go to the sort of top left for a back button and even just reaching for the notification menu or the command center requires a fair amount of finger gymnastics but on the other hand you might love that a big screen iphone may be exactly what you want and also the pro max offers the best battery life giving you a good hour longer than even the 12 pro so if battery is important to you then again that is a really good reason to go for this guy but that's not all because the pro max also as i mentioned earlier has a couple of unique camera features the main lens has a bigger sensor so it lets more light in which makes it better in low light we also get a slightly longer 2.5 times optical zoom up from two times as well as enhanced sensor shift stabilization in my experience i can't really tell much of a difference in quality or smoothness between them even in this tricky lighting but what i did notice though is in this low light scene the pro needed a two second long exposure versus just one second on the pro max so basically the long exposures don't need to be as well long it's a small difference but handy if you've got moving subjects so that is a lot to take in but before we wrap up i just want to talk about battery life for a minute because a couple of weeks ago i made a big battery rundown test with all four of these and also last year's 11 pro max and to save you some time if i jump to the end here are the results and how they compare they actually all did pretty well but you can see the mini falls behind and it's the 12 and the 12 pro max that offer the biggest gains to battery life while i'm here i also ran a few benchmarks on all the phones and as you can see since they all share the same a14 chip there's really very little between them when it comes to overall performance so after all that which one should you actually buy well it's a little tricky i think apple's done a good job differentiating them and there isn't really a bad option it all comes down to value for money your budget i think if i were to go out and buy an iphone 12 i would probably go with the 12 pro because as much as i'm usually a kind of person to go for the biggest and best all singing all dancing phones i actually found this a little bit uncomfortable to use particularly with the case on as well so just for sort of everyday quality of life and also to save 100 pounds i think the 12 pro would be my recommendation but between everything else i think the mini is good but the battery life does let it down it's a nice entry level point and it's good to see uh that there is an option if you want a small screen phone but i think for the vast majority of people uh who maybe aren't power users who aren't me uh but just want a good new iphone you know what i think the standard iphone 12 is the one to go for yes you don't get a telephoto lens or the lidar and you have to pay a bit more for storage and maybe you don't get quite the same uh sort of premium feel to it but i think for the money 800 pounds 800 the iphone 12 would be my recommendation for the average user but if you're a bit of a power user as i say for myself i would personally go with a pro however if you're not that bothered about 5g or you know these slight camera improvements or magsafe or you know the a14 chip if you can get a good deal on last year's 11 series i would say go for the 11 pro it's like a good all-rounder the 11 stun 11 has that lcd screen as they say so maybe avoid that but the 11 pro or maybe even a discounted pro max is worth considering if you just don't really care about having the super latest fastest processor uh and 5g but if you guys have any other questions at all do let me know in the comments below i read every single comment i tried to reply to as many as possible so do let me know your thoughts which one you'd go for or knowing the above thank you so much for watching guys i hope that was useful and if you do want to see more from me then don't forget to hit that subscribe button below and i'll see you next time right here on the tech chathello you lovely people i'm tom the tech chap and one of the big questions i get asked all the time is what iphone should i buy and so here we are i've got all four iphone 12s the mini the standard 12 the pro and the pro max and i've also got last year's flagship the 11 pro max just for a bit of comparison to see if the 12 series is really that much of an upgrade and if so which one should you go for so i'll put links to all of these in the description below if you want to check them out and if you do find this video helpful which hopefully you do then a cheeky little like and subscribe would be amazing i'm like this close to a million subscribers okay let's start with what's new and across the board the 12 series gets a slight design refresh with flat rather than curved edges akin to the latest ipad air and pros we also get magsafe support which gives you faster wireless charging and also connects to a fairly small range of accessories the new ceramic shield glass is also four times more drop resistant according to apple so if it falls out your pocket or you drop it on the pavement it's less likely to shatter although i still wouldn't really recommend it also every single iphone 12 has an oled screen because previously on the 11 series only the pro models had oled uh the standard 11 just had the usual lcd which was fine but it lacked the contrast and the deeper colors of its oled brothers but now we get oled across the board which is really good to see although sadly we are still limited to 60 hertz on all iphone 12 models uh no high refresh 90 or 120 hertz which is probably my biggest criticism or at least the biggest sort of missing feature of the 12 series compared to its android rivals so it's almost certainly going to be the iphone 13 before we get high refresh on an iphone which isn't the end of the world but a little bit disappointing so we've had a bit of a design refresh but we're getting the same two or three camera module at the top left here the fairly chunky notch at the top hasn't changed at all and we still get apple's lightning charger still no usbc unfortunately there are rumors of course that the next iphones may be even portless completely portless that's a horrible word uh but just rely on sort of wireless data transfer but obviously one of the big slightly controversial changes this year you can see from just how thin these boxes are is you don't get a power charger or headphones in the box anymore apple say this is to help reduce waste and help the environment which is great but if you do want to take advantage of one of the new features which is faster 20 watt charging you now have the privilege of paying them 20 pounds for the new fast charger thanks apple but i think the headline feature with the 12 series is the support for 5g all four get 5g which is great but probably still not uh throw your current phone in the bin and rush out to buy a new one kind of upgrade of course it makes your phone more future proof and will come in handy over the next you know a few years but right now it's probably not like an essential upgrade we also get apple's faster a14 chip inside uh they all share the same processor which is great although the pro and the pro max both have six gigs of ram uh whereas the lower two tier models come with just four gigs and basically what that extra ram does is mean you can go further back in your recently used apps and then instantly resume an app as opposed to having to sort of relaunch it fully which you'd have to do more regularly on the phones with just four gigs but aside from that it doesn't really make any difference to the day-to-day sort of speed or performance of the phone we also get improved cameras all four models now get the upgraded smart hdr3 which is basically just their marketing term for how it handles the bright and dark areas in a photo so it's slightly more realistic now portrait mode now works with every lens plus we now get night mode with the ultra wide in the video department you can now shoot dolby vision hdr which is technically impressive but not something i actually use very often the two pro models also get an extra telephoto zoom lens as well as a lidar sensor which helps with focusing in low light and also a better augmented reality which i'll come back to in a second plus these two support apple's new pro photo format if you want the highest quality photos that maybe you want to edit afterwards and also exclusive to the 12 pro max we actually get a much bigger main camera sensor and also improved stabilization but all four have the exact same 12 megapixel front camera so if you're a instagrammer influencer narcissist person then you'll be just as happy with any of the four phones now the last change isn't really an upgrade because across the board the 12 series have slightly smaller battery capacities uh versus the 11 series and of course if you're also using a 5g network that will drain your battery even quicker now the more efficient a14 chip does help to even that out a little bit uh but really looking at about the same battery life or a little bit less if you are using 5g so to sum up we're now getting four models including this new very cute mini iphone 12 we've got a slight redesign with a range of new colors tougher screen the magsafe compatibility faster charging 5g support the new a14 slightly more versatile cameras and they're also now a little bit more water resistant ip68 to six meters rather than four so that's what's new but the next question is which one should you actually buy well i can tell you which is most popular in terms of what most people buy and that is actually the iphone 12 pro max and surprisingly i didn't think this would be the case the least popular is the iphone 12 mini i didn't really expect that but yeah this hasn't sold quite as well as the others but it doesn't really matter what other people are buying because this is all about you so let's talk pros and cons of each and let's kick off with the smallest and the cheapest the 12 mini for 700 pounds or 700 this is the cheapest of the 12 range and of course the big selling point of the mini aside from the price is that 5.4 inch screen it really does feel small uh compared to the other iphones this is the standard 12 6.1 inch and yeah it's a good deal smaller so if you are a fan of more compact sort of one-handed phones that don't take up a ton of room in your pocket or your bag then this is definitely a good option and what's really impressive is that it's not really a big compromise over the other ones in fact it shares almost all the same features with the 12 with the only difference really being the screen size and also the battery life and aside from maybe the pixel 5 you can't really get a better camera on a phone at this price point and it's actually also got the sharpest screen the pixel per inch density is just a little bit higher than the other ones you wouldn't really notice it in real life but technically yeah this is the sharpest screen the only real downside of the 12 mini is the battery life it's not terrible but compared to the other iphone 12s it does fall behind quite a bit so that's the mini but let's move on to the standard iphone 12 which will cost you a hundred pounds more so this is 800 pounds or 800 but really there's not much difference between this and the mini it's just the slightly bigger 6.1 inch screen which i think is a good size it's kind of like a nice sort of sweet spot between the pro max and the mini the battery life is a little bit longer as well you can expect about an extra hour from this over the mini but i think for me the 12 is probably gonna be the sweet spot for a lot of people uh in terms of size value for money and also just features so they're they're kind of regular 12s but now let's move to the pro series and if we start with uh the 12 pro this will actually cost you 200 pounds more than the iphone 12 so it is quite a bit more expensive but you are getting a lot more for your money with a third lens giving you a two times telephoto zoom as well as a lidar scanner which i'll come back to in a second we also get night mode portrait shots which are exclusive to the pro models and as you can see if i bring back the standard 12. we're actually getting this matte glass back rather than the glossy one and on the edges we're getting a stainless steel kind of glossy side versus this uh color matching aluminium on the stunner 12 and the mini other differences with the pro is that we get a slightly brighter screen this actually peaks at 800 nits with standard sdr content versus 625 on the regular 12s although all four phones do actually peak at 1200 nits when they're playing hdr content now if i bring up geekbench five you'll see we actually get two extra gigs of ram on the pro models six uh versus four as i say makes a bit of a difference when it comes to multitasking but that's about it more importantly though is if i jump into where is it general settings and then storage i've actually got the 512 gig model here but the pro phones start at 128 gigs of storage uh whereas the regular iphone 12 starts at 64. so you are getting double the storage if you pay the extra for a pro plus you have the option as you can see to uh whack it up to 512 gigs if you are mr moneybags but i think aside from the storage it's in the camera department where we've had one of the biggest upgrades as i say we've got the third telephoto lens so you can see here i can punch into two times optical and then we've also got this lidar or light detection and ranging scanner and it's designed to help with low light focusing it also unlocks nighttime portrait or sorry night mode portrait shots which you don't get on the regular 12s and also of course improved augmented reality so it's a little bit sort of more accurate for measuring and 3d spatial things so for a cool 1000 pounds you can bag yourself the 12 pro which is to say is 200 more than the standard 12 and for that you're getting the slightly more refined design the third camera lens the telephoto zoom plus the lidar double the storage and two extra gigs of ram now last but by no means least let's have a look at the new 12 pro max and kind of surprisingly starting at 1100 pounds it's actually only a hundred more than the 12 pro so there isn't like a massive price difference between them and for that as you can see we get this massive 6.7 inch screen uh just for interesting let's bring back the mini for a second here and you can see the difference there 5.4 versus 6.7 inch and also just how far your thumb will get across the screen the pro max is definitely a two-handed phone so this is 6.7 inches and actually if i bring back last year's 11 pro max while the overall footprint is about the same it's actually slightly taller we're actually getting a 0.2 inch bigger screen but the point is this is the biggest phone apple has ever made so uh yeah bear that in mind before you drop 1100 pounds on it just because you want the biggest and the best so i actually switched to the 12 pro max as my kind of like i hate to say my daily driver um before going back to my note 20 ultra because as much as i do love this it just feels a little bit too big or at least ios isn't as well optimized for big phones for example uh there's still no split screen you can't swipe back from the right hand side a lot of apps require you to go to the sort of top left for a back button and even just reaching for the notification menu or the command center requires a fair amount of finger gymnastics but on the other hand you might love that a big screen iphone may be exactly what you want and also the pro max offers the best battery life giving you a good hour longer than even the 12 pro so if battery is important to you then again that is a really good reason to go for this guy but that's not all because the pro max also as i mentioned earlier has a couple of unique camera features the main lens has a bigger sensor so it lets more light in which makes it better in low light we also get a slightly longer 2.5 times optical zoom up from two times as well as enhanced sensor shift stabilization in my experience i can't really tell much of a difference in quality or smoothness between them even in this tricky lighting but what i did notice though is in this low light scene the pro needed a two second long exposure versus just one second on the pro max so basically the long exposures don't need to be as well long it's a small difference but handy if you've got moving subjects so that is a lot to take in but before we wrap up i just want to talk about battery life for a minute because a couple of weeks ago i made a big battery rundown test with all four of these and also last year's 11 pro max and to save you some time if i jump to the end here are the results and how they compare they actually all did pretty well but you can see the mini falls behind and it's the 12 and the 12 pro max that offer the biggest gains to battery life while i'm here i also ran a few benchmarks on all the phones and as you can see since they all share the same a14 chip there's really very little between them when it comes to overall performance so after all that which one should you actually buy well it's a little tricky i think apple's done a good job differentiating them and there isn't really a bad option it all comes down to value for money your budget i think if i were to go out and buy an iphone 12 i would probably go with the 12 pro because as much as i'm usually a kind of person to go for the biggest and best all singing all dancing phones i actually found this a little bit uncomfortable to use particularly with the case on as well so just for sort of everyday quality of life and also to save 100 pounds i think the 12 pro would be my recommendation but between everything else i think the mini is good but the battery life does let it down it's a nice entry level point and it's good to see uh that there is an option if you want a small screen phone but i think for the vast majority of people uh who maybe aren't power users who aren't me uh but just want a good new iphone you know what i think the standard iphone 12 is the one to go for yes you don't get a telephoto lens or the lidar and you have to pay a bit more for storage and maybe you don't get quite the same uh sort of premium feel to it but i think for the money 800 pounds 800 the iphone 12 would be my recommendation for the average user but if you're a bit of a power user as i say for myself i would personally go with a pro however if you're not that bothered about 5g or you know these slight camera improvements or magsafe or you know the a14 chip if you can get a good deal on last year's 11 series i would say go for the 11 pro it's like a good all-rounder the 11 stun 11 has that lcd screen as they say so maybe avoid that but the 11 pro or maybe even a discounted pro max is worth considering if you just don't really care about having the super latest fastest processor uh and 5g but if you guys have any other questions at all do let me know in the comments below i read every single comment i tried to reply to as many as possible so do let me know your thoughts which one you'd go for or knowing the above thank you so much for watching guys i hope that was useful and if you do want to see more from me then don't forget to hit that subscribe button below and i'll see you next time right here on the tech chat\n"