Today we're talking about the iPhones that's right I got the 13 mini I love this size and
the 13 pro and you know we're going to talk about the five main differences and then also
at the very end i'm going to talk about which one I am going to stick with for possibly
the rest of this year it was a very tough decision and there's a good chance you may
be surprised to see which one I pick that all being said let's get started so the biggest
difference one of the ones you're gonna notice all the time is the size I mean there is a
big difference in size you got the 5.4 inch with the mini to the 6.1 inch with the pro
with all that you also have just the heaviness of the pro I mean the pro feels like it weighs
a ton compared to the mini and I think it's also just you know since it's bigger it's
harder to hold you got all that going for you as well so that is a big difference some
people like the smaller phones some people like the larger phones and it's it's all preference
on what you want obviously if you want to go case-less this is the best phone to get
because it's so easy to hold you're not probably going to drop it at least not because of the
size of it for sure next up along with the size it's that screen so we have the 120Hz
pro motion display this thing you won't really notice that promotion you won't really notice
that 120Hz unless you have something comparing it to and then if you do buy the pro and you
use it long enough then you're just gonna not notice it either so i've had the iPad
Pro for many many years now and it's has that pro motion display it's got 120Hz and when
I close apps and all that stuff that's when you notice it on here but i've gotten so used
to it on my on my pro my iPad pro that I don't even notice it anymore and same thing when
I use this for a week without using this one you just don't notice it anymore and it's
nice let me say that if you're a big gamer that's probably where you're going to notice
it the most but for the most part the part where I really notice it is just how smooth
it is to close them out so that's one thing that you do get with promotion your apps will
close butterly smooth other than that you do get a thousand nits of brightness with
the 13 pro and when you're out in the sun you can really tell that compared to the 13
mini or even the 12 like I believe that was only 625 nits on the 12 mini this one I believe
is 800 now and both of these can get 1200 nits with HDR content which is great but man
like that thousand nits of brightness comes in handy like crazy when you're outside in
the sun with being able to tell and actually read the screen a lot easier without struggling
with the sun in your face and or on your screen next on the list battery life so according
to apple's reports this can get 22 hours of playback time this one gets 17 hours of playback
time doesn't sound like I mean that's what five hours of difference doesn't sound like
too crazy but if you think about it in a 24-hour day you get five extra hours of usage that's
a lot like I love the mini I do the battery is not the best and if you watch my previous
video this battery seems to degrade faster so that's another thing that you might have
to deal with this but overall like I love this size but man like I will have to like
lately because you know when you get new hardware you use it way more than after a while and
I have noticed that i've had to charge this throughout the day where this one it holds
up man this thing I still have battery life at the end of the day where this one if I
want to make it through the day i'm probably going to charge it now with my job i'm always
on a computer it's not a problem like a lot of the times I will have my phone connected
to my computer anyway because of developing purposes so for me it's not a problem but
for other people if you're away from your computer or from power that battery life is
really nice another kind of smaller thing to know is that this does come with a five
core gpu where this one only has four so if you are a big gamer this one's gonna do a
little bit better than this one it's something I guess so now on to probably the biggest
feature for most people the cameras so apple talks about how this has a 6x optical range
where this one only has two so i'm not really sure like because they go all the way down
to that point five you know your ultra wide angle and then all the way to that 3x zoom
and then also you get that macro with this one so the mini now does have the cameras
that were in the pro max of last year's model which is just astonishing that they they were
able to put these I mean look at these things those things are massive it's insane that
they got such amazing cameras in this small phone I will give apple props to that because
this thing can take some amazing photos but of course they couldn't keep the pro having
the same so they did increase the aperture of all the cameras and then you get that 3x
now optical zoom which is really nice also with the pro is you will be getting that pro
res when that comes out it seems to be in the current beta so i'm expecting it very
soon and you get the pro raw photos which if you're a pro photographer that's a nice
little add-on just to have to have more control over your photos the pro also has that little
lidar which helps with night shot modes which this can't do as well because it doesn't have
that lidar that lighter can see in the dark or this one cannot the aperture is also different
on the two if that means anything to you I believe the wide is a 1.5 versus a 1.6 and
the ultra wide is a 1.8 versus a 2.4 that really helps with like getting the background
kind of more blurry even without the cinematic mode for videos and the portrait mode and
it just lets more light in to just let the pictures look better in all different kind
of conditions but back on to the cinematic mode that works the same on both which is
really nice I mean i'm sure there's a little bit of a difference on the pro since it does
have a little bit better camera but as far as right now it works only in 1080p 30 frames
a second and that's all you get on either of these should you upgrade well if you have
the 12 model probably not unless you're wanting to jump from a pro to a mini or a mini to
a pro you're better off just keeping because the upgrades aren't that much the screen brightness
is probably going to be the biggest thing you might notice day to day and that's that's
pretty much the biggest upgrade reason is just to be able to read your phone easier
when there's a lot of light around but what am I going to do so I have gone back and forth
like no other with which phone am I gonna keep i've honestly even had to contact apple
a couple times to switch which one I'm sending back so it's it's very tough but I am going
with the pro what bro what are you talking about man oh I know I know I am a huge fan
of the mini iPhone I still think it is one of the best iPhones apple has ever made I
honestly like it more than the pro but here's the difference my kids are in sports that
pro that 3x zoom on the pro is amazing to have see last year with Covid sports were
canceled so not having a zoom lens was just not a big deal at all last year but now they're
back in sports my youngest is playing soccer they're both going to be playing basketball
here in the next month and having that zoom really helps because I don't want to carry
another camera around my wife has a camera but as far as video and stuff I want to be
able to use my iPhone because that's where I can actually watch the videos again really
easy and that 3x zoom and that battery life is super nice to have in those use cases but
honestly i've been carrying this around for a week now and it's so big it's so heavy this
thing is so nice to hold I know i'm gonna regret this decision when sports are over
but that's the other good thing with the pro is if I do ever change my mind I can sell
this or somebody would gladly trade this for one of these so I have that to go fall back
on so that's why i'm going with the pro for at least now it was it was a very very tough
decision I even bought one of those little add-on lenses and tried that out and it just
did not work well trying to get it to focus I think it's because it was built for the
smaller phones and these lenses are so huge now that it just was just not not good at
all which one are you gonna pick are you gonna pick one are you keeping your 12 your 11 your
10 whatever you have are you just gonna keep that for now and wait for the 14 there's no
there's no reason not to I mean it's all up to you guys on what your needs are for me
sticking with the pro for now may switch back to this one before too long because I love
this phone and it's finally red which is it looks so good but yeah I hope you guys have
a great rest of your day God bless