On November 6, the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max go up for pre-order. Before that, though, some early hands-on impressions for both handsets have surfaced from media outlets.
iPhone 12 Pro orders on the online Apple store have slipped to late November and into early December because Apple is facing severe component shortages across multiple product lines.
Apple is not shy about touting the capabilities of its A-series processors. That's certainly the case with the A14 Bionic, which the company introduced earlier this year.
Despite its small stature, the iPhone 12 mini supports the same features as its larger brethren in the lineup. That includes wireless charging with MagSafe. However, there's a catch.
Apple's upcoming MagSafe Duo charger has been approved by South Korea's National Radio Research Agency (NRRA), indicating that a launch may be imminent.
Ahead of the upcoming pre-orders for the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max, German-language blog Macerkopf.de had a chance to play with Apple's new leather cases in all three iPhone 12 sizes, here's the site's short hands-on video.
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Want to fast-charge your iPhone 12 with Apple's discontinued 18W power adapter that you previously used for fast-changing your older iPhone? Not so fast — that 18W charger that came in the box with your iPhone 11/iPad Pro won't fast-charge the latest iPhone 12 lineup. For that, you'll need Apple's new 20W charger which must be purchased separately for $19 a pop.
According to sources at Taiwan-based supply chain makers, the Cupertino technology giant Apple has now increased orders for time-of-flight LiDAR scanners that are used on the latest iPhones, reportedly thanks to strong demand for the iPhone 12 Pro smartphones.
Apple today announced Clips 3.0, a major new version of its video creation app for the social age, with features like HDR recording on the latest iPhones, an overhauled interface, support for both landscape and portrait orientations and much more.
Apple has teamed up with Corning Glass to create a new optically transparent material, called Ceramic Shield, to protect the iPhone 12 display. According to Apple, the new Ceramic Shield front cover provides "the biggest jump in durability ever on the iPhone" and is "tougher than any smartphone glass." But as a new torture test shows, the actual scratch resistance of the new iPhone 12 displays is comparable to the previous iPhone smartphones.
VentureBeat's Jeremy Horwitz points us to a new Apple filing with the United States Federal Communications Commission in which the Cupertino technology group hints at a possible new feature that appears to be similar to wireless power sharing on Samsung’s recent phones.