iPhone 12, 12 Per, 12 Per Max and 11 mini: Apple’s 5G smartphones in the test Thinner housing Continuous OLED screens Ceramic hardening A 14 – Chip, battery life and benchmarks Photos & Videos Radio modules: 5G and Wi-Fi 6 Missing accessories, MagSafe and conclusion Test table After many competitors already had smartphones with 5G in their portfolio, Apple followed suit quite late. While the others often cannot use all frequency bands in Germany, the iPhone 12 everything is correct from the beginning.

But let’s start with what you see right away: The design has changed radically. Instead of cozy curves, Apple is again using clear edges and thus reducing the size of the housing with the same screen diagonal (compared to the iPhone 10) or enlarges the screen diagonal without the external dimensions noticeably increasing (compared to the iPhone 11 Per). There are also new colors.

In addition, buyers of the iPhone expect 12 better processors, graphics units and cameras, as well as harder glass and faster induction charging. Only with the batteries there are steps backwards to the previous models.

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