io-tech tested Apple’s new iPhone 12 smartphone with a suggested retail price of € 929.
The year turned to fall again and it also means that Apple has brought new iPhone smartphones to stores. From the first iPhone 12 series to the io-Tech test, the new basic model of the collection iPhone 12. With a starting price of 929 euros, the phone is 100 euros more expensive than the basic model of the previous year, but as a counterbalance to the price increase, the phone’s features have been brought closer to the Pro range with narrower screen borders and higher resolution. With the OLED panel. Unfortunately, despite the price increase, the phone has also taken a backpack compared to its predecessor, reducing the battery capacity to almost 300 mAh.
The basic features of the iPhone 12 include the manufacturer’s new A 14 system chip, 4 GB of RAM memory and, depending on the model, either 64, 128 or 256 gigabytes of storage . The battery has a size 2815 mAh and the AC adapter that charges it must be done separately, as Apple will no longer ship the charger with your phone to save your carbon footprint. The cameras in the phone are handled by two 12 megapixel sensors, one of which is a traditional 26 mm wide camera and another wider 13 mm ultra-wide angle camera
The test article introduces the iPhone 12 a little shorter than the full routine based on just over a week of round-the-clock user experience.
Apple has released iOS 14.2.1 with a number of fixes, including for one that the company says will address problems with the lock screen becoming unresponsive on the iPhone 12 mini.
The iPhone 12 mini was officially released on Friday, but users reported sensitivity issues with the lock screen shortly after. Some users had problems swiping up from the bottom of the lock screen when trying to unlock their phone as well as issues pressing the flashlight or camera buttons.
It’s unclear exactly what caused the lock screen problems, and I haven’t run into any on my iPhone 12 mini that I got on Friday. Apparently, Apple found something it could fix, though, and hopefully this update resolves the issue for those who were having problems.
Apple says that iOS 14.2.1 will also fix issues with some MMS messages not being received and addressing sound quality issues with some Made for iPhone hearing devices. If you want to download and install the update right now, you should be able to access it from the Software Update menu in the Settings app. (I’ve already fully installed the update on my device.)
Apple has updated its store listing for the still-unreleased MagSafe Duo charger with some more information on how the accessory will perform with various power adapters. As noted by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the Duo charges at up to 11W with a 20W USB-C adapter, maxing out at 14W with an adapter that’s 27W or higher.
That means that when paired with Apple’s $19 20W adapter, the company’s cheapest option for USB-C charging, the MagSafe Duo can’t deliver as much power to the iPhone 12 as the 15W solo MagSafe charger. It also means that the fastest possible 14W option can’t match the regular MagSafe puck, either — and Apple’s best option for that will be the $49 30W adapter that’s packaged with the MacBook Air.
At $129, the MagSafe Duo was already going to be a pricey accessory that we wouldn’t recommend to most people. This latest information makes it seem even more niche, at a potential total cost of almost $180 to unlock its not particularly fast top speed. That said, it could still be a convenient, compact option for Apple Watch users who don’t want to bring along two separate chargers and cables when traveling.
The MagSafe Duo doesn’t have a release date yet; it’s listed as “coming soon.”
Apple’s new in-house M1 chip is officially on the market. The first reviews and benchmarks are starting to pop up, so we’re gathering everything we know about it into one handy place, which we’ll update as we learn more.
Apple M1 Cheat Sheet: Key details at a glance
Release Date:
Ships Week of 11/16
Found in:
MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini
Architecture:
Arm-based
CPU Cores:
8-core CPU
Nm Process:
5nm
Graphics:
Integrated 8-core GPU with 2.6 teraflops of throughput
Memory:
8GB or 16GB of LPDDR4X-4266 MHz SDRAM
Apple M1 Release Date
The first computers with Apple’s M1 chip are
already up for purchase
. To try it, you’re going to have to choose between one of the three new products that feature the chip: the new
MacBook Air
, the
13-inch MacBook Pro
or the
Mac Mini
. Each comes with two configurations using the M1. The MacBook Pro also still has two Intel configurations on offer, and the Mac Mini has one Intel processor offering.
Apple started shipping out M1 device purchases this week.
Apple M1 Price
The M1 is a mobile chip, so you have to get it built into one of Apple’s machines.
The Mac Mini starts at $699 with 256GB of storage, making it the cheapest way to get an M1 processor. The price range stretches all the way to $2,099, which will net you the 13-inch MacBook Pro with 2TB of storage.
Pricing is largely down to the specifics of your purchase. But so far, it doesn’t seem like M1 Macs will be significantly more expensive than Intel-based Intel counterparts. The M1 MacBook Air configuration that is most similar to the Intel MacBook Air we reviewed earlier this year is $1,249, for instance, which is $50 cheaper than last year’s version. The $999 starting price remains unchanged.
Apple M1 Specs
Here’s the M1’s bread-and-butter. What does Apple’s new Arm-based chip have that Intel’s x86 architecture doesn’t? Well, it uses a
5nm process
, for one. By comparison, even
Intel’s 7nm process
isn’t expected to start hitting its products until at least 2022. Apple’s CPU has 8 cores, which you would typically need to step up to Intel’s H-series product stack to get on mobile chips.
Four of the M1’s cores are dedicated to high-power performance, while the other 4 are for low-power efficiency. That evens out to a 10W thermal envelope overall, with the low power cores supposedly taking up a tenth of the power needed for the high-power cores. The chip also has a total of 16 billion transistors.
The M1 is also a system on a chip (SOC) with integrated graphics and onboard memory. The included GPU has 8 cores as well, with 128 total compute units and 2.6 teraflops of throughput (there is one exception here: the entry level MacBook Air uses a version of the M1 with a 7-core GPU). The “unified memory” replaces the need for separate RAM, meaning that the chip comes with either 8GB or 16GB of LPDDR4X-4266 MHz SDRAM, depending on your device.
The M1 also has a separate 16-core neural engine for machine learning tasks.
(Image credit: Apple)
Apple M1 Native Performance
The core drawback to the M1 chip right now is that, because it uses a different architecture and instruction set from Intel or AMD parts, it won’t be able to run x86 apps without emulating them. Developers are already on the case, with Microsoft saying it’s working on a version of Microsoft Office that will run natively on M1 machines and Adobe saying that it’s working on an M1-native creative suite. But early adopters might have to wait a bit to get the most performance they can out of their new chips.
When the M1 does get to run natively, though, it seems to pack some serious power.
Engadget
reports that the M1 MacBook Air had Geekbench 5 results of 1,619/6,292. That’s well above their results for the
2020 i7 MacBook Air
, which were 1,130/3,053. Meanwhile, the Tiger Lake
Dell XPS 13 9310
scored in 1,496/5,254 on our own Geekbench 5.0 benchmarks, while the
ThinkPad X1 Carbon Extreme Gen 3
with an Intel Core i7-10850H chip scored 1,221/6,116.
The M1’s single-core score also beats the 27-inch 2020 Core i9 iMac’s single-core score, which only hit 1,246. It loses out to the iMac’s 9,046 multi-core score, but that officially gives the M1 higher single-core test results out of any Intel Macs, even desktops.
Outlets like The Verge also tested the M1, but under different conditions. Using a MacBook Pro and testing with Geekbench 5.3, The Verge found its review unit scored 1,730/7,510 points.
We’re curious to see how the M1 stacks against a potential 8-core Tiger Lake chip down the line, as well as AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 processors, which are also looking to take Intel’s CPU crown. For now, though, the M1 is looking to be the fastest mobile chip you can buy.
Apple M1 Emulated Performance
Finally, we reach the biggest potential drawback for the M1: Since the Apple M1 uses a completely new architecture (at least new for Macs), it can’t natively run apps designed for x86 chips. Instead, it has to emulate them. Apple’s built a tool to let users easily do this, called Rosetta 2, but running apps through Rosetta 2 means they’re going to take a performance hit.
Official reviews are reporting on emulation more anecdotally rather than with official numbers, but user
Geekbench results
show that, even when emulating apps, the M1 chip is still faster than Intel counterparts. On November 14th, a user posted test results for an M1-equipped MacBook Air running the x86 version of Geekbench. The machine earned a single-core score of 1,313 and a multi-core score of 5,888. That’s about 79% as powerful as the native scores for the same machine, which were 1,687 on single-core and 7,433 on multi-core. Still, even the emulated scores are higher than any other Intel Mac on single-core, including the 2020 27-inch iMac with a Core i9 processor. As for the multi-core score, it’s still much higher than the 3,067 score of the Core i7 2020 MacBook Air.
Keep in mind that performance varies from program to program, however. When The Verge tested the x86 version of Adobe Creative Cloud on its MacBook Pro review unit, the publication came across a bug that consistently halved its export bitrate. The publication said that export times stayed flat even when running multiple 4K exports in a row, suggesting strong performance, but it’s a good reminder that emulation still has drawbacks even if benchmark results look strong.
Again, this is a place where we’re looking forward to seeing how the M1 fares against the newest Intel and AMD chips. Because the M1 isn’t going to be running at its best here, other chipmakers might be able to make up the current performance gap more easily in upcoming mobile chip releases.
(Image credit: Annapurna Interactive)
Apple M1 Graphics Performance
With Apple M1-equipped machines already starting to hit the public, preliminary benchmark results are starting to show up on the GFXBench browser. And while the 8-core, 128 CU, 2.6-teraflop chip’s obviously not going to compete with recent behemoths like the RTX 3000 series or even with older yet higher-end discrete GPUs like the GTX 1080, it does beat old standards like the Radeon RX 560 and the GTX 1050 Ti.
For instance, on high-level GFXBench tests like 1440p Manhattan 3.1.1, the Apple M1 hit 130.9 frames per second, while the 1050 Ti only hit 127.4 fps and the Radeon RX 560 was capped out at 101.4 fps. Meanwhile, on the more intensive Aztec Ruins High Tier test, the M1 hit 77.4 fps while the GTX 1050 Ti maxed out at 61.4 fps. The Radeon RX 560 did perform best in this test, with a score of 82.5 fps, but generally has lower frame rates across most tests.
Meanwhile, Ars Technica found that the M1 scored 11,476 points in 3DMark’s Slingshot Extreme Unlimited GPU test, as compared to the iPad Pro 2020’s score of 9,978 and the iPhone 12 Pro’s score of 6,226.
While it’s tricky to try to judge overall chip performance off of a few online and mobile benchmarks, these tests are the best official benchmark results we have right now. Still, reviews are making strong anecdotal claims as well. Engadget said that The Pathless runs at a solid 60 fps on its review MacBook Air, as does Fortnite at 1,400 x 900.
Apple M1 Battery Life
Despite packing more processing power overall, the M1 chip comes with 4 low-power cores that help it conserve battery life. Apple’s saying that this gives M1-equipped machines “the best battery life ever on a Mac,” which it tested by wirelessly browsing the web with brightness set to “8 clicks from the bottom” and by playing FHD videos under the same brightness settings. These tests are far from comprehensive, but reviews generally tend to place M1 Macs either around or above current Intel counterparts.
According to Engadget’s battery benchmarks, which “involved looping an HD video,” the M1 MacBook Air can stay powered on for up to 16 hours and 20 minutes, which is about 5 hours more than the publication’s numbers for the latest Intel MacBook Air. That’s also about 7 hours more than we got on our own battery benchmark for the the latest Intel MacBook Air.
The Verge found that the M1 MacBook Pro’s numbers are a little less impressive, which is to be expected with more power. The publication claimed to “easily get 10 hours on a charge” and said it had to resort to running 4K YouTube videos on Chrome in the background to drop that down to 8 hours.
The Verge is less optimistic on MacBook Air, though, saying it’s getting “between 8 and 10 hours of real, sustained work.”
macOS Big Sur, iPhone and iPad Apps
One of the coolest new features of the M1 chip is that, because it uses the same processor architecture as the iPhone and iPad, it can now run apps designed for those devices natively. However, reviewers are skeptical of this feature’s current implementation.
First, you’ll have to download these programs through the Mac app store using a filter, since developers still aren’t allowed to directly distribute iOS apps even on more traditional systems. Second, you’ll find that many of your favorites won’t be available, like Gmail, Slack and Instagram. That’s because developers are allowed to opt out of making their apps available on Mac, which plenty seem to be opting for. Third, apps that require touch input direct you to a series of unintuitive “touch alternatives,” like pressing space to tap in the center of a window or using the arrow keys to swipe.
The Verge called using iOS apps on Mac a “messy, weird experience,” in part because the apps that are available are “from developers that haven’t been updated to be aware of newer devices.” While Overcast, a podcast app, worked great for The Verge, HBO Max was stuck to a small window that couldn’t be resized and couldn’t play fullscreen videos.
Playing iOS games also proved to be a chore for some reviewers, as
TechCrunch
noted. The publication tried the iOS version of Among Us on an M1 MacBook Air and found that, while it ran smoothly, using the trackpad to emulate a touchscreen was a chore. There’s also an option to operate a virtual touchscreen with your mouse, but as the reviewer also ran across a fixed window size with no full screen functionality, it’s clear that gaming on M1 still has a way to go.
The elephant in the room here across all experiences seems to be the lack of a touchscreen. We were hoping Apple would announce touchscreen Macs during its ‘One More Thing’ event earlier this month. But with no word on those yet, it’s hard for iOS apps on M1 to feel like more than an afterthought. There’s also the lack of support from big developers, who are probably waiting for these kinks, like no touchscreen support, to work themselves out.
How many people really want a small smartphone? If you sort small phones in the Pricewatch from 2020 – maximum 15 x6,6cm for example – then you will only find two models: the iPhone SE 2020 and iPhone 12 mini, not coincidentally from the same manufacturer: Apple.
In the category of slightly larger phones, there is plenty of choice with, for example, the Google Pixel 4a and Samsung Galaxy S 20, but those phones are a lot bigger. A new phenomenon is not: phones have been getting bigger for years and Sony’s Compact series of small smartphones started way back in 2013.
With the arrival of the iPhone 12 mini, the question arises whether this step by Apple will find. In short: will we now see more smartphones with a really small housing?
Figures An average phone has become increasingly larger in recent years. This is evident from figures in our Pricewatch. If we look at the size of the average telephone, then every year a little bit is added, especially in length.
In figures you can also see this: the average goes from 14, 5x7cm in 2014 to 16 x7.5cm now. But what is striking: phones in 2014 weren’t really small either. For example, the iPhone 12 mini is 13, 1×6.4cm, a lot smaller than the 14, 5x7cm of the Moto G 2nd Gen which was average in 2014.
This shows a clear trend: phones are getting a lot longer and a little bit wider. That corresponds to screen proportions: where phones in 2014 to 2016 almost all have a 16: 9 screen, it now fluctuates between 19: 9 and 21: 9. This has resulted in screens appearing much larger – diagonals of 6.5 “are now quite normal – while screens are mainly longer.
The width has increased a bit, but even wider phones hold less hold tight and don’t fit so well in trouser pockets, which are some of the reasons why phones have gotten longer.
An iPhone 12 mini can be called small with 13, 1×6, 4cm The same goes for Sony’s Compact phones from a few years ago, the latest of which is the XZ2 Compact from 13, 5×6.5cm. As telephones are now longer, we have taken 14 x6,6cm as the limit for a small phone.
If you fill in that and look at how many phone models comply with it, then that will indeed become less and less. In 2014 these were 30 percent of all models, now less than 1 percent. Except d e iPhone 12 mini only satisfies the iPhone SE 2020 to that format
But maybe that is unfair and so we have used another calculation method. How many phones have appeared with no more than three-quarters of the surface – length times width – of an average phone of that year?
The percentages are lower, but the picture is the same: many phones have around the same area. Obviously, there is arguing about where you should set the boundary of ‘small’, but the picture is that the number of small telephones in absolute and relative terms has fallen to almost zero in recent years.
The why Would you buy a phone with a single camera, without 5G and with a battery life of half a day? If you think this does not sound like an attractive offer, you will immediately see why hardly anyone has a small phone in their range anymore.
Because the number of components that manufacturers want to put into phones is serious grown. Multiple cameras, some with large sensors, a high capacity battery and the antennas to receive 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, wifi, bluetooth, NFC and GPS all take up space.
Sony – the great example in the Android field that compact phones are possible – looked for the thickness with its Compact series. The XZ2 Compact from 2018 is therefore relatively small, but with 12, 1mm very thick; the average at the time was around 8.5mm. This allowed a 2870 mAh battery in it.
The battery capacity is also where iPhones sacrifice. The iPhone SE 2020 has a 1821 mAh battery, the iPhone 12 mini does it with a 2227 mAh battery and that’s about half the that of an average smartphone today. The housing thereof is 7.4 mm or thin again.
The fact that Apple can get away with that is partly due to the economy of iOS: Apple’s phones squeeze a relatively long battery life from their small batteries. . The iPhone SE scores about average on our battery tests, maybe slightly below.
That is also what top people of Xiaomi subsidiary brand Redmi have said. Smaller phones are possible, but then you lose battery life, Wang Cheng Tomas said on Weibo this summer. Other manufacturers don’t let on the record know anything, but the portfolio speaks volumes: Samsung has stopped smaller models such as the A3 phones and the S 10 e did not get a successor either. Xiaomi also did not give smaller models a successor and Sony stopped its Compact phones. Google is the only one to make the opposite step this year: the Pixel 4 XL didn’t get a successor, and the Pixel 4a and 5 are among the smallest phones released this year.
These are all technical reasons , but there are other considerations as well. The use of telephones is increasingly about video on, for example, TikTok, YouTube or Netflix. So many people want a bigger screen for that reason. A smaller screen is more suitable for users who mainly use phones as a means of communication, for example WhatsApp and e-mail.
Figures on this are difficult to find, but when it comes to smartphones with small screens you can do conclude the following: if they had been a big and resounding success, we would have seen more small telephones by now. Manufacturers such as Samsung and Sony would never stop with small phones if there was sufficient demand.
Outside the mainstream, some niche phones with a small housing have appeared. Among these are, for example, last year’s Palm Phone, although it only worked as a secondary telephone with the American provider Verizon Wireless. Another initiative is the Unihertz Jelly 2 from earlier this year, a 3 “screen phone that was available to order through Kickstarter. The campaign has been successful, so he’s coming to backers next month There are 5323, which sounds like a lot until you consider that more than a billion smartphones are sold annually.
Finally The release of the iPhone 12 mini will be followed with great interest in all boardrooms of smartphone makers. How do users respond? What is the battery life? Do people think this size is fine or is it too small? It is like a large-scale user test for the smartphone market.
If the iPhone 12 mini flies out of the stores and produces satisfied users, then it is obvious that there will also be Android models with smaller cases – if only to try and get a piece of the pie Each phone is a compromise but which compromises are the most acceptable? Could the battery be smaller? Can a camera be removed? Can there be a function? How fat can we make him?
Those are all questions that could arise. But with the disappearance of the XL versions of the Google Pixel phones and the appearance of the iPhone 12 mini in any case it is clear that the compact phone is not completely gone yet. The market segment still exists, but the question is whether it will grow in the coming period or whether it will remain small.
Orders for the new iPhone 12 mini have started arriving for customers, and the team at iFixit did a two-part teardown—of both an EU and US model— to figure out how Apple managed to include 5G hardware and the usual iPhone components into such a little device.
The first thing you notice looking at the internal images is the smaller battery in the mini, which measures up to similar iPhone models surprisingly well, iFixit finds, with 8.57 Wh.
“That’s more juice than the iPhone SE 2020‘s 6.96 Wh, but understandably short of the 10.78 Wh of the standard 12 it’s stacked on top of,” iFixit notes. It’s less than the 10.78 Wh of the iPhone 12 battery, though.
The iPhone 12 mini is on the left, the iPhone 12 on the rightiFixit
The Taptic Engine, speakers, and MagSafe ring are all included in the mini in smaller versions to save space. But Apple managed to fit the same-sized camera as its other iPhone models into the mini, which iFixit suggests may have come at the expense of battery life— something The Verge’s Dieter Bohn encountered in our iPhone mini review.
The mini camera has the same ƒ/1.6 wide-angle and ƒ/2.4 ultra wide-angle cameras found in the iPhone 12, the teardown shows.
iPhone 12 mini iFixit
Overall, iFixit found the iPhone 12 mini to be quite similar to its larger counterparts: “The iPhone 12 mini is a small phone with big ambitions. We’re surprised by how familiar the internals look compared to other iPhones this year, given the differences in size among them.”
Check out iFixit’s full iPhone 12 mini teardown here. And see what The Verge reviewers think of the new iPhone models:
We started this week with some reviews of the alternatively-sized iPhone 12s — the mini and the Pro Max. We ended this week with an all-new episode of The Vergecast. All that stuff in between? That’s what our Vergecast crew talked about on the show today.
Vergecast co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn start the show discussing their reviews of the new iPhones — Nilay on the Pro Max and Dieter on the mini — and how the really big iPhone and the tiniest iPhone rank in battery life, screen size, and ergonomics.
Believe it or not, there was another Apple event on Tuesday. During its “One More Thing” hardware event, we saw Apple debut its own M1 processor chips, which power a new Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, and Mac mini. Deputy editor Dan Seifert and news editor Chaim Gartenberg join the show to discuss these new computers, their processors, and how potentially powerful they are.
There’s a little more in between all of that — like people vaping into Xbox consoles, Google’s updated photo storage plan, and the reason why a bunch of The Verge’s Macs weren’t working right before this show.
Listen here or in your preferred podcast player to hear the full Vergecast discussion.
Stories from this week:
US sees two days with over 100,000 reported COVID-19 cases
COVID-19 vaccine is highly effective, manufacturers report
iPhone 12 mini review: fit to size
iPhone 12 Pro Max review: the best smartphone camera
The 5 biggest announcements from Apple’s ‘One More Thing’ hardware event
Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue
Apple announces MacBook Air with Apple’s Arm-based M1 processor
Apple says new Arm-based M1 chip offers the ‘longest battery life ever in a Mac’
All the apps and games Apple promises for Arm-based Macs
Apple announces new Arm-based Mac mini with M1 chip, starting at $699
Apple’s first Arm-based 13-inch MacBook Pro is here with an M1 chip
Apple’s new M1 computers top out at 16GB of RAM
The biggest difference between the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro is a fan
Apple’s M1 Mac design emphasizes continuity over complexity
HomePod mini review
macOS Big Sur is now available to download
Google will end its free unlimited Photos storage on June 1, 2021
Microsoft: ‘please do not blow vape smoke into your Xbox Series X’
Apple has made very full-bodied promises about the performance and efficiency of the new system-on-chip M1, but has not published any common benchmarks. The first results in Geekbench 5 have now appeared, which put the M1 well ahead of the current fastest x in multi-core performance 86 – Mobile processors with 15 to 30 Show watts TDP, i.e. Intel Core i7 – 1185 G7 (4 cores) and AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 4750 U (8 cores). But also knowledge about the Apple A 14 from the iPhone 12, which is closely related to the M1, reveal more about the M1 technology.
Eight cores , GPU and KI According to Apple, the M1 contains eight computing cores, a GPU with eight cores or shader clusters as well as a neural engine with 16 Cores for AI and machine learning algorithms. The GPU can also be used as an accelerator for some computing tasks.
The system-on-chip (SoC) M1 also contains controllers for I / O interfaces (Thunderbolt / USB4, PCIe 4.0) as well as functions that were previously handled by the separate T2 security chip with built-in SSD controller, including a Secure Enclave (SE). The latter is important for biometric authentication (Face ID, Touch ID) and payment functions.
In addition, the M1 has a RAM controller that can handle up to 16 GByte memory connects, probably with two 64 – bit channels for LPDDR4 or LPDDR4X.
The system- on-Chip Apple M1
(Image: Apple)
Fire and Ice An internal “fabric” links the individual function blocks as well as an additional cache that intercepts memory accesses. The CPU cores are divided into two groups, each with its own L2 cache. Each individual CPU core in turn has L1 cache, as with x 86 Usually separate for commands (Instructions), abbreviated L1I, and data (L1D).
The M1 has four particularly powerful and particularly efficient CPU cores. Apple has not officially confirmed it, but experts say the code names for the strong cores are “Firestorm” and the more efficient ones are “Icestorm”.
According to Apple, each Firestorm core has 192 KByte L1I cache and 128 KByte L1D cache. These data buffers are much larger than for example Intel’s current “Tiger Lake” CPUs (48 KByte L1I / 32 KByte L1D) and AMD Zen 2 (each 32 KByte). However, the x 86 – processors also so-called Micro-Op- (µOP-) caches, which work particularly efficiently.
Apple’s information on the strong and efficient ARM cores in the M1
(Image: Apple)
Apple’s different ARM core groups can each use a common Access L2 cache: The four Firestorms on together 12 MByte, the four Icestorms on 4 MByte. In addition, there is the fabric cache, the capacity of which Apple has not revealed and which, from the point of view of the CPU cores, serves as an L3 cache. Bionic is very similar to the M1 and has as many efficient Icestorm cores as well as a neural engine with also 16 cores. In A 14 but only two strong Firestorm cores with a smaller L2 cache (8 MByte) and a GPU with 4 instead of 8 cores. In addition, the arithmetic units clock in A 14 is generally lower because it can dissipate less heat in iPhones and iPad Air 4 and draw less battery power than in the Macs.
Clock frequencies Nominal clock frequencies of A 14 and M1 are not revealed by Apple, nor is the Thermal Design Power (TDP). The latter is found in smartphone SoCs like the A 14 usually around 5 watts, but even then a smartphone would become very hot in the long run and a 11 – watt-hour battery (3.7 volts / 3000 mAh) would be empty in little more than 2 hours. On average, the power consumption of the chip is much lower, especially since the display usually needs more energy and the modem also swallows electricity.
Apple reveals the Thermal design power of the M1 not exactly, but rearranges it Watts on.
(Image: Apple)
When introducing the M1, Apple made comparisons with other chips at 10 Watt employed – so it is probably between Watts in the MacBook Air without fan and 15 to 20 watts for fan cooling. Processors of the “U” classes from AMD and Intel have 15 to 28 Watt TDP, but Here, too, the quality of the notebook manufacturer’s cooling system is crucial. These processors can be set in a wide range via configurable TDP (cTDP) and then deliver more or less computing power because they have to slow down quickly with sustained load. This also applies to the M1, as Apple explained at the launch: In the MacBook Pro 12 inches with a fan, its sustained performance is higher .
Geekbench data Notes on the clock frequencies from A 14 and M1 deliver results from the online database of the benchmark Geekbench 5. There is an A 14 the specification 2, 99 GHz and in the M1 result from a fanless MacBok Air a value of 3.2 GHz. In a MacBook Pro 13 Inch or Mac mini with fan, the M1 may clock a little higher.
However, these clock frequencies are significantly lower than the Turbo frequencies of Core i7 – 1185 G7 (4.8 GHz) and AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 4750 U (4.1 GHz). For higher clock frequencies both ARM and x 79 – Cores have higher core voltages, which is associated with significantly higher power loss. The “wider” data paths are laid out, i.e. the more arithmetic units and transistors run with higher voltage and clock rate, the more the losses grow when clocking up.
The more impressive are the results that A 14 and M1 in Geekbench 5. In the single-core run, which certainly works on a strong Firestorm core, there are 1596 (A 14) or 1732 Points (M1). The M1’s lead of 8.5 percent is largely due to the higher clock rate, the larger L2 cache has no major influence.
Apple M1 and A 14 in Geekbench 5 CPU Information according to the Geekbench database Benchmark results Device Clock Operating system Single-Core Multi-Core Apple M1 MacBook Air 3, 19 GHz macOS 11. 0 1732 7545 Apple A 14 iPhone 12 Per 2, 99 GHz iOS 14.1 1596 4008 Intel Core i7 – 1185 G7 MSI MS – 13 C4 4, 79 GHz Windows 10 1610 6113 AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 4750 U Lenovo ThinkPad T 14 4, 19 GHz Windows 10 1162 6509 Intel Core i7 – 1165 G7 Dell XPS 13 4, 70 GHz Linux 5.8 1726 5313 Compared to a Core i7 – 1185 G7 in an MSI notebook, the M1 in the multi-core evaluation is around 23 percent ahead, with single-core it is 7.5 percent faster. But there are also Geekbench 5 values for a Core i7 – 1165 G7 under Linux, which show it to be almost on par in single-core performance – but here it is much weaker in multi-core.
Intel’s Tiger Lakes like the mentioned Core i7 – 1185 G7 and 1165 G7s only have four cores and Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT alias Hyper-Threading), while all eight cores of the M1 work simultaneously – fast and efficient together. Therefore a comparison with the previously strongest multithreading 14 – exciting watt notebook processor, the AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 4750 U with eight cores and SMT, so a total of 16 threads. But even that is in Geekbench 5 multi-core around 15 Percent behind Apple’s M1 – because its Zen-2 cores deliver 33 Percent less single-core performance than an Apple Firestorm at 3.2 GHz. With the Ryzen 5000 U (Cezanne) with Zen 3 this could be 2021 move.
Samsung has a striking smartphone in development with a transparent housing, which consists of 100% screen surface and has a sliding camera system.
Samsung has now released several smartphones with a flexible display, including the Galaxy Z Flip and Galaxy Z Fold 2 foldable smartphones. However, a flexible screen is not only applicable to foldable devices. For example, a bendable screen can also serve to create a wrap-around display smartphone, such as the Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha with Surround Display introduced last year.
Samsung also seems to be investigating the possibilities of developing a smartphone that consists completely of screen surface. Although the device that Samsung has patented is significantly more advanced than Xiaomi’s Mix Mix Alpha.
This time, there is no frame visible at all – not even at the top and bottom and not even around the camera system. The Samsung smartphone that LetsGoDigital reports on today consists of 100% screen surface. It is not only the design where this phone is progressive, Samsung also seems to have some very special functions in development.
Samsung Galaxy phone with surround display
The brand new patent entitled ‘Electronic device’ was applied for by Samsung Electronics at the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) in July this year and was published on October 29, 2020 and included in the database of the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Office), for worldwide protection of the patented technology.
The 70-page documentation describes in detail how Samsung wants to realize this special smartphone design. The mobile phone is provided with several screens to enclose the entire device with a display surface.
A curved display is used for the front. A flat screen is applied to the back and several semi-rounded displays are used for the edges. Different types of screens can be used, including an AMOLED or LCD display. In practice, you will not realize that it concerns multiple displays, the content can – depending on the app – simply flow from one screen to the other.
For the development, especially in the rounded corners, it is easier to process multiple screens than one large display. Nevertheless, as an alternative, the documentation also mentions the use of one large wrap-around screen, which is folded around the entire device. This would make it easier to adjust the display resolution and also saves on power consumption.
To give some life to the patent sketches, in-house 3D designer Giuseppe Spinelli (aka Snoreyn) made a series of product renders, based on the images and documentation as patented by Samsung Electronics. These 3D color renders are for illustrative purposes only, to better visualize the proprietary technology.
Samsung smartphone with transparent housing
The housing is made of a transparent material that can transmit light, such as transparent acrylic or transparent polymer material. By making the housing transparent, and having it consist of two parts, it can be placed over the screen – which of course makes a big difference with all models available today.
All necessary components are placed inside, even under the surround display, for this purpose support columns are used. Thus, the components are not visible despite the housing being transparent.
The transparent housing has several advantages, as this device can adapt to the environment – like a kind of chameleon! For example, the device as a whole can change depending on external factors, such as the weather.
For example, the smartphone can receive weather information and display it on the entire screen. Is it raining or snowing? Then the drops literally fall off your screen. Predefined graphic elements are used for this. The same also applies to your state of mind. The device can track your activities and thus provide comprehensive information about your health and / or training performance.
The documentation also mentions the possibility of scanning the environment using the camera. The colors from the environment are detected, after which the smartphone will show an image similar to the environment in which it is located. As an example, there is talk of pebbles that are located within the camera range of the smartphone.
The color information of these stones is captured by the camera, then the device searches for matching images and displays them on all display panels. This way your smartphone can completely disappear in its environment.
Are you at a metro station? Then the camera can not only detect color information from the metro station, sound can also be detected through the microphone. The content displayed on the smartphone screen will then correspond even better to the environment in which the user finds himself.
Thanks to AI (Artificial Intelligence), this device can also recognize user patterns and adjust the information displayed accordingly. Do you always drive to work around the same time in the morning and always check the weather forecast in advance? After doing this a number of times, your phone will recognize the patterns and then automatically display the weather report of the particular location you are in every day at time X. This works the same for displaying traffic information etc.
Samsung smartphone with sliding camera system
Samsung has even more details in store for this surround display smartphone with transparent housing. Samsung also wants to provide this device with a sliding mechanism to hide the cameras. By sliding the rear part of the housing down, relative to the front part, the camera system with flash appears.
The camera is mounted on the front housing and is aimed at the back, in order to be able to take regular photo and video recordings. Since the device also has a screen at the rear, you can easily turn the smartphone around to be able to take selfies or make video calls with the same camera system.
By using a sliding mechanism, no camera is visible when you use the device folded – like a normal smartphone. This is a clear difference from the Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha’s vertical camera strip. As this Samsung smartphone consists entirely of screen, the device will have a very striking and futuristic appearance, especially in combination with the transparent housing.
Although a sliding camera offers sufficient photo and video possibilities, the documentation also mentions a second camera module that is placed under the screen. This camera is directed towards the front, so that it can be used to detect the user, in order to determine which displays should be switched on based on use.
For example, is the phone lying flat on the table, or is it held in the hand? Depending on the use, the device determines which display and / or displays should be activated. At the edges, the content will continue from the main screen – regardless of whether you are using the front or back screen.
The display that is not in use can show a preset graphic object, such as a photo of your beloved dog. Thumbnails can also be displayed on the side surfaces. As an example, the documentation mentions the camera application, where thumbnail images of your most recently captured photos are displayed along the edges of the screen.
By simply clicking or dragging such a thumbnail image you can view it enlarged. If desired, the user can also easily display that particular thumbnail image on the rear screen.
Another example mentioned in the patent documentation; a video is shown on the front, by turning the device over you will see the corresponding information of that video – think of the file name, recording date, video resolution and file size. Are you with several people and do you want to enjoy a movie together? Then you can also decide to show the video on all displays at the same time. The video can also be displayed in split-screen mode.
The necessary sensors will be placed under the display, including a fingerprint sensor and possibly also the speaker. Remarkably, no buttons or connectors are visible on the patent illustrations. The documentation states that this unit can be turned on and off via the screen – instead of a physical power button. For this, a piezoelectric film sensor is used, which generates a voltage (electrical charge) as soon as a touch is detected on the screen, after which the display will be switched on.
Replacement for the SIM compartment can be found in the eSIM (built-in electronic SIM) – just like the Motorola RAZR 2019 can also be used exclusively with eSIM. High-end devices such as the Samsung Galaxy S20 and Apple iPhone 12 offer the possibility to use an eSIM thanks to dual SIM functionality, but can also be used in combination with a physical nano-SIM if desired.
Although no USB-C connection is visible on the patent images, the documentation does mention the possibility of wireless and wired charging. It would not be the very first smartphone without buttons and connections though, the special Meizu Zero was introduced at the beginning of last year – where the model name refers to the fact that this phone has “zero” holes and notches.
Uniquely designed Samsung smartphones
LetsGoDigital already reported on a Samsung Galaxy smartphone with a 3D curved display last year. Samsung also patented the design of a dual display smartphone and even a Samsung smartphone with a transparent display is not entirely new.
Such Samsung smartphones are not yet available, but that does not mean that Samsung is unable to produce such phones. The market must also be ripe for it, in addition such a smartphone should deliver sufficient extra added value, compared to the higher price.
For example, the Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha was introduced in September 2019, this particularly futuristic smartphone with wrap-around display and 108MP camera carried a suggested retail price of € 2,500. The device was to be produced in a limited edition, but was ultimately never brought to the market. The exorbitant sales price will undoubtedly be related to this. However, that does not alter the fact that the technology is already there.
Incidentally, it is too easy to think that Samsung has copied the ideas for this surround display smartphone from Xiaomi. Because the Koreans already registered a patent in their homeland Korea in 2016, on which this new patent is further elaborated. Partly for this reason, it is certainly not unlikely that such Samsung prototypes already exist – no matter how futuristic they look like.
However, the question remains whether such a smartphone can deliver sufficient added value and when the price / quality ratio will be sufficient to actually put such a device on the market.
Samsung Galaxy Z Series
If Samsung wants to release such a mobile phone, it is certainly not inconceivable that it will be placed within the relatively new Galaxy Z series. This also includes the foldable phones, such as the Z Flip and Z Fold 2.
Most likely, the Galaxy Z Flip 2 will be the next foldable device from Samsung, but this folding phone is not expected until the summer of 2021. First up is the release of the Galaxy S21 series, these high-end smartphones will probably already be announced in January.
Last year, the Z Flip was introduced simultaneously with the S-series devices, however Samsung seems to be making a small change in the coming year. The Samsung S21 is expected a month earlier than usual, while the Z Flip 2 will be released a few months later.
View the documentation of the Samsung Surround Display smartphone here.
NOTE :The product images shown in this publication are created by in-house designer Giuseppe Spinelli (aka Snoreyn). The renders are for illustrative purposes only, this product is not for sale. The images are based on the patent drawings from Samsung Electronics. You can use this 3D artwork for free, as long as you include a clickable source link into your publication. Thank you very much for understanding.
The premiere of Apple smartphones from the iPhone family 12 is behind us. This does not mean that the purchase of predecessors, i.e. iPhones 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max no longer makes sense. On the contrary, the prices of the said models are falling, making them an attractive morsel for more thrifty customers. The basic “eleven” is a real sales hit, which is again confirmed by new smartphone sales results prepared by Canalys. In the third quarter 2020 of the year, the Apple iPhone 11 took first place in statement. Interestingly, the second place also belongs to the device with the logo of a bitten apple. In TOP 10 we can also find devices from Samsung and Xiaomi, more specifically – Redmi.
Apple iPhone 11, iPhone SE and Samsung Galaxy A 21 s are the three best-selling smartphones in the third quarter 2020 of the year. What models can be found in the remaining seven positions of the top ten?
Apple iPhone smartphone test 11 – One to rule them all?
Canalys has prepared a report that includes ten smartphones that are the most popular among consumers in the third quarter of this year. Of course, this applies to the global market, i.e. sales data from around the world. Not counting the Apple iPhone 11 whose official price is today 2599 PLN, most models are typical smartphones from the middle and lower price range. So it seems that although we sigh for flagships, we do not necessarily decide to buy them. Despite offering great performance, attractive design and the best cameras, the desire to buy cannot break the price barrier.
Apple iPhone 12 officially – 4 5G smartphone models for each
We already know that the Apple iPhone is at the top of the list) to speak – he offered and still offers a very efficient operation, which in this category is not so obvious. By testing most of the market novelties from the middle and higher price range, I can sign for it with full responsibility. The second model in the list is the iPhone SE 2020, which is also called the 2nd generation iPhone SE. This device is based on the processor and camera from higher models, while the design is almost a copy of the Apple iPhone 8 housing. The price of PLN 2199 does its job here. Lower in the list, we already have cheaper units and these are: Samsung Galaxy A 21 s, Galaxy S 11, Galaxy A 51, Redmi Note 9, Redmi 9, Samsung Galaxy A 31, Redmi 9A and Samsung Galaxy A 01 Core.
Half a year after the announcement that it would build a semiconductor production facility for silicon chips in Arizona, USA, TSMC’s board of directors has approved the first investments. Around 3.5 billion US dollars, the equivalent of almost 3 billion euros, should flow into the start of construction next year.
TSMC made the decision in the As part of a short communication. However, it will not stay with the costs: When the announcement in May 2020 the company already stated that the project would be up to 2029 Expected to cost 12 billion US dollars, converted well 10 Billion euro. The amount of US government and Arizona state subsidies is not known.
5 nm chips from 2024 TSMC forecasts the start of production in the year 2024 – initially with structures of 5 nanometers including extreme ultraviolet exposure technology (EUV). 5 nm chips are already rolling off the assembly line in Taiwan, such as Apple’s mobile processors A 14 for the iPhone 12 and M1 for MacBooks. With a monthly wafer volume of around 20. 000 the Arizona Fab is one of the smaller representatives of modern production facilities. In Asia TSMC only builds “Gigafabs” with a monthly wafer volume of 100. 000 and more.
In view of the production technology and the volume from 2024, the TSMC-Fab in the USA will be of particular interest for the semiconductor requirements of the military and aerospace.
In the board meeting, TSMC has meanwhile made further investments in the amount of 15, 1 billion US dollars (12, 8 billion euros). The money goes, among other things, to the construction of new production facilities, the expansion of existing ones, the modernization of packaging systems, research and the purchase of new equipment. (mma)
Matthew Wilson 8 hours ago Apple, Featured Tech News
Today during Apple’s ‘one more thing’ event, the first ARM-powered MacBook was officially announced. Apple is officially moving on from Intel CPUs for macOS, starting with the 2020 MacBook Air.
The MacBook Air is shipping with an Apple Silicon M1 processor, which is built on TSMC’s 5nm process. It eight cores, split between four ‘high-performance’ cores and four ‘high-efficiency’ cores. If you are familiar with Apple’s iPad or iPhone SoCs, then you’ll be quite familiar with this idea already. The M1 seems to have quite a lot in common with the current A14 Bionic found in the iPhone 12 and iPad Pro.
According to Apple, the 2020 MacBook Air is faster than “98 percent of PC laptops sold in the last year”. In a comparison, Apple claims that the new MacBook Air delivers 3.5x better CPU performance compared to the previous Intel MacBook Air. Graphics performance is also said to be 5x better than previous generations of Intel MacBooks.
Aside from that, you can expect the new MacBook Air to feature a super thin and light chassis, a 49.9Whr battery, a 13-inch 2560×1600 display, up to 16GB of RAM and up to 2TB of storage. The 2020 MacBook Air is available starting this month with prices starting at $999 USD.
KitGuru Says: The first ARM-powered MacBook has officially arrived. Now we’ll just have to wait to see user benchmarks to see how it holds up compared to previous Intel-based laptops.
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The two best-selling smartphones in the world during Q3 were iPhones, according to data by Canalys. The Top 10 chart also features five Samsung phones and three Xiaomi devices.
None of them come close to the Apple iPhone 11, which is miles ahead of the competition with 16 million units sold. Its sibling, the iPhone SE (2020) is a distant second with around 10 million units. While the SE is the cheapest new iPhone, the better feature set created the perfect value for money offering.
This is par for the course for these two – Canalys’ report for Q2 showed that the iPhone 11 made up nearly 40% of Apple’s global volume, the SE clocked in at 28%. The iPhone 11 in particular has held the #1 spot in the Top 10 chart for four quarters straight.
The Samsung Galaxy A21s is nearly even with the SE, followed very closely by the Galaxy A11. In fact, the only Samsung phones to make it into the Top 10 are from the lower half of the A-series – the most premium model is the A51.
Similarly, the best-selling phones by Xiaomi are Redmi models, lead by the Redmi Note 9 (including the Redmi 10X 4G version). Not even the Pro model and not the 5G variation either.
No 5G smartphone managed to get into the Top 10 chart during July-September quarter. However, Apple’s launch of the iPhone 12 generation and the multiple mid-range Androids with 5G that came out recently may change things in the next quarter.
As expected, Apple presented the announced Macs with ARM processors on Tuesday evening. In addition to the externally unchanged MacBook Air 13 “with Retina display ( from 1150 Euro) and a MacBook Pro 12 “(1412 Euro) is also surprisingly a Mac mini included (from 779 Euro).
New M1 processor Inside comes like the iPad Air 4 and the iPhone 12 one 64 – Bit-SoC (System on a Chip) is used, which is manufactured in a 5-nanometer design and thus, according to Apple, is the first computer chip with this structure. Unlike the A 14 Bionic in iOS devices, the M1 The processor called not two performance and four energy-saving cores, but four cores of each type. In addition, the six to eight instead of four core GPU sits on the SoC and accesses the same RAM as the CPU. This unified memory differs significantly from the shared memory of the integrated GPUs of the Intel chips, which grind off part of the RAM and separate it. Unified memory should lead to performance gains in games, for example.
The M1 also has a neural engine that accelerates calculations with artificial intelligence, called “machine learning” by Apple. In the iPhone 12 the bionic unit 16 Cores, also on the new MacBooks. Because the M1 in the MacBook Air only needs 14 watts of energy, Apple can leave out the fan, which makes the new Airs noiseless (as long as you don’t tap the keyboard).
Instead of Thunderbolt 3 (with a maximum of 40 GBit / s) is used in the new Macs USB 4.0 with Thunderbolt.
The technical data of the MacBook Air include otherwise 13, 3-inch display with 2560 times 1600 pixels and true tone, up to 16 GByte RAM, SSDs up to 2 terabyte capacity, Touch Bar with Touch ID to unlock the Device, FaceTime camera with 512 p-resolution, Bluetooth 5 and for the first time on a Mac Wi-Fi 6.
According to Apple, the battery life of the MacBook Air should be 18 hours that of the MacBook Pro 20 hours, for the Intel predecessors were it 10 to 11 hours.
The MacBook
Reasons for the change ARM-based processors are not only suitable for mobile Handhelds, but thanks to the simple scaling of the core number, are now also used in supercomputers. So the ARM computer Fugaku from Fujitsu with its 40 cores has the throne of the fastest computer in the summer climbed and defended it until now. A lot of RAM and PCI-Express are also not a problem in terms of hardware technology, although the drivers could certainly become one, especially for dedicated, i.e. independent GPU chips.
Apple’s ARM SoCs are particularly good at saving energy : Although the processor remains “always on”, it hardly wastes any performance due to the big-little principle with separate cores. This affects the battery life and the necessary cooling effort. Thanks to the image processor, the Bionics can already handle video on the iPhones very well: They even enable recording of 4K with 60 Hertz while image optimization is running at the same time, while some Intel Macs already have problems with playback.
The M1 also has a Secure Enclave for storing biometric data on the device and can use Flash Manage memory directly, which eliminates the need for the T2 chip (which is also an ARM SoC) on Intel Macs. Independent tests have to show how fast the M1 really is.
So far, ARM processors have not achieved as high clock rates as Intel CPUs. While ARM chips achieve up to 3 GHz (e.g. in the iPhone 12), Intel manages over 4 GHz, with TurboBoost even over 5 GHz. In addition, many x 86 CPUs with Hyper-Threading can virtually double the number of cores. Other computing units (SIMD) such as SSE, AVX, AVX2 and AVX – 512 expand the x 86 – instruction set and thus accelerate, for example, the coding of certain video formats and must be replaced by Apple.
Developers now have to adapt their macOS programs to the new architecture, because the x 86 code for Intel CPUs won’t just run natively on ARM hardware. For apps that run on all hardware platforms (Apple Silicon and Intel), there is a new standard called Universal 2. In order to make the transition for the user uncomplicated, Apple has similar to when switching from PowerPC to x 86 again created a runtime environment, called Rosetta 2. It should emulate existing apps until they are ported. It remains to be seen how much this affects performance and compatibility. According to Apple, some apps have already been ported. We have written our own message for this.
This message will be supplemented and changed in the course of the evening as soon as new facts become known.
Who wants to buy an iPhone in Italy he knows he has to shell out a large sum. In fact, Italian iPhones are among the most expensive in the world, but in other countries it is no better
than Nino Grasso published on 10 November 2020 , at 12: 51 in the Apple channel Apple iPhone
iPhone presales 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max started in the first countries of the world last Friday, with Apple just announcing the launch in new countries planned for i L 20 November. Among these is Brazil, the nation where the iPhone by historically has one of the highest list prices: here iPhone 12 mini da 64 GB costs 6. 999 Brazilian real, the equivalent of almost 1. 100 euro at the current exchange rate. In contrast, in Italy the same model can be purchased at 774 ??.
The price of iPhones in the world
Although much lower than the equivalent in Brazil, the prices in Italy of the iPhone 12 mini and the whole line-up of the new iPhones are among the highest in the world. Indeed, they are the highest if Brazil is excluded from the equation: in the USA iPhone 12 mini is proposed to 729 dollars, and the Italian price at the exchange rate would be 996 dollars approximately. As already mentioned, only Brazil is worse, with a price in US dollars equivalent to about 1. 270 dollars.
iPhone price 12 mini 64 GB in the world
Brazil: 1. 268 $
Italy: 996 $
Portugal: 984 $
Mexico: 967 $
France: 961 $
India: 944 $
Japan : 795 $
Hong Kong : 774 $
States United States: 729 $
The situation certainly does not improve if we consider the more expensive model, iPhone 12 Pro Max from 512 GB . In Brazil it costs 13. 999 Brazilian real , the equivalent of over 2. 500 dollars (or 2. 200 approximately euro), while in Italy the same model can be purchased for 1. 639 ?? which correspond to almost 2. 000 U.S. dollars. In addition to Brazil, the top of the Apple range costs more than in Italy only in India ( 159. 900 rupees, equal to approximately 2. 100 dollars), where in the USA you buy at 1. 399 dollars.
IPhone Price 12 Pro Max 512 GB in the world
Brazil: 2. 535 $
India: 2. 159 $
Italy: 1. 946 $
Portugal: 1. 934 $
France: 1. 911 $
Germany: 1. 851 $
Japan: 1. 602 $
Hong Kong : 1. 523 $
United States: 1. 399 $
It is worth keeping in mind, especially for those who love this type of rankings, that Brazil could lose the first bit I’m as soon as the new iPhone family will be launched in Argentina, a country where iPhone prices are typically even higher. Apple has never announced how prices are set in various countries around the world, but obviously local taxes and currency have a significant impact.
In Brazil and India the government It imposes sky-high taxes on devices that are not manufactured in the country, and it is precisely to obtain targeted tax incentives that in recent years Apple has begun to assemble iPhones in these countries. Despite everything, Apple must still fix prices also in consideration of the currency volatility in each country , so that the prices do not suffer losses due to fluctuations, very common for example in Brazil.
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