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iPhone 12, Mini, and Max Size Comparison: All iPhone Models Side by Side
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1. We don't have the iPhone 12 in our hands yet either. So we can't photograph them.
2. https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...one-models-side-by-side.2260818/post-29038053
True but they are weirdly different. I've talked to a friend that was trying to upgrade a 6S Plus to either 12 Pro or 12 Pro Max. We discovered this weird size stuff.
Could you please add a 6S Plus phone to the drawings? I know it would be cluttered, but it would also be cool to see with the others.
Enclosure Height and Width of the 6S Plus is same as the 7 Plus and 8 Plus, which are all essentially same as the 11 Pro Max which is pictured 2nd from the right.
Coming from an X and thinking about purchasing a 12 Pro Max, yesterday I made a mockup of the Max out of wood, and carried it around for a few hours as if it were my phone.
Came to the conclusion it was much too unwieldy compared to my X. And instead will be ordering a 12 Pro (which is similar to my X) tomorrow.
Came to the conclusion it was much too unwieldy compared to my X. And instead will be ordering a 12 Pro (which is similar to my X) tomorrow.
If you mainly shoot portraits then the Max will have an edge with the more portrait-like focal length.
Edit: I clearly missed that the PRO didn’t get the same sensor for the main camera. Low light photos from the main camera will def be better on Max.
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I can't wait to ditch my XS for the Mini. My thoughts when I moved from 4S to the 6/7: "hm I don't like the way this feels in my pocket. Too wide and tall." Thoughts when I got the XS: "this feels like a brick. Too big, thick and heavy. Uncomfortable in one hand and in bed." Two years later, I still feel the same about the XS. I have big hands and CAN use it one-handed, but I want a phone that is a one-handed portable device and sits unobtrusively in my pocket. I use my iPad Pro for browsing, video, gaming, etc; I do NOT want a phablet. The fact that the 11 Pro was even bigger than the XS, and the 12 Pro is even bigger the the 11 Pro, is a huge turn off. Thank god for the Mini!
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I have gone back and forth between the 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max. I am using a 11 Pro Max now and have long said that my sweet spot is 6.1".
I felt that way until I saw the battery size of the 12 Pro... No way I can stomach that much decreased battery life.
I'll be ordering a ProMax - not because I want the extra camera features - more because I don't want to lose the battery life I'm accustomed to.
I felt that way until I saw the battery size of the 12 Pro... No way I can stomach that much decreased battery life.
I'll be ordering a ProMax - not because I want the extra camera features - more because I don't want to lose the battery life I'm accustomed to.
I was sold on getting the Pro tomorrow but after reading this thread, I’m back on the fence.
The guy in the photo literally has the same size hand as me (holding a friends iPhone). How on earth do people like such big phones now? They're heavier, harder to use with one hand and are just big for day-to-day normal usage
This is one of the stupidities of the iOS launcher: it still insists on filling screens from the top, rather than letting you choose to leave space up there and fill from the bottom for better usability. But I guess these days you can put widgets up there, rather than just the apps which you never want to open.
I wonder how long before someone releases some transparent, inactive widgets so that you can create spaces on the screen (the first work-around for Apple's UI inflexibility that occurred to me).
This does my nut. All that ribbing of Android phones being fragmented, now we have a gazillion different sized phones with barely a mil or so between some of them, and to top it off some ludicrous naming system. Why has ‘plus’ now become ‘max’, why was there ever an ‘XR’, now we have ‘Pro’, a new ‘SE’ etc etc. I can’t keep up!
That’s what I was thinking. If they are going to show the SE might as well show them all
Yes, the LCD display in the XR/11 has rather large bezels, even compared to the OLED X/XS/11PM. Further reductions has a 6.1” display in almost the same footprint as the 5.8” models.
because it puts the entire current lineup to shame
So why would I want a 12 Pro when it's smaller than the 11 XR and has edges like the 5S which cut uncomfortably into my hand as I held it. Won't be touching it with a 10' barge pole.
not to mention, the weight of the max is just too heavy IMO. Especially when you add a case.
Mini all the way this time around. Hope next design they can actually make the camera flush and lose FaceID notch. Then we will have our SE! Anyways, nice comparison chart. 
Upgrading from my trusty X to a 12 Pro.
I also have a XR for work, but find it just that little bit too big.
So I'm curious, the 12/12 Pro has the same sized 6.1" screen as the XR, but according to that image the actual phone dimensions are somewhere between the X and the XR? Is that right? Hopefully going back to the squared edges will also add that extra ergonomic sense.
I also have a XR for work, but find it just that little bit too big.
So I'm curious, the 12/12 Pro has the same sized 6.1" screen as the XR, but according to that image the actual phone dimensions are somewhere between the X and the XR? Is that right? Hopefully going back to the squared edges will also add that extra ergonomic sense.