Only way to check the battery and the widget doesn't show % just a green circle, just like using the 12 lol.
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iPhone 12 iPhone Mini First Impressions
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Coming from a SE, I didn’t have to worry about that. Not a big deal I just didn’t expect the percentage option to be pulled.
As I said, I have been using a SE. Go bother someone else for a while. I don’t appreciate you replying to my post so you can mock me. I know the game you are playing and I am not replying anymore.
Ok so initial impressions: DAMN, THIS MINI IS AMAZING! It’s barely bigger than the 1st gen SE! But all screen.
The weight feels so good because I got tired of carrying around a brick (11 Pro Max) on a daily basis.
And the design. Wow. Wow wow wow. I hope Apple keeps making the 5.4” screen because this is perfect.
The weight feels so good because I got tired of carrying around a brick (11 Pro Max) on a daily basis.
And the design. Wow. Wow wow wow. I hope Apple keeps making the 5.4” screen because this is perfect.
This is not the type of question to do a poll. The choices don’t even begin to cover what someone’s first impressions of a phone would be and the last two shouldn’t even be there.
So I love my new Mini. First timer with FaceID and the UI is very fast and slick.
However, compared to my 6S the Mini is noticeably dim. I looked up the specs, the 6S is supposed to be 550 nits versus 625 for the Mini. So something is wrong. I'll be making an appointment at the Apple store.
As an aside, I'm on Verizon. Read online that a 4G sim card should work fine. Doesn't and got a text from Verizon when I tried my old sim card. So I'm off to the Verizon store tomorrow to reprogram the 5G card that came with the Mini to my phone number. Pretty sure doing it online or via customer will result in an activation fee. I did make a trial phone call though - wifi calling! Worked fine.
Oh, and I find the speaker fine. I had two 6Ss two weeks ago and gave the better newer one to the system. So all I have now to compare is the 6S that plays at half the volume of the other one (a defect I'm sure). Of course the Mini does better than that.
However, compared to my 6S the Mini is noticeably dim. I looked up the specs, the 6S is supposed to be 550 nits versus 625 for the Mini. So something is wrong. I'll be making an appointment at the Apple store.
As an aside, I'm on Verizon. Read online that a 4G sim card should work fine. Doesn't and got a text from Verizon when I tried my old sim card. So I'm off to the Verizon store tomorrow to reprogram the 5G card that came with the Mini to my phone number. Pretty sure doing it online or via customer will result in an activation fee. I did make a trial phone call though - wifi calling! Worked fine.
Oh, and I find the speaker fine. I had two 6Ss two weeks ago and gave the better newer one to the system. So all I have now to compare is the 6S that plays at half the volume of the other one (a defect I'm sure). Of course the Mini does better than that.
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Upgrading from my weathered 7. It’s almost the perfect size, but I wish it was a tiny bit wider, about as wide as the 7. The mini is a little hard to hold two-handed for typing.
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I like it quite a bit. It reminds me a lot of my 5S. Going to have to get used to the narrower keyboard though. I do miss 3D Touch already when it comes to text selection. That was always so handy, but I have to get used to it at some point. This will be replacing my iPhone X.
Hold down on space bar, then tap with another finger to enter text selection mode.
The brightness is perfectly in line with what I observed today. I looked at three different Mini’s and they all seemed around 550 ish nits. Tom’s guide tested the 12 Mini and they saw just over 500 nits. I know they list 625 nits but it’s definitely below that for the sake of its small 2227mAh li-ion.
Thanks, that will help a lot of the time, though not always (e.g. with gloves on just checking lock screen notifications).
Holy **** that 7 looks amazing. Not sure I’d upgrade were I in your shoes.
It has a cracked back camera and is getting pretty slow. I held out for as long as I could.
Here are the 12 Pro (not Max), 12 mini and 1st Gen iPhone SE side by side. I really like the 12 mini.
I upgraded to a white iPhone 12 mini today from my 2016 iPhone SE. Before that, I had a 5S -- so I had been on the same design for 7 years!
Overall, I think the mini is great. I had been waiting so long to have an iPhone X style device in the form factor of the iPhone 5, and we got that, flat sides and all. I'm amazed by how much better the camera and screen are. And the speed and battery life are so much better than on my aging phone.
It's a little bigger than I would have liked -- it's funny that that wasn't an option in the poll for this thread. It's also funny to read all of these people amazed at how small it is -- from my perspective, this is a big jump in screen size. I could go a bit smaller -- I personally would like a 4.7" inch screen.
I do not like that the white and silver color on this model is a warmer tone. It looks almost like a gold band in certain lighting. I would have preferred a pure white/silver. I am debating switching it for the blue, which was my other front runner. I ruled out black because of fingerprints. Red was too extreme of a color in store. Green was OK. (I saw them all in person today.)
The 5G antenna cutout on the side is an eyesore and takes away from the design. I do not care about 5G and would rather they have left it out.
Overall I'm quite happy.
Overall, I think the mini is great. I had been waiting so long to have an iPhone X style device in the form factor of the iPhone 5, and we got that, flat sides and all. I'm amazed by how much better the camera and screen are. And the speed and battery life are so much better than on my aging phone.
It's a little bigger than I would have liked -- it's funny that that wasn't an option in the poll for this thread. It's also funny to read all of these people amazed at how small it is -- from my perspective, this is a big jump in screen size. I could go a bit smaller -- I personally would like a 4.7" inch screen.
I do not like that the white and silver color on this model is a warmer tone. It looks almost like a gold band in certain lighting. I would have preferred a pure white/silver. I am debating switching it for the blue, which was my other front runner. I ruled out black because of fingerprints. Red was too extreme of a color in store. Green was OK. (I saw them all in person today.)
The 5G antenna cutout on the side is an eyesore and takes away from the design. I do not care about 5G and would rather they have left it out.
Overall I'm quite happy.
Damn.. I really want one. But I have the 12 Pro and am making payments on a S6 Titanium watch.