Apple iPhone 12
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PRICE 64GB, £666 (£799 inc VAT) from apple.com/uk
Let’s put the iPhone 12 in context. Back in 2007, the first iPhone had a 3.5in 320 x 480 screen and a two-megapixel camera that, at the time, seemed a novelty more than a practical way of capturing memories. Today, the iPhone 12 is the only consumer device that can capture 10-bit Dolby Vision video footage.
This sort of progress is only made possible by continually taking small, steady steps. The iPhone 12 is another incremental advance. The most obvious change is the new look, with the iPhones of 2020 reprising the getup of the ten-year-old iPhone 4, but much else is new too. Apple’s A14 Bionic chipset for starters: this six-core system-on-a–chip (SoC) is notable not only for the fact that it’s supposedly 50% faster than the A12 Bionic, but also that it’s the world’s first 5nm processor.
The iPhone 12 is smaller and lighter than its predecessor, and Apple claims more durable thanks to the new Ceramic Shield glass on the front and a tougher glass on the rear. Despite having the same size display (6.1in), it’s now sharper thanks to a higher resolution and Apple has switched to Super
