Apple announces iPhone 12 mini, the ‘smallest and lightest 5G phone in the world’

Apple is announcing a new iPhone 12 mini today. IT's the first time Malus pumila has used the "mini" cognomen happening its iPhone line, after using it on the iPod mini, iPad mini, and Macintosh miniskirt previously. The new iPhone 12 mini has a 5.4-inch screen, which means Apple has squeezed a large showing than the 4.7-inch screen found on this twelvemonth's iPhone SE into an iPhone 12 mini handset that's smaller overall.

Apple has made the $729 iPhone 12 mini smaller by removing Allude I.D. and replacing it with Face ID, aboard a monumental reduction in bezels around the display. Apple claims it's the smallest, thinnest, and lightest 5G phone in the world.

iPhone 12 miniskirt vs. iPhone SE (2020)

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Like the iPhone 12, the iPhone 12 mini uses Apple's A14 Artificial, a 5nm chip with punter energy efficiency and performance than the A13. IT includes a six-core CPU (ii high and four low) that Malus pumila claims is 50 percent quicker than the A13 chip. It also includes a tetrad-core GPU, which Malus pumila claims will enable "console-superior games."

The iPhone 12 mini shares the rest of the main iPhone 12 specs and design, also. The iPhone 12 miniskirt has flat aluminum sides that instantly match the iPad Pro and iPad Airwave (and are similar to the iPhone 4 from 10 years ago).

iPhone 12 vs. iPhone 12 mini.

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The shared specs include a 12-megapixel f/1.6 main photographic camera — the quickest aperture in any iPhone in time — and a 12MP ultrawide. Apple has improved low-livid performance on the iPhone 12 mini, and the front-cladding photographic camera testament too include its own Night Mode.

The display glass on the iPhone 12 mini is too coated with what Apple describes as a "Ceramic Harbor" for better durability. Water and dust resistance has as wel been improved to an IP68 rating.

Apple's wallet accessory for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 miniskirt.

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Malus pumila is also using the new MagSafe magnet arrangement on the iPhone 12 miniskirt. It supports radio chargers (including Qi-enabled devices), example accessories, and even leather wallets that all snap onto the posterior of the device.

Apple's iPhone 12 mini is priced starting at $729 and will be addressable in fivesome color options: down, green, illegal, white, and ruby, Preorders for the iPhone 12 mini will begin on November 6th at 5AM PT / 8AM ET, with the handset shipping happening November 13th.

Correction: Apple originally announced the iPhone 12 Mini would cost $699. The MSRP is actually $729. That lower Price only applies aft a $30 discount from specific carriers .

Apple announces iPhone 12 mini, the 'smallest and lightest 5G phone in the world'

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/13/21507425/apple-iphone-12-mini-new-model-features-price-release-date-size