I also have to mention the camera bump on the back: Apple’s fully embraced the camera module on the back, and it’s pretty big on the 13 Pro-noticeably larger than the 12 Pro. It probably helps that my office, where I spend a lot of time, is a similar shade of blue. Some may find it a bit grayer, but it still reads as blue for me, even in low light. Come on, Apple: pros like to have fun too. After years of space gray/black phones, I’ve taken to ordering the one-off color every year for the same reason that I often order the special at a restaurant: who knows when it will come around again? It’s also the closest Pro phone users get to the fun colors of the 13 and 13 mini. If only I could take a picture of the 13 Pro with the 13 Pro.Īpple made a big deal of the Sierra Blue in this year’s announcement, saying that it required a new process “using multiple layers of nanometer-scale metallic ceramics.” Take from that what you will, but the color is certainly a lot lighter than the one-off shades of the last two years, and I generally find it very pleasant. Sometimes it looks more blue than others, but my four year old iPad Pro camera doesn’t quite capture it. On the 11 Pro it was Midnight Green, on the 12 Pro Pacific Blue, and on the 13 Pro it’s the new Sierra Blue. As with both the 12 Pro and the 11 Pro, the 13 Pro comes in gold, silver, graphite 4, and one “special” color. Those different materials also lend themselves to different colors. I haven’t held an iPhone 13 or 13 mini, but I imagine the weight difference would be noticeable. A large part of that is because Apple uses stainless steel 3 in the pro phones, rather than the anodized aluminum of the 13 and 13 mini. And yet the Pro is substantively weightier than the normal 13, to the tune of a full ounce and change. Do those features make the Pro phones “better”? Not necessarily: the real question is whether those factors make a meaningful difference to you, the potential phone customer.Įxternally, the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 look very similar: they’re exactly the same height, length, and thickness. Jason has already taken a close look at the 13 and 13 mini in his review the iPhone 13 Pro (and, by extension, the Pro Max, which feature-wise is exactly the same this year, with the exception of being larger in every way: chassis, screen, and battery life) mainly differs from its standard 13 counterpart in three ways. Ultimately, the Pro phone is simply the more expensive phone-but Apple couldn’t exactly call it the “iPhone Pricier.” 2 But I digress. This isn’t a phone for pros-what would a “professional” smartphone user even look like? Are the rest of us rank amateurs by comparison? Not a better processor, increased storage, or even more RAM, the traditional hallmarks of “pro” in the Mac lineup. What makes a Pro phone? These days it’s more camera lenses, different materials, and one or two additional features. This is the third “Pro”-branded iPhone in Apple’s history, and with every iteration, it’s increasingly clear that the moniker is more marketing than anything of substance. But 14 years into the iPhone’s life, those big updates are decidedly fewer and farther between. 1 Some years promise big improvements over the past-others are more incremental. IPhone 13 Pro review: This Pro’s got few consĪlmost every year since 2007, I’ve gotten a new iPhone.
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