If you reckon you can
cope without Lidar
autofocus and ProRAW
photography – and let’s
be honest, a lot of people
probably can – the basic
iPhone 12 (from £799)
still has plenty to offer.
Thinner, smaller and
lighter than the iPhone 11,
but still with a 6.1in Super
Retina XDR screen, it’s
got the same A14 Bionic
chip as the 12 Pro and will
also do 5G.
There are only two
12MP cameras round the
back, but computational
photography tricks mean
you’ll get better low-light
results, including night
timelapse videos.
For those who want
top-end specs but don’t
want to carry around
such a big slab of glass,
there’s also the iPhone 12
Mini (from £699), which
crams all the same stuff
into a chassis with a 5.4in
screen. That’s more titchy
than the iPhone 8, making
it the smallest 5G phone
you can buy.
Both models have
aluminium edges and
come in five different
colours – white, black,
blue, green and (Product)
Red – with storage
options starting at a
stingy 64GB and maxing
out at 256GB.
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iPhone 12
& 12 Mini
Lightning
bolt-on
The new iPhones don’t
come with power adaptors or
headphones – well, chances
are you’ve got both kicking
around already – but you
do get a Lightning to
USB-C cable.Nano
him so well
The 12 and 12 Mini also have
Ceramic Shield OLED screens,
which have nano-ceramic
crystals embedded in the
glass to make them
tougher than Steven
Seagal’s boots.