![]() ![]() The PVD coatings of the stainless steel are deep and rich on the Pro - but they gather fingerprints like they were in the business of collecting evidence. Where the iPhone 12 Pro is jewel like, the iPhone 12 is fun, bright and utilitarian. When it comes to phones, the world is precisely 7.4mm thick. When it comes to fine watches, the high end might as well be on another planet from most of us. Without the hundreds of thousands of dollars in usual cost.Īnd, like the proverbial ‘best soda’, you literally couldn’t pay anyone on the planet to make you a better one. There may be some durability benefits over time but since Apple focused on the brightness as a reason for the coating during the keynote it’s likely the primary reason for using HiPIMS was to get the right color of gold.Īll of those characteristics of the world’s finest watches and jewelry pieces are present in the iPhone 12 Pro. Update: Some early gold iPhone 12 Pro testing is in and it looks like it fingerprints just fine. One side effect is that this type of coating is easier to wipe clean and takes on less fingerprints, something that my blue model was, uh, definitely prone to. But the new gold (which I do not have in person but looks great) uses a special high-power, impulse magnetron sputtering ( HiPIMS ) process that lays down the coating in a super dense pattern, allowing it to be tough and super bright with a molecular structure that mimics the stainless steel underneath - making it more durable than “standard” PVD. Most of the iPhone 12 Pro finishes still use a physical vapor deposition process for edge coating. The hundreds or thousands of person hours that went into its design and construction, the sheer density of its high-quality materials and the finishes that defy the eye to differentiate it from something grown, rather than synthesized. If you’ve ever had the pleasure of handling or wearing an insanely high-end timepiece, you’ll know that there’s a particular blend of sensations that tells you you’re touching something special. The 12 Pro is likely the most premium feeling piece of consumer electronics I’ve ever touched. One path towards the boardroom and the other path towards the coffee shop. In others, they diverge, taking two paths of that design ethos. They share a large chunk of internals, a nicely refreshed design philosophy and essentially complete parity of daily utility. In some ways, these two phones are closer than ever before. I think it’s safe to say that for the broad majority, one of these devices is going to be the de-facto option this season. ![]() Because of the way that Apple has bifurcated the line into ‘Pro’ and ‘non-Pro’ options, these two represent the meaty center of this particular rack of ribs. Though this review is focused on breaking down the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, we all know that the iPhone 12 mini and the iPhone 12 Pro Max are sitting out there in the wings.įortunately, we can extrapolate a lot about those devices from these, especially as the iPhone 12 mini is a direct mini-turization of the iPhone 12. There’s an odd tension in only being able to review half of the new iPhone lineup. ![]()
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