![]() We found that we were able to easily type on the handset and reach all areas of the keyboard with our thumb.Īgain, Apple included a screen notch on the iPhone 13 mini, along with the rest of the iPhone 13 range. The phone sits comfortably in the hand, and it’s easy to use single-handedly. It features a 5.4-inch screen - we’ll dive into that more below - which is one of the smallest screens on flagship smartphones right now. It’s designed for those who want a smaller device, with Apple’s smartphones increasing in size over the last five years. The iPhone 13 mini is built to be premium, but has a smaller body than most top-end smartphones. ![]() That’s partly due to the increase in storage – the 12 mini started out with just 64GB of storage, though inflation plays a part, too.Īt launch, the iPhone 12 mini cost $599 / £579 / AU$999 so it’s notably more expensive than the 2021 model. This is the smallest iPhone in the 13 series and the cheapest, but it’s also more expensive than the iPhone 12 mini in most regions. There isn’t a 1TB model for the iPhone 13 mini, so you’ll want to look to the Pro editions to get more space. Outside of iPhone 13 mini deals, the phone normally retails for $699 / £679 / AU$1,199 with 128GB of storage and goes up from there. It came out alongside the rest of the iPhone 13 series, and you can buy it in the US, UK and Australia. The iPhone 13 mini was released on September 24, 2021, 10 days after its reveal. That’s a shame, because with this second-gen upgrade Apple fixed a lot of what turned us off from the iPhone 12 mini, and this small model could be the best iPhone for fans of compact devices. The iPhone 13 mini will be the last small iPhone from Apple, for a while at least, due to underwhelming sales of the iPhone 12 mini. And the overall display brightness has been amped up, peaking at 800 nits for comfortable viewing when you're outdoors on a bright day and 1200 nits for HDR content. The screen notch is smaller, but most certainly hasn’t gone away (and on a smaller phone, it feels like it eats away at the screen real estate even more than on the iPhone 13 Pro Max). There are cosmetic upgrades you may miss at first blush. Say hello to 128GB, 256GB and 512GB minis – but also, say hello to higher prices for the phones in most regions. ![]() We also don’t have CPU benchmark results for any of Apple’s new devices at this point, but all of these are surely coming soon.There’s also good news if the iPhone 13 mini inspires you to take more photos: Apple has bumped up the storage tiers from 2020’s devices, so gone is the severely limiting 64GB entry-level size. We don’t yet know how the A15 with 4-core GPU would perform, since no one has benchmarked an iPhone 13 or 13 mini yet. Well, that seems to be the case at least when comparing to last year’s A14 Bionic with 4-core GPU, as featured in the iPhone 12 Pro. This points to huge GPU performance improvements in the new iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max compared to their direct predecessors.Īpple has called the 5-core GPU version of the A15 “the world’s fastest smartphone chip”, and promised that it delivers “50% faster graphics performance than any other smartphone chip”. The resulting score is 14216, which is about 55% more than the iPhone 12 Pro’s 9123. This A15 chip with a 5-core GPU has been tested on Geekbench’s compute benchmark using the Metal API today, by someone in possession of an iPhone 13 Pro prototype. While the iPhone 13 and 13 mini have a 4-core GPU, the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max, along with the new iPad mini, have a 5-core GPU. They’re all powered by the A15 chip, but there are GPU differences between them. As you probably already know, Apple unveiled four new smartphones yesterday – the iPhone 13, 13 mini, 13 Pro, and 13 Pro Max. ![]()
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