iPhone 12/13 Mini
Improvements all around in a miniature form
- Apple’s A15 Bionic chipset
- 5.4-inch screen
- Available in a wide range of colors
You’ll spend less time charging this phone and more time snapping better photos, thanks to the improved camera sensors that are part of the iPhone 13 mini’s mostly familiar-looking dual-camera system. The main wide camera lets in 47% more light, according to Apple, and sure enough, all the night mode photos we shot looked bright, with markedly less noise than images captured on the iPhone mini.
Photos look better partly thanks to the upgraded sensor, and Sensor-shift OIS technology that was previously exclusive to the iPhone 12 Pro and its Pro Max partner, and partly due to the advancements in computational photography.
The iPhone 13 mini is built to be premium, but has a smaller body than most top-end smartphones. It’s designed for those who want a smaller device, with Apple’s smartphones increasing in size over the last five years.
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.
Apple included two cameras on the iPhone 13 mini – a 12MP f/1.6 wide camera with 1.7ยตm pixels for better low-light performance, and a 12MP f/2.4 ultra-wide camera with 120-degree field of view.
It’s largely the same we’ve seen from the iPhone 12 mini, but that larger pixel size is where the major change comes in.
The low-light performance on the iPhone 13 mini is remarkably good, but iPhone products have worked well in this space for the last few years. We found all low-light shots we took were among some of the best we’ve seen on smartphones.
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