iPhone 12 comparison details all the changes between last year's phones and the new models.Ĭurrent iPhone 12 trade-in values from Apple: You can see the biggest return when you trade in Apple's newest phones, as you might expect. Those two phones feature ProMotion displays, so they'll be able to adjust between 10Hz and 120Hz depending upon your on-screen activity. IPhone 13 displays are brighter than what you got with the iPhone 12, but the real leap happens if you upgrade to the iPhone 13 Pro models. Optical zoom is more powerful on the new Pro models too, with a 3x zoom on both the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max. The sensor on the iPhone 13's main lens lets in 47% more light, for example, while the iPhone 13 Pro models sport an ultrawide angle lens with a wider aperture than before.

iPhone 12 (Image credit: Apple)Īll of the iPhone 13 models also promise better photos than their iPhone 12 counterparts, as Apple is using larger sensors to let in more light. As a result, we saw the iPhone 13 series phones last between one to three hours longer than their iPhone 12 counterparts. Considering how we were disappointed with iPhone 12 battery life - the iPhone 12 Pro Max excluded - that's a big move. Apple has increased their capacity for all iPhone 13 models, although the difference is more significant on the larger handset sizes. The GPU on the iPhone 13 Pro models sports an extra core - five cores to the iPhone 13's four - so an upgrade should definitely deliver a performance boost on graphically-intense apps.Ī bigger change has come with the battery sizes in the iPhone 13. Our testing shows the new processor outperforming the iPhone 12 - and all other smartphone competition - on the Geekbench 5 test, and Apple has promised a 50% boost in graphics performance over the competition.

What you get by upgrading: Opt for any iPhone 13 model over the iPhone 12, and you'll immediately see a pretty powerful processor, as the new phones feature Apple's A15 Bionic chipset. So what exactly is the reason to upgrade less than a year after those four phones launched? In fact, the prices on the four new iPhone 13 models mirror those of the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max back when they debuted. Like the iPhone 13, the iPhone 12 comes in four models, with each model the exact same size as its successor. IPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini (Image credit: Tom's Guide)

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