The wait for iPhone 12 is over! In the just-concluded Apple Event, the tech giant has launched and revealed the 5G ready iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro. Also making a debut was the HomePod.
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Here is what Apple announced in today
HomePod Mini
Apple seems determined to reach even more people with their home speaker systems. if HomePod and now HomePod Mini are anything to go by. Room‑filling sound, an intelligent assistant powered by Siri, and smart home control. Everything kept private and secure. Jam-packed with innovation, HomePod mini delivers unexpectedly big sound for a speaker of its size.
At just 3.3 inches tall, it takes up almost no space but fills the entire room with rich 360‑degree audio that sounds amazing from every angle.
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HomePod mini is designed to fit anywhere in the house. Its elegant shape is wrapped in a perfectly seamless mesh fabric that’s virtually transparent to the sound passing through it. A backlit touch surface on the top provides quick control.
If you want to take the amazing sound experience of HomePod mini even further, you can create a stereo pair. Two HomePod mini speakers paired in the same room create left and right channels for an immersive soundstage.
iPhone 12
5G speed. A14 Bionic, the fastest chip in a smartphone.
An edge-to-edge OLED display. Ceramic Shield with four times better drop performance. And Night mode on every camera. iPhone 12 has it all — in two perfect sizes.
iPhone 12 Specs
- DISPLAY: 6.1 inches Super Retina XDR OLED Screen (1170 x 2532 px) and 460 PPI
- CAMERA: 12 MP, f/1.6 (wide) and 12 MP, f/2.4 (ultrawide)
- SELFIE: 12 MP, f/2.2 (wide)
- STORAGE: 64GB to 256GB, non-expandable
- CPU & RAM: Hexa-core, Apple A14 Bionic (5 nm)
- OS: iOS 14
- BATTERY: Li-Ion 2775 mAh, non-removable, fast charging 18W
- FEATURES: Ceramic Shield, Waterproof, 5G, Face ID, Siri, Dual SIM
- COLORS: Black, White, Product Red, Green, Blue
- PRICE: Starting at $800
Display and Battery And it’s ahead of its time prepared to power pretty much anything that comes next. 5G on iPhone is superfast. So you can download movies on the fly. Stream higher-quality video.
Camera and storage FaceTime in HD over cellular. With lots less lag. And you can do it in more places because iPhone 12 has the broadest 5G coverage worldwide.5
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Processor and features e.g. colors
Features and colors
iPhone 12 Pro
5G speed. A14 Bionic, the fastest chip in a smartphone. All-new design. Ceramic Shield. LiDAR Scanner for more realistic AR. A Pro camera system optimized for low light — and pushed even further on iPhone 12 Pro Max.
iPhone 12 Pro Specs
- DISPLAY: 6.1 inches Super Retina XDR OLED Screen (1170 x 2532 px) and 460 PPI
- CAMERA: 12 MP ( f/1.6, wide), 12MP (f/2.0, telephoto) and 12 MP (f/2.4, ultrawide)
- SELFIE: 12 MP, f/2.2 (wide)
- STORAGE: 128GB to 512GB, non-expandable
- CPU & RAM: Hexa-core, Apple A14 Bionic (5 nm)
- OS: iOS 14
- BATTERY: Li-Ion 2775 mAh, non-removable, Fast charging 18W
- FEATURES: Ceramic Shield, Waterproof, 5G, Face ID, Siri, Dual SIM
- COLORS: Black, White, Product Red, Green, Blue
- PRICE: Starting at $1000
How do you make our brightest display even better? Make it bigger. A new design with flat edges and our flexible custom OLED allowed us to push the screen’s amazing color, brightness, and contrast right to the very edge.
Night mode comes to both the Wide and Ultra Wide cameras, and it’s better than ever at capturing incredible low-light shots. LiDAR makes Night mode portraits possible. And the Wide camera lets in 27 percent more light, for greater detail and sharper focus day or night.
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5G goes Pro. A14 Bionic rockets past every other smartphone chip. The Pro camera system takes low-light photography to the next level — with an even bigger jump on iPhone 12 Pro Max. And Ceramic Shield delivers four times better drop performance. Let’s see what this thing can do.
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5G transforms iPhone with accelerated wireless speeds and better performance on congested networks.5 Now you can download huge files on the go or stream high-quality HDR movies.
Without. All. The. Lag. iPhone also has the most 5G bands of any smartphone so you get 5G in more places. And all that speed opens up amazing possibilities for the future of apps.
