They also have a little bitdifferent color offerings. The iPhone se only gets threedifferent colors, black white, and this product red where the iPhone12 mini comes in quite a few different colors, black that I havehere, white, red, green, and blue. The blue isthe new color this year. Now both are made out of aluminum. They have an aluminum frame or on theoutside edge and they have glass front and back. But the iPhone S E is sort of the olderstyle where it has the rounded edges and the buttons are a little bitdifferent. So what I mean by that, as you can see here, the iPhone 12 mini is moresquared off and has a much larger, more pronounced power button. And thenbelow the power button on the iPhone, SE is the SIM card tray, but belowthe power button on the iPhone, 12 mini is the 5g millimeter wave antenna. That's specific to the United States. We don't really have a standard formillimeter wave too much around the world right now. So it's only in theUnited States and mostly on Verizon, somewhat on a T and T. Nowon the top of the phones, they're exactly the same on theleft-hand side of the phone, you'll have your silent switchand your volume buttons, but below that on the iPhone,12 mini is the SIM card tray. We don't have anything else onthe iPhone S E on the bottom. They're also a little bit different thisyear. So I'm the bottom of the phones.
You can see that wehave lightning on both, but we have symmetrical speakerand microphone holes on the iPhone. S E whereas on the iPhone12 mini they're asymmetric, meaning the microphone has two holes andthere's four holes for the speakers on the iPhone, 12 mini. So it's somethinga little bit different there. Everything else is basically the same. Now the weight is also alittle bit different as well. The iPhone 12 is a little bit smallerthan the iPhone se coming in at 4.7, six ounces or 135 gramsversus the iPhone SE at 5.2, two ounces, or 148 grams. You can see there is a slight sizedifference with the iPhone 12 mini being a little bit shorter. And ifI put them side by side, you can see that it's alsoa little bit narrower. The iPhone 12 mini is narrower. Itseems to be about the same thickness, but it's also narrower and shorterbased off the overall dimensions. So fitness-wise, they're very similar,but with the squared off edges, the mini is easier to hang on to andless slippery, at least in my opinion. And like I said, they'reboth glass front and back, and they're both fingerprint magnets. This is just fingerprints fromfilming the video already. And the iPhone 12 mini hasthe new ceramic shield, which makes it four times less likelyto break in the event that you drop your phone. Now, if you're notusing a case, of course, it's still four times less likely, but it still should be a littlebit more durable that way. Scratch resistanceshould be about the same. There's really not a difference therewhatsoever. Now, as you can see, we have touch ID and faceID. Both are very subjective. Meaning if you really like touch ID,that's going to be better for you. Face ID works well, too.They're both very secure. Technically face ID is more secureunless you have a twin for example, but they're both equally fast and it'sreally just comes down to preference as far as what you likethere. Now, of course, another huge difference is thedisplays, the display on the se, despite it having larger bezels and thephone being larger overall is actually smaller at 4.7 inches.And it's an LCD display. It's 1334 by 750 pixels with a density of 326 pixels per inch.
The iPhone 12 mini actually uses anOla display or a super retina XDR display. That's capable of HDRwhere the iPhone se is not. It's a 5.4 inch displaywith 2340 by 10 80 pixels or 476 pixels per inch. So it's a much more pixel dense display, both look great and go to thesame 625 nits of brightness. They're plenty bright, butwhen playing HDR content, the iPhone 12 mini can go all theway up to 1200 nits of brightness. So it is technically a littlebit brighter, but in normal use, you won't see a difference.Both have great viewing angles, both are phenomenal displays, but the iPhone 12 mini being thatit's OLED has PWM or pulse with modulation to control brightness. That means it's flickeringthe display faster or slower, depending on how much the brightnessis set to the top or bottom. So meaning if the super brightit's going to flash faster. Now this is something youcan't see with your eyes, but can cause some peopleto feel nauseated or createheadaches for that person. And in the newer phoneswith the iPhone 12 series, it doesn't seem to be a problem for me, but if you are sensitive to those things, you'll want to go with the iPhone se oran LCD display because it is always on, it's not flickering at all. So that maybe a consideration for some, of course, with the display, with the iPhone 12 mini,even though it's a little bit bigger, you do have the notch that maybother some people personally, it's never bothered me, but if it'ssomething that bothers you again, you could go with the se.Now, when it comes to specs, both are very fast phones. Theyboth have great processors in them. The iPhone se second gen has theA13 bionic with three gigabytes of Ram where the iPhone 12 mini has theA14 bionic with four gigabytes of Ram. Now that extra Ram helps with the display, but also helps with the newerprocessor. So both are phenomenal, both are really fast.
So let's goahead and open up the phone here. And if we open certain apps like music, they're going to load basicallythe same. So if we go into music, it's the first time I've opened iton the 12. You'll see it was fast. If I opened weather, for example, ittakes a moment to load and refresh. Both are equally fast. That way,if I open a game like Minecraft, we'll run it here on both.We'll wait for it to load. We'll get to the main loading screenhere. And if we hit play on both, then we create an createnew world, create new world. And then we hit create at the same time, we'll let it process and load the world. Both we'll play it just as fastwe'll hit, proceed on both. And they should both load about the same. Sometimes you get surprised andthe older phone will load faster. So they're very similar, but you'llsee now it's building the world. It says, generatingworld. We'll wait for it. And you can see in realtime how long it takes. Now, this is the first time opening thisapp. So this should give you an idea. This isn't really a general overalltest of how fast it is per se, but it gives you an idea of what'sgoing on. And it is taking a while. [Inaudible]. And like I said, the older phone or the iPhone se isactually a little bit faster this time. So it's kind of strange thatit's doing that, but there we go.
It took a moment that could beinternet. It could be other things, but both should be equally fast. Sometimes that can just bethe processor ramping up. And it was opened for the firsttime on the iPhone, 12 mini, but both will play itjust fine either way. You'll have smooth frame rates on either, but that's kind of an interesting result. And I do see that from time to timenow, other than games like Minecraft, you have among us or call of duty. And if we just go intofree play here and there we go, free play select. And ofcourse, we're in very quickly, it's going to be fast on justabout anything. Of course, there shouldn't be an issue there.I'll just close that for now, but anything from call of dutyto Minecraft should be fine. So no issues with playingany of the most recent games, you can use an Xbox controller.You could use a PS4 controller. It really doesn't matter, butdoing something really intensive, such as exporting 4k video should showus the true power of either processor. Now, it's really hard to show you the actualpower of the processor with the neural engine, but exporting a 4k video ispretty intensive. So let's try that. Now I've opened, I'm moving closedall other apps and created a movie. So you see, I movie isthe only thing running. I've imported the same clip intoboth recorded from an iPhone. And then what I'll do isI'll just add a title here, just a simple one that says Zillow tech, that way it has to do alittle bit extra work. There we go. And again, we'll do the sameon the other phone here, the same exact title. Okay. And it's a little bit difficult forme to type on the small keyboard, but you get the idea. It has atitle there's me in the video. So we'll set it to the beginningof both. We'll hit done, and then we'll share slide these over. And then I'll bring in my iPhone 12 promax is a stopwatch here and we'll go save video. Start. And let's see what it does. So this isgoing to save it and export it in 4k. Let's see if there's a difference betweenthe two of them both have the clip downloaded and it's movingalong pretty quickly on both. So if you've ever exported video, you know that the iPhonesare very fast at doing this. They're both almost done. And you'll see that the iPhone 12mini finished maybe two seconds before the iPhone se. So it's really not thatbig of a difference betweenboth of them and after doing an intensive task like that,they're not very warm on the back. There is a little bit of heat on theside of the iPhone se and the iPhone 12 mini feels basically a little bitwarm in the same sort of area. So no real issue there. It's pretty impressive that theycan export video that quickly. Now let's talk about the cameras. The forward facing camerasof both are very different. So on the iPhone se second generation, it's only a seven megapixel camera withan F 2.2 aperture that can record up to 10 80 P on the iPhone minior iPhone 12 mini it's a 12 megapixel true depth camera.That is an F 2.2 aperture, but can record 4k 60 or HDR. Sothey're very different cameras. And I'll show you some samples ina moment on the back of the phones.
That's where it's very different.In fact, the 12 mini is leaps ahead. When it comes to the camera on the iPhone,se you have a singular camera camera, that's actually a 12 megapixel camerawith an F 1.8 aperture and can record up to 4k 60, which is actually quite good. I filmed the entire iPhone se review withan iPhone se, but the iPhone 12 mini, like I said, is leaps above. Youget two cameras, both 12 megapixels, but you get an F 1.6 aperture aswell as an ultra wide F two points for aperture. Both can record 4k 60,but there's extra features as well, 4k 30 and Dolby vision HDR, aswell as some additional features, such portrait modes andnight modes as well. So let's first go into our cameraoptions so I can show you the difference there. We'll go down to camerahere. There's camera on the iPhone, 12 mini camera on theiPhone se. And like I said, you have 4k 60 on both, but if youscroll down on the iPhone, 12, many, you have HDR. You can record up to 30 frames persecond in 10 bit high dynamic range with Dolby vision, which is really phenomenal. If we go into the cameras themselvesagain, you have different features. So you have portrait modes on both, but the portrait is a lotbetter on the iPhone, 12 mini, and it can recognize objects,objects where it can't on the iPhone. Se you have to recognize a person. You also have slow-motime-lapse and you have night modes when it's dark aswell on the iPhone 12 mini. So let's go ahead and take a look at thephoto and video from the forward facing and the rear cameras as well.So you can see the difference The forward facing camera of theiPhone, S E two, and the iPhone 12 mini. And so you can see how it's handlingthe background with the sky. And also you can hear the audio from theiPhone se two and the iPhone 12 mini. Let me know what you think soundsbest in the comments below. So hopefully that gives you a goodidea of what the cameras are like. Now, internally, these are very differentwhen it comes to the cellular modems, the iPhone se has a 4g Intelmodem. That's capable of 4g LTE, where the iPhone 12 mini has aQualcomm modem capable of 5g. The Qualcomm modem seems tohold onto connections better. Doesn't seem to drop phone callsand has faster speeds. Overall. It's just a much better modem in myspecific use or anytime I've ever used it. Wifi is about the same though. Now, when it comes to the water resistanceof both, both are IP certified, but the iPhone se is IP 67rated for up to one meter for 30 minutes. The iPhone 12 mini thoughhas a much better rating ofIP 68 for up to six meters for 30 minutes. So it seems to be a much better sealedphone and more resistant to dust and water.
Now, when it comes to the battery, you would think with the iPhone se beinglarger and having a lower resolution display, it would have better batterylife, but the battery is actually smaller. It's an 1,820 1 million powerbattery in the iPhone se which Apple says is good for 13hours of video playback. That means just video downloaded andplaying that back with the iPhone 12 mini though, you get up to 15 hours ofvideo playback where the larger 2,227 million powerbattery. In my general test, when I did a review of both, I got about four hours ofscreen on time with the iPhone. Se some people may get more, but that's generally what I got four tofour and a half hours with the iPhone 12 mini. You get about fivehours in my general, use five to five and a half hours,depending on how you're using it. So you did get, do get a little bit more. You've got a little bit nicerdisplay pushing a lot more pixels. So that's basically the difference there. Now when it comes to charging them though, both don't come with acharger in the box anymore.
If you buy an iPhone se there will nolonger be a charger. If you buy one new, if you find one used, youmay have that charger, but charging using a 20 watt adapter, Apple says you'll get50% charge in 30 minutes, and it will take a little bit longerafter that both will wirelessly charge, but with the iPhone 12 mini, youcan use mag safe accessories, such as the mag safe adapter andwirelessly fast charge for up to 15 Watts. So it does help. It's not super fast,it's slower than just plugging it in, but you can fast charge andyou have this magnetic adapter, which helps align the charger. You also get MagSafe accessories such asthis leather case that also has magnets in it to help secure it to the case.Hold it on a little bit better. Although I don't see muchof a difference there. I don't think it's the magnet securingit as much as the lip on the case, but again, you can use MagSafeaccessories that are magnetic and hold, hold it to different things such as carmounts that you've seen from Belkin. For example, with the iPhone se you can use mag safeto center on the back and it will start charging. You can see it'scharging now, and it will charge, but you won't get thefast charging from it. So you still can wirelesslycharge through that, but you can use any cheesy certifiedwireless charger with either of these phones now, which oneis right for you? Well, that really depends on acouple of different things.First of all, your budget, the iPhone se second gen is definitelyless expensive for the same storage options, but you don't have some of the nicerthings such as the forward and rear facing cameras or the battery life of the12 mini also size is a consideration. The iPhone 12 mini feels morepremium to me personally, with the squared off edges andis much smaller in your hand. So it feels different. It feels more premium and has moresimilar to what you would have with say an iPhone five, for example. So it remindsme of that quite a bit. However, with the iPhone SE again,you're getting touch ID, which some people would prefer over faceID. They're both secure, like I said, but they are different. And if you prefer touch ID or youprefer LCD displays because the Ola displays bother your eyes. Wellthen obviously go with the iPhone. S E both are great phones. They're both very capable andthey both work really well, but it really just comes down to whateveryour personal preference is with the things I've already mentioned. So let me know what youchose in the comments below. And I would love to hear whichone you chose, which color, and maybe you decided to stick withan older iPhone or pick up something different, like an iPhone, 12 proor 12 pro max, something like that. Let me know in the comments below, if you'd like to get yourhands on this wallpaper, of course I'll link it in thedescription like I normally do.
