iphone 12 mini has been out for about a month or so and this is a phone that i think a lot of people really like.

but initial sales may be a little bit lower than expected according to some things online now the thought about this that i'm thinking is i think it's because people that upgrade to say the mini or the 12 are going to be upgrading over this coming year where the early adopters are going to pick something like the 12 pro and the 12 pro max and so that may be why you're not seeing a ton of these out in the wild at least i haven't i've seen more of the 12 and the 12 pro out than anything else of the new phones so it really depends on who the individual is of course but i want to talk about durability what it's like to use whether or not you should get this size for yourself talk about battery life and more and so the first thing is durability now this phone is going to be pretty good i think durability wise for a lot of people because it's smaller and easier to hold on to as a whole compared to some of the larger phones now this phone is aluminum on the outside edge and has this sort of anodized or painted aluminum on the outside ring and so far it hasn't chipped this is the black iphone 12 mini and on the iphone 5 when it first came out and i have one here we had some chips on the anodized coating you can see one right there so they chip over time if you're not careful and then apple improved this with the 5s and moved on but they never really came out with a really dark black anodized phone again until the 12 or 12 mini in this sort of series with this aluminum band so hopefully this proves to be more durable over time now during this time of using it it's been protected in this case if you've not been watching my channel for any amount of time you know i don't usually use a case but it's been in this leather case protected like this it's the magsafe case and it does a good job so there's no issues with the back of the phone or the sides of the phone and the screen doesn't have a single scratch on it it may have some fingerprints from just picking it up in this video but there's not any scratches on it or anything like that nothing to be concerned with and it seems to hold up well now i did have a scratch on my iphone 12 i've shown that before here it is let me wipe off the screen so you can see it a little bit better but in the upper right there's a little scratch.

i don't know how it got there i'm not sure where it came from but i haven't seen a scratch like that on any of the other iphone 12 series devices so i do expect them to hold up pretty well they should be more drop resistant but again you could put a screen protector on these if you want them to last over time of course just like most people do now let's take the case off here and talk more about what it's like as far as size now size wise for me this is a super small phone so if i put it in my hand here you can see to get an idea if i take the 12 pro max in my hand you'll see that it looks like a normal size phone in my hand so the 12 mini is way too small for me and that's just my personal preference and the reason for that obviously is my large hands but coming from something as big as say a 12 pro max to a mini really cramps my hand up so when you're trying to type i could get used to it i used to you've used an iphone 5 the original iphone and got used to it but going from a larger phone back to a smaller one doesn't really work well for me so if i go into notes and then i wanted to type something like hi how are you today i can do it but it's my hands are just so big that they kind of get in the way of everything and it just works better for me on a larger display however this is going to be perfect for a lot of people depending on the size of their hands so as you can see like i said this is a small phone to me and then i can touch my fingers on the 12 pro max wrapping them around here most people can't do this so it's going to be very different for the different users now size wise if you're coming from say an iphone 7 for example maybe a seven or maybe an eight it may be a perfect size for you and the reason is you'll get a larger display but you'll get a smaller body overall with decent battery life and i'll talk more about that in a moment but you'll get a smaller phone overall but a larger display as you can see here with the 7 and the 12 mini and with this jet black 7 you get sort of the same overall aesthetic but you get some advantages with the 12 of course.