iPhone 13 Pro Design and Display
The iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max feature a flat-edge design and have the Ceramic Shield glass we saw on the iPhone 12 Pro series. It's also IP68 dust and water-resistant. The iPhone 13 Pro keeps a similar design to last year’s iPhone 12 Pro series with the same squared-off edges and glossy frame.
The infamous notch which houses the Face ID technology, the front-facing camera, and earpiece has now shrunk by 20%. This is the first time the notch has changed since it was introduced on the iPhone X in 2017. This will allow for more screen real estate along the top edge of the phone.
As for the display, the iPhone 13 Pro features a 6.1-inch display while the iPhone 13 Pro Max features a 6.7-inch screen. They're both Super Retina XDR displays, which use Apple's own custom OLED technology.
The displays have what Apple calls ProMotion, meaning the iPhone, for the first time ever, supports a high refresh rate. Depending on what's being shown on the screen, the refresh rate switches between 10 and 120Hz.
New for 2021 is four colors: Sierra Blue, graphite, gold, and silver.
iPhone 13 Pro camera
The iPhone 13 Pro Max’s camera array features a 12MP f/1.5 wide camera, a 12MP f/2.8 telephoto snapper, and a 12MP f/1.8 ultrawide camera with a 120-degree field of view, plus a 3D LiDAR scanner used for depth perception.
All three sensors offer 12-megapixel resolutions, however the lenses deliver three very different shooting options: ultra-wide, standard wide, and tele zoom. The combination of these also delivers an almost seamless 6x zoom - optically speaking the tele is only 3x though - as you zoom through the various lenses unaware that you're changing camera systems as you do so. Now Apple's Night Mode works on all three sensors.
It's only when the iPhone 13 Pro automatically switches to the new macro feature that you notice anything different on the screen - only for a split second, but it's still something that can be a little jarring at times. The macro allows you to shoot from just 2cm away from your subject and opens the door to the world of close-up photography for those who are interested.
New software in your phone lets you choose between different types of Photographic Styles. Even before you start shooting, you can set whether the image should have warm, cool, or saturated colors.
On paper, these are only slightly different cameras to the ones on the iPhone 12 Pro Max, and based on our short testing time the changes compared to the last-gen handset seem minor.
There are also new video features, such as Cinematic Mode, which ensures that the main subject in the frame is kept in focus, with the background or foreground blurred accordingly for a ‘focus pull’ effect.
Unfortunately, the resolution for Cinematic mode is capped at 1080p across the entire iPhone range, so you can’t have portrait mode videos and 4K quality at the same time.
If you want even more creative control, the iPhone 13 Pro Max supports ProRes video, a format preferred by video editors. You can record in ProRes up to 30 fps in 4K, but note that only the 256GB and higher models support 4K; the 128GB model is limited to 1080p in ProRes likely because these files take up so much storage.
iPhone 13 Pro Performance and Battery Life
New with the iPhone 13 Pro's is the A15 Bionic system-on-chip, Apple’s most advanced chip ever. It’s built on a 5nm process with six cores. Two of those are new high-powered cores, while the remaining four are more efficient than before. And with enhancements to the Neural Engine, the iPhone 13 Pro has powerful machine learning applications such as iOS 15’s new Live Text feature and Siri’s on-device speech recognition.
Apple claims to have an up to 50% faster CPU and 30% faster GPU than the competition. It also includes a new 16-core Neural Engine that's capable of 15.8 trillion operations every second. All of these handsets are also 5G-compatible, as were the iPhone 12 Pro series.
The A15 processor featured in iPhone 13 Pro's is different from the A15 found in the standard iPhone 13 or 13 mini thanks to the addition of an extra graphical processing unit (GPU) - it's five cores versus four - but in reality, you aren't going to see that in most real-life use-cases.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max also features more RAM – 6GB compared to the iPhone 13’s 4GB – so we believe this should offer top-tier power. The iPhone 13 Pro also offers 6GB of RAM.
Apple claims that all four iPhone 13 models will offer improved battery life over their predecessors, which is great news given the dramatic step back that all but the iPhone 12 Pro Max took last year. Apple indicated that the iPhone 13 mini and iPhone 13 Pro should offer 1.5 hours more, while the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro Max will deliver an extra 2.5 hours.
There are four storage sizes: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and now a new 1TB option to fill up.
The iPhone 13 Pro starts at $999 and the 13 Pro Max at $1,099 for 128GB of storage. For the first time, you have the option to get 1TB of storage on an iPhone. The extra storage pushes the price of a 13 Pro to $1,499 and the 13 Pro Max to $1,599.
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