Iphone 14 | iPhone 14?: Better buy the iPhone 12! | apple iphone

If you don’t need an iPhone with Pro features, you can use the “normal” iPhone. However, since the brand new iPhone 14 has become a little more expensive in this country, the older models suddenly seem particularly attractive to many users. We have already made a comparison between iPhone 14 and iPhone 13. Now it’s the turn of the iPhone of 2020. The iPhone 12 is special in many ways: After a few years, it got a new housing design and is equipped with features that will also be important in the future. Why the iPhone 12 is probably more worthwhile for you than the iPhone 14 compared to the iPhone 14.

The iPhone 14 (all information) and iPhone 12 look confusingly similar at first glance. In fact, they also have a lot in common, such as:

• a 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR display

• a notch with Face ID

• a two-camera system with a main and ultra wide-angle camera

• 2x optical zoom

• 5G

• Magsafe

• Protection against water and dust (according to IEC standard 60529)

• Portrait and night mode

• 4K video recording

Of course, the two models also differ in certain respects. So the iPhone 14 has a 20 percent smaller notch than the iPhone 12. Apple introduced the smaller notch at the top of the screen in the iPhone 13. In retrospect, however, the smaller notch had more of a marketing than practical benefit: Anyone who feels disturbed by the larger notch in the iPhone 12 will probably also have problems with the smaller notch.

The iPhone 14 is also coming along accident detection (the iPhone recognizes car accidents and calls for help in an emergency), dem A15 bionic chip (the iPhone 12 has the A14 Bionic chip, and thus one less GPU core) and different storage capacities and housing colors. the camera is arranged vertically on the iPhone 12, while the iPhone 14 adopts the diagonal arrangement of the iPhone 13.

The new photonic engine in the iPhone 14 can get more out of your photos thanks to the A15 chip and slightly improved aperture values, but the snapshots from the iPhone 12 are also impressive. With features such as Deep Fusion, Smart HDR 3, portrait mode “with advanced bokeh”, night mode and video recording in 4K (24, 25, 30 or 60 fps) and a 12 MP front camera, the iPhone 12 will still be great in 2022 equipped.

battery pack

The battery performance in the iPhone 14 is better than in the iPhone 12 or 13. Apple itself does not specify the performance of the battery in mAh, but based on the playback time of videos or audio content. In the last two years, Apple has been able to steadily improve performance:

Colors & Storage Capacity

The iPhone 14 is available in five different colors, the iPhone 12 even in six. However, the shades vary slightly from generation to generation:

• iPhone 14: Blue, Purple, Midnight, North Star, (PRODUCT)RED

• iPhone 12Blue, Purple, White, Black, (PRODUCT)RED, Green

If less storage is enough for you, you are better off with the iPhone 12, which starts at 64 GB. The prices for such a device are correspondingly low at the moment. The maximum storage capacity is only 256GB on the iPhone 12, while you can choose from 128GB to 512GB on the iPhone 14.

Prices

If you buy the iPhone 12 directly from Apple, prices start at 799 euros. If you want more storage, pay for the €849 (128GB) or €969 (256GB). But you can get the iPhone 12 much cheaper if you don’t buy it directly from Apple.

The iPhone 14 starts at €999 (128GB), if you need more storage pay €1,129 (256GB) or €1,389 (512GB).

For whom is the iPhone 14 suitable – and for whom is the iPhone 12? Only you can best answer this question. If you like the larger storage capacities, the (slightly modified) colors and of course the new features in the iPhone 14, you are of course best served with the current model. However, we are of the opinion: it is better to keep your hands off the iPhone 14, save money and buy an older model – even if you have to do without a smaller notch, larger battery or new functions such as “accident detection”. The iPhone 12 comes with a lot of features that are completely sufficient for the next few years: a modern housing design with a great camera system for photography and filming, 5G, Magsafe and all of that at a now reasonable price. (macworld)