Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max review: terrific camera, battery life, and performance, but it's close to being too big and 60Hz display lags behind the competition

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@sdw Sebastiaan de With on x
Always so excited to read @austinmann's amazing iPhone camera reviews. This iPhone 12 Pro Max review is insanely thorough. The images are wild. https://austinmann.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@zammpaul @zammpaul on x
Apple not including the same camera system for both the 12 Pros makes me a bit upset and angry as I have sworn not to run with a giant ass phone anymore. Sigh. Maybe next year. Pro Max looks great this time round. https://twitter.com/...
@dcseifert Dan Seifert on x
lots of great reviews and debate over the iPhone 12 Pro Max camera today! my advice? get a dedicated camera, it will provide orders of magnitude better images (especially in low light and of fast moving kids!)
@stevekovach Steve Kovach on x
I turned off 5G on my iPhone because it's consistently slower (by a lot!) than 4G where I live. https://twitter.com/...
@reckless Nilay Patel on x
The state of 5G in the United States is summed up by the ferocious pixel-level discussion of photos in our iPhone reviews, and near-silence about this paragraph where I say 5G is bad and worth ignoring https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@bencsin Ben on x
I'm getting mine tomorrow & while I generally don't mind big phones (example: the LG Wing or Note 20 Ultra is not too big for me), I do think this one will be too damn wide to use full time in HK, where I have to one hand a phone often and there are always 376 people around me ht…
@caseynewton Casey Newton on x
iPhone 4 reviews: “good news, the camera works now” iPhone 12 reviews: “wait until blackest night and enable NightPicture(TM). a photo of the inside of your closet with the lights turned off will now display 9 more grams of MicroFidelity(TM)”
@firstadopter Tae Kim on x
“5G in the US continues to be a deeply mixed bag that is barely worth discussing ... 5G is not only hard to find, it's slower ... Anyway, I cannot stress this enough: 5G in the United States is more hype than reality” - @reckless https://www.theverge.com/...
@panzer Matthew Panzarino on x
I also reviewed the iPhone 12 Pro Max. It's great, but will be an ergonomic shock to anyone who hasn't ‘gone Max’ before. The camera has plenty of draw though, which could push people on the edge over that cliff. https://techcrunch.com/...

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Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max review: terrific camera, battery life, and performance, but it's close to being too big and 60Hz display lags behind the competition

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