iPhone 12 Mini: Five Rumored Features You Might Be Giving Up

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The iPhone 12 mini is defined to be the tiniest iPhone in lots of years, with a screen size of just 5.4 inches and a body size smaller than anything we've seen because the original iPhone SE. While fans of smaller form-factor devices have craved today's small ‌iPhone‌ for a long time, there are five notable features that you will be giving up if you get the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini, if you were to think the existing rumors about the upcoming lineup.

Display Technology
The ‌iPhone 12‌ mini is likely to have a flexible OLED display with Y-OCTA integrated touch, for richer colors and truer blacks than an LCD.

However, the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini's display is likely to involve some slight drawbacks. The ‌iPhone 12‌ Pro and ‌iPhone 12‌ Pro Max will reportedly have 10-bit color for more vibrant, true-to-life colors, and a richer selection of color gradations, along with XDR classification.

In addition, although rumors have already been highly mixed on some ‌iPhone 12‌ models having a 120Hz ProMotion display, rumors about the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini devoid of a 120Hz display have been consistent. If the feature does appear for the ‌iPhone 12‌ lineup, chances are to be reserved for the Pro models and even the Pro Max model only.

LiDAR Scanner
The ‌iPhone 12‌ Pro models are rumored to have a LiDAR Scanner, famous brands which premiered on the iPad Pro earlier this year.

The LiDAR Scanner in the iPad Pro uses reflected light to gauge the distance from the sensor to surrounding objects that are up to five meters away. It is essentially in a position to map the surroundings around you at the photon level in nanosecond speeds. The rumored LiDAR Scanner for the ‌iPhone 12‌ Pro will probably work similarly, if not identically. As a smaller and lower-cost non-Pro model, the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini isn't expected to have the LiDAR scanner.

Telephoto Lens
Similar to the iPhone 11, the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini is expected to have two camera lenses on its rear; a wide-angle lens and an ultrawide-angle lens. However, the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini misses out on the telephoto lens, making up the third lens on the higher-end Pro models.

The high-end 6.7-inch ‌iPhone 12‌ Pro Max is rumored to be getting sensor-shift image stabilization technology, that could potentially bring image stabilization to the ultra wide-angle lens on those devices. Sensor-shift technology allows the optical image stabilization to be applied to the camera sensor, instead of the individual lenses. This feature isn't expected to trickle right down to the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini.

The ‌iPhone 12‌ mini may still reap the benefits of Apple's new "high-end" lens arrays and improved Smart HDR for better low-light performance.

Battery Capacity
As the tiniest device in the ‌iPhone 12‌ lineup, the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini can be expected to have the tiniest battery. Certifications have suggested that the battery capacity of the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini is 2,227mAh. Apple's current smallest flagship ‌iPhone‌, the 5.8-inch iPhone 11 Pro, has a battery capacity of 3,046mAh battery, making the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini's capacity 819mAh smaller.

Although the A14 Bionic processor and OLED display will probably improve energy efficiency, the fundamental limits of battery size in the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini will probably result in an overall smaller battery life.

The 6.7-inch ‌iPhone 12‌ Pro Max is likely to have a much bigger capacity of 3,687mAh, so users worried about battery life would certainly benefit from getting a larger model.

Faster 5G
Rumors advise that the ‌‌iPhone 12‌‌ Pro Max will also be the only model to have faster mmWave 5G. Sub-6GHz 5G, which is the slower but more widespread sort of 5G, is likely to be present on the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini. Only the largest ‌‌‌iPhone‌‌‌ in the lineup supposedly gets the internal space to accommodate the antenna design needed to implement mmWave at the moment, together with the larger battery necessary for its higher power usage.

Regardless of these missing features, the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini continues to be expected to get the latest A14 Bionic processor, an OLED display, and a whole new squared-off design. For most fans of small phones, the ‌iPhone 12‌ mini would be the device that they have long been looking forward to.

For more on what things to expect from the 2020 ‌‌‌‌‌iPhone‌‌‌‌‌ models, make certain to see our dedicated roundup or read our quick summary of Ten What to Know About the iPhone 12.

Update: Apple's production lines at Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory in China are said to be running "24 hours per day" in preparation for the ‌‌iPhone 12‌‌ mini's launch.

Reports from mobile operators now seem to be to be pointing toward Tuesday, October 13 for the state unveiling of the ‌‌iPhone 12‌‌ lineup. The rumor means that pre-orders could begin on October 16, with the launch logically following on October 23.

If there is an October 13 event followed by an October 23 launch, we may not see all of the new ‌‌iPhone 12‌‌ models at the same time. Rumors have suggested that we should expect a staggered launch with some ‌‌iPhone‌‌ models coming out in October and others coming out at a later date, perhaps in November.

Source: https://www.macrumors.com

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