Review iPhone 13 Mini (and iOS 15) - a half -great smartphone

The small smartphone returnedin a series of 12 apple phones, but for several reasons, especially the battery did not collect high ratings.I would probably decide to buy it myself, but I was counting quietly that the next edition would beintroduced from the iPad Air Side Touch ID, if only because it would be another year with the Covid-19 epidemic, and the masks for Face ID areVery "harmful".

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As you probably know, this did not happen, but I still went to the 13th mini for four reasons:

I have been using a smartphone for over a month and on the one hand it is a dream come true, but on the other there are surprisingly many situationsin which I would like to throw it out of the window.However, not the equipment is responsible for most of my frustration, but the primitive to pain iOS, which I will come back to.

iPhone 13 mini - housing

The quality of the iPhone 13 mini housing is excellent.Everything is perfectly fitted, nothing creaks, holding the smartphonein his hand gives the impression that it was cut out of a piece of metal.The appearance of the block is only spoiled by the very protruding island of the cameras, but most people will use the case that eliminates this problem anyway.This is necessary for aesthetic reasons, the housing collects dust from looking.

As I prefer rather dark / black smartphones, I chose a north version for myself, meaning an elegant, dark navy blue switching to black.I have to admit that this time I felt like a change, I was tempted by the iPhone 12 bright green, butin thirteen they did not apply it anymore.Regardless of the color, the iPhones 13 housing is resistant to water, dust and sand, and the manufacturer was described as IP68.

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iPhone 13 mini - screen

OLED screen with HDR support and DCI-P3 color space is fantastic quality and factory calibrated.If you are notin favor of exaggerated Android colors, the Apple smartphone will not disappoint you.

The brightness of this panel does not disappoint, typical is 800 rivets, and the maximum 1200, and this can be seen.A lot of people consider it a refreshment of 60 Hz, I don't notice anyinconvenience of this solution, probably having such an option and I would turn it off, to save the battery.

Unfortunately, this excellent screen is also associated with the biggest hardware defects of this device, but it is not about its quality, but rather the philosophy of design.First of all, notch - it is smaller, most say that you stop noticing it with time,in my case it does not work.Theindentation is nasty and I strongly spoils the pleasure of using the iPhone.

The disadvantagein the same category are the powerful rounding of the screen corners.In combination with notch, they cause rape on the userinterface, significantly limiting utility, especially the upper part of the screen.The whole irritates me both ergonomically and aesthetically, looking at the iPhones (not only mini) with the eyes of the imagination I see rounded TV screens from the 1960s.

No less, the size of the mini rewards everything, the phone evenin a large case is very comfortable.Wearing itin your pocket is almost imperceptible.Smartphone support with one hand is a fairy tale, if we skip problems related to the primitive of the system.I missed all this very much.

iPhone 13 mini - battery

We all know the Apple policy about the battery, they go to smartphones quite small for market standards, cells, which is made up for great software optimization.It is no differentin the iPhone 13 Mini, which, despite having a battery with a capacity of only 2406 mAh, stands with me without charging about 3 days.

Of course, I have to stipulate here that I am not a person hanging on a smartphone for days, if I have the opportunity to change to a computer, TV, HIFI system.However, evenin situations when I used it moreintensively than usual, e.g..During family trips, during which I took a lot of photos and movies, the phone did not use more than 50 - 60% energy.

In the set you will not find a charger, there is only a USB-C cablein the box-Lightning.If you have nothing with such a nest, Tim Cook will sell you a 20-watt for PLN 99.Of course, you can also buy a product of another company, the choice is really wide today.Charging with it lasts over 30 minutes.

Accessories using wireless charging and Magsafe are also available.However, it should be remembered thatin the case of charging with Magsafe you have 15 W, and only 7.5 W with QI chargers, so it will be longer.

iPhone 13 mini - performance

It is no secret to anyone that Apple "knowsin processors".A15 is a monster that not only works quickly, it is not completely heating yet.It was a curse of my smartphones I tested with the Qualcomm flagship processor, Snapdragon 888.A15in Mini is supported by 4 GB RAM and a NVME disk (for me 128 GB).

In Geekbench 5, the iPhone results look as follows:

Even assuming that it is not possible to translate these results 1: 1 to those of Android, the advantage of Apple processors isindisputable.

As for the iPhone 13 mini network services, it supports 5G, WiFi 6 (but notin E) and Bluetooth 5.0 (when the latest version is 5.2).5G I am not able to check, BT works without problems, but WiFi already works more slowly than e.g..in the xperia I tested.Another thing is that on a smartphone,in practice, it's hard to catch these differences differently thanin the testing application.

iPhone 13 mini - sound

Stereo speakers iPhone 13 mini are not able to jump over a certain level, but...They sound brilliant for a smartphone.I am convinced that by releasing some piecesin a blind test, no one would put a penny that the source of the sound is a tiny smartphone.The BT broadcast is also of high quality and very stable, I had the opportunity to evaporate the iPhone M.in.with Yamaha hi-end headphones and it was a feast for the ears.

Disadvantages?No headphone connector and no headphones in the set, but it has not been surprising in Apple for years.

iPhone 13 mini - photography and film

As for a smartphone from this price shelf, the iPhone surprises with only two lenses.However, do not be fooled, photos obtained through them outweigh what most smartphones can offer you proudly "flexing" minimum slide.Computing photography algorithms in Apple are really from the top shelf.

However, let's start with the slides themselves, on the island, which is very protruding from the housing, we will find:

Compared to the PRO series, there is a lack of a tele lens and a person like me, previously testing Sony flagships, this slide is a bit lacking.However, for most people it will be irrelevant, Apple lenses and software take such good photos that people who do not know what they want to achieve, this lack will not notice.It is a pity that the lack of Tele also means the absence of macro mode.

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The computing photography in the iPhones is at a very high level.Night photos?Insanity, they show things that I can't see.Portrait mode?Maybe it is not the quality of the SLR, but in most cases the photos cannot be failed.Video materials?The class itself, especially on the main lens, whose stabilization really sweeps.

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Cinematic Mode is impressive, although of course he is far from ideal.I didn't have much time for really in -depth tests, I hope I could do it for the holiday period, but I thought it would be worse.Although I will stop with the final assessment, I can already see that the filmmaker aware of limitations has a chance to use it creatively.It is a pity that it is impossible to switch a frame to 24 or 25 fps.

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iPhone 13 mini - operating system

The topic iOS 15 is actually a thing for a separate article, so bad and good is this operating system.If you are a person with several cross applications on your phone or you do not pay attention to what your screens look like with iOS applications, you have the chance to be happy.However, if you are a fan of ergonomics and a person who likes to set the system for your needs, some Apple solutions will lead you crazy.

For example, the thing I was a big fan, i.e. a functionally reminiscent of live tiles with Windows 10 Mobile, have been implemented tragically.Adding them is extremely non -intuitive, but the real challenge is their proper setting on the "live" mesh of the iPhone application.

Already in the case of ordinary icons, the independent switching of icons leads crazy, but the disco that appears when trying to insert large widgets is a real cosmos.I really understand why such a solution appeared in the first iPhones, but since then a lot of time has passed and people do not have to run so much by the handle.

The iPhone interface also forces us to wave our fingers on all directions and remember the twisted ways of reaching various places.By sliding the next screens to the left, we will reach the illegible and bolted application library, which iOS groups according to his vision.To switch to a regular, alphabetical list of applications for unknown reasons, we need to move the screen down.

If we decide to use the library, then rewinding these groups often ends with a random transition to the application list, which you will not come back with gesture.You will have to click the "Cancel" button on the top beam.Why was the application list not simply set as another side screen?It is not known, but this is not the end...

Because the library screen, unlike the usual ones, scrolls down, we will not be able to use it from Spotlight.Interestingly, such a possibility exists on a special screen of widgets "pulled out" from the left edge.

On some special screens, the large beams "search" turn out to be only the district indicators that go down, that when we go down, we will open the Spotlight screen...Since we are already gathering, why waste so much space and make a mess in UI?

Notifications, due to the lack of icons for which there is no place for rounding and notch, are much more difficult to embrace than in Android.Developing notification groups is not legible because the groups did not get any distinguishing feature.

Ekran Widgetów też żyje własnym życiem, jedne elementy dodaje się z „plusa” w górnym rogu ekranu,inne z przycisku „Edycja”.If you go from the lock screens to the widgets screen, then you will be able to jump to the application, but change the widgets not.These buttons cannot be called.

The comedy is how settings, both system and application.It would seem that the most logical place to enter the system settings will be the "control center", available from anywhere in the system.However, no such a button has been added, you can only "glue" about about the settings of a specific function (e.g..Bluetooth).

To enter the settings, you have to find the icon, jump to the library or use Spotlight or Siri. Jeśli będziecie chcieć przestawić coś w samym „Centrum sterowania” nie zadziała wam żadna ze stosowanych winnych rejonach systemu metod, nie ma przycisku „Edytuj”, nic się nie dzieje jeśli dłużej przytrzymacie palec.Changes?Only via system settings...

It is even more fun with the settings of individual applications, because Apple came up with that everything would keep in the system settings.It is true that some of the application of third -party companies have their own panels inside the application, but in connection with the Apple guidelines, not everything can be found there.As a result, a lot of applications have two panels that do.Absurd.

Navigating after the settings is also funny, if you have a lot of applications, your system settings will have a kilometer long to unscrew.The only relatively fast path is to enter the application name in Spotlight and find a shortcut.

It would be logical to add such a shortcut in the context menu, caused by the longer hold of the application icon...But apparently iOS designers did not go to logic classes. Ogólnie,interfejs iOS to chaos, brak logiki i w wielu miejscach wizualna graciarnia.Don't have illusions, what I described here is not all, there are more such absurd solutions.

In the article in which I described the first impressions after returning to iOS, several commentators were indignant when I wrote that this system did not match in terms of UI/UX ŚP.Windows 10 Mobile.After more than a month of use, I can say even sharp.But...

Bajzel w UI/UX Apple nadrabia gdzieindziej.Speed, stability, taking care of privacy and a huge number of good third -party applications are the features that the iPhone beats the android competition on the head. Dla osób używającychinnych sprzętów Apple dochodzi jeszcze świetnaintegracja w ramach ekosystemu stworzonego przez tę firmę.

Przez cały okres użytkowanie tego smartfona nie miałem najmniejszego zacięcia, każdainstalacja aplikacji pozwala wyłączyć śledzenie, a wszystkie usługi Apple, dane z iCloud, pojawiły się na smartfonie parę chwil po jego pierwszym włączeniu.Setting Android takes a lot more time.

As for the application, I must admit that I really missed some of them.As an example, I can give skysafari pro, which was replaced by Star Walk 2 on W10M, but this is not the shelf.Anyway, there are some interesting proposals in every field in which I was looking for.

A really many valuable educational programs can be found among applications using augmented reality.In the end I could also abandon the spreadsheet and go with the household budget to a more advanced base system with a convenient mobile application recording expenses.

iPhone 13 mini - summary

As you can see, it is impossible to say that I am in the iPhone 13 Mini uncritically falling in love.The Apple smartphone has a number of advantages, but also huge disadvantages.No less I think that for a person looking for a small and convenient device there is no alternative on the market.The size of this device covers its annoying flaws, and because most of them are the fault of the system, you can hope that the next IOS editions will improve its ergonomics.

iPhone 13 mini - specification

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