Apple iPhone 12 Pro: The 5 Best Features

iPhone Pro 12 is Apple’s best and most satisfying iPhone, ever. You’re not surprised, are you?

Lance Ulanoff
8 min readOct 26, 2020
Apple’s new 5G iPhone 12 Pro

Apple’s first 5G smartphone takes us back to a design aesthetic we didn’t know we missed, marrying it to modern touches introduced with the iPhone X to mostly positive affect. There are 5 big reasons I love this smartphone. Granted, there are some caveats, too.

A gorgeous design

The $999 iPhone 12 Pro’s stainless-steel body is taller and wider than the iPhone 11 Pro, but also noticeably thinner and just a hair lighter. Between those subtle changes and the wholesale body overhaul, Apple managed to enlarge the screen from 5.8 inches to 6.1.

The edges are back ,and I love them

The new phone is slightly heavier than the iPhone 11 Pro (189 grams vs 188) and if you prize weight (read “portability”) over all else, you might look at Apple’s new flagship iPhone 12 ($799). It weighs just 164 grams, shares most of the same components as its pricier, stainless steel cousin but loses the 2X Telephoto lens and LiDAR sensor. It also has less system memory (3.62 GB vs 5.6 GB) and starts with half the storage space…

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Lance Ulanoff

Tech expert, journalist, social media commentator, amateur cartoonist and robotics fan.