Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max

Sumptuous design with jewelry-like attention to detail, durable and water-resistant

No charger or headphones in the box

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Large and beautiful display ; Excellent hardware quality ; Top-notch camera experience ; Long battery life

Incredibly large ; Very heavy

Huge, beautiful screen ; Surprisingly capable speakers ; Excellent sound via headphones

Marginal gains over iPhone 12 ; No bundled charger

The iPhone 12 Pro Max is the biggest and best iPhone ever made, but it is now only marginally better than the standard iPhone 12

Long battery life ; Big, bright screen ; Excellent cameras

Exceedingly heavy and large ; Expensive

The iPhone 12 Pro Max, the largest model in Apple's iPhone 12 lineup, adds super-long battery life and a giant screen to the 12 Pro's excellent camera capabilities.

Terrific camera ; Tremendous battery life ; Fast performance

Very close to being too big ; 60Hz screen behind competition at this price ; I was required to think about 5G

The iPhone 12 Pro Max is the biggest, most equipped, and most expensive iPhone you can buy this year. It has a larger screen, larger battery, and larger main camera sensor compared to the other iPhone 12 models. But it’s so big that you really have to...

Great cameras ; 5G connectivity when you need it ; Big and bold screen ; Design is large but not awkward ; A14 Bionic processing power

Low-light photography enhancements could be better ; Much the same experience as the cheaper (and smaller) iPhone 12 Pro

Such a large phone that it won't be to everyone's liking, but if you want big then this iPhone delivers without making the form-factor awkward to hold or use.

Gorgeous redesign ; Versatile and improved cameras ; Solid battery life ; Advanced LiDAR technology ; Extensive 5G support

60Hz Display ; Expensive starting price ; Charger not included

The iPhone 12 Pro Max is clearly the best iPhone this year, but you need to be willing to deal with a smartphone this big.

A noticeable camera upgrade ; Very good performance in daylight ; Predictable photo outcome ; Agreable photos ; Predictable outcome ; Noticeably better than iPhone 11 Pro ; Optimized for portrait mode ; Nothing obvious

Competitors perform better in key metrics ; Lower detail and texture than 108MP cameras ; Much filtering going on in complex scenes ; Somewhat noisy ; A full generation behind the best ; Not competitive for long-zoom applications ; Noisy ; Excess image...

The iPhone 12 Pro Max stays in the high-end race, but barely. A lot of the disparities in image quality differences can be explained by the difference in camera hardware utilized by various competitors, and it’s not surprising that higher-quality...

Incredible cameras ; A14 Bionic processor is fast and future-proofed ; More than all-day battery life ; Beautifully designed and constructed

Potentially too big and too heavy for some ; No 120Hz display ; iOS could make better use of the massive screen