- ✓Long battery life
- ✓Strong performance
- ✓The camera is very impressive
- ✕Expensive, with a starting price of $1,099
- ✕5G availability isn't widespread
- ✕It's big.. like really big
Apple's iPhone 12 Pro Max is the biggest and most expensive option in this year's iPhone lineup. In fact, it has the largest screen ever in an iPhone measuring 6.7-inches. But with a starting price of $1,099, it's not cheap.
This phone is also the last of the four iPhone 12 models we'll have reviewed here at ZDNet, with previous reviews of the iPhone 12 Mini[1], iPhone 12[2] and iPhone 12 Pro[3] all coming to effectively the same conclusion: iPhone users have never had this many high-quality options.
Instead of diving into the details of design and performance, I'll instead point you to my iPhone 12 Pro[4] review or Matthew Miller's iPhone 12[5] review. The entire iPhone 12 lineup uses the same design, just with varying sizes of displays, and the same core components for performance.
Below are some of the more nuanced aspects of using the iPhone 12 Pro Max on a daily basis. It's been fun, impressive, if not challenging at times. Let me explain.
Would you like that super-sized?
I feel like that's the question that Apple should ask customers who are looking at the 12 Pro Max when shopping for a new phone. Apple claims the 12 Pro Max isn't much larger than last year's 11 Pro Max, and on paper, the differences are small. But when you hold the 12 Pro Max, it feels massive. Not too big that it's unusable, but it's big enough that there's