Hands-on do iPhone 18 Pro — chip A20 Pro, modem C2, bateria e mais!

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Original video: Hands-on do iPhone 18 Pro — chip A20 Pro, modem C2, bateria e mais! · Channel: MacMagazine · 14:06 · Watch on YouTube

Topics: Enterprise AI applications, AI infrastructure and hardware

Summary

The video compares the iPhone 18 Pro with the 17 Pro, leaving camera changes for a separate video. It covers the A20 Pro chip and benchmark results, expanded vapor chamber, battery life and charging tests, and the C2 modem. It also discusses the new 2TB storage option and demonstrates how the smaller Dynamic Island can display three live activities at once. The presenters close by previewing more Apple coverage to come.

Key points

The A20 Pro is Apple’s first 2-nanometer chip, with six CPU cores, seven GPU cores, and a 32-core Neural Engine; RAM remains at 12GB.
Geekbench results shown in the video indicate 23% higher single-core performance, 25% higher multicore performance, and 47% higher graphics performance than the 17 Pro Max.
The vapor chamber is three times larger, intended to help sustain performance during demanding tasks.
Apple’s stated battery figures include 29 hours of typical use and 43 hours of video playback for the Brazilian iPhone 18 Pro Max model.
In the presenters’ charging test, the iPhone 18 Pro Max reached 48% after 15 minutes and 97% after 55 minutes.
The C2 modem promises 50% faster upload speeds than the C1X and adds millimeter-wave support, though availability differs by market and model.
The 18 Pro adds a 2TB storage option, previously available only on the 17 Pro Max.
The Dynamic Island is about 22% smaller and can show three simultaneous live activities, with some information condensed to fit.

Chapters

Start	Chapter	Summary
00:05	What changed from the 17 Pro	The video introduces its focus on non-camera updates, then compares the A20 Pro and larger vapor chamber with the previous generation.
04:45	Battery life and charging	The presenters review Apple’s battery claims and test charging the 18 Pro Max, which reaches 97% in 55 minutes.
09:27	C2 modem and storage options	They explain the C2 modem’s features and market differences, then cover the new 2TB option for the smaller Pro model.
12:04	Dynamic Island live activities and closing	A demonstration shows three live activities on the smaller Dynamic Island before the presenters wrap up and preview upcoming videos.

Quotes

the RAM remains at 12 GB — 02:10

That’s exactly 23% above Apple’s promised 20%. — 03:43

it has already hit 50W — 08:24

97% in 55 minutes. — 09:27

Freeing up space for a third live activity happening simultaneously — 12:04

Concepts and entities

iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, A20 Pro, C2, Geekbench 7, Dynamic Island, NordVPN, Qualcomm

Full transcript (original language)

00:05 Hey everyone, let’s get to our second video covering the new iPhones. In the first video, we did our traditional unboxing showing the four colors of the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max. And in this video, we’re going to talk about what’s changed from the 17 Pro to the 18 Pro, but excluding the camera, because, as you know, Apple always focuses a lot on the camera itself. Nowadays, the iPhone is more about the camera than the phone, and we’ll leave the camera-related news for a special video that will be released over the

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01:38 promotion. Well, as I said, I’m here with my 17 Pro Max in silver and the 18 Pro in glacial color. Rafa even mentioned glacial, but glacial is only in Portugal. In Brazil, I’m used to it. It’s glacial in Brazil, but overall the structure of the devices is basically the same. And as I said, we’re going to focus here on what has changed, starting with the chip, the A20 Pro. This is Apple’s first chip manufactured using a 2-nanometer process. It maintains the six CPU cores, but now has seven GPU cores. Its neuro-end is

02:10 now dual with 32 cores focused on artificial intelligence tasks, right? Before, we had 16 in the 17 line, and the RAM remains at 12 GB, so nothing has changed in that sense. Before we get into the traditional benchmarks to prove the performance gains of the A20 Pro, it’s worth noting that on the back we had the vapor camera, right, in the 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, which was basically a thin strip from top to bottom, and now it has tripled in size. It basically occupies the entire back of the phone, except for the top and

02:40 bottom parts. In short, it tripled in size to maintain the power of the A20 Pro, to sustain that power for longer. Whether you’re playing a game that requires a lot of processing power or editing a video, which is now possible on an iPhone, Apple promises much more high-intensity usage time thanks to this new camera. We have GeekB 7 open here, and the first test we’re going to

03:11 do is the CPU test to see if Apple’s promise of 20%more performance is really proven. You can see here that on my phone, the CPU says Apple A19 Pro, while on the 18 Pro here, the CPU doesn’t have anything written because it’s so new; it doesn’t even have a name in the app yet. But, as we can see , it’s indicating 11.4, 11.3, 3, that is, 12 GB of RAM in both models. Let’s go to the test. Of course, we sped up

03:43 the video so you wouldn’t be waiting, like we’re waiting here, right? Test completed. Let’s go to the first single-core test. 4000 and something on the 18 Pro, 3200 and something on the 17 Pro Max. That’s exactly 23%above Apple’s promised 20%. Look, in multicore we have 11,300 1300 and something against 9,000 and something, 25%more performance. In other words, Apple fulfilled its promise. Let’s go to the GPU test now. And Apple’s

04:14 promise is a 40%gain compared to the 17 Pro Max. Let’s go. Test completed. We have the result for the 18 Pro: 63,003. 17 Pro Max: 42,717. What does that equal, Rafa? 47. 47%more graphics performance, and Apple, oh, I just checked, promises 40% , so we’re doing well with the A20 Pro, right? All the promises were fulfilled. This is mainly due to the 2-nanometer

04:45 lithography that I mentioned at the beginning, which also has a very positive impact on the energy efficiency of the 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max . So, what does this mean in terms of battery life? Apple promised that the 18 Pro has the same battery as the 17 Pro Max and that the 18 Pro Max has the best battery we’ve ever seen in an iPhone. All these numbers, these tables , this information, we have detailed on the website. We even have an article comparing the 18 Pro and the 18 Pro Max

05:15 to previous generations. But taking the 18 Pro Max, which has the best battery, Apple promises a typical use of 29 hours. This typical usage is a new approach from them; it’s a test they conduct that involves the use of artificial intelligence, everyday use, and various other things they use to create this metric. But they also have another metric, which is video playback . I don’t know who uses video playback as a metric, who spends so much time watching videos, but in this test, the

05:48 iPhone 18 Pro Max offers 43 hours of video playback. This is referring to the Brazilian models, which have the SIM card tray. Because in the United States and some other markets where they sell the device without this tray, which allows for a little more battery space, the company promises 30 hours of typical usage and 45 hours when it comes to video playback. In addition to more battery life, Apple is also promising better charging power. And it doesn’t matter if it’s the 18 Pro or 18

06:19 Pro Max. Apple’s promise is 50%recharge in 15 minutes. So, the test here is to see exactly what amount of power these devices can draw from the charger for this recharge to be completed in such a very short period of time, you see? Our phone is here with 39%battery, drawing 39-38 W of power, 42W, you see? It reached 42W, but still below the 52W power we published an article on the website showing–I don’t remember if

06:50 it was the 18 Pro or 18 Pro Max, but it doesn’t matter much because Apple’s promise is the same for both devices, as long as you use a 60W charger or more, one that has the technology to allow this type of charging. But here, for now, it’s at 39-40 W, not going much beyond that. I don’t know if the phone needs to be completely discharged to reach that level. This is, in fact, a test we’re going to do, right? We’re going to recharge a brand new phone

07:22 from zero to 100%to see how long it takes, because Apple promises a 0 to 100%charge in 55 minutes, meaning less than an hour to get your phone fully charged. So, Rafa chimed in here on Edu’s video to do this brief charging test. We’re going to use Apple’s 40W dynamic charger with a maximum of 60W that I showed you in a video on this channel. And for that, we took the iPhone 18 Pro Max in burgundy and

07:52 completely drained its battery. So it’s completely empty. And from now on, I’m going to connect this device and we’re going to take some periodic measurements to see how quickly we can recharge its battery using this Apple charger. Look, I just plugged it in. It’s now 4:42 PM. In 15 minutes, we’ll see how the battery is doing. In theory , it should reach 50%, the device is already on. It has been only a short

08:24 while since I put it to charge, and unlike the initial test that we showed with Edu, it has already hit 50W, stabilizing at around 49, 50. This is truly close to the maximum peak that these new devices are able to reach. 4:58. This iPhone has been charging for 15 minutes now. We’ve dropped a little here. Now at 42W and we’re at 48% battery. Apple promises 50%in 15 minutes. Almost exactly. Let’s continue

08:55 . 5:14. It’s been charging for half an hour now. It’s already dropped to 24W and we’re at 78%. I don’t remember if Apple promised 80%, but I think it’s more or less that. Now let’s wait until 55 minutes to see if it hits 100%. Well , 5:40. Right now, we’re charging at 9W . I saw it drop to 1W for a while, then went up to 20W. In theory, the iPhone

09:27 should be at 100%, and it’s at 97%. And this device has its always-on display on. I don’t know if that’s taken into account in Apple’s test, but even if it is, it came very close. 97%in 55 minutes. One of the things that influences battery life, as I mentioned, is the modem, right? In the United States, as we said, the models come without the SIM card tray. Here, as you can see, we have the 18 Pro with the tray. My 17

09:58 Pro Max was bought in the United States and doesn’t have that tray. And the big news this year is the C2, which isn’t available on the 18 Pro Max sold in the United States. We don’t know exactly why, but apparently it has to do with a negotiation with Qualcomm, which Apple needs to deliver, needs to buy X components per year from Qualcomm, and they must have thought that the demand for the 18 Pro Max in the United States would fulfill this objective. So if you buy an 18 Pro Max in the United States, it comes without the C2 mod. If you buy

10:30 it anywhere else in the world, it comes with the C2 mod, but in the 18 Pro Max it doesn’t seem to influence performance or battery life, okay? Speaking specifically about the two new features of the C2, the first is that Apple promises 50%more upload speed compared to the C1X, the chip that’s present in the iPhone Air, if I’m not mistaken. And the second new feature is the implementation of millimeter wave, which was an impediment for Apple to use its own modems in the previous generation. In the 17 Pro and 17 Pro

11:03 Max, it still used Qualcomm modems, and now it’s free to use the C2, at least in the Pro, as we mentioned, in the United States, due to this implementation. As we can see above, my 17 Pro has this cutout for the Multiwave antenna, while the 18 Pro here, which is from Portugal, doesn’t have this cutout. Even though the C2 modem is available here in Portugal, Apple doesn’t offer this support. Another specific novelty here in the 18 Pro is the arrival of the 2TB storage option, right? Previously only

11:33 available on the 17 Pro Max, now Apple has also started offering it on the smaller 6.3-inch model. For those who like this smaller format and need a lot of storage space, it’s available for $ 2400. As I said, it was already available on the 17 Pro Max, and on the 18 Pro Max it continues for $ 500, $ 500 more than in the previous generation. In other words, Apple has significantly increased the prices in the United States.

12:04 R $ 2,000,000 in Brazil. 22,000. You could buy a used car, my friend, instead of buying the iPhone with two terabytes. To finish, as promised, we’re going to demonstrate here in practice how live activities work on the new Dynamic Island. As we showed in the unboxing video, it’s about 22%smaller, right? Freeing up space for a third live activity happening simultaneously, which I particularly love. I love this feature.

12:35 And we’re going to show it here. Here, as we can see, the Mac Magazine episode is already playing. Here we have a timer and we already see a difference. On my 17 Pro Max, it only shows that the timer is active. On the 18 Pro, we have the timer active showing that there are 15 minutes left until the timer expires. And now I’m going to open a football game. I’m going to open a soccer game app here, put the scoreboard running in the live activity here on the Dynamic Island to see what happens. Let’s take advantage of the fact that this game is ending, look. 87

13:06 minutes. Let’s put it here on the dynamic island in the live activity to see what happens. Look, nothing on mine . The Mc Magazine playback continues here and the timer. Let’s see on the 18 Pro. Let’s check the 18 Pro. Look: scoreboard rolling on the left, Mc Magazine playback in the middle, and a timer that stopped showing the minutes because there is not enough space for that. And obviously you can swipe

13:36 between the live activities to highlight what you’re most interested in. That’s it, those were the new features here on the iPhone. As I said, we’re going to make a dedicated video for the camera, because that’s what Apple highlights the most and it’s what deserves it, it’s what needs the most effort from us, right, in terms of capturing many external and internal images. So, we’re going to leave a separate video just for the camera, but there’s more content coming from Apple Watch and AirPods, so stay tuned. If you haven’t subscribed to the channel

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