
Rating 4.8 out of 5 stars with 290 reviews
4.8- Size (126)
- Battery Life (59)
- Camera Quality (47)
- Processor Speed (20)
- Ease of use (10)
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- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
IPhone 13 Mini
iPhone is amazing , so small & cute & im able to use it with any carrier since the phone is paid off & I paid so cheap for it including trade in . Will definitely recommend. Such an amazing phone !!
This review is from Apple - iPhone 13 mini 5G 128GB - Blue (T-Mobile)
Posted by 12344
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Love the size
I love this phone because it gets everything I need from a phone done, and it actually fits in my pockets.
This review is from Apple - iPhone 13 mini 5G 128GB - Midnight (T-Mobile)
Posted by ogy13
- Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great compact phone!
I love compact phones, fits pockets and doesn't hurt your neck when you wear it. 5 oz and powerful, too bad Apple missed opportunities to make all new models with same panel with 120Hz refresh rate and add power button with finger print biometric like new ipads. Overall it's an upgrade which we could call it 12s as it does come with better camera, cpu, screen, battery pack. And does it without changing the dimensions much.
This review is from Apple - iPhone 13 mini 5G 128GB - Midnight (T-Mobile)
Posted by SteveSHH
- Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great hardware paired with uninspiring software.
I made the switch from a Google Pixel 5, after being [basically] a life-long Android user. I really like the iPhone 13 Mini itself, from a hardware perspective. However, I also feel like it's necessary to talk about the software considering it's what you'll be noticing and interacting with moreso than the specifics of the hardware [of the phone itself], if that makes sense. The Mini is more-or-less the perfect size. It's a small phone that you can easily put in your pocket and use with one hand, yet it has a relatively-large screen when you compare it to phones from 6+ years ago. The camera quality is just as good as the rest of the iPhone 13 line-up excluding the extra, third camera you get on the Pro models. The green finish, by the way, has to be one of the nicest colors I've seen on a phone. It looks more expensive than it is. Now that we've gotten the niceties out of the way, let's talk about why I'm giving this 4 stars instead of 5. It's a great phone, but iOS to me is just 'good.' It's not very inspiring. As a lifelong Android user, I always heard people tell me they liked iPhones because they were easy to use. Now that I've switched to one, myself, I have to say that Android is actually easier to use. It's more intuitive, and functions are laid out in a much cleaner fashion. Take the 'Night Light' or 'Night Filter' (blue light filter) function that gives your screen a yellow-ish hue, which makes it easier on your eyes at night. To enable the night filter function on an iPhone, you have to swipe down from the top of the phone to access the control panel/command center. However, you have to know to swipe down from the top RIGHT, specifically. If you swipe from the top LEFT, you get a different panel. Once you've pulled up the command center, you have to know to tap-and-hold on the screen brightness slider. Doing so opens up another panel that's like a 'Brightness Settings' page. On that page, there's a toggle on the bottom for the Night Filter. This isn't very intuitive to me. You may never know the command center exists unless you know to swipe down from the top right of the phone. Furthermore, once you're on the command center, there is nothing that tells you that you can tap-and-hold the brightness slider to access additional settings. You would genuinely never know unless someone told you, you read it somewhere, or you did it accidentally. On Android, you swipe down anywhere from the top to access the settings. On the settings panel, you can swipe left or right to navigate between 'quick settings' buttons. You just swipe until you see Night Light and toggle it on/off. Admittedly Android 12 has made this slightly more difficult as you have to swipe down twice to access 'additional' settings, but you can actually adjust which options are displayed for you after the first swipe. Even beyond that, Pixel phones actually have fantastic tutorials/tips that are baked into the phone. Notifications on iPhone just feel extremely outdated compared to Android phones. Interacting with notifications isn't very fluid. On Android, you can interact with quite a lot of notifications right on the Notifications window, without ever accessing the respective apps. You can do some of this on iPhone but for the most part, you'll have to open the apps themselves. I do like how the iPhone has a physical, hardware mute switch. I'm surprised that OnePlus is the only Android manufacturer that has copied this feature. It should be a staple on every phone. Overall, I quite like the Mini itself, but I feel like iPhone and iOS is rather uninspiring. I switched to iPhone because my Pixel 5 was giving me quite a lot of problems related to calling (on T-Mobile, it would just randomly drop calls, or I wouldn't hear the other person unless I turned off Wi-Fi). Google also didn't care to fix many of the issues I had, and I felt Apple was at least more reliable in this regard considering how many people owned iPhones. Thus, I do appreciate the stability of iPhones. Most people do not need the Pro-series iPhones. I highly doubt most of the people who have iPhone Pros have ever used the telephoto camera, rather than just the standard, default wide-angle lens. If you're in the market for a new iPhone, I can happily suggest the Mini. It's heavily rumored that the Mini phones will be discontinued in the Fall of 2022 (when the iPhone 14 line-up is announced), likely due to poor sales. Do yourself a favor and buy this smaller phone. You save money, but you'll also save yourself some trouble once you realize you really don't need that bigger screen. This one - and this phone in general - is big enough.
This review is from Apple - iPhone 13 mini 5G 128GB - Green (T-Mobile)
Posted by Washington
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Best IPhone thus Far!
Extremely well made in every aspect from external to internal! Amazing photo and video with HDR and capabilities consisting of Cinematic Shooting for depth of field style Cinematic Videos that are comprable to high level studio work. With 5G speed downloading and streaming are done so fast with no buffering time whatsoever! Truly the most well made, versatile, and efficient phone I’ve ever had and I absolutely love everything about it !!! 100
Posted by BeezyBee