Apple iPhone 2020 Event: All News Announced

Apple's iPhone event might be a month later than usual this year, but it was a big spectacle worth waiting for. It was a big show for Apple with four new iPhones ranging in sizes from 5.4-inches to 6.7-inches. Apple also introduced a smaller HomePod mini speaker, and at $99 we can easily see homes filling up with more than one of these. In case you missed it, here are all the announcements Apple made today in one neat and tidy place.

Apple HomePod mini

Apple’s original HomePod speaker is a beefy unit that goes for a hearty $299 price, that might just be too chunky for everyone. That’s exactly why Apple announced the smaller Apple HomePod mini, a far smaller speaker. Inside the HomePod mini, you’ll find one driver, two passive radiators, and an "acoustic waveguide" on the bottom. Powering the whole thing is Apple’s S5 processor, which is the same chip that powers the recently announced Apple Watch SE. The HomePod mini uses this processor to dynamically tune itself using "computational audio." Using this feature the HomePod mini will adjust how loud it is, its dynamic range, and more by measuring how it sounds in your room 180 times a second. With its new spherical shape, this Bluetooth speaker might have been more aptly named the HomeSphere, but it definitely seems to be a direct competitor to the new Echo Dot that Amazon recently unveiled. Apple is definitely going for the Echo Dot crowd as its new mini speaker will retail for just $99 when it releases on November 16th.

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iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12

If you loved the iPhone 4, you’re going to love the iPhone 12. The iPhone 12 harkens back to the iPhone 4's straight-edged and squared-off design that's not only nostalgic, but it also helps shrink the size of the iPhone 12. According to Apple, the iPhone 12 is 11% thinner, 15% smaller, and 16% lighter. The new iPhone 12 also comes rocking the Super Retina XDR display, Apple custom OLED display, which we originally saw on the iPhone 11 Pro. This screen brings a lot of improvements to Apple's mid-range handset including up to 1200-nits of brightness, plus Dolby Vision, HLG, and HDR 10 support. The screen is also made of a new Ceramic shield glass that claims to be the strongest smartphone screen ever developed with 4x better drop performance. The resolution of the display has also been bumped up to 2,532 x 1,170 pixels. Apple's new A14 Bionic powers the iPhone 12 and it promises to be 40% more performant than the A13 that powered the iPhone 11. The GPU on the iPhone 12 is so powerful it can run League of Legends: Wild Rift, a new MoBA game made specifically for mobile, without a sweat. As for cameras, the iPhone 12 features the same 12MP wide-angle and Ultrawide cameras as last year's model, but Apple has improved the lens on the main wide-angle camera with a new seven-element lens that will apparently drive a 27% improvement in low-light shooting. Apple has also introduced Smart HDR 3, as well as Night Mode selfies and timelapses. Lastly, Apple has introduced magnets to the iPhone 12's wireless charging technology and rechristened it MagSafe. There's a whole new line of MagSafe accessories including magnetically attachable batteries, wireless chargers, and even battery wallets. The iPhone 12 will come in two sizes with the 5.4-inch iPhone Mini and the 6.1-inch iPhone. The iPhone 12 Mini will start at $699 and the iPhone 12 is priced at $799.

iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone

While the new iPhone 12 Mini might be Apple's smallest smartphone yet, the iPhone 12 Pro takes an opposite tactic and take everything to the max. The signature design feature on the new iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max are their extremely shiny sides and it's all thanks to Apple's new magnetron coating process. The phones are available in four colors including black, white, gold, and a new blue color replacing the Midnight Green hue from last year's iPhone 11 Pro. Both iPhone 12 Pro models feature Super Retina XDR displays with a 6.1-inch screen on the Pro and a 6.7-inch display on the Pro Max. Internally, the iPhone is also powered by Apple's new A14 Bionic processor. The iPhone 12 Pro series is getting Apple's first optical zoom lenses and you'll be able to zoom up to 4x optically on the iPhone 12 Pro. The iPhone 12 Pro Max is getting a few extra camera features over its smaller brother with a 65mm equivalent focal length telephoto lens for up to 5x optical zoom, plus the wide-angle camera features a 47% larger sensor with Optical Image Stabilization. The new sensor-shift OIS system on the iPhone 12 Pro Max will enable users to take up to two-second stabilized exposures on a phone. What's more, Apple's new Pro-series iPhones will be able to shoot in a RAW format called Apple ProRAW. There are also new capabilities to shoot multi-frame smartHDR and shoot movies in either 10-bit HDR or Dolby Vision HDR. For all of their new capabilities, Apple is surprisingly keeping the prices for its iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max the same as last year. The iPhone 12 Pro will stay at a starting price of $999 while also double the standard storage to 128GB. The iPhone 12 Pro Max, meanwhile, has a starting price of $1,099. The iPhone 12 Pro is available to preorder on October 16th and will ship on October 23rd. The iPhone 12 Pro Max will be coming at a later date with preorders on November 6th and a November 13th release date. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=apple-hi-speed-event&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com Kevin Lee is IGN's Hardware and Roundups Editor. Follow him on Twitter @baggingspam