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iPhone 12 mini and MagSafe Charger (15 W)

Apple announced two products on 13 November 2020: iPhone 12 mini and MagSafe Charger (15 W).

It was the 7th of 10 dated moments the archive holds for 2020, 21 days after the previous one, 23 October 2020.

iPhone 12 mini product photograph

Rafael Fernandez · CC BY-SA 4.0

What Apple announced

iPhone 12 mini

iPhone · iPhone · discontinued 7 September 2022

The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Mini (stylized and marketed as iPhone 12 mini) are smartphones that were developed and marketed by Apple. They are the fourteenth-generation iPhones, succeeding the iPhone 11. They were unveiled at a virtually held Apple Special Event at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, on October 13, 2020, alongside the "premium flagship" iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max and HomePod Mini. Pre-orders for the iPhone 12 started on October 16, 2020, and the phone was released in most countries on October 23, 2020, alongside the iPhone 12 Pro and fourth-generation iPad Air. Pre-orders for the iPhone 12 Mini began on November 6, 2020, and the phone was released on November 13, 2020, alongside the iPhone 12 Pro Max.

The major upgrades over the iPhone 11 include the addition of a Super Retina XDR OLED as opposed to the Liquid Retina LED-backlit LCD IPS panel on the iPhone 11 and XR, 5G support, the introduction of MagSafe, Apple A14 Bionic system on a chip (SoC) and high-dynamic-range video Dolby Vision 4K up to 30 fps. The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Mini, like the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, are the first iPhone models from Apple to no longer include a power adapter or EarPods headphones found in prior iPhone models; however, a USB-C to Lightning cable is included; this change was retroactively applied to other iPhone models sold by Apple, such as the iPhone XR, iPhone 11 and the second-generation iPhone SE.

MagSafe Charger (15 W)

iPhone · iPhone accessories · discontinued 9 September 2024

The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.

Also in 2020

Sources

  1. iPhone 12 mini · Wikipedia
  2. MagSafe Charger (15 W) · Wikipedia

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