sebastiand88

Nov 22, 2021

Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max

There will always be some people who’ll buy the most expensive iPhone that Apple produces each year, either because they’ve got deep enough pockets to not have to consider otherwise, or because they simply have to have the best, even if the best isn’t necessary for them.

Most of us, though, have to make a far more thorough value assessment. Are the upgrades over the standard model things of which you’ll genuinely take advantage, or are you in danger of paying for specs and features that you’re unlikely to use?

And so it is with the iPhone 13 Pro Max, Apple’s biggest, fastest and ‘best’ iPhone for 2021. It’s no great departure from its predecessor, as the near-identical design will likely attest, but it has received some meaningful upgrades. The question is whether those upgrades have significant value to those of us whose core concerns are video and audio quality.

The iPhone 13 Pro Max’s price starts at £1049 / $1099 / AU$1849. That will buy you a 128GB model. It’s also available in 256GB, 512GB and now even 1TB versions, but you’ll pay handsomely for each step up the capacity ladder, with the top 1TB model priced at £1549 / $1599 / AU$2719.

If you’d prefer a smaller handset, you can save £100 / $100 / AU$150 and go for the standard-sized iPhone 13 Pro which, other than being physically smaller and therefore having a smaller screen (6.1 inches as oppose to 6.7 inches), differs from the Pro Max only in battery life.

For comparison, the standard, non-Pro starts at £779 / $799 / AU$1349.