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“Untouchable, he said. The box said otherwise.”
“The phone that brought back MagSafe and finally ditched the charger box. Bold moves.”
Unveiled at a virtual Apple Special Event in October 2020, the iPhone 12 and its pint-sized sibling the iPhone 12 Mini succeeded the iPhone 11 as the fourteenth generation of iPhones. It traded in the old LCD panel for a Super Retina XDR OLED display, brought 5G to the lineup, and reintroduced the beloved MagSafe. It also — controversially — became one of the first iPhones to ship without a power adapter in the box,
The iPhone 12 was discontinued on September 7, 2022, after a solid two-year run as Apple's standard-bearer. It went out not with a whimper but a shrug, having already done its job: proving that flat edges, OLED screens, and magnetic accessories were the future. Somewhere out there, millions of them are still in pockets, dutifully snapping Dolby Vision 4K video, no charger required.
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“Untouchable, he said. The box said otherwise.”
“A sweet slice of Android history, served to millions and loved to the last byte.”
“Lived 30 days, outlasted by the merger that killed it.”