iPhone 12 Mini (5.4'' XDR OLED, A14 Bionic SoC, Single SIM, 1-year breakage insurance)

The newly announced iPhone 12 Mini is geared towards the audience who likes small form factor and powerful performance. Dimension-wise, it measures 131.5 x 64.2 x 7.4mm and weighs around 135 grams. It sports a 5.4-inch display, which like the rest of the lineup, uses Apple’s Super Retina XDR technology. The edge-to-edge panel has curved corners. This OLED panel packs in a total of 2340 x 1080 pixels that amount to a pixel density of 476ppi. Like the vanilla iPhone 12, the panel on the mini supports HDR content and has a contrast ratio of 2,000,000:1. Apple has also included the new Ceramic Shield cover for durability. 

All the iPhones under the new lineup comes with the latest A14 Bionic chipset. The hexacore processor (2+4) is the world’s smartphone chipset to be based on the 5nm process node. By reducing the size of the transistors, Apple has managed to include 11.8 billion of them in the chipset. With the added power, Apple claims the A14 chipset is 50% faster than any other smartphone chipset available in the market today. Apple is making a similar claim with the quad-core GPU. Compared to the previous generation, the new Neural Engine, which now has 16 cores, can perform 80% faster. Similarly, Apple has also sped up the ML accelerators by up to 70%  

The starting international price of the iPhone 12 mini in Nepal for the 64GB variant is Rs. 1,18,000. Similarly, the 128GB and 256GB variant costs Rs. 126,000 and Rs. 142,000 respectively.