Apple iPhone XR Review: The Best Bargain in iPhones By AppleInsider

We review Apple's most cost-effective handset. The iPhone 10 are welcome everyone. It is Andrew here from Apple Insider the cheapest option in Apple's 2018 iPhone collection, the iPhone 10, our isn't expected to live up to the standards set by the iPhone 10s and the iPhone 10s max. While it does have some different components in order to bring that overall cost down, the iPhone 10 are certainly isn't any less of an iPhone than the other two models of all the outward facing changes. There are three that you're primarily going to notice the colorful aluminum body, the lower resolution LCD and the single camera notch along the back. The aluminum body is extremely lightweight, making a big difference going from holding the iPhone 10 R from the iPhone 10 s.

It is also slightly less drippy. Having that matte finish, rather than the polished finish of the stainless steel on the more expensive handsets' apple says, the liquid retina LCD is their most advanced, yet that liquid part comes in because of the rounded corners which is a lot harder to do on LCD's than the O LEDs. There are two primary differences that you're going to notice with an LCD versus the OLED displays of the 10s and 10s max first off, there's a much lower contrast ratio, not nearly the same deep blacks and there's a lower resolution. Still, though, it's a really great looking display, and it still qualifies as a retina, where you can't really see the pixels unless you really stare hard. The other difference is the lack of 3d touch.

You can't 3d touch on two icons, but they did replace it with something called haptic touch. It gives kind of the same effect. You just hold certain aspects of the phone a little longer, and you get some physical feedback from that tactic engine right now. It only works a few places throughout the OS, including control center and on the lock screen, simply long hold and act kinda like your 3d, touching one of those icons, and you feel a little of a bump, as you actually kind of click into them. Apple says they're looking at expanding as functionality throughout other areas of the OS.

So you may see it here on the iPhone 10 R. As well as possibly on the iPads that also lack 3d touch looking at this size, the iPhone 10 R comes squarely between at the iPhone tennis in tennis mix at six point one inches diagonally compared to the iPhone 10 S, which is a five point. Eight in the iPhone 10s max, which is six point. Five Apple is clearly aiming for the middle ground. Here, that's likely to appeal to most people, not too small and not too big.

Even still, it was tough in our hands to reach the top of a display. There's like on the 10s max we needed to rely on things like reach, ability or straight-up moving our hand around to reach the top of the display and people with smaller hands may have issues. Some people may see that disappointing that the smallest phone in Apple's lineup is also a thousand dollars where the iPhone 10 R is cheaper, but has a larger display. So if you want the smallest display possible, you can't go with the cheapest iPhone, at least not without looking at older models. Turning to the camera, there is only one lens on the back of the iPhone 10 R.

That means it loses that 2x tell a lens on the 10s and 10s max on the front of the phone. We still have that true depth. Camera system used for taking portraits selfies, as well as unlocking your phone with face ID for that rear facing camera. It's a 12, megapixel wide-angle lens with a 1.8 aperture in digital zoom up to 5x. Even though there's only one lens, you can still do portrait mode, but it's not without its limitations.

For instance, you can't take pictures of objects or pets using the portrait mode on the iPhone 10 R you're limited to only taking it with people. You also lose the portrait lighting effects, stage, light and stage light mono, which you can find on the other more expensive iPhones. Even with those portrait mode limitations, it still works really. Well, we tested it on a variety of different subjects, and we're very happy with the pictures. It was a bit of a bummer because we couldn't take pictures of pets with portrait mode, but lucky there's actually kind of a workaround.

We use the third-party app halite where it actually can capture that depth data and use it to apply to photos such as pets and other objects. It's not perfect by any means, but it works surprisingly well and definitely gives you some options. You can see a little of the difference here, but we'll show you the full sized images in just a moment here you can see how that depth map applies when we took a photo of our cat. This is pretty amazing because it uses only one lens. Instead of the two lenses on the iPhone tennis, tennis, max to kind of replicate the same effects, we really bummed that you couldn't use portrait mode on objects on pets, dogs, anything like that.

So now that we can do that with third-party apps, such as whole I'd, it kind of fixes one of our biggest problems that we had with the iPhone 10 iron. If you can see, we took another picture of an object and was able to separate that from the background extremely easily. So that's an overemphasis taking pictures of cats and toys. Let's take a look and some actual portraits of people, something that people are probably going to do quite often, there's still lots of effects you can do. You can actually adjust the photo.

You can even adjust the amount of background both using this depth control feature. We can adjust the F value there along the bottom, as you increase that F value, it is making the actual kind of aperture smaller artificially, and it decreases the amount of background blur, lowering that F value increases the width or the opening of the aperture and making more blur in the background accordance all doing through software, but it works remarkably well. So let's go ahead and take a look at some. These actual sample photo in a much larger scale. So here we have a portrait photo taken with the iPhone 10 R.

Of course nothing was done because it can't apply that portrait effect natively to a picture of a cat. It's not a person, but here we are using halite. You can see how much more that background is blurred, and it's an overall much better picture. So you can take this kind of photos with the iPhone 10 or without too much hassle. Then again, if we compared to our iPhone 10s max, the tedious max still looks really, really good, but their cat kind of during out here a little summarizing portrait mode.

It works well enough with that single lens they're still going to be issues, but with third-party apps it really makes up for it. Moving on the standard photos, you can see a pretty small negligible difference between our iPhone 10 arm and our iPhone 10 s max. Here we are 1x in here we are at 2 X. You can see there's a little of detail lost when we moved to 2 X, because there's no tell Allah to compare when you're viewing these at 100%. You can't really notice too much of a difference.

Here's our 10s max we're going to zoom in a little with that 2x tell a lens. This is actually optical zoom rather than digital zoom, and if we put those side-by-side looking at them in a hundred percent, there isn't a ton of difference between the two phones. However, once we bump things up to a 10 X digital zoom, there is a substantial difference in the amount of grain in detail that we see. Another compromise that we see with the iPhone 10 are has to do with the antennas and the different bands. It supports for LTE data notice on the bottom, how we actually have symmetrical ports where, on the iPhone, 10s and 10s max they're offset a little with more on one side than the other, because they need to make room for that additional antenna band that allowed for gigabit LTE on the iPhone 10 R.

We don't have that capability, so, theoretically, speeds are gonna, be a little slower. This is really dependent on carriers, however, and many people may not even notice a difference at least right now over time as beads improve, it may make more of a difference in a year or so, but right now, I definitely depend on your location and your carrier of whether that's going to make sense for you, one of the best aspects overall of the iPhone 10 r has to be the battery life. It's been proven over and over again at the battery phone that 10 R is the best battery life ever in an iPhone. It's partially going to be due to that cheaper display, which doesn't require as much power to run and the OLED displays on the 10s and 10s max we've been hammering this phone for day in and day out, testing now in all different situations and battery life has been really solid, lasting longer than both our iPhone 10s and our iPhone 10s max plus, with additional benefits like low power mode. You can stretch it even further if you don't care about many of the other aspects and just want an iPhone, that's gonna.

Last exceptionally long, then you're, probably looking for the iPhone 10 R 1 compromise Apple, didn't make with the 10r. Was wireless charging still has a glass back and supports that seven and a half watts of wireless charging, with wireless chargers dropping in price for the home and in the car there's never been a better time to ditch lightning. It would have been easy for Apple to offer a lower-cost iPhone 10s by reusing the same design, skimping on some components and features and cutting the price in the iPhone 10 R. It is to apple's credit that it took the high road and made an iPhone that could stand a long time. The other two premium models without seeming like the unloved sibling, the biggest different people may notice is that screen and unless it's right next to the iPhone 10s under pretty scrutiny, most people won't care that it isn't OLED for that single rear camera.

While it does have its portrait mode, foibles and no telephoto option, it still produces great photographs that many owners will be happy with. Regardless of how you look at it. The iPhone 10 R is a great smartphone at a great price. It's 75 percent of the cost of the iPhone 10s, but offers practically all the functionality a user could want. If you enjoy this video like it and hit that subscribe button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily, be sure to follow us on social media, and we'll see you in the next video.

We want to take a closer look at the comparisons between the cameras on the new iPhone 10 R, as well as the iPhone 10s and 10s Macs, make sure to check out all of our other videos. We do in-depth comparisons, showing you the intricacies of portrait mode using the front and rear facing cameras. Furthermore, we also dive into video quality, comparing 4k footage shot on our iPhone 10 R and comparing it to what we shot on our iPhone, 10s and 10s. Max, of course, more videos, benchmarking and everything else will be coming in the future, so stay tuned to Apple, Insider, be subscribed and turn on notifications. So you don't miss a single video.

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