Apple iPhone XR Review: The best iPhone for most people By Engadget

Look back through apples, recent smartphone, history, and you'll see it's not stranger to building cheaper devices. The iPhone 5c was an iPhone 5 repackaged in a colorful plastic body. The iPhone S II was in a lot of ways an iPhone 6s squeezed into the iPhone 5s s body. Are you picking up on the theme here? Well, the iPhone 10 R is a completely different story. Apple took a lot of the things that made it's more expensive, 10s and 10s Mac's special and packed them into a newly designed body, and it's selling the whole thing for less than either of the phones we just reviewed a month ago. This is new territory for Apple, but I think the gamble paid off it might not be as thrilling in the same ways as the 10s or the 10s max, but in building the iPhone 10, our Apple meant flagship, iPhone performance available to more people.

That's important and beyond that. Apple did a great job. With this thing now, making the iPhone more accessible to people also involves making it more appealing to people and for Apple. This meant designing a new set of colors to go with the 10, r's, glass and aluminum body. As you can see, I've been testing this white model, and it's far from the most exciting option.

But the fit and finish here is everything that you'd expect from an iPhone. If you've ever used an iPhone, 8 or a+, you know exactly what to expect. It actually feels like a slightly narrower a+ because of the elongated screen. It's a little taller, a little wider and a little thicker than the 10s, but I actually think this aluminum frame helps the 10r feel just a bit sturdier than its premium cousins. More importantly, they ten are sits in a sweet spot between the 10s and the 10s.

Next, the 10s feels great, but maybe a little small for some people, while the 10s max can feel like a real handful. Even if you have big hands, the 10 are strikes an excellent balance between the two and Apple knows it. The company told us that size was chosen because it would quote appeal to the widest number of people. Unquote. Of course, the reason the iPhone 10 are is the size that it is because of this 6.1 inch display, and we really need to talk about it for its premium. iPhone 10 line Apple uses some very, very good-looking, o LED panels.

V10 are, on the other hand, uses what Apple call us a liquid Retina display it's an LCD panel that runs almost edge-to-edge and Apple, says it's the most advanced in the industry. The thing that quite a few people seized on is its resolution at 1792 by 828, it's well below that of the 10s and the 10s max, but it's the same as every non-plus iPhone from the 4 to the 8 I'll, be frank after using the 10 R for a while I firmly believe most people will not care. You can see individual pixels. If you push your nose right up against the glass and when you put the phone side-by-side with something like a 10 s, you can see the difference when you're zooming in on photos. Some really fine details can sort of get smeared out.

If you blow up an image large enough- and this just doesn't happen on the 10s with the Mac's, if you're holding your phone at a normal usable distance, though the dip and resolution really does not matter, it would have been nice if Apple bumped the resolution up to around 1080p. But this is far from a deal-breaker and I honestly didn't miss the bonkers 10s max I've been using this whole time after using the 10r. Alright, that's not completely true Apple's pressure-sensitive, 3d touchscreen technology is nowhere to be found, and I get it lots of people. I know it never used it, and it probably would have made the 10 are more expensive than it needed to be. The logic makes sense, but damn it I really miss being able to press down on a screen and move my cursor around it made fixing typos in text messages really easy, and if you know anything about me, you know that I need that so yeah, the 10r screen is much nicer than the specs suggest.

Colors are bright and vivid and viewing angles are solid too, since this is an LCD, though Apple had to make some compromises like making these bezels around the screen a little bigger, that's mostly because there's a very right row of LED, taking up extra space at the bottom of the display and since Apple had to make the bezels even through a little thicker all around these vessels, don't really detract from the screen itself, but they're definitely noticeable you'll find the only other major physical difference on the 10 are its back check it out. There's only one camera here and I. No other smartphone makers have been able to squeeze dual cameras into cheaper phones without much issue. Apple wouldn't confirm that going with a single camera was purely because of cost, but a that seems pretty likely and B I really wouldn't worry about it too much. This is the same: 12 megapixel, wide angle, camera Apple uses in the 10s and 10s Macs and in general it's very, very good.

You'll find a lot of detail and some excellent colors in the photos that 10r churns out and Apple smart HDR, pretty frequently kicks in to improve the dynamic range. It really helps in preventing some parts of photos from being blown out entirely. Low-Light performance was actually perfect too. The 10 arch camera has an F 1.8 aperture, so it can capture as much of what little light there is, and it reproduces more detailed than I usually expect when in the dark in most situations, the 10r is a very solid photographic. Companion, Apple is leaning on some clever computational photography techniques here, but arguably Google is better at pushing the pixel three single cameras with limits.

The best example of this is when you're trying to zoom in on your subject. The 10r only has digital zoom, so you start to lose detail pretty quickly. The same is technically true of the pixel threes, but Google's intelligent sharpening does a better job of keeping things crisp, or at least crisper than they would have been otherwise, and then there's portrait mode, a feature that I should remind you. First debuted on the dual camera iPhone 7 plus Apple, had to rework it for the 10-hour single camera and the company did a solid job. For the most part, backgrounds are totally both vicious, while keeping the subject in pretty tight focus.

There are some limitations to keep in mind, though, for one you can't use apple's fancy, mono color modes to make moody portraits when using this main camera, all you get our natural studio and the contour letting effect and, more importantly, portrait mode doesn't work at all unless you're pointing the camera at a person. If you try, the phone will actually tell you. It can't detect the face, and I'm being serious here. Some of you won't care, since the results usually turn out pretty great, but if you really give a damn about taking these best smartphone photos, you can the 10s and the 10s max have a clear edge by now. You get the point in some ways.

The iPhone 10 R is very distinct from the 10s. That said, this thing shares a lot with apples, more premium phones and that's a very good thing, see the notch cut into the screen. Apple uses the exact same front facing camera and face like the sensor array as the 10s here, so the 10 R is really fast and recognizing your face and unlocking the phone, then 10 R also ships with iOS 12, which have already spent a lot of time. Talking about in the past long story, short I think it's the most polished capable version of Apple smartphone software I've used in a long time. More importantly, though, each other uses the same 812 bionics chipset as it does in the 10s and surprise.

This thing is fast: the chipsets to performance cores are up to 15% faster than last year's phones, and there are some big improvements in GPU performance -. So games like fortnight run like a charm. Meanwhile, the totally revamped neural engine inside provides some additional speed and stability and when your putting, around with things like augmented reality, apps and considering just how big Apple and the rest of the industry is pushing AR, this extra silicon should go a long way in keeping the 10r from feeling dated in a year or two make no mistake in terms of pure power. The 10r is right up there with the best of them and that's very good news, especially if you haven't upgraded in a while and best of all best of all the iPhone 10 R has equal rate battery life. This is a review unit, so I can't exactly tear apart and figure out exactly how big the battery is but check this out.

I haven't been LY, been able to squeeze north of seven hours of screen on time out of the 10 R. That's even more than I got from the 10 s max. It's a little erotic that the iPhone with the best battery life isn't the most expensive. But here we are to build something like the iPhone 10. Our Apple had to make compromises.

That is simply unavoidable. The best thing I can say about the 10 are, though, is that it in no way is defined by these compromises. This isn't just a great, cheaper, iPhone, it's a great iPhone period, and for that matter it's the iPhone I would recommend to most people. There are a lot of you out there still using iPhone, 6s and 7s and SE isn't. If that's you I will just give you a clear upgrade path.

At last, you can use some of Apple's the most impressive mobile technology without paying $1000.

Source : Engadget