Apple iPhone Xs Review: A (S)mall Step Up! By Marques Brownlee

Hey, what's up guys and HD here and welcome to the iPhone 10s for review, so this is going to be pretty easy review, since we know that the s year, iPhones are always a pretty incremental upgrade, so I've been using this gold 10s Mac's from the unboxing every day since keynote day and everything I say here will apply to both the 10s and the 10s Mac's unless I say otherwise. I'll make it clear. So the template here will be simple: every single thing: that's new and what I think of it also 10s max 10s, tiny Mac's, terrible name, just saying: okay, moving on so first up on the outside these phones, almost exactly the same. Almost if I were to put the iPhone 10s next to the iPhone 10, you have a hard time telling, which is which, except for a few key things. First the new color, of course, gold and I kind of dig this gold. This has been a more actually polarizing color in my timeline, where I've seen some people that love it and then some people that are like not amused by it at all I, just kind of don't mind it, but I definitely went for the Space Gray on my personal phone, but this goal doesn't look bad, it's kind of like a band-aid color, but more saturated a little more rich than that, and then the stainless steel sides are like really gold they're, the most striking part of this new phone and the iPhone 10s also has two more visible antennae on the stainless steel band around the outside one, at the top right above the camera module and one down at the bottom kind of cutting into the speaker grille.

So the speaker grille at the bottom, is actually now asymmetrical. Thanks to that bottom band. That is a weird look. You would think of all companies. Apple would find a different place to put that to keep it perfectly good.

Looking but I guess not and then the other little observation I found the camera module of the 10 s seems to be slightly larger, but it's very slight. The only way you can tell is, if you put a case on the phone, so if you put a 10 s case on a 10 s, you can see it fits perfectly. It's very snug it's made by Apple. They know the exact dimensions they get it right. But if you put this same 10 s case on the iPhone 10, you actually end up with this little gap around the bottom, so the extra room means the camera module here is a bit smaller on the 10, so yeah.

Technically, these phones aren't quite the same exactly on the outside, but these couple of things don't really matter much to using it. It's still a glass sandwich phone still the same weight and feel in the hand, same design, same button, placement, same mute, switch same curved corners, same notch and same fingerprint, magnet glass we've seen this before it of course also means it's perfectly smart to put a case or a skin on this one again, you already know I'm more of a skin person and D brand is actually launching this absolutely sick, matte black matrix skin. With this new iPhone right now definitely worth checking out. I'll drop a link below oh and one more hardware, difference technically internally. This new phone is ip68 water-resistant, where the iPhone 10 was just ip67.

It's an it's a big deal, so those of you who don't know IP 67 means you're rated for 1 meter underwater for 30 straight minutes. Ip68 means you're rated for 1.5 meters underwater for 33 minutes great anyway. All the other differences of the iPhone 10s are internal and that's what you get with an S upgrade, but honestly, that's what a lot of people were waiting for, you're getting the best or newest design Apple has with their best specs as well. So this year, as you've heard it's the new 7 nanometer 6, core a12 Bionic chip and four gigs of ram in both phones ?, it's not like one has less RAM than the other they're both set, and it ended up with some pretty damn good Geek bench scores, and they said it's 15 to possibly 30% faster in some actions like opening apps opening the keyboard launching the camera. Things like that, and I can verify that this is an extremely fast phone as a matter of fact, I think it brings it right back up to the king of responsiveness.

As far as smartphones go, it was getting kind of passed up a little with Android phones of the past couple years, but iOS 12 is so buttery that it's back on the throne, but here's the thing that iOS 12 update is also extremely fast on last year's iPhone 10. In fact, I am not noticing like a major difference in speed between iPhone 10, with iOS 12 and iPhone 10s with iOS 12. It's definitely performing great. Don't get me wrong, but the fact that my year-old iPhone 10 running that iOS 12 beta for a while and now on the final version was already noticeably faster than iOS.11 was a big deal, it's kind of like a curse. Apples put on themselves this time for actually maintaining and updating their phones.

This time in a way that makes the phone faster makes people with an older phone now like more satisfied and less likely to upgrade. The real interesting part here is with the bugs. I was getting especially in the 10s max with iOS 12 I'm, pretty sure it's because of the new resolution, but a lot of apps that I use on the daily had a bunch of like overlapping, graphics or woodcut parts off in the notch, where they weren't supposed to I couldn't even read the caption I was typing on Instagram. It was fully hidden in the notch, but I'm pretty sure a lot of the stuff will be fixed pretty quickly, as phones come out, and they developed for the new resolution. None of it was actually crashing or ruining the phone.

It's just weird graphic quirks. So the only place I actually feel the iPhone 10s actually seems a bit faster is face ID, and it's not even that much crazy, faster I definitely think the pause to unlock your phone is a bit shorter, which is nice to see maybe 25% faster thanks to the a12 Bionic and iOS 12, but it's still, obviously not as fast as those crazy, quick ones from OnePlus or chamois that are just using the RGB cameras, and again it will always be slower than those, because it will also always be more secure sort of an inverse relationship there. No biggie I am personally hoping for fingerprint readers underneath the display glass in mainstream phones to become more of a thing with this next upcoming generation, like it's rumored that one plus 60 you may have, it is rumored that galaxy s, 10 may have it, and it's rumored that iPhone 11 or whatever it's called, may also have it next year, but not this time. Another small improvement is the much better speakers in the 10s they're a bit louder and clearer now and a stereo speaker effect is now actually really quite good. It's still using that earpiece plus the bottom speaker to technically make a stereo pair, and this makes a difference for all kinds of the media, you're listening to or music or watching videos or shows, or even gaming I'd say it went from having a decent speaker to a very good speaker set, and the battery is one of the tiniest improvements in my experience, there's still one day, phones both of them, although now iOS 12, gives you actually screen on time.

So I can tell you, with my whole week with the 10s Macs. I was consistently getting four to four and a half hours of screen on time lasting all day, very similar to iPhone 10, not markedly much better, definitely not worse, still, a great stand by phone, but otherwise, nothing too crazy to report here. Really, the shame is still how long it takes to charge these huge batteries with the slow charger include in the box. So then, last but not least, is probably the most hyped new upgrade for these phones aside from the specs, and that would be the cameras, the iPhone, 10s and 10s max shared the exact same cameras, and they're, a slight upgrade from the 10 physically they're, slightly larger new sensors, still 12 megapixels, the main one is F 1.8, and they're. Now, both optically stabilized and there's a quad LED flash now this upgrade I think puts it firmly right up behind pixel 2 as the second-best smartphone camera.

It's an it's a real upgrade from the iPhone 10 and every other iPhone. Actually, a little more than I was expecting and generally the photos are great, as you'd expect, and I think. The biggest change is the more aggressive and better HD are thanks to their smart HDR. So the color science is perfect. A plus colors, a plus dynamic range, pretty much every photo is cornered.1/4, sharp and low-light is pretty damn good too. I definitely want to get another side-by-side sort of test going got to get this iPhone alongside pixel 3 when it comes out probably red hydrogen and some other top dogs, because obviously the minor difference comes down to opinion but confirmed this is an amazing smartphone camera right out the box.

Now you may have heard some talk about this improved portrait mode as well. Portrait mode on the iPhone started out kind of nearly as a joke. It was in this beta. It was pretty hacked together and sloppy at the beginning, but every year it gets better and better, like I wish Siri would, and this year it takes another leap. So portrait mode with these dual cameras uses the difference in distance between the cameras and Apple's software to create a depth map.

You might have heard that before so it kind of segments the image into different layers of different distances from the camera. So when you blur the background of a photo with portrait mode, instead of just drawing sort of a crude mask around the foreground and then applying a big blur to the whole background, this portrait mode is actually blurring the parts further away from the camera more while blurring the closer parts. Less it's much more realistic and closer to what a real both from a bigger camera looks like it's a subtle difference, but it's a massive improvement again from the first versions of portrait mode. So you take a portrait mode photo you go into this editing, and you get this slider for changing the depth of field. After the fact, only iPhone, 10s and 10s Macs will do this right off the bat people compared it to Samsung's live focus because, of course that's what it reminds us of, but when I compare them side-by-side the whole generic blur of the Samsung versus the Selective blur that keeps getting better.

It's pretty clear to me, which one I prefer, and even though this is all purely software blur just mimicking a bigger camera, it even seems to be adding a slight direction to the blur. Like a sort of radial blur around the center of the frame, which is pretty impressive, so I don't use portrait mode very much because it's still hit or miss, but these improvements mean when it does hit. It can be pretty. Damn good also combine that with the fact that it's still the best video recording in a smartphone as well, at 4k, 60, plus they've added stereo audio recording to support the speakers, and it all adds up to a pretty powerful camera as we've come to expect from an iPhone. So that's where we're at you specs new camera same software same design, so this iPhone 10s is everything we thought it would be really honestly the main upgrade.

If you want to call it that would have to be the 10s max the much bigger screen. This is the iPhone I've been using by choice for the past couple days, and it really does feel like a very different iPhone, a six and a half inch display in a body smaller than a galaxy. No 9 I mean that's all. You really have to say to make it my favorite iPhone ever, but there are so many advantages to having a bigger screen. I've talked about them in previous big phone videos, and all of those still hold up with the big iPhone watching videos is better.

Gaming is definitely better. Basically, anything that involves wanting a nice viewing experience is improved. I've been a big phone person as long as I can remember, and so naturally, the bigger iPhone is my favorite iPhone and I. Just never thought I'd see a day when the iPhone is closer to the size of an iPad Mini than the original iPhone. But that's what we got here.

There are downsides of being a huge phone -. You can't forget them, and I've said this again about other big phones, the much bigger space it takes up in your pocket or your purse or wherever you keep it, and it's way less likely to be a one-handed phone for most people, let's be real routability is gonna, be way more important on this bigger phone than it ever has been. But that's what's up. This upgrade to me is all about the size of this 10 s max. If you have an iPhone 10 I can tell you right now.

You don't need an iPhone 10 s, you're fine, even if you have $1000 hole in your pocket, and you've been itching for a faster iPhone and a better camera upgrade to iOS 12 and by and rx100 with that money. It's a much better. Camera boom problem solved. Really. The iPhone 10s is great upgrade for people who have an older iPhone and iPhone, seven or eight or even older than that, then again, so will probably be the iPhone 10 are so off to get that in house and see if that's about it in the full review, but I have no problem recommending the iPhone 10s for those people, but really, if you've been waiting for a bigger iPhone for all the mentions.

I talked about, and you have the money it's expensive just like last year, but if you're one of those people like me, then this is definitely the way to go. I'm, a fan of the 10s, Macs and I recommend it give it a shot either way. That's been it thanks for watching Ta chi as the next one peace.

Source : Marques Brownlee