iPhone 11: A 2021 review! By Ryan-Thomas

It's been a year since the iPhone 11 was released. I picked one up from new, and I've been using it as my daily phone ever since when it came out, it was greatly praised for being one of the best deals that apple has released for years. So after a year of using this thing solidly, is it still worth buying, or should you get a newer model, hi guys, I'm Ryan Thomas- and this is my one-year review of the iPhone 11. Let's start off with something really important, which is the pricing the iPhone 11 released at 729 pounds and has since dropped to just about 500 pounds one bay, for a 128 gigabyte model for a like new or return unit, expect to pay something like an extra 50 pounds and with the iPhone 12 already out, these prices are likely going to drop even further. So what do you get for your money? Well, what I would consider one of the better well-rounded devices on the market right now, tldr it does all the basics really well and is going to last longer than the equivalent android smartphone asterisk, of course, depending on the company, because it's by apple and because it's going to have that five-year software support I've kind of hated on the iPhone 11's camera. Since the start- and I don't think that that's really fair, I feel like the colors- are a little too saturated and the audio phobic coating on the camera lenses is pretty much non-existent, meaning that there are a lot of lens flares, and you really do have to wipe the things.

Every two minutes. Don't get me wrong. The 11 photos and videos aren't ideal, but they aren't as bad as I've really been hammering it for. I actually bought this thing purely because it was the first Apple smartphone, with an ultra-wide camera and as ultrawide cameras go this one's pretty good. It's not my best, and it's certainly not my favorite, but the lens type itself and ultrawide is my favorite lens.

So I wanted to try it out on the apple side. What's it like? Well, the photos from this iPhone in particular definitely stand out on social media. I do think that the pixel's more washed out appearance is pretty nice, though there are still skin tone issues and that's been here since the iPhone 8. I will not stop talking about it until someone sort the heck out. Beware of the awful highlight roll off on skin tones, but aside from that, the colors aren't that bad, of course, there's no 8k recording 100, megapixel sense or anything like that.

But overall, I feel like this. Camera system is as good as it really needs to be. Speaking of not bad, that's 720p, 60hz IPS! I don't care what you say. I review android smartphones with quad HD 120hz displays. Furthermore, I think I know what I'm talking about here.

This display is not bad on paper, sure it's pretty poor and if you look at it in person, if you really hold it up to your eye, and you've got perfect vision, you will be able to discern the pixels just a little, but really there's not much in it. It's not the smoothest or the sharpest thing in the world, but what it is good, it's, okay, it's really not a bug bear, and it's something. That's going to be fine for most people, because most people don't care about specs. What's also just fine is the build quality, but that might start to change soon see a lot of smartphones Galaxy Note: 20 are starting to use plastic in their builds instead of glass which, while more durable, is cheaper to make and to use and so should bring the cost of the smartphone down, but it doesn't. Instead, phone prices are actually increasing.

So the fact that this 700 pound phone now 500 pounds is still made of metal and glass is actually quite impressive. Given the rest of the new market, my phone's been dropped numerous times and survived many rainy days outside with no sign of failure. Apart from this tiny little scratch right at the top, and so I can happily say that the ip68 rating is definitely genuine on this, one, speaking of which the buttons still feel click and tactile. The mute switch is fantastic and again the lightning port and the lightning port definitely hasn't failed me yet, which is handy because the iPhone 11 battery has started to be a bit meh since I bought the Apple Watch earlier this year, or actually it was last year when I wrote this script, don't get me wrong. It lasts me a full day on a charge, but I am by no means a power user.

I connect my watch and my AirPods for about an hour a day and use the phone for about two to three hours of screen on time at maximum. What that translates to is about one and a half days of usage and topping up with the five watt charger is just fine by me. It takes a long time, but I really don't care all that much. However, I will say this: the charging is slow. It really does not need to be this low.

Fine. I might not need a fast charger, but I recognize that a lot of other people do, and even the 20 watt charger isn't something that can really contend with the likes of the 65 watts by BBK. As for wireless charging, I really don't use that all that much. However, it is there for those who want it. My lenses started fogging up, so please be wary of this.

Now this happens every time. Every year, I'm not going to talk about performance all that much because, in my opinion, an iPhone from even a couple of years ago is going to be fast enough. I really don't feel like you need the best of the best. If you're looking for a gaming phone, you're, probably not going to buy an iPhone anyway, it's sub-optimal for that, but in terms of day-to-day usage, the only thing that I've found on an iPhone this iPhone in particular and to be fair, a lot of modern iPhones anyway, is the poor ram management. It doesn't matter whether you have three four six gigs of ram in an iPhone.

I feel that it just kicks everything out of ram other than that, though, it's been pretty much flawless in terms of speed, reliability and everything like that. So then, for around 500 pounds should you go out and buy one of these, or should you instead opt for the iPhone 12 uh yeah video coming by the way on this thing? Well, the answer to that is pretty simple. If you don't care about the slightly better camera, and if you don't care about the flat edges kind of the nicer is screen, then I recommend going with the iPhone 11, because it's a perfect deal on the used market. It's definitely not the most feature rates. It doesn't have the best camera.

Furthermore, it doesn't have the best display, it doesn't really have the best battery, but it's the best all-rounder. In my opinion, I would typically say that about the Galaxy Note 9. Only the Galaxy Note 9 is starting to show its age a bit in its performance now, especially if you're in the UK, because you're going to get the one with the Enos chip, which is nowhere near as nice as the one with the snapdragon chip you can see. My lens is also fogging up again. This is about the fourth time now.

Overall, this thing very good smartphone. I would recommend it, and I'm not going to upgrade to the iPhone 12, I'm going to continue using the iPhone 11 for probably the next year, because it will be fine for at least another year, if not another, two or three really before I completely steam up, and you can't see me whatsoever, I'm going to leave the video here. Thank you so much for watching guys. This is going to be quite an exciting year for the channel. I think, because I have a lot of content coming out, and it's all kind of scheduled.

So it's ready to go out uh yeah, let's just hope that 2021 is a bit better than 2020. Please do like this like comment and subscribe to never miss a video like this one and also check out all my links in the video description. As always, I've been Ryan, Thomas and I'll catch you later, peace.

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