iPhone 11 Impressions: A Familiar Sequel! By Marques Brownlee

Okay, what is up guys um could be if she here all right. We finally have if it's. Finally, here after many leaks and much anticipation, the iPhone 11 is officially official, so there's going to be a separate video on the also new iPhone 11 Pro. It's either about to be up or already up, depending on when you watch this, but it'll be the first link below that like button I'll, make sure of that, but either way this is the new iPhone 11, the successor to the iPhone 10 are- and this is your first look at it. So, as you can already tell it's, gonna look and feel very familiar with just a few key changes, so design-wise I was kind of hoping for maybe a slightly different design, maybe squared up a bit or maybe a slightly smaller nut or something a bit more modern feeling. But that's not really what's happening here.

It's almost the exact same design as the iPhone 10 are same curves same buttons, same mute, switch same notch same lightning, port same speaker, setup same pretty much everything the display is still an LCD. It's a 6.1 inch liquid Retina display still the same roughly 720p resolution no bump there, but what's different is the Apple logo on the back, has now moved down a bit to the exact center of the phone, and it no longer has the iPhone text just the logo and really the main new feature on the outside. As you can tell, is the camera and that's really the main theme here. That's the main focus, if you will of the iPhone 11, it's the camera, dual cameras now 112 megapixel standard and 112 megapixel ultra-wide, and this camera bump it's kind of interesting. So the phone is, of course, as you can see, still glossy all the way across the whole back like last year.

But then just this rounded square, that's a little taller than the rest. Has this sort of frosted matte glass with a camera circle with the metal rings inside it and they sort of raised at two different levels? So it's a square camera bump and then the camera bumps inside the camera bump, and you can feel that it's definitely unique, and it's easily the most polarizing part of the whole phone. Some people like it, some people hate it. Aha to me, I've been staring at it for so long shooting this video that it's just kind of looks like any other iPhone. At this point.

It's fine, but actually it's basically the opposite of the iPhone 11 Pro, which has a frosted glass back on the whole phone, but then a glassy glass, camera square. So fun fact, but anyway, like I, said, 11 Pro video is separate, I'm just pumped to have an ultra-wide camera on the back of the iPhone now, and both cameras are capable of all the same stuff, both with 4k 60fps video HDR, some really intense, color matching is being done between them the whole deal and then the camera app is also updated. A bit for the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro, and I'll talk about this more in the 11pro video, because I have some stronger feelings about it, but generally it's pretty familiar, but there are some tweaks. So when you first open the camera app the app kind of hints at ultra-wide by showing you this faded out extra wide shot, that's wider than your current frame, but not in your shot, and then you can hit that one X button at the bottom to punch out to ultra-wide, and then you get everything in there. That is your glorious iPhone super wide camera.

This is gonna, be great for again people who are shooting a lot of iPhone video, those vloggers, it's 4k, the iPhone is still ip68 water-resistant, so it can get kind of wet like a GoPro. If you want to I, don't know I'm just glad they finally got on this ultra-wide train. So that's good. The selfie camera on the front is also not upgraded. It's now a 12 megapixel camera, and it's a tiny bit wider, and you can access this extra a little of wideness by hitting the little expansion button in the middle or by default.

It'll, actually just go wider when you flip the phone sideways because you're, probably taking a group shot. But honestly, it really is just a tiny bit wider and also now slow motion. Video is now supported by the front-facing camera and for whatever reason they decided to name this, and they're, naming it slow fees, slow motion, selfies, that's probably the first and last time, I'll ever say that word out loud, but there's also a new night mode, and this is something we've been looking forward to ever since pixels nitrite took direct jabs at the iPhone on stage, and you know, Huawei's night mode has gotten perfect and others have started making their own night modes. We've been sort of curious what Apple is cooking up for their night mode for the iPhone, so we have iPhone eleven. We get this night mode, but as you may notice, it's not in the default modes down here at the bottom.

It actually only activates when it's dark enough, so I could kind of trick it by covering up the lens making it dark and then a new night mode indicator pops up in the top left, and then you can decide to adjust it or turn it off from there. But you can't turn it on anytime. You want either way. This is definitely something I will be testing for the full review, along with all this other camera stuff, very curious to see how it performs and if it's as good as what they shoot on stage and as good as the others, but it's here there's a night mode and then the other new thing is, of course, your new specs, the internals, a new, a 13 Bionic chip, which they say is the most powerful CPU and GPU in any phone, and honestly I tend to believe them. At this point on a 7 nanometer architecture, Apple has been making incredible silicon in their phones for years, so I'm expecting great performance, and not only is it more powerful, but they also claim that battery will last one hour longer than the iPhone 10 R, which was already perfect and then there's also something they didn't even mention on stage, which is that there's a new dedicated u1 chip, which will help with spatial positioning relative to other u1, enabled phones and my favorite demo or use case of this- is two iPhones 11s near each other.

You can airdrop files back and forth by like beaming them at the other phone. It uses an ultra-wideband signal which, as far as I can tell is the first I've seen this used in this way. In a smartphone and yeah you can, you can just send memes or whatever you want just beam airdrops directly at other people. It'll show up first in the show sheet, when you point it at the other person's phone, which is pretty cool and some over minor stuff face. I'd on this phone, they say is now up to 30 percent faster and will supposedly work at more angles, but I'm not exactly sure how many new angles.

If it's like drastically better. We all know how hard it is to unlock an iPhone, that's sitting on a table, so I'm hoping this makes that a bit easier and then the portrait mode in the camera also will now work on people and pets and objects. So if you remember the iPhone 10 R would only let you try portrait mode when it detected a human face. So that's a new feature for iPhone 11. You can take portrait mode on anything and that's uh, that's about it for new features for iPhone 11! Listen! It's a subtle, update, no way around that it's very incremental, as the word we like to use, especially when the design is super, super similar, but honestly for Apple.

This is probably not a bad thing. See the iPhone 10 R was by far the most popular phone apple sold in their lineup last year. It sold more than the iPhone 10s and 10s max thanks to the lower price, and so this year, they're actually lowering the price it's down to a six hundred. Ninety-nine dollar starting price for the iPhone 11- and that's probably gonna, be the case here again this year it's probably gonna, be their most popular iPhone. There are six new colors for people to pick from, so you can go nuts again with yellow or purple or green or whatever suits you or grab a skin.

Whatever you got to do, but yeah they're going to feel very familiar to people who have used any iPhone CNR or any 10s or anything from the past few years. Really, and that's probably what Apple's wanted. My only disappointment really I think is the display. I was kind of hoping they would bump up the resolution, because the lower resolution of the 10r was kind of my only big disappointment with it. I mean there's kind of everyone's disappointment, but then again you know dropping the price to $6.99 Apple's, not a company that drops the price on a new item very often, so I guess I can't really be mad, but you already know: I got to put it through. My testing I got to take my sample photos.

Take my videos, use the phone, see how that battery life is, and all of that will reveal if it's actually worth the money but yeah, that's basically it that is what's new with iPhone 11. Do for you to share this video with others who, you think are also interested in the iPhone, 11 and, of course, stay tuned for the iPhone 11 Pro video link below and today there was also a new Apple Watch Series 5, a smaller update, but with an always-on display now and the same battery life, which is cool and there's a new baseline 10.2-inch iPad with pencil support and smart connector pins and a pretty great low price. There's going to be a new podcast episode of the waveform podcast detailing all of this stuff. So stay tuned for that. If you want a full breakdown of the event, but yeah definitely get subscribed to see the review videos when they come out, if you haven't already, so this is being your first look at the iPhone 11.

Thank you very much for Change, and I'll catch. You guys in the next one peace.

Source : Marques Brownlee