iPhone 11 Pro 1 Year Later! By Nick Ackerman

So, it's been a little over a year since the iPhone 11 Pro has arrived on the scene with his all-new triple camera and in this video. The question I want answered was the iPhone 11 Pro after a year of experience worth a thousand dollars. Was it justified and is it something you might want to consider as the new iPhone 12s come out, and this one does see a discount in price point? So what is up guys nick here helping you to master your technology? Let's begin with the key specifications that matter, we do have a 5.8 inch. Super retina, Dr display apple, always has a way of really making their display sound a lot better than it is it's just really bright and really accurate. It's a very fantastic display, but pretty similar to a Samsung phone. To be honest with you now at the second spec that we really need to care about.

That is the triple 12 megapixel cameras, and these are all capable of 4k 60 on every single lens, pretty beautiful when it comes to that. In addition to that, you do have yourself a 30 46 William hour battery inside the body of the 11 pro also, the 11 pro did feature itself an Apple A13, bionic chipset, which made this thing fly in addition to that stuffed inside this phone, four gigabytes of ram, not very much for a thousand dollar phone, but still that's what you got with the eleven pro now. One year later, with the body 188 grams, this phone always had a nice heft to it over the year. I just really liked how it felt like a good weight that just didn't make. It feels cheap, that stainless steel always helps it's a very hard metal around the edges just makes it feel sturdy.

It feels a thousand bucks to be honest with you. Furthermore, it feels a premium device here in the iPhone 11 Pro. So I had no problems there now that matte texture on the rear over a year. Using this, I want every phone, that's in the premium tier to have this, because no fingerprints on the back of this thing, that's one of the slimiest ugliest things on a phone. When you get fingerprints all over the back glass and if you're the type of person who doesn't want to wear a case on, you just want a screen protector, you're going to love this.

But if you do use a case, this probably won't matter too much, but it still has a clean. Frosted. Look really do like that about the 11 pro now. What I don't like is that the display on this phone scratched pretty easily. It was definitely harder to crack the display on this one, but the scratching.

I scratched this thing in the first week, so I always had a screen protector, as you can see on this phone ever since day, one and talking more about the design overall that camera, I would say after a year really just kind of uh, wasn't the best looking camera to me ever I mean we got used to it. It's not horrible! I don't think, but it's just not my favorite overall look in terms of a triple camera setup. I like vertical setups. Furthermore, I think they look cleaner than this, but you know this is still not bad. After the honeymoon period wears off like after the first month or two of using this phone, you kind of feel like you're still using an iPhone 10, so I still want to see apple really just shrink.

The notch do something just change it up. Yeah, I'm going to see those nice square edges, hopefully on the iPhone 12 coming next month. You know I'm ready for a different design. Three years running, this is just getting kind of you know played out at this point on the whole. Yes does it feel a thousand? Yes, it did now give you an update on the display.

Now this one does have true tone. It does have dark mode, it does have night shift. This thing is insanely bright. This is my favorite thing about the 11 pro series over the 11 and other iPhones 800 nits of usable brightness. It seems like just some random number, but when you're actually using the phone you're like you're like wow, is that my phone getting that bright like burn my eyes? Why don't you? No? No, don't burn your eyes, but, like seriously this thing gets insanely bright.

You might be thinking that it's messing with your eyes. You know, you're going to have to keep it low at nighttime, it'll just blow you away how bright it is. Uh, definitely really fantastic usability and that you know some phones, don't even get that bright. They have to go into their automatic brightness mode to hit those levels of brightness. So really do like that about this other than that it still looks very similar to the iPhone 10 and the 10s display very accurate colors, very nice OLED, deep blacks here you do have nice color rich saturation, but not over saturated, like you'll, find on certain other phones in their vivid modes like Samsung devices, and this display also did support Dolby Vision, hdr10 watching a video was pretty nice until you pinched in you're still getting your content cut off by the notch.

But still you can watch a video like that. No problem and the sharpness of the text was always fantastic as well. Well, over 400 PPI you're never going to go ahead and see any type of pix elation on this display. You're really just going to like the display on the 11 pro. It's just a really great overall display quality.

Okay, guys in the display it's a non 120hz panel. Did it bother me? No? Why do I say this because android phones kind of need 120hz to hit that level smooth as the iPhone did when the iPhone goes to 120hz, it's going to be even smoother, so you know! No, I didn't really miss 120 hertz. Do I want it badly on android phones? Yes, on the iPhone, not so much, but I still would love to see it. I think it's going to be great to see it on the promotion on the iPhone, but still you know at 60 hertz. It runs very smooth here, uh pretty much every day, all day now talking about software.

I don't want to talk too much about it, though, because we covered it in the iOS 14 official review but of course iPhone 11 Pro it's only one year old, you know: iPhone's going to go five years on the update. The software has really changed since the launch of the iPhone 11 Pro with the new app library and all the widgets on board. It's nice to have this compact feeling phone here, 5.8 inches and have widget support. You can get a lot done now, seeing a lot of nice things on the display, with these widgets overall you're getting software support for years to come, I'm actually running the iOS 14.2 beta on this one right here. This is my beta device.

Definitely really, really good software. Overall concluding the software, I still want to see some split screen. We don't have that still no real multitasking abilities like where you can put two different apps side by side. You can do picture in picture now, but it's not natively available on youtube, which still irks me a little about the software. So one thing about this phone, I picked up the 64 gig model, as you can see right here of the 11 pro I didn't like that.

I probably should have with 256 gigs, but the thing is this: for a thousand bucks apple, can you please put 128 gigs in here? I mean we're talking about professional cameras and a lot of high quality. Apps people are working from home using a lot of applications. These days, they're going to be loading, their phones up. We need 128 gigs at the base. Samsung does this, you should do it too, because really users are really loading.

These phones up with stuff in 64 gigs. I was constantly deleting my 4k videos. Just so I wouldn't run out of space. You could see I've used 41.7 gigs of 64. , and that's being you know, watching myself.

If I really wouldn't have paid attention, it would have filled up in no time, but the storage is very fast and efficient for what it is, but still I want 128 gigs. I think most users will like that at the base level, as well now discussing performance, the performance with the a13 there's absolutely no lag. This is the fastest iPhone. Money can buy right now, and it's going to be even faster when the a14 comes to the iPhone. But what I don't like about it, though, is one thing: four gigs of ram.

It seems like a setback. The reason I say that is because, while it is a very fast phone in most occasions, there have been times when I would pop an application, and it would just reload- and I think that's just because of the four gigs of ram, so you know single tasking extremely fast gaming, extremely fast on this phone loads faster than every android phone out there, camera performance perfect with the processor, not allowing it to do that. Really. High quality video. Definitely perfect.

Here, video editing very fast as well. It's just it needs more ram. That's the only problem with the iPhone 11 Pro. I want to see more ram on the future. iPhones six gigs will be a nice start, but eight gigs would be really nice and while on the topic of performance, I just wanted to mention thermals how hot this phone get.

It didn't really warm up too much. Unless I was doing an iOS update, then it warmed up. It was on charge, and I was doing a beta update, something like that. Definitely would feel that phone warm up. In addition, if you got this thing on a tripod, and you're using that camera up here for the iPhone 11 Pro, you put it in 4k 60 video you're, definitely going to see this phone get pretty warm under that usage, but other than that I mean it never got too hot.

It wasn't ever going to burn your hand or anything like that. So thermal control is very good on this device right here. So talking about the cameras with the 11 pro, I feel like we could sit here and make an entire video, which we definitely could and talk about the cameras for an hour long. That's how much detail they can go into it, but I just want to put it this way. What was really nice about the iPhone 11 Pro is how smooth the transition was between each camera and how you can basically do 4k 60 video on every single camera.

You could do it on the telephoto, the regular one you can do it on the front facing camera. It was such a consistent experience across each camera that made this absolutely the best camera phone on the market and I still think it's the best camera phone on the market for the absolute most versatility between photo and video. There are cameras that can do more professional tweaking in the camera software. You know you do have the ability to switch aspect ratios and some exposure stuff. It does have a nice night mode as well.

That will automatically activate when it's dark, but the front-facing camera also seen a nice improvement, giving you amazing, front-facing video, almost like a rear camera on the front. Take a look at some of my samples and judge it for yourself. So the face ID was, you know, half-and-half. It was amazing up until COVID-19, then I'm like in the stores I'm out and about. I have to wear this mask and stuff when you enter stores, it's a rule in some of these stores.

You go ahead, and you try to unlock, and just does that thing. Yes, there was an update to make it fast, but punching in the passcode. Frequently outdoors was kind of old iPhone. Feel I kept missing. Having a fingerprint scanner but face ID is still very amazing.

This one was able to unlock from multiple different angles. You don't have to look at it dead on you just kind of got to look at it glance at it and then unlock. It was just a half-and-half experience mostly due to the pandemic, once the pandemic ends and stuff like that, we will be able to use face ID pretty easily all the time discussing phone call, quality, reception stuff, like that, the iPhone 11 Pro I'm happy to report was better than the prior editions, still not touching the Samsung phones. In my opinion, the 4g LTE is not as fast as the 5g Samsung devices, but it did see an improvement over the 10 and the 10s. It was definitely more usable.

I did like it quite a bit more in terms of its overall reception and phone call quality and discussing battery performance for a 3046 William hour battery. One year later, the iPhone 11 Pro was a champ easily getting through a day stretching into the second day, whereas 11 pro max was almost two day long. With light to medium usage, heavy usage, you could still get through a day with the 11 pro even on heavy usage. It had fast wireless charging if you're using that module. If you are using a fast wireless charging, it would charge pretty quickly.

In addition, it came with a fast charger in the box that was fantastic. I didn't like didn't have USB, but at the same time, charges very fast. Now, a lot of people are reporting that their battery percentages were going down quite a bit for this phone. Luckily, I was able to top it off a lot, so I kept this thing at a hundred percent throughout my usage, although my 11 pro max did drop to 98. Due to my over usage of you know, the camera I was using, the camera had it plugged in a lot, so it dropped a couple percentages, but this one stayed at 100, so good on my part.

So, luckily, for me, it stayed at 100, but not everybody's did so. Let me know how your battery capacity held on over time, okay and then the audio performance. If I press play speakers fired from the top and the bottom very nice and loud, the only thing is: is they didn't sound that much better from a 10s or an iPhone 10 stereo speakers? They were a little fuller, but at the end of the day I have to say that the speakers were pretty impressive. They weren't blowing me away, but they were pretty impressive one year later, the 11 pro. Where does this phone stand? Is it worth the 1 000 price point that it commanded, and I'd say? Yes, if you used the cameras to their potential, if you didn't, you probably overpaid for this phone, because that's really where the value lies in the iPhone 11 Pro.

If you guys wanted to have basically everything here, you know, but you didn't use a camera that much a 10s would have served. You basically the same purpose. An iPhone 10r, iPhone 11 could have served you basically the same purpose or even a used 10s max, but this one right here, if you use the cameras up a lot, definitely commanded that also, if you just like to be on the latest, luxurious iPhone, the top ROG thing, the latest cutting edge. You don't care about the cameras that much, but you just want to have the latest iPhone. Of course, it did feel the price.

It's a safe choice, it's kind of a boring just amazingly polished, while working phone, it's not overly exciting, like some of these foldable out here or maybe the iPhone 12 mini, that's coming. It just did its job, it's a third generation product that just really nailed it with the overall refinement and polish thumbs up. If you enjoyed the video, let us know your experience with the iPhone 11 Pro down below in the comment section of this video or your thoughts about it, and I'll catch you all in the next episode. Thank you very much for watching nick here be sure to be well and peace.

Source : Nick Ackerman