iPhone 11 Pro Max - 6 Months Later By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and iPhone 11 Pro Max, has been my main phone over the past six months. It's been out just over six months and other than maybe testing the iPhone 11 review or the iPhone 11 Pro, the other phones. This has been my main phone, and generally I'm carrying this with me anyway. So over that time, I maybe have not had it as my main device for a week total. So it's been a really great device, and so I wanted to go over its durability. How it's handled scratches since I, don't use a screen protector.

Of course that could be resolved. If I use the screen protector, then I wanted to go over some software issues, reception battery life and camera, and maybe even a little more, so I'll link all of that information in the description below now. The first thing is durability. No I, don't use a case generally once in a while I do it depends on the situation I'm in and things like that, but in general I, don't use a case. I've never dropped this, except for maybe on a couch or something like that, and you can see there is a little of wear around the bottom edge just from setting it down regularly so setting it down, picking it back up mostly off of a table or maybe a chair, or things like that.

I don't put this on anything other than that and then maybe the charger in my car so other than those things. There's really no reason. This should be scuffing, but that's pretty normal even on the aluminum iPhones. This would get scuffed just a little now. As far as scratches a lot of people ask me: how are the scratches around the stainless steel band and if you have the space gray version, they're perfect, you don't really see too many of them if at all, depending on the light, maybe in the brightest of sunlight, you could see it, but there's no scratches or anything and of course, if you're using a case, you wouldn't see any anyway, but I really don't see any.

But if you have the stainless steel version from the version, that's silver swear. This is just bright, polished, stainless steel, you'll, probably see more scratches, especially on the bottom, if you're using an apple case, but in general it's holding up well, the camera lenses don't have any scratches on them either, which is perfect. So it means this material, even though it's maybe sapphire may be partially sapphire. It seems to be holding up really well and whatever this ring is protecting it here too. So all of this glass seems to be holding up very well for me, and I've had no choose with it now, as far as the display and scratch as well that's another story.

This display is one of the easiest scratching displays I've seen in recent history and in general it's got a lot of scratches on it. It scratches much easier than my 10s Max and let me turn the lights up here, so that you can see the scratches, hopefully so I'll turn the lights way up. There we go. My lights turned up. Let me turn on another light.

Just get it a little more brightness in here and let me wipe off my display just a little from my fingerprints. There are some scratches out across the display- and this is only ever in my right pocket and also in my car, on a charger or at home on a table. So it's really not placed anywhere that it should have scratches, but it does have scratches across it. So I'm not sure if you can see any of those at all, but there are definitely scratches all across the display and in the brightest of sunlight you can see them. There's in particular, there's a huge scratch right in here and again, all of that could have been prevented if I used a screen protector now under those scratches is Apple's super Retina DR display and that's just a fancy name for an OLED display.

That's very color accurate and goes very bright, and so you have very vibrant, colors and very deep blacks because the pixels are off and in general it's a really great display. But one thing I've mentioned before is that it does use PWM to manage brightness, and so that's how OLED displays manage brightness or 99% of OLED displays, and so, as you turn the brightness up, it's going to flicker at a faster rate to keep the screen brighter and when you're at a hundred percent, it's not flickering at all or very little, and as you bring that down, that's flickering more and this bothers about one in 10 people. It can cause headaches, make you feel nauseated, and this was a huge problem for me on the iPhone, 10 and 10 s. But with this phone it's not a problem because they've increased the PWM rate or the flicker rate so that it no longer bothers me, so I'm not getting headaches from this or anything anymore. So that's great and so now I can enjoy this beautiful display.

And the nice thing is: this is an HDR display. So if you're watching YouTube videos an HDR, this is my Apple Watch review, which I actually recorded or the series for Apple Watch review I record in an HDR, so you can see.1080P HD are, and you won't be able to see these colors unless you go to the video yourself, but it's very deep blacks with very vibrant colors, and you can see that and of course you get to enjoy all that with the great speakers. So the speakers are nice and loud, and so these speakers are great. They have a great stereo sound and, along with that HDR YouTube content, you can watch HDR on Apple TV if you've used or the TV app. If you purchased an HDR movie, you'll see it in HDR on this display.

So it's super bright, vibrant, and it's a great display and until something else comes out, maybe micro, LED that replaces it and maybe doesn't have that flicker. This is the best iPhone display out there, and thankfully it's not bothering my eyes. It still will bother some people, but it's an amazing display nonetheless, and it's only rivaled by maybe the Samsung Galaxy s 20 ultra. So at that point, that kind of makes sense, since Samsung makes the display for Apple as well, but in general this is super color, accurate and one of the best displays out there for sure now a lot of people want to know. How is the reception on this phone and reception in general now is fine, but with iOS 13 having as many bugs as it has over that's over the period of time since September 2 now up to the latest beta thirteen point: four point: five, the reception has been hit or miss right now, it's quite good and the major issue I had was when I switched from Wi-Fi to cellular it wasn't working.

Apple has since fixed that I believe with thirteen point three point: one and beyond I have had zero issues with that, but there were a lot of people with that problem prior to it and so switching from Wi-Fi to cellular and then cellular speeds being consistent or not super slow. Everything seems to be fixed with thirteen point four and Beyond. So hopefully it stays that way, and that includes reception as well. Right now, I have two bars and the bars are not necessarily the best way to measure reception, because Apple can actually tweak the readings for this. So if two bars equals a certain decibel rating of signal strength, they could change that.

So two bars mean something different in another update so because we can't see what they're actually using for these one bar 2 bar 3 bar 4 bar it's really hard to determine whether the reception is good. Based on that, but just in using this for phone calls, it's been good except Wi-Fi calling, sometimes that seems to fail. I, don't know if it's through my carrier, or rather through the phone, but I've heard that complaint from a lot of people, and I've experienced it as well. Now, software issues in general, again, that's with iOS 13, being buggy things like crashing from 3d, pressing your haptic pressing and going to things like Bluetooth or other crashes, and things definitely have happened, a lot with iOS 13. Most of that has been fixed now, six months later, it took quite a while, but most of those bugs have been fixed, but not everything, but in general the software seems to be pretty solid.

Now it's not terribly exciting, but it does get the job done and the phone is doing what I need it to do now. Performance overall, for me, has been great over this past six months in general, this phone just flies when it's some doing something as simple as just scrolling through settings other than having freezing from the updates themselves. Scrolling and things are superfast and smooth going into things like music is nice and fast or just scrolling, opening the camera. It's nice and quick, and I really never experienced a slowdown. That's in comparison to my Mac Pro that has 16 CPU cores.

This doesn't have that many, and it's just as fast or faster in many things, so I have no complaints about the speed and if they kept this processor for a couple of years and just bumped up the RAM I'd have no issues now as far as battery life. Well, that's probably the best thing about this phone compared to the previous iPhones. It has nearly 4,000 William hours of battery and the battery life over time has been perfect. So if I go into battery, and then we wait for it to load, and my battery is at well, it just dropped to 99 percent battery health. So after over 6 months, it's finally down, and I do charge this every night, and some people see this change over time and that's what happens with lithium-ion batteries.

So they go down or degrade over time and that's just something that happens over their life cycle and depending on how you use it. How often you're cycling the battery charging it bringing it back down charging it again that will just change, so you'll see here's the normal charge level yesterday or two days ago, I had five hours and nine minutes of screen on time. Two hours and 18 minutes of screen off time and I used about 60 to 70% of my battery and so 10 to 12 hours on an iPhone, 11 Pro max is not unlikely. So, using this all day, long going home putting it on the charger at night is what I normally do on a wireless charger. I'll charge it, and it'll be at about 50%, usually sometimes more sometimes less.

It just depends on how much I use it, and it seems to get through the day, no problem so battery life on this is phenomenal and once battery health drops to 80%, then I would change the battery. Otherwise, it's been great, and so I've had no issues whatsoever. It's been holding up really well and battery is much better than other iPhones, and you can even bump this up with a case as well. So if you have the Apple battery case, you can almost get another about half to double the battery capacity when you're using that. So, if you need it on the go, it's its ready to go, and it works really well now.

Finally, the camera is phenomenal. It's something I really like and appreciate in this phone. In fact, I've used it for multiple videos outside whether it be the iPhone 11:11 Pro or the pro max. As far as the cameras- that's probably the best thing about this: it's consistent when you use it for video, so if I'm using it for video and recording I can use it on the go you'll see it on many talk shows now, because people don't have setups at home, so you just hit video record, and now you're recording with the rear camera and even if you're, not using an external microphone like I'm, not right now you don't hear it through my mic. It sounds pretty good if I switch back.

There is definitely a difference with the microphone itself, but in general, it's a very usable camera, especially an outdoor light or very bright light. You probably can't tell the difference unless you're into video and things like that. You probably can't tell the difference between this camera and maybe a cinema camera. In fact, I used this camera as a secondary camera. When I was filming my MacBook Air unboxing.

So this is straight out of the iPhone 11 Pro Max, and nobody could tell the difference between this and a much more expensive. Panasonic gh4 the past year, I've been using this camera along with other iPhone cameras, and the video footage is so good. Most people compliment this as compared to footage you see on every mirrorless camera out there that I've tested as well. So this has an amazing camera, and it's definitely something I can recommend for most people. So that's it for the iPhone 11 Pro max.

It's been great over the past six months. I'll continue to use it until the next iPhone comes out, the iPhone 12 or whatever they're going to call it, and if that comes out in September October November this year, I'll pick one up and then start using that. But until then I'll use this phone, and this has been great I- can rely on it. It's dependable has great photos, great video and speakers, and everything else are great as well. So I have no issues with that, but I generally use it with headphones.

But let me know your thoughts about the 11pro max. If you have one I'd love to hear from you, what's your favorite thing, what's your least favorite thing, and also, if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper, I'll link it in the description as I always do. If you haven't subscribed already, please subscribe, and if you enjoyed the video please give it a like, as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time.

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