iPhone 11 Pro Review By Vector

Sponsored by brilliant, once upon a time, the iPhone was the best camera you had with you now. Apple flat-out wants to make it the best camera period, what they can't do, physically with enormous lenses and sensors they're doing computationally, with ridiculously optimized silicon and machine learning, and not just by taking the iPhone 211, but by truly making it pro. The iPhone 11 Pro everything that's already packed into the 6.1 inch iPhone 11 is here as well, but escalated significantly 5.8 inch in 6.5 inch, higher density, higher contrast, higher brightness and extreme dynamic range. OLED displays a triple imaging system, with ultra wide-angle and telephoto cameras, 4x4 final, LTE, up to 512 gigabytes of storage, a full four meters of water resistance, textured finishes that look more like metal than glass and battery life, that's boosted by a jaw-dropping four and five hours respectively. Those differences may not mean much to most people, and that's fine I'd argue even that. That's the point: today you can get a top-shelf iPhone 11 for 699 dollars and in a wider variety of colors too, but if you're the type of person who wants the best of the best, the ultimate expression of the iPhone technology and experience, you can reach for the absolute rafters with the nine hundred and ninety-nine dollar iPhone 11 Pro or 1099 dollar iPhone 11 Pro max I've, already posted my complete iPhone 11 review.

So I'm going to respect your time and not recapitulate everything. That's the same here and to be clear again, that's most things. Instead, I'm going to dive into the differences and go deep on some of the details that way whether you've been waiting a while to upgrade from your last top-of-the-line iPhone and are wondering if this one will last you just as long or you always get the latest and the greatest. But you want to make sure you should keep on going or even, if you're, switching from Android and want to immerse yourself in just exactly how Apple implements all those high-end features. I got you I'm Rene Richey, and this is the iPhone 11 Pro, but also vector, in addition to everything I included in my preamble to the iPhone 11 review.

Here's what you need to know about the pros right off the bat, the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max look just about identical to last year's iPhone 10s and iPhone 10s max same sizes. Same shapes, they've just got three cameras on the back now, instead of two and a giant glossy back camera bump to go with them, the port is still lightninged, but the cable in the box now ends with USB and comes with a new 18 watt adapter that fast charges to 50% in just 30 minutes. The glass backs are textured now and matte, which looks almost like the aluminum finishes of old, and while there are still silver space, gray and gold options, there's also a brand new midnight green. The ingress protection is still IP 68 and certified for up to 30 minutes, but for up to four meters of water. Now not just to fear no deep end of the pool apple says the batteries on the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro max will last wait for it four and five hours longer than last year's iPhone, 10s and 10s max, and no that's not a typo I checked thrice up to 18 hours for local video playback for the pro and 20 for the max 11 hours and 12 hours of video streaming and 65 and 80 hours of wireless audio.

The already 4x4 my mo multi in multi out LTE now runs it up to one point: six gigabits per second, so you can get all of your carrier. Aggregation on storage options are the same: 64 256 and 512 gigabytes, as are the starting price points.999 and 1099 I've been using an iPhone 11 Pro, an iPhone 11 Pro Max in midnight, green running, iOS, 13, point o for just about a week and yes with my own personal SIM cards in all the phones, all the time, traveling from California and home here in Montreal, and while there's a ton, I, absolutely love about them. There's also a ton I'd really like to love more or maybe just want more to love. Let me explain the iPhone 11, Pro and iPhone 11 Macs are basically souped-up, tricked out versions of last year's iPhone, 10s and 10s Macs still 5.8 and 6.5 inches. The 11 pros are roughly 0.02 inches taller, wider and thicker and 0.63 ounces heavier than their 10s counterparts. It's enough that some screen protector companies have warned about possible incompatibility, but for all practical purposes, they're pretty much identical in shape and size.

Now some people are going to complain bitterly about that. How so boring it is not that they want them shaped like paper, airplanes or starfish I, don't think. But what about squared off sides again or a waterfall display personally I'd love to see the former, even if the latter is so shady silly, but I felt for a while now that this year would be very much like the iPhone 7 plus year same platform, an extra camera beefed up internals, some silicon and machine learned marvels and some cool new finishes, and honestly I'm fine with that approach. If Apple wants to focus on new ID one year, improved internals the year after and better optics the year after that, like they did with the original iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, and again with the iPhone 6 iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 I'm totally fine with that. So many people wasted so many column inches in medium minutes, complaining about how bored they were with the iPhone 5s back in the day, only to get volcanic level salty when they couldn't get the gold one on launch day then applauded when it came back with the iPhone SE and now again with the iPad Pro that you just have to chalk it up to people being.

You know, people same with the notch subjectively. Everyone can and will think whatever they want about it objectively, it's no better or worse than full-on, foreheads or hole punches or mechanical shooters. What raise and lower camera modules up and down they're all just different attempts to solve the same problem, at least until we can get all the cameras and sensors moved under the display. Alright and properly honestly I stopped noticing the nosh roughly two days after I got the iPhone 10 in 2017 and haven't really thought about it since hole, punchers or cheaters either. It's just the big old four heads and Chin's that still bother me they're a waste of whatever extra display and data.

You could be cramming all up in their like with the iPhone 11, though I'd love, to see what little remains of the bezels just totally blast it away and have the display run full-on into the steel antenna band around the edges, screen to bezel ratio be damned that little shave and haircut would freshen the whole thing right up and leap Apple back to the front of the modern good-looking phone pack a weekend, and I'm still preferring the 5.8 inch version. That's even after spending. A good part of the last decade on the previous plus-sized iPhones I do constantly go back and forth to the 6.5-inch Mac's as well, and I love for video and especially display zoom I. Don't really need it yet, but I'm reassured by it being there, but when I'm walking around the west wing style, the 5.8 inch is just the perfect balance of display and body size, at least for me. There's still a lightning port on the bottom.

I've been a big fan of lightning for a long time. It solved so many of the problems and provided so much of the functionality of USB but came out years and years earlier. So everyone using an iPhone could enjoy those advantages, while everyone else was still stuck on microUSB a or worse. Now, though, USB-C has been on the market for a while and is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, Apple's even switched to it on the iPad Pro sure. It's still a hot mess in many ways.

One unified plug design that may or may not carry PD power, USB 3.0 or 3.1 Thunderbolt or soon-to-be USB 4 speeds, but I can plug an SSD drive into my iPad Pro, and it just works. Well. My iPhone pro needs an adapter and a powered one at that. In addition to the iPad Pro Apple went all-in on USB-C super early for the MacBook Pro. It feels like they could have done the same with the iPhone when they took it to 10, and certainly now that they're making it pro, but they haven't, though at least not yet, and so, especially at the high end, its iPhone users, who are now starting to miss out on the advantages like the iPhone 11.

The back is milled out of a single piece of glass with the pro, though, that glass is then textured to give it a matte finish that, to my eyes, looks a lot less like glass and a lot more like the textured aluminum of years past. But Apple is maintaining contrast by leaving that camera bump part shiny, the exact opposite of the iPhone 11 I'm guessing they feel like since that bump just simply will not be ignored. They might as well go all in and highlight it. I'd have been much happier, though, if they just made it mad as well. That finish is just back good.

Looking the glass iPhones have been the slipperiest phones, I've owned since the Nexus 4, which could go from dead center of a level dining room table to plummeting off the edge in a half hour flat. The glass iPhones aren't that bad, but close, especially on things like sofa, edges or polished surfaces, apple and corning, have whipped up yet another stronger, more scratch and shatter resistant formulation than ever for the iPhone 11. But it's these new textured finishes that I'm really counting on to make just that extra little of difference and so far, far less slick. The colors are still conservative, though more so than the pastels of the standard, iPhone 11 and much more so than the multicolored hombres and Aurora gradients and iridescent. Huawei and Samsung have been shipping for a while.

Now Pro has always meant be blasted silver and really Pro, Space Gray to Apple the iPhone 11 pro-am set up with a new shade of gold, which has been an official phone approved option for a while now, but also with an entirely new midnight green. It's super subtle and, while I'm fine with it, I really would have loved a splash of something stronger product, red metallic purple, maybe even a little ombre, and if we're going pro and introducing some segmentation into the iPhone line, maybe really go for it and offer an iPhone edition and ceramic apples. Materials team is just killing it on the watch, and it'd be amazing to see what they could do with a small part of the iPhone lineup, as well as to the camera bump. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm actually starting to not mind it, maybe even like it in a strange way, much more than I do the regular iPhone 11 bump at least there's just something about the slightly wider super ellipse and the three lenses that make it look less like the surprised emoji face of my nightmare and more like the actual old-fashioned, multi camera systems of you're maybe a little military, maybe a little alien, but still something that does real work in the real world and yeah makes it look just that much more pro water-resistance has improved on the pro models as well. The 10s was already ip68 and rated for up to 30 minutes at up to 2 meters.

The crows will go all the way down to four meters, though pro storms spills. All of that is fine, but again I'd strongly caution against repeated intentional submergence, especially in salt or chlorine. Relax have fun, don't make iPhone soup acid. The design in general, like I, said with my iPhone 11 review. It's a supercar, a high-end watch, a classic camera iconic, so much so that when the next iPhone design changes, I bet it still stays very much the same as well.

Apple went OLED with the iPhone 10 super Retina display now with the iPhone 11 Pro Apple's. Taking that to the extreme Apple's display team has always done a terrific job with OLED they SPENT exactly what they want down to the materials, get it manufactured on Samsung's industry-leading process and then tweak and mitigate the hell out of it to both match apples other display technologies on other devices, which is impressive and to mitigate everything from off-axis color shifts to burn, in which, two years later, you still don't see any significant amount of reports on in an ocean of other phones with permanent spectral poke balls burned into the bottom of their displays. That's more than impressive. Still Apple has found a way to take it to the next level. Now the process itself gets better year after year, of course, but apples also been doing a ton of research on Pro displays for the last couple of years, including and especially for the Pro display, DR extreme dynamic range, the one they announced alongside the new Mac Pro back in June, so now Apple is making the super Retina Display DR as well to be worthy of the name.

Apple is focusing on a few different things. First is contrast. That's now 2 million to 1. Second is brightness that can peak now at 1200, nits and sustain and sunlight at 800 nits. As a result, HDR 10 and Dolby Vision, HDR movies and DCI p3 wide gamut photos, look better than ever.

Blacks are still absolute black, but colors and whites are brighter than ever really stretching out the range in between, and they're doing, all of that with much better power efficiency as well 15%, better to drop apples number onto it. One thing that is missing, though, is a hundred and twenty Hertz adaptive pro motion, vast technology that lets them ramp up the frame rate when you're doing something fast and furious, but then lower it back down to save energy when you're doing things that are mostly static. Other phones are beginning to get 90 even 120 Hertz displays its something: gamers love and something people who scroll lots of lists just simply enjoy apples, not doing it not yet, and it's not terrible this year, but something I hope they really consider going into next now. I love, love, love, HDR, I, have an LG OLED TV at home, I seek out Dolby Vision. Theaters.

If you offer me a choice between higher resolution and higher dynamic range. I will pick HDR every day and twice on Marvel movie launch days. It makes everything look richer and realer than real, and that's a big part of why I love OLED on the iPhone pro as well. The other thing I loved was 3d touch, but that's gone now, Apple created it, and now they've killed it dead to make up for it, though, Apple has gone all-in with the haptic touch they introduced on years. Ten are on one hand, it provides a lot cleaner, a lot more consistent user experience, touch, controls can easily become overloaded and 3d touch would cause a lot of collisions for a lot of people.

Just ask anyone frustrated with trying to get an icon, or especially a folder into jiggly mode. Apple also never managed to scale 3d touch to iPads. So you'd have a different experience on the small screen compared to the big one which made it harder to build optimal interface habits. Now with iOS 13. The long press has just won everything just works the same across all devices, but with haptic touch.

You still get that familiar force feedback on the iPhone, just without all the speed and tactility of the deep press and that's the drawback. A long press feels like it takes longer than a deep press which makes the system feel ever so slightly slower. Also, while haptic touches in more places. Now, it's still not quite everywhere, 3d touch was it supports, home screen shortcuts, which is huge for me, just press on an app, and you get all the options plus a new one right at the top to go right into jiggly mode and rearrange apps, which, on its own, will fix so many collisions and is so great to see. You've also got peak style previews now in mail, Safari notes, photos, maps, news, phone, music and pretty much everywhere else.

You'd expect about the only things I'm still missing are the ones haptic touch would probably have an impossible time reproducing the ones that require actual pressure, manipulation to work. That includes the previous keyboard functionality, where you could deeply press to toggle between cursor movement and text selection, the two-finger alternative, just isn't as elegant or as exacting and, of course, drawing apps, where 3d touch provided pressure data that could be used for line thickness or opacity. There's just no alternative for that. Sadly, at least not until Apple brings the pencil to the iPhone Pro the way they did to the iPad Pro I know. That sounds totally ridiculous to some people.

But it's why the Galaxy Note has always been the only Samsung phone. To really tempt me. I would hard settle on the 6.5-inch Mac's in a heartbeat to use it with Apple Pencil more than even the iPad Mini. It would be the digital field notes and sketch pad of my dreams and hey as long as Apple is making the iPhone a pro. They might as well make it every bit as pro as the iPad right for everything else, though haptic touch is slowly but surely winning me over.

There's a new ultra camera in town in the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max. Have it, but really all the cameras here are new in one way or another. The main wide-angle camera is still an effective 26 millimeter 6 elements wide-angle F 1.8, but it's got way better light sensitivity now and also 100% focus pixels, which is Apple's name for phase detection autofocus. It just means that instead of some fraction of the pixels in the camera, sensors being used to determine focus, every one of them is being used in order to make it 3 times faster in low-light, which is something we'll talk a lot more about in a minute. The updated telephoto camera is still an effective 52 millimeters and a 6 element, but has gone from f/2 point 4 to a larger F 2.0, letting it capture 40% more light. The new ultra wide-angle camera is an effective 13, millimeter 5 elements, F 2.4 with a 120 degree field of view and as you'd expect because iPhone they all work together as part of a unified fused camera system. The interface is the same as a standard iPhone 11, but in addition to the wide-angle camera, hinting it what lurks off to the side and ultra wide-angle mode.

The wide-angle does the same in telephoto mode, instead of being able to tap between 1x wide-angle and 2x telephoto optical zoom, like on every plus-sized iPhone ever and on the 10 + 10 s, or between 1x wide and 0.5 X, ultra wide-angle, like on the iPhone 11, you can tap between all three on the iPhone 11 Pro, effectively giving you up to 4 times optical zoom. It means you have a much broader range from a single vantage point from close up to why, too long all without having to sneak resume in and out taking time and potentially altering the angle or losing the light or composition, you can still digitally zoom up to 10 times, and it looks somewhere between terrible and non-terrible depending, but other cameras are going higher, optically now and even using ludicrously cool periscope lenses and machine learning to make functional. If hello creepy 50 times zoom apples, absolutely nailing the cameras and zooms it has, but they're not pushing it yet when it comes to extreme telephoto or for that matter, macro now that I finally have the ultra wide-angle I have to start pining for something else. Don't I last year, I lamented that I wanted both the iPhone 10s is telephoto and the iPhone ten AS wide-angle portrait mode, both on the same camera, even if the latter had to remain limited to focus? Pixels and segmentation masks well this year, we're getting almost exactly that almost because, thanks to the third camera, wide-angle portrait mode isn't limited at all. Just like the wide-angle provides real depth data to the telephoto portrait mode.

Now the ultra wide-angle provides real depth data to the wide-angle portrait mode as well. Auto adjustment works. Similarly, once you turn on photos captured outside the frame in settings, you can shoot with telephoto an extra field of view. Data will be captured from the wide-angle or with the wide-angle, and it'll be captured from the ultra wide-angle. Then machine learning will stitch that extra data into the photo for subject reframing, basically to recover people or pets that may have accidentally been cropped out and horizon correction.

If you accidentally shot off angle, it requires a good amount of light, but it can work wonders if and when you need it, especially because the data is also accessible via the cropping tool you can tell when it's available by the little auto adjust icon at the top right of the photos. Page opposite: the live photo icon on the left. When you see it just hit edit hit crop and then move around your photo until it's exactly where you want it with as much of the image as you want it. The same technology is used in quick, take which I talked about in the iPhone 11 review after you tap to take a photo and hold down to switch to video machine learning follows your subject and the wider data is used for tracking and stabilization. It's awesome and one of the things I love most about Apple.

They tend to ship feature sets not chipsets. They didn't ship a second camera. Furthermore, they shipped two times optical zoom and portrait mode. Likewise, here they're, not shipping, a third camera they're shipping, four times optical zoom and other clever features like auto adjustments and later this year, the super detailed, deep fusion I, also love that they don't tend to do features as one-offs. Everything builds on everything else.

They invest in it like it's a platform, and so when new elements are added in, they almost instantly become more than the sum of their parts again like Vol tron, for example, Apple spent a few years building up their DCI p3, completely color calibrated and managed imaging pipeline, which internally this year is now 10 bites. It can do over a trillion operations per photo and because it fuses the image signal processor, with the neural engine which previously included facial and marking and segmentation masking. So it could tell not just where a face was, but the individual parts and separated all from the background it can now do semantic rendering as well. That means it can expose multiscale, tonal map and sharpen that face, for example, differently than it would brick or beams in the background. Apple is also using it as part of the new and improved smart HDR process to better distinguish and preserve skin tones and textures to prevent blowouts and reduce noise, while preserving proper detail and again to expose and present people not just as part of the shot, but as the focus of the shot.

Stepping back. It's also what's allowing Apple to keep color and cast consistent, even as you're switching between all three of the new cameras, which, if you've ever watched a MHD or the Mr. mobile review, you know simply isn't the case with other triple camera systems. What Apple is doing here specifically is pairing and calibrating all three cameras for color and exposure together at the factory. Then, while you're using one Apple sends all the data in real-time to the other cameras.

So if and when you switch between them, they're all primed and ready, with everything from focus to exposure to white balance to tonal mapping all ready to go now that lets to minimize shifts in tone in color, but not eliminate them completely, because, for example, all three cameras have three different apertures. So when you're in low-light conditions, you can see some differences, not so much in color, but in exposure when in bright light, though the consistency is impressive. Most impressive. The third thing I love about Apple- is that more often than not the capabilities behind the features are also given over to developers in the forms of frameworks they can use in their own apps, halite and obscure, famously expose a ton of manual controls and a raw mode. Beyond what Apple offers in the built-in camera app focus exposes the depth data almost like a 3d model for you to work with, but that also prompts the question: if Apple is offering a pro iPhone with a pro camera, should the camera app also become more pro? Should it build on more manual controls? Allow you to shoot in RAW, have pretty much every toggle currently buried in settings, exposed and available right up in the app and otherwise do more of what a pro photographer might want and expect it to do I'm of two minds on this on one hand, I can see having all of that stuff just front loaded, ready and waiting would be interesting to people who really do want to do a lot of their own heavy photography, lifting on the other.

Even the iPhone pro camera isn't a traditional camera with a huge hunk of glass hanging off it up front and a ginormous sensor lurking inside pretty much everything. That's making iPhone photography so great is happening beyond manual beyond draw. Maybe it would be interesting if Apple lettuce bias more settings away, we can do focus and exposure now or save a raw version of the image. Alongside the processed like you can do with the extra field of view data for auto adjustments. That way, we get all the benefits of the silicon and the machine learning, but also the ability to go back and tweak the data more to our liking.

When and if we want to, but please let me know what you think in the comments, but the biggest new camera new is the lead that I'm burying here is, of course, a new SF camera font apples rolled out for the interface well, it definitely pays a lot of respect to Lanka's aesthetic, it's also most definitely through the lens of Apple, and it looks great I went over how night mode interface works in the iPhone 11 review the way the technology works, though, is just as fascinating. It comes on automatically and uses the better low-light capabilities and 100% focused pixels of the main, effective 26 millimeters F 1 point 8 wide-angle camerae to capture an image, that's both significantly brighter, but also without the traditional noise. It does that by fusing together, multiple images using adaptive bracketing based on what it determines from the preview. Those brackets can go from very short. If there's more motion to longer, if there's more shadow, then it fuses them all together to both minimize blur and maximize the amount of detail recovered.

Thanks to the imaging pipeline I mentioned earlier, it can also figure out the subject of the scene. People face parts of faces and make sure skin tones keep the best color and detail possible again. It doesn't try to let night look like day it just lets. You try to see in the dark with the iPhone 11 Pro, you get all the same: video capabilities to get with the iPhone 11, but extended now also into the telephoto camera. All three cameras can shoot up to 4k 60 frames per second extended dynamic range.

What that means is they really shoot? 120 frames per second but interleave half the frames in order to produce the extended dynamic data. When you put it all together, you get all the same benefits of multiple angles, all from the same vantage point with consistent color and exposure across the cameras, and you also get the demo that stole the show back during the Apple event. Film Pro capturing all four feeds of 4k telephoto, wide-angle, ultra-wide angle and selfie I can just imagine using it for tech, videos, getting close-ups hero, shots, wide angles and my reactions all at the same time and then seamlessly switching between them during the Edit it's in beta now, but I got to try it out when I was in a hands-on area and yeah. It really shows that, even after all, these years, we're still just scratching the surface of what these cameras are going to be able to do, especially when they're already this time good. To begin with, like I mentioned in the iPhone 11 review, Apple's latest greatest system-on-a-chip, the a13 bionic manages to be both faster and less power-hungry at the same time, 20% faster across the efficiency, performance, graphics and neural engine cores and 40, 25 30 and 15 percent less power hungry respectively.

Part of that is thanks to TSM C's second generation 7 nanometer process, which is what the a13 is fabricated on the other part, is Apple designing each one of its eight point: five billion transistors to be as performant and as efficient as possible, and then Apple uses hundreds of voltage domains and hundreds of thousands of gate clocking domains. So they can only light up exactly the logic in the chipset. They need to light up keeping power draw to an absolute minimum. There are also new machine learning, accelerators, providing for six times faster, matrix, multiplications, something I think even high-end Intel boxes might be envious of Apple calls it the fastest chipset ever in a smartphone and based on prior performance. That's likely only part of the story.

It's probably faster than a lot of current desktop chips as well. It doesn't just have better efficiency either. Furthermore, it's also got better sustain performance. What Johnny tsunami silicon team has been able to do year after year is nothing short of astounding. Yes, they only have one client and don't have to sell chips to a wide range of vendors or worry about profit or loss on a per-chip basis or bifurcate between a couple of different chips depending on geography, but still they support an ever-increasing amount, differentiating features on iOS devices, and they keep racing forward and dragging the industry behind them as fast as they possibly can, and now that the a13 is embedding machine learning not just in the neural engine, but in the CPU and GPU as well to better provide for models that run better on those processors, then, on the neural engine and with a new machine learning controller to optimize the dispatch and scheduling it just seems like they're going to get faster.

Still, all of that translates into better and more rapid, photo parsing natural language, processing and augmented reality experiences in apps and more to get a sense of just how much the silicon team is touching on the iPhone, 11 and iPhone 11 Pro Apple showed off the list during the introduction, yeah whew, it's my hope that the AI team, John, Jay and Andrea is putting together now will have just as much impact on the next decade as a silicon team has had on the last one. When that be something when you put all the power savings together, everything from the OLED display to the a13, you end up with something: that's pretty damn astonishing: four extra hours of battery life on the iPhone 11 Pro and five extra hours for the iPhone 11 Pro Max that's over and above last year's iPhone, 10s and 10s max and Apple uses the figure to mean. However, many hours of average workload you got on one of those devices you'll get that plus four or five extra hours of the same type of workload. With these devices Apple's. Typically, accurate estimates include 18 or 20 hours of local video, playback, 11 or 12 hours of streaming, video playback and 65, or 80 hours of wireless audio playback for the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro max respectively, which is better than the incredibly impressive iPhone 10 or got last year, and even better than the iPhone 11 gets this year, all hail the new champion and Apple's even thrown in an 18 watt, USB, cable and adapter into the box this time, so you can charge back up to 50% capacity in just 30 minutes.

Inductive charging is the same and there's no bilateral wireless charging from the back of the iPhone to your air pods turns out. Sometimes a rumor is just a rumor, at least for now, I'd love to see it at some point, though, but only really if it could handle the Bianchi standard, Apple Watch charging as well, which makes it much trick now. Of course, those battery life numbers are just numbers, and these are brand-new phones with brand-new batteries. So they're going to hit pretty close to that at least right now, to make sure, though, I took them on the most absolutely savage test run. I could Pok?mon, go Community, Day hours and hours of screen on GPS firing, data, turning processor burning and all of them had over half their power left.

By the time we evolved the last special move at the last minute of the event, the rest of the day, I spent filming b-roll for both reviews with both phones and as we approach midnight they're only just beginning to hit the red now I'll be paying close attention to how that holds up over the next few weeks and months. So stay tuned for updates. But as things stand right now, it's looking to be the absolute best battery boost Apple's ever given an iPhone, the four-by-four, my mo LTE radio and the iPhone 11 Pro has been updated to support up to one point: 6 gigabits per second, it's better, but it's no 5g, then again, 5g isn't exactly 5g. Yet I just did a whole separate video to address this. So I'll link you there rather than repeat it all here, but suffice it to say: 5g is just a hot mess right now and the only thing the hotter is the first generation of chips being used to test it.

That's why no one is putting 5g into mainstream world phones. Yet an Apple currently only makes mainstream world phones. Motor is doing mods Samsung's small batch variants and Apple could theoretically do the same using the current generation of essentially test chips on the limited test markets, but even the thought of an iPhone scale device hitting their fledgling fragile networks, probably keeps the carriers up in a cold sweat most of the night. Unless you want to be part of that test phase and pay handsomely for the privilege, if 5g is legitimately your next big purchase driver, you should save your money now and buy a far more mature 5g phone in a year or so. If and when the current issues are all ironed out and future radio chips can do everything all bands all in one thin, modem or integrated right into the system on a chip.

Until then, no one, no one who doesn't want a short Apple stock work in network testing or who just feeds off negative attention once any part of ragging on the iPhone, not having 5g right now. Apple has a whole new chipset in the iPhone 11 called u1. It's all about ultra-wideband, which is all about ultra precise positioning apples. Only saying it'll. Let you do things like point.

Your iPhone at someone else is in a group for airdrop to prioritize that person, for example, but it's not hard to imagine it'll be key to a bunch of location and item finding technologies and products. Eventually, I'm super excited about it and not just because, even when you add it to this year's H series, headphone chip and the previous year's a series, SOC M series sensor, fusion, hub s, series s, IP, T, series, coprocessors for the Mac and W series, wireless chips for the watch. That still leaves a score of letters for Apple Silicon team to whip up over the next few years, the iPhone 11 Pro starts at $9.99 and the iPhone 11 Pro Mac starts at 1099. That's for 64 gigabytes, which you know I, said felt kind of tight already on the standard, iPhone 11 models here, especially considering what these new cameras can do. It feels constrictive I, get that some people just want thin clients or the stream or cloud store everything, but that's not how a pro tool works and, unlike the iPhone 11, where it cost, is $50 more to go to 128 gigabytes with the pros it cost 150 more to go to 256 gigabytes.

Good thing: Apple is doubling down on trade-ins and installments. I know: Apple, wants to hit certain price points and has to maintain certain margins which look way down since the Jobs years, especially if you factor out the much higher services margins. But for me the perfect pro storage cues would be 128 gigabytes base, then 512 gigabytes and one terabyte right on top. Just like the iPad Pro because wife's did it have all the fun that way. I could shoot.4K 60 frames per second die are all day every day and not have to worry about topping out, not for a long time at least iPhone 11 Pro launches this Friday, September 20th, it's funny, leaning up to the iPhone 11 I saw some people worrying. It would be too iterative or too expensive.

So I ran a poll asking you if you were going all-in or leaning towards the less expensive models, but nope hard note, as you almost always do you went right for the iPhone 11 max same with the event. It was going to be two iterative, too boring, but then Apple showed off the new camera system and all of us, salty old nerds were bolting up right, stall waiting again then pre-orders happened, and so many people who were so certain they wouldn't order that this year would be must skip, were suddenly setting alarms because it was really must have immediately before shipping slips so much as a single day. I know it's a thousand dollar phone that looks a lot like last year's thousand dollar phone I, get it even with trade-ins and installments is still up in the hundreds, but for some people it's more than that, it's their primary computer and camera again. The standard iPhone 11 is terrific. Like I said what differences there are, may not mean much to most people and that's fine.

That's exactly the point. It's the $699 iPhone for everyone, but if you're, just exactly the type of nerd who really appreciate soled displays a photographer or videographer that really wants that new triple camera system, a power user who's lusting for that longer battery life, sure it may be missing out on USB, see the pencil or promotion, but it's jam-packed with everything else and that's as pro as an iPhone has ever been, and if you want to take yourself to the same level, check out brilliant is a problem-solving website that uses a hands-on approach with storytelling code, writing, interactive challenges, and so much more. There are over 50 interactive courses for you to dive into including the scientific thinking course you'll develop a solid foundation in physics, while playing with puzzles so much fun, they're all built for ambitious and curious people who want to better understand the world and maybe help shape it. Maybe even you know, work on the next iPhones to support, vector and get unlimited access to brilliance, courses in daily challenges, just head on over to brilliant org, slash vector and get 20% off their annual premium subscription, Thanks, brilliant and thanks to all of you for supporting the show. So that's the iPhone 11 Pro at least for now.

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