iPhone 11 vs iPhone XR: Don’t Make A Mistake By Jon Rettinger

When Apple introduced the iPhone 10 our last year's kind of interesting proposition. It had specs that matched the flagship in a lot of ways, but it took out some stuff I, think Apple presumed weren't of paramount importance of people, so the OLED display and the second camera- and it turns out Apple, was right. The iPhone 10 are in very short order, was the best-selling iPhone in Apple's lineup, and they're sticking with the four we love them. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. So in comes the iPhone 11, the iPhone 11, it's a newer phone. It's clearly superior to the 10r in almost every way and Apple's continuing to sell the 10 are now at a discount.

So difference between those two phones is $100. So the question that I want to try to answer is: is it worth that hundred bucks, if you're in the market, to get a new phone right now, which one should you buy and if you have an iPhone 10 are? Is that worth the upgrade, let's find out so think of the iPhone 11 as like the S version of the 10r? If you look at them, they look very similar from the front. There's no discernible difference that the glass is stronger on the front and back, but you can't really tell it just by staring at the screen of the phone flip it over, though you've got different colors available. Now the Apple logos move to the middle and there's that second wide-angle camera, but for most the phones, they are pretty identical. It's the same resolution 6.1 inch liquid Retina display its LCD and Apple does a great job with LCD. It's one of the best LCD panels out there's still probably a little of a stigma around having an LCD purse, no lid, but it's only by like the tech elite.

That would care a lot of folks that I know and trusted have access to every phone out there chose to use.8Nr Elevens got some other stuff too. Under the hood. It's got. Support for spatial audio and Dolby Atmos support. I can't tell how good these speakers aren't sure doesn't sound like surround sound to me, but I will say the speakers on the 11 are noticeably louder than they are on the 10 are so if you're, a speakerphone person, then you're going to your know, enjoy what's on the 11, make a little more.

It's a very similar King. So if you wanted the phone that looks different, and you're coming from 8nr, then look at the pro. But if you want the subtle improvements that are in the 11 does bring a lot of new things to the table, so obviously the biggest change, the biggest update, the most hyped feature of the iPhone 11 slow fees, which I will never mention again so cameras. The iPhone 11 is mostly about the cameras and the improvements you get when hardware and software kind of match together. So the big difference is going from a single 12, megapixel wide-angle sensor to 2 sensors that same 22, pixel wide, but now another 12 megapixel ultra-wide sense.

The front-facing camera on the iPhone 10, our I think, was one of the worst features about the phone 7 megapixels. That just didn't. Look that good. They upped the resolution from 7 to 12. You now have a wide-angle option and if you want to shoot video using your front facing camera, you know have 4k 60 as an option, which is a really nice thing to have.

You're going to get a slightly brighter two-tone flash on the iPhone 11 and are no longer locked to portrait mode to just human faces. Furthermore, you can now take those beautiful both shots of like your oatmeal in the morning or your dog's face. So if you look at some pictures side by side right off the bat differences might not be that noticeable and effect in normal well-lit situations, they're very subtle when you start getting into less than ideal situations, so low light, even nighttime start to see a huge difference. So look at the shoe wall, for example its indoor light. It's not low light, but it's not an ideal lighting situation.

If you zoom in just a little, you can almost see the individual grains of boost on the shoe, but if you look at it on the iPhone 10 hour, just looks sound like a blurry white strip. So a lot of the magic on the 11 is happening almost in real time. If you take a picture of a person, outdoors Apple can recognize what's a face and adjust the appropriate filters for that it can notice. What's a background notice, the sky notice plants and adjusting. So the picture will look beautiful, but still look like a picture.

It's not to do any weird facial smoothing, like you see with some Samsung phones. It's gonna, give you a good true-to-life. Looking picture. All the stuff is happening in pretty much a real-time that give you that best, looking shot that still managed to look like a natural photo. Perhaps one of the biggest selling points of the 11 and the 11 Pro Edition of now a night mode here, and it's on a separate mode.

You have to activate automatically, will turn itself on and just start working for you. We just got the phones today. So haven't had a chance to fully test night mode, obviously, but to get a chance, take a look at my friend Jon Morrison's night mode shot. So you can see how good this is, in fact, even on part, arguably better. We get from the pixel 3 line of phones, and it's interesting how Apple has done night mode here.

They kind of let night be night if they detect a person, look kind of brighten that up as opposed to trying to make the whole shot. Look like a daytime, like you see, maybe with hallway and sometimes with the Google phones one's not better or worse. It's just a different approach, but I think I can appreciate here. So the big difference is on the video side. So I mentioned you could shoot 4k 60 on the front.

You can also do that on the back, and you can dynamically switch between the lenses. While you are shooting the one caveat that you can't be in that 4k 60 modes. So look at the video that we shot here. You can see the dynamic range of the cement, something that you wouldn't really think about. You can see the detail that you get with the 11: that's lost with the iPhone 10.

Our we're also really surprised how good video stabilization is with the iPhone 11. It was perfect, and we were walking at a pretty brisk pace, and it looks very stable. One note, though, you're not going to get stabilization on the ultra-wide, but this general thought is the wider. You are the lesson get stabilization anyway. Obviously, cameras the big story here, but there's some other things that are also obviously different between the two phones.

First battery life. You will get an hour extra time and that's a video watching time on the 11 versus the 10 are going to get the 13 my on in in here, which not goes much of a difference now, but I'm keeping her phone for two to three years that last year and a half when you'll see the big difference between that process or jump. If you keep your phone in water, you're worried about waterproofing, ip67 versus ip68, it's a difference of one meter, so you can get one meter for 30 minutes on the 10r versus two meters. For 30 minutes on the iPhone 11, so you love. It also.

Has this you one chip which isn't going to be turned on until iOS 13.1 comes, but essentially it's going to make your phone spatially aware of other iOS or other Apple things that are near it. So data speeds obviously important and the iPhone 11 it's got a few legs up over the 10 are so Gigabit LTE support. What that means is you're. Theoretically, you can get faster. Lt, gigabit LT is kind of the fallback, the backbone of 5g.

When that network drops out, the other is Wi-Fi six theoretically about 40-ish percent, faster, better Wi-Fi connections in crowded areas like if you're in stadiums, for example, and a little faster face. I'd I never found face idea to be slow at all, I'm, a 10 R or even the iPhone 10. It is a little quicker here. You get some wider angles. You still can't put it flat and kind of look at the phone, but anything that improves for the security of your phone.

I am all for and need. Gonna proves the speed. It's also a positive. Definitely not a reason alone to get the iPhone weapon, but I still a side effect. If you decided to spend the money, is the iPhone 11 worth an upgrade from the iPhone tear? And traditionally my answer is no: it's not usually worth going to the next-gen phone.

If you have the prior I'm going to make a bit of an exception here, though, with the 10 are to the 11 I. Think a difference is in the camera. Are so drastic that if you rely on your camera, as your only way, you take pictures I think it's worth the upgrade actually to go from the 10 art to the 11. You consider how well the ten hours help with values for someone get on third-party sites or trade it back into Apple you're, never paying the full cost, presumably of the knife phone 11, unless you're going to give it to somebody else. If you want the best display you can get on an iPhone, then look at the iPhone 11 Pro.

Look at an iPhone 10, look at an iPhone, 10s or 10s max. There are a lot of other options available, but if you can get past the LCD, which is still a very high quality LCD panel you're gonna, get an amazing phone for your dollar. If you're coming from something that's older, so you're coming from an iPhone 8 argument could be made even coming from an iPhone, 10 or anything older than that I. Think smart HDR is really important and makes it pictures look great if you're coming from anything like an iPhone 8. So if you're considering picking up either these phones, 10r or the 11 I think it's worth the extra 100 bucks to go for the 11.

The changes might not be that obvious outside of colors and the extra camera. But the things that are different are significant and those little changes I think add up to a hugely better phone and for a hundred bucks you'll get back. We trade it in a few years, I think it's worth the extra money.

Source : Jon Rettinger