iPhone 8 Plus vs iPhone 11 Pro Max - Which Should You Choose? By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone 8 plus and the iPhone 11 Pro max, are currently the oldest and the newest phones offered from Apple directly at the Apple Store or from apple. com. You can get these new, but anything older than the iPhone, 8 or 8 plus is not available new from Apple. You can get it refurbished or used or left over at other stores. That may still have them in stock, but the 8 and 1/8 plus is the oldest that you can currently get, so I thought I'd, compare it with the 11pro Max and in this video I'm, going to compare everything from the cameras to speed to how they are to use battery life and a lot more and if you'd like to jump to a specific point in the video. So you want to see how the speed is or how the battery life is I'll link all the time codes in the description below, so you can check them out for yourself now.

The first thing is the price the iPhone 8 plus comes in at five hundred and forty-nine dollars for the cheaper model. Up to five hundred and ninety-nine dollars with 128 gigabytes of storage, it comes in space, gray, silver or gold. If you decide to go with the iPhone 11 Pro max, it comes in at double the price at 1099 for the base model up to one thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars for 512 gigabytes, it's available in space, gray silver, gold and a new midnight green. Now, the overall build of both phones is a little different with the iPhone 8 plus the outside band here or the frame is made of aluminum, so that makes it feel a little different and lighter than that of the 11pro Max. The iPhone 11 Pro max is made of stainless steel on the outside ring, so it gives it a little more weight, and it's also glass front and back, but with the 11pro max, you have frosted glass on the back with gloss only around the cameras.

Now the nice thing is with the 11pro max. It does not pick up fingerprints on the back. So if you're someone like me that doesn't like to use a case that much you won't see. Fingerprints on the back, but with the eight plus you definitely will, it picks up fingerprints very easily, but that's easily solved with a case now. This is glass front and back, and there are some very big differences with this glass.

In fact, the 8 plus has more durable glass when it comes to scratching, and it's less durable when it comes to dropping it. So after using this for quite some time when it first came out, I have very little scratches. There's one right there and that's it. That's the only scratch on the display and that's not really a big deal for using it for about six months with no screen protector. The iPhone 11 Pro max is very different, while it's more durable and less prone to breaking.

If you drop it, the screen is much more prone to scratching very easily, and that is why I have a screen protector on right now, after using this for about three months, I have a ton of scratches on it, and I'll show you that in a moment, but first I want to talk about our sponsor, and that is who makes this screen protector, and it's a company called shell, our US, and it's a unique screen protector. You can see it's on here now. It doesn't have a single scratch on it and that's because it's a 99.99% sapphire. This is the first sapphire screen protector I've used, and it's super clear. In fact, you may not have even noticed that it's on here I'll take it off in just a moment, but it has an oleo phobic coating.

Just like the iPhone does, so you don't see a lot of fingerprints on it, and it's truly a 9 on the Moss scale. So really only something along the lines of a diamond or a sapphire is going to scratch. This, in fact, I have a knife here, and can push this on the screen. As much as I want, you won't see a single scratch. In fact, let me turn the display off.

You won't see anything I can scratch this all day long with this knife, the tip of this, you won't see a thing, because it's very, very strong and unless you bump something like a wedding ring or a diamond up against the display, you're not going to see scratches. So let me take this off and while it will prevent some scratches, it will not prevent it from shattering necessarily, but this has zero scratches on it. You can see how clear it is, and I'll link this in the description below, so you can take a look at them yourself, they're, not inexpensive, because this is true sapphire, it's been on other channels as well, and they've proved it's sapphire as well, so definitely check it out. I'll link it in the description below now, I've been using that screen protector for about four days. It's been great, but underneath it are a ton of scratch, no I don't know if you're going to be able to see it in this light, but there are tons of scratches all through here all across the display something I've never seen before on any iPhone.

This iPhone is very prone to scratching lightly. Now, if it's bad enough, of course, I could bring it in I have Apple Care. I could have them swap the display if it gets awful, or I crack the screen, but it's just something to keep in mind for something that costs double. It is much more prone to scratching so definitely use some sort of screen protector. If that's going to bother you now, let's talk about the displays themselves, because they're very different, the iPhone 8 plus has an LCD, and it's a really great LCD, but it's LCD and won't have the deeper blacks that the iPhone 11 Pro max or 11 Pro has, so it's a 5.5 inch LCD 1920 by 1080, with 401 pixels per inch. It does have 3d touch, unlike the 11pro Max, so it's pressure sensitive, although you do get the same features with the 11pro max.

This is a pressure-sensitive display, as opposed to just pressing and holding, so you do get that it goes up to about 625 minutes of brightness. So it is a nice and bright display, but it's not as bright as the 11pro max. The 11pro max has a 6.5 inch OLED display with HDR it's 2688 by 1242, with a pixel density of 458 pixels per inch. It goes up to 800 nits, regular brightness and can go brighter than that when it needs to play an HDR movie, and it's just an incredibly vibrant and great-looking display. It does have haptic touch, so you can press and hold that you'll see it's a little slower than when I'm using 3d touch.

Furthermore, it takes a little longer to pop up, but it does work just fine, it's just something: that's not as nice as what we used to have. So just keep that in mind. Now. Another thing to consider with the displays is the iPhone 11 Pro Max is an OLED display and Apple uses PWM to control the brightness or a pulse width. Modulation I've covered this in other videos as well, but what that basically means is the screen is always flickering to control brightness, the faster it flickers, the brighter the display will seem, so you lower brightness, it will flicker slower, and while you can't see this with your eyes, you can see this with a camera, and this actually affects about one in ten people, and it causes headaches.

It can cause you to feel nauseated and things like that, so I'm actually affected by this, but with the eleven Pro max they've changed the rate so that it's high enough that it doesn't bother my eyes prior iPhones with OLED displays, such as the iPhone, 10, 10s and 10s max actually caused my eyes to have a lot of strain, and it gave me headaches that doesn't happen with this phone. So, if you're prone to that, just keep that in mind. It may bother you, but it is much better on the newer phones, the 11, Pro and Pro max have better refresh rates for that PWM. So it doesn't bother your eyes as much, but definitely consider that if you're looking at both of these phones now when it comes to unlocking the phone, this may be one of the main reasons you decide to go with the eight plus, because this has the touch ID fingerprint sensor, whereas we have faced ID on the 11pro max now I've become very accustomed to face ID, it works. Fine I have no issues with it, but if we show speed here, I'll just press this, and we're in so normally what you do is you just pick up your phone and swipe up, and you're in your phone, but with the eight pro or the eight plus you press and hold, and it opens or unlocks the phone, so I know a lot of people still greatly prefer touch ID or would like the option of both.

So if that's something that means a lot to you, obviously go with the eight plus you'll be happy with it. Now, let's talk a little about the specs inside, the eight plus has the a11 Bionic with three gigabytes of RAM, and it's plenty fast. I'll show you that in a moment- and then the iPhone 11 Pro max has the 13 Bionic with 4 gigabytes of RAM. So even though the RAM is 1, gigabyte, more I think you'll see that we have very similar speeds with most things. So when you're going into everyday apps the App Store, that's not going to be a big deal.

They're going to load about the same music is going to be about the same and intensive apps are also going to be about the same, so you're not going to see a lot of differences as far as loading application. However, if you were to edit a 4k, video and export it, that puts a lot of strain on the processor, so I thought I'd show you that in the video now and then after that, we'll talk about the cameras. So let's go ahead and go into iMovie. Now I've loaded the same clip into the iMovie timeline, and then I've added a title on top so that it actually has to process this frame by frame it's a 4k video. It's the exact same video on both, so I'll export this, and this will push these processors pretty hard to export 4k video.

It takes a while on my iMac Pro when I'm editing video to actually push this sort of content out. So let's see how long it takes on both devices, so we'll hit done we'll hit the share button, we'll hit save video, and let me bring in a stopwatch here so that we can see how long it takes on both. So, let's go ahead and see if we can hit 4k, 4k and start and there we go, and I'll speed this up so that you can see how long this takes. I would expect it'll take around five minutes or so now both have exported, and it did take a little longer on the iPhone, 8 plus, but I'm not sure that it's worth double the price. If that's, what you're going for? Neither of these phones are warm on the back at all.

Processing video seems to be pretty easy for them, so let's go ahead and close these and let's talk about the cameras. Now the cameras are where the iPhone 11 Pro Max, excels and has a lot better camera than the 8 plus in certain situations. Now the back camera on the 8 plus is a dual 12 megapixel camera one is a wide-angle lens. One is a telephoto lens. We have an F 1.8 aperture on the wide-angle and enough 2.8 on the telephoto. It records 4k, 60 video as well.

So it's a very capable video camera I've used it even in more recent videos. I've used this or similar cameras to this know on the 11 Pro max. We also have 12 megapixel cameras, but it's an all new sensor. We have a wide-angle lens and F 1.8. Furthermore, we have a telephoto F 2.0, and we have a new ultra-wide F 2.4 aperture lens. Furthermore, we now have a night mode.

They also record in 4k 60. So what I wanted to do in this video is show you some samples of photos side-by-side. Some video as well, and then we'll talk about the forward facing cameras. Oh, cameras are recording in the 1430 since that's where the iPhone 8 plus also does its best image processing when recording video they're, both pretty good but I, think the iPhone 11 Pro max is just a little better depending on what situation you're using it. In both cameras can both record 4k 30 in 2x as well, so you'll see we're zoomed in optically by 2 times, then we can just zoom back out.

The microphones are good in both of them. Although the 11pro Max seems to be a little better and when you're shooting directly it's something like sunlight, they both do a good job of really adjusting, so you can have pretty decent dynamic range now. The forward facing cameras is where there is a huge difference on the iPhone 8 plus the front. Camera is a 7 megapixel camera with an F 2.2 aperture. It records in 1080p at 30 frames per second.

So it's okay, but it's not incredible on the iPhone 11 Pro Max the forward facing camera could be used to vlog. It's that good. It's a 4k camera 12, megapixel, F, 2.2 aperture that can record in 4k 60. Furthermore, it also can do an emoji and emoji if you're into that, but it has great videos. So let me show you the difference between the two now I'm, using the forward facing camera on the 8 plus and the 11pro Max and I think this is where you're going to see the biggest difference the 8 plus is in 1080p and upscaled to 4k.

For this video, but you'll see the background. Isn't as nice, the dynamic range isn't as good as on the 11pro max. Also, I, think you'll notice a difference in the microphones as I've been switching between both devices. So here's the 11 Pro max microphone. It does a good job of eliminating background noise and the 8 plus is okay, but not as good now as far as water, resistance or resistance to dirt and dust.

The iPhone 8 plus, is ip67 certified for 1 meter up to 30 minutes. So it's not bad, but the 11pro max is IP 68 certified, which means 4 meters for 30 minutes. They kind of, went to the better side of IP 68 and even made it ad per depth that it can withstand for 30 minutes. Now that doesn't mean you won't get water in it at all, but it is better protected than phones that don't have it now. Battery life is where we see a huge difference as well with the iPhone 8 plus we have a two thousand six hundred and ninety-one William hour battery, it's about the same as an iPhone, 7 plus, and you can expect 5.5 to six hours of screen on time with normal use. Now, if you're playing a game or something like that, it will be less, but this here with the iPhone 11 Pro max Apple has really stepped up the battery size, and it's almost 4,000 William hours, it's 3969, William hours.

It's this will get you about five hours more battery life than the eight plus, and you'll get about 10 to 12 hours of screen on time, with normal use again that will vary depending on how you use it. So that is a huge difference between the two and it's really nice. But you also get a fast charger with the 11pro max in the box, so you can charge it a little quicker. You can fast charge the eight plus, but you will need to buy the adapter separately now. As far as the speakers are concerned, there is a very big difference there as well.

So I'm not sure if you'll be able to hear this. But let me play one of my videos for you, so you can sort of hear the difference now. I have both phones side by side. I'll move the microphone, so you can hear the difference between the two of them. Furthermore, I've been using primarily on my iPhone 11 Pro mattes.

This is my main device. I've also used it on the iPhone 11, which isn't right here now. Hopefully you could hear the difference between the speakers of the eight plus and the 11 Pro max the 11 Pro max is definitely a lot louder and cleaner at the higher volumes. Also, you've got better stereo sound and if you're watching a movie, you almost get a surround sound feel when you're watching something on the 11 Pro max. So that's definitely something to consider now, if you're trying to decide which one to pick well, you could get to eight pluses for the price of an 11 max, but you may not want an older display or an LCD, but things to consider are things like face.

I'd verse touch ID if you like, the home button, obviously go with the 8 plus also the speed doesn't seem to be much of a consideration here, but the cameras are definitely better on the 11pro max, especially for video and battery life is significantly better on the 11pro max due to its huge battery. But if those things aren't a big deal for you, then of course pick the 8 plus also with both of them. They're, both premium devices and I think you'll, get years of use with the 8 plus I think it'll be supported for quite a few years, still in the future, with iOS, 14 or iOS 15. But right now, iOS 13 runs great on. So those are all things to consider.

Let me know what you think in the comments below in which one you've picked, and why, if you still want that home button, I would love to see them bring a home button option back as well. I know a lot of people that still really miss the home button on the 11pro and Pro max. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper. Of course, I'll link it in the description as I always do, and thanks again to shell r us for sending along the screen protector. This is by far the best screen protector I've ever used.

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