iPhone XR Display Comparison By zollotech

Hi everyone, Aaron here for Zollotech and this is the current offering by Apple. I wanted to compare the iPhone XR since many of you were concerned about the quality of the display. So we have two XR's, we have the iPhone 7, 8 Plus XS and XS Max. So we've got all of the modern phones that Apple currently offers. Now the whole idea of a high quality retina display goes back to the iPhone 4 and 4S. This is a 4S, but the idea was for every one pixel that we had before we are now going to split that one pixel into four.

And so in this macro shot you can see that's actually split into four different pixels in a very small area and that gives us a very high pixel density. Now that's really what we care about s per what our eyes can see, not really what is on a spec sheet. Even though the higher numbers sound impressive they take more power to actually push those amount of pixels and beyond 300 pixels per inch most people's eyes connot resolve that, so you are not going to see those pixels. Now take a look at not only the iPhone 4S, but lets take a look at a macro shot on the XR. And on the XR you'll see around the corner its kind of got little pixels so that it fades into the corners and that's not an easy thing to do, but around the notch you'll see there are very small pixels.

Now if we move over to something like the XS, the XS has very very small pixels. It's got a higher pixel density of 458 pixels per inch. So you're not going to see those as well. If we move back to the iPhone 8 Plus we're at 401 pixels per inch and still you're not going to see those with your bare eye. And I wanted to show you the difference between the displays.

Now using the iPhone XR versus the XS Max is a little bit different. The display is is slightly different due to this bezel on the side here and the bezel is ok to me, you get used to it very quickly especially if you're coming from something such as the 7 or 8 Plus. But if you're coming from something like the XS or the XS Max, well... you'll see there is a slight difference. SO there is a different thickness and it's very difficult to make and LCD curved around the edges and then also backlit at the same time.

That's why we probably don't have 3D Touch and now we have Haptic Touch. Now the display looks great off-axis and I'm going to show you all of these in white in just a moment, but the display looks great off-axis, it works fine compared to a XS Max. You can see them off-axis angles. The colors look very accurate and most people won't notice a difference. If you take a look at some of the words here.

The words are not really blurry. Some people are reporting them as blurry especially if you're holding at a distance like this. if you hold it right up to your face you may see a little bit of that, but honestly most people are not holding them 6-inches from their face. So as long as that is taken into consideration. Now one of the other things I mentioned on Twitter if you are following me there is that this iPad, the 10.5-inch iPad Pro is regarded as one of the best displays on the market and this has a lower pixel density of 264 pixel per inch. It looks great, text looks crisp, and this has the Pro Motion display so it's a little smoother.

Otherwise it's got a lower pixel density than the iPhone XR. So if you keep that in mind, I know some people are a little concerned about this because it is an expensive phone, but you're going to have to decide whether or not that price is OK based off a spec sheet. Personally I don't think that spec sheet really matters if you can't see the pixels. Now some people were concerned you can't play 1080P videos. Let me show you... Here's my unboxing video of the iPhone XR and if you go here to settings, you'll see we have 1080P 60.

That's an option and it goes up to 1080P and then just scales based on what the display is showing. That's how all of these work and since YouTube doesn't give us the option to go up to the higher resolution you can't see it on these anyway. That's YouTube's decision and honestly it uses more power to use all of those pixels. So I would rather save the power and have a decent looking display as well. Now the one thing that is interesting is if we compare these all in white, lets go to photos here.

You'll see here we can see a dramatic difference between the colors of the display. Now True-tone is turned off and Nigh Shift is turned off on all of these. We can change the brightness of course, but they are currently all on auto so I wanted to show you what they do by themselves. And they all seem to be about equally bright, maybe we could turn this one up a little and if I 3D Touch here or Haptic Touch there you'll see we don't have True Tone on or Night Shift. Same thing here and... lets see if we can get this one to come up here.

Well you're not really going to see it on this one. This one doesn't have True Tone. You get the idea, it's off on all of them, you get the idea there. Of course on the OLED displays it's going to look a little bit different; the pixels are much tighter packed and you've got a lot nicer, deeper blacks. So let me show you a black background.

I'll switch all of these to a black background so you can see the difference. Now all of the backgrounds are set to black and the difference between the OLED displays and the LCD's is the OLED's actually turn off pixels where it's black, versus the LCD where it actually has to backlight them and show you the color. So I don't know if you can see that, but there is a deeped black on the OLED display. Overall though I think they are very evenly colored. things look pretty good and I don't think anyone will be really disappointed with the iPhone XR especially since the XR will give you better battery life because of the lower resolution display.

The processor doesn't have to work as hard to push all those pixels and in turn you've got better battery life for a little bit lower resolution that honestly even though some phones go up to 4K you can't see 4K on these displays. So you can see a sight difference sometimes between the XS, the XS Max and these phones, but for the most part anyone coming from an iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus even though it's a 1080P display I don't think you're going to notice a difference. As you can see size wise between the 8 Plus a lot of people were asking about that. There's the size, it's very close, it is a little bit, a little bit narrower, not much. But very very close so I think most people would be very happy with any one of these phones, but the XS, the XS Max and the XR is fine.

Whether or not the XR is worth or not to you, that's really your determination. But It's a decent value, it's that screen proposition whether or not an OLED is worth $250 versus this phone. Either way I think they are all good. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. If you haven't subscribed already, please subscribe and like.

As always, thanks for watching. This is Aaron, I'll see you next time.

Source : zollotech