iPhone XR Review - Better Than You Think By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone XR has been out for about a week and a half I've been using it every single day as my main phone- and it's been a mostly positive experience now. This is the budget iPhone and comes in at 749 for 64 gigs of storage. I wouldn't really call that budget, but for an iPhone right now it is a budget, so 749 64, gigs of storage for an extra $50. You can get 128 and that's really the sweet spot on this phone and $800 for 128?GB of storage I think will suit most people's needs. You can bump that up to 256, but then you're getting close to the price of the XS, and it's one of those things where that gets a little pricey. When you get up to that range and I, don't know if you need all that, so I usually use about 30 to 40 gigs of storage on my phones total after a couple of years.

That's still what I'm using and 64 is good for. Most people 128 is that sweet spot. Now the design is very familiar. It's a little different from the XS or the XS max. You are lacking that camera bump and the extra camera.

Well, you have a camera bump but of the extra camera, and then you also have the same camera but a different lens than the XS and XS max. So it's still quite as good same sensor and everything you have glass front and back wireless charging, but aluminum around the outside edges, and that makes it a little lighter, but you do have a non or asymmetrical charge port. So that's kind of strange, but the speakers are symmetrical but that middle, lightning, connector charge port is not, and that's probably to make way for the display. And that's the most controversial thing about this phone is the display is between 720p and 1080p and to me, that's not a big deal, because the pixel per inch density is 326, it's the same as the 8 or the 7. That's not a big deal to me, however, for the price of the phone and modern phones, it is a little low.

As far as the resolution numbers are concerned, now, I showed this to many people, both photography, people, video people and I only had one say that these displays look any different at all. I showed them side-by-side with the XS max, and I've. Had one person say that the outside edge right around the edges where they curve the liquid Retina display? That's what gives it? That name is its a little fuzzy and maybe that's true text is crisp. Colors are great. It's accurate, it's bright and sunlight I've had no issues with it and I think the people that are concerned about the numbers aren't really taking a look at it side by side.

Now some people have and some people can see the difference. For me, it's not a concern and I think most people won't even mind. However, the viewing angles aren't as good as the new iPads viewing angles with its liquid Retina display, and it's good, but it's not as good, and the other thing to consider too, is if flicker bothers you on displays, such as myself, with pulse width, modulation on an iPhone XS max, for example, or OLED displays. This is the phone for you. It doesn't flicker at all.

It has none of those traits because it's an LCD, so you don't get that flicker. Furthermore, it doesn't use pulse width, modulation to flash the screen to make it brighter or darker, so you're, never getting that flicker, and it doesn't harm your eyes. So that part has been really great to use all week long in this. Now, aside from the display, the specs are perfect. It's the same as the XS and XS max minus 1 gig of ram, and that's probably because of the display.

You just don't need it when you're not pushing the graphics. Chip is hard to power all those pixels so because we don't have as many pixels it doesn't have to work as hard doesn't need as much RAM and most of the time you don't need to pay attention to RAM anyway on an iPhone, it just works, and you don't have to think about it and the speed of the a12 is superfast. It's underutilized in this phone. Quite honestly, there's nothing you're going to do on the phone. That's going to be slow, video, rendering anything it doesn't matter.

It's just not going to be slow. So if there's a hiccup that might be part of iOS doing something, but for the most part you're going to have no issues with that whatsoever. Now the camera, the camera on the back is quite good. Like I said, it's got great video, it's stabilized, 4k video, 4k HDR, it's not true HD! Are you can't edit it and put it in HDR, rec 2020 and actually do HDR footage with it? But it does look quite good, but it does have great processing due to the neural engine and everything else. That's on that a12 chip.

Now the forward facing camera is good. It's the same camera that you get on all the other iPhones, so you're going to get the true depth sensor and everything like that when it comes to taking portraits and that sort of thing, so it does a great job, and it's what you expect from a XS Max or an iPhone 10. Even so, it's quite good that way now I took some photo and video with the rear camera. So let's take a look at that now: I'm recording using the iPhone XR camera and, as you can see, the image out of it is quite good. It is stabilized I'm walking over some pretty rough terrain, and it seems to be doing a pretty good job.

Now. I can zoom pinch to zoom, but it is digital, but I think overall it looks pretty good and in general, the image coming out of it with the new neural engine figuring out, the HDR and everything I think looks pretty good and as far as video cameras out there, the XS, the XS max and the XR have the best out there from any that I've test. The focusing of the XR is just as fast as any of the other phones. If I get closer to this tree here, you'll see I tap on the tree, tap on the rocks behind it. It's nice and smooth and clear, and I think overall works really well, and the image is really impressive, at least from what I can see on the screen right now the battery life on the XR is perfect.

The battery life is easily one to two days of battery and I know. Some tests show this in sort of lab situation where you're running them full, brightness and running certain tasks. Next to and XS max or a note 9 those sorts of things, but if you're using this everyday day-to-day because of that lower resolution LCD and also because of the size of the battery being in between a little smaller than the XS max, but pretty large in general I easily get to the end of the day with about 40 to 50 percent battery life left. In fact, if you look at my screen time screen times about 5 hours every single day with about 40 to 50 percent battery life, left I've had no issues whatsoever as far as that goes, and if you're using a vehicle to use car play or car play in a car or whatever you're doing with it, and it's plugged in it's going to extend that battery even more now as far as charging it goes, Apple really needs to include a faster charger, such as the iPad charger in the box. This would be ideal for most people if you're going to use it wired.

Of course, you do get wireless charging and that's how I charge it most of the time on a 7.5 watt, wireless charger and the charges in a couple of hours. I have no issues. There. I've never run into an issue where I didn't have enough power to what I'm for what I needed to do throughout the day. On this display now, the iPhone XR has wider stereo sound, just like the XS and XS max with the speaker on top and the bottom, and it's nice and loud.

So, let's see if we can hear that through these microphones anyway, so these are the phones themselves. Now you may or may not like either one of these colors I really like the red, although blue, looks pretty good too now. As far as things I don't really like about it. There's not very much. One of the things is I.

Do miss the headphone jack I think they could put it back, but they're just never going to at this point, and they definitely should include a faster charger. This is the iPad charger. I think they should include this one. This would charge it plenty fast for most people in a couple of hours or so. If you use the MacBook charger, you can do that even faster, but it's not worth the extra price with the cables and everything at this point now, I wirelessly charge this I'll link them when I use in the description below, but I wirelessly charge this all the time.

So it's not that much of an issue, and it's not terribly expensive for that charger, but I just think they should include that at this point get rid of the other charger. Nobody really uses it and if they do, they wish to church faster anyway. So you've got those two things going against it. Also, you only have ip67 certification, so you don't want to get it too wet as it won't last. As long as the iPhone XS max or XS, the other negative I have is face ID, while tons of people love face ID, it works fine on this.

It unlocks quick, but I really missed the fingerprint reader for certain things. To unlock, if it had one in the Apple logo, they're never going to do that. But I would love one here or under the display, like we see with the OnePlus 6T, something like that in the future. Maybe they'll do that. I, don't know, but there's not really much negative to say about this phone.

It's great battery life solid, build not as expensive, and it's probably the phone for most people. So if you picked one of these up, I'd love to hear which one you've got, what do you think about it? Let me know in the comments below if you haven't subscribed already, though, please subscribe and like, as always, thanks for watching I'll see you next time.

Source : zollotech