iPhone XR Review: One month later By Vector

iPhone 10, our has been out for just over a month, and I've, been using it sometimes side by side with an iPhone 10s, often times on its own and for the last few days side by side with an iPhone 6s, because I wanted to get a sense, not just of how cool the new colors are, though they are, or whether the display and camera systems were dealbreakers compared to the iPhone 10s, which really depends on the individual. But how much of a difference the upgrade will make to a real person in the real world and a lot of people considering the 10 are people who don't get a new phone to review every couple days, weeks or months have been using the same phone for a couple of years or a few years already. That's the success, maybe the 6s II or 7, but mostly the 6s, and if that's you or someone you're close to I, want to take my head out of the tech bubble for a minute and put myself in your shoes or your upgrade path. Maybe you're ready to upgrade, and you're, considering giving up the familiarity of the home button and try out the full-screen future, but you're wondering if the 750 bucks up front or the few extra bucks a month on your carrier plan is worth it for the 10r I'm Rene Richey. Welcome back to vector, let's review this. One of the biggest things going for iPhone 10 are is battery life out of the box.

It gets 25 hours of talk time 15 hours of web browsing 16 hours of video, playback and 65 hours of audio that compares to 14 hours, 10 hours, 11 hours and 50 hours respectively for an iPhone 6s, that's about one and a half times as much battery life on its best day or if you've already got in the battery replacement. Mine was at 88% before I got the swap. Now it's back up to 100% either way it makes a real difference, not just because of the capacity, but because of the workload back when I first got my iPhone 6s at launch in 2015. My typical usage was just starting to get more demanding. Snapchat and Facebook have come and gone for me already, but they were huge battery hits when I was using them.

Instagram and even Twitter still are thanks to video and stories with rendered and geography based filters, they're, always downloading, and displaying media pulling GPS and otherwise hitting the battery hard. I watch a lot more YouTube now than I did then not coincidentally, and my single biggest battery drain remains Pok?mon, go which didn't exist when the iPhone 6s launched but debuted the following summer, and it's combination of screen on time, data, rendering and GPS brought most phones to their knees, or rather their red zones. So just for fun, I took both phones out for Pok?mon goes Community Day this past weekend, and even with both batteries near full health, the iPhone 6s was almost dead at the end of four hours, and the iPhone 10 R could have easily gone for more I literally quit before it did. I said in previous years that Apple had to start testing not for the light web browsing and email checking of the past, but the social photo and video and gaming realities of the present and with iPhone 10 are even more than iPhone 10s. They have.

You can play fortnight at 60 frames per second on iPhone.10 are I mean that literally emphasis on the can meet personally I can die at 60 frames per second now, and I can die well. But if you can actually play the game and win, you can do it pretty. Damn gloriously on the iPhone 10 are, and that's something you still can't do on a lot of flagship phones. These days same goes for pretty much any high-end game that supports it, but also heavy duty. Computational, photography, filters, video effects, machine learning, models and more.

They are quick view by the way where you tap a web link, and suddenly you're an augmented reality is one of those features that makes you think you're living in the future, and it runs on iPhone 10 are well. We need, from a start that Apple's, a 12 Bionic was going to be a beast of a processor, but that's really born itself out rendering short videos feels like saving images and saving images feels like I, don't know instant, because there aren't that many pixels to move around even and especially the interface moves like it's on a hair-trigger two years ago, portrait mode could peg an iPhone 7 plus last year, AR and iPhone 10 this year. Some of that kind of stuff can still come close, but there's just so much Headroom that I think it's going to take a year or two before we see anything, really put the 12 through its paces and since one of the reasons Apple puts so much power into its chipsets is so that they'll be able to handle updates for the next four or five years. If you're planning on keeping your iPhone 10 are anywhere nearly that long, even as a hand-me-down, it should legit more than last for most people, the biggest change moving from an iPhone 6s or any traditional iPhone to the 10r will be the loss of the home button. Tech hot takers can boom own Apple's quote-unquote boring design all day long, but for everyone else, consistency is a tangible user benefit and the home button was a tactile.

Escape hatch could reorient us whenever anything got the least bit dodgy or confusing. That's almost certainly why? More than a year into the age of iPhone 10, we hear anecdotes about how well last year's iPhone, 8 and iPhone 8 plus are still selling, not just because of their discounted price, but because of their consistency with previous generations. Their familiarity, iPhone 10 are, though, brings that next generation almost full screen, iPhone experiences to the table and for considerably less than the more expensive than every flagship. In fact, the ten-hour screen is pretty much as big as an iPhone, 6s, seven or eight in place of the home button is an upward swipe and gesture based navigation system that took me about a day to get really truly used to now. A year later, it's not just tough to go back.

It's legitimately slow in place of touch ID is face ID. There are a couple edged cases where it doesn't work as well as if you want to reach over and unlock the phone without picking it up or if you want to have multiple people registered, but in every other case it's not just faster, but so fast it feels almost transparent, especially with logins. Since the iPhone 10r has the same. Improved through depth, camera and faster, a 12 secure, end clave as the 10s you're, not giving up anything for the difference in price either I feel like the iPhone 10. Our display has been beaten to death now and all we have left are zombie rich arguments, while some people, whose knowledge of display tech seems to go only spec sheet deep, raised a lot of fuss about the resolution and pixel density before launch, which is kind of like complaining about a Ferrari just because it has fewer tires and a Mack truck.

Anyone who knew anything about pixel quality versus pixel quantity, and you know, context, took a wait-and-see attitude and generally have really liked what they've seen, especially in Jonathan Morrison's delightful blind, look test between the iPhone 10 R and a 1080p Android display no spoilers watch the whole thing, but so there you have it I think this is a lesson again. Don't judge a book by its cover, or in this case, don't judge a phone by its specs on paper. The truth is Apple's display team has gotten so good at everything, from color calibration to color management that you can put an LCD iPhone, 10, R next to an OLED, iPhone 10 s and unless you're looking for deep, deep blacks and can discern high contrast ratios, firstly tell the difference, which is insane given how different those two display technologies really are. Since filming. My initial review I've also heard from people who suffer varying degrees of vertigo from the variable refresh rates on OLED, but don't have that problem at all with LCD and are super happy that Apple is still offering both and in the new design.

The bezels remain a bit thicker, not in the top and bottom on iPhone, 6s or similar, but on the sides, and then there's the notch. The black face plate helps minimize it, and while you can never not see it, you do stop noticing it, especially because the screen by comparison feels so much more expansive and opened up. It's the same density display as the 6s seven and eight just with more pixels, to fill out the edge to rounded edge and with all the DCI p3, wider, color gamut, true tone, dynamic, color, temperature matching and other advances Apple has made. Since then, you can even put it into display zoom mode like the Plus and Mac sized iPhones. So everything looks bigger and if you've been squinting to see things before, you won't have to any more about the only step back.

You'll notice is 3d touch. If you use it a lot, the 10r doesn't have it. It has haptic touch instead, which, while it's okay in the few areas, it's implemented just isn't a full real replacement. Yet, if all you did was adjust levels and control center, you may not notice the difference at all. If you peeked and popped all over the place like I, did you'll miss it or at least find the 10 s much more attractive.

There are going to be people who want to upgrade to higher density and two OLED on the 10s and fair enough, but for everyone who doesn't give a damn about the display technology and who doesn't look at their phones from less than a foot away, you won't notice a difference. In fact, I do care deeply and a lot of the time I forget, which one I'm looking at I also care a lot about the cameras, and this has been the biggest sticking point for me. I've lived on a dual system and 2x zooms since iPhone, 7 plus, and it's been a challenge to go back to shooting with just one. It's been fascinating, though the sneaker zoom, the framing all of it. It's like shooting with a 6s again, but though both cameras are 12, megapixel, the better aperture higher quality sensor and all the power of the 12 image signal processor makes them feel worlds apart, especially in more challenging settings like low-light or higher movement.

Apples purely computational portrait mode on the 10r ends up being a very different beast from the fusion version. I've been using the iPhone, 7 plus and still use on the 10s I, prefer the latter, but being able to shoot with far greater flexibility and lighting and range has been liberating. Yes, it's still limited to humans and their faces, which is a drag, but since apples built a unique virtual lens model, just for the wide-angle different from the telephoto, you get shots that the previous portrait mode just could simply never deliver. I still wish the 10s offered both, but with a depth control now offered even in preview, when other vendors still can't even do the basic depth effect in preview. The 10r has proven more than solid on its own.

It's proven fun. That's especially true for shooting video, where the 10 are like the 10s can shoot an extended dynamic range up to 4k, 30 frames per second and regular dynamic range up to 4k, 60 frames per second and in stereo, which works better than has any right to given you're just using a tiny camera phone. It really does make the iPhone 10 hour competitive, not with other phones, both other video cameras. Stereo playback is also terrific. I've watched a bunch of shows and films now with the new wide stereo speakers, and it's the first time, I felt like I didn't, really need headphones and I didn't have to, and I've actually enjoyed what I've been listening to, and one who's ever been particularly fussy about audio portrait.

Selfies, an emoji me emoji and all the are on the front is exactly the same as the iPhone 10s as well, and light years ahead of the selfie cams on older, traditional iPhones yeah. Some of it feels like a gimmick, but when it's approaching the holidays- and you can just Santa hat or elf yourself, especially in the new group FaceTime feature, a few gimmicks aren't such a bad thing ho ho ho. This is the part of the area view where I'm supposed to just make up a bunch of stuff I hate about the iPhone 10 are just so that the people in the comments won't call me bias or just of being a fanboy, because the internet loves to mistake: cynicism for intelligence and being negative even to the point of incredulity, with being cool well bluntly, screw that iPhone 1000 is a legit great product, and it's going to be a great phone choice for a lot of people, and if you can't see that I can help you. With that simple contacts. Lets you renew your expired contact lens prescription and reorder your brand of lenses from your phone or computer.

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The OLED enabled HDR video and the dual camera system will keep me on the iPhone 10s, at least on the long-term. But my job isn't just to review technology for me, or people like me is to review it for everybody. For you, some people will want the deeper brighter display, others, the ability to shoot at 2x and still others the sheer size of the iPhone 10s max, but one month later, for everyone else, I think the iPhone 10 R isn't just a colorful spot in Apple's next generation, iPhone lineup, it's the sweet spot, at least that's what I think, but now I'd love to hear what you think hit like hit subscribe and then hit up the comments below and let me know and thank you so much for watching.

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