iPhone XR Review By MobileTechReview

This is Lisa from mobile tech review and, finally, an iPhone to match my outfit. No, but one of the really standout features of the iPhone 10 R is the fact that it is available in different colors, some of them pretty darn, pretty and jolly, but the other neat thing about it is when Apple has made a so-called affordable phone option like with the iPhone SE, it was usually a generation behind and processor and camera all that sort of thing. So this affordable version of the iPhone for 2018 is $750 starting price for the 64 gig iPhone, and with that you get the same processor, you get the same, starting 64, gigs of storage, that you would in the more expensive $1,000 and up iPhone, 10s and, of course, in 10s max. Also, this one is the in-between size, 6.1 inch display, so for those who can find the iPhone, 10 or 10s now size at five point. Eight inches is just kind of smaller than you want it, but the max still is a huge phone too big for you. Well, this is the inbetweeners size phone.

Lastly, when it comes to having current technologies this time around, it's a good thing, because we get face ID on this phone. So for those of you who are ready to make that jump because face ID really has worked out well, since Apple is introduced it with the iPhone 10, and it's a lot more easy and seamless for many of us in the using touch ID. You can't that here we're gonna, look at it now. So what's gotta get what's different here? Obviously it's $250 less! Well, you get an aluminum frame instead of a stainless steel frame or on the edges, which is the same thing. Apple does, with their watches, to the aluminum is the base model, and then the stainless steel is the next step up.

Stainless steel is more durable. It looks a little more premium, but the aluminum allows them to do those pretty colors, but it's pretty hard to die or anodized stainless steel. So that's why they can do this. Also, it's 0.6 millimeters, so just slightly over a half a millimeter thicker. Can you tell is that more than the thickness of a glass screen protector? No, not really so I really wouldn't worry about that too much in terms of durability.

It should be about the same. This is glass front and glass back, just like the iPhone 10s and the 10s max. Speaking of that, you probably want to use a case. You could say. Well, then you know, I won't see the pretty colors.

Well, there are clear cases out there too. That's what I do if I really want to see the beauty of my phone and thanks to our sponsor Claude Rabbi, who makes minimalist yet protective cases I actually like their cases, a lot. The sheath and the veil AT in particular, are very thin, yet protective from scratches and even from drops as well, thanks to our sponsor again I've been using their case. In fact, for my last year's model, iPhone- and it's held up quite well also, the display is the difference for those who are OLED snobs, and you really love OLED displays. This is an LCD.

They call it their liquid Retina display I guess, but liquid crystal display. That's what LCD stands for it's 326 PPI, which was the same pixel density for iPhones for a long time back when they started calling them retina. So, yes, it's less than the pixel density of even higher resolution. Olette's iPhones! You can see the resolutions on screen to help you figure that one out in terms of OLED or not OLED, it's really still a very pretty display. Apple does not make crappy displays ever I'm, really not seeing a lot of off excess viewing shift.

Some people have said: oh, it looks less bright. You know all displays, do discolor and get a little less bright off angle, but it's not bad, and it looks pretty good next to the iPhone 8 plus, as you can see as well. So you know if most people just walked into a store and saw them side-by-side, I, don't think they'd go crap and wonderful. Looking at the iPhone 10 are versus the 10s still at 1792 by 8:28 it was a widescreen resolution display still whether, so it's not quite 1080p, and some people really want to have at least 1080p resolution for watching their video. So I get it.

If you want the more expensive model with the higher resolution and the more popping colors and significantly higher contrast, because OLED has near infinite contrast, there is a reason why Apple can upsell you to the more expensive phone as well. The bezels are bigger, that's the nature of LCD's versus his, with all LEDs each pixel individually lit. So you don't have to worry about a backlight array or anything around the edge of the frame to help with backlighting. So this doesn't have egregious those. We don't have the big chin and the big forehead that iPhones used to have the iPhone 8 generation in previous, but the bezels are bigger, so it has less of a cool look.

There's no 3d touch here. Who cares nobody? You get it LTE 4G here: it's not the faster gigabit LTE that you'll get on the 10s and the 10s max models. I, don't think that's going to make or break your day. It's still fast enough, LTE, but something that might make a difference and if you're, considering upgrading from a previous iPhone model, that's fairly recent here. Well, you get a single 12, megapixel rear camera.

It's pretty much the same main rear camera as you would have on the 10s, and it is a step-up from the iPhone 10, but it's only a single camera. So for those of you who really enjoyed the telephoto lens, which I personally do I like to take a lot of sorts still, life photography, portraits and all that sort of thing you're losing that second lens. First, so for those of you who are had an iPhone 10 or maybe an iPhone, 8 plus model. Consider that and think about the kind of pictures that you take, and you're using you lose those fancy portrait modes. You know the ones that do that fall off light, dark backgrounds and that sort of thing they do use computational photography, not unlike the Google Pixel 3 family of phones.

The drawback here is: it's used in conjunction with the telephoto lens aunts, on the 8 plus and on the 10s family iPhones in on the 10 as well. So here, you're going to have to use your feet to zoom, as we say in photography. If you want to do a portrait of somebody, you're going to have to get physically closer to them to get that tight framing without having a lot of background in the back. Also, that computational portrait mode only recognizes people which is too bad. The pixel actually can do this in the Samsung.

Galaxy family uses two cameras to achieve this, of course, but if you're not taking a picture of a person, you want to take a portrait of your cat. For example, it's going to say no person found, so it's not going to trigger that software feature to say a little more about the camera. It's still a very good camera phone, and should be right even if $750 is now considered the not very expensive phone. That's an expensive phone people right, and it really does take lovely photos. I, don't think anybody's going to be saying: oh I really wish I had some other phone.

Is it the best camera phone on the market? Clearly, not the pixel of three and three Excel probably still win that award. When it comes to video, though the iPhones typically do a little better there than the pixel family of phones, and this one still takes lovely video, including 4k video at 60 frames per second super slow-motion video. All those usual things. It's very pleasing. It does a good job in low-light, not as good as the fiercest competition.

Again pixel free would be the very best, but I don't see it really falling behind for those sorts of things versus the 10s, because really you're looking at the same main camera there, it's just a portrait stuff that you're lacking. Lastly, this has three gigs of RAM, like iPhones, a gold. If you had an iPhone 8 or an iPhone, 10 or anything previously had three gigs around, but with the 10s family, we've moved up to four gigs of RAM makes multitasking a little smoother fewer applications running in the background get killed again. This is not something that you're going to notice lighten day, but it'll make it feel just a little more responsive in terms of benchmarks. Synthetic benchmarks give me a hint of how the phone feels, but that's about it.

Interestingly, though it does score a little lower on Geek bench 4 compared to the iPhone 10s, even though they're running on the same CPU, but the numbers are fairly close. Battery life is good news here, even though the battery isn't quite as big as the 10s max battery's, physically smaller phone, you can see the battery capacities for comparison on the screen. It actually runs a little longer, even than the tennis max, which shows the biggest battery of all. Why? Probably because the display is lower resolution, even though OLED is usually more power efficient, depending on how much black versus white you're showing white takes more power than black to show with an OLED display, but so I'm, seeing about 20 minutes to 30 minutes of actual use time longer on the iPhone.10 are Schwinn, which is pretty darn nice, as usually you just have that lightning port. You get the 5 watt slow charger in the box.

This does support wireless charging. It is water-resistant as well, so you can take it for a little scrub-a-dub-dub in the tub with you, and it should survive just fine. So if you're in the market for a new iPhone, and particularly if you're not doing that upgrade every year carrier payment plan, that kind of high does the true cost of the phone makes it a little less painful. Still. This could be as cheap as 10 dollars less a month.

Even if you're doing that sort of thing yeah, it's very nice phone, it's not lacking I, don't feel like it's a horrible step down from the 10s in the 10s max. Unless you want that humongous tennis max display right, but if you're thinking about grading, certainly if you're coming from iPhone, 6 or 7, or anything like that, this will be a huge and lovely upgrade that will cost you less. If you have a phone 10 already I, don't know unless you're looking for a slightly larger display, I, probably wouldn't do that. You've already got the nice OLED on the iPhone 10 you've got the double cameras going on. You've got plenty of performance there.

If you have an iPhone, 8 or 8 plus well, I, don't know a face. I'd is really very enjoyable and I like that. I prefer that I kind of miss it when I don't have it. So that's something that I enjoy over the 8 plus the 8 plus still gives you in the dual cameras. Oh, so it gets a little, but you know I think Apple, pretty much figures that most people who have iPhones are gonna, be upgrading every other year.

So they're- probably not thinking so much- and this is designed to replace your 8 or your 8 plus anyway. So that's the iPhone 10 are and if you're an iPhone person an iOS person, and you're on a budget, you just want the nifty colors. You don't want to spend crazy amounts of money like $1000 plus you're, not on one of those carrier payment plans. That makes it a little less painful. Yeah, then.

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