iPhone XR Review By Jon Rettinger

The iPhone 10 hours like a decision straight, a weird phone, not like weird bad. It's actually pretty great in most areas, just weird for Apple, it's a completely new area for them of like almost flagship, and it's also strange to review this phone in a vacuum which what I usually like to do, because it kinda needs to be held up against the 10s and the 10s Mac so like if you're buying. One of these, you know what the trade-offs are on, what you left on the table by going for the 10 hour and obviously deciding if those are worth it for you. So, like all our reviews. Hopefully this will help you decide if you should buy one. So if you decide that the 10r is something that like maybe want to consider putting in your pocket, the deciding factors would probably be screen and camera.

At least that's what I thought until I ran into a host of other issues that we will get to so with the 6.1 inch liquid Retina display so size-wise. It's kind of right in between the tennis, the tennis max and two largest blades that in the old Plus models of phones, it's an LCD screen like we're used to but crazy, over developed and implemented in a way. That it is kind of new. It's also I think easy for a lot of reviewers to just say and discount and say it's a crappy LCD or that it looks fine, but apples actually done with the display is really impressive. Even if the results it's kind of underwhelming, a time I couldn't think of a better term to say this, but Apple went like full Apple on the LCD panel.

Look at phones that have used LCD panels in the past, driven recently ISTC like the g7 or anything I phone. That's on an iPhone 10 notice. They almost always have chins and almost practically never have rounded corners due to light blades. So LCD's need a backlight to work. Unlike OLED like the iPhone, 10s and 10s max reach.

Pixel is its own light source. It can be turned on and off on their own. So that's why I feel like look at the 10r, and you see those big bezels around the side. So obviously it's not as good as a task, but it was never supposed to be color. Reproduction is actually perfect, and they look bright and pretty vibrant black levels are typically where LCD panels, but do not necessarily shine through, but I put did a nice job, making black levels actually look black and not just like a dark gray.

Reading text, though, is I really started as a screen text. Good, look chunky at times, and I'm saying like I could see pixels my eyes are not that good, it just didn't. Look crisp, I think stop, noticing it as much. It's not really an excuse, but I figure. It's worth mentioning.

So there's also some weird color shift happening when you sort of move the phone off its axis. It's not a big deal. It's definitely a dealbreaker, but something worth noting. So all the engineering that Apple had to do to like to make that display also meant they add a ditch 3d touch for something that they're just made up called haptic touch. It was really just long press, plus a vibrated and I, didn't think that was gonna, be a big deal.

I didn't realize how often that I used 3d touch and I started, really miss it. I used it for things like accessing. My most called contacts on the phone icon, interacting with notifications, was a huge one for me, and Apple initially claimed that haptic touch could replace 2d touch and someday. Maybe it will, but as it stands right now, it is crazy. Inconsistent I can use it to like open the flashlight from the launch screen and for the most part that seems like it, I hope, they'll fix it with software updates, but right now it was a big bummer, so I'm at camera side.

This is essentially the same setup as a-10s just put the telephoto lens taken out and that's some like interesting complexities, and they're, not all bad. So the 10r uses a lens with an F 128 apertures, which is going to mean it is ridiculously awesome in low-light, and it's not relying on the other sensor for depth. You can also shoot portrait shots way closer than you can with the 10s, but unfortunately it only works with faces right now, which kind of sucked hopefully they'll improve that use it with other things, get to look at how you use a camera if you're going to use that to time zoom- and you are not going to be happier if you're going to do a digital zoom like any digital zoom, it's gonna, look too noisy. It took it to a football game. You can see what the zoom looks like alright, so all that stuff aside, if you just want to like use it to take pictures, they come out looking a little warm I think they do a perfect job like capturing the setting when taking a picture of, so I.

Think if you're gonna just like boil down it, comes to this I think Apple did a really smart job. Ditching the telephoto lens, a name of cost. What they give you isn't like a to Jen's old sensor, you're, getting exactly what their current flagship has I think that's kind of a smart move all right! So let's talk about deaf body. The phone itself is kind of another departure from the norm of Apple they're, really bright, color options, something that we have not seen since the plastic.5C I've personally been itching for a product red phone, but yellow coral, blue and even black and white. All look pretty nice.

The glass on the back, though you should know, is not the same. Super-Strong glass and the 10s actually the same as what's found on the 10, and judging by how many scratches my 10 had and my pictures I've seen of broken backs. You're going to want a bit of extra protection there, even if it means covering up that gorgeous color. There's a ton of similarities between the iPhone 10 and the 10 are not just the glass back, and I feel like I. Didn't still mention this, but no headphone jack on the iPhone 10 are Apple super excited and eager to sell you a pair of air pods for 160 bucks.

I bought him I liked him, and then I quickly lost them. So I tweeted out a picture of the absolutely useless, find my ear pods feature, and a company called uncle' reached out, see if I wanted to try their twenty dollar wireless headphones, so I gave it a shot. These are the W ones. They were much better than I expected. So all this is a sponsored segment.

This was like definitely a product that I wanted to try. Because again. I really did want to spend another 100 60 bucks for headphones, and I'd, never heard of uncle' I thought that was just like me at my nephew's birthday party. But battery life was pretty awesome, got 18 hours of battery life. It had touch control.

The sound quality was pretty good engineer to support AC. The bass was pretty decent as well, and I could make phone calls with it and for 20 bucks. It really wasn't much to complain about so 20 bucks for wireless headphones. That worked well sounds like your jam will link to them down below. If you want a few more features, there's another one, they offer called a uncle' AI.

It starts about 55 bucks. They used a Qualcomm chip, so there APDEX headphones, and they're gonna, give you 24 hours of battery life, and they're, also water, sweat resistant. If you want to take it to the gym, if you want those features, fifty-five bucks, a pretty good price to pay I, also kind of crushing on the $20 W ones. I could literally lose eight of these before it cost me what a pair of earbuds would Zappa was claiming huge improvements in battery life, for my experience was like 7% better than what I got on my tennis, it's still a day phone, but if you decided to push it and tweak settings, you could probably get to like maybe seven hours of screen on time. So there are other sacrifices being made here compared to the 10s as well.

It's ip67 not ip68. It's not a huge deal, most likely no gigabit LTE, but I will say: I had almost exactly the same reception with the tenor. Is it at the 10s, but if we're relying on to give it all to your lives in an area where it is, you should know. That also is only three gigabytes of RAM versus four, so the RAM didn't seem to matter anything. The software experience was just as fast as any other iPhone I tested, and here's where the burn on the 10-hour started to come in I had way more bugs on this phone, but I have ever had with any iPhone I have ever used.

Things are small and benign is through not responding. I had phone resets I had scree, not rotating properly. It was just a mess of stuff and things that I don't expect from Apple and in interest of honesty. I really wanted to, like the 10r I was prepared to make the spec sacrifice and use as my daily driver, because I really like the way the phone felt in the hand, but I'm spending this much money. In my case, eight hundred bucks for a hut and 28 gigabyte variant I have certain like expectations and constant bugs that I came into and continue to run into even on 12.1 has made this a really tough phone for me to love. So it's really holding me back.

All those bugs aside was also having to relearn how I use iOS without 3d touch and really wonky all over the place. Support for haptic touch I thought that I could live with them like any issues on any phone. This is obviously a very atypical for an Apple device, so I just thought. Maybe I had a bad unit when I ordered the phone. Actually I ordered two, so I switched to the second one, and I set it up from scratch.

So not restoring from backup and I still had the same issues using the 10r was so degraded with the software experience. I cannot recommend the 10-hour despite its something like the perfect compromise of features and price I. Think probably the better off here. If you want to save some money, is pick up. A used, iPhone 10 you'll get a slightly slower processor, but you're going to get an OLED screen, dual cameras that are still perfect and if you absolutely need like a brand spanking new iPhone you're, the only option here spend an extra 250 bucks at minimum for the 10s.

So am I alone with software issues is here on the 10 I. Did you pick one up and has it been fine for you again? I am running the latest version of iOS as of this filming 12.1, and it's still not good leave in the comments down below and let me know if you got a 10 hour. I really do want to hear your thoughts. Maybe this is just isolated to me, and I'm super unlucky anyway. Let me know what you guys think until next time, I'm John Ranger from Techno Buffalo doc, you guys next video.

Source : Jon Rettinger