iPhone XR Unboxing and Hands On By MacRumors

Hey everyone, Dan with MacRumors and in this video I have the brand new iPhone.10 are a few days before the official October 26 release date and in this video I'm going to unbox it and share my overall first impressions of Apple's newest flagship device. The unboxing experience for the 10r is really no different from the other recent iPhone and boxing's. You get your lightning cable wall, adapter and ear pods alongside some paperwork and just like the iPhone, 10s and 10s max packaging. The Lightning 2 3.5, millimeter adapter, is not included. I have the iPhone 10 R in black, which looks good, but is a bit boring, considering that one of the main draws of the iPhone 10 R is that it also comes in five other colors, like white, yellow coral, blue and product red I, really like how the colors carry over from the glass back all the way through the aluminum frame, which brings me to another major difference of the 10 R and that's the aluminum frame versus the stainless steel frame on the iPhone 10 s. It's honestly! Not that big of a deal it just feels like a pre iPhone tenner, a smartphone, it's still premium feeling and on the plus side it won't be as prone to scratches as these stainless steel versions.

The form factor of the iPhone 10 R is interesting. It's a little bigger than the 10s and obviously smaller than the 10s max. If you go back to the iPhone 8 and 8 plus you're, getting significantly more screen real estate in a form factor, that's also right. In the middle of these two phones, the iPhone 10 R, has a 6.1 inch LCD liquid Retina display that Apple claims is the most advanced LCD in the industry. But there's been a lot of heat about the 10 RS resolution and how it's basically a 720p display with a screen size that large the PPI is going to be awful, etc.

, etc. Now display quality is something that's pretty important to me personally, especially when testing out the new iPhone, 10s, Macs and other super sharp OLED displays like on the pixel, 3 XL and the Samsung Galaxy, Note, 9, etc. Obviously, when you compare it directly to the iPhone 10s maxis OLED display, you will notice a pretty big difference when I first unboxed the device and truly stared at it for the first time, I was honestly, pleasantly surprised, it's completely fine. It wasn't something that really stuck out or was an instant deal-breaker. It actually looks like a pretty good display, given the specs and the circumstances.

What does stand out a bit, especially if you're coming from a 10, 10 s or 10 s max, is the increased bezel around the display? Now it's not that bad. When you look at the 10 R by itself, but it is a pretty substantial increase in bezel compared to the other higher-end iPhones again, not that big of a deal, but something that is necessary in order to make the LCD work and help reduce the overall cost of the 10r overall I personally, like this form factor I'm someone who preferred the iPhone, 10 SS 5.8 inch form factor but wanted a larger display in the iPhone 10 s max. So this 6.1 inch size is the perfect compromise. One more side note on the display: Apple also remove 3d touch and instead replaced it with something called haptic touch, which is basically like long pressing and feeling haptic feedback as a response to the long press. It's not that much different, but it does have some limitations at lunch.

For example, you won't be able to get into any of the quick shortcuts by 3d touching the app. Instead, if you long press on the iPhone 10 R, it's actually just going to bring up the ability to rearrange your home screen icons or delete an app another difference with the iPhone 10 R is the single lens camera on the back compared to the dual lens setup, that's featured on the 10s or 10s max. It is the same 12 megapixels, wide-angle camera, that is on the iPhone 10 s, and it can still take portrait mode photos with the help of software instead of a secondary lens. This is very similar to that of the pixel 3 and 3 XL with the 10 are using processing and advanced algorithms to create these photos. I'll have a full camera comparison to other devices in the next few days, but my first impressions of the camera have been overall fairly positive.

You still get the new smart HDR feature found in the 10s and there's not a huge difference in overall image quality. It's a bit more hit-and-miss in terms of how these smart HDR handles highlights and whether they get blown out in the background. Even portrait mode looks really impressive. So far, there is one thing to note about portrait mode, however, and that is, you can actually only take portraits of people with the iPhone 10s max portrait mode works on objects and isn't limited to just people, but because the 10r doesn't have two cameras. It actually needs to detect a face.

To do the background. Blurring the edge detection can be a bit iffy on the iPhone 10 are, but overall I was very impressed with how to handle everything. And, yes, you can actually go back in and edit the photos' both just like you can on the iPhone, 10s and 10s max portrait mode. You do also get portrait mode for the front-facing camera too. In fact, the true depth camera system is present within the notch, giving you full access to features like face ID and emoji, and me emoji, just like on the iPhone 10s.

In fact, that's pretty much the overall theme of my first impressions. This is a very similar phone with very few limitations that likely aren't a big deal for the average consumer. The iPhone 10 R starts at 749, which is 250 dollars cheaper than the starting price for the iPhone 10 s and 350 dollars cheaper than the entry-level 10s Macs. For that price, you still get a lot of the same major features like face: ID the a12 Bionic chip, wireless charging, an emoji and MIMO G, stereo speakers, portrait mode, 4k, video recording near edge to edge display and much, much more. If you're, thinking of upgrading to a new iPhone- and you don't need a high resolution, OLED display, then honestly, I'm thinking the 10r is the way you should go.

Let us know your thoughts on the iPhone 10 R and, if you're planning on picking one up which color you're going to go with in the comment section down below this has been Dan with MacRumors. Thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.

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