iPhone XS Max Review - The Good and The Bad - 4K60P By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and I've, been using the iPhone 10s and 10s Mac, since they came out, and I've been using them all day, long every single day, and I've come up with some good things and some bad things about them. Now this reviews mostly going to focus on the 10s max, since this is what I've been using most of the time but know that the only differences really are the battery size and the display size. Everything else is the same. So let's get started with the good, and then we'll move on to the negative. The first good thing is the display. The display is a super Retina display 6.5 inch, it's as good as last year's and then some it's 2688 by 12, 42, 458 pixels per inch and the great thing about it is it's now HD are 10 compliant, so it's an HDR display, that's fully supported, and it's super color accurate, it's great in bright, sunlight, there's, no problem seeing it whatsoever, and it's definitely something that you have to see to appreciate, but I think anyone that uses. This would be very, very happy with that display.

Now, with that display comes a couple advantages with iOS, you no longer get the landscape that you did with the iPhone 8 plus on the home screen, but you do get the landscape style notes in the Notes app and different applications that support it with the larger keyboard on its side, so just depending on which one you're using you will get that other times you just won't now. The next positive thing is the speakers. The speakers sound great they're even louder and better than last year and I mean better in the sense that they have wider stereo as Apple calls it and that's true. It definitely sounds more in stereo. You can hear things more clearly, and it's nice and loud so take a listen.

You can see, there's light, dark, dynamic, and we'll just leave it at dynamic, but there's a lot of other really nice wallpapers in here, and I'll be sure to link those in the description now. The next good thing for me is the battery. Now the battery is not phenomenal, like it was when you were going from say a six to a six plus it's more than it's, maybe a half hour to an hour and a half of extra usage. If you look at my battery on time over the last ten days or so I get about four to five hours of screen on time. Now, don't confuse this with iOS 11s usage time.

It's not the same thing. This is actual screen on time and then screen off. Time is when things are playing in the background, maybe of music in the background, so I'm getting about four to five hours of screen on time in about an hour of off time, and then it's in standby. It will easily last me through a day with that, but I'm only getting about an hour more than I would on the iPhone 10. The next positive is the new.

A 12 Bionic chip is really fast. Now it wasn't slow. Last year you can see, according to Geek bench scores, it's marginally faster according to Apple its 14% faster, but when you're exporting video such as 4k video in iMovie, it really is pretty quick. It's about a three-minute movie exporting in about three minutes at 4k sixty, so that's pretty impressive MacBooks have a problem. Doing that sometimes now playing games is really fast and smooth frame rates are really solid.

You have no issues there and if we play through one of the games, you'll see that it's smooth the whole way it's superfast and while I'm not the best at this game, you'll see how quick and smooth everything is, so I didn't last very long here, but I was able to play it, and hopefully you can see that it's nice and smooth. Now, if you want to switch between applications, it's superfast, we'll go into the racing game back out to the App Store back over to Fortnight and everything's just super smooth and fast, and that's what really is impressive. The next good thing is improved. LTE speeds. Apple says you should be able to get much improved speeds and of course this is going to be carrier dependent, but I'm on T-Mobile testing.

This out, you'll, sees on the Left I have the iPhone 10 and on the right, the 10s max, and it is a little better. So it seems to be true now, with Wi-Fi I noticed a huge improvement. I actually have gigabit internet speeds, but on Wi-Fi I get about 177 down on the form 10, whereas I'm getting almost double that or more on the iPhone 10s max. So it's pretty good over Wi-Fi, and it seems to definitely be an improvement over last year. The next good thing is ip68 certification.

That means it's more resistant to water and dust, but you can't go swimming with it. Apple doesn't cover water damage still so, if you swim with it, and it's damaged they're not going to cover it or replace it for free, but it does mean it should survive a drop into a puddle or pool now. The next good thing is the camera. The new cameras are really fantastic: they're, 12, megapixel cameras, one has an F 1.8 aperture. The other has an F 2.4 with a telephoto lens on it, and they've got larger pixels, and they've. Both got optical image stabilization.

They work well, and let me show you what that looks like the photos that the 10s and the 10s max take are really nice. You can even see the little water drops very clear on the flower, but one thing it has that's new is actually a portrait mode that allows you to adjust depth. Afterward now I tried this on an object other than just a face, because you have to use the front-facing depth camera. So if you click at it here or tap at it, you can adjust the depth, but you'll see if I go as blurred as I can. On the background, it doesn't really recognize objects that only recognize faces.

So if we go to this next photo here, if I go to edit you'll see, I can adjust it here as well, go back and forth, so it works. Okay. It starts to fuzz out the hair quite a bit right here, so it's not perfect. Other phones have had this for a while, but it is a nice feature to add. The video part of the camera is probably the most impressive thing.

The autofocus is superfast. It also is so fast. You'll never know, what's not in focus, so if I transition their comeback, it's super superfast and everything is always in focus and, of course, you can just tap to focus. If you want the background tap on the tree again, it's incredible how good this autofocus is on this camera. It has optical image stabilization on both this lens and the zoom lens, so you can zoom in and unlike the 8 plus or the larger size phones before the actual optical endless image.

Stabilization is on both lenses, so it works out really nice, unlike last year's camera, if you look up into the sky it's much better, it can handle the brightness much better. It has much better dynamic range in the shadows and all the way to bright you'll see the transitions really nice. The first bad thing is front-facing. Camera, while it's pretty good most of the time, it has this effect that can be fixed in software, but it will smooth your face out and if you look at the iPhone 10 versus the 10s max you can see, it looks like I almost have makeup on I. Think they'll fix this in the future to give us a toggle, but right now it's not great.

The next bad thing is the price. The price is incredibly expensive, starting at $1000 for the 10s or $1,099 for the 10s max all the way up to fourteen hundred and forty-nine dollars for the top-of-the-line 512 gigabyte model, while it's a nice phone I, don't think any phone at this point is really worth that amount of money. You may have a different opinion, but I think the majority thinks that's a little too expensive, and I'd have to say I agree with that. The next bad thing is glass. Now this is kind of good and bad.

The whole phone is glass from, and it's more durable glass this time. So if you drop the phone chances, are it's not going to break as easily many tests have shown that, but it's still glass and a lot of the time that's used for wireless charging and to make the phone feel more premium, but because you can't easily replace the back on this. It's 500 or 600 dollars to replace the back glass so put a case on it or make sure you have Apple Care to at least cover that expense. While there aren't a lot of negatives with this device. The final negative for me is the charging and the charging on this is really unacceptable.

With the included adapter of 5 watts, you really need an iPad adapter at minimum included, or maybe even the 29 watt adapter, and that still charges it from 0 to 100 in over 2 hours. So it's not technically fast charging. Even though Apple includes the ability to fast charge that is Apple's fast charging, so it's not really what other people are doing. It won't even compete with other companies when it comes too fast charging. So that's kind of something that's a little disappointing for some others, though, don't really seem to mind it as much.

It just depends on how you use your phone, so that's the good and the bad of the 10s and the 10s max. Hopefully that gives you a better idea of whether you want to put your money towards it, and you think it's worth the very expensive price. Let me know what you think in the comments below, if you haven't subscribed already, please subscribe and like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time.

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