iPhone XS vs XR - Which Should You Choose? By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone XS and XR have been out for a little while at this point and if you're trying to figure out whether you want to upgrade to them or if you have decided you want to upgrade I wanted to try and help you decide whether you should get the XS or the XR. Now the XS comes in three different colors. This is Space Gray. You can also get it in silver and gold, and the iPhone XR comes in a lot of different colors. This is the product red edition, and then you've also got silver space, gray, blue red, yellow and coral. So you've got a lot of different choices.

Now the difference between these as far as the way they're built we'll talk about in just a moment. Let's first talk about price. Now this is the less expensive device. This comes in at $749, up to $899, with 64, 128, or 256 gigabytes of storage on the XS. It starts at $999 and goes to $1349.

You can get it in 64, 256, or 512 gigabytes of storage. So we've got a very different price range here and some extra storage on the XS now with This comes a little different build. They do have different displays, we'll talk about in a moment, but this is made of stainless steel on the XS, and they are glass back and front on both devices. But this whole ring here is stainless steel on the XS on the XR, it's aluminum and of course you can see the difference in cameras so but the cameras are not that different. In fact, they're the same 12 megapixel camera and same at 7 megapixel front cameras.

Now, as far as the display is concerned, this is where they get a little different. The XS has an OLED display, which is a much higher resolution at 2436 by 1125, with 458 pixels per inch. On, the XR. You have a lower resolution of 1792 by 828 with 326 pixels per inch. You also do not get HDR.

So if you're watching YouTube on this device, you can watch up to 1080p on YouTube and you probably can't see too much higher than that on a small device like this. But in 1080p you can watch in HDR if the video has HDR, and I've actually creating one of those, so I'll link it. So you can check it out, but if you have in a XS or a XS Max, you can watch an HDR, it's pretty nice now as far as the displays. They also have a couple differences as far as the way they work. This one here on the XS has 3d touch.

So if you press on something an app that has 3d touch, enabled something will pop open like this now on the XR, this has happened. If you push on this, nothing really happens the icons just jiggle and let you move them around, so you lose that functionality, but you still get many of the same functions when it comes to things like the control center. So if you want to push here, you get the same pop open where you can adjust the brightness. The same thing is true for anything in the control center. Also, notifications have that same function and text.

So if you want to move around when you're typing, you can do that, and it's very similar except the home screen, so haptic and 3d touch are very close, but 3d touch is a little more advanced and pressure-sensitive, where this is just sensing your thumb holding, longer and flattening out on the display. Now, as far as the speakers are concerned, they're pretty well-matched on the XS. It is a little asymmetrical here as far as the speaker arrangement, due to the lines for the antenna, but you've got good stereo, sound or wider stereo sound. So when you're watching a video or something like that, you've got a speaker here and the bottom, and it sounds pretty good and both are very similar. As far as that's concerned now, as far as the battery is concerned, the one in the XR is actually a little bigger, so we have two thousand nine hundred and forty-two William hours, verse.

Two thousand six hundred and fifty-eight William hours I found that, in my use between the two I definitely get more battery life out of the XR I. Think that's also due to the display not having as many pixels to push around, so you don't have to use the processor as much, but the good thing is you've got the same. Exact CPU in both of you've got the new, a 12 Bionic processor. It's incredibly fast and works really well in both of these devices. Now both of these have face ID.

So if I turn the display off tap on, and it'll see my face and unlock on both of them, and you can just unlock it. That's pretty nice and then also both of these have some water resistance, but the iPhone XS has ip68 certification, where the XR has 67. That basically means that this can be submerged underwater in about two meters of water, where this is good for 1 meter, it doesn't mean you can swim with either of them. It just means if you dropped it in a puddle or a place with water that they'll be resistant to that up to that depth for a little of time about 30 minutes or so now both have wireless charging, so you can wirelessly charge in the back. They don't include fast chargers or anything like that, and they're both similarly weighted now, of course, you've got all the same features on both devices, so they all are capable of AR.

The cameras are equally good you're, just lacking that zoom camera that you get on the XS and that zoom camera I never find that I miss it. You can actually zoom with this digitally, and it looks pretty good, in fact, in many cases, you're actually zooming with the main camera here and then on this camera. If it sees a better image, it will use it, but many times it's using digital zoom. Instead- and you just don't know it now- you do get portrait mode on both of these, but you lose the ability to do portrait mode on the XR with different objects. So this one wants you to look for a person where it says no person detected.

The XS just says: move farther away, so you don't get object, detection in portrait mode. That way, so you can't take a picture of a flower, for example, and have it show up as a portrait mode photo. You've got all the same: forward-facing portraits, no problem there. If we spin these cameras around we've got the same exact features. We can do an emoji me emoji, all of that sort of thing, and we can adjust the actual aperture here with the f-stop adjustment on both of these devices, so they're, both very, very good, but there's a big price difference between the two.

It really comes down mostly to the display whether you would a high resolution AMOLED or a little lower resolution. LCD now, if you have sensitivity to flickering an OLED, is always flickering whether you can see it or not in person it's actually flickering and that can cause eye strain for some people. The LCD doesn't do that, so that may help for some people, but everything else is so similar. You could save some money with the XR, but if you can't get past that display and a little thicker bezels, the XS is the one you want to choose now. Both phones are equally fast.

You're not gonna, find anything where you go into a different app and find that it's slower scrolling is going to be identical. The displays are the major differences here and the stainless steel versus aluminum construction. Of course, you have the size difference. I find that the XR is a perfect size. For me, a lot of people find that the X and the XS are our perfect size for them.

So it just depends on what you want to do between these two everything is the same with the XS Max, except the size of the screen and the resolution and battery size. Otherwise, these are pretty much the same, and you've got the XS and the XS Max you just pick which size you want. If you want the nicer display, otherwise they're the same, and you could save yourself some money, if you don't need that display. Let me know what you think in the comments below, though, if you want to see anything more in particular, let me know 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.

Source : zollotech