The Ultimate iPhone XS Max Review - Is Bigger Better? By AppleInsider

The iPhone 10 grew up this year. We're going to do an extensive, hands-on review of the iPhone 10s max welcome everyone. It is either here from Apple Insider after months of rumors and speculation. The 10s max is here we're going to break it down check out. What's going on the inside, do some performance comparisons and take a look at some of those photos from the new cameras, so first up here's the phone. It is pretty much the exact same size, maybe a little smaller than any of the Plus Size versions before the iPhone 8, plus 7 plus any of those, but obviously that screen goes full edge to edge here.

It is compared to the iPhone 10s. You can see it's definitely larger. At the same time, it's still keeping that big, beautiful display. This is an HDR 6.5 inch. Super Retina display 2688 by 1242 pixels, which gives you a PPI of 458 same is the iPhone 10s.

It supports the P 3 wide color gamuts and has a 1 million to one typical contrast ratio. All of that is pretty much same with the iPhone 10 and, of course, the 10s, but what is new? This year we have this brand-new color. So, aside from the black and the silver the white, we have gold. Now, it's not just your normal, yellow, gaudy gold, it's kind of more subtle. It's got that kind of off-white back and the gold in the outside is a little.

So the copper a little rose gold. It's not gonna, really offend anyone, so people who don't usually like that bright, yellow gold- they still might be in to this version. It looks really nice on that. Glossy stainless steel band and even accented around the camera module moving from the outside to the inside is the brand-new a12 Bionic processor, with a brand-new eight choral neural engines that is paired with four gigs of LP ddr4 ram. Now those specs are identical here on the iPhone 10s max as they are on the iPhone 10 s, and then we have the iPhone 10 on the far left.

So we're going to run a bunch of different Geek bench tests here with the iPhone 10 on the Left, the 10s in the center in the 10s Mac. On that right-hand side, so as I eat bench for is finishing up, we test several times. Just we get kind of an average of what these results actually are. So let's go ahead and take a look first at the iPhone 10. You can see.

We've run it a few times here, and you can see. The CPU test is giving us around 4200 average on the Seal core and multi-core is coming in around 10,500 is. The graphics test is giving us a score just around 15,000, just above about 15 and a quarter. If we move on to our iPhone 10s and give those a comparison on the multi in single core CPU tests, we're getting a round of 4,800 on that single core and multi-core has spiked to about 11 and a half thousand. Those are pretty good games, but we got even better gains on the graphics portion.

It actually jumped up about 30% to roughly around 20,000 moving on to the iPhone 10s max, which has these same internals as the iPhone 10s. Our scores are a little lower than we expected about 4,800 and about 10,500 for the single and multi-core scores respectively. On the graphics portion, we got quite similar results actually coming in above 21,000, which should be great to see on such as large beautiful display. Next up, we travel outdoors to test out those brand-new cameras. We still have the dual 12 megapixel camera system, except there are a few improvements that should lead to better low-light photos.

In contrast, the cameras are largely the same, but that top wide-angle camera has actually increased. The sensor size and pixel pitch has gone from 1.2 to micrometers to 1.4. That extra depth should allow more low-light to come in. Apple has also paired the camera system with that new, really fast neural Engine. That should allow for better portrait, photography, image, segmentation, facial landmarks and facial recognition.

The 10s and the 10s max also have this awesome depth control feature where you can adjust the amount of blur by increasing or increasing the F value. As that F value decreases, it is theoretically widening the aperture allowing more light in blurring the background. More gives us some really nice both effects, and it even gives you kind of distortion around the edges the same as you would see with a DSLR. You saw a first with that iPhone pic now you're here, seeing with an actual portrait mode photo of a person. We know some of this has been done with apps, but they do a perfect job here.

Natively we shot a bunch other photo. So let's go ahead and take a look at them. Some lowlights I'm not, and we'll compare them to the iPhone 10 starting out with those comparison shots taking a close-up of a tree. You can see there's definite little more warmth. In contrast, on the iPhone 10s max similar shots here, they're a little more bright with the 10s and 10s max.

You can see there's more aggressive smoothing when you get into the details of the actual wall. This is a 10x shot, and you can see the iPhone 10s max they're, just a little more aggressive, smoothing around the edges, I slightly prefer the actual iPhone 10 shot. When we actually look at the picture of the tank portrait mode photos, they look great, and they lock on in Factor than ever with the iPhone 10s max and with all of our shots, the shutter lag is almost non-existent. There is a little of issues with the portrait mode, around kind of more abstract objects. You can see in the top of the tank here, we're kind of blurred.

The actual spout happens with kind of abstract objects, as well as with hair around the fringe. Low-Light photos were pretty solid, with very minimal blur and pix elation going on in the dark areas for a close-up photography. We found that the focus was quicker than it had been in the past overall we'd say that the photos are definitely better than the iPhone 10, but it's not necessarily enough to warrant the upgrade all on its own. Another new aspect of the iPhone, 10s and 10s max is improved speakers. There are two sets of speakers on the iPhone 10s max the bottom and the top.

This actual part that you use when talking on the phone is made really loud to use as a natural speakerphone. When watching something like a movie, it was pretty clear that that left side speaker was not up to the task this year. It should be much more balanced, so let's go ahead and listen to that.3D, soundscape and just overall volume when watching a movie such as Independence Day, we'd, say not a huge difference in overall quality, but the speaker's themselves sound, more balanced, which should, as appall says, create a more robust and filling sound stage. Basically, that top speaker just louder and more clear, there's less crackle when the valley volume is turned up all the way. Sometimes you may not notice it other times.

You certainly will, we also have improved LTE their support for gigabit LTE, which has varying use in the u. s. , depending on where you live. Additionally, it's the first iPhone to support T-Mobile 600 megahertz band 71 LTE. To help manage this, you can see there's a couple new antenna bands, one on the bottom, which gives you kind of offset speaker, grilles and then another one here at the top, when we actually did some speed test again.

This is going to vary completely based on where you are. We saw pretty solid results just running on Verizon here in Columbus Ohio. We are easily averaging around 60 on the down and nine is hon the upload, depending on your carrier and where you live, these could be completely different results, but for us, 63, Mbps down and 8.9 3 up are definitely improvements over our iPhone 10. Of course, the 10s Mac supports wireless charging, and it's actually faster than it was in the past. Thanks to a new, tighter coil on the inside.

It doesn't really allow for more wattage on the input, so just take seven and a half watts, but with that new, tighter coil, it charges a little quicker. It also has better placement wouldn't put any on the mat. You don't have to be as specific and as exact in our testing. We notice that it charged faster, but not significantly, so the one thing that we really have to knock Apple on is the inclusion of this thing. This 5y wall adapter.

It is one not USB-C and two. It's still only five watts. The iPhone 10s max has the largest battery ever in an iPhone, and yet we're still stuck with this dinky slow charger. This is unacceptable. We don't need to switch to USB-C necessarily on the iPhone itself, but the cord should be a USB, lightning cable, and we need to have a faster wall.

Adapter this year, the iPhone 10s Macs and the iPhone 10s have feature parity. There's no big features that you get by going with the larger iPhone other than the larger screen. So when it comes down to choosing which model to get that's really up to you, those glossy signs and the heavier weight make this a little easier to hold in the hand than previous plus-sized handsets. But if you don't need that large display, you can go with the iPhone 10s and get just as an amazing phone as it is every year. This is the best phone that Apple has ever made.

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Source : AppleInsider