- Apple recently announced its new S models for the iPhones.
The iPhone XS, the iPhone XS Max, and the iPhone XR.
But is jumping into the newest iPhone XS or Max variant
the best option for you and your bank account?
That is exactly what we're going to cover today.
Stick around and find out
which of these options is best for you.
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Currently, there are a total of four models
available right now on apple.com
in addition to the newly announced XS and XR,
we also have the iPhone 7 and 8.
Both of which have Plus variant options available.
What we're going to look at today
is the major difference between the new XS models
and the previous generations, meaning the 7 and 8.
Which one is going to get you the best bang for your buck?
We're going to start with the iPhone X
and the iPhone XS Max.
They both come in with the same three color options,
gold, space gray, and silver.
They both have the same storage options as well,
starting at 64 gigs, moving on to 256 gigs,
and then a huge 512 gigs.
I predict the 256 is going to be the most popular
configuration out of all of them,
and that's probably going to be the best selling one.
The XS is measuring in at 5.8 inches
and the XS Max is measuring in at 6.5.
This is the point where I start to get
a little bit frustrated as far as Apple
when it comes to their specs on their website.
As you can see, it says, the iPhone XS
lasts 30 minutes longer than the iPhone X,
and the XS Max lasts up to an hour and a half
longer than the iPhone X.
This is the frustrating part,
when you go ahead and look at
any other manufacturer's website,
it clearly lists out the milliamps of the battery,
the more milliamps you have,
the better your battery's going to be.
Of course, power management and software optimization
is going to play a huge role in the life of your battery.
However, we're talking with a top-tier,
very expensive phone.
We kinda like to know what exactly is under the hood.
I searched everywhere on Apple's website,
however it seems they don't want us to know
the size of their actual batteries.
Seems like a strange thing for a manufacturer
to want to hide from us, but that didn't stop me.
I took to Google and after about four to five
different search results,
I found an article published on forbes.com.
What we're dealing with here is the iPhone XS
has a 2800 milliamp battery,
which is just a smidge over last year's iPhone X,
the biggest difference is when we're taking a look
at the iPhone XS Max, coming in at 3400 milliamps,
which is huge for iPhone standards.
Now let's go ahead and take a look at the camera difference
between the XS and the XS Max.
As you can see, they both have 12 megapixel
wide-angle and a telephoto lens,
which means one of them is a wide-angle
for nice, good, wide shots
and the other one is so you can zoom better.
This is definitely good news for everybody concerned,
when we're taking a look at the apertures,
they're identical, all the way across the board.
When looking at these, I really can't see
anything different between these models.
Let's go ahead and take a look at the other features.
Now we're moving on to video recording.
Again, everything is completely identical
between the XS and the XS Max, nothing is different.
Moving on to the front facing camera,
we are seeing the exact same thing
across the board again.
So it's telling me the camera
is identical in both these phones.
Let's go ahead and take a look at the difference
between the displays of the two.
They're both pushing the super retina HD display,
they both have an OLED multi-touch display,
in addition to HDR display.
Resolution is definitely different on the two,
but that is to be expected with the screen size.
Before the release of this phone,
there were rumors going around
that 3D touch was going away.
But we can clearly see it is here to stay on this model.
The iPhone 7 first came out in September of 2016.
It launched with a 4.7 inch display
as well as a 5.5 inch display.
The iPhone 7 came with four colors,
black, silver, gold, and rose gold.
It also came with only two different
capacity variations, 32 gig and 128 gig.
Here the iPhone 7, even the largest 5.5 inches,
and only a retina HD display.
So the super retina was not out as of yet.
This display is sporting a 1920 by 1080,
which means it's definitely high resolution,
but not really anything else above that.
This one does have the A10 chip,
whereas the other two we've been looking at have the A12.
The camera on this one hasn't changed
a whole lot since the other one,
this is basically the launch of the dual cameras.
The biggest optimization of the cameras from year to year
has been the software and how it processes the images.
The iPhone 7 also had a 4K recording at 30 frames per second
and also 1080p HD at 30 or 60 frames per second.
And yes, Touch ID, something that we didn't have
in the other two models.
Now we're gonna go ahead and take a look
at the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus.
As we can see, again,
two different variations in the capacity,
but now, we've bumped it all the way up to 256 gigs.
We're still sitting at a 5.5 inch display.
The iPhone 8 actually is coming in at a 4.7,
also take note, we are still dealing with LCD
and multi-touch displays, no OLED in these models.
Here we've been upgraded from the A10
to the A11 bionic chip with the neural engine.
We also have a 12 megapixel camera on the 8,
and the 8 Plus, we have the dual camera, 12 megapixels.
Here we are saying that both models have
4K video recording, 24 frames per second,
30 frames per second, and 60 frames per second.
We have two time optical zoom and digital zoom
up to six times only on the 8 Plus version.
We are also looking at slo-mo video support
at 1080 at 120 and 240 frames per second,
time-lapse stabilization, cinematic video stabilization
at 1080 and 720, and continuous autofocus.
These are things that have been upgraded
on the camera from the 7 into the 8.
Now, we are still looking at Touch ID
on the 8 and the 8 Plus,
and this is the last model that you're actually
going to be able to get Touch ID.
Based on everything we saw,
this is the lesser of all of the available
iPhones right now at this time.
The iPhone 7, 4.7 inch display, is coming in at $449.
That's only $18.70 per month with your carrier.
The iPhone 7 Plus, the 5.5 inch display version,
is coming in at $569, at $23.70 per month.
These are the cheapest iPhones that they make right now.
If you are looking for a good budget iPhone,
this is your best bet.
If you're looking for something better,
there's several other options,
but now, for the rest of 2018 and 2019,
what you have to realize is that the iPhone 7
is the new budget iPhone.
Let's go ahead and do a quick comparison
between the iPhone XS,
the iPhone XS Max, and the iPhone 8 Plus.
Of the three, we are still looking at the iPhone 8 Plus
with the smaller of all three.
The XS and the XS Max both have
super retina display HD, iPhone 8 Plus does not.
Both have dual 12 megapixel cameras,
wide-angle, telephoto cameras.
You have seven megapixels, seven megapixels,
seven megapixel, there is a little bit difference,
it doesn't have the TrueDepth camera,
so I don't think that you can get
the portrait selfies on the 8 Plus.
The S models both have Face ID
and the 8 Plus still has old school Touch ID.
Can definitely see the processor has been upgraded,
and our water resistant is a little bit stronger
on the XS and the XS Max, which is pretty cool,
if your phone is below a meter for beyond 30 minutes,
and you're kinda struggling to get your phone
out of the water, I think you're gonna have other concerns
than making a phone call.
Next, all three have wireless charging,
and they all have fast charging capabilities as well.
Now here, we are looking at the capacity variations.
With the S models, again, you now get the 12 gigabyte,
whereas it goes from 64 to 256 in the 8 Plus.
My personal experience, I got the 256 on the 8 Plus,
I never even scratched using half of the memory on it.
And I take a lot of photos and a lot of videos.
512 is power user, power data,
power storage type of consumers.
The 8 Plus does not have an HDR display,
whereas both S models do.
Now, we can really take a look at
the resolution of the screens,
and we can really see the deficiency here
between the 8 Plus, the XS Max, and the XS.
Now the thing that I will say about this
is your average consumer, the person that doesn't have
a tech YouTube channel and is not
digging into specs all day,
your average geek or nerd, if you will,
they're not really going to be able to know
a big difference between 1920 by 1080
versus 2436 by 1125.
They're going to know that the screen looks amazing,
it looks good, and they're gonna be happy,
and they're gonna be satisfied,
and they're not going to be too
overly concerned with the specs.
This is one of the places where I think overkill
does not quite justify charging a lot more for the phone.
It's one of those places where they give us
a better upgrade, a better product,
and then they really make us pay for it.
Now here's another place to pay attention, alright,
the actual weight of the device.
Of the three the XS is actually
going to be the lightest of them.
The heaviest of them will be the iPhone XS,
which as we know, the bigger screen,
the bigger battery, all of that adds up.
Alright, so here are the differences between the cameras.
Now we can go ahead and look at all this stuff,
it looks pretty much identical,
until we get down here to portrait mode
with advanced bokeh and depth control.
This is definitely an advancement
when it comes to the iPhone.
It's been around on Android phones for years,
but it is new to iPhone and they're pretty excited about it,
so that is definitely a big difference in the cameras
between the 8 plus and moving up to the XS models.
So if having portrait selfie is important to you,
then the 8 plus is not for you.
The XS and the XS Max have stereo recording capabilities,
whereas the iPhone 8 Plus does not,
and you also have of course the terribly useless
Animoji and Memojis, so not really too sure
what anybody is gonna do with those.
They're fun for the first five to 10 minutes
of having a device and then there's a chance
that you'll probably never use them again.
Now that we've had a chance
to review all three iPhones right next to each other
and compared the specs,
this is what I want to send you home with
to think about before you make your next iPhone purchase.
I feel like the iPhone 8 Plus is the forgotten iPhone.
This is by no means a budget phone,
this is a top-tier flagship phone,
that unfortunately was overshadowed
by the release of the iPhone X
just about a month and a half after it was out.
It works seamlessly within the Apple ecosystem,
you're not gonna be disappointed by this phone.
So you can get the iPhone 8 Plus, 256 gigs,
on Verizon at like 35 bucks a month.
That's a pretty good deal.
You don't have to jump into the thousand dollar price range.
The iPhone X was a super solid phone.
It's gone, it's now the XS
or you can bump it up and get the Max.
The prices on this device are outrageous.
Don't let Apple fool you into thinking
you have to get this phone
just because this is the new one on the market.
If you're in the market for a new iPhone,
keep this in mind.
Don't be afraid to say, hey let me get the iPhone 8 Plus.
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