hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone XR has been out for quite
some time now and was replaced more recently with the iPhone 11 and so I
wanted to help you decide should you still pick up an iPhone 10 are in 2020
and so a lot of people were saying the iPhone 10 are if you're really into
technology is not the phone for you because of its specs and display and all
of those things but it actually was the best selling phone in 2019 according to
some information that's out there that says that Apple's sold about forty six
point three million of these phones making it the best selling phone period
in all of 2019 and so despite what people into specs and numbers are all
about the phone really catered to the people looking for a less expensive
iPhone than the iPhone XS and XS Max and also brought what most people really
want in an iPhone so we'll talk about a few things such as cost and durability
and the display and some other things as well and so the first thing is of course
the cost is a huge factor in why people buy iPhones and the specific iPhones
that they actually buy so the first thing is this phone was dropped in price
to $5.99 and goes up to six hundred and forty nine dollars and that's if you get
it new now if you're buying it from Apple that's what you'll pay but if you
get it elsewhere or you get it refurbished or use second hand you could
pay significantly less for this phone than you could get it new for and that
could be a really great deal if you could get it around three to four
hundred dollars so it's pretty good and I've seen it carriers for free with
specific trade-in so it's pretty good at this point and that was last year and
they continue to offer more deals this year now of course you have all the
colors this is the product red version and then you have a couple other colors
such as yellow blue black white and a lot of people really like that and
they'll just put it in a clear apple case like this one so you can see the
color all the time and so along with the price and the color availability people
just gravitated towards this phone and so a lot of people were saying this
wasn't a good phone because of its display but I would actually argue that
because it is a 6.1 inch display with 1792 by 828 pixel resolution with 326
pixels per inch and people say well that's close
to a 720p display but technically it's closer to a 1080p display and the
reality is people get caught up in the numbers as opposed to the value they
should be looking at which is the pixel density because this is an LCD display
the pixel density and the pixel arrangement really doesn't require as
many pixels so for example people praise the iPhone 8 and 8 plus displays when
they came out but the iPhone 8 has the exact same pixel density as the iPhone
XR and people love this display the same thing goes for the iPad pro which
actually has a lower pixel density and people say it's an amazing display if
you realize the important thing is pixel density as opposed to actual resolution
numbers it works fine and it's a great display you cannot see the pixels and in
fact I've said this many times before I've put this side-by-side with an
iPhone XS Max as well as iPhone 11 and people just cannot see the difference
other than saturation levels that are higher or deeper blacks that are on OLED
displays so if you have an iPhone 11 Pro or 11 Pro Max for example and you go
into settings and then we turn on dark mode you can see that the difference
you'll see actually is in the blacks because on an LCD the backlight is
always on but on an OLED display that I have in my right hand where it's black
the pixels are actually turned off so that's also some battery savings and
things like that but also it definitely has deeper blacks so you can see these
side-by-side but honestly if these were hidden as to which displays they were I
bet 99% of people could not tell the difference I've shown people that are
photographers that do video for a living and the only area where they noticed any
difference at all was in the corners where actually Apple
takes the pixels and shrinks them and changes them so the corner is rounded so
otherwise other than that it's great and you can still watch 1080p YouTube videos
you still have that resolution option skip that there you still have that
resolution option because the display is closer to 1080p so here's my iOS 13
point for beta 3 video and if we go to resolution options you'll see you have
1080p up to 1080p 60 so there's no issues there you're still
to be able to enjoy that content without a problem and then the next thing with
the iPhone XR that it was known for is battery life and in fact battery life
can be really phenomenal on this phone now technically the iPhone 11 Pro and 11
Pro Max have much bigger batteries and will last longer but still people are
finding that the battery in the iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro max don't match the
iPhone XR depending on how you use it and so here's a couple screenshots
from Joe that sent these pictures along that you can see his usage is fantastic
depending on the day he was getting 9 to 12 hours about of screen on time with
about 1 to 15 minutes of screen off time so the battery is phenomenal in these
devices and that's paired with the processor which really has no slowdowns
whatsoever compared to even modern phones so you're going to find
everything super fast when you go into things like music it's just going to
load so if we go into a game such as minecraft and just load it for the first
time on this device it will load plenty fast so you'll see that it will load
we'll give it just a moment and for the first time it does take a little bit
longer than normal but there we go we can confirm we'll skip go into play and
you'll see everything's just super responsive so we'll hit create and we're
going to be creating a world in just a moment there we go and it should load
fast and it loads fine on other devices but it's still incredibly fast on this
device so when it comes to playing games whether it be minecraft or fortnight or
pub G or Call of Duty or any of those it will play them without a problem and
you'll also have good audio because the speakers are really good on this so if I
go back to my video here and hit play it has stereo speakers and you can hear
from both the top and the bottom so if I turn it up the audio goes nice and loud
so if you want to use it for music or just leave video playing in the
background it's no issue whatsoever and so there's really no problems there and
then of course the camera is another reason to actually take a look at this
phone and so the camera accords in 4k up to 60 frames per second
and I've used this camera in different videos when I'm filming outside to
record iOS update videos I've had no issues with it and in fact some people
have said that it looks phenomenal and it has have asked me which camera is it
actually recording them because you'll see this says 4k 30 unfortunately you
can't tap in this particular device to change that but if we go back to camera
here go down to camera we can change the frame right here and we have 4k 60
frames per second so we have that option to record at that high frame rate 4k 30
will look a little bit better because it's using the knurl engine to make the
video a little bit nicer and so if you're recording video of an iPhone for
example the video records fast it's great and when I'm outside recording
with this many people have said this footage looks better than maybe the
cinema camera that I'm using now which is a Canon C 200 so you can get a pretty
high quality camera as long as you have good lighting with this particular
device now the iPhone XR is not as good when it comes to the forward-facing
camera and while it's okay it's nowhere near as good as say the iPhone 11 which
has a better camera in the front this is a lower megapixel camera which looks
fine for most things but it doesn't have the 12 megapixel camera of say the
iPhone 11 so it's not going to look as good as this for example so just keep
that in mind if you're looking for the best forward facing camera you'll want
to go with the newer phone and then finally if you were going to get the
higher-end version of the iPhone XR I would say spend the extra $50 and get
the iPhone 11 you'll get the faster processor a better forward facing camera
an additional rear facing camera and a couple other color options as well and a
little bit better battery life according to Apple you should get another hour or
so out of this just due to the processor in it so the iPhone XR yes you
should still pick one up today if you're looking for a phone you've got wireless
charging you've got fast charging ability as well great speakers great
camera a good display you don't have 3d touch you have haptic touch but
everything is haptic touch including the 11pro line as well so in general you
have no issues as far as the way works the usability and you'll
get updates you'll definitely get iOS 14 and Apple usually updates them for five
years so you should be good to go up to say iOS 18 or so maybe even further it
just depends what Apple does now another thing you get with the XR is face ID
aside with that forward facing camera of course you've got the unlock so you get
an emoji and momochi but you can unlock the phone with face ID it's fast so if
you really like the idea of face ID it is fast and secure unless you have a
twin for example that could unlock your phone that looks similar otherwise it's
more secure than touch ID and I think it's a great option in fact I picked one
up recently for family members over the iPhone 11 because they didn't care so
much about specs but rather wanted something newer than their iPhone 6 or
6s a--'s so I highly recommend this over anything else as far as budget iPhones
but also you've got the advantages of a great camera and just it being less
expensive to repair as well as a newer phone so there's a lot of advantages of
course if you really want that extra camera and you want a better
front-facing camera there's the iPhone 11 or 11 Pro line but you'll save a lot
of money going with the XR and I definitely recommend it in 2020
but let me know what you think about it in the comments below if you'd like to
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