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
or not you want to upgrade to them or if you have decided you want to upgrade I
wanted to try and help you decide whether or not 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 grey 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 these
comes a little bit 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 bit 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 high
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 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 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 bit 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 bit bigger so we
have two thousand nine hundred and forty two milliamp hours verse two thousand
six hundred and fifty eight milliamp 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 bit 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 as 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 or not you would a high resolution AMOLED or a little bit 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
bit 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
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