Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone XR has been out for about a
week and a half I've been using it every single day as my main phone and it's
been a mostly positive experience now this is the budget iPhone and comes in
at 749 for 64 gigs of storage I wouldn't really call that budget but for an
iPhone right now it is a budget so 749 64 gigs of storage for an extra $50 you
can get 128 and that's really the sweet spot on this phone and $800 for 128GB
of storage I think will suit most people's needs you can bump that up to
256 but then you're getting close to the price of the XS and it's one of those
things where that gets a little bit pricey when you get up to that range and
I don't know if you need all that so I usually use about 30 to 40 gigs of
storage on my phones total after a couple of years that's still what I'm
using and 64 is good for most people 128 is that sweet spot now the design is
very familiar it's a little bit different than the XS or the XS max
you are lacking that camera bump and the extra camera well you have a camera bump
but of the extra camera and then you also have the same camera but a
different lens than the XS and XS max so it's still quite as good same sensor
and everything you have glass front and back wireless charging but aluminum
around the outside edges and that makes it a little bit lighter but you do have
an non or asymmetrical charge port so that's kind of strange but the the
speakers are symmetrical but that middle lightning connector charge port is not
and that's probably to make way for the display and that's the most
controversial thing about this phone is the display is between 720p and 1080p
and to me that's not a big deal because the pixel per inch density is 326 it's
the same as the 8 or the 7 that's not a big deal to me however for the price of
the phone and modern phones it is a little bit low as far as the resolution
numbers are concerned now I showed this to many many people both photography
people video people and I only had one say that these
displays look any different at all I showed them side-by-side with the XS
max and I've had one person say that the outside edge right around the edges
where they curve the liquid Retina display that's what gives it that name
is it's a little fuzzy and maybe that's true
text is crisp colors are great it's accurate it's bright and sunlight I've
had no issues with it and I think the people that are concerned about the
numbers aren't really taking a look at it side by side now some people have and
some people can see the difference for me it's not a concern and I think most
people won't even mind however the viewing angles aren't as good as the new
iPads viewing angles with its liquid Retina display and it's good but it's
not as good and the other thing to consider too is if flicker bothers you on
displays such as myself with pulse width modulation on an iPhone XS max for
example or OLED displays this is the phone for you it doesn't flicker at all
it has none of those traits because it's an LCD display so you don't get that
flicker it doesn't use pulse width modulation to flash the screen to make
it brighter or darker so you're never getting that flicker and it doesn't harm
your eyes so that part has been really great to use all week long in this now
aside from the display the specs are really good it's the same as the XS and
XS max minus 1 gig of ram and that's probably because of the display you just
don't need it when you're not pushing the graphics chip is hard to power all
those pixels so because we don't have as many pixels it doesn't have to work as
hard doesn't need as much RAM and most of the time you don't need to pay
attention to RAM anyway on an iPhone it just works and you don't have to think
about it and the speed of the a12 is super fast it's underutilized in this
phone quite honestly there's nothing you're going to do on the phone that's
going to be slow video rendering anything it doesn't matter it's just not
going to be slow so if there's a hiccup that might be part of iOS doing
something but for the most part you're going to have no issues with that
whatsoever now the camera the camera on the back is quite good like I said it's
got great video it's stabilized 4k video 4k HDR
it's not true HD are you can't edit it and put it in HDR rec 2020 and actually
do HDR footage with it but it does look quite good but it does have great
processing due to the neural engine and everything else that's on that a12 chip
now the forward facing camera is good it's the same camera that you get on all
the other iPhones so you're going to get the true depth sensor and everything
like that when it comes to taking portraits and that sort of thing so it
does a great job and it's what you expect from a XS XS Max or an iPhone
10 even so it's quite good that way now I took some photo and video with the
rear camera so let's take a look at that now
I'm recording using the iPhone XR camera and as you can see the image out of it
is quite good it is stabilized I'm walking over some pretty rough terrain
and it seems to be doing a pretty good job now I can zoom pinch to zoom but it
is digital but I think overall it looks pretty good and in general the image
coming out of it with the new neural engine figuring out the HDR and
everything I think looks pretty good and as far as video cameras out there the
XS the XS max and the XR have the best out there from any that I've test
the focusing of the XR is just as fast as any of the other phones if I get
closer to this tree here you'll see I tap on the tree tap on the rocks behind
it it's nice and smooth and clear and I think overall works really well and the
image is really impressive at least from what I can see on the screen right now
now the battery life on the XR is really good the battery life is easily
one to two days of battery and I know some tests show this in sort of a lab
situation where you're running them full brightness and running certain tasks
next to and XS max or a note 9 those sorts of things but if you're using this
everyday day-to-day because of that lower resolution LCD and also because of
the size of the battery being in between a little bit smaller than the XS max
but pretty large in general I easily get to the end of the day with about 40 to
50 percent battery life left in fact if you look at my screen time screen times
about 5 hours every single day with about 40 to 50 percent battery life left
I've had no issues whatsoever as far as that goes and if you're using a vehicle
to use car play or car play in a car or whatever you're doing with it and it's
plugged in it's going to extend that battery even more now as far as charging
it goes Apple really needs to include a faster charger such as the iPad charger
in the box this would be ideal for most people if you're going to use it wired
of course you do get wireless charging and that's how I charge it most of the
time on a 7.5 watt wireless charger and the charges in a couple hours I have no
issues there I've never run into an issue where I didn't have
enough power to what I'm for what I needed to do throughout the day on this
display now the iPhone XR has wider stereo sound just like the XS and XS
max with the speaker on top and the bottom and it's nice and loud so let's
see if we can hear that through these microphones anyway so these are the
phones themselves now you may or may not like either one of these colors I really
like the red although blue looks pretty good too
now as far as things I don't really like about it there's not very much one of
the things is I do miss the headphone jack I think they could put it back but
they're just never going to at this point and they definitely should include
a faster charger this is the iPad charger I think they should include this
one this would charge it plenty fast for most people in a couple hours or so if
you use the macbook charger you can do that even faster but it's not worth the
extra price with the cables and everything at this point now I
wirelessly charge this I'll link them when I use in the description below but
I wirelessly charge this all the time so it's not that much of an issue and it's
not terribly expensive for that charger but I just think they should include
that at this point get rid of the other charger nobody really uses it and if
they do they wish to church faster anyway so you've got those two things
going against it also you only have ip67 certification so you don't want to get
it too wet as it won't last as long as the iPhone XS max or XS the other
negative I have is face ID while tons of people love face ID it works fine on
this it unlocks quick but I really missed the fingerprint reader for
certain things the unlock if it had one in the Apple logo they're never going to
do that but I would love one here or under the display like we see with the
OnePlus 6T something like that in the future maybe they'll do that I don't
know but there's not really much negative to say about this phone it's
great battery life solid build not as expensive and it's probably the phone
for most people so if you picked one of these up I'd love to hear which one
you've got what do you think about it let me know in the comments below if you
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watching I'll see you next time