the iPhone 11 bro another thousand-dollar iPhone and the successor
to the iPhone 10s it's the best iPhone yet of course it would be interesting if
it wasn't but is it good enough does it deserve that pro name should you upgrade
let's dive it before we get started note that the iPhone 11 pro comes in two
sizes five-point eight inch and 6.5 inch at 6.5 inch model the iPhone 11 pro max
just has a larger screen a little bit longer battery life and costs $100 more
that's it that's everything so when I say the
iPhone 11 pro I'm talking about both sizes now if you were to ask somebody
what they want in a new phone they would probably say they want it to be fast
they wanted to have an awesome camera they want it to be durable and it should
have really great battery life just so happens that's what you get with the
iPhone 11 Pro it's stupid fast the camera is fantastic and the battery life
is crazy but it also doesn't do much else it
doesn't add significant new capabilities so much as it just does everything the
iPhone 10s did better take performance the a12 Bionic is basically still faster
than every other smartphone chip and the a13 is pretty much the same thing only
20% faster and more power efficient in fact in some benchmarks the 3d graphics
performance is almost 50% faster in most of our tests across the board we saw
about a 15 to 20 percent speed improvement so once again Apple has the
smartphone chip to beat the iPhone 11 prose design and craftsmanship it's a
little bit better than the iPhone 10s - it's more durable and harder to crack
with a nice frosted matte finish and there's a new midnight green color
that's just gorgeous but outside of the big awkward square
camera bump on the back would you get used to pretty quickly it's basically
the same design as the iPhone 10s it's a touch thicker and heavier but you won't
really notice what you will notice is that that thicker design makes room for
a big the battery life on this phone is just
awesome Apple says you'll get four to five hours more life than the iPhone 10s
but I can't really verify that I don't know how they come up with that figure
but I do know that I get way longer battery life with the iPhone 11 pro than
the 10s which was already pretty good I can easily get over eight hours of
screen on time without doing anything special to save battery and a lot of
that is playing games which are notoriously bad or quickly oh and uh
speaking of battery Apple finally includes an 18 watt USB C power adapter
in the Box Apple should have done this years ago but the standard iPhone 11 you
still get that pitiful 5 watt USB a power adapter and there's really no
excuse me the other really big obvious change from the iPhone 10 s is the
camera it still has the wide-angle and telephoto cameras on the back and the
telephoto has a wider aperture that lets it more light this year Apple has added
a third camera an ultra wide camera with a 120 degree field of view and an F 2.4
aperture it's not as good in low-light as the other two cameras and the quality
isn't quite as good but it's incredibly useful to be able to zoom out and get
more in the frame thanks to the more powerful processor the quality of all
your photos and videos aren't even better than ever
Apple is doing fancier image processing to get the most out of this camera
hardware and it shows dynamic range sharpness noise and color accuracy are
all better than ever the front camera is really improved now too it's now 12
megapixels instead of 7 it has an 85 degree field of view instead of 70
degrees that means clearer and sharper selfies where it's easier to get more in
the frame without a feeling unnatural oh and you can shoot 4k 60 frames per
second video in the front camera and even slow-motion selfie videos now then
there's night mode it first appeared on Google pixel and then a bunch of other
Android phones but Apple's implementation may be the best of them
all it just turns on automatically when it's dark enough and produces some of
the clearest and most accurate super low-light shots of any smartphone we'll
have another video that dives deeper into the camera but suffice it to say
with the camera on the iPhone 11 is top-notch and a significant
improvement over the iPhone 10s and later this fall Apple is going to
release a software update that adds this new machine learning camera technology
called deep fusion which should make photos even better so that's something
else to look forward to the OLED display on the iPhone 11 pro is almost identical
to the one on the iPhone 10s only a much brighter it's an awesome display but not
different enough to go on about this phone also has a new radio technology
called ultra wideband which can be used to locate other ultra wideband devices
to within a few inches it's sort of like a more precise secure interference proof
Bluetooth right now all it's used for is to make air drop a tiny bit simpler but
Apple didn't put ultra wideband in the iPhone ulema just for that we are
definitely going to see more somewhere down the line so that's the iPhone 11
pro basically the iPhone 10s only faster much longer battery life that our
cameras on the front and back and a more durable construction with a nice matte
finish it's easily the best iPhone ever made but that doesn't necessarily make
it a good buy the regular iPhone 11 has nearly all the same features speed and
quality doesn't have an OLED display and it doesn't have the telephoto camera but
it does have the a13 chip ultra wideband the better front camera night mode the
ultra wide camera and a really good battery life the gap in features between
the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 pro is so small that it's hard to justify the
three to $400 price difference and it's really hard to justify calling this
phone pro I think it's great that Apple is unifying around some common brandy
MacBook and MacBook Pro iPad and iPad pro
I Mac and I Mac Pro and now iPhone and iPhone Pro it makes sense but in each of
those the pro model isn't just the best one the processor is always much faster
in the pro model and there are other important features to separate them from
the non pro models if Apple wants to call this a pro phone maybe it should
have things that I've had Pro has like a USB C port or 120 Hertz promotion
display maybe it should have 5g which isn't very important right now but we'll
definitely be important sometime in the summer year lifespan of this phone if
you have an iPhone 10 R or 10 s you should probably wait for next year's
iPhone to upgrade and if you have an iPhone 8 or 10 well maybe if you have an
iPhone 7 or earlier you'll see a huge leap when you upgrade the iPhone 11 Pro
is a great phone one of the best phones money can buy and hands down the best
iPhone ever but it doesn't really justify its 50% price hike over the
iPhone 11 and it doesn't quite deserve to be called a pro iPhone