- Apple announced its brand new iPhones
for the 2018 to 2019 year in the iPhone XS,
iPhone XS Max, and the iPhone XR.
And since that event, people have been asking one question,
what the hell does the R stand for?
I think I've legitimately come up with the answer
and what Apple was going for, and today,
I'm gonna reveal to you what I think it means.
I'm gonna get your opinion and see if you agree with me.
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Now as I mentioned, today we are talking
about the iPhone XR in particular
and what the heck the R stands for.
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Now I asked some o' you guys on Twitter,
what d'you think the R stands for?
And it was a legitimate question, I wanted to know
if you guys had an idea of what the R might mean,
but of course, being Twitter, you guys gotta start trolling.
So here's some o' the answers I got when I asked,
what does the iPhone XR stand for.
I got, the R stands for rebate, rehab, random, risky,
reduced, rebirth, revolution, ripoff, reduced resolution,
that would be two, sir, that would be two Rs, not one.
Reduced reso'...
I can't even play wit' you guys on Twitter.
(chuckles)
The R stands for ridiculously overpriced
like the other two models.
That would be the ROLTO two M.
Whatever, let's get into some serious talk though,
a lotta people expected that what became the iPhone XR
would actually be called the iPhone XC,
reason being is Apple released the iPhone 5C
a number of years ago
when it was the first time Apple released an iPhone
in multiple different colors, not just two or three colors,
but a wide variety of colors.
And since we knew
that there would be a new entry-level phone this year,
that would also be available in a wide variety of colors,
people assumed, oh, this must be the XC,
because C stands for color,
but I personally never bought into that line of thinking,
and here's why.
When Apple uses a name, they usually have a meaning
behind that name, and they usually kinda stick
with what that name stands for.
So you have this typical iPhone,
and then the following year, you'd have the S model,
and every year the S means that you're gonna have a phone
that looks almost exactly the same on the outside,
might have a new color, but almost every change
about that phone happens on the inside.
That's what the S means.
In the case of the iPhone 5C,
the iPhone 5C was actually released
as the previous year's iPhone,
the iPhone 5C was actually an iPhone 5
for all intents and purposes.
It's just that Apple couldn't drop the price
of the iPhone 5 as it was constructed
with the aluminum unibody, so they took the guts of the 5,
and they put it inside a big plastic shell
to make it cheaper, but all the parts in the iPhone 5C,
which came out alongside the iPhone 5S,
those are all iPhone 5 parts, not iPhone 5S parts.
Knowing that the iPhone X was going to have
an entry level version,
but one that would have modern parts,
in other words it wouldn't have last year's processor,
it wouldn't have last year's camera,
it would this year's current specs,
the C didn't make much sense to me at all.
So before I tell you what I think the R stands for,
let's talk about what the iPhone XR is,
what makes it the same as the iPhone XS,
what makes it different from the iPhone XS,
and what does it have that the iPhone XS doesn't have.
First, let's talk about the similarities.
The iPhone XR has the same A12 bionic chip
with the Next-gen Neural Engine
along with the new dual-SIM feature.
Right off the bat, those are two of the biggest features
found in the iPhone XS
that you're gonna get in the iPhone XR.
The camera is one of the biggest things each and every year
on the iPhone,
and the iPhone XR gets the same wide angle camera found
on the iPhone XS with all of the same features.
That makes it a 12-megapixel wide angle camera
with an f/1.8 aperture and a sapphire crystal lens cover.
It's got optical image stabilization for photos and videos,
Depth Control, the new Smart HDR feature,
local tone mapping, it does do Portrait Lighting
but it only does three of the five Portrait Lighting modes.
So you will get Natural, Studio, and Contour,
but you won't get the Stage Lighting
and the Stage Lighting Mono modes.
You get 4K video at 24 frames per second,
30 frames per second, and even 4K 60,
and you also get the Slo-mo 1080p
at up to 240 frames per second with no limit in recording
as well as the new stereo recording feature.
Around front, you get that same TrueDepth camera
with a seven megapixel resolution.
You also get Portrait and Depth Control,
Portrait Lighting with all five effects
including the two that weren't available on the rear camera,
and that Smart HDR feature.
The Apple XR also gives you faster Face ID,
Apple Pay, wireless charging, fast charging,
you get a True Tone display
and a display that supports the Wide P3 Color Gamut.
It's the first LCD iPhone to support Tap To Wake
and the gesture based navigation
because it obviously loses the Home button
being in the iPhone X line.
So there's a lot there, and those are all the similarities
between the two phones.
You're actually getting a pretty similar phone
when you buy the XR in a lot of ways.
But not in every way.
So let's talk about what makes them different.
And let's start out by talking about what the iPhone XR has
that the iPhone XS does not.
First, the iPhone XR is the longest lasting iPhone battery
in the history of iPhone releases.
A longer battery than any other iPhone
including the other two new ones,
the iPhone XS and even the iPhone XS Max.
The iPhone XS gets 30 minutes more battery life
than the iPhone X,
and the iPhone XS Max gets 90 minutes more battery
than the iPhone X.
Meanwhile, the iPhone XR gets 90 minutes more
than the iPhone 8 Plus, smaller than the 8 Plus
but gets an hour and a half more battery than the 8 Plus.
That's pretty incredible.
If you wanna talk specifics, Apple says talk time
on the XS is 20 hours, it's 25 hours on the XS Max
and the XR.
Internet uses for data is 12 hours on the XS,
13 hours on the XS Max, and 15 hours on the XR.
For video, you get 14 hours on the XS,
15 hours on the XS Max, and 16 hours on the XR,
and then for audio, 60 hours on the XS,
65 hours on the XS Max, and 65 hours on the XR.
If battery life is your main issue,
the iPhone XR is the one to get.
Other differences, the iPhone XR is available
in multiple colors as we saw, you get black, white,
coral, blue, yellow, and (PRODUCT)RED,
and that (PRODUCT)RED one is looking especially delicious
to your boy, and the iPhone XR is the only one
to offer a 128-gigabyte tier.
The iPhone XS and XS Max start at 64 gigabytes,
then jump to 256 and then 512.
Meanwhile, the iPhone XR starts at 64 gigabytes,
jumps to a more reasonable 128 gigs,
and then tops out at 256.
By the way, pricing on those is $749 for 64 gigabytes,
$799 for 128 gigabytes, and 899 bucks
if you want a 256-gigabyte version of the iPhone XR.
Now let's talk about what's different.
Let's talk about what sets apart the XR from the XS
and the features that it doesn't have
that you'll find on the XS line.
The most obvious is that the iPhone XR
has a Liquid Retina display
rather than using an OLED,
it packs in an LCD like all other iPhones used
before the iPhone X.
While the display goes almost edge to edge,
the bezels are slightly thicker around the display
than what you'd find on the OLED X and XS lines.
This is a 6.1-inch display which is the largest LCD used
on an iPhone to date, with a resolution of 1792 by 828,
giving it a 326 ppi.
As I mentioned earlier, the camera does not support
the Stage Lighting modes when you're in Portrait mode,
so the Stage Lighting is
where you can black out the entire background,
only have just you with a black background,
or you in black and white, again with a black background.
Like on XR, can't do that.
It's IP67 rated instead of IP68
which means the XR can withstand 30 minutes
under water in up to one meter of water,
while the XS and XS Max can withstand the same amount,
30 minutes in up to two meters of water.
The iPhone XR does not have a 512-gigabyte tier,
so if you need that much storage, you're out of luck there.
It also does not support 3D Touch,
instead using something called Haptic Touch,
which isn't exactly the same thing,
it just lets you long press on areas
that are supported, and you get haptic feedback,
but it doesn't work across the entire OS.
And lastly, the other thing that kinda sticks out to me
is that the iPhone XR does not support Gigabit LTE
while the XS and XS Max do.
So let's get back to the question,
what does the R in the XR actually mean?
Apple hasn't confirmed this at all,
but I think the answer is simple, and it's a lot simpler
than a lot of us have been looking for.
I don't think the R stands for any sort of word,
it's not an initial for anything.
The R stands for R.
In other words, R comes before the S in the alphabet,
and the XR comes before the XS in terms of
where it stands in the iPhone lineup.
There's one more small detail.
Like I said, remember why this wasn't called the XC,
C stands for last year's tech.
The XR is almost a XS.
It's not quite there, but it's much more XS
than not a XS, and it's much more XS
than a lot of people expected it to be.
In the alphabet, the R comes before the S,
the XR comes right before the XS, but the R
in the alphabet is also as close as you can get
to an S without surpassing it,
and that's exactly what the iPhone XR has done.
The iPhone XR is as close as you can get
to the new XS and XS Max, but it's almost there,
but not quite.
That's my opinion, that's what I think the R stands for
in iPhone XR, but I wanna know what you guys think,
are you with me on that, are you against me on that,
do you think the R stands for something else,
let me know in the comments down below,
I'm sure you guys are gonna be trolling,
but, if you could be serious for a moment,
if you wanna troll, give me a serious answer,
and then give me your troll answer.
But I wanna know, do you guys think
that I'm on track with what Apple was thinking?
Comment down below and let me know.
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I appreciate your support, I'm Andru Edwards,
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