Hi everyone
Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone XS and XS max have been out for a month and I've been using the XS max
every single day and I've been using the 10s quite often as well for different reasons and I'll talk about that in a moment you
Can tell it's a 10s by this line here
Other than that, there's not a really simple way to tell other than the wine and the asymmetric speaker grilles on the bottom
so that's how you can easily tell it's a 10 s
Now you might notice the screen difference is here and it's not a problem of the screens
It's just I have night shift and true tone turned on so if I turn night shift off and true tone off
While there are still some differences in the displays because they're made by different manufacturers
Most likely there are some slight differences, but overall they both look good
They're both OLED displays and everything looks great on them
But if you suffer from issues such as pulse width modulation or the flicker, really
These can give you a headache and I've talked about that in a different video. It affects me and about 1 in 10 people and
One thing you maybe want to look for is the iPhone XR. Now. This is a dummy unit
It comes out in about a week, but the 10 R is in the middle size now
It does have a lower resolution display, but it is an LCD so it won't have that flicker issue
So just keep that in mind if you haven't bought one of these yet
This may be the option for you
But the Xs and Xs max and I'll be comparing those in a different video
Both of these are excellent phones and the iPhone 10s and 10's Maxx have amazing cameras
Mostly for video is what I mean
Because I use this for video in some of the videos you've been watching have been filmed with this and you probably didn't know it
The autofocus is top-notch on this it locks on and stays locked on no matter what you do
I showed that in the review. You really can't get it to go off of
Focus it doesn't hunt or anything like that. Now when it comes to photos, it's really good. There are some
Cameras that are debatably better maybe the pixel 3xl
I'll be testing that in a further video later on but overall it's really good with the exception of one thing
Maybe the cameras moving when you take a portrait mode photo. It's pretty dramatic. Sometimes. Let me flip that around
I'll take a photo
Now I'm hidden behind a camera but the portrait mode photo
It Duff definitely smooths your face, and I look kind of ridiculous in that photo
But it smooths your face and you can tell that by if you look at where there should be hair. It kind of makes it
Matte or just smoothed over so it doesn't if you have a little bit of stubble on your face
You need to shave it just smooth that over now
Some people really like that, but others don't whether or not apple fixes that in an update
they've said they're not doing anything to cause that which I don't necessarily believe because
It looks pretty obvious when you compare it to an older iPhone or even other Android phones
But let me set this one aside and we'll talk about the 10s Mac's a little bit
I've been using this mostly without a case and the feel of it is really good
This obviously is the same size and everything is the iPhone 10
But this is really close in size to the iPhone 8 plus and I say close because it is slightly different
It's about a half a millimeter
Shorter from or 1 millimeter shorter and about a half a millimeter narrower
So it's very very close, but there is a slight difference
so
It's a little bit smaller that way but it still feels great in the hand and most people are going to have a case on
It and again if it's too big you can go for the 10r and that's somewhere in between
Now this phone is far as using it has been great
But there is some wear on it because well
I haven't been using it in a case all the time
And when I have it's one of the Apple cases that leaves the bottom open
So you'll see there is a little bit of wear maybe from trying to slide in the lightning cable
sometimes maybe using carplay and my my vehicles but otherwise
It's pretty good the asymmetric speaker grille and microphone don't really bother me and everything else is in great shape
The back glass is nice and clean. I can't see any scratches even if there were with this finish
It's really kind of hard to see those. Anyway, now if I flip it over to the front
There are some really light scratches on it because I'm not using a screen protector at this time anyway
But there are some light scratches on it and they're not really that bad
Unless you're in really bright sunlight, then you can see it not really any gouges or anything
but in my video where I did the review you might have seen this was set on a rock and
Occasionally it may have nicked or something
But it's really not that big of a deal and this is the first iPhone I've put AppleCare on because of its expense
So that's something to be noted
I suppose as well, but most of the time you're not going to have an issue with that
Especially if you keep it in a case
the number one thing I get asked about the tennis max is its battery life and
battery life is pretty good on this given its size and
You'll see battery health here is at a hundred percent
And that's one thing I would like to see Apple change
People get it concerned and they should when this changes and maybe your battery's going bad. It should just say is it good?
yes or no and
then let us know when to replace it because
It can really be concerning when you it goes from 99 percent to 98 in a couple of weeks. And then
It would just be better. Yes or no, that's my opinion
But anyway, the last 10 days if we take a look at this
you'll see him at 4 hours and 11 minutes and you have to judge this kind of carefully because
When it was last on the charger, and there's not really a calculation that's being done for you
But if you take a look at this one here 4 hours and 54 minutes
I would say from 100% to zero you're gonna get about five and a half to six hours of screen on time
Realistically, but I'm usually getting about four and a half somewhere in there with some screen off time of about a minute or an hour
In a minute or so like this one playing music in the background no problems there so it's really good on battery
it's definitely the best iPhone on battery that I've had in my experience, but
It may vary depending on what you're using. If you're using intensive apps like games. I'm usually using YouTube Twitter mail
some tech news things like that and sometimes that's not as taxing is playing video games or
Some of the other apps like AR apps so you may experience this get a little warm at times to some people are concerned about
That because it will get a little bit warm when it's doing more processor intensive things
That's normal
if it gets too hot
It will actually tell you it's too hot and it'll blank the screen and it will have to cool down. So
Apples very careful about managing the heat in this and I'm pretty confident with these phones
I've only ever had that happened once
Ever and it was a few years back when outside a probably 95 degree day. It will tell you it's overheating now
There are a couple problems I've experienced with this
Speed on this is fine. It's really fast and your experience is going to be great
but I have had lock ups in settings and
That may have been due to being in a beta but I've had some other people tell me including my wife that the iPhone 12
Or iOS 12 on the iPhone 10 is really not so great. She's had a lot of issues
I haven't had too many
But I seem to be the exception in some cases as well now aside from that camera smoothing
My major issue is LTE
Now some people were saying it was Verizon and Sprint
Only but I've heard people say I'm on Verizon and Sprint and I have no problems whatsoever. I'm on t-mobile
And while I only have one bar here
The problem is not really for me that I only have one bar or signal strength
My issue is when I'm using it and I'm on LTE
I might go to a webpage and it doesn't load for some reason or I might go into music
Maybe I want to play something and it just won't
Load or anything like that until I flip on airplane mode
Turn it off it reconnects to the cell tower and then I'm good to go. And this is a problem
I face multiple times a week. So hopefully they can fix it through a firmware update
I'm pretty confident they can but it's due to the new Intel modems. Apple's aware of it, but they still need to patch it
So hopefully by the time you're watching this video
Maybe in the future and to see how this is doing. They've patched it
But as of right now they have not patched that
Now other than the camera smoothing and that I haven't had no issues
Some people have reported Wi-Fi issues, but I think this is a great phone
It's more of a Nestea r model and I really do like it a lot
But it's not really exciting because we've seen this display in this this form factor for some reason
I've heard other people say this. I don't know what it is
I really like the edge to edge display, but this form factor feels old already a little bit
considered - this was for considering this was four years old and
Really didn't feel too old in many ways to people so I don't know what the difference is there
But I think it's still good
It'll be around for years
But my only other complaint maybe is this is a a bit sharp if I'm not using a case
So if you've got a skin on it or a case
You won't have too many issues there
And it is a little bit sharp and other people have reported that as well compared to the iPhone 10
You don't have that even the 10s has less of that here. I don't really have a lip there just on the 10s max
so it's definitely there and
That's all I don't really have any complaints about it
other than maybe the price is a little high I think but
It's still a great phone
Let me know what you think about it in the comments below if you've got one and you've had it for a month
I'd love to hear what you have to say about it. Do you still like it a lot? Did you return it?
Are you having problems?
I'm sure that be helpful to not only myself but others that are reading this and trying to decide if they want to pick one
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I'll see you next time