Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iPhone 11 pro max has been out for
almost two years at this point so i want to talk about its overall
design durability and whether or not you should pick one up today
and the first thing is its overall design one thing i really didn't
consider when i was using the 12 pro max which i've been using full time
is how sharp these edges are when you look at the 11 pro max with its a little
bit older design it's definitely more ergonomic and because of that it's just
super nice to swipe between pages you never have a little lip on the side
and this of course can vary if you're using a case or not but it definitely
makes a big difference and is super comfortable to hold it also
feels smaller than the 12 pro max because it's not squared off
feels like a smaller phone that's easier to hold despite basically the same size
display now as far as its overall durability
well that's one area where it's not as good as the latest phone
the scratches on the screen are many and that is because i'm not using a screen
protector but compared to previous years and the newest ones with the ceramic
shield it's just not held up very well you can see scratches all over the
display and again this could be avoided by
putting a screen protector on but even some people were seeing scratches the
second they took it out of the box so it's definitely a concern for some it
seems to be that it's a softer glass and is more durable when dropping but is
less resistant to scratches now as far as the overall frame it's
held up really well there's no scratches around the outside edge it seems to have
held up really well and maybe a little bit on the bottom
here there's a few scratches but that's pretty typical
especially if you have a silver iphone and if even if you're using one of
apple's silicon cases it leaves the bottom open
so it's more prone to scratching so that seems to make sense
it's not noticeable on the space gray version that i have but on others it
will be specifically the silver version where
it's a stainless steel that's polished now as far as the camera there's no
scratches on the lenses whatsoever whether or not they're 100 sapphire or
not is hard to say but they've held up well they haven't
cracked they haven't scratched or anything and i haven't used this in a
case the entire time i used it so it's actually been pretty durable
overall so that part is really great about this phone
so in general it's pretty durable now as far as the display overall
it's pretty great it's nice and vibrant is hdr
and has great viewing angles it goes nice and bright in daylight
and as you can see we're only at about half brightness right now if we go to
full brightness it's just super bright and easy to see in bright sunlight with
the exception of maybe the brightest days so it's pretty good that way
and also like i said has hdr so if we go to one of my videos on youtube
you'll see i have a few hdr videos and if we go into that i'll turn it down
and if i push play you'll be able to see the vibrance of the display because it's
in hdr and this video is in hdr so you'll be
able to watch videos like this in hdr and also like i said the speakers
are okay but they do distort at high levels so i'll turn it up so you can
hear it where there's something different about
it so it really doesn't bother my eyes at any brightness level despite it and
you'll see it froze up there just a moment but that gives you an idea of
what it sounds like now also i wanted you to hear a little
bit more of the speakers in music not just my voice so take a listen as this
is a camera comparison i did between all of the latest iphones
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so it's very capable as far as the display goes but when it comes to the
camera that's where it's a little bit behind this year
that's because it doesn't have 4k hdr so if we switch to video
you can see behind it's not in hdr but we do have 4k
60. so we have higher resolutions with 60 frames per second
but if you care about hdr you'll want the latest phones because this doesn't
have it so if i hit record now you're seeing through the 11 pro max
it looks pretty good and in general it's quite nice so it
looks great overall now as far as the forward-facing camera
that's pretty great still it is 4k so let me show you a
sample from that and now i'm recording with the
forward-facing camera of the 11 pro max again it's not hdr i've boosted the
color a little bit since the video is hdr
but it looks great overall it's 4k 30 frames per second
or 60 and it does a great job boosting the background and just has great
dynamic range overall now one area where the iphone 11 pro max
is also behind is reception because it's got an intel
modem and not the latest qualcomm modem it's just not as good also it's not as
fast when it comes to overall speed so let's go into speed test and i'll
show you what i mean so we'll go down to speed test here let me find it
we'll go to speed test and we'll try it out so we'll hit go
and let's see what we get so you'll see we're running we're only at about
two to three megabits per second which is really poor
it's much faster on 5g here and i'll show you that side by side here
so you'll see we're getting five megabits per second on 4g and
that's for down we're only getting under one megabit per second
up now this can vary from time to time by based on how many people are using
the cell phone towers but i've seen it hit about 20 megabits
per second and about three megabits or four megabits per
second up where i am now so it's just not great when it comes to
that and reception overall isn't that great now overall performance
though is fine in fact you're probably not going to
notice the difference between a 12 pro max and at 11 pro max
unless you're doing something very intensive so scrolling is fine
just going between different apps opening apps going back maybe to music
going to browse you'll see it's going to load as long as the data is fast it'll
load fast and again this has to do with data more
than the actual speed of the processor but you'll see once it's loaded it's
nice and fast so i have no issues there performance is great and it will be
supported for years to come so you'll probably get up to ios 19 maybe
even ios 20 based on what they're doing these days
we don't really know how long they're going to support it but they still
support iphone 6s plus and 6s and se with ios 15. so it
seems to reason that we'll get updates for many many years now another
advantage it has is it doesn't seem to get as warm as the 12 pro max there's
something different different between the processors that
keeps it from getting super warm all of the time so that's a good thing
it won't dim the display like you get on the 12 pro max as often although if it
gets super hot it will try and cool itself off by dimming the display
but you generally don't see that as much as you do on a 12 pro max
now as far as battery life that's one area where the 11 pro max excels
it gets about 10 to 12 hours of screen on time when on a public version if
you're on a beta version you may get less
but if we go into my battery here you'll see that the battery health after using
it for a year wireless charging it only every single night is at 93
most people will get about 90 80 after two years as normal
and my general battery use is pretty good i've been using it 100
today recording video and you'll see i used about 25 percent of my battery
maybe a little bit more and had two hours of screen on time but
i did have someone send me in their battery and they're on the beta and
you'll see that they're running tick tock most of the time and they had
six hours and 39 minutes of screen on time
this wasn't great since they're on the beta but on
the next day they used about sixty percent of their battery life and had
four hours and one minutes of screen on time
with 47 minutes of screen off time and again i've been getting six to eight
hours of screen on time on the beta so i would expect that
on this device as well but expect it to get better once the final version is out
but generally 10 to 12 hours is normal it will easily get you through the day
and then of course you have battery cases and accessories if you want to use
those however you don't have magsafe so if you
want to use magsafe at 15 watts for wireless charging
you won't have that option but you do have normal wireless charging and fast
charging through the lightning port so that's not really much of an issue and
so the iphone 11 pro max is a pretty great phone that i can recommend
if you can get it at a reasonable price and it does have ip68 protection but
that doesn't mean you should swim with it i would normally recommend putting it
in a waterproof case as i've dropped mine in the past
in just about three feet of water not far from where i'm sitting now
and it didn't survive so it didn't last and i had to cover it with apple care so
there was a hundred dollar deductible now if you can get this at a less
expensive price and the reason i say that is apple no longer sells this phone
but they do sell it refurbished on their website
you can see 929 dollars for 256 gigabytes and if we go down you'll see
that for the 512 gigabyte model it's a
thousand ninety nine that's just too much for this phone when
you can get a 12 pro max for about the same price
and in the future about a month and a half from now you'll probably have the
iphone 13 at around the same price now if this was half off at a carrier or
you got it from a friend or someone sold it to you used
then it would be a great deal at around five or six hundred dollars but at the
current price refurbished i would recommend something else
but if you can get a discount on it i would definitely pick one up and so
that's it for the 11 pro max let me know what you think about it in the comments
below and also if you'd like to get your hands
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