hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and in 2019 Apple has a fairly robust yet
somewhat confusing lineup of iPhones and so I want to try and help you decide
which one is best for you now if you don't follow Apple regularly this can be
fairly confusing even if you do follow them regularly their lineup has been
pretty confusing lately so we have five different offerings or styles of iPhone
currently available we have the iPhone 7 we have the 8 and 8 plus so we
still have the 7 and 7 plus I just don't have both of those here we
have the 8 and 8 plus we have the XR the XS in the XS Max and
all of these are very good phones and none of them are bad there are just
different features and build depending on which one you choose so you need to
know that they're offering five different ones two of them come in
different sizes we also have different colors and materials so as far as colors
are concerned in the iPhone 7 and 7 plus this is a jet-black color that isn't
currently offered but they do offer space grey silver gold and rose gold for
the iPhone 8 plus we have a similar lineup and then we get the most colors
with the iPhone XR this is the current product red edition but we have all
sorts of colors for this one you can do the Space Gray and silver but you've
also got a bunch of other colors as well that all look really nice from blue to
yellow and then let's flip this one over the tennis is in Space Gray and then
silver for the XS Max and all of them are really nice they're all really
well-built and they are made out of different materials depending on which
one you choose so if you choose the iPhone 7 you're going to get aluminum on
the back the back of this is aluminum the front is glass and that is the
difference between all of these these all have wireless charging with the
exception of iPhone 7 so if wireless charging is a decision as a deciding
factor or a decision-making factor for you you want to go with an 8 plus or
newer then you'll get wireless charging by setting these on a wireless charging
pad the iPhone 7 and 7 plus don't have that but it is aluminum it might be a
little bit more durable because it doesn't have glass on the back but
that's something you get with the 7 and 7 plus with the iPhone 8 you retain the
traditional design with the touch ID fingerprint sensor but
you've got wireless charging and a little bit faster processor and we'll
talk more about that in a moment so those are the deciding factors right
there so if you want that traditional design but you have to have wireless
charging this is the way to go with an 8 or 8 plus now if you have to have face
ID but you don't want to spend a ton of money
you've got the iPhone XR and the XR has an LCD display as does the 7 + 7 + +
8 + 8 + and we have a liquid retina LCD display on the XR now some people say
this isn't a great display I tend to disagree it's a very nice display and
most people have shown this side by side with the XS Max can't tell the
difference as far as quality some people can or say they can but I've yet to find
anyone that really can but this is a great option it has the face ID sensor
if you like that lock the phone unlock it with your face and you're good to go
and that's very convenient for some I do know some that don't like face IDs so if
you don't like face ID you've got two choices currently it's also flip the XS
over this is a little bit faster and again this one and the XS Max are a
little bit different in that they are made of stainless steel instead of
aluminum these outside rings are stainless steel and that gives it
durability but also shows more scratches if you don't have in a case so the XS
max has some scratches just from trying to plug it in here and that's normal it
will scratch a little bit kind of like those old iPods if you had an older iPod
with the stainless steel back it was highly polished it will scratch over
time just like that now of course another deciding factor is screen size
from 4.7 inches all the way to 6.5 so if that's a major factor for you that is
going to easily help you determine which phone to get but as far as overall speed
and everything else they're more similar than you would think we've got the a10
processor all the way up to the a12 Bionic and if you go through all of
these they all kind of do the same thing with the exception of the forward facing
cameras now the rear facing cameras on all of them are quite good if we go into
the camera on this I'm not sure where where it is on this film out there it is
let me open it the rear facing camera is quite good in fact most people if you're
posting on Instagram or social media this is going
to be fine if you're trying to record 4k high quality video it will do that so it
just depends on what you're trying to do with it but when it comes to
forward-facing cameras well these three are the same because they have the true
depth sensor that allows you to do an emoji and things like that if we go into
the camera we have portrait mode here it will track
your face do portrait with a true depth camera and then of course we can do memo
G or an emoji and you can do this with all of these phones here from the XR
and newer and of course one of the major factors for most people is price and if
we take a look at the price currently we've got 449 all the way up to fourteen
forty nine or one thousand four hundred and forty nine dollars which in my
opinion is just absurd for an iPhone it's more than some mac books that they
offer or iPads so here we have 449 for the base iPhone 7 and then we step up as
we go along and one thing you can do now the apples
pushing quite a lot is if you have an iPhone 6s plus for example or an iPhone
6s or six you can upgrade for the to the XR for 449 so this is a great value for
that price and it's a great phone and now of course if you want that dual
camera you're going to have to go with a plus phone if you want to use zoom or
one of the XS and XS Max phones as these both have dual cameras and the
dual cameras I find that with zooming this actually does a pretty good job
with digital zoom so let me show you some of the camera pictures side-by-side
we'll go through a couple of them and I'll just show you the exact same photo
side-by-side taken on each one of them and then I'll show you one zoomed as
well so that you can see what it looks like
they all have video stabilization they all do a great job with video and I
think you'll find that they're all quite good but take a look at the photos from
this
so when it comes to photos at night these three are going to be a little bit
better just because that's what Apple focused on with these cameras they made
them a little bit better at night and it does have that going for it also when it
comes to speed while the processors are a little bit different they're not as
different as you would think so when you're doing something such as opening
music we're gonna just open music here I'll go to four you go to library you'll
see they both act equally fast there's not really an issue with simple apps
like that if you want to open something a little bit more advanced see what we
have here if we want to open something like Minecraft you'll see on the oldest
phone here and the newest one they hold this one's actually beating it a little
bit and I find this to be true in every single test I do and I don't know if
that has to do with the way Apple works with the processor on this phone or not
but we'll hit continue and I'll just load a world so I can show you how fast
it is on the fastest and the slowest that we have here so we'll create a new
one create new and then create and I'll show you how fast it loads this is a
typical thing I find on these phones so this one should be faster in theory but
it's not and that's what I find over and over so that doesn't mean this one is
slow by any means it just means with this particular game
it may not be as optimized but what I'm trying to show you by that is don't be
afraid to get an iPhone 7 or 7 plus because if you play games a lot you're
probably going to experience the same speed sometimes faster load speeds on
the older processors as they can speed up their processor faster than you can
on the newer phones for some reason this seems to be pretty typical in every test
I've run now before we talk about the displays and battery life I wanted to
show you one more speed test where we're going to compare the speed in which they
can export 4k video and 4k video is one of the most intensive things to export
not only on a phone but also a laptop or desktop computer so I've got iMovie here
I've got nothing open on any one of these devices
I've got iMovie with a project here and they're all the same project now this
one's showing a little bit different even though it's the exact same file
I've moved them over and it's just airdrop them to each one and it's 1
minute and 14 seconds long so let me go ahead and
share these and you'll see we have the option for 4k on all of them now I'll
try to press them at the same time I'm not sure I can do that
but let's see what we can do here and we'll let go and they're all running at
the same time I'll speed this up so you don't have to wait but let's see what
they do
now this one is going incredibly fast now there is a little bit of a an
asterisk here and the reason is is this one is not HEV C encoded this one is H
dot 264 encoded so that's going to be a little bit faster than the older or the
newer devices because these are all in HEV C to get that same file here you
have to record in H.264 so you'll see that was incredible fat incredibly
fast but if you're sending an HEVC file to it it has to convert anyway so this
one is going to be quicker now even with last year's processor here and this
year's processor here we're very very even as far as speed is concerned this
probably exported faster than a computer would at this point it's incredible how
fast iPhones can export 4k video
and you'll see they're all very close in fact the older devices are actually
faster in in exporting and this is the case in every video I've done this test
in there's nothing special being done here and let's just see if they're warm
at all the iPhone 7 is not warm the 8 plus is not warm at all XR maybe a
little bit right there maybe that's kind of where the encoder is on the chipset
same thing it's not very warm this one's a little bit warm right in here but very
very minor not very hot at all so that's pretty impressive
and basically that just goes to show that you can use any one of these phones
to do 4k video and video editing if you want to on the go now when it comes to
the displays of these only one of these displays does not have 3d touch and
that's the XR the XR has haptic touch so if you try and 3d press on
Instagram for example it doesn't do anything but if I do the same thing over
here it will pop out and that's something that's really nice if you're
used to that it's going to be difficult to pick the XR if you're not used to it
then it won't matter at all but you do get some of the same sort of peak and
pop functions especially in the control center you can do that here you'll see
you can push on it just like you could in the XS and the XR does the same
thing so you've got some of those functions all throughout the control
center but you've got you don't get those with the the applications now they
may add this in the future but they haven't yet now again when it comes to
the displays I'm not going to talk about specific resolution but know that these
two are OLED displays and a much higher resolution however because of the size
of the displays when you're looking at these first this they're very similar as
far as the way they look now some people say based off the resolution of the 10r
they can tell the only people I've had be able to tell is around the edges here
where it gets a little bit fuzzy and that's because they actually make the
pixels themselves smaller to try and fudge that edge instead of using just a
picture and keeping it a square edge it's actually a curved edge under a
microscope so it works really well I think most people
will love this especially if it's in a case you're not even gonna notice the
edge but compared to these these are much more vibrant displays on the XS
and XS Max they're also much higher resolution and OLED so they'll show
deeper blacks more vibrant colors so keep that in mind
they are definitely better looking but there's also something else to keep in
mind and this is only going to affect one in ten people now many people seem
to bring this up but it's called pulse width modulation or PWM OLED displays
flicker they're flickering all the time you can't see them with your eye but
under certain frame rates you can actually see this and this can affect
people's eyes that constrain them and also make some people feel nauseated so
just keep that in mind that's pretty rare it's one in ten in fact I'm
affected by this so that's why I bring it up if I look at a XS or XS Max for
too long that affects me looking at LCDs it doesn't affect me because apples not
using that and what that means is it flickers the screen at different rates
based on its brightness the brighter it is the least the less it's going to
flicker when it brings the display down and brightness it's going to flicker
more and it will even though you can't actually see it you can feel the effects
of it so if you're looking at it all day it could cause eye strain again that's
not most people now the other thing to keep in mind with these displays is
these are LCD displays so the LCD displays are known technology they work
really well and they're less expensive to replace if you break them and you
don't have Apple care so keep that in mind
these are going to be much more expensive about one to two hundred
dollars more where these are usually about 150 these can be 250 to 300
dollars to replace these displays now when it comes to the battery the XR is
the winner here and the reason for that is the lower resolution display now in
generic tests where you just run them all day this actually isn't the best but
in everyone's day to day use you'll find that this is the best by far usually by
a good hour so and that means six to seven or even eight hours of screen on
time depending on your usage and that doesn't mean it's like the older iPhones
where it showed you actually usage time this is completely different than that
they changed it with iOS 12 you is the amount of time the screen is
actually on now so screen on time this one is going to win and usually the XS
max after that they're going to be very similar between these two for battery
but they will get the best then these two the 8 plus and the XS are going to
be very similar the XS may actually beat it in some circumstances depends on
a lot of different factors of how you use it but that is something to keep in
mind the 7 and 7 plus are also good but these are the XR is actually better
now when it comes to charging you can fast charge these newer phones much
faster especially wirelessly and if you have a macbook charger such as this and
you really got to charge it quickly you can do that on the go if you have a
macbook charger already you just need the cable that goes from USBC to
lightning and you can charge it much more quickly so you have that option and
then also when it comes to something that people don't normally consider LTE
reception or phone reception there seems to be a problem with these three new
phones compared to these these tend to have better cell signal and reception
and Wi-Fi over time for some reason Apple had to switch to a different
antenna or not necessarily antenna but different company they had to switch all
these to Intel now some of these use Intel modems as well but there's
something different about these three devices that could be due to the design
of them and the way the antenna is around the outside we're not really sure
but Apple has not technically acknowledged it but many many people
complain about it so if your number one thing is making phone calls you may want
to go with one of these because they seem to be pretty tried-and-true
so that's really it between all of these hopefully that gives you a good idea as
to which one you should buy of course if you want to save some money you've got
these three here the XR is a great choice if you want all the modern
features but you also want a less expensive phone with great battery life
but let me know which one you would pick in the comments below or which one you
have picked if you're going to get an iPhone or you just got one I'd love to
hear what you have to say in the comments below or even maybe an older
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always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time