hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and I've been using the iPhone 10s and
10's Mac since they came out and I've been using them all day long every
single day and I've come up with some good things and some bad things about
them now this reviews mostly going to focus on the 10s max since this is what
I've been using most of the time but know that the only differences really
are the battery size and the display size everything else is the same so
let's get started with the good and then we'll move on to the negative the first
good thing is the display the display is a super Retina display 6.5 inch it's as
good as last year's and then some it's 2688 by 12 42 458 pixels per inch and
the great thing about it is it's now HD are 10 compliant so it's an HDR display
that's fully supported and it's super color accurate it's great in bright
sunlight there's no problem seeing it whatsoever and it's definitely something
that you have to see to appreciate but I think anyone that uses this would be
very very happy with that display now with that display comes a couple
advantages with iOS you no longer get the landscape that you did with the
iPhone 8 plus on the home screen but you do get the landscape style notes in the
Notes app and different applications that support it with the larger keyboard
on its side so just depending on which one you're using you will get that other
times you just won't now the next positive thing is the
speakers the speakers sound great they're even louder and better than last
year and I mean better in the sense that they have wider stereo as Apple calls it
and that's true it definitely sounds more in stereo you can hear things more
clearly and it's nice and loud so take a listen you can see there's light dark
dynamic and we'll just leave it at dynamic but there's a lot of other
really nice wallpapers in here and I'll be sure to link those in the description
now the next good thing for me is the battery now the battery is not
phenomenal like it was when you were going
from say a six to a six plus it's more than it's maybe a half hour to an hour
and a half of extra usage if you look at my battery on time over the last ten
days or so I get about four to five hours of screen on time now don't
confuse this with iOS 11s usage time it's not the same thing this is actual
screen on time and then screen off time is when things are playing in the
background maybe of music in the background so I'm getting about four to
five hours of screen on time in about an hour of off time and then it's in
standby it will easily last me through a day with that but I'm only getting about
an hour more than I would on the iPhone 10 the next positive is the new a 12
Bionic chip is really fast now it wasn't slow last year you can see according to
Geekbench scores it's marginally faster according to Apple its 14% faster but
when you're exporting video such as 4k video in iMovie it really is pretty
quick it's about a three minute movie exporting in about three minutes at 4k
sixty so that's pretty impressive Mac books have a problem doing that
sometimes now playing games is really fast and smooth frame rates are really
solid you have no issues there and if we play through one of the games you'll see
that it's smooth the whole way it's super fast and while I'm not the best at
this game you'll see how quick and smooth everything is so I didn't last
very long here but I was able to play it and hopefully you can see that it's nice
and smooth now if you want to switch between applications it's super fast
we'll go into the racing game back out to the App Store back over to Fortnight
and everything's just super smooth and fast and that's what really is
impressive the next good thing is improved LTE
speeds Apple says you should be able to get much improved speeds and of course
this is going to be carrier dependent but I'm on t-mobile testing this out
you'll see on the Left I have the iPhone 10 and on the right the 10s max and it
is a little bit better so it seems to be true now with Wi-Fi I noticed a huge
improvement I actually have gigabit internet speeds but on Wi-Fi I get about
177 down on the from 10 whereas I'm getting almost
double that or more on the iPhone 10's max so it's pretty good over Wi-Fi and
it seems to definitely be an improvement over last year
the next good thing is ip68 certification that means it's more
resistant to water and dust but you can't go swimming with it Apple doesn't
cover water damage still so if you swim with it and it's damaged they're not
going to cover it or replace it for free but it does mean it should survive a
drop into a puddle or pool now the next good thing is the camera the new cameras
are really fantastic they're 12 megapixel cameras one has an F 1.8
aperture the other has an F 2.4 with a telephoto lens on it and they've got
larger pixels and they've both got optical image stabilization they work
well and let me show you what that looks like
the photos that the 10s and the 10s max take are really nice you can even see
the little water drops very clear on the flower but one thing it has that's new
is actually a portrait mode that allows you to adjust depth afterward now I
tried this on an object other than just a face because you have to use the
front-facing depth camera so if you click at it here or tap at it you can
adjust the depth but you'll see if I go as blurred as I can on the background it
doesn't really recognize objects that only recognize faces so if we go to this
next photo here if I go to edit you'll see I can adjust it here as well
go back and forth so it works okay it starts to fuzz out the hair quite a bit
right here so it's not perfect other phones have had this for a while but it
is a nice feature to add
the video part of the camera is probably the most impressive thing the autofocus
is super fast it also is so fast you'll never know what's not in focus so if I
transition their comeback it's super super fast and everything is always in
focus and of course you can just tap to focus if you want the background tap on
the tree again it's incredible how good this autofocus is on this camera it has
optical image stabilization on both this lens and the zoom lens so you can zoom
in and unlike the 8 plus or the larger size phones before the actual optical
endless image stabilization is on both lenses so it works out really nice
unlike last year's camera if you look up into the sky it's much better it can
handle the brightness much better it has much better dynamic range in the shadows
and all the way to bright you'll see the transitions really nice the first bad
thing is front-facing camera while it's pretty good most of the time it has this
effect that can be fixed in software but it will smooth your face out and if you
look at the iPhone 10 versus the 10s max you can see it looks like I almost have
makeup on I think they'll fix this in the future
to give us a toggle but right now it's not great the next bad thing is the
price the price is incredibly expensive starting at $1000 for the 10s or $1,099
for the 10s max all the way up to fourteen hundred and forty nine dollars
for the top-of-the-line 512 gigabyte model while it's a nice phone I don't
think any phone at this point is really worth that amount of money you may have
a different opinion but I think the majority thinks that's a little bit too
expensive and I'd have to say I agree with that the next bad thing is glass
now this is kind of good and bad the whole phone is glass from
and it's more durable glass this time so if you drop the phone chances are it's
not going to break as easily many tests have shown that but it's still glass and
a lot of the time that's used for wireless charging and to make the phone
feel more premium but because you can't easily replace the back on this it's 500
or 600 dollars to replace the back glass so put a case on it or make sure you
have Apple care to at least cover that expense
while there aren't a whole lot of negatives with this device the final
negative for me is the charging and the charging on this is really unacceptable
with the included adapter of 5 watts you really need an iPad adapter at
minimum included or maybe even the 29 watt adapter and that still charges it
from 0 to 100 in over 2 hours so it's not technically fast charging even
though Apple includes the ability to fast charge that is Apple's fast
charging so it's not really what other people are doing it won't even compete
with other companies when it comes to fast charging so that's kind of
something that's a little disappointing for some others though don't really seem
to mind it as much it just depends on how you use your phone so that's the
good and the bad of the 10s and the 10s max hopefully that gives you a better
idea of whether or not you want to put your money towards it and you think it's
worth the very expensive price let me know what you think in the comments
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thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time