hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone 10 has been out for about a
year or so I've been using it every single day since it came out until the
iPhone XS max came out and then the iPhone X are so I wanted to talk about
how its held up whether or not you should pick one up or upgrade from your
X to the XS and compare between those and just see how the battery health is
and whether or not it's still a good value if you're trying to get your hands
on one so let's take a look now the actual design of the X carries over to
the XS and as you can see this one is in pretty good shape this has been used
for an entire year without a screen protector or a case for the most part
and as far as scratches on it and things like that
I don't think you're going to find too many and now if you have the other model
let me set this one down if you have the other model you may see a lot more
scratches along the bottom here this has been an in case the entire time so this
one is held up exceptionally well there's no scrapes around the outside
edges just on the bottom you might see some very light ones in the correct
light otherwise it looks brand new so if you keep it in a case it's fine and then
this one has not used a screen protector the entire time and I don't think you're
going to find really many scratches on it it's held up remarkably well for the
glass that's on it and probably better than some of my other phones so this one
is doing really well that way now as far as the overall feel of it it feels built
a little bit better to me than the newer phones and I'll show you that in a
moment but the actual tolerances seem to be tighter and I don't know why that is
maybe they spent a lot more time on this one and wanted to get it right and
that's why it came out a little bit later last year but it overall feels
very nice and put together really well all the buttons work just fine they're
nice and clicky and they're durable just like most iPhones all the buttons
usually hold up pretty well we haven't had issues with that since the iPhone 4
era now the display has held up really well over time as well now one thing to
know is this is an OLED display if you weren't aware already so that means it
gives off its own light and after a few years those can dim but this one seems
to be okay now here is a XS and next to a brand new XS will set them at the
same brightness levels in fact let's turn them both all the way up so they're
going to look a little bit blown out here on this camera but they're very
bright they're about equal maybe this one is a little bit more dim the 10 but
it's about the same the colors seem to be very close let's turn them both down
to about the same right there and colors are going to look about the same now if
we turn them way down you can still see just as well and they're about the same
brightness either way no matter how you're using them so let's trim this
back up so we can see it and the phone itself like I said it's held up well now
some people say this design ages quickly for me personally it still feels fairly
fresh but for some people because we have the larger max phone it feels a
little bit more fresh but for some people it seems old some articles are
reporting that I guess that could be the case just depends on your view on it now
as far as burnin I've had no issues with burnin let me switch to a screen so we
can see it now I have an all white background and this is to check for
burnin and different ghosting of icons that might have been there such as the
battery indicator you'll see there's no no indication that that's there
whatsoever I don't see it anywhere on the display and they've done a good job
of shifting pixels around to prevent burnin that's a common thing on OLED
displays and apple has combated that using whatever technology they're using
to shift those pixels around now as far as battery over time this is a question
I get all the time is how should I charge my phone and everything so know
that this phone and the other iPhone X I'll show you in a moment
we're charged without caring about it whatsoever when I'm in a vehicle I plug
it in to use apple carplay or use the cars audio system and charge it if I'm
at home I charge this overnight every single night for an entire year so I
don't monitor the battery or anything like that I put it on a wireless charger
or whatever is available I usually use an apple charger or a wireless charger
I'll link in the description now as far as that goes
let's check the battery here so here is battery health after one year on my
iPhone X and here's battery health on the
iPhone X this is actually my wife's phone and after one year of charging it
the exact same way 97% so it's okay if you have less than
that Apple says it's okay for 80% after two years but this is without doing
anything to monitor the battery this is just plugging it in charging it
overnight leaving it on the charger every single night and having no issues
and that's the battery capacity that's left so it's holding up pretty well that
way now as far as the speed is concerned inside this we have the A11 Bionic chip
3 gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigs of storage in this particular model and
it's plenty fast this is the A12 Bionic in the XS and let's take a few tests
will do a geek bench and then open a couple applications and see how it does
now before we run the geek bench I just want to show you the display differences
between the two you'll see this is the X this is the XS and you'll see both
of them have true tone off brightnesses about the same and night shift is off on
both of them so there are some differences I would say the 10 looks a
little bit better than the XS but that's just my opinion so let's go ahead
and close that let's close both our apps or all our
apps here we'll go back into geek bench and see what we get so we'll wait for it
to load it's taking a little bit longer to load on the 10s there we go we'll go
to CPU and we'll run now both of these are on the same version iOS 12.1 so if
you go back you can see that but iOS 12.1 on both of them run benchmark and
let's see what the results are when this is done now both of them have completed
and you'll see that the score differences are not as great as you
might expect but they're very similar 4821 first four thousand two hundred and
seventy seven and eleven thousand five hundred and eighty-two verse ten
thousand seven hundred and thirty two so they're both very close you're not going
to notice slowdowns on the iPhone 10 so let's go home here and then let's open
minecraft and then we're gonna do one more test just to compare them to show
you the differences so we'll open up minecraft here this is the first time
they've been in stalled and opened on both phones so
wait for it to load again you can see that that difference in color as well
okay we'll just sign out of that we don't want to sign in will it continue
on both will hit play will create new will create a new world and create and
this can take a moment to load but you'll see the iPhone X is doing quite
well and they're both about the same in fact the XS was a little bit slower so
it's not bad whatsoever and you'll see if I scroll back here this is the XS
with the 11,000 Geekbench and the X so and then they were both resumed pretty
quickly and they're super fast both of them let's do one more quick test as far
as a comparison and then we'll talk about whether or not you should buy one
now I have iMovie loaded on both of the phones you'll see I have a 4 minute and
37 second project it's a 4k video of something I haven't released yet but
it's the same video on both I have the X on the left XS on the right and
let's bring in the XS Max as a stopwatch we'll slide these over here
and let's see how long it takes to export them so we'll hit done and then
we'll share both of them we'll hit save video and then we'll hit 4k and see if I
can hit start at the same time there we go and let's see how they do
so the iPhone 10 exported more quickly than the 10s so we'll wait for that to
finish and now both of them are done so they're very close but it's surprising
that the XS actually is a little bit slower so both of them are good and
you'll see there was a little studdering there but both of them are good but that
part was pretty surprising now both of these have face ID and I wanted to show
you a quick comparison whether or not it's that big of a deal so if we let's
unlock them again we'll just tap the screens and you'll see they unlocked at
about the same time but they're very close and we'll try it again and that
one time it didn't work so the conclusion of this as far as face ID
goes is face ID I've been using it for over a year now but I also let my
brother use this phone since he didn't have this one and he said his one
complaint was face ID he was coming from an 8 plus and face ID works fine it does
work well but I also miss touch ID now I may be in the minority there as far as
that is concerned but I prefer touch ID over face ID as far as its speed is
concerned especially in the morning when you're trying to look directly at a
bright phone things like that I just find the easier it's just my personal
opinion on that now whether or not you should buy an iPhone X now is up to you
they don't technically sell them anymore so but compared to the X in the XS if
you don't already have a X I would go for the XS but if you already have a X
I would definitely not upgrade you're basically getting a better camera on the
XS a little bit better camera you've got better speakers the speakers on this
are great but you have a wider stereo sound basically they made the speaker
louder in the new one and so both of them sound more stereo if you're
watching a video this way and then the other thing too is it's got the newer
processor in the new one but you saw from the tests that in real world tests
it doesn't really make that much of a difference the difference comes with a
lot of AR applications so if you're using those that's where you'll see the
difference so let me know what you think though in the comments below do you like
the X did you upgrade if you have one or
had one or do you think it's worth picking up if you can find one now since
they don't make it anymore but if you can find them in stores leftover and
things you could still pick one up let me know your thoughts in the comments
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thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time