Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and iphone 10r has been out for a couple years and this year
apple decided to keep it in the lineup along with the iphone 12. with the announcement
of the iphone 12 12 mini 12 pro and 12 pro max they also kept the 11 and the 10r surprisingly
and so the 10r has been out for a couple years and i want to talk about if you should buy one
how it's been and its overall durability and more and so the first thing is this phone is now 4.99
as an alternative to a device that doesn't have face id such as the se you can step up from 399
to 499 and get an iphone 10r now so that's the current going price if you want to buy one new of
course you could probably find one of these fairly inexpensively or with a deal through your carrier
now this particular phone like i said is a couple years old let me turn the screen off and you can
see it has some fingerprints and i don't have a screen protector on it but it's actually held
up pretty well i think that's a testament to the glass that's on here as compared to
what we have with the iphone 11 for example so with the iphone 10r this glass seems to be more
durable or resistant against scratches but will shatter more easily if you drop it and so this
particular phone is held up well the outside edge of course seems to be just fine no issues there
and it seems to be holding up well i don't have any scratches on the camera lens or anything like
that so it looks really good and i think it's a fairly durable phone and of course most people
are just going to put a screen protector on it and then of course put a case on it as well and if you
do those things it should hold up really well it's also ip resistant or ip water resistant although i
wouldn't bring it in a pool without putting it in maybe a waterproof case or something along those
lines now one of the most controversial things about this particular phone was its display
resolution it's got a liquid retina display which is lcd and this offers some advantages in some
ways usually lcds tend to last longer as far as their color accuracy over time but this is a lower
resolution than the newer iphone 12 and 12 pro for example with oled displays now that said most
people can't see the pixels you probably can't see them right now and the screen is nice and vibrant
it doesn't go as bright as some of the others that are oled for example but it seems to do just
fine we're on a cloudy day right now and outside and it seems to be okay although it is at full
brightness so if i bring over an 11 pro max and turn the screen up all the way you can see here
that it's a little bit brighter not terribly brighter but it is a little bit brighter on the
11 pro max and it seems to be just fine outside for most people i don't think it'll be a problem
unless you're in direct sunlight but one one thing you do get with this display is the lack of pwm
the display is lcd so it doesn't flicker you don't have the the brightness of the display controlled
by flickering the display like an oled so if you're sensitive to light if you're sensitive to
flashing light or just flicker on a monitor this doesn't have that so that's an advantage of the
10r and the 11 which would share the exact same display so you're going to get that on this phone
now the speakers of the phone seem to be holding up well you've got the bottom speakers of course
and then one at the top and they seem to be nice and loud so here's my ios 14.1 gm video
let me turn it up now let me explain myself a bit because this is a little strange what apple
did now earlier today apple released ios 14.2 beta 3. i did a video on that on my iphone 11 pro max
so as you can see they go nice and loud outside and there doesn't seem to be an issue hearing them
they're still nice and loud of course this has not been used every day for two years since this
was not my main phone but in general it's been holding up really well now even though this is
a couple years old and doesn't have the latest cpu in it the a13 or a14 it's still plenty fast
it opens applications fast animations are smooth opening things like music you'll see
take just a moment due to my internet connection but things in general are nice and smooth and fast
so you really shouldn't expect any slowdowns here you shouldn't have any issues whatsoever
and using it still feels basically the same as an 11 pro max or maybe even a 12 once i get my
hands on that i'll have to find out but in general it's nice and fast and you really shouldn't have
any issues so it will support software for years probably at least another three years minimum at
this point where we'll get maybe to ios 17 maybe 18 for support with the 10r we'll have to wait and
see of course that's years away and then there's another thing that i really like about the iphone
10r and that's its camera even though it has just one camera it's a really great camera in fact i've
used it multiple times for video because it has less color shift when you're taking video so if
you put a phone in front of this for example and you're recording the display so maybe we take my
11 pro max put it back here the color does not shift that much when you're using it so it keeps
the display nice and clear consistent when you're using it for video and of course you can record in
4k so let's change it to 4k 60 and you can see we have the option for 4k 60 and it seems to
work really well you shouldn't have any issues now with 4k 24 4k 30 you may get a little bit
better color due to the neural engine in it but in general it really works well and the camera is
fast not only for video but of course photos you can snap a photo nice and fast it keeps up and has
most of the modern features that you're going to get with everything else minus the night shot mode
so you won't get that that mode where you can use it in really low light so you if that's something
important to you of course it won't do that but you do have a flash if you want to take photos at
night and you need to light them up a little bit with well fairly harsh light but it does seem to
work well and this is still a video camera that i can use today outside in fact if i had another 10r
i was going to record this video with it because you'll find that the footage is really good
now the forward-facing camera is pretty good but it's only hd so it can do hd 60 frames per second
and it's not stabilized as you can see i'm walking and it's a little jittery
the color is okay i think it's acceptable but if you want 4k you're going to have to go with
an 11 11 pro or 12 or something like that so don't expect it to be 4k video out of the front
but if you want to use the rear camera that seems to work just fine now as far as battery life this
phone let's see what the battery health is at you can see we're actually on low battery
now i need to charge this but battery health is at 100 percent now like i said keep in mind this
was not my main phone for the the majority of the time i've used it for months at a time but it was
not used over the past two years 100 percent but you still will get the 80 battery capacity over
two years or so maybe better depending on how you charge and how often you use it you'll see them
at 13 so i definitely need to charge it soon and it really holds up well it will get you through
a day most people don't seem to have an issue but the main thing is is do you like these rounded off
corners because the iphone 12 is changing that and this is not a real iphone 12 but it's just one to
show you an example it's going to be squared off and of course i'll have videos on them once i get
my hands on them but you're going to go back to the 5 and 5s or iphone 4 squared off design which
i actually prefer and i find it easier to hold on to accessories go on easier and you can make the
phone a little bit narrower because of that but with this phone if pwm is a concern of yours with
making the screen flicker when it's actually using brightness or if you just want something that's
inexpensive that you don't have to worry about as much or you just want a great camera and not want
to pay a ton of money this is actually a great option and i still highly recommend it and again
you're going to get all of those ios 14 15 updates and probably quite a few into the future and so
i highly recommend the iphone 10r especially if you can get it on discount maybe you get it used
pick it up from a friend or maybe you inherit it from a relative it's still a great phone and
it's really there's no reason to upgrade from it to the new ones unless there's specific features
that you want you won't miss out on speed even if you're taking and editing 4k video on here it's
plenty fast now i haven't compared that with the 12 so we'll have to wait and see but in general
i can highly recommend this phone but let me know what you think about it in the comments below if
you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like
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