Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iPhone XR is one of those phones
that you either love or maybe you've heard some bad things about regarding
its display and you've kind of avoided altogether however i wanted to help you
decide if you should still buy it in 2022. now apple discontinued it this
past year as being sold new on apple.com or within the apple store but you can
still pick it up refurbished from them from around 400 or so however you can
get it used between three and five hundred dollars and at that price it may
be a really great value for some it's probably the least expensive phone in
this point at this point with face id so if you like face id of course it has
face id and i wanted to go over not only price and things like that but
durability and more now durability wise it's had this case on it and this is the
apple clear case and quite a few people really like these cases because they
don't seem to yellow over time however you can see that there's actually a
crack or fracture down my case and that's from removing it over and over
they seem to become a little bit brittle and that's something that i've seen on
multiple clear cases from apple so if you remove your phone from these cases a
lot i wouldn't recommend it but if you want a clear case to show off the back
of the phone or you just enjoy the color that you picked such as product red that
i have here then i would recommend picking one up otherwise if you remove
it a lot of course it's going to crack and it cracks fairly easily they're hard
to remove and that might be part of the problem so you'll see here's the crack
here and like i said it's protected the phone well it has a lot of scratches on
it from being set down but in general it does a pretty good job so i recommend
them but not if you're going to be removing your phone from it a lot now
durability wise the 10 hours display has been holding up pretty well it does have
a few scratches just like the 11 series phones that seem to not hold up as well
as maybe the current ceramic shield but it has some scratches on the oleophobic
coating and that's pretty easy to fix by just putting a screen protector on it so
if you're concerned about that of course you can just put a screen protector the
frame overall has held up well this is the product red edition and it has an
aluminum frame and it might have a few specs here and there where it's actually
lost some of its coating but generally they hold up pretty well as long as
you're not bumping them into maybe a ring or something along those lines so
as long as you're not really smacking it into something you've got it in a case
they'll hold up really well even if you don't have it in a case as long as you
take good care of your phone you won't have a problem the back glass is held up
well the camera lens really has no issues whatsoever it seems to have not
had a single scratch on it and it's doing well also so durability wise the
10r seems to be pretty good now of course like i said it has face id and
face id works nice and fast no problems really with that it's fairly sunny out
and it works fine in this light so if i unlock the phone it works fine no issues
there but the display is not super smooth as you may have seen when i
unlock it compared to maybe a new pro motion display on the 13 pro max or 13
pro so you will have fairly smooth scrolling when it comes to ios in
general you typically get that but as far as the smoothness you get
with promotion you're just not going to get those latest features but that's
okay because it's not the latest phone one of the major complaints of this is
its display it's between 720 and 1080p it's 1792 by 828 pixels with 326 pixels
per inch that's not really an issue for me but some people seem to think it's an
issue if you're looking at one directly you can't see the pixels and as we get
closer unless you get really close maybe with a macro lens you're not going to
notice any difference i've shown this multiple times to people that do
videography full-time film things and they didn't notice any difference next
to an iphone 10 when that was out i showed them and maybe you'll see some
fuzzing around the edges as they sort of shrink the pixels to get that bended
curve or the liquid retina display as apple calls it however it seems to be
fine so the other good thing about it is it doesn't have pwm to control
brightness you'll see i'm at full brightness and it's not using pwm or
flashing the display faster or slower to control brightness that's something that
seems to bother quite a few people's eyes about 1 in 10 myself included and i
often found myself going back to the iphone 10r when that was an issue on
some of the early apple oled displays it's not so much of an issue today with
the latest displays but on the 10r that's one benefit of it it has pretty
good viewing angles and it's fairly bright but we're outside in bright
sunlight recording this in hdr and it seems to do okay although it's not as
bright as the latest oleds where they go up to 1200 nits of brightness for hdr
and right now we're around nits so it's not super bright but it's
good enough to see in sunlight as you can see here the speakers have held up
well of course you've got your speaker and microphone on the bottom with your
speaker at the top with a decent stereo sound so no issues there they've held up
fine they're not as loud as the latest phones but they're plenty loud for most
people and most people will have no issues with it as far as the battery
life this is an area where it's a pretty good phone because it's not pushing a
ton of pixels it will get between five to seven hours of battery life or screen
on time typically between five and six for most people but it varies depending
on use and this device i didn't use it full time all of the time so it has one
hundred percent battery health but typically you'll get about eighty
percent after two years as apple intended and then you can replace the
battery for around 60 or so dollars and continue using it at full speed so it's
a nice and fast phone it has apple's a12 bionic in it and it seems to not really
have an issue whatsoever so you can play the latest games whether that be
minecraft or something else you can go through your app library and scroll
pretty much like the same as any other device let's load minecraft here and
just see how long it takes so we'll give it just a moment
so we'll hit create we'll wait for it to create a new world and this is not as
fast as the latest devices i showed this in a comparison between all of them in a
recent video where i showed it between the iphone se and everything apple
currently sells and these devices are pretty fast once they're loaded you'll
get good frame rates and more but loading them in general takes a little
bit of time so they won't load as fast but if you're playing minecraft or call
of duty or something else they should be just fine once they're loaded you just
won't get into the games as fast however if you're recording 4k video with it it
can export that video no problem in the camera on it is great the rear camera is
4k 60 so you have the option if we go here to video 4k 60 as you can see here
in the options however the one thing you don't have is hdr so you don't have the
option of hdr like the latest phones with dolby vision hdr but you have 4k 60
which is fine for most but the forward-facing camera is a little
lacking so if we go into the forward-facing camera you can see i'm
recording here with the camera and my microphone and if we hit record we have
hd at 60 frames per second so let me change it to the current frame rate
and now we're recording with the forward-facing camera of the iphone 10r
you can hear the microphone from it the background is a bit washed out and i've
brightened it so it would match this video but either way it's just not that
great as compared with the latest phones so if you get something newer you're
going to have a much better experience when it comes to the
forward-facing camera the microphone should be okay as well but it's still
not going to be as good as maybe a studio mic or something like that but it
should get you by if you wanted to record this and put this on youtube
now as far as the reception of this device it's pretty good it's actually
better than some of the other phones when they came out and i don't know if
that has to do with the aluminum since that doesn't seem to make a whole lot of
sense to me but the reception seemed to be better i dropped less calls and had
good connectivity however we don't have 5g millimeter wave or anything like that
we just have a single sim card tray here and it works fine with lte and 4g but
again you won't get 5g but for many people that doesn't really matter as 5g
tends to use a little bit more battery right now until they sort of get that
technology up to the point where it doesn't it does have an ip rating of
ip67 for one meter up to 30 minutes which means you could get it in some
water maybe you splashed it with something it got rained on it would be
fine however i would not recommend bringing into water such as the lake
behind me or into a swimming pool anything like that without a waterproof
case apple does not warrant water damage whatsoever so if it gets into the
speakers or different ports they're not going to warrant that damage and you'll
have to pay to replace it so i typically recommend on any phone to put a
waterproof case this includes samsung as well they won't cover water damage
despite it having a higher ip rating so ip68 on the iphone seems to be one of
the best on the newest iphones but again they won't cover that now as far as ios
updates we're at ios 15 at the making of this video and so i would expect this to
get support maybe for another two to three years ios 18 maybe but apple never
specifies how long they're going to support ios so you won't get the latest
features of the newest phones but i would expect some new features with ios
16 and beyond and support for years to come with security updates apple is
still pushing ios 12 updates so those contain security updates for older
phones you can expect the same for this device so once you get it it basically
will become a reliable device that you can depend on and it will do what it did
when it when you purchased it new as the battery degrades over time you can
replace it and the speed will come right back to where it was originally and that
leads me to should you pick up an iphone 10r in 2022 well one main advantage is
it doesn't have pwm like i mentioned before and you can probably get it
pretty reasonably around 300 to 400 dollars if you can get it for that price
point you may want to opt for this however the iphone 11 with its dual
cameras is a better buy with a newer chipset and basically the same display
so i would go for the 11 if you could the 10r is fine if you're getting it
really reasonably now if it's around five or six hundred dollars then i would
just get a new iphone 13 at that point 13 mini or 13 opt for one of those or a
left over 12 is that's going to give you many more features the latest display
and more so again it comes down to budget or if someone's handing one down
or you can get one very reasonably so if you can get one at a really inexpensive
price then definitely pick one up if not i would opt for an 11 or something else
newer at this point but let me know your opinion about the iphone 10r if you have
one if you're switching to something else i'd love to hear what you're
switching to or maybe you're picking one up you've
got a great deal on it i'd love to hear what it costs where you live if you'd
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