hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is my iPhone XR this was my
main device for about a third to half of the year depending on what I was doing
and this I think is a very underrated phone and it sold incredibly well but I
wanted to show you how it's been for me it's durability we'll talk about battery
health and battery life and the camera and a few other things now the first
thing is durability and overall it's held up pretty well I don't generally
use a case and of course if I did use a case I'd have less scratches and things
like that and there are a few scratches here and there particularly on the front
so if I turn off the display you may or may not be able to see them it depends
on the light that you're in but there's a couple light scratches there's no
gouges or anything like that but there is some scratching right in here I don't
know if you can see that but there's some scratches right along the top here
and it's not a big deal in normal light you can't see it especially if the
display is on and that's not a problem for me now I want to talk about the
display inside and like I mentioned earlier you can see the different
scratches and things on the display a little bit easier and different lighting
but all of that could have been avoided if I would have just used a screen
protector but I did want to mention it because it has less scratches than my
iPhone 11 Pro max and this is a year old and when I'm not using it sometimes it
bumps up against other phones mostly it's in a bag in a case but sometimes it
does bump up against things and it still has fewer scratches than the newer
devices so whatever the difference is in the glass or the coating on it this one
seems to hold up better at least for me I don't know about dropping it I don't
drop my phones but so far it's held up really well now it's easier to see this
display obviously when you're not in bright sunlight but that doesn't mean
the display doesn't go bright so if I turn it way up it's nice and bright
you'll see you can't see it correctly on the camera so I have to turn it back
down to make all the lighting even here but overall it's a great display and I
know some people are going to say how can you say it's a great display its
below 1080p and that's really not a relevant number the relevant number is
the actual pixel density so to give you an example if you have an OLED display
an OLED display needs to have higher pixel densities because of the pixel
arrangement if it didn't have those higher pixel densities
just wouldn't look as sharp so if you do a little bit of research on Google about
that you'll find that that's true and in fact LCDs this one is very sharp and if
I didn't tell you this was an LCD most people and I mean 99% of people could
not tell the difference I've seen tech youtubers use this as their main phone
in fact I used it as my main phone for quite a while viewing angles are great
and it's good enough that they're still using it in the iPhone 11 so it's really
a good display I have no complaints about it the only thing you may not like
is the bezel or the haptic touch but haptic touch really isn't an issue
anymore because the iPhone 1111 pro and pro Mac's don't have it anymore so you
still have all of the same features so it doesn't feel as lacking is it maybe
it was last year and because you can scale content you still have 1080p
display 1080p YouTube videos you can go there select that resolution and it will
scale appropriately it's actually closer to 1080p than say
720p it's just people get upset about the numbers but it's really more about
that pixel density so I think overall this is a great display and after a year
I have no problems with it still the aluminum finish has held up incredibly
well there's no scuffing or anything like that
despite being laid on the table regularly and things and the the camera
lens has held up well also this is a hybrid sapphire or I guess it's supposed
to be sapphire but is slightly less hard so it's held up well also I've had no
issues I don't normally drop my phones or anything like that
and in general it's held up really really well now as far as the usability
of it well it's fine to use in fact I would still buy one today if I was
looking for a phone that was less expensive the speed the responsiveness
opening apps scrolling there's no issues whatsoever because this does not have an
old processor in it and this was much faster than the competition a year ago
and still is today for the most part the camera is still really really good and
in general this is one of the better cameras and most phones in fact I use
this camera for video most of the year last year any time you see the the video
being filmed outside I was actually using the iPhone
and our and I found this to be the better phone for me to use outside
because the lens arrangement is slightly different and it actually has more
consistent colors there's less color shift when it's trying to look at a
screen and other things as well so as you're looking through this the color
doesn't shift depending on what's behind it as much and it just works really well
for video everything that I've used externally as far as microphones and
things are working well with it and it's just given me no issues whatsoever now
of course I don't have the telephoto lens or the ability to take portraits of
things other than say people but in general it was pretty good now of course
a lot of you are going to want to know how battery life was and so battery life
easily got me through a day in fact this had the best battery life of last year
until the iPhone 11 pro and pro max came out the battery life on this phone was
the best it easily got me through a day and you'll see because it was only used
about a half a year it has a hundred percent battery health however I can say
that phones in my house in general do pretty well he is your number one enemy
when it comes to battery health and my wife's phone which is an iPhone X
that's two years old has ninety-one percent battery health after two years
charging it every night and doing things like that so if you'd like to see a
video about that let me know in the comments below maybe a couple of year
later video and whether or not you should buy one but battery is fine on
this it easily lasts through a day and actually call quality seems to be better
in general and signal to say LTE and I think that's because of the aluminum
design maybe the stainless steel doesn't work
as well when it's transmitting data and picking up four antennas in theory it
should but this one seems to do a little bit better as far as switching between
Wi-Fi and LTE and just having consistent speed and no disconnect problems so I
find this to be the better phone in most cases despite it being the lesser
expensive model so I think the XR is definitely something that you could
still pick up and be happy with if you don't care about dual cameras or having
the latest processor but if you care very much about camera see my comparison
Ollie I'll leave a playlist below I have a comparison between the 11 Pro with 11
Pro max the 11 the XR all of those I've done comparisons on so if you want
to know specifics I'll link those playlists
now while I don't typically use a case for a while I did use this clear case
from Apple and I know a lot of people want to know how this holds up over a
year because it's pretty expensive for a clear case and you'll see it has very
little yellowing there's not much yellow on it at all but it does have a couple
little stress cracks and I think that's from removing it so many times when
making videos so you'll see here's a little bit of a stress crack here and
it's not a big deal but it's something to know and they may replace this if you
ask them to and then down here there's some stress cracking as well it's not
too much of a big deal and I do think they put an oleophobic coating on here
to reduce fingerprints and it also hasn't seemed to scratch as easily as
some other plastic cases I've seen the button still work really well and I
definitely think it's one of the better cases I still don't know if it's worth
$40 but definitely twenty or so compared to some others I've seen that yellow
probably within six months or so so this is holding up really well and it works
well on the phone and like I said you don't normally remove it from your phone
a lot but because I have done that it did put some stress here on the side so
you'll see it looks pretty good overall and if you want to show off that color
there's probably not much of a better way to show it off
you'll see it did prevent some scuffing and scratching to the phone as well
right here but overall the iPhone XR is a great phone I highly recommend it
and definitely think you should check it out if you're looking to upgrade from
say an iPhone 6s 6s plus seven and one of those phones if you'd like to get
your hands on this wallpaper of course I'll link it in the description as I
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Aaron I'll see you next time