hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone X was recently re-released
in the United States and across the world as a refurbished product Apple
stopped selling it once they introduced the iPhone XS and now you can pick it
up again refurbished at a very similar price to the iPhone XR so I wanted to
help you decide which one would be best for you so the first thing you need to
know is the price the iPhone X comes in at seven hundred and sixty nine or eight
hundred and ninety nine dollars with sixty four gigabytes or 256 gigabytes of
storage whereas the iPhone XR comes in at seven hundred and forty nine dollars
up to eight hundred and ninety nine dollars with either 64 128 or 256
gigabytes of storage now we have a couple different color options with the
iPhone X you've got Space Gray or you have silver and silver is a little bit
nicer I think in my opinion it's a little bit more flashy this one's a
little bit more muted it just depends which one you like but you have two
options and they're both built out of stainless steel around the outer ring
here and they have a glass back and a glass front and we'll talk more about
the cameras a little bit later on but just know that you've got these two
color options when it comes to the iPhone X are you've got a lot more
color options the XR comes in product red like this or you can get it in
multiple different colors such as the space gray color here silver you've also
got a yellow color a blue color and some others as well and so you can pick any
one you'd like and those seem to be pretty popular as far as people wanting
to have those different color availabilities now the obvious
difference between the two other than the cameras which we'll cover later is
the actual display on the iPhone XR we have a 6.1 inch display and this is a
little bit controversial because it's an LCD display that's a little over 720p
resolution however you cannot see the pixels because it's 326 pixels per inch
so you really can't see them although some people will complain about this
it's got a resolution of 1792 by 828 and again 326 pixels per inch with a non HDR
display now when we move over to the iPhone X that we've got a 5.8 inch
display from corner to corner and we've got 2436 by 1125 at 458 pixels per
inch so some people have said that you need the higher resolution due to the
layout of the pixels on an OLED display to match that of an LCD either way if I
put these side-by-side you wouldn't be able to tell the difference if I could
hide which phone it is other than for its size the viewing angles are quite
good but the actual colors are a little richer on the iPhone X although you
shouldn't complain about the iPhone XR that are quite nice it's a very nice
LCD but you are going to get better blacks with an OLED display that's just
kind of the nature of those displays now when it comes to the display of course
this one is HDR and you can watch up to 1080p on YouTube on both of them that's
a limitation of the YouTube app and it has to do with some codecs between
YouTube and Apple but right now YouTube allows you to use 1080p on either
display and again you're not going to be able to tell the difference so much
except that you can watch HDR content on the OLED display so that is an
availability I do have an HDR video if you want to check that out I'll link it
and it's just my only HDR video but you can see a better or wider color range on
the OLED display then you can on an LCD so you do get that advantage the other
advantage you get with the X is 3d touch so you can force press here or 3d
touch and you've got a little pop-out you don't get that on the apps here
although you do get it in other areas of the OS so maybe notifications so you see
there's some notifications on the XR you can tap on these and kind of haptic
touch or press and it will pop up similar to what you would get with 3d
touch but it's very limited throughout the OS and this has true force touch
sensors underneath the display that senses that 3d press so that should be a
little bit of an advantage I use it a lot some people don't use it at all but
that may make a difference to you now we do have dual speakers on both however
the iPhone XR sounds a little bit better they fix this
with the latest generation it sounds a little wider or it sounds more like it's
in stereo you have a little bit louder sound coming out of this speaker as
opposed to the bottom speakers so you do have a little bit better speaker on the
XR when it comes to actual cell phone reception or Wi-Fi I find the iPhone X
seems to do a better job with that they change the antenna design on the newer
ones and there's something different about them that makes it not as good it
just doesn't have as strong of a signal normally however you can get about the
same Wi-Fi speeds but it just depends on your home network here now as you'll see
we have faced ID face idea it's going to be a little bit faster on the newer
phone but it's so close it's hard to say so let me try that one more time and
you'll see it was a little bit slower on the X one more time I'll show you and a
little bit slower again on the X so if that's something that bothers you of
course it can be a pain now when it comes to battery life between the two
the iPhone X has a little bit less battery life than the iPhone XR
about one to two hours depending on your usage now in some tests you'll see
otherwise but in my usage of using this phone versus this or even the XS Max I
find the XR actually will beat it out by the 32 minutes to an hour or one
to two hours when we're talking about the iPhone X so there is an advantage
to the iPhone XR when it comes to battery now when we're talking about the
overall cameras both have pretty good cameras the forward facing cameras are
very similar they're the true depth 7 megapixel cameras so if we tap on these
here spin them around you'll see I'm recording with a gh 5 this time and
they're both forward facing cameras they're going to look the same there's
really no difference here you're going to have great photos or video from the
front facing camera on this however the back camera is a little bit different
they are both 12 megapixel cameras but the iPhone X gains a telephoto zoom
lens so you get to zoom optically whereas you have to zoom digitally on
this one also when you're taking portraits with this particular camera
you can only take portraits of people not objects so without a special app you
won't be able to do that with the iPhone X you'll be able to take portrait
photos of objects so if I go here we go to portrait it's not necessarily looking
for a person once we don't move further away it's not necessarily looking for a
person it's looking for an object so you can take that with this and that is an
advantage but I wanted to compare both of these and show you the photos between
both of them in low light and in bright light and take a look at a few different
photos and see what you think between the two of them
both of these devices have very fast processors the iPhone X has the a 11
Bionic whereas the iPhone XR has the a 12 Bionic now to tell the difference
between the two is very hard technically the a 12 Bionic is faster
but if you do something simple like opening the app store you're not really
going to be able to tell the difference we can load a game and this usually will
show us a little bit of a difference let me set these down here wait for it to
load and you'll see they loaded quickly on both will hit play will it create a
new create a new world so if you play a lot of games we'll hit create and if you
play a lot of games you'll see that normally the older device actually loads
more quickly it's hard to say you'll see it just loaded quicker on this device
and normally I find that's the time for the processor to ramp up to full speed
on the newer devices is slower but we're talking a second here so we're not
talking huge differences but there is a difference
now the other test I like to run is exporting a 4k video that really pushes
the processors kind of to the max to see what it will do so I'll open iMovie set
a 4k movie and then export it and we'll see which one wins no I've loaded the
same movie on both of these it's something I recorded with the iPhone and
it's on both you can see it's the same length and I don't have any other apps
open or anything in memory so what I wanted to do is export this in 4k and
see how long it takes now I have a stopwatch here and we'll see what this
takes as well to complete this so we'll hit done we'll share it here save video
and this might be a little bit tricky we'll do this and we'll see how long it
takes and in my experience usually the older one will finish one or two seconds
more quickly or faster
you'll see the iPhones finished at pretty much the same time actually this
one was about a half a second slower this time so that's pretty impressive
either way they're very very close and that's just to show you that even though
this has the faster processor in it they're basically the same when it comes
to doing very heavy tasks and as far as exporting that video I haven't really
warmed up at all just by exporting video and so they're staying nice and cool
with no problems there now the other thing is both of these have ip67
certifications so the withstand a drop in a puddle but again with any iPhone
you don't want to swim with them without putting a waterproof case on it as Apple
does not cover any water damage whatsoever and then the weight between
the two of them the iPhone X is technically a little bit lighter at six
point one four ounces this is six point eight four ounces with the iPhone XR
everything else as far as the operating system is basically the same now finally
the one thing you may want to consider is an OLED display is always flickering
that's how it manages brightness you can't see it with your eyes but it can't
affect you it affects about one in ten people and affects me actually so
looking at an OLED display for any period of time can result in headaches
or feeling nauseated this happens to quite a few people that I know and it's
about one in ten that are affected so just keep that in mind if you're
sensitive to light that may be a consideration for you so that's really
it between the X and the XR they're both equally priced so whichever one
works best for you who would be the one to get let me know what you think though
in the comments below which one you like the size between the two the screens and
everything else I'd love to hear what you have to say in the comments below if
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watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time