hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech in the iPhone 8 plus and the iPhone XR
are both great devices and if you're trying to decide which one you should
choose hopefully this video will make it a little bit easier now this video is
going to be kind of lengthy and if there's something specific that you're
interested in that I'm covering here such as price design speed I'll leave
links to where I cover those different things in the description so you can
jump around if you don't want to watch the whole video in its entirety so the
first thing are the color availability with the iPhone 8 plus we have three
different colors that are currently available we have space grey silver and
gold and this is the space grey one and also there was a product red edition but
if you want that you'd have to find one of those used now with the iPhone XR
we have more color choices and this one is the product right edition but we have
white black blue yellow coral and product red as far as the color options
they may change this in the future but that's what's currently available now
when it comes to price the iPhone 8 plus comes in it with two different options
currently at $699 for 64 gigabytes of storage and $849 for 256 gigabytes of
storage when it comes to the iPhone XR we have $749 for 64 gigabytes of storage
$799 for 128 gigabytes of storage and $899 for 256 gigabytes of storage now
many times you can get these phones at reduced prices and many deals especially
with a trade-in deal Apple is being quite aggressive with the iPhone XR as
far as trying to sell these at this point so you can get a really good deal
on one of these right now now as far as the design is concerned both are
aluminum you'll see the outside edges are
aluminum on both of them and they're very similar in design it's your classic
iPhone design you've got your power sleep/wake button on the right the
iPhone XR sleep/wake button is a little bit bigger and the SIM card tray
slots are a little bit different as far as where they're located on the XR it's
in the bottom right on the 8 plus it's about halfway down on the right on the
bottom there's a microphone and speaker and also your lightning port in the
middle they look very similar there and then on the other side of course you
have your volume and your your vibrate or silent switch on both of
them there's nothing on the top and neither one of them have a headphone
jack so you won't have that available but you do have an adapter that goes
from lightning to headphone if you need it or you can use wireless air pods or
other bluetooth headphones both of them have IP 67 ratings that
means that they can be submersed in water but does not mean you can swim
with them that will damage them and Apple will not cover water damage so
make sure you're not swimming with them without a waterproof case as it's meant
to keep the phone working through maybe mishaps and things like that now the
eighth plus is the classic design the front is what we're used to from years
of using iPhones we've got touch ID on the bottom it works nice and fast you'll
see it unlocks quickly we have bezels on the top and bottom and it's just the
classic design at this point and touch ID is nice and fast but face ID is
what's newer on the newer devices and on the XR
it's nice and fast if I lock it and unlock it here you'll see it's unlocked
already we can do that again look at it it unlocks and you're good to go so when
it comes to filling in passwords face ID is a little bit better it just kind of
seems to work by you staring at the screen but when it comes to waking up in
the morning you have to stare at the screen as long as you have the high
security on you have to open both eyes and if the screens bright it's a little
hard to see so it times like that it can be a pain but most of the time face ID
is going to be better for most although touch ID is more convenient for some
people just depends on your preference both are good though now when it comes
to the displays this is where they get a little bit interesting on the iPhone 8
plus we have a 5.5 inch retina HD display
it's 1920 by 1080 with 401 pixels per inch it has a 1,300 to 1 contrast ratio
on the iPhone XR it's a little bit different they call it 6.1 inches
because it's kind of bezel-less or thinner bezels and corner to corner is
where they're measuring from the bottom left to the top right
it's a 6.1 inch liquid Retina Display 1792 by 828 with 326 pixels per inch
however the iPhone XR a better contrast ratio at 1,400 to one
have great viewing angles you won't have any issues there and both of them look
pretty good overall the only time I've ever heard anyone say anything about the
XR is around the corners so even though the resolution is a little bit lower the
pixel density is high enough where you can't see the pixels and side by side
with an iPhone 8 plus it looks pretty much the same although when you're
playing a youtube video you're going to see it scaled on the iPhone XR now
both of these displays have true tone so if we go to the display settings they
both have true tone if I turn that on you'll see that it tries to make the
whites sort of like paper white I prefer to leave it off most of the time it
doesn't seem to change the power or anything like that as far as what it's
using battery wise but overall if you want accuracy you want to leave true
tone off now also both of them have a p3 wide color gamut that means they are
kind of HDR displays but they don't let you swatch HDR on YouTube so if you have
that you won't be able to see it they also go to the same brightness so if we
turn the brightness up here it'll kind of be too bright for this display but
you get the idea they're both equally bright as far as that goes and they look
great in most situations outside-inside it doesn't really matter
iPhone 8 plus still has 3d touch where the iPhone XR has haptic touch and
you'll see the icon when you try in 3d touch it it doesn't do anything
however notifications do have peek and pop with haptic touch you'll see if you
press on it it will open up and also if you go into the control center you get
the same sorts of menus so if you 3d press or haptic press on these different
icons you'll be able to adjust things as well as far as the weight of both of
them while the eight-plus is a little bit
bigger it is slightly heavier at 7.13 ounces the iPhone XR is six point
eight four ounces in the hand they both feel really good I prefer the XR in
the hand it's got a little bit nicer feel I think it's kind of the perfect
size even though I have really large hands once you get a case on an 8 plus
it makes it that much bigger so you do have that also they both have wireless
charging they'll charge at the same speed you can sort of fast charge them
a macbook charger overall you're going to get similar charging speeds when it
comes to the actual size of the battery the battery in the XR is 2942 milliamp
hours where the eight plus is two thousand six hundred and ninety one
milliamp hours and because the iphone XR is pushing less pixels the screen is
lower resolution it actually gets a little bit better battery life because
you're not pushing as many pixels the processor doesn't have to work as hard
and it seems like throughout the day the XR seems to last a little bit longer
either one of them or both of them are going to get 5 to 6 hours of screen on
time normally and easily get you through a day today and a half if you're a heavy
user you may have to charge it in the afternoon but for the most part you're
going to get through the day without a problem now both have stereo speakers
and it's hard to convey here in this video but the XR has a better stereo
sound both of them have speakers at the top and the bottom and it sort of fires
out the bottom and the top and then its widest stereo so the XR sounds better
and it also looks a little bit better when watching widescreen video so let me
show you that on both displays you can see I have the same video this is a
video I created and on the right it fills more of the display on the left it
kind of letterboxes it around neither of them look bad but you do get
a little bit nicer display on the XR when it comes to larger video you can
also fill the screen here but then you're going to see the notch that you
get on this one so that's kind of a pain if that's something that bothers you and
that's another thing that comes with the display is that not a lot of you either
are indifferent to the notch or hate the notch and it's something that you're
either not going to mind or it's going to drive you crazy but either of them I
think are good as far as the display is concerned now if we talk about the
internals the iPhone 8 plus has last years a 11 Bionic processor whereas the
XR has the a 12 Bionic processor with the next general engine it's supposedly
much much faster however in day-to-day use you're not really going to notice a
difference in fact let's run a couple tests here let's open minecraft and this
is just a simple game that we can create a little world in where it has to do a
little bit more be processing and let me show you what I
mean so if we hit play will create a new world create a new world and then we'll
click create or tap create and you'll see that they're going to be very fast
both of them here you'll see the XR went really quick the eight plus is
going nice and quick and let's see what happens and you'll see the eight plus
actually finished a little bit before and that's usually because the processor
will ramp up to its fullest speed more quickly on the eight plus for some
reason and there's been some concern about that but it's not anything that
most people are going to notice you're talking one to two seconds difference
and most of the time you're going to see that they're both ridiculously fast if
we're doing a more processor intensive task such as editing 4k video so if I do
something like iMovie iMovie will go into my movie here well let's create a
new one we'll create a new movie and what we're going to do is export 4k
video and the reason I do this is because that's probably the most
processor intensive thing you can do is export 4k video so let me set up a movie
and we'll export it and see which one finishes first and that should really
tax the processor so you can see I have the same video on both devices
6 minutes and 52 seconds as far as its length is concerned this is just a side
view of one of the case videos I did that I recorded with an iPhone so this
is 4k 60 frames per second video and let me bring over a timer and we'll use the
iPhone X as a timer here and let's spread these out a little bit we'll hit
done then we'll export here we'll hit save and you'll see it says 4k so let's
see if we can hit these at the same time and then I'll speed this up so you don't
have to wait around and we'll see how quickly it actually compresses and let's
see what it does now keep in mind it's about seven minutes almost for the video
and usually this is going to take about seven minutes to export so let's see
what it does
you'll see it took over three minutes longer for the iPhone XR to complete
the same exact task now I've found this to be true in multiple tests I've run so
I've run this on longer videos and the ten are always seems to be slower than
the a 11 Bionic for some reason so that's also true of the XS and XS Max
so there's something there when it comes to video encoding and as far as the
temperature of the phones they're barely warm to the touch maybe a little bit
right here on the eighth and I don't feel any heat whatsoever on the a12
processor on the XR so that's pretty impressive as far as the speed is
concerned that's pushing the phones about as hard as you're gonna push them
and that hopefully isn't a concern for too many people I've seen in a 15 minute
long video where the XR was about a minute or two slower so it just depends
what you're doing now the next thing is the cameras the cameras on them are both
very good in fact the XR just won an award for being the best single camera
on the market although there's not a ton of single cameras out there but this one
is a 12 megapixel optically image stabilized camera as is the 8 plus and
the 8 plus camera is not as good as the XR as far as for photos and video they
both do 4k 60 as far as their video recording capability but when it comes
to zoom of course you've got that extra lens on the 8 plus however that zoom
verse digital zoom on the XR isn't as different as you think in the picture
that I'm showing here you'll see it's going to be slightly different but not
as much as you would think when it comes to that because the XR has a new
sensor and it's using machine learning to do some of that it actually can look
the same or better in some cases and in some other cases the 8 plus will
actually use the cameras digital zoom over the the optical zoom if it think it
can thinks it can do a little bit better job now also if you're taking a portrait
photo and you're using the dual cameras for that you can take portrait photos
with the 8 plus using whatever you'd like you could take a portrait photo of
the iPhone and get a little bit of depth of field if maybe I can do this here
yeah that's telling me to move further way but you can get a little bit more
depth of field that way but on the XR you can only do depth of field with
people so it says no person detected so keep that in mind if that's something
you take a lot of portrait photos although I don't find I use it too much
if we go back to photo or portrait you'll see we can't use the forward
facing camera on the 8 plus for a portrait because it doesn't have that
depth sensor the true depth sensor that the XR has so we can flip this around
use the portrait mode and we can just do normal photos on the 8 plus so we have
that ability but we can do portrait mode and adjust the f-stop or the aperture in
the upper right here on the XR so that's a little bit better when it comes
to the forward-facing camera they're both good when it comes to photos but it
comes to portraits they're not the same also with the XR you can do things like
MIMO G or an emoji and while I find I very rarely use this it is the out there
is the option to use this and you can use it if you want to do that so you
can't do that with the 8 plus and that's pretty much it when it comes to both of
these devices they're both really good and they're both similarly priced so
hopefully that helps you decide which one you would pick a little bit better
and I think they're both great you can't go wrong with either one and Apple will
continue to update both of them for years to come I'm sure but you just
won't have some of the features and the swipe gestures that you have on the
iPhone XR the speed and everything is very comparable like I've shown you
and I think you'll be happy with either one let me know which one you would
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