Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone 8 plus and the iPhone 11 pro
max are currently the oldest and the newest phones offered from Apple
directly at the Apple Store or from apple.com you can get these new but
anything older than the iPhone 8 or 8 plus is not available new from Apple you
can get it refurbished or used or left over at other stores that may still have
them in stock but the 8 and 1/8 plus is the oldest that you can currently get so
I thought I'd compare it with the 11pro Max and in this video I'm going to
compare everything from the cameras to speed to how they are to use battery
life and a lot more and if you'd like to jump to a specific point in the video so
you want to see how the speed is or how the battery life is I'll link all of the
time codes in the description below so you can check them out for yourself now
the first thing is the price the iPhone 8 plus comes in at five hundred and
forty nine dollars for the cheaper model up to five hundred and ninety nine
dollars with 128 gigabytes of storage it comes in space grey silver or gold if
you decide to go with the iPhone 11 pro max it comes in at double the price at
1099 for the base model up to one thousand four hundred and forty nine
dollars for 512 gigabytes it's available in space grey silver gold and a new
midnight green now the overall build of both phones is a little bit different
with the iPhone 8 plus the outside band here or the frame is made of aluminum so
that makes it feel a little bit different and lighter than that of the
11pro Maxx the iPhone 11 pro max is made of stainless steel on the outside ring
so it gives it a little bit more weight and it's also glass front and back but
with the 11pro max you have frosted glass on the back with gloss only around
the cameras now the nice thing is with the 11pro max it does not pick up
fingerprints on the back so if you're someone like me that doesn't like to use
a case that much you won't see fingerprints on the back but with the
eight plus you definitely will it picks up fingerprints very easily but that's
easily solved with a case now this is glass front and back and there are some
very big differences with this glass in fact the 8 plus has more durable glass
when it comes to scratching and it's less durable when
it comes to dropping it so after using this for quite some time when it first
came out I have very little scratches there's one right there and that's it
that's the only scratch on the display and that's not really a big deal for
using it for about six months with no screen protector the iPhone 11 pro max
is very different while it's more durable and less prone
to breaking if you drop it the screen is much more prone to scratching very
easily and that is why I have a screen protector on right now after using this
for about three months I have a ton of scratches on it and I'll show you that
in a moment but first I want to talk about our sponsor and that is who makes
this screen protector and it's a company called shell our US and it's a very
unique screen protector you can see it's on here now it doesn't have a single
scratch on it and that's because it's a 99.99% sapphire this is the first
sapphire screen protector I've used and it's super clear in fact you may not
have even noticed that it's on here I'll take it off in just a moment but it has
an oleophobic coating just like the iPhone does so you don't see a lot of
fingerprints on it and it's truly a 9 on the Mohs scale so really only something
along the lines of a diamond or a sapphire is going to scratch this in
fact I have a knife here and I can push this on the screen as much as I want you
won't see a single scratch in fact let me turn the display off you won't see
anything I can scratch this all day long with this knife the tip of this you
won't see a thing because it's very very strong and unless you bump something
like a wedding ring or a diamond up against the display you're not going to
see scratches so let me take this off and while it will prevent some scratches
it will not prevent it from shattering necessarily but this has zero scratches
on it you can see how clear it is and I'll link this in the description below
so you can take a look at them yourself they're not inexpensive because this is
true sapphire it's been on other channels as well and they've proved it's
sapphire as well so definitely check it out I'll link it in the description
below now I've been using that screen protector for about four days it's been
great but underneath it are a ton of scratch
no I don't know if you're going to be able to see it in this light but there
are tons of scratches all through here all across the display something I've
never seen before on any iPhone this iPhone is very prone to scratching
lightly now if it's bad enough of course I could bring it in I have Apple care I
could have them swap the display if it gets really bad or I crack the screen
but it's just something to keep in mind for something that costs double it is
much more prone to scratching so definitely use some sort of screen
protector if that's going to bother you now let's talk about the displays
themselves because they're very different the iPhone 8 plus has an LCD
display and it's a really great LCD display but it's LCD and won't have the
deeper blacks that the iPhone 11 pro max or 11 Pro has so it's a 5.5 inch LCD
1920 by 1080 with 401 pixels per inch it does have 3d touch unlike the 11pro
Max so it's pressure sensitive although you do get the same features with the
11pro max this is a pressure-sensitive display as opposed to just pressing and
holding so you do get that it goes up to about 625 minutes of brightness so it is
a nice and bright display but it's not as bright as the 11pro max the 11pro max
has a 6.5 inch OLED display with HDR it's 2688 by 1242 with a pixel density
of 458 pixels per inch it goes up to 800 nits regular
brightness and can go brighter than that when it needs to play an HDR movie and
it's just an incredibly vibrant and great-looking display it does have
haptic touch so you can press and hold that you'll see it's a little bit slower
than when I'm using 3d touch it takes a little bit longer to pop up but it does
work just fine it's just something that's not as nice as what we used to
have so just keep that in mind now another thing to consider with the
displays is the iPhone 11 Pro max is an OLED display and Apple uses PWM to
control the brightness or a pulse width modulation I've covered this in other
videos as well but what that basically means is the screen is always flickering
to control brightness the faster it flickers the brighter the display will
seem so you lower brightness it will flicker
slower and while you can't see this with your eyes you can see this with a camera
and this actually affects about one in ten people and it causes headaches it
can cause you to feel nauseated and things like that so I'm actually
affected by this but with the eleven Promax they've changed the rate so that
it's high enough that it doesn't bother my eyes prior iPhones with OLED displays
such as the iPhone 10 10s and 10's max actually caused my eyes to have a lot of
strain and it gave me headaches that doesn't happen with this phone so if
you're prone to that just keep that in mind it may bother you but it is much
better on the newer phones the 11 Pro and Pro max have better refresh rates
for that PWM so it doesn't bother your eyes as much but definitely consider
that if you're looking at both of these phones now when it comes to unlocking
the phone this may be one of the main reasons you decide to go with the eight
plus because this has the touch ID fingerprint sensor whereas we have face
ID on the 11pro max now I've become very accustomed to face ID it works fine I
have no issues with it but if we show speed here I'll just press this and
we're in so normally what you do is you just pick up your phone and swipe up and
you're in your phone but with the eight pro or the eight plus you press and hold
and it opens or unlocks the phone so I know a lot of people still greatly
prefer touch ID or would like the option of both so if that's something that
means a lot to you obviously go with the eight plus you'll be happy with it now
let's talk a little bit about the specs inside the eight plus has the a11 Bionic
with three gigabytes of RAM and it's plenty fast I'll show you that in a
moment and then the iPhone 11 pro max has the a 13 Bionic with 4 gigabytes of
RAM so even though the RAM is 1 gigabyte more I think you'll see that we have
very similar speeds with most things so when you're going into everyday apps the
App Store that's not going to be a big deal they're going to load about the
same music is going to be about the same and intensive apps are also going to be
about the same so you're not going to see a lot of differences as far as
loading application however if you were to edit a 4k video
and export it that puts a lot of strain on the processor so I thought I'd show
you that in the video now and then after that we'll talk about the cameras so
let's go ahead and go into iMovie now I've loaded the same clip into the
iMovie timeline and then I've added a title on top so that it actually has to
process this frame by frame it's a 4k video it's the exact same
video on both so I'll export this and this will push these processors pretty
hard to export 4k video it takes a while on my iMac Pro when I'm editing video to
actually push this sort of content out so let's see how long it takes on both
devices so we'll hit done we'll hit the share button we'll hit save video and
let me bring in a stopwatch here so that we can see how long it takes on both so
let's go ahead and see if we can hit 4k 4k and start and there we go and I'll
speed this up so that you can see how long this takes I would expect it'll
take around five minutes or so
now both have exported and it did take a little bit longer on the iPhone 8 plus
but I'm not sure that it's worth double the price if that's what you're going
for neither of these phones are warm on the
back at all processing video seems to be pretty easy for them so let's go ahead
and close these and let's talk about the cameras now the cameras are where the
iPhone 11 Pro max excels and has a lot better camera than the 8 plus in certain
situations now the back camera on the 8 plus is a dual 12 megapixel camera one
is a wide-angle lens one is a telephoto lens we have an F 1.8 aperture on the
wide-angle and enough 2.8 on the telephoto it records 4k 60 video as well
so it's a very capable video camera I've used it even in more recent videos I've
used this or similar cameras to this know on the 11 Pro max we also have 12
megapixel cameras but it's an all new sensor we have a wide-angle lens and F
1.8 we have a telephoto F 2.0 and we have a new ultra wide F 2.4 aperture
lens we now have a night mode they also
record in 4k 60 so what I wanted to do in this video is show you some samples
of photos side-by-side some video as well and then we'll talk about the
forward facing cameras
Oh cameras are recording in the 1430 since that's where the iPhone 8 plus
also does its best image processing when recording video they're both pretty good
but I think the iPhone 11 Promax is just a little bit better depending on what
situation you're using it in both cameras can both record 4k 30 in 2x as
well so you'll see we're zoomed in optically by 2 times then we can just
zoom back out the microphones are good in both of them although the 11pro Max
seems to be a little bit better and when you're shooting directly it's something
like sunlight they both do a good job of really adjusting so you can have pretty
decent dynamic range now the forward facing cameras is where there is a huge
difference on the iPhone 8 plus the front camera is a 7 megapixel camera
with an F 2.2 aperture it records in 1080p at 30 frames per second so it's
okay but it's not incredible on the iPhone 11 Pro max the forward facing
camera could be used to vlog it's that good it's a 4k camera 12 megapixel F 2.2
aperture that can record in 4k 60 it also can do an emoji and emoji if
you're into that but it has great videos so let me show you the difference
between the two now I'm using the forward facing camera on the 8 plus and
the 11pro Max and I think this is where you're going to see the biggest
difference the 8 plus is in 1080p and upscaled to 4k for this video but you'll
see the background isn't as nice the dynamic range isn't as good as on the
11pro max also I think you'll notice a difference in the microphones as I've
been switching between both devices so here's the 11 Pro max microphone it does
a good job of eliminating background noise and the 8 plus is okay but not as
good now as far as water resistance or resistance to dirt and dust the iPhone 8
plus is ip67 certified for 1 meter up to 30 minutes so it's not bad but the 11pro
max is IP 68 certified which means 4 meters for 30 minutes they they kind of
went to the better side of IP 68 and even made it ad
per depth that it can withstand for 30 minutes now that doesn't mean you won't
get water in it at all but it is better protected than phones that don't have it
now battery life is where we see a huge difference as well with the iPhone 8
plus we have a two thousand six hundred and ninety one milliamp hour battery
it's about the same as an iPhone 7 plus and you can expect 5.5 to six hours of
screen on time with normal use now if you're playing a game or something like
that it will be less but this here with the iPhone 11 pro max Apple has really
stepped up the battery size and it's almost 4,000 milliamp hours it's 3969
milliamp hours it's this will get you about five hours more battery life than
the eight plus and you'll get about 10 to 12 hours of screen on time with
normal use again that will vary depending on how you use it so that is a
huge difference between the two and its really nice but you also get a fast
charger with the 11pro max in the box so you can charge it a little bit quicker
you can fast charge the eight plus but you will need to buy the adapter
separately now as far as the speakers are concerned there is a very big
difference there as well so I'm not sure you'll be able to hear this but let me
play one of my videos for you so you can sort of hear the difference now I have
both phones side by side I'll move the microphone so you can hear the
difference between the two of them I've been using primarily on my iPhone 11 Pro
mattes this is my main device I've also used it on the iPhone 11 which isn't
right here now hopefully you could hear the difference between the speakers of
the eight plus and the 11 Pro max the 11 Pro max is definitely a lot louder and
cleaner at the higher volumes also you've got better stereo sound and if
you're watching a movie you almost get a surround sound feel when you're watching
something on the 11 Pro max so that's definitely something to consider now if
you're trying to decide which one to pick well you could get to eight pluses
for the price of an 11 max but you may not want an older
display or an LCD display but things to consider are things like face ID verse
touch ID if you like the home button obviously go with the 8 plus also the
speed doesn't seem to be much of a consideration here but the cameras are
definitely better on the 11pro max especially for video and battery life is
significantly better on the 11pro max due to its huge battery but if those
things aren't a big deal for you then of course pick the 8 plus also with both of
them they're both premium devices and I think
you'll get years of use with the 8 plus I think it'll be supported for quite a
few years still in the future with iOS 14 or iOS 15 but right now iOS 13 runs
great on so those are all things to consider let me know what you think in
the comments below in which one you've picked and why if you still want that
home button I would love to see them bring a home button option back as well
I know a lot of people that still really miss the home button on the 11pro
and Promax let me know your thoughts in the comments below if you'd like to get
your hands on this wallpaper of course I'll link it in the description as I
always do and thanks again to shell r us for sending along the screen protector
this is by far the best screen protector I've ever used I love that you really
can't scratch it without some very very hard Stone's such as a diamond and I'll
link it to them in the description below so you can check them out for yourself
if you haven't subscribed already though please subscribe and if you enjoyed the
video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll
see you next time