Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iPhone X is one of those phones that many people
always comment about or talk about and say that it was when apple was at the peak of innovation
and design they were introducing new features had a new design and they released this alongside the
iphone 8 and 8 plus is sort of a special one year edition where they introduce new features such as
face id and oled and so i wanted to help you decide if it's something that maybe you should
hang on to if you're currently using one or maybe you should upgrade to or upgrade away
from to maybe the latest phones with the iphone 13 series so in 2022 you can still pick this up but
you cannot get it new from apple any longer so you can pick it up from apple under the refurbished
store for about 499 to 629 dollars but if you buy it from a third-party retailer such as walmart or
ebay refurbished or used you can get it for around 300 so that's a much better deal and
is less expensive than say an iphone se2 so this particular phone introduced a lot of different
things the design overall is sort of a different design while it still has the curved edges it
introduced stainless steel and the stainless steel does seem to hold up pretty well over time but it
will scratch if you have these the polished or bright stainless steel that i have here
so if you have the silver version of this phone typically what you'll get is scratches on the
bottom now it's pretty limited on this phone because it's been in a case most of its life
but you can see down by the speakers there's some light scratches and that's just from regular use
typically this was kept in an apple case and it was changed as apple released different colors but
it was kept in an apple case and has been taken care of and was my wife's phone for three years
straight and so over that time she used it every single day and it's held up really really well my
phone was the space gray version and again it's held up well and seems to hide those scratches a
little bit better so if you were concerned about scratches you may want to opt for this color as
if you're using an apple case it keeps the bottom open where the speaker and lightning ports are and
microphone but it doesn't seem to show scratches or scratches easily but in general they seem to
hold up pretty well they're both glass front and back and the one i have here again that was my
wife's has a screen protector on it that's held up really well but even if you're not using a screen
protector it seems to be pretty limited with scratches i haven't had a whole lot of issues with
scratches on them or anything like that you'll see it does pick up quite a bit of fingerprints but
it doesn't really have any scratches on it so it tends to hold up pretty well and they seem to be
fairly durable phones also it has that rounded off corner so if you're not a fan of maybe the
newest design of the squared off edges such as the iphone 13 series devices or 12 series devices
it may be the best fit for you as it feels great in the hand and it's very ergonomic now this phone
introduced a few new things it has face id and face id seems to work pretty well but it's not
as fast as the newest phones so if you just pick it up and swipe up at the same time it will unlock
but if i put it side by side with maybe the latest phone you'll see that there's definitely a speed
difference here so if i lock both and then we'll just bring them up and swipe up it takes a moment
for the iphone x to unlock compared to the 13 pro max so if we bring that up again it takes
a moment to unlock it's a little bit slower most people won't seem to mind that but it is something
that you can notice and is a bit slower so you may find that a bit annoying if you're used to maybe a
fingerprint unlock now the nice thing about this is the display it's an oled display and it's the
introduction of when apple started bringing oled displays to iphone it's a 5.8 inch display 1125 by
2436 with 458 pixels per inch so it has a great resolution great pixel density as well as true
tone and up to 625 nits of brightness so it's not as bright as today's phone at a thousand nits with
regular use but it's plenty bright for most and as bright as most other in the competition against it
that is not an iphone so for the most part you can see it without a problem in bright sunlight
if it's a an extremely sunny day in the summer you may have a little bit of a problem seeing it
though iphone 10 still has a feature many of us would love to see apple bring back to its
displays and that's 3d touch that consists of a pressure sensitive layer between the display that
measures the pressure when you push on the display instead of pressing and holding an icon you simply
push down on the icon and it activates it's much faster and feels more realistic than just pressing
and holding so if i compare that on maybe the 13 pro max we'll just press and hold and you'll see
sometimes you have to try a couple times on the newer phones so we'll try it again and you'll see
it's much slower if i do the same on instagram you'll see how much slower it is so again
it's something i would love to have apple bring back to the latest displays
as many of us miss that 3d touch feature now it does support hdr on youtube which is something
that's really great if you haven't seen hdr here's one of my videos you'll see that it has hdr
but it only goes up to 1080p that's a limitation that youtube puts on it based off the resolution
in the app so typically you'll get about 1080p hdr you won't see anything above that since it doesn't
have the pixels to show you but just be aware that it doesn't show 4k or 1440p so it does do
hdr though and it looks great if you're watching videos there is no pro motion on this display
though so the super smooth promotion that apple introduced this year with the iphone 13 series
if you're scrolling through maybe the app library or just scrolling back and forth on the display
it's something you can definitely notice and is just not a feature that the iphone 10 has but if
you don't care about that of course then it's just something that really won't stop you from picking
this up plus you'll have to pay an additional amount of money to get the latest phones so it
may not matter to you now as far as battery life this phone isn't as great as today's phones but
should get you through a day it has a two thousand seven hundred and sixteen milliamp hour battery
which should get you about five to six hours of screen on time the batteries typically last about
two to three years before they'll need to be replaced but this phone being almost about three
and a half years old or so at this point is doing quite well like i said my wife used this every
single day for about three years and put it on the charger at night every single night it's down to
85 battery health and the battery is still fine now apple can replace this if you want them to
but right now it doesn't seem to need that and so i have the other phone here as well
that i can share with you with the iphone 10 i used and then my daughter used it after me
you'll see battery health on this phone again is 88 both have been charged every single night
when they were used regularly and full time so they hold up really well that way and as far as
battery life expect to get through a day about five to six hours like i said nothing like today's
batteries with the 13 pro max where you're going to get about 11 to 14 hours of screen on time
however you still can charge it pretty rapidly about 50 percent in 30 minutes and it supports
wireless charging but it does not support apple's mag safe where it's magnetic and charges up to 15
watts however if you have a magsafe accessory such as this anchor charger you can just place it on
there and it still will charge so you can charge it wirelessly it just won't adhere magnetically
it will slide around a little bit but either way you have that option if you want to use wireless
charging like i did while i was using this full time as far as the processor and the overall ram
well it's a little bit old at this point it's got an a11 bionic with three gigabytes of ram speed is
okay it's not as fast as the current devices in fact when my wife switched from an iphone 10 to
an iphone 12 pro she immediately noticed a speed difference as i've been using this today there's
definitely a difference especially if you're installing an app or doing something intensive
you'll notice a little bit of lag or stutter if you're playing a game whether that be mario run
or something like minecraft it typically loads okay and you can play the game without a problem
as you can see we'll open up minecraft here and it should load without any issue whatsoever
so we'll hit continue we'll hit play and i'll just show you in real time how quickly it loads
and of course if you're not playing this game you could be playing call of duty or something else
it will definitely play all of those games but just be aware that it will load a little bit
slower than some of the phones and you may not have the frame rates you do on the latest phones
with maybe pro motion up to 120 hertz so you'll always run it at a maximum of 60
hertz on this display so you'll see it's still loading we're waiting for it to load resources
and we're in so it loaded fine it did take a little bit you'll see it's drawing in the distance
and you can play this without an issue now it's nice and smooth so no issues once it loads but
it will take a little bit longer than some of the latest phones also with that ram you'll
see it stuttered there a little bit when i closed it also with the amount of ram it has
you may have some apple applications closing in the background more than you would with maybe
the latest phones as they have up to double the amount of ram so typically it won't be a problem
but it might be something you would notice if you were using it side by side with the latest phones
as far as the cameras are concerned it's a little bit behind what we have today it's
a 7 megapixel camera with an f 2.2 aperture but only records up to 1080p at 30 frames per second
if we go into the camera we'll spin it around here go to video if i record from the camera so now
we're recording from the iphone x forward facing camera you can hear the microphones as opposed to
the studio mic i have here and the camera quality is okay it's fine for things like face time but
it's just not going to be as good as today's with 4k hdr since this only goes up to 1080p and
is okay for facetime and things like that but not really for maybe vlogging things along those lines
the rear cameras are still pretty decent just like today's cameras they're still 12 megapixels
you've got a wide f 1.8 and a telephoto f 2.4 they record up to 4k 60 but you don't get the hdr
that you do with the latest cameras so you do get 4k 60 and if you don't care about hdr well then
they'll be fine you'll see 4k 4k 24 30 and 60 but no hdr camera control there's also no macro
like there is on today's cameras and cinematic modes and photo styles those are things you get
with the latest phones that you don't get with the iphone 10 but it's plenty good when it comes
to the camera no problems with it whatsoever and most of the time in comparisons you really won't
notice a difference if i was using an iphone 12 unless i'm using prores on the 13 you really won't
notice a difference on really any of that and you have great resolutions and it does a great job
when you are doing intensive tasks it will get a bit warm at times but that's pretty normal it's
a fairly efficient processor but anytime you push a processor it's going to get a little bit warmer
when it comes to reception reception is pretty good on these phones especially if you have
one particular model the verizon version actually had a qualcomm modem in it as opposed to an
intel modem it worked with all gsm carriers it still works with them and has no problems
whatsoever with 4g lte so if you're looking for one of these you want an unlocked verizon version
as it will work all the way around the world and give you the best experience whether that be with
overall reception call quality and more so if you're looking for one of those i would highly
advise you look for that one downside of the phone is because it's an oled it has pwm pulse width
modulation is a way to control brightness and it flashes the screen faster or slower depending on
what brightness level it's at typically at 100 brightness it's not flashing but as you bring it
down it flashes more and more and this can cause some people to feel nauseated give them headaches
or just cause eye strain in general i suffered from that with the iphone 10 and found that i
had to go back to the iphone 11 when i was using this or an iphone 10r when i was using some of
the early on oled displays from apple you don't typically see that as much in the latest phones
and some people such as notebook check say that they're using dc dimming or it looks like they are
as it's very hard to detect pwm at 240 frames per second on the latest phones so if you're
very sensitive to that the iphone 10 may not be best for you but that affects about 1 in 10 people
so if that doesn't affect you then you'll be very very happy with it with the oled display being as
vibrant as it is and having very deep blacks and just looking great overall now with oled there
is a concern with burn-in but most people won't really see that unless you get something that's
been sitting in a store for a while with the screen turned on you won't typically see burning
so the way you can check for that though is use sort of a gray wallpaper or background so if we
go into photos you'll see i have a gray background here and you can just look around the outside edge
after three years of continual use there's not a single indication of burn in here so it's held up
really well i haven't seen too much burn in unless you're on a static page or maybe the home screen
continually for a long period of time at medium to high brightnesses so normally you won't have
to worry about that but generally they seem to do a pretty good job with apple the way they
sort of manipulate the way the pixels move on the display of keeping it from getting burning
now as far as ios updates in the future well i would expect at least a couple more updates as
apple is still supporting the iphone 6s and 6s plus up to ios 15. with the iphone 10 i would
expect at least a couple more years of support whether that be ios 16 17 and 18 typically we'll
get about six years of support with this phone so since it's only been about three and a half years
you can expect at least two and a half to three and a half more years with this so at this point
i really wouldn't worry about that you'll get all the latest updates to at least ios 17 or 18 based
on what we've seen in the past and so that leads me to should you buy an iphone 10 well that really
depends on if you have an older phone or maybe you found a deal on this or someone's giving it to you
if you can find one for around the 300 dollar price mark and you really want something that
has face id with a nice oled display then i would definitely pick one up however for around the
refurbished price that apple's charging for around 600 i may opt for a used iphone 12 or an iphone 13
or 13 mini at that point i would think it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to pick this phone up
but if you can get it for even 300 or maybe less at 200 it's definitely worth picking up and will
get updates for years to come so this phone is great in 2022 i wouldn't discourage anyone from
buying it again unless you found it for a really expensive price then i might opt for something
else otherwise it's a great buy let me know if you have an iphone 10 if you're picking one
up or maybe upgrading away from it i'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below
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