Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is my iPhone XS Max have been
using it for the past month or so on and off and I've been switching between this
and some other phone since it's been a very busy tech month but this phone has
been pretty good overall the design of it looks nice it looks kind of like a
piece of jewelry and the durability of it is good it feels solid in the hand
and I do have some issues here where it's a little bit sharp on some of these
edges just on the back of the tennis max the front is fine for the most part but
it's pretty good and in this silver I got silver because last time I had the
space gray color and I want to change it up a little bit I think it looks good
but it does have some scratches because of this stainless steel edge and so if
we look around the outside edge you'll see here depending on the light here you
can see some scratches where I may have missed plugging in the port or maybe
it's hit something I'm not sure but most of the time I charged this wirelessly
and then around the outside edge I have I wasn't able to find any scratches or
anything it looks pretty good overall on the back I haven't noticed any scratches
except down at the bottom there might be some just from setting it down but I
don't really see anything in normal light or in this bright light here and
then on the front I turn the display off there are some light scratches they're
really hard to see in this light but in bright sunlight you may be able to see
them a little bit better so the actual experience of using the phone is pretty
good I love the speakers on them it's
something that I've grown accustomed to and when a phone doesn't have this it's
it's pretty bad actually because it's got such a great stereo sound when
you're watching a youtube video or listening to music whatever you want to
do with the speakers they're nice and loud and they definitely have the wider
stereo sound that Apple advertised so that part I really like now as far as my
battery life battery has been okay I have been using betas on and off so
that's going to affect that normally I would say about five hours of battery on
this phone of screen on time anyway with this particular beta know four hours and
56 minutes four hours three hours yesterday and I
was down to about 20% at this point so depending what you're doing is going to
affect that but about five hours of time is nice and it's comparable to many
other flagship phones as well and what you'll find is many people get confused
between iOS 11s usage time being about 10 hours for some phones and screen on
time and they're two completely different things this is far more
accurate and you are probably getting that sort of screen on time before and
it just wasn't measuring it that way now speed is pretty good loading games
that just resumed it's nice and fast you can just play a game and it runs fast
I've never thought wow this is slow and it's just super fast than anything I do
if I'm using it for a game which I don't really do too much how you'd normally do
that on the iPads but if I'm using it for something like apps and going in
between my apps with video recording 4k 60p the gh 5 does 4k 60p that I'm using
right now and my iPhone does and some other Android phones but the the video
footage out of this is better than any phone I can I can say that I've used
anyway there are others that come close but when it comes to video the video I
can use it here and you wouldn't even know I'm using it it's that good the
photos I'd say are only second to something like the pixel 3 XL so the
photo in this and they fix that smoothing issue with the the actual
forward facing selfies they fix that issue so it's no longer beautifying your
face they found that to be an issue with HDR whether they did that on purpose I
don't know it's it's hard to say they didn't catch that but I guess they
didn't but they did fix it so there's no longer that issue now as far as should
you buy one well it looks like apples decreased orders for the iPhone XS and
XR however I see a lot of those phones out in general public but I think a lot
of people with the iPhone X aren't upgrading but I do see a lot of Xs
maxes in XR's I don't see too many XS's Most people have tens and just
didn't upgrade so it's hard to say if they're selling a lot or not but I think
this is way too expensive if we compare that to the iPad that we have here this
is a 256 gig iPad this is the 256GB XS Max there similarly priced so it's
pretty crazy you can given that the only thing different between this is an OLED
display and and well this is a large LCD but an OLED
display and a cellular antenna and you can get cellular in these we're
basically the same price so I do think it's overpriced it is nice it's nice to
use but for what it is I definitely think they could reduce it
at least a $9.99 for some of the larger storage options or give us expanded
storage I don't think Apple will ever do that but as far as the knotch goes it
just disappears for me it's something I don't pay attention to at all and I
think most people that have one won't mind it at all when you're watching
video and things you can just put your hand here or you can expand it into the
notch area but most videos don't fill that and in fact this video is in
eighteen nine so it won't go to the notch it goes to it but not past it so
it doesn't fill unless you zoom in so I think for the most part it's a non-issue
I would like it if they could just figure out how to do face ID and the
speaker without the notch but since it's there it doesn't really bother me I
think we'll see that in future iPhones though so that's it for the XS Max it's
been pretty good for the past couple of months and I definitely could recommend
buying one if you have the money but if also if OLED displays bother your eyes
like they do mean they strain my eyes you could go with the XR but for the
most part that's not an issue that's about 1 in X have that issue and find
that to be true so for me it's it it does bother me but I do like this
display it's really nice to look at but let me know your thoughts in the
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always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time