Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iphone 10r is the least expensive iphone that
apple sells new that has face id and so i wanted to help you decide if you should pick one up in
2021 since apple is still selling it brand new and the first thing is i think apple is selling this
still because it sold so well in fact the first year or so it sold about 46 million phones so this
was one of the best selling phones for quite some time and i think it still sells quite well due to
its price and it offers a lot of value but there's some shortcomings too and the first thing is the
price i think it sells well now especially because it's 4.99 to start with so 4.99 for 64 gigs of
storage up to 549 for gigabytes of storage that's what apple currently offers it for new so that's
a hundred dollars less than we had in 2020 and like i said it's the least expensive phone that
they offer with face id but you do have the second generation iphone se which is a little bit less
if you prefer touch id so you've got these two options on the low end as far as apple's
pricing goes and i think the iphone 10r offers a lot of value and it's a very durable phone
over the years that i've had it it's been stored in a bag sometimes with a case sometimes without
and as you can see the finish is held up really well there is one spot here where it seems to have
nicked some of the finish off we're down to the aluminum and this must have just banged
into something that was metal because this is pretty durable in general if you have a case on
it you can expect this to last really well i've had no issues with the ports everything's held up
really well and it's proved to be a very durable phone it does have glass on the back and front
but it seems to be fairly scratch resistant not as scratch resistant as say the ceramic shield in the
iphone 12. i think some of that has to do with the display sticking up above the edge a little
bit but in general it's held up well and if i turn the phone off here or the display off you can see
there's a few light scratches on it some of them are deeper than others but that's basically just
from using it putting it in my pocket putting it in a bag for example and then up here there's a
scratch as well so it's not impervious to scratches it held holds up pretty well but
not as well as some of the newer phones also you can see it has face id it unlocks nice and quick
there's not really any slowdowns there i think it's nice and fast as you pick it up it will
unlock just by looking at it and a lot of people like this now again like i said if you don't then
you'll have to pick something that's a little bit older like the iphone 8 plus for example or even
the iphone se that has better specs internally however face id will work great for many people
especially with the upcoming updates that will bring apple watch unlock with a mask and face id
so i think that will be great for a lot of people if that was one of the problems you were having
now the display is probably the most controversial thing and that is because it's a 6.1 inch display
with a resolution that's in between 720p and 1080p or hd resolution so 1792 by 828 pixels
but the thing people really should be focusing on is the pixel density of 326 pixels per inch that's
the same pixel density as we get with the iphone sc second generation and because it's an lcd
display it's gotten a lot of flack because it's not a 4k display or a 2k display the pixel density
though is really what matters as you get close to the display it looks really good it's crisp and
in fact i've compared it with oled displays such as the iphone 11 pro max the iphone 12 pro max
and side by side most people that i've shown cannot tell the difference if they can tell the
difference it's usually the the blacks or the vibrant colors of an oled compared to say the
iphone 10rs lcd because it's an oled you're going to have the pixels shut off where there's black
and you're going to have more vibrant colors and it's brighter in fact the iphone 10r goes up to
about 625 nits and technically is hdr still but it's not as bright as the 1200 nits or so
almost double that with the iphone 12 pro max so in sunlight it's going to be a little bit better
as far as the newer phones but for most people you won't be able to tell the difference it has
great viewing angles and it can play 4k youtube even though the display is still below 1080p so
if i go into youtube for example and we go to our resolutions you can see 2160p hdr so it's capable
of playing hdr content 2160p is 4k and it will play that without a problem it won't go as bright
as a 12 pro or 12 for example but it does look good so if i hit play here you can see that it's
on hdr and it's nice and bright and it's nice and loud as far as the speakers so if i turn these off
but there's some amazing brights and darks in this display
and so it goes nice and loud the speakers work well they have great stereo sound at the top and
bottom and just in general the display combined with the speakers is a nice experience if you're
viewing something such as a movie or playing a game performance with the a12 bionic that's
inside here is very fast anyone i know that has it has not really complained of its speed
if you're just scrolling maybe you're going back and forth between pages or you're opening
the camera or going back out it's nice and fast if you wanted to play a game for example we'll go to
minecraft just to show you how quickly it loads if you want to use this for a game we'll wait for it
here just a moment and you'll see i haven't opened this in quite some time so it does have to reload
but i wanted to give you an idea of what it's like to load or play a game we'll go into it
give it just a moment here go to my world and we'll let it load so it will take just a moment
as it does whatever it's doing here in the background we'll hit proceed and i want to
show you in real time to give you an idea of what it's like it will take a moment and some of this
will depend on your internet connection depending if you're joining online games of course but if
you're playing things like minecraft or among us or call of duty it's going to be plenty fast
as soon as it loads it may not load as fast as other phones but let's give it just a moment here
and so we're in and as you can see the world is loaded and we can just zip along the frame rates
are nice and smooth and one of the advantages you get when you're using this for example
because the resolution is a little bit lower you're actually going to get better battery life
so this phone when it came out and it still holds true today with the updates
has had really great battery life seven plus hours of screen on time which will usually get
you through a day without any problem whatsoever so if i go to the battery this phone was not my
main phone over the past couple of years so the battery health is at 100 but you can expect 80
after a couple of years but it just depends how you use it so let me show you examples of battery
life over time from a viewer for example now thanks to jason for sending in his battery usage
on his main iphone 10r that he uses regularly and as you can see there's some new battery usage
since he updated his phone it started over and he has three hours and 37 minutes of screen on
time four hours and 23 minutes of screen off time and he's only used about 50 percent of his battery
which means he would get about seven hours of screen on time so it's actually got great battery
life for the phone it will easily get you through a day without a problem and it supports wireless
charging and fast charging so about 30 minutes will get you about 50 percent of your battery and
you can use wireless charging you can use magsafe but you won't get the faster wireless charging
but you will be able to charge wirelessly with this up to about 7.5 watts so it does support
that which is always really nice and so this particular phone also has great reception for
some reason this seemed to have better reception than the iphone 11 pro max that i used full time
during the time frame this was released it has decent wi-fi no issues there while it doesn't
support the latest wi-fi standards such as wi-fi six it's plenty fast with the previous versions
and cellular seems to be pretty good it does not support 5g but it does support 4g with dual sims
as you can see here so you can have one main sim with an e sim secondary if you want to do that
and it seems to have decent reception with its aluminum frame so i didn't have a whole lot of
call drops or anything like that and speed seems to be pretty decent let's check speed test i'll
turn off wi-fi so we can test this and we'll hit next allow and let's see what the speed is
so we'll go ahead and speed test it this is on t-mobile i have a t-mobile sim in here
and you'll see speed is decent in my area with two bars of service so we're getting up to 20 megabits
per second you will get a faster speed with say 5g for example in my area but 25 down is not bad
so we're hitting almost 27 down and then pretty slow upload speeds but that's just the area i'm in
a couple or about two to three megabits per second as far as upload speed but it really depends on
where you're at but like i said reception in general has been good with this now one area
where i've really enjoyed using the iphone 10r is its camera the camera maybe because of its
lens arrangement looks really good when you're recording video in fact i've used this to record
a lot of videos when i'm filming outside the one thing you don't get that the new phones get is hdr
but you do get up to 4k 60. so if i go into the camera for example go to video you'll see
we have hd we'll tap on this we'll change it to 4k and then like i said we have up to 60 frames
per second if you're using 30 frames per second you'll be able to use the neural engine to better
sort of understand your environment and it looks a little bit better but you can go up to 30 frames
per second and it looks great and so this is a camera i've used a lot of times for video
and the photos are great too the one thing that some people complain about is it doesn't have a
telephoto lens or ultra wide lens the ultra wide is a disadvantage but the telephoto is not as big
of a deal as you might think on the newer phones such as the iphone 12 for example when you zoom in
to 2.5 x for example on the 12 pro max it actually will use the main camera still so you've got three
lenses on the newer phones and if i go to the camera you go to photo i'll put my finger over it
here you'll see my fingers over the lens we'll tap on 2.5 x it's still using that same camera because
it can get better resolution with the sensor this is the same sort of thing that's done on the 10r
when you zoom in a little bit so it actually looks pretty good until you go to about 5x for example
then it gets a little blurry doesn't look as good but it's still decent when you're zoomed in
you'll see the detail of the keyboard here is pretty good so it's not amazing but it's better
than most people would think the one area where the 10r lacks a little bit these days is with the
facetime camera this is only a 7 megapixel camera and if i go to video it only records in 1080p the
microphones are pretty decent as you can hear now but the overall quality is just not that of say
the iphone 11 or the newer phones because those record in 4k this is only 1080p and so that's one
area where you have a little bit of a disadvantage but you still have the ability to use things like
animoji for example if i go into messages you can use the animoji it will track your face if
you want to play around with that you can do that and it will track your face and mouth movements
so it's working just fine without a problem and if you like all of these features you'll have
those so you'll have everything that's in the latest phones along with augmented reality now
another thing to consider between these devices is pwm and this is why a lot of people stay with
lcd displays over oled and that's how they control brightness an lcd display does not flicker the
display on iphones to control the brightness where an oled display does by flickering the display
faster or slower it controls brightness and this can cause some people to feel nauseated or
cause eye strain this is fairly common it's about 1 in 10 people and it usually affects those that
can see higher frame rates this actually affects myself when i was using some of the older phones
they really affect my eyes and cause a lot of a lot of strain with the iphone 10r you
don't get any of that so it's actually a little bit better for your eyes in in what i'm finding
and using different lcd displays and so that leads me to should you buy an iphone 10r in 2021
and that really depends on a couple of things do you really want the best cameras do you want the
best specs or do you just want a reliable phone that works fine has ios on it and will get the
job done this is really the workhorse i think with all the latest features you're not missing out on
any features but you just won't have the latest of everything i would say that if you could spend an
extra 100 i would go for the iphone 11 at this point because you get an extra camera you have
a little bit better video and better video on the forward-facing camera as well the screens
are identical but you have all the latest specs and you also get better ip resistance which means
ip68 up to two meters for 30 minutes with the 11 or just ip67 one meter for 30 minutes with the 10r
so you do have a couple advantages that i think are worth that extra hundred dollars but if the
camera doesn't matter to you the Facetime camera doesn't matter to you the 10r will actually get
a little bit better battery life so if you're more concerned about battery life and durability
and just not having something that's that expensive where you could spend
maybe by two of the 10r for the price of the 12 for example this would be the best phone to get
at that price range especially if you can pick one up say at a carrier that gives you a deal maybe
free with a trade-in or something like that i think it's an excellent choice either that way or
used it's still great but let me know what you think about it in the comments below
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