hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iphone 11 pro max is a phone that many people
remember is maybe being one of the best phones apple has ever made some people are still using
it regularly but there's many that might want to upgrade to this or maybe even are thinking
about upgrading away from it so i want to help you decide if you should still stay with or buy
an iphone 11 pro max in 2022 now the 11 pro max is a fairly expensive phone still depending on where
you get it if you get it from apple you're talking about 800 to over a thousand dollars however i've
seen it on other places refurbished for under 500 and at that price it's a great buy the overall
design and build of the 11 pro max is something we had for quite some time from the iphone 6 all the
way up until the 11 pro max however with the more recent pro devices we have stainless steel so we
have stainless steel around the outside edge with glass front and back and as you can see i have a
case on this and i don't always use a case on my devices in fact most of the time i don't but in
the short time that i've used it on and off with the 11 pro max you can see that it does have some
staining here now one thing i've seen very often on these silicone cases is cracking at the bottom
so this can be just from regular use i'm quite careful with my devices i typically don't even
use cases and don't have a problem and just from placing this in your pocket sliding it in and
out causes this to break over time i've seen this multiple times not only on this case but on many
other cases that i've shared in other videos as well seems to be pretty typical apple does
tend to sort of replace them if they're fairly new when that happens but if it's about six months old
you'll just have to buy another one at this point so that's something that is a bit unfortunate with
this silicone case but the texture is really nice on it and again it doesn't protect the
bottom and that can lead to some scratches on the device now like i said i don't typically
use anything on the phone itself and being that it's stainless steel around the outside edge you
may see some scratches on the polished surface especially after a couple years of use it's
very typical from trying to place the lightning cable into the lightning port where maybe if you
missed a little bit it could mar the surface just a bit but it's held up really well over that time
on the back being that it's frosted glass it tends to be very durable just like we have on the most
recent phones the frosted glass helps them hold up really really well so no issues here except
for maybe at the very bottom just from placing it on surfaces such as what we have here with
a table or maybe just something very carefully where i place it down i typically will not set
this on a stone surface or anything that could scratch glass that's where i'm very careful with
these or so it's really in my pocket or on a table that's softer than the material itself as far as
the back glass on the cameras this is sapphire and while i know it's not the purest of sapphire it
does help prevent scratches better than the glass itself and i don't have a single scratch on it so
it's held up well there but where it doesn't hold up well compared to recent phones is the screen
now of course this can be fixed with a screen protector but the display itself is one of the
easiest scratching displays on any iphone at least that i've experienced as i bring this up here you
may already see some of the scratches where they go across there's some over here they're all over
the place and if you look at any of the recent iphones that i have or even ones from before this
i rarely have scratches like this on the display so here maybe you can see it a little bit better
there's scratches all over the place and they're deep scratches so the newer phones don't seem to
have that issue at all in fact i don't use a screen protector on my 13 pro max at all and
i don't have a single problem with it so there's no scratches and i've used it the exact same way
so something on the 11 pro max makes the glass a little softer and you typically see a lot more
scratches as you can see here already so it's just something you have to deal with or put a screen
protector on of course if you don't want to see that as far as its overall feel this is something
that i was surprised with since i haven't used the 11 promax as my main device in some time it just
feels great in the hand as far as ergonomically you've got these curved edges which make it
very comfortable although maybe a little bit more slippery than a 13 pro max because it has squared
off edges so that's something that's definitely different on these devices where the squared off
edges make a difference compared to the rounded edges where it just feels a little bit nicer
to use the 11 pro max compared to the 13 pro max however i do think the 13 pro max feels a bit more
premium and is easier to hang on to because of the squared off edges that's going to be a preference
up to the individual however one thing to know is that the 11 pro max definitely feels lighter than
the 13 pro max today where we've got 7.97 ounces or 226 grams compared to 8.46 ounces or 240 grams
also the 13 promax feels quite a bit thicker but it's technically not thicker according to apple
so it's 0.32 inches or 8.1 millimeters compared to 0.30 inch or 7.65 millimeters now i don't
think they're accounting for the camera bump as we have a much larger camera bump on the 13 pro max
compared to the 11 pro max so there's a very big difference there as far as the displays of course
on the newer phones they shrunk the notch a bit and on the 11 pro max it's not much of an issue to
me but you won't have things such as the battery percentage in the upper right but we don't get
that on the latest phones either the display is quite nice of course like i said we have face id
so you have that notch it's plenty fast no issues there and the display is an oled display so it has
the recent display that's very bright 6.5 inches 2 688 by 1 242 with 458 pixels per inch it has hdr
and true tone and goes up to 800 nits of regular brightness that's the same as a 12 pro max
however it goes up to 1200 nits when watching hdr so very similar to what we have today where the
13 pro max is just a thousand nits at regular brightness however we don't have pro motion so
it's definitely not as smooth when you're just scrolling and it does have pwm just like all
of the recent oled phones so at 240 frames per second slow motion you'll see it actually flicker
you can't see this with your eyes but it does cause some people to have maybe headaches or
feel nauseated by it or cause additional eye strain it's something that i don't really find
to be too much of an issue on the 11 promax and with the 13 pro max it's definitely not bothering
my eyes as many people have said they might be using dc dimming where when you're at different
rates it doesn't flash the display as much or at all so there's definitely an advantage to
the latest oled display but the 11 pro max is at a high enough rate that it doesn't bother me at all
there's no really worry of burning either i haven't experienced any of that if you put
it on a gray display just go to safari and if you download a gray wallpaper you can see if there's
burn in it will show sort of ghosting of what the icons looked like if you have that burning
so it seems to have held up really well with that i don't have that issue on any of my iphone
displays at all and like i said it will play hdr footage so this is one of my hdr videos let me
just turn it down here a bit you'll see if we go to the options go to quality and then advanced you
can see we can go up to 4k hdr or 2160p hdr so the screen goes very bright let me turn it down here
the screen goes very bright or display very bright at its highest brightness in fact you
won't be able to see it fully because it's so bright in this camera but if i bring it way down
this gives you an idea of the brightness overall so it's nice and bright it looks good and the
speakers are quite good overall now the speakers have a decent sound they're just not as good in
my opinion as the 13 pro max but i wanted to let you hear them so you could determine for yourself
and i'll use my apple watch with its decibel meter so you can see how loud they go as well so here i
have a comparison video of mine with some music in it as well as my apple watch with the decibel
level on it here so you can see how loud this is so let me go ahead and hit play and turn it up
the speakers sound pretty good overall but they're definitely not as loud as the recent
phones where i hit over 80 decibels in that same sort of setup and scenario with the same music
and also it's just not as clear at the highest volumes maybe because it's a couple years old but
at the highest volumes it's quite distorted you need to turn it down just a little bit to get a
little bit more clarity now as far as battery life that's one area where this phone absolutely excels
it has some of the best battery life of any iphone only beat really by the 13 pro max
so because of its battery size and its new variable display refresh rate on the newer phones
you get a little bit better battery life but on this phone we have a 3969 milliamp hour battery
that should be good for about 10 to 12 hours of screen on time up to 20 hours of video playback
according to apple now i reached out to my brother who uses one of these full time to take a look at
his battery health i'll share my battery health on here in just a moment but his battery health and
also regular use it's what he uses full time every single day so if we go into settings on this phone
battery battery health you'll see that it's at 93 percent that's with a full year of use from me
charging every single night wirelessly and charging it wirelessly when in my car however my
brother like i said uses the same phone so i have his screenshots here and you can see his battery
health is at 83 percent using it over two years he charges the same way as i do wirelessly at night
plugs it into car play when he's driving and then again at night that's when he charges it regularly
and he's at 83 with about two and a half years of use as far as his overall battery life he's on the
latest version of ios 15.3.1 and you'll see on his best day he used about 60 of his battery and
had three hours and 37 minutes of screen on time two hours and 17 minutes of screen off time using
things such as apollo for reddit messages youtube gmail and safari yesterday he had 2 hours and
27 minutes of screen on time and 3 hours and 11 minutes of screen off time he only used about 35
of his battery life at that point so he does get about eight hours of screen on time
if you were to use the entire length of the battery before he went to bed but he often goes
to bed without having to charge it so you'll see it charged by the morning at 7 58 a.m and he was
good to go so pretty good battery life today he just used it for 53 minutes and then three hours
and 18 minutes of screen off time and barely used 10 percent of his battery at that point so pretty
good battery life overall and again it's only second to the 13 pro max as far as overall speed
we have the a13 bionic which is plenty fast it has four gigabytes of ram so you can see it here a13
and it's a super fast processor i don't think most people will mind this of course you're not having
the pro motion or anything on the display that really needs more power to handle that regularly
ramping it up and down but you can play games without a problem whether that be gt racing 2
if we resume here there we are and let's go back and we're in so we're resuming this game nice and
fast no issues here so if you're playing racing games like this you'll have good frame rates if
you're playing pub g mobile shouldn't be a problem at all so nice and fast for almost every single
task and the cameras are great too in fact they're very similar to what we have today now on the 13
pro max you are going to get additional features such as hdr and 4k 60 hdr but on this camera
it's quite good as well so you'll see here we have 4k 60 4k 60 high efficiency of course and we also
have four cam the forward-facing camera you could definitely use this for regular youtube videos
so if we go into the camera hit record now i'm recording with the forward-facing camera of the 11
pro max so now you can hear the actual microphone from it you can see the quality of the camera at
4k 60. now we don't have hdr or cinematic modes but if you don't care about those this should do
just fine with using the forward-facing camera as it's very similar to what we have in the current
phones as far as that goes when it comes to the rear-facing cameras they're a little bit different
you might have a little less capability but for the most part most people will be quite happy with
it whether it be a photo or 4k 60 video or 4k 30 video whatever you'd like it's still here the only
things we don't get really is that that cinematic mode and pro res on the latest one and night time
lapse mode so other than that you have everything else now one big thing in this phone is we have an
intel modem that really makes reception okay now the latest phones have qualcomm modems they seem
to be better they have 5g capability but this has 4g capability i didn't really have too many issues
with it as far as reception and it seemed to be fine overall whether it be that or wi-fi of course
we're not going to have the latest standards but it's plenty fast for the majority of tasks and i
don't think most people will mind it this also has an ip rating of ip68 4 meters for up to 30 minutes
the latest phones are up to 6 meters however on either of the phones i wouldn't recommend taking
them into the water regularly unless you have a waterproof case on them that's because apple does
not guarantee against intrusion of water and won't cover that if you have apple care you'll
have to pay a deductible to get a new phone for that reason so just keep that in mind make sure
you use a waterproof case if i go out on a jet ski or a boat i actually have a waterproof case i put
this out and put on this phone just in case as far as future ios updates well i would expect at least
ios 18 based on what we've seen so far ios 15 is still supported on an iphone 6s 6s plus and se
so i would expect this to be about five or six years total as far as support and things like that
so we're around ios 18 maybe even 19 or 20. so i would expect support for at least the next
few years and that leads me to should you buy an iphone 11 pro max in 2022 and that really depends
on a few different things of course the first one being price if you can get this for around 500 for
maybe the 256 variant that i have here well then it's a great deal it's less than half the price
of a 13 pro max but more than half the phone so definitely i would recommend it at that point
also if you don't care about promotion or having the latest cameras since you're not
a huge photographer you're not using it for a lot of video even though you want good video
it's still a great buy again for less than half the price of a 13 pro max so i would definitely
recommend it today if you can find one but if you wanted to maybe have the latest and greatest of
course you want you're going to want to go with maybe a 12 or 13 at this point you'll want the
latest otherwise if you don't care about any of that this is a great phone and has the best
battery life of any iphone with the exception of a 13 pro max so i highly highly recommend it
if you're looking for one or thinking about it maybe wait for the iphone 14 if you have one
of these to upgrade at this point but let me know what you're using in the comments below of course
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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