hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iPhone XR has been out for over a
year and a half and recently I did a review video on the iPhone XS Max
after a year and a half and many people commented and said can you check out the
iPhone XR after a year and a half so this is my iPhone XR in product red
and it's held up really well over time and so I want to talk about design speed
the speaker's still reception the camera Wi-Fi battery in everything else so if
you want to jump to any specific point in the video the time codes are listed
below and now in the timeline you should see all of the sections broken down
there as well if you haven't noticed that recently
now this particular phone was one of my favorite phones because it doesn't have
PWM or pulse width modulation which flickers the display to control
brightness I've talked about this and length on other videos that have OLED
displays and LCDs like this one do not control brightness by flickering the
screen faster or slower like OLED displays do and that tends to cause some
people headaches including myself so using an LCD like this has really helped
me out it keeps my eyes much more comfortable on just the iPhone XR
and the iPhone 11 and it works great now the durability of the iPhone XR
seems to be one of the better phones in my use case so after using this for some
time I found that it really had less scratches than say the iPhone 11 the
iPhone 11 pro or the iPhone 11 Pro max and the reason I say that is with the
newer phones Apple decided to use glass that is more durable to maybe drops so
maybe it's a little bit softer but way more prone to scratching and maybe you
can see right here that there's a ton of scratches on the display and that's just
some of them that you can see under this light with the iPhone XR there
actually are a couple very light scratches but under the same light
you're really not going to notice much of a scratch or anything like that maybe
in the brightest of conditions you'll see scratching but the durability of the
XR just seems to be much better when it comes to the glass now of course you
could put a screen protector on it and that would fix that problem but for
someone like myself I use all of the phones without a screen
not only because I enjoy it more but because I durability test these to see
how they hold up over time so it seems like the XR is holding up well and as
far as the frame is concerned well the frame is holding up well the red
anodization seems to be pretty good here there might be a couple wear marks on
here but not really anything you can notice unless you're really up close to
it but just in general it's held up well I don't have any dents or anything and I
don't drop the phone so it's holding up well there and the glass on the camera
is not scratched either so there's no scratches or anything now I don't use
this with a case generally at least for the first couple of months and then I
did use it with the clear case and some of the concerns were is the clear case
going to yellow over time and over the same time that I've had it as soon as it
came out I picked one up it hasn't yellowed at all so it's held up well
also and then I normally just have it on the phone like this to protect it
against scratches and things just in general it seems like it's doing well
the durability of the XR makes me easily be able to recommend this to
anyone looking for a phone to use long term now reception with this has been
great in fact this was much better than the XS max for me it had far less
problems whether that has to do with maybe the aluminum design versus the
stainless steel design of the XS max I'm not sure but in general it has some
of the best reception of any of the Intel based phones today and speed is
great because it has the same processor as the XS Max or the XS it's just
super fast and smooth you can open music without any issue and playing games is
nice and fast too like minecraft so you won't notice any difference between this
and the latest phone so we'll wait for this to load here and we're in will hit
play just go to one of my worlds here that I've shown before and it loads nice
and quick you'll have good frame rates takes just a second here and we're in so
we have good frame rates you shouldn't have any issues here whatsoever you
should see that it's nice and fast no slowdowns and it's easy to play and
that's the nice thing this is fairly inexpensive today as far as phones go
and I compared this with the iPhone se recently and if you want a little bit
larger screen but with similar speed and everything this is a very obvious choice
so not only is it fast with game but you really won't know any slowdowns
opening the camera is nice and fast and speaking of the camera it has a
fantastic camera in fact I've used this camera in many videos as a video camera
just to record updates on my iPhone I did a lot of that last summer and I plan
to do that in the future but the camera is good enough and will record 4k 60
video if you want you can't tap on the the actual resolution and speed here so
in the record video you can see that we have 4k 60 so you can record at 4k 64 K
30 or 24 or faster frame rates if you want to do slo-mo and the camera is
really good in fact many people didn't know that I was using an iPhone for the
camera as long as you have a decent light outdoor light you're really not
going to notice the difference in fact here's the video I'm recording right now
from the camera and you can hear the microphone as well and it holds up well
even though it's not a studio microphone it's pretty decent and records well now
one of the downsides of the camera might be the forward facing camera and you can
see there's the camera now if I hit record it probably sounds pretty good
and there's no issues there but the quality isn't as high-quality as say the
newer phones with the 11 Pro max with a little bit higher resolutions but in
general most people won't notice especially if you're on a FaceTime call
you're using it for conferencing things like that it will look fine for those
things but it's just not up to the higher-end specs of the newer camera now
what I probably get asked the most or that gets referenced the most with the
iPhone XR is its display people say oh it's not a high enough high enough
resolution it's somewhere between 720p and 1080p and the reality is you should
really be focusing on the pixel density and not to the resolution anything over
300 pixels per inch is fine and in fact people love the iPad pro display and
that's far under 300 pixels per inch but it has a higher resolution due to its
size so this display is one of if not the best LCD display on the market it
has great viewing angles it goes nice and bright and if you put it
side-by-side with say the iPhone 11 pro max you're really not going to be able
to see the difference as far as pixels you may see some differences in the very
deep blacks and vibrant color differences but otherwise you won't
notice the difference especially if you're not into displays and
sort of pixel peeping so otherwise the XR is a great choice and has a
fantastic display when it comes to LCDs now as far as the speakers go you still
have stereo speakers no issues there and if we go into youtube here on one of my
youtube videos we'll wait for it to rotate yes you can watch it in 1080p it
will scale and in fact this display is somewhere in between 1080 and 720p so
you have that option and the speakers are nice and loud so let me turn them up
now if you back them off from the highest volume just a little bit
they sound nice and clean and clear and they're really great for just watching
video content on this phone so you won't have any issues as far as the speakers
are concerned and also Wi-Fi speeds are good now it doesn't have Wi-Fi 6 like
the latest phones but most people don't have Wi-Fi 6 routers in their house so
if you're using Wi-Fi and you're just using that regularly at home the speeds
are plenty fast you only need 15 megabits per second down to stream full
resolution 4k video so anything you're doing this is going to be fine as far as
that goes and the battery life on this phone is quite good in fact for me well
the battery health let's take a look at that we'll go to battery health and I
actually asked someone to send me their best battery life on a XR that uses it
regularly so if we go to battery health you'll see that it has 100% now keep in
mind I use this phone full time for anywhere between three to six months so
because of that you can expect 100% battery but in normal use 80% after two
years is normal now I did ask someone that has an iPhone 10 R to send me their
full time usage and their best usage so you'll see this one has nine hours and
19 minutes of screen on time the odd thing is it goes up to 150 percent so if
we back that off a little bit maybe seven hours of screen on time with maybe
45 minutes of screen off time so this is pretty good in general I would expect 7
hours out of your iPhone XR without a problem now as far as the iPhone XR
and if you should still buy one if you can get one for a great deal I say
absolutely pick one up if you don't care about the extra camera that the iPhone
11 has this is a great option Wi-Fi six while
it's nice is not a reason I would pick up a different phone and this will get
the same reception basically as an iPhone 11 there are a few different
advantages with the iPhone 11 but most people won't care about those things and
since it's the same display as the eleven and pretty much everything else
other than maybe some of the IP rating where it's rated a little bit more
water-resistant on the 11 most people aren't going to notice and you really
shouldn't be putting your phone in water anyway since Apple doesn't cover it if
it's damaged from water so you would really want a waterproof case so that's
really it with the iPhone XR I think it's a great option has a great camera
video camera I've used many times in real world use and the microphone and
speaker good I would still use an external microphone if I was going to
use this regularly regularly to record video but in general this is a great
phone it's super fast and will continue to get updates for years so maybe iOS
1718 it's hard to say what Apple will do as far as that goes but most people will
really love this phone let me know if you have an iPhone XR or what you
think about it in the comments below the screen is much better than you think it
is and most people can't tell the difference other than some of the
darkness levels or the brightness levels when it comes to OLED if you'd like to
get your hands on this wallpaper of course I'll link it in the description
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this is Aaron I'll see you next time