hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone 11 has been out for a couple
of weeks and so far it's a pretty good phone but I wanted to help you decide
whether or not you should pick one up and so if you want to jump to a specific
part of this review I've listed all the time codes in the description so you can
just jump around or whatever you'd like to see now the first thing overall
that's great about it is its build quality it's still the same as basically
a 10 R for example it's aluminum around the outside edge and then you've got
glass front and back and Apple has increased the build quality and increase
the strength of the glass it seems I don't have any sharp edges around the
outside it just feels good overall and I think they've improved it a little bit
now the difference between this and the XR
is the back glass they've moved the Apple logo 4-1 they've moved it to the
center and I think that was supposed to be for reverse wireless charging for the
air pods for example because people that have torn the phone apart say all the
hardware is there they just didn't turn it on so maybe we'll see it later not
really sure but the Apple is in the middle maybe to represent that we don't
really know since Apple didn't do this however the back glass is really nice
it's interesting because you've got a camera bump here but it's all one piece
of glass so it's shiny here with a matte finish on the camera area it's reverse
of the iPhone 11 pro and pro Mac so there's is matte on the back and glossy
around the camera bump it's just a small differentiating factor
now overall the feel of it is good it's the same 6.1 inch display that we had on
the iPhone 10 R and some people may not like this but it's the same resolution
however it's the same pixel density of 326 pixels per inch and that means you
can't really see the pixels in fact that's higher than you get with an iPad
pro for example so despite the resolution being under 1080p you can
still watch 1080p YouTube videos it just scales accordingly to the screen size if
I was to put this side-by-side with an iPhone 10s max which I have done many
times or an 11 pro max most people can't tell the difference with the exception
of the brightness of it and the very dark blacks on the screen so when the
screen is actually dark or black in an area it's
pixels on the pro devices whereas on this this screen it's not doing that so
I think for most people most people didn't complain about the 10r unless
you're into specs and technology and things like that but overall you can't
see the pixels it looks good it's not as bright as an OLED display that you get
on the pro devices but you get one major advantage with this over the pro and
that is it doesn't have PWM or pulse width modulation and that's the way an
OLED display on the pro devices actually manages the brightness so it has to
flicker the display faster and faster to manage brightness and an LCD like the
10r does not have that so if you feel nauseous or nauseated by looking at one
of those displays on an iPhone 10 10 s 10 s max 11 Pro or 11 Pro max you're not
going to experience that here because this is more similar to an iPhone 8 or a
plus for example so I think that might be really good for a lot of people now
one in 10 people have issues with PWM or flicker and I'm one of them and I have
zero issues with this phone so that part I really appreciate now the next thing
is the speed of this phone the speed is really good in fact it's got the same
processor as the pro devices so you're not really compromising there it's super
fast it's fluid all of the time I've had no slowdowns whatsoever and opening apps
and scrolling anything you're doing just feels fast and fluid I've had no issues
running the public releases of iOS so if you're on one of the betas maybe you'll
have some issues but running the public versions I've had none whatsoever and
that leads me over to the cameras this year's cameras are greatly improved over
last years and in fact we have two of the same cameras we get on the pro we
have a wide and an ultra wide and we lose the telephoto but you can zoom in
and it's still pretty clear overall and I'll show you some of those photos in
just a moment but they're new 12 megapixel sensors that are capable of
not only great photo and video but also really low-light photography so I've put
all of that together in a separate part part of this video so you can take a
look at it here
recording video with the regular 1x camera and it is stabilized
just like on the 11pro and Promax so it's actually really nice stable footage
as I walk along here if I switch to the ultra wide it's not stabilized but it's
pretty stable because it's so wide so let me show you what I mean now I'm
using the ultra wide camera and while this is not stabilized because it's so
wide it gives it more of a stabilized look but if you wanted to walk along
with the camera I would use the 1x since it's stabilized optically now with the
camera we have a couple new options we have this arrow and this only appears on
the 11 and the 11 Pro devices we hit the little arrow and we've got some options
here on the right and so we can switch between 4:3 or 16:9 this is great for
maybe taking a thumbnail for YouTube that's what I use it for it go back to
4:3 and then you can see we have flash or night mode in night mode is only
going to show up if you're in an environment where it could be used
properly so you can hit this you'll see it on the left next to your flash and
then you can adjust the actual exposure time and if it's on a tripod the iPhone
actually senses that and will allow you to adjust it accordingly now right now
it's only giving giving us one second but we'll change that in a moment but
you can back out to a wide-angle camera you'll see we can go wide here
and you'll see even part of the tripod that this phone is on or we can go back
to 1x we can zoom digitally but it's not as good as if we have the optical zoom
on the pro let me show you what this can do though when it's in night mode now
the only light in the room is from a couple LEDs and the screens of the
iPhone that I'm recording so let's go ahead and go to night mode here and we
can turn the exposure time up to 30 seconds there's a max of 28 to 30
seconds we'll hit the button and we'll take the photo and you'll watch it
slowly expose it's pretty interesting to watch this and you'll see it's got 17
seconds left it's going to expose the image overall now when it's this dark
you can't really focus on anything but this gives you an idea of what it can do
and it's really impressive as far as being able to gather light because those
boxes of the iPhone that were in the background I can't even see them now in
this current light so let's go ahead and wait for it to finish we'll tap on the
photo and there you can see it even was able to make out the name iPhone you can
barely read it but you can see the box of the iPhone 11 Pro in the background
and make out some of what was going on so it's pretty impressive it's better at
night with maybe a starry sky or something like that I'm recording
handheld using the forward-facing camera on the iPhone 11 and I'm actually using
the internal mic as well and this is the same great camera that's in the 11pro
and Promax you've got slow-motion selfies just like
you would on those devices and there's really no compromise on the forward
facing camera whatsoever in fact I recorded the entire 11 Pro and 11 Pro
max review video using the forward facing camera anytime I'm on video so
you've got the same quality you get there and depending on the sunlight it
may be even better that's not quite as bright like today the other thing you
can do now that you have two cameras is you can take portraits of objects where
you couldn't do that before with the 10r you can do that now with this camera
because it's got to to sense depth so now you can take portraits of anything
from flowers to people to animals whatever you want it's not just limited
to mostly people now the next thing is battery and apple says battery in the
iPhone 11 is about an hour longer than you get with the 10 R however I find
that most people are saying about 30 minutes or 30 to 60 not 60 and over so
expect this to get you through the day probably seven to eight hours of battery
life with screen on time and it really shouldn't be a problem for most people
you still get fast wireless charging but you don't get a fast charger in the box
you've still got the five watt charger now you can pick up the charger which is
the same one from the iPad pro or you can pick it up in the store for the
iPhone as an additional cost but it just is kind of disappointing they didn't
include it since you get all the same features that you get with the 11pro and
Promax as far as fast charging so if you want one of those charges you'll have to
buy it extra now reception has actually been quite good last year we had a bunch
of issues with the iPhone 10 R 10s and max but I think they fixed most of most
of those this year and that's due to this aluminum design maybe I'm not
really sure but it seems to be better overall just in general I have stronger
signal strength I have less drops I also have no issues on Wi-Fi and we also get
Wi-Fi 6 with the iPhone 11 just like you do I'm the pro model so if you have a
Wi-Fi 6 router you can get faster speed so if you have that I actually don't
have that yet but once I do get one it will support it and will have faster
Wi-Fi speeds so that'll be really nice to see the speakers this year are pretty
good I measured about 80 decibels at their highest level the outside edge but
also there's no sharp edges like there was on the XS Max for me
so that's pretty decent overall and you get a nice wide stereo sound so you've
got that top speaker that projects directly at you and then you've got the
bottom speaker and those together give it a nice wide stereo sound I think it's
about the same as the 10r maybe a little bit better but it is nice and loud and I
think it'll be great for most people if you're not using headphones or maybe
having it in your car so when you're just on the go or have it in a room
playing music it'll be great for most people it's pretty clear
it only gets a little bit distorted at the highest levels now Apple has lowered
the price this year of the eleven by fifty dollars now I would like to see it
go even a little bit lower since a lot of people overseas have even inflated
prices on top of what we have in the US so it starts at $6.99 for 64 gigabytes I
think that's fine for a lot of people I'd like to see them start at 128 for
that price and maybe have the price at around 600 dollars since overseas it can
be hundreds more but it is $300 cheaper than the pro models so you are getting
the same speeds a couple of the grey cameras and a very very similar
experience with the exception of the display as compared to the pro so
they're very very close and the pro does get about four hours more battery than
the 11 does so just keep that in mind if you're trying to decide is the battery
life worth the extra three hundred dollars along with that OLED display if
you don't care about those things then the iPhone 11 is the one for you and
then just keep in mind that here no iPhone has 3d touch it does have
haptic touch with the majority of the features that you got with 3d touch but
instead it's just a long press on the display so you're not getting the same
experience it's very similar but it's not the same if you're coming from an
iPhone 10 R it'll be identical so just keep those things in mind if you're
trying to decide which one to get and that's really it for the iPhone 11
there's not much more to say about it I think it's a great phone for most people
if you really care about battery in the display get the pro if not this is the
one for you you'll be happy with it overall it's not as expensive and many
times you can find it in buy one get one free deals and things like that later in
the year so just keep your eyes out for that if you're looking for one of these
and overall it's a much better value I think than last year but hopefully it'll
get even better in the future let me know what you think about it though in
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