hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone 11 pro max has been my main
phone for the past month and almost month and a half or so and I've really
enjoyed using it so I want to talk about my experience over the past month I'll
talk about durability and a few other things and the first thing is the
display and a lot of you if you've followed any of my videos know that I
was concerned with this display and any OLED display because of PWM or that
screen flicker that controls the brightness basically so not to go into
it too detailed but that can cause a lot of strain and headaches to some people
and I'm happy to report that the 11pro max doesn't do that to me and most of
the time it's around half brightness right now but most of the time it's on
auto brightness I never really turned that off and during the day it's going
to be around half brightness and I've never really had any issues as far as
the PWM bothering my eyes on this phone on the XS Max and the iPhone X it
really gave me some headaches and eye strain it does not do that on this one
so that's a great thing and that also adds to the usability because now that
it doesn't bother me I can enjoy this really nice display this is easily the
nicest display on any smartphone including the note 10 that was a
beautiful display but this is just a little bit better in my experience and
it's super color accurate super bright if I turn the brightness up here it's
just goes very bright it's easy to see in sunlight is HDR has great contrast
and it's just really nice to look at its color accurate and some people did have
some with a little slight yellow tint to it I don't really see that online so
overall it's really good I have true tone turned off right now for the video
but I do normally use it the overall durability of the 11pro Max has been
quite good with the exception of the display and I say that because I made a
separate video about it but this display scratch is more easily than any iPhone
I've had before it has just as many scratches as a phone I've used for a
year prior to this so let me turn the display off and hopefully I can show you
this you have to be at just the right angle here now if I can get this at the
right angle you'll see some scratches right here as I go down through the
phone there's some here but under the right light there are scratches all over
this phone in there light scratches none of them are gouges or anything like
but their scratches that are really annoying if you're in the right light
when the displays on you can't see them at all
but I don't know if it's the coating that's on this display or if it's the
different type of stronger glass that's more durable when you drop it making it
softer in general I'm not really sure but there's definitely more scratches on
this now of course that could be avoided by just putting a screen protector on it
but I tend not to use cases or screen protectors for a couple of reasons one
is I like the actual experience of the phone itself and the other is durability
testing over the years since I review the phones now as far as scratches along
the bottom it's actually held up really well I don't really have any issues with
any any scratches around the frame or anything like that or around the back
the back glass is fine there's not really any issues as far as any of this
go so it's really been a nice experience to use this phone and I definitely would
recommend it still now overall use and speed no problems whatsoever in fact
this is always fast there's rarely any hiccups or anything when scrolling in
fact the only time there is is if I do an update and then once it's updated and
it's doing a bunch of background activity sometimes it will actually kind
of stutter when you're scrolling otherwise there's never been an issue
and there has been some issues with RAM management as far as closing apps and
being aggressive at closing apps in the background I think that's mostly fixed
with iOS 13.3 but in general if we snap a picture then we go here maybe we'll go
back to YouTube YouTube reloads my page of different things here but not the
actual app itself and so I find that it stays open longer what the actual
threshold for that is I'm not really sure but it's just a really nice phone
to use it is the same layout but that's iOS but the overall experience is quite
good and the speakers are nice and loud I don't tend to use speakers to listen
to music I'll use a home pod or a computer or whatever's in the room but
if I'm listening to music I just normally don't watch things on this such
as movies and things like that if you are it sounds great but I tend to use a
larger screen like an iPad or something along those
now battery life overall has been very good good enough that I never look at it
because I never get a low battery warning normally I don't look at the
battery too much I don't let it bother me but if I get a low battery warning
I'll notice I haven't gotten that once I think on this phone you'll see my
battery health is it a hundred percent since it's pretty new and this is my
normal usage throughout a day four hours and 21 minutes of screen on time 2 hours
and 33 minutes of screen off time and that's with about 50 percent usage most
people I'm talking to are saying about 8 - up to 12 hours of screen on time
depending on how they're using their phone if I go back in you'll see most of
my my apps and things are Twitter or YouTube studio or messages and things
like that I'm not really watching YouTube too much on this or doing much
else other than that so in general it's pretty good the one area I still have an
issue with and I think I just need to restore the phone at this point because
I've asked other people I know that have this phone and in fact my brother has
one of these phones on the same carrier as well and has no issues with it
switching from Wi-Fi to LTE I had thought that was fixed with previous
updates but then the problem came back so when I leave my Wi-Fi network and
switch to LTE oftentimes I'll have no internet connection so I'll go into
YouTube for example try to refresh it just won't work and of course it works
now but a lot of the time I'll walk outside of the building I'm in it just
won't have connectivity it'll say failed to connect to cellular network and this
is a problem I'm hearing from a lot of people but not enough that it concerns
me I think most people either have been restoring for years like I have and
maybe I just need to wipe the phone and try over because like I said my brother
has the same carrier and doesn't have this issue ever so this is just a
problem I find in fact this morning when I went to get some coffee
I had no internet connection I actually had left the home
ten minutes ago stopped at a coffee place and I couldn't connect until I
turned on airplane mode turned it off turned off Wi-Fi like that and then I
had connectivity so it's really annoying and I just need to restore the phone and
see how it goes so those are my only bad things about it is the the
action there but when I am connected speed is fine cellular reception is fine
I have no issues there and just using the phone in general it's definitely the
best iPhone ever made in my opinion but it's not exciting because it's not a
whole new design so the cameras are fantastic they're good enough that I can
use them for these videos if I want to especially the front-facing camera when
I use that for video it's a 4k camera you would never know that I'm not using
4k that I'm not using my lumix s1 up there so you it's just really good and
I'm happy I can use it for that in fact the microphone in this is so good that
it was better than an external recorder I used for one of the videos when I did
my iPhone review for this I actually scrapped the audio from the external
recorder and used the audio from the phone because it was much better so it's
really impressive what Apple has done with that but overall the experience is
great of course I'll continue using it and we may even see an iPhone se early
next year for people that want smaller phones but I'll continue using this
until the next iPhone comes out iPhone 12 next year so but let me know your
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