Hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and the iphone 11 may still be the best phone for most
people in 2021 so i wanted to talk a little bit about that and talk about why i think that for
a lot of people i still recommend it today and this phone was introduced in september of 2019
apple has since kept it with the release of the iphone 12 series phones and they've
lowered the price and so now the iphone 11 is less expensive still has the same specs
and is a great size overall but now is a hundred dollars less than it was last year which means it
starts at 599 and goes up to 749 that's without any deals from apple whatsoever so whether or not
you have extra deals on top of that with trade-ins from apple or your carrier i've seen these as good
as buy one get one free so it really depends on what your carrier is offering but they come in
three different variants as far as storage still 64 128 or 256 gigabytes and of course you have
different colors this is the green color but we also had a newer purple color for the same year
as well as white black yellow and product red so you have all of those different options
and you have what seems to be sort of the sweet spot in size for many people you have a 6.1 inch
display which i'll talk about more in a little bit but the display and the overall size is
very comfortable in the hand it's in between a very large phone and a very small phone so
even with the introduction of say the iphone 12 series phones this year it's still a decent
size it's a little bit bigger than the iphone 12 but it has a similar size display now as far as
the phone overall in its build i think that's one reason people may still like it as well
it's aluminum on the outside edge so it's aluminum around the outside edge with sort of that curved
design we've had for many years a lot of people still really like the curved design and it's
got the familiar volume buttons on the left hand side so your volume buttons and your silent switch
nothing on the top and then on the other side of course your power sleep wake button
as well as your sim card tray so you have all of those things that are very familiar and then on
the bottom of course you've got lightning with a symmetrical microphone and speaker grille the
lightning port is a little off-center though but that's just how they made these phones of
course you have glass front and back which helps with things like wireless charging and it just
has a very nice feel to it overall it doesn't feel like you're sacrificing anything as far as overall
build quality and anything else durability wise this phone has proven to be very durable in my use
so unlike the iphone 11 pro and iphone 11 pro max this one seems to hold up a little bit better
against scratches for some reason so if you're not using a screen protector and this one has not had
one on it it has zero scratches on it it's held up incredibly well and it works well of course
it has face id which works very simply lock the phone pick it up and it's just as fast as anything
else when it comes to face id so you've got all the benefits of today's phones but you also have
a less expensive price now as far as the display this is the most controversial thing i think for
anyone with this phone is many people say well it's a low resolution display it's not that great
and i would argue that it's just as good as most of the others if not better in many ways it's very
color accurate compared to other phones including the iphone at 12 pro max so if i unlock my 12 pro
max here put it next to it despite it being an an lcd versus an oled of the 12 pro max no it's not
going to be as vibrant or have its deep blacks but many people think it's more color accurate with
the whites the whites on the iphone 12 pro max tend to be a little bit warmer with the 11 being
probably a little bit more accurate if i go into settings for example you can see the difference
here it's quite dramatic and let me make sure true tone is turned off so you can see the difference
true tone is off on both of these phones and now you can see the difference between the colors so
there is a difference in the colors with the 11 verse the 12 pro max or any of the newer
oled phones you also have the advantage that it doesn't use pwm so pwm is a way of modulating the
brightness on oled displays so the 12 pro max for example flickers the screen faster or slower and
that can actually cause people to have headaches or cause them even to feel nauseated and the 11
because it's an lcd doesn't control brightness that way while you can't see it with your eyes
you can see it with a slow motion camera and it's definitely something that bothers people's eyes
and it's about one in ten so if you can see faster frame rates it usually will bother you
myself included so you don't get that with the iphone 11. now technically you do have that lower
resolution display like i said that's 1792 by 828 pixels however even though it's below 1080p but
above 720p you still have 326 pixels per inch so you can't really see the pixels unless you
put this right up next to your eye and you can focus that close but you also get the advantage
that it's a vibrant screen it supports hdr video for example so here's one of my videos i recorded
with the 12 pro max which records an hdr we'll go ahead and hit play
i'll turn it down and you can see that if we go to the options for video
we actually have up to 4k hdr now even though this display is not a 4k display it will scale
it down so you get the higher bit rates of say 1440p and 2160p or 4k and you also get to view
it in hdr so you don't lose any advantage that you have with say the 12 pro max even or the
12 series phones watching hdr video it just may not go as bright as some of those other phones
at its max brightness but it can view hdr content without a problem on youtube now the screen has
haptic touch all of apple's phones have gone away or done away with 3d touch so it has haptic
touch where you can press and hold and it works fine i do wish they'd bring 3d touch back but
that seems to be gone for now but you do have all of those same options just by pressing and holding
but with the iphone 11 you still have the fast a13 bionic with four gigs of ram so if you're playing
a game like fortnite or among us you're not going to have any disadvantages when you're using this
as compared to say an iphone 12 series phones i haven't really seen any difference when it comes
to gaming you'll be able to export 4k video with things like imovie without a problem and you're
scrolling and everything else will be smooth and the lower resolution display compared to the
oled displays for example tend to be a little bit smoother because you're not pushing as many pixels
with the same processor so you probably will have even less lags due to that but you won't
be able to see the pixels like i said now as far as battery life well this phone's quite good it's
not as good as some of the big phones today but it's got a 310 milliamp hour battery in it which
is good for seven to eight hours of screen on time with most users so depending on what you're doing
if you're gaming all day of course you're going to get less battery life and that's just kind of the
nature of doing intensive processes but if you're using it regularly to use social media listening
to some music maybe occasionally using the camera you shouldn't have any issues getting through the
day now along with the battery life being pretty decent on the iphone 11 you also have the option
to wireless charge even using apple's new mag safe adapter so if you place that on the back
it will start to charge but you don't get the fast wireless charging like you do with the iphone 12.
it doesn't have a magnet ring while it does it here kind of magnetically and centers itself to
charge you don't get the fast 15 watt wireless charging with it but you can charge it about 7.5
watts with this charger and also you get fast wired charging as well so if you pick up one
of the new charging bricks from apple it does not include a charging brick at all with it this year
they've taken that out of the iphone 11 if you get a new one if you get a left over iphone 11
the box will have an adapter in it but it won't be the fast charging adapter so if you do want
to fast charge you have to pick up this adapter for about 20 whether that be the 18 or 20 watt
adapter and then you can charge your phone 50 in about 30 minutes so if you want to do that you can
i prefer wireless charging and you don't have to use magsafe you can use anything else any
qi compatible wireless charger but it's just convenient and super easy to use but if you have
any other iphone charger lying around you can use that as well since we're using lightning now as
far as the cameras go the cameras are fantastic they're 12 megapixel cameras they record 4k
60. the only disadvantage that you get over this year's cameras is they don't record an hdr so you
don't have hdr video recording which i think that will be a bigger thing in the next year or two for
everyone to watch on youtube for example but you can still view them with this phone but you have
your regular camera and then you have an ultrawide i don't think it's a big deal that it doesn't have
telephoto because even in say the 12 pro max for example when you take a telephoto picture if the
lighting is good it will use the main camera and just zoom in with the sensor so you can jump into
wide there or go back to 1x or zoom when you're zooming into 2x you're really not going to notice
the difference between a photo with this or a newer phone that has a telephoto lens most
people won't be able to tell the difference unless you put it on a huge screen and then
blow it up that way now the forward facing camera also does 4k video so if i turn it around here
now i'm recording with the camera of the iphone 11. the forward-facing video does 4k 60 as well
again no hdr but it looks great if you want to use it for vlogging i'm even using the microphone out
of the iphone 11 right now and generally it sounds pretty good even compared to my studio mic that's
right here so let me know what you think about it in the comments below now when it comes to lte and
wi-fi the iphone 11 is quite good it doesn't have 5g and that's really not an issue since most areas
are still sort of ramping up their coverage with that so it has 4g lte and wi-fi and i found that
when i use this as my main phone with my sim card in it i tend to have a really good connectivity
in it despite it having an intel modem inside so there's something about this aluminum frame
being the antenna for stainless steel on say the iphone 11 pro or iphone 11 pro max where it seems
to have really good connectivity so i wouldn't be concerned about that i had great reception i
didn't have dropped calls and it seemed to work really well on the 11 versus the pro models so
there's something to be said for that now this phone does have an ip rating it is water or dust
sealed for 2 meters for 30 minutes now if you were to submerge this go swimming with it something
like that and it did damage the phone apple won't cover that so you still want a waterproof case and
that even goes for the iphone 12 series phones so this is two meters for up to 30 minutes it means
if you splash it with water it's not going to be a problem but if you submerge it for a long period
of time it may cause damage but either way it should be protected from daily use or maybe some
rain and things like that now as far as software support i would expect this phone to be supported
for at least four more years apple lately has been supporting their phones for up to six years
with the iphone 6s plus so with the iphone 11 being that it has only a one year old cpu in it
i would expect at least four more years of regular ios updates so that means up to about ios 18 maybe
even ios 19 so we should have years of updates left on the iphone 11. and so should you buy the
iphone 11 in 2021 well i would say that really depends on are you really into technology do you
have to have the best display or do you just want a phone that's reliable has a good display will
play hdr and has decent speakers as well i didn't mention the speakers but they get nice and loud
compared to today's phones too i don't think you'll have any issues there they're nice
and loud they're clear they're stereo from the top and bottom and so they tend to work really
well so i would definitely recommend this in 2021 especially if you can get a discount with trading
in an old phone maybe you're going from an iphone 6s plus you want to get something similar in size
but it's not so expensive well you could get this one usually with a trade-in for less money
and then also there's deals from your carriers like i mentioned earlier in the video so if you
can get one of those deals then absolutely pick one of these up if you're not getting a
deal and it was a choice between this phone and say a newer phone and the money is not an issue
well then definitely go for the iphone 12 because that's going to have the latest design if you like
the squared off edges and it's going to have hdr video recording and that oled display that all of
the phones get in 2021 so with the new iphone 12 series so that's where i would pick up the
newer iphone 12 otherwise if that doesn't matter to you go for the 11 it's reliable it works well
and i think it's the one that most people should pick up i'd love to hear from you what you decided
to get this year or if you're looking to get an iphone 11 let me know in the comments below
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