Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and iphone 11 has been out for a little bit over a year
and so i wanted to share my overall experience with it talk about its durability battery health
battery life and if you should still pick one up now that it's 20 20 and we're getting close to the
launch of the iphone 12. and so the first thing is it's durability now the iphone 11 has been
pretty well managed and maintained meaning i use a case with it most of the time
now it's a little bit backward from what i do with most phones as i want to do something a
little bit different so i use the apple silicon case or silicone case and this was actually
working really well you'll see it's held up pretty well the case doesn't really have any issues
but the phone has been kept perfect because of it even though it has a bottom that's open
it's actually held up really really well so no issues there the frame is in great shape and for
most people unless you drop your phone a lot the frame is going to hold up just fine it's aluminum
on the iphone 11 and it seems to be pretty durable overall i have no scratches on the camera lenses
which is really good of course that would be really bad if you had scratches but it seems to
hold up well even just setting it down on a table like this no issues there however the display
will scratch very easily in fact i showed that in my iphone 11 pro max video so as you can see my 11
pro max has a bunch of scratches right here and to make for more durable glass when dropping it apple
changed the formulation or really corning did with gorilla glass they changed the formulation
of the glass to make it more durable when being dropped however it's more prone to scratching
and so the iphone 11 was one of the phones i actually just put a screen protector on right
away to prevent any of those issues and so the screen protector is preventing scratches and
even before i put the screen protector on there are some very light scratches on here and i think
that's just because well it's the way this glass is it's durable when being dropped and it's not
durable when hitting different objects now this is the number one phone i see most people carrying
not necessarily this green color but rather just iphone 11 in general if they upgraded to a phone
i know a lot of people are going to complain about the display resolution being between 720p and
1080p but the majority of people just don't care unless you're into tech specs and have to have the
best in fact with this display you can't see the pixels it's above 300 pixels per inch and that's
above retina so as long as you're holding it about a foot and a half away you can't see the pixels
at all even if you bring it up close you can't see the pixels and so when you're watching youtube you
can still watch in 1080p and so here is my video from the other day with the apple event update
and as you can see you have the option for 1080p now you won't have 4k and it seems like youtube
has removed that ability anyway but basically this display is closer to 1080p and it will just scale
it so you'll be able to see all of that quality with the bitrate of 1080p scaled to this display
so most people aren't bothered by that also you get one advantage with this display is the lack
of pwm or pulse width modulation the way this display actually controls the brightness this
is an lcd display and liquid retina as apple calls it but that's really because of these corners here
but this particular display doesn't flash to control brightness it's always on and it's
not blinking constantly and while you can't see that on an iphone 11 pro max with an oled display
it's just not present at all on the iphone 11 or the iphone 10r which has a similar display
so it's nice and bright it goes really bright it won't bother your eyes so if you suffer from
headaches or light sensitivity the iphone 11 won't bother your eyes and so i recommend it to a lot of
people that have those issues in fact one in 10 are bothered by the pwm or the the flickering
display there's many monitors that are made that have anti-flicker displays for this reason
and so this particular display doesn't have that and it's best for people with sensitivity to light
or flickering displays so it's really great for that it goes nice and bright like i said and i
think it's the best lcd display out there next to maybe the pro display xdr monitor that apple has
now as far as the speakers well the speakers are quite good as well let me go back to my
video here and i'll turn it up and let me move my microphone so you can hear
them after a year they've held up well it's an object view now you can't see it because i'd
have to hold my phone vertically but if you tap on this you'll see this sort of circles
and so the overall quality of the speakers is great you've still got that stereo quality sound
and i haven't had any issues with the speakers distorting or anything like that they will distort
a little bit at high volumes but that's true of just about any speaker just back it off a little
bit and you'll be fine but they haven't degraded over a year i've carried this with me along with
the 11 pro max just about everywhere i go as it's brought with me for video reviews and things like
that and it seems to be holding up well and as far as the cpu and processor and the way it holds up
when using ios 14 there's been no issues in fact i would say it's maybe even a little bit faster with
ios 14 as far as its smoothness and scrolling through things going through different menus
and it just seems to be nice and fast so you're not really going to have any issues there
one area where you may have a few issues has to do with the battery and ios 14 has been a little bit
buggy with battery in fact apple acknowledged this and said to completely wipe the phone and restore
from a backup if you're having major issues and so that's not the greatest fix hopefully we'll see a
software update to fix that later on and this is a phone where i use it a lot just to play around
with different ideas on the home screen when i was coming up with my how to customize your display
video i use this phone to play around with that to make sure i understood how it worked properly
before i taught you how to do the same thing and so this phone is not heavily used but it seems to
be holding up well so you'll see that after a year my battery health is going to be a hundred percent
because it's not my main phone but if i switch over to the phone that i do use full time let me
show you the battery health there so on my iphone 11 pro max that's used every single day i have 94
battery health after a year that's charging it every night overnight and
leaving it on a wireless charger and i don't use a case on it so it doesn't have any heat issues
and it seems to hold up well apple says 80 after two years is normal so if you have 90 or better
you're doing really well so i would expect the same capacity out of this and of course as it
degrades over time this is true of any battery so if you have an android phone or an older iphone
even if it's not showing you this it's still degrading over time and after a while you'll
eventually need to replace the battery a few years is pretty normal before having to swap the battery
but a lot of people upgrade their phone at that point but battery life in general will get you
through nine hours usually no problem in fact using it regularly you should get through the
day without a problem of course you could fast charge it if you have a fast charger but they
never included that in the box for some reason and it looks like they're not going to include it with
iphone 12 but in general it seems to be holding up really well in fact i have no complaints and
this is the phone i recommend to most people that aren't tech enthusiasts it seems to be the phone
that's reliable it's not as expensive you save a bunch of money and you get great cameras in fact
my iphone 11 pro max video was recorded on an 11 pro and the quality of the camera is top notch
especially for video you've got 4k 60 video if you want it see if we we've got 4k 30 selected now
but you have 4k 60 if you want it in the settings so if you go over to your settings here
and then we go over and down to camera wherever that is i can never find it i wish they'd just
make all the settings in the app but you do have the option for 4k 60 if you want it so you can
switch over to that have that for slo-mo and then you've got the advantage of the newer processor
in this as well doing all of the computational photography and videos and this is a phenomenal
phone for video the same camera that's in here and the sensors are basically the same in the 11 pro
and the 11 pro max so you're not really missing out you're just missing an additional telephoto
lens and so you've got a great camera system here and i can highly recommend this for someone that
wants to use it just for recording video or even maybe vlogging here so it seems to be great with
that as you can see here there's no problems the quality is great again we've got 4k options on the
front facing camera and it looks great you can use it for facetime for web calls whatever you want
and it really holds up well to that so i have no complaints about this whatsoever but the real
question is this year if you don't already have an iphone 11 or maybe you do should you upgrade
to an iphone 12 because that's going to introduce a new design and maybe a new display now there's
a couple reasons to say yes you should upgrade and a couple to say you shouldn't this is a prototype
non-functional iphone 12 unit that gives you an idea of the squared off edges and what it should
look like the camera bump may look a little bit different but the 11 is supposed to have
a similar size display but have a squared off look so you're going to gain a more squared off look
i don't know that you'll have three cameras but you'll gain a squared off look and possibly an
oled display it looks like apple's going to get rid of the lcd display and again like i mentioned
earlier if pwm bothers your eyes well you'll want to wait and just keep your iphone 11 and
not upgrade because that will probably bother your eyes unless apple introduces some new technology
where that's not an issue now the other thing too maybe you'll get some better battery life
with the iphone 12 when it releases and you will get a faster cpu but that's really not an issue
on the iphone 11. you're not going to have any of those slowdowns it's just fast all the time like
i said so no issues there it has great cameras and if you're looking for an iphone 12 well certainly
you could swap it if you're on the yearly plans or anything like that but if you're sensitive to
light and things you may want to keep your iphone 11 and this phone is a tank it should last for
years as long as you're not very careless with it and dropping it into water constantly or mud
or onto concrete or anything like that if you take good care of your phones expect it to last for
years so yes i still recommend it even once the iphone 12 comes out it will be for specific people
the camera is great most people aren't going to have an issue with that whatsoever and just in
general it's a great phone and i highly recommend it to many people still but i'd love to hear from
you in the comments below do you have an iphone 11 do you have a different phone or are you going to
be upgrading to this or maybe the iphone 12 also i would expect when the iphone 12 comes out for the
price to lower on the iphone 11 and maybe they'll keep that around and get rid of the iphone 10r so
it seems like if they do what they've done every year once the iphone 12 comes out the iphone 11
will lower in price by one or two hundred dollars and you'll get a little bit of a discount or maybe
even get a discount through your carrier to buy one get one free oftentimes you'll see deals like
that with older phones so you may want to get one of those if you're looking for it otherwise
if you have one hang on to it if not let me know what you're planning to upgrade to next if you'd
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