Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and
the iPhone XR has been out for about a
week and a half I've been using it every
single day as my main phone and it's
been a mostly positive experience now
this is the budget iPhone and comes in
at 749 for 64 gigs of storage I wouldn't
really call that budget but for an
iPhone right now it is a budget so 749
64 gigs of storage for an extra $50 you
can get 128 and that's really the sweet
spot on this phone and $800 for 128GB
of storage I think will suit most
people's needs you can bump that up to
256 but then you're getting close to the
price of the XS and it's one of those
things where that gets a little bit
pricey when you get up to that range and
I don't know if you need all that so I
usually use about 30 to 40 gigs of
storage on my phones total after a
couple of years that's still what I'm
using and 64 is good for most people 128
is that sweet spot now the design is
very familiar it's a little bit
different than the XS or the XS max
you are lacking that camera bump and the
extra camera well you have a camera bump
but of the extra camera and then you
also have the same camera but a
different lens than the XS and XS max
so it's still quite as good same sensor
and everything you have glass front and
back wireless charging but aluminum
around the outside edges and that makes
it a little bit lighter but you do have
an non or asymmetrical charge port so
that's kind of strange but the the
speakers are symmetrical but that middle
lightning connector charge port is not
and that's probably to make way for the
display and that's the most
controversial thing about this phone is
the display is between 720p and 1080p
and to me that's not a big deal because
the pixel per inch density is 326 it's
the same as the 8 or the 7 that's not a
big deal to me however for the price of
the phone and modern phones it is a
little bit low as far as the resolution
numbers are concerned now I showed this
to many many people both photography
people video people
and I only had one say that these
displays look any different at all I
showed them side-by-side with the XS
max and I've had one person say that the
outside edge right around the edges
where they curve the liquid Retina
display that's what gives it that name
is it's a little fuzzy and maybe that's
true
text is crisp colors are great it's
accurate it's bright and sunlight I've
had no issues with it and I think the
people that are concerned about the
numbers aren't really taking a look at
it side by side now some people have and
some people can see the difference for
me it's not a concern and I think most
people won't even mind however the
viewing angles aren't as good as the new
iPads viewing angles with its liquid
Retina display and it's good but it's
not as good and the other thing to
consider too is if flicker bothers you on
displays such as myself with pulse width
modulation on an iPhone XS max for
example or OLED displays this is the
phone for you it doesn't flicker at all
it has none of those traits because it's
an LCD display so you don't get that
flicker it doesn't use pulse width
modulation to flash the screen to make
it brighter or darker so you're never
getting that flicker and it doesn't harm
your eyes so that part has been really
great to use all week long in this now
aside from the display the specs are
really good it's the same as the XS and
XS max minus 1 gig of ram and that's
probably because of the display you just
don't need it when you're not pushing
the graphics chip is hard to power all
those pixels so because we don't have as
many pixels it doesn't have to work as
hard doesn't need as much RAM and most
of the time you don't need to pay
attention to RAM anyway on an iPhone it
just works and you don't have to think
about it and the speed of the a12 is
super fast it's underutilized in this
phone quite honestly there's nothing
you're going to do on the phone that's
going to be slow video rendering
anything it doesn't matter it's just not
going to be slow so if there's a hiccup
that might be part of iOS doing
something but for the most part you're
going to have no issues with that
whatsoever now the camera the camera on
the back is quite good like I said it's
got great video it's stabilized
4k video 4k HDR
it's not true HD are you can't edit it
and put it in HDR rec 2020 and actually
do HDR footage with it but it does look
quite good but it does have great
processing due to the neural engine and
everything else that's on that a12 chip
now the forward facing camera is good
it's the same camera that you get on all
the other iPhones so you're going to get
the true depth sensor and everything
like that when it comes to taking
portraits and that sort of thing so it
does a great job and it's what you
expect from a XS XS Max or an iPhone
10 even so it's quite good that way now
I took some photo and video with the
rear camera so let's take a look at that
now
I'm recording using the iPhone XR
camera and as you can see the image out of it
is quite good it is stabilized I'm
walking over some pretty rough terrain
and it seems to be doing a pretty good
job now I can zoom pinch to zoom but it
is digital but I think overall it looks
pretty good and in general the image
coming out of it with the new neural
engine figuring out the HDR and
everything I think looks pretty good and
as far as video cameras out there the
XS the XS max and the XR have the
best out there from any that I've test
the focusing of the XR is just as fast
as any of the other phones if I get
closer to this tree here you'll see I
tap on the tree tap on the rocks behind
it it's nice and smooth and clear and I
think overall works really well and the
image is really impressive at least from
what I can see on the screen right now
now the battery life on the XR is
really good the battery life is easily
one to two days of battery and I know
some tests show this in sort of a lab
situation where you're running them full
brightness and running certain tasks
next to and XS max or a note 9 those
sorts of things but if you're using this
everyday day-to-day because of that
lower resolution LCD and also because of
the size of the battery being in between
a little bit smaller than the XS max
but pretty large in general I easily get
to the end of the day with about 40 to
50 percent battery life left in fact if
you look at my screen time screen times
about 5 hours every single day with
about 40 to 50 percent battery life left
I've had no issues whatsoever as far as
that goes and if you're using a vehicle
to use car play or car play in a car or
whatever you're doing with it and it's
plugged in it's going to extend that
battery even more now as far as charging
it goes Apple really needs to include a
faster charger such as the iPad charger
in the box this would be ideal for most
people if you're going to use it wired
of course you do get wireless charging
and that's how I charge it most of the
time on a 7.5 watt wireless charger and
the charges in a couple hours I have no
issues there I've never run into an
issue where I didn't have
enough power to what I'm for what I
needed to do throughout the day on this
display now the iPhone XR has wider
stereo sound just like the XS and XS
max with the speaker on top and the
bottom and it's nice and loud so let's
see if we can hear that through these
microphones anyway so these are the
phones themselves now you may or may not
like either one of these colors I really
like the red although blue looks pretty
good too
now as far as things I don't really like
about it there's not very much one of
the things is I do miss the headphone
jack I think they could put it back but
they're just never going to at this
point and they definitely should include
a faster charger this is the iPad
charger I think they should include this
one this would charge it plenty fast for
most people in a couple hours or so if
you use the macbook charger you can do
that even faster but it's not worth the
extra price with the cables and
everything at this point now I
wirelessly charge this I'll link them
when I use in the description below but
I wirelessly charge this all the time so
it's not that much of an issue and it's
not terribly expensive for that charger
but I just think they should include
that at this point get rid of the other
charger nobody really uses it and if
they do they wish to church faster
anyway so you've got those two things
going against it also you only have ip67
certification so you don't want to get
it too wet as it won't last as long as
the iPhone XS max or XS the other
negative I have is face ID while tons of
people love face ID it works fine on
this it unlocks quick but I really
missed the fingerprint reader for
certain things the unlock if it had one
in the Apple logo they're never going to
do that but I would love one here or
under the display like we see with the
OnePlus 6T something like that in the
future maybe they'll do that I don't
know but there's not really much
negative to say about this phone it's
great battery life solid build not as
expensive and it's probably the phone
for most people so if you picked one of
these up I'd love to hear which one
you've got what do you think about it
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