Which iPhone Should You Choose in 2021?
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Which iPhone Should You Choose in 2020?
So this is this nice green color and that's a new color this year as compared to the iPhone XR. When it comes to the iPhone 11 Pro and eleven Pro max the I phoned 11 pro comes in at 999 dollars and goes up to thirteen hundred and forty nine dollars. It's available in 64 256 or 512 gigabytes and you can see here this is the new midnight green color. At 1099 and goes all the way up to one thousand four hundred and forty nine dollars. When it comes to the over all build of the phones they're a little bit different the four phones on the Left weigh a little bit less, because they're made of aluminum and then glass so the actual frame around the outside edge of the eight 8 + XR + 11 have aluminum around the entire out side edge and glass front and back with the 11 pro and the 11 pro Max-x the sear made of stainless steel. So they're all the same as far as that goes with the pros and then they're all the same as far as the other models as well now when it comes to over all weight the phone's on the right are going to feel a little bit heavier due to their stainless steel construction but they're not too much heavier overall. So here's the different weights of all of them and it goes from 148 grams all the way up to 226 grams for all of them so from lightest to heaviest.
Pro and 11 Pro max are OLED displays and they've really made them very nice this year they've made them a little bit brighter but let's talk about the displays which have the exact same displays that it is a lower resolution than the other displays. It has great viewing angles and that's true of any of the LCD displays from Apple they're very vibrant they're very nice and they go nice and bright but they're not as bright as the OLED displays on the 11pro and the 11pro max. HDR content so the11 Pro and 11 Pro max can play HDR and technically the iPhone 11 can do the same but the OLED displays give you deeper blacks and then brighter colors overall with a little bit more saturation. your choice of 4.7 inches that's actually a rectangular display all the way up to 6.5 inches with rounded corners on the OLED displays of the 11pro max. So you have a wide variety of what works for you however there's one thing I should mention that has to do with OLED display specifically that I don't hear a lot of others talk about but I've mentioned regularly and that's something called PWM or pulse width modulation that's the way OLED displays regulate their brightness and some So they don't have that flicker going on and that flicker may bothersome people's eyes cause them to feel nauseated or give them headaches so that's something to keep people but it's still something that's there. So it thought I'd mention it now another thing to mention is only the iPhone 8 and 8plus have 3d touch and what that means is there's a pressure-sensitive on it slide your finger to adjust brightness but what Apple has done with all of the newer phones from the ten are on is getrid of that and then replace it with a press and hold so you've got a press andhold you accomplish the same task and while it works it is nowhere near as fast so with pressure sensitivity on the music app for example- if I press and hold we'll try it again you'll see it didn't work the first time on the iPhone11 Pro let's try it again and you'll see it works but it's a little bit slower let me try it one more time so you can see again it's it works just fine gives you the same sort of functions but it is a little bit slower so just keep that in mind. f you love 3d touch while they've changed it dramatically with iOS 13 it's still there it's just not as good but it's definitely better than the haptic touch or the press and hold that we have onthe newer phones now with Apple's newer phones the iPhone 11 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max they seem to be more shatter resistant but by doing that it softens the glass and makes them more prone to scratching so for example on my iPhone 11 pro max it's fairly scratched and it.It really doesn't have many scratches on it and I don't use a screen protector but with the newer phone it seems to gather scratches much more easily and that's by putting it in my pocket with nothing else in there I'm very careful where I said it but it's just something to know and I would highly recommend is very expensive also the price to replace the back is very expensive. so I would highly recommend Apple care on these devices so that your maximum cost with anything is about $100 because it can get very expensive if you were to break this back glass
Whet her when it comes to the older devices if you were to shatter the glass it's much more reasonable to get the display replaced the back is no treasonable but the front is reasonable to get replaced if you needed to. So just keep that in mind with the LCD displays they are cheaper to repair should you shatter the screen now finally something that I actually don't think about any more with the displays is the knotch the knotch may bother some people it doesn't really bother me much you get used to it very quickly but if it's something that bothers you most people that actually switch to a phone with aknob don't really notice it after a day or so most people have talked to have said it's not a big deal. I thought it would be but it's not so just keep that in mind but for the most part it's not really something to worry about but if, it with that and there's no reason you can't watch quality content on these. So I can show you, if we go to some of the options in the upper right here you'll see here is the quality and you have 1080p is an option so you can watch 1080p video it will just scale
gigabytes of RAM the iPhone 11 has the a 13 Bionic as does the iPhone 11 Pro and pro max they all have the a 13 Bionic and they all have 4 gigabytes of RAM so they all should compete very well as far as speed now one of the ways we can sort of test this is if I go to the oldest device and one of the newer devices see maybe we'll use the 11pro here and let's open mine craft so let's open the game and you'll see I'm opening it for the first time here it'll take a moment and you can see the color temperature differences between the displays the OLED is a little bit different the newer phones do support true tome or these do as well but it's something I have turned off on all of them so let's go ahead and hit confirm continue let's get rid of this here and continue and then what I'm going to do is create a new world.
So we'll just see how quickly it loads because you'll see right now things look pretty similar here, so we'll hit create and let's see how quick both of them or so they're both going to be highly playable there won't be any issues with that but I wanted to do one test that's a little more taxing on the processor and some people have said this isn't something you would doin real life and that's true but it's really one of the ways you can push the processor or in iMovie on all of these devices so let me get that ready for you now I've closed out every application that I was using and let's go ahead and open iMovie so you'll see there's no other applications open on any of the phones there's nothing stored in memory. export this clip and you'll see I added the title here I'm done with that so we're going to export this clip and then see how quickly they can compress. I'm going to try and hit them all at the same time so wecan get them all exporting at the same time and then I'll hit the stopwatch so let's try that and we'll hit start and let's see how long this actually takes I'll speed this up so you don't have to wait the whole time now we're the iPhone eight me make it a little bit slower but it's pretty impressive to see how they're all doing now as expected the iPhone 11,11 Pro and 11 Pro Mac's were all even in export times the 10rwas just behind it by maybe a second or half a second and then the iPhone 8 plus was behind that not too much at all but the eight was much further behind and Isuspect that's due to the amount of RAM that it has it's the least amount of RAM and video exporting can be fairly RAM intensive but either way they all did really well even compared to exporting on a mac book so that should give you a general all the way to the iPhone 11 pro max.
So, I wanted to show you the differences first I'll show you the forward facing camera and then I'll show you the rear facing camera so when it comes to the forward facing camera the iPhone 8 8 plus and iPhone XRe all have a 7 megapixel F2.2 aperture they all record in 1080p and the iPhone XR can do and do the same with the 8 or the 8 plus it's going to be identical the quality will be the same and I'll show you a different sample in a moment now when we take a look at the iPhone 11,11 Pro and 11 pro max this is an all new 12 megapixel camera so it's got a front facing camera that's 12 megapixel and an F 2.2 aperture so the quality is much better and it can record in 4k 60 so it has a very high resolution it looks great and you could honestly use it for vlogging most of the time as longs you have good lighting so it's a really impressive camera. as the8 the XR and the 11 Pro. so the 11pro of the 11 Pro max and the 11 all have the same cameras so as you can see the background of the 8 plus is a we have a single lens and this lens is a 12 megapixel camera and it can record 4k 60 all of them have that capability and they all have at we go back to one camera but again this is a very nice camera it's a 12 megapixel F 1.8 lens. It does have digital zoom and looks really nice and then on the iPhone 11 we add another lens but this time it's not a telephoto this time it's an ultra wide lens so on the 11 we have a 12 megapixel sensor but it's a new sensor on the 1111 Pro and 11Pro max as compared to the 12 megapixel sensors in the older phones so with the 11 we have a dual camera setup 12 megapixel F one point 8 and 12 megapixel F 2 point 4 ultra wide they can record in 4k 60 and they use the knurl engine in the processor to process the video in real time it's very impressive what it can do with the iPhone 11 Pro in the 11pro max they have the exact same camera setup so now we have triple lenses we have a normal lens that's megapixels F 1.8 then we haven't 12 megapixel F 2.0 optical zoom lens and then we have an all-new ultra wide lens to that's on the 11 that is an F all six phones each camera has a telephoto lens with the exception of the i Phone XR the iPhone XR uses digital zoom but it's better than you might expect so here's 2x and then here's 1x you'll see all of them look about the same but the newer iPhones the 11 the 11 Pro and the 11 Pro max when the newest phones face ID issuer fast and what you normally do is you just pick up the phone look at it and swipe up while you're lifting the phone up but if you have touch ID you're-going to have a different situation you either have this home button here or you-can pick it up turn it on and do it that way but let me show you, what I mean I'll-pick it up and swipe and at the same time hit the home button and you'll see it's a little bit hard to compare the two but let's try again and you'll seethe home button seems to be a little bit faster but a lot of people like the ability to have the larger screen because you don't need the bezel for the home button.
So this is a big consideration for some people face ID is much more secure with the with the exception of maybe, if you have a twinbut overall they're both great after using face ID and finally in the newer generation. I think it's more than adequate and most people I talk to would much rather have face ID than touch ID I could really go with either/or but some people are going to be very picky about that now let's talk a little bit about battery. the phone so it's eighteen hundred and twenty-one milliamp hours that will give you about five hours of screen on time depending onyour usage when we move to the eighth plus we have a two thousand six hundred and ninety one milliamp hour battery most people will get six or seven hoursof screen on time depending on use closer to six hours but it just depend show you're using the phone when we get to the iPhone 10 hour the battery gets a little bit bigger this last year's best phone as far as battery goes it's got a two thousand nine hundred and forty two milliamp hour battery you're going to get about seven hours of screen on time some people can do a little bit better depending on how they use it but that's what I see pretty much is average you'll get an additional hour of screen on time with the iPhone11. It has a slightly larger 3110 milliamp hour battery so maybe seven tonine hours depending on how you use it some people will get less, if they're heavy on using games and things like that and then if we are talking about the iPhone 11 pro and pro max Apple has increased the battery size for the sizeof the have a 3969 milliamp hour battery and this will get you 10 to 12 hours of screen on time and I seem to get about 12 hours of screen on time with average use so if I go to my battery and battery health being at 100% if it's lower than that this can vary a little bit but if we take an example where I've used 25% of my battery today I've used 2 hours and 24 minutes of screen on time 1 hour and 3minutes of screen off time if we do two and a half hours times 4 since I've onlyused a quarter of my battery and we're down to 77 percent if we do 2 times 4that gives us about 10 hours maybe a little more maybe a little less but most of the time 10 to 12 hours and that's not including the screen off time that I'm using as well so they're very very good batteries in the newer phones they all support fast charging but only the iPhone 11 pro and pro max can be much better than what you get with the modern phones of the 11 Pro Andromache and that it comes down to the use of Qualcomm modems verse Intel modems most people that have Qualcomm modems have a much better reception or experience with the older phones especially from the seven and older with the iPhone 11 Pro max there are some spotty issues sometimes switching from Wi-Fi to LTE or LTE signal may drop while it's not bad for most people some people do have issues with it.
