- The iPhone XR,
is it worth it?
That is what we're here to find out.
(electronic buzzing)
The decision to move over to the XR
as my main daily driving phone
was not an easy one.
Opinions on the internet varied
as to the quality of this device.
- The iPhone XR is a sick frickin' joke!
- Alright, now let's talk about the thing
that I am most excited about: the iPhone XR.
They saved it for last,
and they seem to spend more time talking about this
than the other ones,
and rightfully so.
I mean, I have been saying for months and months and months
that this is the phone I believe will outsell
all the others this year.
Even before we really knew what it was gonna look like,
I told you it would look insanely similar
to the iPhone X, and that's all Apple needs right now.
They need this phone to look like the new one.
The average consumer
has no idea about the specs.
- June 24, 2010.
That's when Apple was capable
of putting a 326-PPI display into a smartphone,
all the way back then,
and they're still doing it to this day,
and I can't figure out the reason.
- [Jerry] Our little orange friend
is built like a solid, low-resolution brick.
If Apple charged 500
or maybe even $600 for this hardware, I'd be pretty pumped.
But charging $800 after tax for this
is like robbing an old folks home.
Yeah, it's easy, and your targets won't notice,
but it's just wrong.
- Having most major flagship devices at my fingertips,
I decided to camp on the iPhone XR for the past three weeks.
I wanted to put this device to the test,
uncover all the major deficiencies
with this lower-costing iPhone.
Let's take a look and see exactly
what compromises I had to make
when switching over to the iPhone XR
for the past three weeks.
I have to start off by saying, what I'm sharing today
is my personal experience, which means
nothing I'm saying is wrong.
There's no need to challenge or get disrupted
over anything I'm saying.
It's my personal opinion based on my personal experience.
You can have your own opinion too.
Why did I buy the iPhone XR?
I found this device a little bit different
than the regular iPhones.
With that in mind, I looked at this device
and I was like, there's something different about this,
something a little unique,
something that I just couldn't pass up.
I had to know.
Is this a budget iPhone,
or is this just a different iPhone?
The specs.
Oh, the specs of this device is what makes it different.
Apple went out of the way to ensure that the user experience
was not disrupted or disturbed when making this device.
They cut corners where necessary,
or at least where they felt it was necessary,
and there's only a handful of areas
that separates this device
from its big sister, the iPhone XS or XS Max.
Let's start on the outside of this device.
The iPhone XR comes in a handful of beautiful colors:
blue, of course, that's the color I went for,
yellow, orange, red,
while the iPhone XS and XS Max
only come in silver, black, and a new gold color.
I would show you my gold-colored iPhone XS Max,
but I have a camo dbrand skin on it right now, so I can't.
The rear camera is different.
The XR is only sporting a rear single F1.8 aperture lens,
while the big sisters both have two dual lenses.
All lenses are 12 megapixels.
The XR only has three portrait lighting effects,
that's right,
natural, studio, and contour.
Well, the XS Max has five,
adding stage and stage mono to that list.
Let's move on to the front-facing selfie camera.
They all have a seven-megapixel,
F2.2-aperture lens with the same technology.
Here, the XR does not fall short
on selfie portrait effects at all.
They all have the same five effects:
natural, studio, contour, stage, and stage mono.
So Apple clearly cut corners on the rear-facing camera
while preserving the features
and the functionality on the more popular selfie camera.
Due to only having one lens on the rear-facing camera,
the XR is only capable of digital zoom up to five times.
Well, the XS Max and the XS
have up to two-time optical and 10-time digital zoom.
The XR is only rated IP67
compared to the XS and the Max with a rating of IP68,
which means you can safely expose your XR underwater
up to one meter for 30 minutes
while the big sister can go up to two meters for 30 minutes.
All in all, they can both go in the water,
take an underwater photo,
and they can get a little wet with no worries at all.
Let's move on to the screen.
This is where you can head to the comments section
and tell me all about what you think
about what Apple did with this screen.
It is a factor when buying a phone.
On paper, the stats of the XR screen
is the lesser quality device.
However, what if I told you,
you don't know what you don't know?
There's no question in my head
that the screen on the XS Max is better;
it just is.
I'm using the Max version,
and it has a 6.5-inch OLED screen, multi-touch display
compared to the XR with a 6.1 LCD,
still multi-touch, but it has a liquid retina display,
which means the edges and the corners
flow and curve to the end of the phone,
and it creates that whole little curve-to-the-edge look.
That's what they mean when they say liquid retina.
There's no liquid that makes up your screen.
It's an LCD screen.
So, I don't know why they call it liquid.
However, if I never used the Max
before I walked into a store
and they showed me the LCD lesser iPhone XR model,
I'm here to tell you
that it is stunning enough to keep my attention.
That's correct.
All through using this device,
I never once thought or felt
like my screen was not good enough.
I never thought that my blacks weren't black enough,
that my reds and yellows were undersaturated.
That never even crossed my mind.
What Apple did here is cut the cost of the screen,
still managed to optimize the software
and the hardware together
to give you, me, us
the best possible user experience it can
within the limitations of the hardware.
To wrap it up, the outside comparison,
the screen, the camera, and the IP ratings,
are the three major differences.
Now let's go ahead to the inside of the phone
and see what the major differences are there.
The storage options are a little bit different,
but I don't really think storage options
really makes or breaks if you're gonna buy a phone.
They're just options.
They're not really gonna have an effect
on the performance of your device.
You can go up to 256 gigs on the XR
and 512 gigs on the XS Max.
The chips.
Well, they're both sporting an A12 Bionic chip,
which is Apple's pride and joy at the moment.
So we're not getting a lesser experience here.
So, all in all, there's not really too much to compare
about what's under the hood of these two devices.
They're all pretty equal all the way across the board.
I don't even know what to share with you right now.
It's basically the same phone on the inside,
which brings us to the question,
is the iPhone XR worth it?
Value is more than just cash
that you have to shell out to make a purchase.
When I think of value,
what value does a device bring to me?
I'm thinking, how does it enhance my life?
How does it make my life easier?
How does it make my life more integrated and fluid?
And it hits the nail on the head.
When you're within the Apple ecosystem,
'cause that's where we are right now,
and you want to look and see,
which device is gonna be the best for you?
If you've never been exposed to the XS or the XS Max,
then the XR is an amazing option for you;
however, it's cutting corners.
You are getting a lesser of a device,
but you don't know what you don't know,
I'll say it again.
In the event you have to have
the latest and greatest top-of-the-line technology,
maybe I'm like that, maybe I'm like that,
then you're gonna go for the XS or the XS Max.
But if you're OK with good enough,
gets the job done in a cool, sporty color
at a really pleasurable size,
right, 'cause it feels great in the hand,
then this might be the device for you.
It comes down to it:
is the device worth it?
Are you willing to shell out a few extra hundred bucks
to have the latest and greatest?
Or are you going on a device payment plan,
and you'd rather have a device payment that's
35 bucks a month versus 50 bucks a month?
That's what it's coming down to here.
But it all adds up over time.
You have to ask yourself what you want
and what you're going to do with your phone.
Personally, ever since switching back to the XS Max
two days ago, I'm missing my XR.
I'm literally trying to talk myself into staying
in the XS Max just because I bought it
even though the XR is good enough,
it got the job done,
it had phenomenal battery life,
it fit great in my hand, and I loved the color of it.
So now that we know all of this, what am I gonna do?
Head down to the comments section right now and tell me,
what do you think I should do?
Should I switch back to the XR,
or should I stay with the XS Max?
Mind you, I bought both phones outright cash.
They're both beyond the return period, so they're mine,
so I'm not gonna be able to return one.
So which one should I use?
Let me know what you think.
Head down to the comments below.
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