Welcome to the complete review of the iPhone
11 Pro
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| iPhone 11 Pro |
Right off the bat, I don't really agree with
the names I don't think there's enough pro about these phones that could have
been to warrant putting pro in the name but the names don't really matter what
does matter is these are the highest-end phones that Apple makes right now in
2019 the truth is these are mostly pretty familiar phones to last year which
was also pretty familiar to the year before but you already knew that what's
new is Apple's really focused on four major things for this new iPhone so the
design barely the new display slight upgrade the battery life major and these
new cameras so the design does grow on you not gonna lie we saw those renders
and the models and nobody thought they were pretty including me but as usual
getting them in your hand and actually looking at them in person is a different
thing and it doesn't look horrible I love the new matte finish I think that
helps a lot the way it looks the way it feels even if it is technically a little a bit slippery than glossy I will take a matte option in any phone every time the
camera square is a weird-looking part I'm just happy we got memes out of it and
it's funny for whatever reason the camera square looks indented even though
it's sticking out it's all cut from one piece of glass and it's kind of like
this weird optical illusion. I surmise yet this is the plan that Apple is
created for the iPhone 11 ace camera knocks in a camera square and yes it
shakes somewhat when it’s on a table.
iPhone 11 Pro: Body
Apple does say that this is quite the toughest glass in any smartphone I'm not gonna test that but let's be real
glass is glass so you definitely want to protect it or at least try not to drop
it, it probably still will shatter but the good news is it doesn't seem to scratch
as much as the Pixel 3 is a matte black glass that this reminded me of so the
matte finish and the camera layout are the only really new things back here
with the design, if it comes down to it if you don't want to have to think about
it anymore or just want to avoid any chance of fingerprints or scratches you
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check that out but around the front of the phone it's gonna look like almost
exactly the same thing as last year same screen sizes and resolutions same
notch same bezels literally you could put it next to lasya stone and you might
have a hard time telling which ones which this is the new one here so this is
what's actually different apples said they've improved face ID to be up to 30%
faster in the same space and work at a larger variety of angles, I can vouch for
a tiny bit faster and you'll only really notice this if they're sided by side
with the old phone but you know what I'll take that improvement anyway because
it's for security and that's better than nothing.
In any case, the assortment of points thing I
don’t think about you yet when I read that I was trusting that implied it could
sit on a table before you and still read and unlock your face like it couldn't
before but it still doesn't do that, unfortunately, you still got to do that lean
onto whatever service the phone is on to unlock it so I've noticed honestly no an improvement here in the angles that's basically the same Oh than that the
buttons are really very slightly lower on each phone I don't know if anyone
else has shown that but that's true I guess maybe it's a little easier to reach
and they've also upgraded the water-resistance a bit it's still IP 68 certified
and this phone is very slightly thicker and heavier I didn't really notice the
thickness but I did notice the weight especially in the Pro max this big phone
are 20 grams heavier than last year and I could tell it's a bit of a chunkier?
iPhone 11 Pro: Battery
But you know what that's perfectly fine because battery life is back to
being excellent on this phone, as a result, this is also achieved by getting rid
of 3d touch so r.i.p Apple watch is really the only new Apple product now with
3d touch shipping in it but by getting rid of that pressure-sensitive display
hardware that's allowed more space in the phone for a bigger battery it's true
the teardowns have shown it the battery is bigger so that's why the battery the difference from the 10 R to the 11 was one hour that's just a 13 Bionic
improvements but the improvement from the 10 s to the 11 Pro was four hours
because getting rid of that 3d touch Hardware has left room for more bigger
batteries I don't know if I can measure that four to five-hour claim but from
my experience battery life has been excellent I'm getting you to know my use of
super high brightness high-end everything on all the time I'm getting seven to
eight hours of screen on time and a full day of battery pretty much every day on
this phone so that's really impressive you can probably kill it in a day but
you'd have to really try now.
iPhone 11 Pro: Display
Back to that display for a second, I mentioned
they got rid of 3d touch this has been mostly replaced by haptic touch which is
essentially long presses that bring back almost all the functionality from 3d
pressing it's not quite as good as the peak and pop was but I hardly use that
anyway and there's also something new about the display specifically that it
can hold a higher 800 nits of brightness and at small points for brief moments
can peak up to 1200 nits which is incredible on a smartphone display and also
it's up to a two million to one contrast ratio so of course, they had to name it
they named it the super Retina display XDR are the name is pretty lame but the display is impressive again indoors and outdoors now could you tell the
difference side-by-side with a 10s watching a YouTube video or playing a game
or even scrolling Instagram probably not but there are certain times certain
times when watching a movie or something in HDR where you can notice that
improved brightness and it looks great and the sound is also pretty good thanks
to the improved speakers even though there is still a notch.
You know the highest-end iPhone display has
always been pretty great and this is no exception it's better again but I can't
help but think what would customers have noticed more a slightly improved
brightness or shrinking the notch a bunch you know that's something we'll get
more into later for now what you need to know is the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone
11 Pro Max have even better awesome high-resolution OLED displays again and
they're also a bit more efficient contributing to even more battery gains so
that's worth
It oh and the specs they almost don't matter
on an iPhone review but since people are always curious it is the new a
13 Bionic chip this year which is excellent and four gigs of ram in these pros phones according to Geekbench it's still extremely fast as any new phone should
be most of these improvements over the A12 are just gonna help these stay
faster for longer and as it's been said they'll be appreciated more near the
end of the phone's life than the beginning.
iPhone 11 Pro: Camera
All right I almost can't believe I made you
guys wait this long for the cameras so clearly the cameras are if you've
watched any of the ads or any of the presentation videos these cameras are the main focus for the iPhone 11 Pro yes that's a pun so you've seen it
we're looking at triple cameras now three new sensors so you have the primary
12-megapixel sensor a 2x telephoto camera and a 0.5 X ultra-wide camera about a
120 degree field of view and it's true the iPhone 11s cameras are a big
improvement over the 10s in broad daylight I would go as far as saying this has
been an A+ camera often taking the best sharpest and cleanest photos I've seen
a smartphone take colors are great they're really so not too over-processed
dynamic range is excellent and of course, with subjects their tonal mapping is
next-level it's really good which helps it of course in tougher shooting
scenarios where it's improved a lot over the tennis so the typical iPhone 11
pro photo is I think the closest to what the human eye sees of any
smartphone camera and I'm including the pixel on that which tends to be a
little contrast here a little more dramatic but then, of course, the ultra-wide the camera finally I've been waiting for this I've been waiting to see what an
iPhone ultra-wide camera would look like LG done it Samsung did it Motorola did
it Asus did it one plus did it Huawei did it everyone had already done in ultra
wide we just wanted to see basically what Google and Apple would do with their
new cameras so we finally have an iPhone ultra-wide and it's uh it's fine it's
pretty good it's actually really fun the main advantage should be consistency
with the other lenses and color-wise white balance-wise, it is it's very
consistent but in quality and detail thanks to the smaller sensor and slower the glass it is still noticeably a step down it's softer there's a little more
noise reduction doing more smoothing on the ultra-wide camera so it's just
generally not as good quality as the main camera which is to be expected but
that doesn't stop it from being awesome to have for these new fun perspectives
and all the awesomeness that comes with an ultra-wide camera the new UI also in
iPhones camera app is improved for the first time in a while you know they
simplified a few controls brought them to the bottom where you can reach in
with one hand and now when you open it you get a preview of what's gonna show
up in the ultra-wide if you switch to it but I don't really want that there I
think it's kind of cool that it shows what you could see but when I just want
to take a normal photo it's kind of distracting it lags behind a little the
actual framing and it's not perfectly aligned all the time so I want to turn it
off but I can't it will fade out automatically when it detects that you're
taking a photo of a close-up subject since I guess it recognizes that ultra
wise are more for landscapes or faraway subjects and then it'll come back automatically
when you put that close subject away but yeah I want to be able to just shut it
completely off haha there's also now finally a dedicated night mode which turns
on automatically when it thinks it's dark enough but sometimes it's kind of dim
and it doesn't turn on when you want it to but there's no way to manually turn
on night mode which isn't very Pro but ok when you do get it turned on the UI
is excellent it gives you exposure equivalents so you can turn up or down live
and it will go for way longer times if it detects you're on a tripod or
stabilized and you can see the picture sort of brightening up as it's being taken
almost like it's exposing the frame in real-time which is pretty sick and the
shots you can get now at night and in low-light on the iPhone are very good
there's no clear overall winner I think for best night mode right now in my
opinion they all sort of doing it a different way here's my take night mode is
good enough that I wish I could turn it
On more often I think the natural curious comparison
here is with pixels nite site the pixel definitely tends to brighten up
photos more and bring shadows up bring highlights up you can it's more of like nighttime to daytime transformation sort of situation happening therewith
pixel where the iPhone is a bit more true to life and then it's also taking
what I think are the most detailed sharpest low-light photos of any smartphone
even more so than a pixel but in the dim light it just it doesn't turn on very much
and there is no night mode in the ultra-wide camera so really it's a great
start but no doubt it can get better over time I think this will make a really
good blind smartphone camera test if we do like a separate bracket
specifically for phones that have a dedicated night mode now which is a lot of
them I think they could be really good but just, in general, I am really happy
that there's this new focus on smartphone cameras I feel like the last year of
presentations of smartphones have had more time spent on the camera than any
other features and they're all just fighting against each other to try to make
the best possible camera to put in our pockets and we win from that the iPhone
11 Pro still does the best video of any smartphone that's still pretty clear to
me.
And they're also making it easier now in the
UI to just quickly start taking a video so if you see something you like you
open the camera up and just hold down the shutter button and it just starts
recording so just like Instagram or Snapchat and if you want to lock it into
video recording you just drag it over to the right and it's hands-free you're
taking a video but yeah in the photo front their competition is pretty stiff
and it's coming from all different directions we're about to get pixel four we
just had the new Huawei Mate 30 Pro come out One Plus 7T is right
around the corner, you can count on that stuff and then I just want to touch on
iOS 13 for a second so I've been using it in beta on my iPhone 10s Macs
before this came out so I've already used the things you get again here like
dark mode and the long presses and quick settings and stuff like that it's
great a bunch of little tweaks here and there but I gotta say it has been kind
of buggy I've had some weird issues with lock screen controls just not showing
up sometimes the camera app just freezes all together until I close it and then
I've had some other weird app issues with like the Tesla app and Instagram app
but now those are fixed so yeah I should definitely mention that hopefully iOS
13.1 and future software updates will iron a lot of this stuff out otherwise
its iOS as you'd expect it.
Also for those wondering the U one chip in
these new phones which should again basically give you ultra-wideband signal
for referential locating of other u1 enabled devices and should improve airdrop
that's not enabled in this version of the software I think that's also coming
in 13.1 aside from that, we don't really know what else it does so generally the
software experience of the iPhone is pretty much unchanged same UI same feature
set you already know what it is nothing is dramatically or drastically
different here beyond I think night mode so I'm not super surprised here look you probably don't need an iPhone 11 Pro but it is a great upgrade
like this actually went a lot of these improvements even though they're small
are on such core functional things to normal people like speed, battery life,
and camera like if you were to ask normal people what they care about the most
in their phone, it's those things but I've said it before and I'll say it again
a lot of the features that I was looking forward to especially when we heard
was gonna be a pro phone is just not here and that's got me hyped way too
early for this 2020 iPhone or the iPhone 12 or whatever they call
that and actually new design shrinking the notch maybe USB type-c of course a
high refresh rate promotion display that would have been super Pro putting
touch ID back underneath the display glass reverse while I was charging any of
these things in this phone would have been would have felt a little
more pro and would have maybe made it worth the name or just felt really cool
to have but of course, none of it happened so really the focus for this new
iPhone 11 Pro has come down to the a13 the battery life the slightly improved
display and just these new cameras.
You want it you got it if you're just someone
who wants the best possible camera in your phone or if you do a lot of videos
creation or if you're a pro content creator on your phone then you're gonna be
really happy with this phone with the new iPhone classic or even with the new iPhone
11 nonpro which is $300 cheaper and has the same cameras and the same
processing and great battery life - the telephoto but again that much cheaper a price that'll get its own review but I'll say as a whole the iPhone 11 pro is a
really great phone and unless you have the 10s is probably worth the upgrade
just for the love of cameras but really the big looming reason for someone like
me not to get this phone is the 2020 iPhone or the next iPhone so that's
something to think about but we'll stay ready for that as I expect a lot more
but this package they've shipped today it's pretty damn good either way that's
minute thank you for reading catch you guys the next one.
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