Nerds I'll also be posting a much deeper more detailed review of the iPhone 11pro and iPhone 11pro Max. So be sure to check that out for this review. I want to focus on what makes the iPhone 11 the new iPhone for everyone everyone who has an iPhone 6 or earlier and is looking for a new phone to keep getting the latest updates who has an iPhone 6s or iPhone 7 and is thinking it's time to trade in and move up who might even have an iPhone 8 and is finally ready to give up on the home button.
Or an iPhone 10 and once a dual camera system, that's just a little brighter and wider or maybe even a return to LCD. Ultimately. It's about figuring out what's right for you or for you and your family and that's what this review is here to help answer. I'm Rene Ritchie and this. Is the iPhone 11 and yeah Vector at a glance the iPhone 11 looks almost identical to last year's iPhone 10 are in size and shape.
It's got a bigger better camera two of them again and a bigger mat camera bump to go with them the home button forehead and Chin are all still gone as is the headphone jack but these days that's the norm not the exception. It's still lightning not USBC and still includes a 5 watt USB a charger.
Not the beefier 18. What u.s. PPD charger? That's now included with the pro though. If you pick one up you can fast charge to 50 percent in just 30 minutes. You can also still charge inductively with the cheap add at the same 7.5 Watts as last year. The speakers are new and offer spatial audio, which will precisely Place 5.1 surround or Dolby Atmos sound to precisely match any video that supports.
The Notches still here, but now it houses a wider 12 megapixel selfie Cam that goes up to 4K and yeah, shoot slow. Mo selfie video glossy glossy black and white are still options, but there's also a paler yellow this year and a slightly different product red sky blue and coral orange are gone though replaced with a lavender purple and mint green that glass is also tougher.
So hopefully harder to scratch or shatter water resistance is still 30 minutes, but up from IP67 and one meter. To ip68 and 2 meters just take it easy on dropping it in the deep end still Apple says the battery will last an hour longer than the iPhone 10r which math makes it 2.5 hours longer than the iPhone 8 roughly 17 hours for Local video 10 hours for streaming video and sixty five hours of wireless audio thanks to the huge leaps forward in the Pro Models the 6.1 inch iPhone is no longer the battery life leader, but it still packs plenty of power.
There's still a dual SIM 1 nano SIM card. Awesome. I know some people want duel cards, but I can't wait for dually but it's upgraded to gigabit LTE up to 38 percent faster Wi-Fi 6 and up to 45% longer-range beamforming Bluetooth. It's also packing apples top-of-the-line industry-leading chipset the a13 bionic a 13s efficiency performance graphics and neural cores aren't just 20% faster each.
They use 40 25 30 and 15 percent less power respectively. It also has 4 gigabytes of memory instead of three. It's like on the 10r and brings with it a machine learned ton of new photographic and other features will get to in just a few minutes storage options. Remain the same at 64 128 and 256 gigabytes, but the price is now $50 cheaper for all of them.
So go for at least a hundred twenty-eight you'll thank me later. I've been using a purple iPhone 11 review unit running iOS 13 .04 almost a week both while traveling in California and here at home in Montreal Canada, and there's a lot to credit here but also a good amount still. Teak let me explain the iPhone 11 is basically more iPhone 10 Are For Less in case you missed it or got somehow Bamboozled by the repeatedly confused Biz Pub coverage.
The iPhone 10r was the most popular iPhone of the last year and reportedly the most popular single smartphone soul. Period so taking a best-seller like that and making it even better also happens to make exactly the kind of sense that does the iPhone 11 is the same height width depth and even wait as the iPhone 10r and I straight up love this size.
I was a die-hard iPhone Plus or and from the 6th to the 8th, but then I found the tens edge to edge display was big enough for me that when the max rolled around I stayed with the men but then I got my hands on the 10r and it was Goldilocks just right in the middle. I also. It has display Zoom which basically takes the next smaller interface size in this case the one from the five point eight inch iPhone Pro and scales it up to fit its own 6.1 inch screen that makes everything every image every word just that much bigger easier to see and easier to read I don't need it quite yet, but I have a lot of friends who do and while it's available on the max as well.
It's not on the regular Pro because there's no even smaller interface than that to scale up. At least not yet. The iPhone 11 has the same 6.1 inch 1792 by 8. 8 pixel resolution LCD display is the iPhone 10r and the same 326 PPI density as the original Retina display the iPhone 4 last year. Some people gave Apple grief over those numbers forgetting that unless you're strapping your phone to your face for a VR pixel quantity just isn't as important as pixel quality and apples quality is still some of the best in the business.
Combine the higher RGB sub pixel count to similarly sized pentile OLED displays at everything from individually color calibrated and managed wide gamut true tone ambient temperature matching and what Apple calls liquid retina still looks terrific. I personally still miss the inky blocks high dynamic range and Peak brightness of the OLED iPhone 11pro, but I'm a display nerd anyone who thinks pulse width modulation on OLED phones gives them eye strain will really appreciate that else.
D is still an option at least for now, but I do think a bump here too honest to plus-sized iPhone 1080p would have been better. It would have added that final bit of crispness for closer than retina viewing especially if it could have also expanded the display just enough to delete what little is left of the bezel which is still thicker on the LCD iPhones and the OLED prose which makes it look even more data compared to the more recent more expansive devices from the likes of Samsung.
I just love to see that display just blast it all the. Out into the antenna bands that would be pure screen to bezel ratio fire. This is incredibly subjective and a lot of you may well disagree with me here. But I also preferred last year's colors to this year's colors Apple has tweaked the black and white but not so much as I can really notice the difference the new product red seems I don't know a little Rosier if anything it's fine.
The yellow is paler and while I don't like the shade as. I liked it. The band's match way better than we did last year the purple and the green though. I'm just not a fan of again personal opinion, but I've waited a long long time for a purple iPhone and what I got was more like lavender cream than grape explosion likewise the green which is more mild mint than zesty lime.
They're just. Miami Vice, but you know not even the Archer version if pastels are a trend and one of these will once again be Pantone color of the year like Coral was last so be it. I'll be out back yelling at this watch clouds. But to me, they just lack a little punch a little spice thing Samsung and Huawei have been doing really really well lately and at the bottom is the good old increasingly old at this point lightning Port.
I'll talk about USBC in the iPhone 11 Pro review, but for the very much mainstream iPhone 11, I think the very. Much mainstream lightning Port is still fine. Maybe not ideal as more and more USBC becomes available but fine same as it is on the main stream iPads. There are just so many people with so many existing cables and accessories that even Apple famously Savage for ditching floppies in Jack's before anyone was really comfortable with the idea is wisely waiting just a little bit longer who knows maybe even for something just a lot better to come around water resistance is blessedly improved as well the rating which really only.
Means what the manufacturers a test they mean have gone from the 10 ours IP67 to the elevens new ip68 and from 30 minutes add up to 1 meter to 30 minutes add up to 2 meters. That's the same as last year's iPhone 10s, if not quite as good as this year's iPhone 11pro in other words getting your iPhone 11 wet from either sudden rain or spilled coffee or sure occasional base dive into the toilet bowl is even less of a problem now than it was before but water resistance can and will degrade so it's still no.
A proper underwater case if you want to take your iPhone 11 swimming diving or both hopping on a regular basis the camera bump which is milled out of the rear glass but matted up to contrast the shiny new finish on the phone now encompasses not just both cameras, like every iPhone has since the 7 plus did but the Flash and rear Mike as well and it's hideously ugly weirdly uglier to my eye than the triple camera version on the back of the iPhone 11pro real world cameras, especially real world multi-camera.
Teams are just as ugly. They've just always looked that way. The iPhone hasn't and I'm not used to it yet at all. I keep thinking. It's the owl an emoji staring at me head all twisted to the side. And yes, I know Apple gets knocked all the time for being too much form over function. But the truth is whenever Apple does function over form.
They get ktf owed way harder for it. The two-stage bump does better hide how far the cameras are actually projecting out from the back, but I just like the 10 style better at least for the double camera system your Bump mileage. Very both the contrast and the size do make it look as though apple is intent on owning the look leaning into it even and hard but they kind of have to Apple still wants good Optics and good Optics still need good z-index at least until computational.
Finally fully kicks the crap out of physics overall though. I love the iPhone 11 design. I know some people are exhaustingly board and just want Apple to make a triangle or donut-shaped phone or whatever. But as I've said repeatedly before this is Apple's current. Tonic ideal for form phone and I don't see them changing it until they find something that isn't just different but is objectively much better.
So the iPhone looks like an iPhone the way a Porsche looks like a Porsche in a mega looks like in a mega and a lake a looks like gulika companies don't kill that kind of brand identity. They kill for it. The speakers have gotten significantly better with the iPhone 11. They're not just stereo. Now if your media offers 5.1 surround Apple will project spatial audio using their own custom virtualizer.
It even supports Dolby Atmos, which means when you're watching a movie, it doesn't sound like the audio is coming from just one side and the other it sounds like it's coming from a state projecting right out of the iPhone kind of spooky but all tones of cool at the same time. I imagine that giant state-of-the-art Audio Lab Apple built for everything from are pods to home pods is really just taking all their mic and speaker Tech to the next level.
I wear are pods when I'm with other people or out and about I don't hold the speaker to my ear like some kind of loud. Splattering animal but when I'm alone, I do use a speaker a lot and spatial audio has changed it from something. I just do to something. I'm actually really enjoying doing last year one of the most severe compromises Apple made with the iPhone 10r and it's lower price point was to ditch the iPhone 10 second camera the effect of 53 millimeter telephoto this year with the iPhone 11.
Apple is bringing the second camera back. But plot twist not as a telephoto as an effective 13 millimeter a hundred twenty degree Ultra wide-angle and I think that's clever. You can always zoom in and enhance the regular wide-angle data to fake telephoto well enough in most cases, but you can't simulate a wider angle.
There's just no data for it at all. So this combo ultimately provides more flexibility and capability than the alternative the ultra why doesn't fisheye either if anyone has any concerns about that, it does stretch out as. Gets close to the edges, you know, like an unbox video when he holds his arms out towards the camera Apple leaned into that in their demo showing how you could use it to create an elongated effect, but it's something to be aware of if you have faces or other elements that look more.
Immediately distorted near the edges unless that's the look you're going for the camera app interface has been jazzed up to support Ultra wide as well from the moment. You launch it. You'll see the familiar wide-angle preview but also transparently at both sides now a hint at what the ultra wide-angle camera is seeing as well not a simulation either but an actual real time Fusion from the real camera because the iPhone 11 silicon system is just cool and ridiculously powerful like.
Switching between wide angle and Ultra wide angle is the same as switching between wide-angle and telephoto on previous iPhones. You just tap the little button only now it toggles between 0.5 and 1 on the iPhone 11 instead of 1 and 2 on those previous. Yeah, it's a 0.5 times optical zoom out. And I love all of this is just so classically Apple but you only really appreciate it.
Once you've seen how some other companies have implemented their interfaces with buttons where you can't easily reach them or Worse Ultra wide-angle camera that don't come anywhere close to matching the color or quality of the primary shooter people in Tech love throwing around the word Innovation, but it's almost always totally misused Innovation isn't just bolting on an extra camera to add a check mark to.
Spec sheet. It's not about yelling first into the equivalent of a comment box. That's more properly called the gimmick a stunt Innovation is making that extra camera truly useful part of a consistent cohesive experience. It's the difference between a throwaway and a tool. Apple didn't make the first MP3 player they made the iPod not the first smartphone but the iPhone not the first tablet or smart watch or wireless earbuds and on and on Apple's Innovation today Remains the Same as it's always been in packaging Technologies in a way that provides the best experience possible for mainstream customers, and that's what they're doing here with wide angle and rant.
There's a new Next Generation smart HDR pipeline that seems to fix. At least some of the overly warm overly smooth results last year's version was producing on skin tones. I'll have to shoot a lot more that to know for sure. But properly cast properly swirled fingers crossed Apple's camera team is hard corrected back to their previous more naturalistic photo philosophy because the iPhone 11 doesn't have a telephoto camera like the 10 10 s or Pro it still takes portrait mode photos using the wide angle.
That means they're still not as up close and personal with some people like worse than others like better. I like having the option for both finally, but we'll talk about that in the Pro review because the iPhone 11 does have an ultra wide-angle camera though. It can now pull real depth data and not just have to rely on Focus pixels and segmentation masks the way the iPhone 10 are and the pixels two and three did that means you can capture better portrait shots and of many more things including and especially petrit modes of your cats and dogs.
Yeah, if Apple can say slow fee. I can say Patrick modes go ahead at me another benefit. The ultra wide-angle camera comes if you turn on Photo captures outside the frame in settings. It's a mouthful but it works like this when you take a regular wide angle shot it'll fire the ultra wide angle as well.
Then if you cut out any faces or mess up any Horizon Lines, it'll give you a little Auto Magik frame button in the photos app that lets you automagically reframe it by pulling in that extra ultra-wide data with just a tap. You got 30 days to use it or it'll drop the extra data. So it doesn't clog up all your storage.
Otherwise. Like magic wand for your compositional screw-up. Sublime yes apples a little late to the computational light amplification game, but surprise surprise. I really like the way they're doing it first. The new cameras have better Optical light sensitivity to begin with second when night mode does engage its automatic like the flash so much.
So it's almost unfortunate apples calling it night mode because it's really not a separate mode at all as light gets lower night mode just starts to come on. You'll see this little icon just to the right of the flash turn yellow and then depending on how dark. It gets it'll show you a number from 1 to 3 signifying how many seconds you have to hold the photo in order to capture the image if it gets too dark, it will fall back to the Flash and if you hate the very idea of night mode you Optical Zealot you you can tap the icon and turn it off just like you've always been able to do with the flash like portrait mode on the iPhone the live preview shows the night mode results you're going to get before you even take the.
To me that remains one of the single biggest advantages the iPhone camera system maintains over most if not all of its competition the performance of Apple silicon and the cleverness and quality of their Imaging pipeline. Just lets the iPhone camera act and feel more like a real camera. It's such a different experience than something like the pixel which is confounded me from the moment.
I got it by pretty much doing everything computational as a post process. I like seeing what I'm going to get before I hit the shutter. That way if there's anything I don't like about the composition or the previewed results, I can adjust slightly before taking the shot not after the post process takes several long seconds to resolve sometimes multiple times same with night mode.
If the number is at one point, it's almost instant. If it's at 3, it does take a second or so to save like portrait mode did back in the iPhone 7 plus days, but that's it. What you saw is pretty much exactly what you get. I know some people don't care about stuff like that at all, but I also know that a lot of photographers.
Do myself included I also like the artistic choices apple is making here with night mode instead of turning night into simulated day. They're lighting up the subject specifically people but letting that light drop off fast leaving a lot of the dark Moody atmosphere around them. So in night mode still looks like night just lit up if you have a tripod or you can prop your iPhone 11 up dead still night mode will even let you take long exposures of up to 28 seconds, which can bring out almost every detail of star and Skyline combining everything we've talked about.
Far the iPhone 11 is able to capture some pretty damn remarkable low light images now external light sources can still mess with the color. But overall they do a great job preventing blowout and preserving color and Detail in faces texture grains and everything else that fills up the real world night time around.
Again, it's apples long steady step-by-step investment in everything from Silicon and to computer vision and machine learning to Optics to Imaging pipelines to individually color calibrated displays and system-wide color management that makes it so that when they do drop in new features, they're not just bolt it on there like Voltron adding another lion and while I know the first thing every Tech head is going to want to do is put it head-to-head with a bunch of Android phone.
And full disclosure. I intend to grab some friends and do just exactly that as well. The important thing here is what it all lets you do. That's still the same goal as it's always been to take your phone out of your pocket or bag or up off the table and with absolutely not a second wasted snap a photo of whatever it is.
You want to remember wherever you are whenever you want and preserve that for you instantly forever. Now that just includes walks at Night concerts dimly-lit dinners at home or out and about. Bars camping Under the Stars wherever you go, and whoever you go with apples had the best video camera on the market for a while.
Now, you just don't hear about it as much because most people focus more on the Stills, but from YouTube to Institute ick talk to all these new streaming services launching. So always video isn't getting any less popular last year the iPhone could capture 4K video at 60 frames per second. Or 4K video at 30 frames per second, but with interleaved extended dynamic range this year the iPhone 11 can capture 4K video at 60 frames per second with extended dynamic range to quote Captain Raymond Holt hot damn and it can do it with improved cinematic stabilization as well apples not trying to emulate a steady camera gimbal here though.
They'll remove the shakes from a fairly stable shot as best they can but if you're walking they still want it to look like you're walking still natural just smoother and less jarring. Or janky. We also want to emphasize consistency. So Shadow and light and color match as much as possible for as long as possible.
There is a new quick take video mode, which lets you hold down the camera button to automatically take a video. And yeah, if you hate portrait video get ready to sharpen them pitchforks and Flint up them torches or you know, Welcome to 2019 from there. You can drag right to lock it into video mode or drag left to get good old-fashioned burst shots while the basics will be instantly familiar to anyone who uses the chat or the Graham.
I do think it imposes a heavier cognitive load and requires more eye-hand coordination to pull off I got used to it, but it took a while you can switch between wide and Ultra wide-angle while you're shooting and as the camera changes the mics go from narrow and directed to wide and ambient respectively.
I know Samsung is doing something like this to. For me, none of it will replace discrete Mike's not anytime soon. Our long International low-res narrow angle normal speed selfie nightmare is over the true depth system on the iPhone 11 now includes a new wider angle 12 megapixel RGB camera with it.
You can still take your regular old selfies or with the tap of a button switch to the wider angle and capture a group. His to a word if you rotate to landscape, the camera will automatically switch to wide angle as well. But you can tap back to selfie and exclude your friends. If you know, that's how you really feel about them.
And yes, it's true. You can now go all the way up to 4K 60 frames per second selfie video or out to 1080p a hundred twenty frames per second for what apple is calling slow-mo selfies or slow fees is I guess to hurt I'm going to talk more about Apple's new 813 system on a chip in the Pro review.
But the 11 has the exact same third-generation bionic and it packs roughly 20% more speed across his performance efficiency graphics and neural engine cores than last year all while saving significantly on power consumption as well. It also has 4 gigabytes of memory now same as the pros instead of 3 gigabytes like on the 10r Apple LeapFrog to the front of the mobile silicon industry when they went to 64-bit back with the a seven competitors like Samsung Huawei and especially Qualcomm are upping their Collective games, but what Apple's app.
To achieve at the power they're able to achieve it still seems light years ahead. And yes, it's ridiculously Opie or overpowered for what most of us are doing with our phones today, but that kind of Headroom means the iPhone 11 should be able to easily handle whatever you throw at it tomorrow next year and three to five years from now as well.
It's part of this weird thing apples doing from Silicon to software to Services. Try to make the iPhone last as absolutely long as possible. Either for you or for whomever you hand sell or trade it down to luckily Wall Street seems too distracted by all the new subscription stuff to really notice at least for now, but seriously, don't tell them the other chips inside offer up to 38 percent faster Wi-Fi 6 gigabit LTE and up to 45% longer-range beamforming Bluetooth built-in to boot a slight increase in size and efficiency as Apple claiming an extra hour of battery life for the iPhone 11 as well.
Even over last year's reigning Champion the iPhone 10 are that the iPhone 11 Pros have gained so much battery life this year that the regular 11 is no longer in the lead does nothing to diminish. Just how well it still does. Roughly 17 hours of local video 10 hours of streaming video and up to 65 hours of wireless audio.
There's still only the classic 5-watt USB a charger in the Box though, which Some people prefer because low and slow best maintains battery health and small best fits into pockets and fanny packs, but the iPhone 11 Pro is finally getting an 18. USB CPD cable and brick and it would have been great for the regular 11 to have gotten that as well.
You can buy it separately though and with it you can fast charge up to 50% in just 30 minutes. It's not the fastest of fast Chargers. But again, you're trading speed for a heat and reducing the effective life of your battery. So apple is in Striking a bad balance here inductive charging is also still 7.5 Watts same as last year, which also isn't as fast as the stuff Samsung is shipping these days either and a better place to argue with apple about easing up on the heat and efficiency concerns at least a little to test out battery life.
I did what I usually do the most grueling stress I can imagine Pokemon go Community Day that screen GPS cellular data and all the processors all running and radiating continuously for hours. And they crushed it just like you'd expect for a brand new phone with these specs and sure it's just one slice of life.
So I'll be using and abusing the iPhone 11 and a far wider range of real-world situations over the next few weeks and months and I'll let you know just exactly how it holds up. And know if you're curious Apple hasn't said anything yet about a smart battery case for the iPhone 11. They don't always make them but when they do like last year, they typically only come out later in the air, but I'm really hopeful I love those cases, especially while location gaming and traveling the iPhone 11 starts at $6.99 for 64 gigabytes, which.
Well, I know as a lot for corporate buyers who just want to Thin Client for all their web apps is starting to feel a little tight for regular customers even in the age of streaming 4K in slow-mo selfies will chew through those GBS faster than ever. I'm a 69 gigabytes already and Counting Apple takes the edge off that with the next step up though.
You can go to 128 gigabytes for just $50 more or 749. Which is half the usual jump between storage tiers and to 256 gigabytes for $849 the regular size jump on the monthly plan that difference between 64 and 128 works out to just a couple of bucks and either way. That's what I'd recommend and what I personally ordered unless you absolutely know you'll need more you can get AppleCare plus to extend your warranty for $149 or with theft and loss protection for 249.
If you want you can also go to an Apple retail store if you have one nearby. Not just for setup and tech support, but for an increasingly wide range of free today at Apple classes that cover everything from photography to videography design to development. It's part of the value of the iPhone and I still don't think Apple does enough to really highlight everything you get for your money.
Some have said apple is leaving Millions. If not billions on the table by dropping all the iPhone 11 prices by 50 bucks compared to last year's iPhone 10 are. And maybe but if the price drop results in more sales than Apple could easily make up the difference maybe more than make it up. That is after all why you make a best seller even better.
We'll only know for sure when the iPhone 11 launches this Friday September 20th, 2019. Here's a bit of advice that took me way too long to figure out. Never let anyone certainly not the internet shame you about your technology choices if you still have an iPhone 6 or 6s or earlier and you're looking to update or still not or you're on an iPhone 10r and just want that second camera whether you go for the iPhone 11 because it's 300 bucks cheaper than the.
Because it has everything you need price be damned or if you decide you want the most expensive iPhone 11pro money can buy because turns out you want every Bell to whistle. You're still every bit as nerdy and Savvy as. Anyone, no one else knows your budget or your business or guess to judge you for your choices you do you and if what your intent on doing is an iPhone 11, I think that's an excellent choice the best choice for most people.
Like I said at the beginning with the added Ultra wide camera and night mode improved selfies industry-leading a13 Bionic chip set gigabit LTE and Wi-Fi 6 and iOS 13 operating system all starting at $6.99 and less if you trade in iPhone 11 is the most compelling iPhone Apple. Ever made and if you want to do for you, what apples just done for the iPhone check out brilliant brilliant is a problem-solving website that uses a Hands-On approach with storytelling code writing interactive challenges and so much more there are over 50 interactive courses for you to dive into including a complete math course Library, that's perfect for students as they progress through school professionals to brush up or advance in a new area and hobbyists to learn something fun and new.
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