iPhone XS vs XR - Which Should You Choose?

Hi everyone Aaron, here for ZolloTech and the iPhone XS and the XS or the XR. Now the XS comes in three different colors: this one is Space Grey. You can also get it in silver and gold and the iPhone XR comes in many different colors. This is the red edition product and then you also have silver, space grey, blue, red, yellow and coral, so you have a lot of different options. Now we will talk about the difference between these in terms of the way they are built. In a moment, let's talk about the price first. This is the least expensive device.

It's priced from $749 up to $899 with 64, 128, or 256 gigabytes of storage on the XS. It starts at $999 and goes up to $1,349. You can get it in 64, 256 or 512 gigabytes of storage, so we have a very different price range here and some additional storage on the wait but this is made of stainless steel on the XS and the back and front are glass on both devices but this whole ring here is stainless steel on the you can see the difference in the cameras but the cameras are not that different in fact they are the same 12 megapixel camera and the same 7 megapixel front camera now as far as the screen is concerned this is where they become a Little different, the XS has an OLED display that has a much higher resolution at 2436 by 1125 with 458 pixels per inch.

On the higher than that on a small device like this, but in 1080p you can watch it in HDR if the video has HDR and I'm actually making one of those so I'll link it so you can watch it, but if you have an XS or an XS Max, you can see an HDR. It's pretty good now as far as screens go, they also have a couple of differences in how they work. This one here on the XS has 3D touch so if you press something an app appears that has 3D Touch enabled something will open like this now on the and they allow you to move them, so you lose that functionality, but you still get a lot of the same features when it comes to things like the control center, so if you want to press here, it opens the same popup where you can adjust the brightness .

The same goes for anything in the control center. Also, notifications have the same function and text, so if you want. to move around when you're typing, you can do that and it's very similar except the home screen is just as haptic and the 3D touch is very close, but the 3D touch is a little more advanced and pressure sensitive, where you just feel the thumb holding longer. and flattening out on the screen now as far as the speakers are concerned, they are pretty well matched on the . sound or wider stereo sound so when you're watching a video or something you have a speaker here and at the bottom and it sounds pretty good and they're both very similar as far as that goes now as far as the battery goes . the one on the XR is actually a little bit larger, so we have 2942 milliamp hours versus 2658 milliamp hours.

I found that in my use between the two I definitely get more battery life. the XR, I think that's also because the screen doesn't have as many pixels to move, so you don't have to use the processor as much, but the nice thing is that you have the exact same CPU in both. The new 12 Bionic processor is incredibly fast and runs great on both devices. Now they both have Face ID so if I turn the screen off, tap to turn it on and it will see my face and it will unlock on both and you can just unlock it, that's pretty cool and they both have some water resistance but the iPhone XS is ip68 certified while the XR has 67,

which

basically means it can be submerged underwater in about two meters of water, where this is good for 1 meter.

It doesn't mean you can swim with any of them, it just means that if you drop it in a puddle or somewhere with water, they will be durable up to that depth for a while, about 30 minutes or so. Now they both have wireless charging so you can charge wirelessly on the back, they don't include fast chargers or anything like that and they are both the same weight. Now, of course, you have the same features on both devices, so they are all capable. of AR, the cameras are just as good, you're just missing that zoom camera that you have on the XS and that zoom camera.

I never find that I miss her. You can actually zoom this in digitally and it actually looks pretty good in many cases. you're actually zooming with the main camera here and then on this camera, if it sees a better image it will use it, but a lot of times it uses digital zoom and you just don't know it, now you get portrait mode on both. these, but you lose the ability to do portrait mode on the XR with different objects, so this one wants you to look for a person where it says no person detected the portrait mode.

That way you can't take a photo of a flower for example and have it appear as a portrait mode photo, you have all the same portraits facing forward, no problem, if we rotate these cameras, we have the Exactly with the same features, we can do an emoji me emoji, all that kind of stuff and we can adjust the actual aperture here with the f-stop setting on both devices, so they're both very, very good, but there's a big price difference between they. The two really mainly come down to the screen, whether or not you use a high-resolution AMOLED or a slightly lower-resolution LCD.

Now, if you have flicker sensitivity, an OLED is always flickering, whether you can see it in person or not, it is actually flashing. and that may cause eye strain for some people, the LCD screen doesn't do that so it may help some people but everything else is very similar, you could save some money with the XR but if you can't get past that screen and a little bit thicker bezels, the XS is the one you want to

choose

. Now both phones are equally fast. You won't find anything if you go into a different app and find that the slower scroll will be identical.

The screens are the main differences here. and the stainless steel construction versus aluminum, of course, you have the size difference. I think the XR is the perfect size for me. Many people consider the X and XS to be our perfect size for them, so it depends on what you want. To make between these two, everything is the same with the XS Max except the screen size and resolution and the battery size; otherwise they are more or less the same and you have the XS and the XS Max, you just

choose

the size you want. If you want a nicer screen, otherwise they are the same and you could save some money if you don't need that screen, let me know what you think in the comments below, although if you want to see something else in particular, let me know. in the comments below if you haven't subscribed yet please subscribe and like as always thanks for watching I'm Aaron.

See you next time.