Apple iPhone Xs Review: A (S)mall Step Up!

Hey guys mkbhd welcome to the full

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of iPhone 10s. This is going to be a pretty easy

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as we know that s year iPhones are always a pretty incremental upgrade so I've been using this Gold 10s max since unboxing every day since unveiling day and whatever I say here It will apply to both 10's and 10's max, unless I say otherwise I'll make it clear so the template here is simple, every new thing and what I think of it. also 10s max 10s extra s

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max terrible name just saying okay let's move on so first on the outside this phone is almost exactly the same almost if I were to put the iPhone 10s next to the iPhone 10 you'd be hard pressed to tell which is which, except for a few key things, first of all, the new color, of course, gold, and I like this gold This has been a more polarizing color in my timeline, where I've seen some people like it. that love it and then others that don't like it at all, I just don't care, but I definitely went for the space gray on my personal phone, but this gold doesn't look bad, it's like a band-aid color. , but more saturated, a little richer than that and then the stainless steel sides are really gold, they are the most striking part of this new phone and the iPhone 10s also has two more visible antennas in the stainless steel band around the exterior at the top right above the camera module. and one down at the bottom cutting into the speaker grill, so the speaker grill at the bottom is now asymmetrical thanks to that weird looking bottom band, you'd think every Apple company would find a different place to place that. keep it perfectly attractive, but I guess not, and then the other little observation I found is that the camera module on the 10 seems to be a little bigger, but it's very light, the only way to tell is if you put a case on the phone, so if Put a 10s case on a 10s.

You can see it fits perfectly, it's very tight. It is made by Apple. They know the exact dimensions. They do it well, but if you put this same 10s case on the iPhone 10, you end up with this little space. the bottom, so the extra space means the camera module here is a little s

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er on the 10. So yeah, technically these phones aren't exactly the same on the outside, but these two things don't really matter much to use them. Still a glass sandwich phone, it still has the same weight and feel in hand, the same design, the same button placement, the same mute switch, the same curved corners, the same notch and the same magnetic glass to fingerprints we've seen before.

Of course it also means that it's perfectly smart to put a case or skin on this one again, you know I'm more of a skin person and dbrand is actually releasing this absolutely sick matte black matrix skin with this new iPhone right now definitely It's worth checking out. I'll leave a link below oh and One more hardware difference technically internally this new phone is ip68 waterproof while the iPhone 10 was only ip67. It's a big deal for those of you who don't know that ip67 means they are rated for one meter underwater for 30 minutes straight. It means you are rated to go 1.5 meters underwater for 30 minutes straight.

Excellent, anyway, all the other differences of the iPhone 10 are internal and that's what you get with an upgrade, but honestly, that's what a lot of people were waiting for. The best or newest design that Apple has with its best specs as well, so this year, as you may have heard, is the new seven-nanometer, six-core, four-gig RAM a12 bionic chip in both phones, not that one have less RAM than the other. They are both set up and it ended up with some pretty good geekbench scores and they said it's 15 to possibly 30 faster in some actions like opening apps, opening the keyboard, launching the camera, things like that and I can verify that this is extremely In fact, I think which is a fast phone, takes it back to the king of responsiveness when it comes to smartphones.

It's getting a little overlooked with Android phones from the last two years, but iOS 12 is as buttery as it gets. Back on the throne, but the iOS 12 update is also extremely fast on last year's iPhone 10. In fact, I don't notice a major difference in speed between the iPhone 10 with iOS 12 and the iPhone 10s with iOS 12. It's definitely working. Great, don't get me wrong, but the fact that my year-old iPhone 10 ran iOS 12 beta for a while and now in the final version was already noticeably faster than iOS 11 was a big deal, it's like an

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damn it put it. this time to maintain and update their phones well, this time in a way that makes the phone faster, makes people with an older phone now more satisfied and less likely to upgrade.

The really interesting part here is with the errors I was having especially on the 10s max with ios 12, I'm pretty sure it's due to the new resolution but a lot of apps I use daily had a lot of overlaying graphics or cut off parts in the notch where they weren't supposed to. I couldn't even read the caption he was writing on Instagram, it was completely hidden in the notch, but I'm pretty sure a lot of things will be fixed pretty quickly as phones come out and are developed for the new resolution, none of that . It was actually crashing or ruining the phone, it's just weird graphical quirks, so the only place where I really feel like the iPhone 10s seems a little faster is in Face ID and it's not even that much faster.

I definitely think the pause to unlock your phone is a little bit shorter which is nice to see, maybe 25 percent faster thanks to the a12 bionic and ios 12, but obviously it's still not as fast as those quick and crazy oneplus or xiaomi that only use RGB cameras, but it will always be slower than those. because a sort of inverse relationship will also always be safer, no big deal, I personally hope that fingerprint readers under the display glass on conventional phones become a bigger deal with the next generation, as rumored to be the oneplus 6t can have it. it is rumored that the galaxy s10 may have it and it is rumored that the

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11 or whatever it's called may also have it next year but not this time, another small improvement is the much better speakers on the 10, now they are a little louder and clear and The effect of the stereo speaker now is actually quite good.

You still use that earpiece plus the bottom speaker to technically create a stereo pair and this makes a difference for whatever type of media you're listening to, music, watching videos, shows or even gaming. I'd say it went from having a decent speaker to a very good set of speakers and the battery is one of the smallest improvements in my experience. Both are still one-day phones, although now iOS 12 gives you screen on time, so I can tell you that throughout my week with the 10s max I consistently got four to four and a half hours of screen on time throughout the day, very similar to the iPhone 10, not much better, definitely not worse, still a great standby phone, but otherwise nothing either.

Crazy to report here, really the shame remains the time it takes to charge these huge batteries with the trickle charger included in the box, so last but not least it's probably the most hyped new update for these phones Apart from the specifications, and that would be the cameras of the iPhone 10s and 10s max, they share exactly the same cameras and are a slight improvement over the 10 physically, they are new, slightly larger sensors, still 12 megapixels, the main one is f 1.8 and now both are optically stabilized and there is a quad LED flash. I now think this update puts it firmly behind the Pixel 2 as the second best smartphone camera.

It's a real upgrade from the iPhone 10 and all other iPhones, actually a bit more than I expected and overall the photos are. Great as expected and I think the biggest change is the more aggressive and better HDR thanks to its smart HDR, so the color science is really good, plus colors, an additional dynamic range, almost all photos have a sharp, dimly lit corner room. pretty good too, I definitely want to do another type of side-by-side test, I have to get this iPhone along with the pixel 3 when it comes out, probably red hydrogen and some other better ones because obviously the minor difference comes down to opinion, but it's confirmed.

This is an amazing out-of-the-box smartphone camera. You may have heard some talk about this improved portrait mode and portrait mode on the iPhone started almost as a joke. In this beta, it was pretty hacked and sloppy. at first, but every year it gets better and better, like I wish Siri would, and this year it takes another leap, so portrait mode with these dual cameras uses the difference in distance between the cameras and Apple's software to create a depth map, maybe you've heard that. before, so it segments the image into different layers at different distances from the camera, so that when you blur the background of a photo with portrait mode instead of just drawing a sort of crude mask around the foreground and then applying a great blur to the whole. background, this portrait mode actually blurs the parts further away from the camera more, while blurring the closer parts less, it's much more realistic and closer to what real bokeh looks like from a larger camera, it's a difference subtle, but it's a huge improvement again over the first versions of portrait mode, so you take a photo in portrait mode, you go into this edit and you get the slider to change the depth of field after the fact, just the iPhone 10s and 10s max will do this right away, people compared it to Samsung's. live focus because of course that's what it reminds us of, but when I compare them side by side, the Samsung's full generic blur versus the selective blur that keeps getting better, it's pretty clear to me which one I prefer and while this is all purely Software blur just mimics a larger camera, it even seems to add a slight direction to the blur, like a sort of radial blur around the center of the frame, which is pretty impressive, so I don't use portrait mode much because it's still hit or Miss, but these improvements mean that when you get it done, it can be pretty good and it's also combined with the fact that it's still the best video recording on a smartphone, in 4k60 too, plus they added stereo audio recording to support the speakers and everything.

It adds up to a pretty powerful camera, as we expected from an iPhone, so that's where we are at new specs, new camera, same software, same design, so this iPhone 10s is everything we think, honestly, it would be the main update if I want to call it that it would have to be 10s max the much larger screen this is the

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that I have been using by choice for the last few days and it really feels like a very different iphone a six and a half inch screen on a Smaller body than the Galaxy Note 9, I mean, that's all you really have to say to make it my favorite iPhone, but having a larger screen has so many advantages.

I've talked about them in previous videos about big phones and all that. I'm still holding up with the big iPhone, watching videos is better, gaming is definitely better, basically anything that involves wanting an enjoyable viewing experience has gotten better. I've been a big phone person for as long as I can remember, and naturally the larger iPhone is my favorite iPhone. And I never thought I'd see a day where the iPhone was closer to the size of an iPad mini than the original iPhone, but that's what we have here. There are also disadvantages of being a huge phone, you can't forget them and I.

I've said this again about other large phones: it takes up a lot more space in your pocket or bag or wherever you keep it and is much less likely to be a one-handed phone for most people. Let's face it, accessibility is going to be much more important on this bigger phone than ever, but that's the thing, this update for me is all about the size of this 10s max. If you have an iPhone 10, I can tell you right now that you don't need an iPhone 10s. You're fine, even if you have a thousand dollar hole in your pocket and have been itching for a faster iPhone and a better camera upgrade to iOS 12 and you buy an rx100 with that money, it's a much better camera.

The boom problem was really solved with the iPhone. 10s is a great upgrade for people who have an older iPhone and an iPhone 7 or 8or even older, so it will probably be the iPhone 10r, so I'll have to get it home and see if that's it in its entirety. review, but I have no problem recommending the iPhone 10s for those people, but in reality, if you have been waiting for a larger iPhone from all the mentions I talked about and you have the money, it is expensive like last year, but yes You are one of those people who like me, so this is definitely the way to go.

I'm a fan of the 10s max and recommend trying it anyway. That was it. Thanks for watching, I'll talk to you guys next time, peace.