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iPhone XR review: Forget the iPhone XS, get the XR instead
Apr 30, 2024
The iPhone XR is typical Apple. It’s an entry-level phone with a bunch of premium features. Jony Ive just cannot cut corners, even if he wanted to. This is no plasticky, cut-rate phone built to meet a price point. It’s a primo phone with primo features (and a primo price tag, tbh), that just happens to be the cheapest new iPhone in Apple’s lineup. The XR has everything customers care about: a big, beautiful screen; great cameras; long battery life; and FaceID. The iPhone XR is arguably Apple’s most interesting smartphone of 2018 because of this slightly odd bundle of budget/premium features. It’s arguably a $1,200 phone in a $750 package. Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/cultofmac Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cultofmac Instagram: https://instagram.com/cultofmac/
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Hi, I'm Landekaney from coltumagmack.com
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And in this video, I'm going to be reviewing the iPhone XR
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Apple's latest iPhone and the least expensive phone in its current lineup
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The interesting thing is, this iPhone is basically a $1,200 iPhone in a $750 package
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The iPhone 10R is typical Apple. It's an entry-level phone with a bunch of premium features
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Johnny Ivan Timco just can't cut corners. The 10 is anything but entry-level technology
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It has many of the premium features of its more expensive brethren, and all of the core technology that people really care about
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A big beautiful screen, gate cameras, great battery life and face ID, which completely changes the relationship to security and passwords
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And it's still priced at $750, which is anything but an entry-level price
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but it's $350 less than the comparable 10S max. It comes in six colors, black, white, blue, yellow, coral, and red for product red
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for product red. The design is Primo too, of course. It has a big, beautiful edge-to-edge display
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Both the front and the back are made of glass. The curve edges are soon as you join to a metal
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frame made from 7,000 series Aerospace-grade aluminum. I like the feel of the aluminum. It's a bit
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warmer and softer than the stainless steel used in the more expensive 10 and 10-8 tans
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The buttons are precision-mount machined with barely perceptible gaps. They're solidly clicky and satisfying. The 10-R is a little thicker and heavier
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than the 10 s measuring in at 8 millimeters and weighing 194 grams That versus 7 millimeters and 177 grams But the differences are barely noticeable It comfortable to hold for long periods and you have no trouble at all putting it into and out of your pocket There good reason for all the added weight and thickness too The iPhone 10R carries a large
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display and a much bigger battery. You might notice that the 10R has bigger bezels around its edges
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This is because the display is LCD rather than OLED used in the 10 and the 10s
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and the bezels accommodate the back light. So like a lot of things of the 10R, the bezels are really only
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noticeable if you hold it next to a phone like the 10 or the 10S. In everyday life you just won't
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notice it. There's a lightning port but you better sit down for this. There's no headphone jack
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The 10R is rated IP 67 for dust and water resistance. It'll withstand splashes and
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junking in water up to one meter for 30 minutes. It'll be safe poolside but you can't really
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go scuba diving within. Apple calls the display liquid retina and it says it's the best LCD
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display on any phone on the market. The 10R display looks a lot like the display in the iPhone 10s or the 10s max but there are a couple
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of big differences. It's a bit larger than the 10s and a bit smaller than the 10s max. It also
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uses more traditional LCD technology rather than an old-l-d panel. Apple calls it a liquid
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retina display and claims it's the best LCD in the smartphone industry. It's certainly
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impressive with true tone technology which is just a screen to different light conditions and excellent backlight and support for the P3 wide color gamut. If you've been using an 8 or an 8 plus you can
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We can expect it to be just as good, but it's not perfect
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We've been spoiled by OLED screens, and anyone who's used a 10 or a 10 S
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will notice the 10 display is not quite as good There no support for high dynamic range It has a lower resolution and a lower contrast ratio You might miss 3D touch too but that not a big disappointment for many people So side by side with something like the 10 or the 10s max
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the X, the 10R doesn't look as sharp or as vibrant. The colors are a little muted, the black's not quite as black
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But you shouldn't be too disappointed with it. You'll only see it if you make a direct comparison
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and if you're grading from an older phone, you'll be delighted anyway. Other smartphone manufacturers would have done this
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It's yet another example of Apple. example of Apple's exemplary attention to detail
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And it proves that while the 10R might be the most affordable handset this year
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it wasn't an afterthought like the iPhone 5c. Some things might have been left out to keep cars slow, but no corners have been cut
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That's true when it comes to many of the 10R's internal components too
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Apple didn't just throw all the components into a new shell. You get the same A12 bionic chip here as you do in the 10S
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The 10R is blazing fast, no matter what you do with it
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multitasking gaming and even augmented reality are just as smooth on the 10r as they are on the 10s
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No Android phone comes close to matching the performance of the 10R, which performs just as well as the 10s in benchmark tests
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The 10R can't keep up with the 10s in network performance however
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Its more expensive siblings now support ultra-speedy gigabit LTE, whereas the XR uses the same LTE advanced technology we've gotten from previous Apple devices
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This shouldn't be too much of an issue for most folks, but it's worth. noting. The 10R does offer dual sim technology like the 10S, but it's not available in the USCN
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It'll come later with a software update. The 10R doesn't have a second telephoto lens, which means
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no optical zoom but it does have the same 12 megapixel camera as a 10S and smart HDR technology That means photos and videos you shoot with this are just as good The 10R offers portrait mode with advanced boker and depth control too despite just one lens
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The same megapixel front facing camera from the 10S is also packed into the 10R
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It boasts smart HDR, portrait mode and portrait lighting with five effects
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You can also use it to shoot 1080p video at up to 60 frames per second and yes, an emoji is also supported
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The same front-facing camera also means to get face ID in the 10R and it works wonderfully
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It's more secure than the touch ID and a lot easier to use and we found it to be much more reliable
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It is ever so slightly slower than fingerprint scanning but you probably wouldn't notice
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If there's one thing the 10-R does better than any other iPhone and in fact any other smartphone, it's battery life
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The 10-R lasts up to one half hours longer than the iPhone 8 plus in between charges and it lives up to that promise
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You should have no trouble getting through a full day with juice to spare even if you play games, watch videos or stream music
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The 10R has the same improved wireless charging technology as a 10S, which means it's faster and it's compatible with the key charging accessories you may have already purchased if you're upgrading from the iPhone 10
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You'll still get power through a cable faster, however, with a 50% charge in just 30 minutes
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The iPhone 10R is the best smartphone Apple has ever made for under 750 bucks
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It's beautifully designed with a great display and it's incredibly fast. Camera performance is excellent and battery life is even better
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It might not be the most impressive smartphone smart Apple sells today. but it's impossible to be disappointed with a 10R
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The 10R is the future of the smartphone that Apple has been pushing with just a few alterations to make it more affordable
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If you can't afford a 10S, get a 10R instead. You'll be very happy with it
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