Apple iPhone XS vs XS Max: Unboxing & Review (All Colors) By DetroitBORG

What's up guys this is Mike the Detroit Board with the brand-new iPhone 10s and the new 10s max. So we're going to take a look at both sizes side by side and compare the three colors silver Space Gray and the new gold color. So the 10 s replaces the 10 from last year, but we also get a new larger version called the 10s max now. The reason they're calling this max instead of the Plus is because the plus screens were all 5.5 inches, and this is much bigger at 6.5 inches. There are available in three capacities: 64 256 or 512, gigs of storage. So if you max out the max you're going to pay up to fourteen forty-nine for that phone, that's the most expensive iPhone to date.

Otherwise, it's 64 gigs, the 10s starts off at $9.99 and the max starts off at 1099, so there's only $100 separating the two. The good news with these phones is that, unlike the Plus models, these phones have identical specs. They have the same cameras, the same processors, the only difference really comes down to display size battery size and, of course, the price getting to the unboxing and I have four phones to take a look at here. My three versions of the 10s Max and all three colors, and then I have a gold version of the 10s. So first up, let's get to the big guys, the 10s max and of course they have.

This nice wrapper around the boxes which come off really easy. You don't need a knife or anything else to get into these, so once we get rid of that, we can go ahead and lift those very colorful lids. First up we have our paperwork so inside we'll find a Quick Start Guide, our sim ejection tool and a set of white Apple stickers. The Quick Start Guide will tell you some basic functions of the iPhone 10 s, but you'll also see reference to something we thought might have died, which was air power. So hopefully we're still going to see the air power charging mat soon so getting to the phones from the front.

They all look. The same no matter what color you get they all this nice black slam on the front with that very thin, bezel, that's only obvious when the screen is on so silver and Space. Gray are two colors we've seen for a while. Now there are the same colors on the iPhone 10, but we get a new gold color and that's a pretty stunning coat to look at. Not only is the color more vibrant, but the way it reflects light is quite different from the others.

All of them have sort of a metallic reflection to the glass, but the gold has a much more vibrant reflection, so it actually reflects in gold, and you'll see that side-by-side. When you take a look at how it reflects the light compared to the iPhone 8 plus. So again, it kind of has that matching metallic reflection. That makes it look a little more like jewelry and lastly, we have a smaller iPhone 10 s, which is the exact same amok scene experience just scaled for size, but there is one slight difference here. So when you remove the phone you'll notice that the accessories are flipped upside down, not sure why it is maybe it's to balance out the weight of the box.

I'll know, but it's just a slight difference. We haven't seen before on the larger and smaller models. So before we take a look at the phone, let's get to the accessories, which are a bit of a disappointment. For one thing, we get a 5 watt power adapter. This is the same 5 watt design we've had for almost 10 years now, so, unfortunately, the iPhone 10s still did not get a rapid charger like a lot of other smartphones.

That's really disappointing, especially when you consider how big the battery is on the iPhone 10s max. So even at this price, Apple still isn't throwing in a set of airport. So we get a set of Wired Lightning connected headphones with an inline, remote controller and microphone. But what you'll notice is missing on the back is the adapter that we used to get so for your traditional headphone jacks you're going to have to supply your own adapter or just go wireless with a set of your own air, pods or Bluetooth headphones. And, lastly, we get our slow charged USB, a two lightning, connector, cable and because I know, somebody's gonna.

Ask if I don't mention it. The Apple stickers are all white, and they're all the same size, no matter which phone you get they're just on a different sheet to fit. The box they're in setup with iOS 12 is extremely simple. I have to do is hold your old phone next to the new phone, and you'll be prompted to transfer your information from the old phone to the new phone. The process is pretty simple: I have to do is scan a code on the front of the new phone, and they pair together and hand off all the login information you would otherwise have to do manually.

You're also prompted to set up face ID for the first time, and it's a two-step process. You basically scan your face twice by rolling it around kind of coaches, you through the process, and they have sped up the performance of face ID thanks to faster algorithms and a faster, secure Enclave. Also during setup, is a demonstration of the true tone display. So once again, this is a technology that matches the displays, color temperature, the ambient lighting, the rest of the setup will talk you through Apple Pay and setting up Siri, but we also get something that's unique to the max model, which is the zoomed view. So this is something again.

We saw with the plus models. So if you want to increase the size of icons and text on your screen, you can select the zoomed view as opposed to the standard view, which is what I selected each of the new iPhones also get color matching wallpaper. This is actually a live wallpaper which responds to a 3d press on the lock screen. Now you can change these under the live wallpaper gallery, but what's kind of interesting is that there are different versions for each size of the phone one set for the 5.8 inch and another set for the 6.5 inch in terms of design. The 10s and 10s Plus have a stainless steel frame with that polished finish is sandwiched on either side with glass, which has a new formulation, which Apple says, is the strongest glass on any smartphone today, but I'll leave that verification for other channels to try out.

Once again, we have wireless charging built-in for both phones and the charging. Coil has been redesigned, so it's less picky in terms of placement, but it's also been sped up. So we get a faster wireless charge. Just like the iPhone 10. The glass is rounded off at the edges to meet the rounded frame of the phone for a nice seamless feel and look on the right side.

We have the side button on the left side we have our vinyl and a mute switch on the bottom edge is the lightning connector which does support quick charging. If you buy the right adapter but gone from the iPhone 10 is the symmetry of the design on the bottom of the phone. That's because we have a new antenna design in this phone, which has a new 4 by 4 MIMO radio and supports AM and Leia standards. So we can now get up to 1 gigabit of LTE speeds on this phone, so you'll see additional antenna, separators that we didn't have on the iPhone 10 design in terms of these displays. Apple is calling them the super retina HD display, as they did with the iPhone 10.

But this time we have the 5.8 inch and the new 6.5 inch. Now both of them have the exact same pixel density, 458, PPI I think that's the most important spec to Apple, because the resolution is otherwise kind of random. So for 5.9 inches we have 25 36 by 11 25, while the 6.5 inch is 26 88 by 12:42. Now one of the characteristics of the iPhone 10 and the 10 s is that the screen goes edge to edge. There's no chin, there's no forehead besides the notch, and that's thanks to the design of this OLED panel, which has a display driver, that's folded under, so that allows for a uniform, bezel top-to-bottom.

So an OLED display gives you that stunning contrast ratio of a million to one, so blacks are absolutely black and colors are extremely vibrant. Peak brightness of the iPhone is like a lot of other Apple displays 625 nits. This definitely not as bright as something like the note which goes over a thousand nits, but it's still extremely visible in bright daylight conditions as before. This is a DCI p3 display, so supports that wide color gamut. We also have HDR support, so this important bill, Dolby Vision and HDR 10 for video.

Although we did not get promotion for the iPhone, we did get a 120 Hertz refresh rate for the touch panel when comparing the size of the 10s max to the regular 10s. The first thing that jumps out right away to me is that I'm pretty familiar with a 10s max, because it's the same size as the iPhone 8, plus, the only difference being, is that the display is much larger than the 8 plus. So that does make the max a little more clumsy to use, especially if you don't have big hands even with big hands. It's still kind of a reach, so the 10s max is more of a two-handed phone as opposed to the 10s, which I think is the right size for almost everybody. You don't get a ton of extra screen real estate, but things are skilled up a bit more, so things are bigger.

Text is bigger, it's easier to read. Obviously, media is much larger with at larger screens, so it's a much better device for media consumption. Reading the web and much more. There are a few software differences between the 10s and the 10s max. The big one is landscape orientation for certain apps, so some apps have been formatted for the landscape orientation.

We've seen this before with the plus phone, so we're seeing it again with this larger phone. The new chip in the 10s and the 10s max, as well as the 10 R, is called the a12 Bionic. This is the first seven nanometer chips on a smartphone. This gets a six core CPU, a four core GPU and an 8-quart neural engine. This is up from the two corner, all engine from the a11, so it's up to nine times faster, while using one tenth of the energy and the iPhone and tennis max get four gigs of RAM in terms of performances, mostly geared toward improving battery efficiency, but we're also seeing pretty significant CPU gains and much bigger GPU gains.

So the graphics performance of this phone has increased. Almost 40% Apple also says that apps launch 30% faster than the iPhone 10. The truth, if camera besides being faster, is mostly the same hardware we had last year. The only difference here is a new sensor in the 7 megapixel camera, so that camera gets an F, 2.2 aperture and can record 1080p video up to 60 frames per second, that's an improvement of 30 frames per second from the last generation. Now I've been able to visualize how this works in real time.

Thanks to an infrared camera, she can actually see all the infrared dots on your face and how it works. Of course, the true that the camera is used for much more than just face on lock or authenticating passwords. We can also use it for things like an emoji or me emojis. This is something I covered in my iOS 12 video. If you want to check that out, I'll leave that video linked in the description below we also get an upgraded water resistance rating.

We go from IP 67 to IP 68, which means the iPhone is water resistant up to 2 meters for 30 minutes. Something also new for the iPhone 10s is the new SIM technology, so we still have a traditional NATO, SIM tray, which has a gasket around it for water resistance, but we also have an embedded electronic sim or an e SIM and players use this before on the iPad, as well as the Apple Watch. So that means you can have two services running on this device, but unfortunately, that service is not yet activated. Sound design has also been a big part of the redesign of the iPhone 10s, so we get a set of quad microphones, which can be used for stereo audio pickup. For the first time on video, the 10s also gets a new set of stereo speakers which have been tonally matched, so they were able to produce a wider, more immersive stereo sound than the previous phone, but they're not necessarily louder than they were before permission to come aboard.

I'm here commander the discovery under Regulation nineteen section C. Although it's hard to hear on camera, the ten s max does have a lower frequency response, so get a little more bass out of the max than you do. On the smaller 10s, at first glance, the cameras on the back of the iPhone 10 s look very similar to the iPhone 10. We have very similar specs, but there's quite a bit new going on here as well, so we still get a set of 12 megapixel cameras which are optically stabilized v. Telephoto camera has an F 2.4 aperture. The wide-angle has an F 1.8 aperture, so that gives us 2 X optical zoom, with up to 10 X digital zoom, but we also get a larger sensor with deeper pixels, so with deeper pixels, we have better low-light sensitivity and better isolation between the pixels, which means there's less interference in low-light images we get even more focused pixels for faster and more accurate, autofocusing, and we even pick up a new and improved quad led true tone flash in terms of new features. The portrait mode gets a new, advanced, both and depth control.

Now, we've seen something like this before, where you can change the depth of field after you've taken photograph, but the iPhone goes a step further. Instead of just blurring the background of the subject, it can actually change the optics of the both effects. So, as you slide through the virtual aperture, you like to see that the both increases its size, not just its blur. One of the most impressive new features of the iPhone 10 S camera is something called smart HDR, it's new with this generation. It takes advantage of the new image signal processor to combine multiple shots to create an improved HDR image and the effects are a big improvement over the iPhone 10.

So, according to Apple we're seeing a 60% greater dynamic range when we have that feature turned on compare to iPhone 10 the biggest difference, especially during daylight images, is the dynamic range. So, for example, the sky isn't blown out, and we have less shadow. We also get better color reproduction, so it makes a clear and immediate impact to the point. I can tell the difference right away. In fact, it almost looks like the iPhone 10s can make a cloudy day.

Look like a sunny day just by the amount of color it's pulling out of images. Another obvious performance difference between the iPhone, 10 and 10s is low-light performance. So if you take a low-light shot of the 10 and compared to the smart HDR on the 10s, you'll see that, for example, the light fixtures are completely blown out on the iPhone 10, but you can see much more detail on the iPhone 10s. You also get more color, also not new, but still very impressive, is 60 frames per second 4k as well as 240 frames per second slow motion at 720p: hey guys, Mike here the Detroit Borg testing out the front-facing camera or FaceTime HD camera on the iPhone 10. So we can compare it to the iPhone 10s.

So briefly, you can see how blown out my windows are here. You can't even see the yard in the back, so here we are with the iPhone 10s, and you can almost see the yard through the windows. The color is looking much better. It's less blown out and wash down, so everything Jeff definitely looks better, and we have those quad mics so on your pickup with stereo should sound better as well. Now, just to show you the basics of using the iPhone 10 as it's identical to the iPhone 10, but if you've never used the iPhone 10, this might be a bit different for you, so you can double tap the screen to wake it up, and I can also scan my face by getting into view here so face.

I'd works really quickly. Unlock takes me directly to the home screen swipe down from the top center to get to your notifications, swipe down from the upper right corner to get to your control center. You have 3d press actions in here as well, so 3d press to expand out your brightness controls for things like night shift or true tones. This is where you can turn that on and off since we don't have the home button, you just swipe up from the bottom edge to get back home that also works in the landscape orientation. So when you're in landscape apps, you swipe up from the bottom, whatever the bottom is now in terms of getting to your app launcher, swipe up and hold, and then you can see all of your recently opened apps and swipe to dismiss them.

You can also swipe between your apps by swiping across the bottom of the screen to get to Syria. Of course, you can use your voice or just tap and hold the side button to do the same thing to take a screen, grab just tap and hold the side button and the volume up button at the same time and release to power down. You no longer hold the side key to do it because you'll just get to Siri, but what you can do now is tap the volume up volume down key and hold the psychic until you get the slide to power off. So as I end, this review. The thing that strikes me about the iPhone s is that the improvements are bigger than I thought they would be I, don't think it's worth upgrading if you already have the iPhone 10, but what I definitely will look at.

Is the iPhone 10 s max I'm, a huge fan of this gigantic screen, the big battery and the extra battery life that comes with it and, of course, the laundry list of improvements from the better cameras, the better speakers microphones and much more so for me, the iPhone 10s max is definitely the phone I've been waiting to get, but we are not done yet. This year we still have the iPhone 10 are coming in the month, so you can count on that video, hopefully I'll get one in each color, but in the meantime, I will be reviewing these series for watch soap stay tuned for that video hope. You guys enjoyed this one. If you did please, let me know with a like, and I'll see you again in my next video.

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