iPhone X vs iPhone XR - Which Should You Choose? By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone X, was recently re-released in the United States and across the world as a refurbished product, Apple stopped selling it once they introduced the iPhone XS, and now you can pick it up again refurbished at a very similar price to the iPhone XR. So I wanted to help you decide which one would be best for you. So the first thing you need to know is the price the iPhone X comes in at seven hundred and sixty-nine or eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars with sixty-four gigabytes or 256 gigabytes of storage, whereas the iPhone XR comes in at seven hundred and forty-nine dollars up to eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars with either 64 128 or 256 gigabytes of storage. Now we have a couple different color options with the iPhone X you've got Space Gray or you have silver and silver is a little nicer. I think, in my opinion, it's a little more flashy, this one's a little more muted. It just depends on which one you like, but you have two options, and they're both built out of stainless steel around the outer ring here, and they have a glass back and a glass front, and we'll talk more about the cameras a little later on, but just know that you've got these two color options when it comes to the iPhone X are you've got a lot more color options.

The XR comes in product red like this, or you can get it in multiple different colors, such as the space gray, color here. Silver you've also got a yellow color, a blue color and some others as well, and so you can pick anyone you'd like and those seem to be pretty popular as far as people wanting to have those different color availabilities. Now the obvious difference between the two other than the cameras which we'll cover later is the actual display on the iPhone XR. We have a 6.1 inch display, and this is a little controversial, because it's an LCD that's a little over 720p resolution. However, you cannot see the pixels because it's 326 pixels per inch.

So you really can't see them. Although some people will complain about this, it's got a resolution of 1792 by 828 and again 326 pixels per inch with a non HDR display. Now, when we move over to the iPhone X that we've got a 5.8 inch display from corner to corner, and we've got 2436 by 1125 at 458 pixels per inch. So some people have said that you need the higher resolution due to the layout of the pixels on an OLED display to match that of an LCD, either way. If I put these side-by-side, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference if I could hide which phone it is other than for its size.

The viewing angles are quite good, but the actual colors are a little richer on the iPhone X. Although you shouldn't complain about the iPhone XR that are quite nice, it's a very nice LCD, but you are going to get better blacks with an OLED display. That's just kind of the nature of those displays. Now, when it comes to the display, of course, this one is HDR and you can watch up to 1080p on YouTube on both of them. That's a limitation of the YouTube app, and it has to do with some codecs between YouTube and Apple.

But right now, YouTube allows you to use 1080p on either display, and again you're not going to be able to tell the difference so much, except that you can watch HDR content on the OLED display. So that is an availability. I do have an HDR video. If you want to check that out, I'll link it- and it's just my only HDR video, but you can see a better or wider color range on the OLED display. Then you can on an LCD, so you do get that advantage.

The other advantage you get with the X is 3d touch, so you can force press here or 3d touch, and you've got a little pop-out. You don't get that on the apps here, although you do get it in other areas of the OS. So maybe notifications, so you see there are some notifications on the XR. You can tap on these and kind of haptic touch or press, and it will pop up similar to what you would get with 3d touch, but it's very limited throughout the OS, and this has true force touch sensors underneath the display that senses that 3d press, so that should be a little of an advantage. I use it a lot.

Some people don't use it at all, but that may make a difference to you now we do have dual speakers on both. However, the iPhone XR sounds a little better. They fix this with the latest generation. It sounds a little wider, or it sounds more like it's in stereo. You have a little louder sound coming out of this speaker as opposed to the bottom speakers, so you do have a little better speaker on the XR when it comes to actual cell phone reception or Wi-Fi I find the iPhone X seems to do a better job with that they change the antenna design on the newer ones and there's something different about them.

That makes it not as good it just doesn't have as strong of a signal. Normally. However, you can get about the same Wi-Fi speeds, but it just depends on your home network. Here now, as you'll see, we have faced ID face idea, it's going to be a little faster on the newer phone, but it's so close, it's hard to say. So.

Let me try that one more time, and you'll see it was a little slower on the X one more time. I'll show you and a little slower again on the X. So if that's something that bothers you, of course it can be a pain. Now when it comes to battery life between the two, the iPhone X has a little less battery life than the iPhone XR about one to two hours, depending on your usage. Now in some tests, you'll see otherwise, but in my usage of using this phone versus this or even the XS Max I find the XR actually will beat it out by the 32 minutes to an hour or one to two hours when we're talking about the iPhone X.

So there is an advantage to the iPhone XR when it comes to battery. Now, when we're talking about the overall cameras, both have pretty good cameras, the forward facing cameras are very similar, they're, the true depth, 7 megapixel cameras. So if we tap on these here, spin them around you'll see I'm recording with a GH 5 this time, and they're both forward facing cameras, they're going to look the same, there's really no difference here, you're going to have great photos or video from the front facing camera on this, however, the back camera is a little different. They are both 12 megapixel cameras, but the iPhone X gains a telephoto zoom lens, so you get to zoom optically, whereas you have to zoom digitally on this one. Also, when you're taking portraits with this particular camera, you can only take portraits of people, not objects, so without a special app, you won't be able to do that with the iPhone X you'll be able to take portrait photos of objects.

So if I go here, we go to portrait, it's not necessarily looking for a person once we don't move further away. It's not necessarily looking for a person, it's looking for an object, so you can take that with this, and that is an advantage, but I wanted to compare both of these and show you the photos between both of them in low light and in bright light, and take a look at a few different photos and see what you think between the two of them. Both of these devices have very fast processors. The iPhone X has the 11 Bionic, whereas the iPhone XR has the 12 Bionic now to tell the difference between the two is very hard. Technically, the 12 Bionic is faster, but if you do something simple, like opening the app store, you're not really going to be able to tell the difference, we can load a game, and this will usually show us a little of a difference.

Let me set these down here, wait for it to load, and you'll, see they loaded quickly on both will hit play. Will it create a new creation a new world? So if you play a lot of games, we'll hit create- and if you play a lot of games, you'll see that normally the older device actually loads more quickly. It's hard to say, you'll, see it just loaded quicker on this device, and normally I find that's the time for the processor to ramp up to full speed on the newer devices is slower, but we're talking a second here. So we're not talking huge differences, but there is a difference. Now.

The other test I like to run, is exporting a 4k video that really pushes the processors kind of to the max to see what it will do. So I'll open, iMovie set a 4k movie and then export it, and we'll see which one wins. No I've loaded the same movie on both of these. It's something I recorded with the iPhone, and it's on both you can see it's the same length and I, don't have any other apps open or anything in memory. So what I wanted to do is export this in 4k and see how long it takes now.

I have a stopwatch here, and we'll see what this takes as well to complete this, so we'll hit done we'll share it here, save video, and this might be a little tricky we'll do this, and we'll see how long it takes, and in my experience, usually the older one will finish one or two seconds more quickly or faster you'll see the iPhones finished at pretty much the same time. Actually, this one was about a half a second slower this time, so that's pretty impressive, either way, they're very, very close, and that's just to show you that, even though this has the faster processor in it, they're, basically the same when it comes to doing very heavy tasks and as far as exporting that video I haven't really warmed up at all, just by exporting video, and so they're staying nice and cool with no problems there now. The other thing is both of these have ip67 certifications, so to withstand a drop in a puddle, but again with any iPhone. You don't want to swim with them without putting a waterproof case on it, as Apple does not cover any water damage whatsoever and then the weight between the two of them, the iPhone X, is technically a little lighter at six point one: four ounces. This is six point.

Eight four ounces with the iPhone XR everything else as far as the operating system is basically the same now. Finally, the one thing you may want to consider is an OLED display is always flickering. That's how it manages brightness. You can't see it with your eyes, but it can't affect you. It affects about one in ten people and affects me actually so looking at an OLED display for any period of time can result in headaches or feeling nauseated.

This happens to quite a few people that I know, and it's about one in ten that are affected. So just keep that in mind. If you're sensitive to light, that may be a consideration for you, so that's really it between the X and the XR they're, both equally priced, so, whichever one works best for you, who would be the one to get? Let me know what you think, though, in the comments below which one you like the size between the two, the screens and everything else, I'd love to hear what you have to say in the comments below, if you haven't subscribed already, please subscribe and like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time.

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