iPhone XR Review: Is This a Good iPhone? By GottaBeMobile

Is, the iPhone 10 are good phone. Let's find out I'm Josh Smith we've got to be mobile, let's find out if the 10r is worth upgrading to or if it's another iPhone 5c I use a wide array of iPhones to do my job, but most people choose an iPhone, and they stick with it for two years, maybe even three years, so you might be rocking an iPhone 6s, you might be rocking the iPhone SE wondering hey, should I upgrade to the iPhone 10 are. Is this the device that I need to buy next I'm going to walk you through what I've learned using the iPhone 10 are for a month now Verizon sent this over. So we could give it a look and learn more about how this integrates into our daily life, and I've come away really impressed by the cheapest iPhone. You can get right now. This is $250 cheaper than the iPhone 10s, and it's significantly cheaper than the iPhone 10s max that I use as my personal phone, despite being significantly cheaper.

It still does probably 90% of the things that my iPhone tennis max can do, and really most people will probably only miss if that five percent of the things that the 10s max can do, so I'm going to walk you through what sets this phone apart and why you might want to pick this up and save $250 right off the bat. There are a few differences between the iPhone 10 R and the iPhone Pennant's, the first being that this band, along the edge is made of aluminum instead of steals, allows Apple to match the color a lot better than it could, especially with the brighter colors like the red and that really cool, looking blue. So you get a more seamless, look and feel you still a glass back. They still have wireless charging, so you have all those features: you'll notice that there's only one lens on the back of the phone and with that you give up the ability to an optical zoom. So you can't do a 2 X zoom without losing any of that quality, and it also changes how portrait mode is done.

So it's done with software rather than lenses, but overall you're still going to have a really great camera experience. Now the display is slightly different as well, so we have a 6.1 inch LCD compared to the OLED display now I really love the OLED display on the iPhone 10s and the home tennis max, but in using this phone for a month, I really can't complain about this screen that much it's still perfect. It's going to meet the needs of most consumers, so before I dive in and focus on, specific areas of the iPhone 10 R I wanted to answer. Probably the biggest question that we've received about this phone, and that is the iPhone 10 are a good I phone and should I buy it well for most people, most average consumers most of my family members and friends. This iPhone is going to do everything you need without paying the premium price for an iPhone, 10s max or an iPhone 10s I've used this for the last month and during that time, I was at the Detroit Auto Show and the Consumer Electronics Show, and so these are days when I'm on the go I'm on the show floor, I'm recording video I'm editing in for about 90 percent of my video work, I shot the videos with the iPhone 10 R.

There were only a few instances where I needed to use the zoom that I had on my 10 s max to be able to get a little closer to something. But for the most part, this served me incredibly well. I was really impressed with the video quality I'm, not shooting this video on It's and back home in a studio setup, but I had this hook to a gimbals with a microphone on it. That way, I could improve the audio quality in a very loud and noisy setting, but overall you're going to get a really impressive. Video and photos out of the iPhone 10 are, and that's one of the big things that I think most people want from their phone.

Now there is a bit of a limitation on what you can do with portrait mode, so you can't take portrait mode of pets or objects, but for general photography purposes. The iPhone 10 R is going to do a great job of capturing your life and sharing it on social media, while I think that the iPhone 10 R is the best iPhone for the price for most consumers. I do feel like its overpriced by about $50 and that's because at $6.99 this is a much better value, and then you're also most likely going to have to spend the extra cash to upgrade to the 128 gigabyte storage option just because you're either going to pay up front for more storage on your phone, or you're going to pay for iCloud storage. In the long run. Now you may pay for iCloud storage anyway, because you want to capture your photos and videos and keep those backed up in the cloud.

But in my experience it's nice to have a little more than the base amount of memory in the iPhone.10 are so the first two things that I want to talk about are the camera and the screen, because those are the most used things on my smartphone and I think for most users. So, let's start with the camera, we have the same sensor. That's in the iPhone, 10s and 10s max, so you're going to be able to take really good-looking photos. I came away impressed with the quality of pictures taken in low-light and also with how well this handled contrast in brightly lit and darker areas to deliver a really nice looking picture. Even though there's only one camera on the back, you still get portrait mode and that's a type of picture mode where it blurs the surrounding background.

It creates really dramatic photos, but instead of doing it with two lenses like the iPhone, 10s and 10s max what you're going to get is a software version and so right now this can only detect people, it can't detect pets, and it can't detect objects. So if you were planning to take really cool pictures of your ROG or your cat with a background blur around them, you are not able to do that with the ten aren't. There might be some third-party apps that will do something similar, but you're not gonna, get the same overall experience that you would on the 10s or 10s max. It's a little different of an experience, because the 10s and 10s max uses a zoom feature to get pretty close when you take this. So if you stand in the same spot, the portrait mode photo taken with the 10r you're going to be further away.

It's going to have more of that background. You can always step closer to your object. Overall, it's a different experience. The ten are still captures a lot of detail and takes good portrait mode photos, but if you want that really classic headshot look you're going to get that more with the 10s or 10s max, so think about how you want to take your photos for regular photos that most of us take the only real difference. You'll see.

Are you can't do a 2 X optical zoom? So you just have to get closer to the object if you want to get a close-up of them at the end of the day, the iPhone 10 art camera is gonna, do 90% of what you as a regular user needs it to do. It's going to take great pictures. You have portrait mode on the back and on the front, shoots great 4k video shoots, slo-mo video, and you can even adjust the both effect with aperture after you take a portrait mode photo like you can on the tennis and tennis mats. So if you're debating between these two phones- and you don't need that zoom, and you don't need the extra portrait mode features, you can save $250 and get most of the experience with the iPhone 10 R. Now, let's move on to the screen.

The OLED display on the 10s and 10s max is phenomenal. It's really great, and I love looking at it, but I don't hate. Looking at the 10 R display and most of the people that I showed this phone to and then shove my 10s max to couldn't see a major difference. You get a really nice looking display the colors look, good, blacks, look, good and while playing games on this, while looking at photos and watching movies, even though it's an LCD screen with a lower resolution, it's not a bad screen, it's not a screen that you're going to be like. Oh, why did I buy this and if you're, upgrading from an iPhone 8 or an iPhone 7, or something like that, you're going to get a phone that has a perfect screen.

This is a bigger screen, so some users are gonna, have trouble reaching the upper corner. While they are using this phone, you can adjust your grip, or you may want to invest in a pop socket or a grab tab from spec, and that would allow you to get a better grip on the back and kind of hold the phone differently. It's definitely not a screen like you find on the iPhone SE, it's not an iPhone SE ?, still a bigger screen phone. The display goes edge to edge it's able to offer that bigger screen without being too big, because there is no home button, and so this now uses gestures. So you swipe up to go home.

You swipe, left or right along the bottom edge to get into other apps, and really all of your home button features have been replaced with gestures. This takes a little while to get used to, but after a week or less of use, you're going to adjust fully to this using a button will feel weird one of the features that I absolutely love on the iPhone, 10s and 10s max is 3d touch. This allows me to firmly press into an app and I can open up shortcuts. I can load a preview and I can do other actions. This is not available on the iPhone 10.

Are you still get haptic feedback which will help it feel like you've pressed on the screen a little more, but you don't have the 3d touch features now? I use this most for accessing shortcuts in the phone app and for jumping into specific parts of apps using the shortcuts. So some people haven't even used 3d touch and if you haven't used it, yet it's not something that you'll miss if you've never used it. If you rely on 3d touch shortcuts every day, because you're on a slightly newer phone that supports it, you may have trouble going straight to the iPhone.10 are where you don't have that feature? Is it worth $250 alone? No, keep an eye on the features you might miss out on and see if it adds up to that $250 price tag for your personal use, I'm, a big fan of the larger iPhone models, I've been using an iPhone plus model for quite a while and I, went to the iPhone 10 and then, as soon as I had the chance. I went to the 10s max because I love a bigger screen for a lot of users. The iPhone 10 R is the Goldilocks of phones, because we've ditched the home button.

We have a larger screen in a form factor. That's still pretty easy to hold with one hand, it's easy to use with one hand until you need to reach the upper right-hand corner and for a lot of us, we've adjusted to that and reconfigured how we use our phone. A lot of apps are taking that nick consideration. So it's not a huge deal and overall I think, while there's some benefit to an iPhone SE and there's a lot of hope that we'll see an iPhone SE, ? I think for a lot of people. This is going to be a sweet spot in between the 10s 10 s Max and a better overall size and fit than the iPhone 8 plus.

Now, with the loss of the home button, there is no longer touch ID, but what's great about this is we have faced ID, so I can just look at my phone to unlock face. I'd is very accurate in my experience, and it's done really well on the iPhone 10 are able to quickly get in and access my apps and use the phone, so I'm not worried about losing touch ID. Now we have the standard black iPhone 10 are here, but it's available in a wide array of colors, including product red, which looks really nice, there's a really great blue coral, a yellow and a white. So you have a lot more color options. This aluminum edge here is color matched it matches better on some colors than others, but overall you get a really nice.

Look. You miss out on the steel that you have on the iPhone 10s max, but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter. A lot of people are going to put a case on this. Even if it's a clear case, you've seen loads of clear case options to show off the colors of your iPhone 10 are the build. Quality is very nice.

You have a glass back and since it's a glass back, we get wireless charging. The only port on this phone is the Lightning jack. So there's no headphone jack you're gonna either need to use lightning headphones by lightning a 3.5, millimeter dongle, or go full in and purchase some wireless headphones like air, pods or anything with Bluetooth. The iPhone ten-hour battery life is really solid. I've been impressed with how well this did when I was running around show floors using this to shoot a lot of video messaging with it air dropping it handled my needs during those convention days very well, and then it also works.

Perfect for normal day-to-day use, where I could use the phone all day game go on Reddit, hop on a Facebook. Take some pictures shoot a little video, pretty much everything I do on a normal day and I didn't find that I was running out of battery by the end of the day. Now, if I really pushed it and wanted to use hotspot or something like that or game with a really intense game, yeah battery life is going to drop, but that's going to happen on any phone. My experience is that the iPhone ten-hour battery life is as good, maybe a little better than what you get on a 10 or 10s with wireless charging, which is my preferred method of charging. The iPhone I can set this down on my desk or on my nightstand and when I need if it's fully charged.

The 10r also supports fast charging, so you can get 50% of your battery life back in 30 minutes of charging. To do this, you need a charger. That's going to put out more power than the one that comes in the box, so you can buy a charger from Apple or from Amazon and then a USB-C to lightning cable, and with that combo you can fast charge. I found that with the iPhone 10 R and the tenant's max that fast charging will allow me to on a day when I have untypical usage, and I'm running really low I can plug in around 3:30 or 4 and by the time I'm ready to go for the day and head into the evening. I have a nearly full iPhone.

So as we wrap this all up, my experience tells me that the iPhone 10 R is a good iPhone, and it might be the best iPhone for you. It all depends on how much you value. Those few features that set the 10s and 10s max apart. Yes, I wish Apple priced at about $50 cheaper, because 749 for the hundred and twenty-eight gig model sounds a lot better and just getting below that mental barrier of seven hundred makes it seem like a better deal now. This isn't an iPhone SE 2 as I mentioned, so it's not super cheap, even though you see Apple advertised it as low as $449 you're going to have to trade in a relatively new iPhone to make that jump and get the phone for $449, but we're in the beginning of 2019 right now, and we're going to see this phone evolve throughout the year as it gets.

Software updates we're gonna, get an iOS 13 update later this year, and we'll likely see some price discounts from carriers and from retailers throughout the year. If you're able to find a good deal on the iPhone 10 are that's something you should jump. The iPhone 10 R is not just a cheap iPhone. It's not something that Apple's cut a lot of corners on. If you've already experienced some of these features, you may miss them if you downgrade to the iPhone 10 R, but if you're upgrading to the iPhone 10 R from a 6s, a 7, an older iPhone, then you're going to get almost all the same features: save $250, which you're probably going to end up spending in accessories anyway, and ultimately, you're still going to get a great iPhone experience.

We have iOS 13 coming up later this year, that's gonna, add all kinds of features and the iPhone 10 R is going to get support for years to come compared to an older iPhone or compared to buying an iPhone SE, thanks for watching our iPhone 10 our review. If you found this video useful, please give us a thumbs up. That really helps us out. Leave us a comment. Let us know which iPhone you decide to buy and what really pushed you over the edge to get that model.

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