iPhone XS vs XS Max - Which Should You Buy? | The Tech Chap By The Tech Chap

These are the most expensive iPhones Apple have ever made, some might say, they're even a little. Excessive excess save, no hey, guys, I'm Tom, the tech chap, and this is the new iPhone XS, and this is the X s max now terrible names aside, if you're looking to buy a new top-of-the-line iPhone, which one of these two should you go for. I love listening to audiobooks, especially when I'm driving on the train, which is why I've teamed up with audible, who are kindly sponsoring this video I'm about halfway through the x-files at the moment. Don't judge me, which is one of their exclusive audible originals. You can actually get to audible, originals, plus any book from the huge library completely free. If you use my link in the description or go to audible.

com at slash tech, jab and sign up for a free 30-day trial, stay tuned to the end of the video to find out more about audible, but for now let's get back to the iPhones. So obviously the biggest difference between these two is the size. The XS has a 5.8 H display vs.6.5 inches on the XS max beside from that the screens are identical. They both have true tone OLED panels with the same 458, PPI sharpness and support for habit vision, an HDR, 10 high dynamic range, and they both still have the notch, which means when you're watching YouTube videos or Netflix movies. You have some pretty chunky pillar boxing going on, unless, of course you zoom in, but then the notch kind of gets in the way.

Now you probably wouldn't believe it's just by looking at them, but the max does actually have ever so slightly thinner, bezels. You get an 80 4.4% screen to body ratio on the max versus 80 2.9 on the XS, but you really can't tell it's funny the first time I actually picked these up and use them side-by-side. I thought the XS max was huge, but after a few minutes after getting to grips them a little. Actually it feels like the XS is the one. That's small I've been using quite a few big phones recently like the OnePlus X on the Galaxy Note 9.

So for me, the XS max actually feels like a shut up Twitter. So for me, the XS max actually feels like a better size and if you're, coming from an iPhone plus model, the six plus seven plus eight plus the XS max feels just the same size in the hand. They're both 7.7 millimeters thick for the max is six point: five millimeters wider and 14 millimeters taller. So next to each other, that's quite a big difference, but personally I do prefer the size of the max, although, as I say, I am used to slightly bigger phones. If you can, though, I would pop into an Apple Store, try them for yourself, because really that's the only way, you'll get a good impression.

What I was most surprised about, though, and actually slightly disappointed. I guess is that, even though you have all this extra screen real estate on the excess max, it's not really used to any great effect. There's no user interface difference between them. Obviously, everything is bigger, and games and movies do feel more immersive. But you don't get anything extra.

You can't use it horizontally. Something previous plus models could do and going onto Instagram or Twitter. You don't actually see any more posts, it's just enlarged and, of course, performance is identical. They both shipped with iOS 12. They both use the new a 12 by on it chip and have four gigs of ram in Geek bench four.

Furthermore, they scored within a couple of percents of each other. So no real, substantial difference in speed. But if you're watching movies or playing games like asphalt, 9, which just looks stunning on these phones between the two I, do prefer the Mac's. It's not only faster, but the bigger screen does just make it feel more immersive and more enjoyable. So far, then the only real difference is the size, but actually the max does have one more trick up its sleeve.

What a bigger battery up its leave. The excess has a two thousand six hundred and fifty-eight million power cell versus three thousand one hundred and seventy-four on the excess max. Now that those batteries sound big, especially compared to the Huawei P 20 pro with a Galaxy Note, 9 with their massive 4000 million power cells, but iPhones, have always been more optimized and actually the XS max lasts longer than mine. Oh nine, but I'll come back to that in a different video. After one hour of gaming, one hour of watching YouTube videos and one hour of listening to audible, the XS had 68% of its battery remaining versus 17.

One percent on the max in real-world use I found this translates to about an extra hour of battery life per day, which is pretty much. Bang are more Apple claims at the end of a normal day, I have about thirty percent left on my excess and about thirty-four percent on the Mac. So it's not a major difference. It's probably not a big enough reason to buy the max over the XS alone, but it is a nice bonus. So the big upgrades this year really are the a12 processors and the better cameras with both phones, offering significantly better dynamic range in photos compared to last year's iPhone 10.

But there's no difference between the XS and the XS max. They have exactly the same cameras. I, don't know, I just felt there would be more to it than this. The XS max really is just a bigger XS, with a slightly better battery life. Now, as for the price, as you'd expect, these are ludicrously expensive.

The XS max starts $1000 for the 64 gig model versus 1100 for the XS max. So actually there is only a 100 dollar difference between them. I think I would go with the max I'm used to bigger phones and I, do like to watch movies and play games on it, and that bigger screen does just feel better to do those things on and actually in a scheme of things. $100 difference isn't a lot more and that extra hour of battery is a nice extra I hope you enjoyed the video hit that like and subscribe button. If you did, I'll see you guys next time right here on the tech jack, so I listen to ready player one as an audiobook on audible before I watch, the movie I definitely prefer.

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