iPhone XS & XS Max Review: Do You Need to Upgrade? | WIRED By WIRED

Right about now, you might be wondering whether to get a new iPhone now for some of you, that might be a question of which new iPhone to get basically should you get the big new iPhone, the iPhone 10s max, or the smallish new iPhone, the iPhone 10s, but for others the question might be whether to get a new iPhone at all. Considering that over the past couple of years, new iPhones have crept up to a thousand dollars or more I mean really. What are you getting for that much money I've been using the new iPhones for the past five days now on the inside. They have the kind of stuff that people within the tech sector are really excited about, like the seven nanometer a12 Bionic chip, a super-fast processor that sets a new industry standard, you also get a great camera and all the stuff that living in iOS has to offer. It takes some really close, side-by-side comparisons to figure out. What's new about these new phones, I think a lot of people won't feel the need to upgrade if they already bought last year's phone.

Let's start with the exterior the iPhone 10 s looks exactly like last year's iPhone, 10 they're the same size, and this one has the same: 5.8 inch, diagonal, OLED display and like last year's phone. This one feels really nice in the hand, although it is slippery, and it is prone to smudges the iPhone 10s Macs, on the other hand, is big, it's roughly the same size as last year's iPhone, 8 plus, but this one has a 6.5 inch display, which means it has a much greater screen to body ratio. The iPhone 10s max also has the notch at the top for camera and depth sensors, and just like it's smaller counterpart. It has no home button. Both are made of stainless steel and are coated in what Apple says is a strengthened, more durable glass than on last year's phone.

These also come in a gold finish. Both of these new phones have an ip68, waterproof and dustproof rating, which means it's okay, to be in water up to one and a half meters for about a half hour. But this is not actually new for the industry in LG and Samsung. Have this on their phones as well? So if you're one of those people who are deciding between two new iPhones, then what you really have to decide is how big you want to go. I mean, while this display is really nice for certain things.

It does feel big to me kind of like the iPhone 8 plus felt once I tried, the iPhone, 10 I think for a lot of people. This is the ideal size. Another thing to keep in mind about the Mac's. The notch stands out a lot when you're using split screen view both of these phones are said to have improved battery life, but in the case of the iPhone 10s max it's because it's a physically bigger phone, and it ships with a bigger battery. In the case of the iPhone 10 s, it has about the same battery as last year's iPhone 10.

We were supposed to get about thirty minutes more per charge. In my experience, I didn't really notice the difference. I thought it was pretty much negligible. One thing I did notice was the new speakers. Apple has tweaked both the hardware and the software on the speakers to create a wider stereo sound, and they sound pretty great, but when it comes to the new iPhones, it's really what's on the inside that counts.

The most important part of the new iPhone 10s and 10s Mac's is the new chip. This is the thing that's going to justify the cost. If anything is going to this new chip, which Apple calls the a12 Bionic is week, 7 nanometer chips with a six-course CPU for core GPU and an 8 core neural engine, which is the part of the chip that handles AI stuff. What is all of this mean? Basically, this processor is supposed to help with everything from advanced gaming, to app switching to AR apps, to apps that use AI and machine learning. The chips neural engine is available for developers to use now too so third-party apps are about to get a lot.

Smarter Apple is pushing for advances like the Malaga AR game, and this really cool looking home court basketball analysis app that they showed off at the phone's watch. Although when we tried to get a demo of home core Apple said the software wasn't ready, the added processing power in this year's phones, plus a larger sensor mean a better camera, and, unlike the past few years, when plus-sized iPhones had better cameras than their smaller counterparts, this year's two new phones have exact the same camera. So there's no differentiation there now at first glance, a lot of the camera stuff doesn't seem new Apple already captured HDR automatically in last year's phones. So why is it calling it smart, HDR now and saying it's new and hasn't both been around and photography forever. Trust me I had all of these thoughts, but when I went out and tested the new camera and compared it to older iPhones as well as some other flagship phones, I could see the difference in some photos, so we're in a spot right now, where there's a lot of shade, but the sky is very bright.

The background is very light. You can see bright spots highlights on buildings, so we're looking to see whether things look really blown out as the camera adjusts. For that lighter exposure or whether it does a good job of retaining color, even as things brighten in the background and I, have to say overall I think that this does a better job and overall, with photos than last year's iPhone 10. So you can definitely see the difference here. The colors are a lot richer.

If anyone were to look at this, they would say this is the better photo and then, when it comes to this both effect in portrait mode, you can now adjust the depth after you've captured a photo Apple says it's not just isolating the foreground and then slapping a blur. On the background. It says it's recreating the f-stops to blur things proportionally to how close they are to the subject. Let's try it out after I capture it you can tap on it hit edit and then basically, you can adjust the f-stop after the fact which changes the depth around. You know the background of the photo.

This is supposed to be better than the way that other smartphone makers are doing this. In some cases. That seem to be true, but it's still not quite the same as the both effect you'd get with the DSLR okay. So there are some obvious differences between this year's new phones and last year's phones, one being the giant display on the iPhone 10s max and the new improved processor. It's shipping in both of these phones, but some differences are extremely subtle and that's a good reminder that this is an X here for iPhones.

It's usually a time when we see incremental internal updates and Apple tries to convince you that they're totally worth it. If you happen to be ready for an upgrade, and you can afford these phones you're not going to be unhappy with that. But again, if you already have last year's new phones, you probably won't feel the need to upgrade this year and that's the thing about having these amazingly powerful mini computers in our pockets. Even if you have a iPhone, that's a few years older, it's still a pretty darn good smartphone. You.

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