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welcome to the review of the iPhone 11

Pro right off the bat I don't really

agree with the names I don't think

there's enough pro about these phones

that could have been to warrant putting

pro in the name but the names don't

really matter what does matter is these

are the highest end phones that Apple

makes right now in 2019 the truth is

these are mostly pretty familiar phones

to last year which was also pretty

familiar to the year before but you

already knew that

what's new is Apple's really focused on

four major things for this new iPhone so

the design barely the new display slight

upgrade the battery life major and these

new cameras so the design does grow on

you not gonna lie we saw those renders

and the models and nobody thought they

were pretty including me but as usual

getting them in your hand and actually

looking at them in person is a different

thing and it doesn't look horrible

I love the new matte finish I think that

helps a lot the way it looks the way it

feels even if it is technically a little

bit slippery than glossy I will take a

matte option in any phone every time the

camera square is a weird looking part

I'm just happy we got memes out of it

and it's funny for whatever reason the

camera square looks indented even though

it's sticking out it's all cut from one

piece of glass and it's kind of like

this weird optical illusion I guess but

this is the design that Apple is crafted

for the iPhone 11 pro camera bumps in a

camera square and yes it rocks slightly

when it's on a table Apple does say that

this is quote the toughest glass in any

smartphone I'm not gonna test that but

let's be real glass is glass so you

definitely want to protect it or at

least try not to drop it it probably

still will shatter but the good news is

it doesn't seem to scratch as much as

the pixel 3 is a matte black glass that

this reminded me of so the matte finish

and the camera layout are the only

really new things back here with the

design if it comes down to it if you

don't want to have to think about it

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out but around the front of the phone

it's gonna look like almost exactly the

same thing as last year same screen

sizes and resolutions same notch same

bezels literally you could put it next

to lasya stone and you might have a hard

time telling which ones which this is

the new one here so this is what's

actually different apples said they've

improved face ID to be up to 30% faster

in the same space and work at a larger

variety of angles I can vouch for a tiny

bit faster and you'll only really notice

this if they're side by side with the

old phone but you know what I'll take

that improvement anyway because it's for

security and that's better than nothing

but the variety of angles thing I don't

know about you but when I read that I

was hoping that meant it could sit on a

table in front of you and still read and

unlock your face like it couldn't before

but it still doesn't do that

unfortunately you still got to do that

lean onto whatever service the phone is

on to unlock it so I've noticed honestly

no improvement here in the angles that's

basically the same Oh than that the

buttons are very very slightly lower on

each phone I don't know if anyone else

has shown that but that's true I guess

maybe it's a little easier to reach and

they've also upgraded the water

resistance a bit it's still IP 68

certified and this phone is very

slightly thicker and heavier I didn't

really notice the thickness but I did

notice the weight especially in the

Promax this big phone is 20 grams

heavier than last year and I could tell

it's a bit of a chunker but you know

what that's perfectly fine because

battery life is back to being excellent

on this phone as a result this is also

achieved by getting rid of 3d touch so

r.i.p Apple watch is really the only new

Apple product now with 3d touch shipping

in it but by getting rid of that

pressure-sensitive display hardware

that's allowed more space in the phone

for a bigger battery it's true the tear

downs have shown it the battery is

bigger so that's why the battery

difference from the 10 R to the 11 was

one hour that's just a 13 Bionic

improvements but the improvement from

the 10 s to the 11 Pro was four hours

because getting rid of that 3d touch

Hardware has left room for more bigger

batteries I don't know if I can measure

that four to five hour

claim but from my experience battery

life has been excellent I'm getting you

know my use of super high brightness

high-end everything on all the time I'm

getting seven to eight hours of screen

on time and

full day of battery pretty much every

day on this phone so that's really

impressive

you can probably kill it in a day but

you'd have to really try now back to

that display for a second I mentioned

they got rid of 3d touch this has been

mostly replaced by haptic touch which is

essentially long presses that bring back

almost all the functionality from 3d

pressing it's not quite as good as the

peak and pop was but I hardly use that

anyway and there's also something new

about the display specifically that it

can hold a higher 800 nits of brightness

and at small points for brief moments

can peak up to 1200 nits which is

incredible on a smartphone display and

also it's up to a two million to one

contrast ratio so of course they had to

name it they named it the super Retina

display XD are the name is pretty lame

but the display is impressive again

indoors and outdoors now could you tell

the difference side-by-side with a 10s

watching a YouTube video or playing a

game or even scrolling Instagram

probably not but there are certain times

certain times when watching a movie or

something in HDR where you can notice

that improved brightness and it looks

great and the sound is also pretty good

thanks to the improved speakers even

though there is still a notch you know

the highest end iPhone display has

always been pretty great and this is no

exception it's better again but I can't

help but think what would customers have

noticed more a slightly improved

brightness or shrinking the notch a

bunch you know that's something we'll

get more into later for now what you

need to know is the iPhone 11 Pro and

Pro Maxx have even better awesome high

resolution OLED displays again and

they're also a bit more efficient

contributing to even more battery gains

so that's worth it oh and the specs they

almost don't matter on an iPhone review

but since people are always curious it

is the new a 13 Bionic chip this year

which is excellent and four gigs of ram

in these pro phones according to

Geekbench it's still extremely fast as

any new phone should be most of these

improvements over the a12 are just gonna

help these stay faster for longer and as

it's been said they'll be appreciated

more near the end of the phone's life

than the beginning all right I almost

can't believe I made you guys wait this

long

for the cameras so clearly the cameras

are if you've watched any of the ads or

any of the presentation videos these

cameras are the main focus for the

iPhone 11 Pro yes that's a pun so you've

seen it we're looking at triple cameras

now three new sensors so you have the

primary 12 megapixel sensor a 2x

telephoto camera and a 0.5 X ultra wide

camera about a 120 degree field of view

and it's true the iPhone 11s cameras are

a big improvement over the 10s in broad

daylight I would go as far as saying

this has been an A+ camera often taking

the best sharpest and cleanest photos

I've seen a smartphone take colors are

great they're realistic so not to over

processed dynamic range is excellent and

of course with subjects their tonal

mapping is next-level it's really good

which helps it of course in tougher

shooting scenarios where it's improved a

lot over the tennis so the typical

iPhone 11 pro photo is I think the

closest to what the human eye sees of

any smartphone camera and I'm including

the pixel on that which tends to be a

little contrast here a little more

dramatic but then of course the ultra

wide camera finally I've been waiting

for this I've been waiting to see what

an iPhone ultra wide camera would look

like LG done it Samsung did it motorola

did it

Asus did it one plus did it Huawei did

it everyone had already done in ultra

wide we just wanted to see basically

what Google and Apple would do with

their new cameras so we finally have an

iPhone ultra wide and it's uh it's fine

it's pretty good it's actually really

fun the main advantage should be

consistency with the other lenses and

color wise white balance wise it is it's

very consistent but in quality and

detail thanks to the smaller sensor and

slower glass it is still noticeably a

step down it's softer there's a little

more noise reduction doing more

smoothing on the ultra wide camera so

it's just generally not as good quality

as the main camera which is to be

expected but that doesn't stop it from

being awesome to have for these new fun

perspectives and all the awesomeness

that comes with an ultra wide camera the

new UI also in iPhones camera app is

improved for the first time in a while

you know they simplified a few controls

brought them to the bottom where you can

reach in with one hand

and now when you open it you get a

preview of what's gonna show up in the

ultra wide if you switch to it but I I

don't really want that there I think

it's kind of cool that it shows what you

could see but when I just want to take a

normal photo it's kind of distracting it

lags behind a little the actual framing

and it's not perfectly aligned all the

time so I want to turn it off but I

can't it will fade out automatically

when it detects that you're taking a

photo of a close-up subject since I

guess it recognizes that ultra wise are

more for landscapes or faraway subjects

and then it'll come back automatically

when you put that close subject away but

yeah I want to be able to just shut it

completely off haha there's also now

finally a dedicated night mode which

turns on automatically when it thinks

it's dark enough but sometimes it's kind

of dim and it doesn't turn on when you

want it to but there's no way to

manually turn on night mode which isn't

very Pro but ok when you do get it

turned on the UI is excellent it gives

you exposure equivalents so you can turn

up or down live and it will go for way

longer times if it detects you're on a

tripod or stabilized and you can see the

picture sort of brighten up as it's

being taken almost like it's exposing

the frame in real time which is pretty

sick and the shots you can get now at

night and in low-light on the iPhone are

very good there's no clear overall

winner I think for best night mode right

now in my opinion they all sort of do it

a different way here's my take night

mode is good enough that I wish I could

turn it on more often I think the

natural curious comparison here is with

pixels nitesite the pixel definitely

tends to brighten up photos more and

bring shadows up bring highlights up you

can it's it's more of like a nighttime

to daytime transformation sort of

situation happening there with pixel

where the iPhone is a bit more true to

life and then it's also taking what I

think are the most detailed sharpest

low-light photos of any smartphone even

more so than a pixel but in dim light it

just it doesn't turn on very much and

there is no night mode in the ultra wide

camera so really it's a great start but

no doubt it can get better over time I

think this will make a really good blind

smartphone camera test if we if we do

like a separate bracket specifically for

phones that have a dedicated night mode

now

which is a lot of them I think they

could be really good but just in general

I am really happy that there's this new

focus on smartphone cameras I feel like

the last year of presentations of

smartphones have had more time spent on

the camera than any other feature and

they're all just fighting against each

other to try to make the best possible

camera to put in our pockets and we win

from that the iPhone 11 Pro still does

the best video of any smartphone that's

still pretty clear to me and they're

also making it easier now in the UI to

just quickly start taking a video so if

you see something you like you open the

camera up and just hold down the shutter

button and it just starts recording so

just like Instagram or snapchat and if

you want to lock it into video recording

you just drag it over to the right and

it's hands-free you're taking a video

but yeah in the photo front their

competition is pretty stiff and it's

coming from all different directions

we're about to get pixel four we just

had the new Huawei mate 30 Pro come out

one plus 70 is right around the corner

you can count on that stuff and then I

just want to touch on iOS 13 for a

second so I've been using it in beta on

my iPhone 10s Macs before this came out

so I've already used the things you get

again here like dark mode and the long

presses and quick settings and stuff

like that it's great a bunch of little

tweaks here and there but I gotta say it

has been kind of buggy I've had some

weird issues with lock screen controls

just not showing up sometimes sometimes

the camera app just freezes all together

until I close it and then I've had some

other weird app issues with like the

Tesla app and Instagram app but now

those are fixed so yeah I should

definitely mention that hopefully iOS

13.1 and future software updates will

iron a lot of this stuff out otherwise

its iOS as you'd expect it also for

those wondering the U one chip in these

new phones which should again basically

give you ultra wideband signal for

referential locating of other u1 enabled

devices and should improve airdrop

that's not enabled in this version of

the software I think that's also coming

in 13.1 aside from that we don't really

know what else it does so generally the

software experience of the iPhone is

pretty much unchanged same UI same

feature set you already know what it is

nothing is dramatically or drastically

different here beyond I think night mode

so I'm not super surprised here look you

you probably don't need an iPhone 11 Pro

but it is a great upgrade like this

actually went a lot of these

improvements even though they're small

are on such core functional things to

normal people like speed battery life

and camera like if you were to ask

normal people what they care about the

most in their phone it's those things

but I've said it before and I'll say it

again a lot of the features that I was

looking forward to especially when we

heard was gonna be a pro phone are just

not here and that's got me hyped way too

early for this 20/20 I phone or the

iPhone 12 or whatever they call that and

actually new design shrinking the notch

maybe USB type-c of course a high

refresh rate promotion display that

would have been super Pro putting touch

ID back underneath the display glass

reverse while I was charging any of

these things in this phone would have

been would have would have felt a little

more pro and would have maybe made it

worth the name or just felt really cool

to have but of course none of it

happened so really the focus for this

new iPhone 11 Pro has come down to the

a13 the battery life the slightly

improved display and just these new

cameras you want it you got it if you're

just someone who wants the best possible

camera in your phone or if you do a lot

of video creation or if you're a pro

content creator on your phone then

you're gonna be really happy with this

phone with the new iPhone classic or

even with the new iPhone 11 non pro

which is $300 cheaper and has the same

cameras and same processing and a great

battery life - the telephoto but again

that much cheaper price

that'll get its own review but I'll say

as a whole the iPhone 11 pro is a really

great phone and unless you have the 10s

is probably worth the upgrade just for

the love of cameras but really the big

looming reason for someone like me not

to get this phone is the 20/20 iPhone or

the next iPhone so that's something to

think about but we'll stay ready for

that as I expect a lot more but this

package they've shipped today it's

pretty damn good either way that's

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