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does the iPhone 10 art give up anything compared to the 10s what about its camera what about its size what about battery life is this the best iPhone to get right now let's find out there are lots of iPhones and they be getting more expensive once Apple released the iPhone 10 suddenly $1000 phone became a thing other companies have followed suit there's some relief with the iPhone 10 owner Ione's cost as much as laptops now and that means you're probably not gonna be buying one as frequently or if you do you're gonna be thinking really hard about which ones to get that's why if the iPhone 10 are is really nice because it cost $750 to start that's a lot less than the thousand dollars of the iPhone 10 in iPhone 10s the 10r has an LCD display instead of OLED nearly full screen except for the true depth faced ID sensing camera on the front same as the other 10 models yes there's a notch there's a bit more bezel on this phone but at 6.1 inch LCD still looks great it's also a bigger screen for movies and games compared to the iPhone 10s there are differences between the 10s OLED and the 10 our LCD black levels aren't as black but colors still look great and in most everyday use cases you'll probably never know the difference unless you're directly comparing them side by side the phone's a bit thicker and it's got aluminum sides instead of steel along with the glass front and back but so were the other iPhones before this big deal the battery life is better and that's great a few hours more says Apple over the 10's in my use so far it seems like it holds a charge longer during the day the phone's got the same processor as the iPhone 10s with a gig less RAM but performance is just as fast remember 3d touch or maybe you don't did you ever use it Apple's pressure-sensitive screen display tech is now gone on the 10r it's not there it's okay you won't miss it I do like 3d touch for previewing links and peeking at info and some apps but it's really fine not to have it excellent haptic vibrations still make it feel like I'm pressing in a bit sometimes even when I'm not and haptics matter more than pressure so what about the cameras I'm so good for the most part the 10r is great and takes photos just like the iPhone 10's the front-facing camera is the same and does the same portrait mode effects face ID and an emoji that the iPhone 10 models can apples onboard camera sensor in ISP are the same as the iPhone 10 s so general photos and smart HDR worked the same helping grab extra detail get faster focus and avoiding bright light blowout in high contrast areas but there's no second rear camera that's where the 10r is really different the rear camera just has one lens like the Google pixel 3 the iPhone 10 art does have portrait mode on its rear camera but it's a very different thing than portrait mode on an iPhone 10 or a 10 s first of all it's all handled via software but also even when you're putting the portrait mode effect in it's all based in wide angle whereas the iPhone 10 and 10 s lean towards telephoto that means that at the same distance and on those phones you'd be seeing the subject a lot closer here you're seeing me pretty far away but it also means you can bring the phone closer to me so if I go like this you can actually get close up but then of course it's all wide-angle distorted but sometimes you might like that effect I do notice that when you take photos in this phone the portrait mode here seems to capture a little more detail in low-light so on the iPhone 10 s max you can see the portrait mode actually gets a lot closer to my face at a similar distance and the look of it is different my face is shaped differently and there's not as much room on the sides here portrait photos on the iPhone 10 are that I took ended up seeming farther away they still look sharp but not vastly different than what normal wide-angle photos already look like the bokeh effect is more subtle two faces can end up looking more detailed and less flat than portrait photos on the 10s but also can be more distorted on the iPhone 10's portrait mode at the same distance zooms in a lot closer but faces also seemed better proportioned and more beautifully composed still for a classic headshot the 10 s handles things better keep in mind portrait mode on the 10r is just designed to work with people not animals or objects unlike the 10 s which can work with anything or the Google pixel 3 the AI algorithm is stubborn it doesn't work on anything except for people or things that look very nearly like people I tried it on real people then pictures of people which sometimes worked then people models and people liked things and just objects pet photos do not register with portrait move the pixel 3xl takes better dog shots so the pixel three wins the pet photo game hopefully Apple will update portrait mode software in the 10r to allow pets in the future because come on pets the iPhone 10 R has digital zoom you have to pinch with two fingers to make it happen if you're trying to take a photo with one hand that can get pretty annoying the pixel 3 has a tap to zoom button it would be really nice to see that on the iPhone 10 are maybe in a software update another nice little thing about the 10 are colors my review unit was white which was kind of a bummer but you can get this in red you can get it in coral blue yellow and even though you may be wearing a case you might want to show it off other than not having that second rear camera everything else on this iPhone is great you're probably not going to miss any of the stuff that the iPhone 10's brings to the table and a $750 or better yet go to $7.99 and get 128 gigabyte version this is my favorite iPhone probably in years it's the best all-around an iPhone and it's finally one that's not $1000 so if you've been shopping for one waiting for one I think this is the one to get it's not technically the top-end iPhone but I don't even really think that matters anymore