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the iPhone 10 hours like a decision straight a weird phone not like weird bad it's actually pretty great in most areas just weird for Apple it's a completely new area for them of like almost flagship and it's also strange to review this phone in a vacuum which what I usually like to do because it kinda needs to be held up against the 10s and the 10s Mac so like if you're buying one of these you know what the trade-offs are on what you left on the table by going for the 10 hour and obviously deciding if those are worth it for you so like all our reviews hopefully this will help you decide if you should buy one so if you decide that the 10r is something that like maybe want to consider putting in your pocket the deciding factors would probably be screen and camera at least that's what I thought until I ran into a host of other issues that we will get to so with the 6.1 inch liquid Retina display so size-wise it's kind of right in between the tennis the tennis max and two largest blade that in the old Plus models of phones it's an LCD screen like we're used to but crazy over developed and implemented in a way that's it's kind of new it's also I think easy for a lot of reviewers to just say and discount and say it's a crappy LCD or that it looks fine but apples actually done with the display is really impressive even if the results it's kind of underwhelming a time I couldn't think of a better term to say this but Apple went like full Apple on the LCD panel look at phones that have used LCD panels in the past driven recently istic like the g7 or anything I phone that's on an iPhone 10 notice they almost always have chins and almost practically never have rounded corners due to light blades so LCDs need a backlight to work unlike OLED like the iPhone 10s and 10's max reach pixel is its own light source it can be turned on and off on their own so that's why I feel like look at the 10r and you see those big bezels around the side so obviously it's not as good as a task but it was never supposed to be color reproduction is actually really good and they look bright and pretty vibrant black levels are typically where LCD panels but do not necessarily shine through but I put did a nice job making black levels actually look black and not just like a dark grey reading text though is I really started as a screen text good look chunky at times and I'm saying like I could see pixels my eyes are not that good it just didn't look crisp I think stop noticing it as much it's not really an excuse but I figure it's worth mentioning so there's also some weird color shift happening when you sort of move the phone off its axis it's not a big deal it's definitely a deal breaker but something worth noting so all the engineering that Apple had to do to like make that display also meant they add a ditch 3d touch for something that they're just made up called haptic touch it was really just long press plus a vibrate and I didn't think that was gonna be a big deal I didn't realize how often that I used 3d touch and I started really miss it I used it for things like accessing my most called contacts on the phone icon interacting with notifications was a huge one for me and Apple initially claimed that haptic touch could replace 2d touch and someday maybe it will but as it stands right now it is crazy inconsistent I can use it to like open the flashlight from the launch screen and for the most part that seems like it I hope they'll fix it with software updates but right now it was a big bummer so I'm at camera side this is essentially the same setup as a-10s just put the telephoto lens taken out and that's some like interesting complexities and they're not all bad so the 10r uses a lens with an F 128 aperture which is going to mean it is ridiculously awesome in low-light and it's not relying on the other sensor for depth you can also shoot portrait shots way closer than you can with the 10s but unfortunately it only works with faces right now which which kind of sucked hopefully they'll improve that use it with other things get to look at how you use a camera if you're gonna use that to time zoom and you are not going to be happier if you're gonna do a digital zoom like any digital zoom it's gonna look too noisy it took it to a football game you can see what the zoom looks like alright so all that stuff aside if you just want to like use it to take pictures they come out looking a little warm I think they do a really good job like capturing the setting when taking a picture of so I think if you're gonna just like boil down it comes to this I think Apple did a really smart job ditching the telephoto lens a name of cost what they give you isn't like a to Jen's old sensor you're getting exactly what their current flagship has I think that's kind of a smart move all right so let's talk about deaf body the phone itself is kind of another departure from the norm of Apple they're really bright color options something that we have not seen since the plastic 5c I've personally been itching for a product red phone but yellow coral blue and even black and white all look pretty nice the glass on the back though you should know is not the same super-strong glass and the 10's actually the same as what's found on the 10 and judging by how many scratches my 10 had and my pictures I've seen of broken backs you're gonna want a bit of extra protection there even if it means covering up that gorgeous color there's a ton of similarities between the iPhone 10 and the 10 are not just the glass back and I feel like I didn't still mention this but no headphone jack on the iPhone 10 are Apple super excited and eager to sell you a pair of air pods for 160 bucks I bought him I liked him and then I quickly lost them so I tweeted out a picture of the absolutely useless find my ear pods feature and a company called funcle' reached out see if I wanted to try their twenty dollar wireless headphones so I gave it a shot these are the W ones they were much better than I expected so all this is a sponsored segment this was like definitely a product that I wanted to try cuz again I really did want to spend another 100 60 bucks for headphones and I'd never heard of funcle' I thought that was just like me at my nephew's birthday party but battery life was pretty awesome got 18 hours of battery life it had touch control the sound quality was pretty good engineer to support AC the bass was pretty decent as well and I could make phone calls with it and for 20 bucks it really wasn't much to complain about so 20 bucks for wireless headphones that worked well sounds like your jam will link to them down below if you want a few more features there's another one they offer called a funcle' AI it starts about 55 bucks they used a Qualcomm chip so there apdex headphones and they're gonna give you 24 hours of battery life and they're also water sweat resistant if you want to take it to the gym if you want those features fifty five bucks a pretty good price to pay I also kind of crushing on the $20 W ones I could literally lose eight of these before it cost me what a pair of earbuds would Zappa was claiming huge improvements in battery life for my experience was like 7% better than what I got on my tennis it's still a day phone but if you decided to push it and tweak settings you could probably get to like maybe seven hours of screen on time so there are also other sacrifices being made here compared to the 10s as well it's ip67 not ip68 it's not a huge deal most likely no gigabit LTE but I will say I had almost exactly the same reception with the tenor is it at the 10s but if we're relying to give it all to your live in an area where it is you should know that also is only three gigabytes of RAM versus four so the RAM didn't seem to matter anything the software experience was just as fast as any other iPhone I tested and here's where the burn on the 10-hour started to come in I had way more bugs on this phone but I have ever had with any iPhone I have ever used things is small and benign is through not responding I had phone resets I had scree not rotating properly it was just a mess of stuff and things that I don't expect from Apple and in interest of honesty I really wanted to like the 10r I was prepared to make the spec sacrifice and use as my daily driver because I really like the way the phone felt in the hand but I'm spending this much money in my case eight hundred bucks for a hut and 28 gigabyte variant I have certain like expectations and constant bugs that I came into and continue to run into even on 12.1 has made this a really tough phone for me to love so it's really holding me back all those bugs aside was also having to relearn how I use iOS without 3d touch and really wonky all over the place support for haptic touch I thought that I could live with them like any issues on any phone this is obviously a very atypical for an Apple device so I just thought maybe I had a bad unit when I ordered the phone actually I ordered two so I switched to the second one and I set it up from scratch so not restoring from backup and I still had the same issues using the 10r was so degraded with the software experience I cannot recommend the 10-hour despite it's something like the perfect compromise of features and price I think probably the better off here if you want to save some money is pick up a used iPhone 10 you'll get a slightly slower processor but you're gonna get an OLED screen dual cameras that are still really good and if you absolutely need like a brand spanking new iPhone you're the only option here spend an extra 250 bucks at minimum for the 10s so am I alone with software issues is here on the 10 I did you pick one up and has it been fine for you again I am running the latest version of iOS as of this filming 12.1 and it's still not good leave in the comments down below and let me know if you got a 10 hour i really do want to hear your thoughts maybe this is just isolated to me and i'm super unlucky anyway let me know what you guys think until next time I'm John Ranger from TechnoBuffalo doc you guys next video