Gadgetory

meet the iPhone 10 are you might have already seen a review or two online regarding this phone but what I intend to do is compress this review into five major categories styling operating system camera a battery life and price these are the things I value most in my phone it's not this phone but in the phone that I use on a daily basis and depending on who you are on the iPhone 10 are may or may not be a great choice this video is brought to you by expressvpn in a nutshell Virtual Private Networks mask your IP and encrypt your data a big reason I use it is because it allows me to retain my security on the go so if say I connect to a sketchy public Wi-Fi hotspot I can be sure my data is safe expressvpn offers both android and app store applications by the way for mobile private networking just a single click can tell you anywhere in the world if for example you want to tunnel through Switzerland for whatever reason you can click Switzerland and there we go I'm now in Switzerland so as you can see easy to set up easy to use in today's day and age and also vital in today's day and age and that's why you can visit expressvpn slash science or click the link below for three months free with a one year subscription so starting first with styling I think the iPhone 10 R is decent looking phone the glass back offered in a variety of colors is a nice touch it reminds me of the old-school iMac g3 s from the late 90s this one here is Lisa's phone and she's a huge fan of yellow which was honestly a compelling reason before go the more expensive 10 s counterpart and I wasn't interested in spending $1000 on a phone so there's that as well I'm not the biggest fan of these bezels they're definitely thicker than my pixel threes but I suppose this is the price we had to pay for a nearly full screen display or is it would you believe me if I told you this phone screen to body ratio with less than 80% a lot of it has to do with these bezels as well as the obvious notch the 10s is bezels by the way are slightly smaller so there's a trade-off there but again you're paying more for the phone overall so these bezels aren't too big a deal the phone is a bit large in the hand at first it's a large iPhone I'm used to smaller iPhones the iPhone 7 the iPhone se was a very small compact one I like that size a lot more if we had like a full screen to body iPhone se that would be a really cool phone I'd probably end up buying that one even if it cost a thousand bucks because it's small and compact and I like the portability of such a phone but this one's pretty big so it takes some getting used to and it's not necessarily that the frame is large like most phones are about this size it's the fact that the screen is so big with respect to the phone so you know one-handed use if I want to go way up here to the top right I literally have to slide my entire hand up here to be able to drag down the control center right so one-handed use is definitely difficult to do with this phone you're almost gonna always have to use that second hand to control things especially on the top of the display the knotch by the way it takes a bit of getting used to if you're not already used to it this one though is much shallower than the pixel 3 XLS which means it's much more tolerable in the long run even when streaming like a full screen video it's not that bad by the way the stereo speaker setup is pretty solid the earpiece is a bit trebly as usual but it definitely beats using a single speaker the primary microphone is down here as well as a lightning port a SIM card trays on the bottom right and the power of volume buttons are on opposing side so the ringer toggle is here as well which I am actually glad to see I'm glad that it's still on iPhones the back of the phone feels very premium like I said glass back aluminium trim an undertone of yellow in this case definitely makes it stand out my personal favorite is the red model but yellow looks great as well and of course it's Lisa's favorite color so she had to go with that now apart from the camera setup the only other marks on this side of the iPhone are the Apple logo and the word iPhone as for the operating system this is typical iOS with a bit of added flare on account of the missing home button so the swipe feature is an interesting one to take on but much like the sheer size of this thing you get used to it apps closed and a snap the UI is straightforward and the settings window is the same as it's always been just with a few extras the a12 Bionic chip in here is lightning fast the first 7 nanometer tech to actually officially hit the market and it's apples own in-house design so that's pretty incredible and it definitely shows some the operating system is super snappy anything I do is just instant and that's what I expect in an $800 phone but again with the missing home button there are a few gestures you have to get used to for instance the control center accessed by swiping down from the top right apps are closed by just swiping up from the bottom it's a different approach but like I said a few times already you could get used to it and I think Apple did a great job with sculpting the OS around the lack of a physical home button I've honestly never had an issue with iOS in the past save the lack of an accessible root filesystem it's one of the reasons I often pivot between iOS and Android while I love the simplicity and ease of use with iPhones there's something intuitive and versatile about Android that always pulls me back and when you're on something is pure in stock as a pixel 3 you don't really miss iOS as much but that's a different story for a different video what I will say about the 10r though is that if you're already familiar with iOS from previous devices there's only a shallow learning curve with the added gestures up next is the camera and this is a hot topic for these phones especially one of the biggest drawbacks from the 10s and the 10s max is a lack of a secondary telephoto lens but its absence is only sometimes noticed when taking a normal photo for instance you'll notice that the angle is fairly wide which means you'll need to move a bit closer if you want macro detail like this here the 10r is limited in its portrait mode capabilities to humans by the way which means that you won't get that sweet bokeh background blur unless a face literal human face is detected otherwise you'll see this message right here and that sucks but everywhere else the camera it shines the rear camera anyway I did notice a degree of over saturation and especially dim scenes but this is easily correctable in post contrast is pretty decent general low-light performance is satisfactory thanks to a wide f-18 aperture and the quad tone flash is actually usable not something I can say about its competitors video shoots at up to 4k 60 and it looks pretty sweet as does optical image stabilization and 1080p even at a slo-mo 240 FPS here are some video clips for comparison alright and I'm testing the front-facing video along with its Audio the secondary mic section in the back of the camera so I'm interested to see if this sounds any different than filming at there on the rear so we'll see alright and now I'm filming with the rear camera for k60 and really sure to see how this sounds just because no iPhones tennis I'm pretty good on video stereo mics so it should sound pretty clear through and through my pixel threes microphone is terrible that audio sounds very bad so anything to step up from that and iPhones traditionally have had pretty good microphones so hoping that this recording sounds somewhat decent quality definitely drops at 240 FPS but that in and of itself is a pretty incredible feat for such a small and compact sensor stereo recording also keeps audio in check so you know I wouldn't be too disappointed with just like the built-in microphones if I was on the go trying to get some quick shots the front-facing camera it's a 7 megapixel F 2.2 sensor good for selfies and the like but it's just it's noticeably not as good as the pixel threes or the pics of 3 X cells now those cameras do have two cameras up front to kind of give it an edge but I think Google's processing right its onboard processing is significantly better than Apple's especially when you want to blur things out of the background when using portrait mode I think it just over compensates and it really just blurs the edges too much to where you don't see defined differences between the foreground and the background even the rear camera on the 10r does this and it's it's disappointing now Google has its own issues with its portrait mode if you will it's very aggressive and that means that you'll find very sharp distinct edges between the foreground and background but that could also mean that the background kind of shows up in the foreground being it's not properly blurred so I think both phones take different approaches here I just don't like the fact that the iPhone overcompensates and blurs too much in the foreground because that's what you don't want blurred right you want the foreground isolated and fully you know sharp so when it is blurred it's disappointing it means that you kind of to revert back to the stock image which at that point is no longer a portrait photo by the way the camera app is fairly simplified but I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing if Apple intends to target customers content with ease-of-use they did an excellent job here you can swap between camera modes near the shutter button and the opposite end sports controls for flash timers tones and what I'm calling a digital aperture a function that essentially controls the degree of background blur in portrait mode all in all I'd give this camera a solid 8 out of 10 in 2019 my limited experience with a-10s is part of the reason why I'm not willing to go any higher with this score the other reason is the fact that my daily is a pixel 3 which I'd still only give a 9 out of 10 on the camera side it's just too good to ignore it does have its issues but it's still a better single sensor a rear camera than the iPhone 10 ours up next is battery life and this is where the 10 are truly shines now there are trade-offs again we'll address those but it is a really good phone with respect to battery with compared my pixel 3 especially it isn't miles better with moderate use this is easily a two day charge while my pixel 3 barely manages one a lot of this has to do with the lowest screen resolution a fair bit of resentment toward this phone initially had to do with it's subpar pixel density at just 326 PPI basically old-school retina which is a step back for the iPhone but up close I mean does it really matter you can see individual pixels sure but I personally think it's been blown way out of proportion use as a vice by those who are already predisposed to hate Apple products and that's fine look you're entitled to hate any product for any reason I just think that the screen resolution is a cheap job because it still looks great in person especially for an IPS display contrast is pretty incredible colors are vibrant and accurate the screen itself gets very bright and you don't have to worry about things like burnin which played earlier Google pixel models kind of a cheap shot back to Google but still worth mentioning but back to battery life continuous use will result in they were between like 9 and 12 hours of life that's pretty good that's comparable to giants like the the note 9 and the 10s max and it's thanks primarily to the screen resolution which is why I brought it up you can watch an entire season of your favorite TV show on Netflix albeit not info 1080p but still and probably still have battery life left over that's how great this thing is and it'll make the transition to something smaller that much more difficult it's again the one thing I hate about the pixel 3 but again this comes at a cost of not having a 1080p screen but I'd be more than happy to pay this price even for a film with a 6.1 inch display the PPI is not that bad really and this brings us to our last category price unlock you'll pay in here between 750 bucks for this thing and $899 no slouch for an entry-level iPhone I know this isn't what Apple calls it but it is what it comes across as when you think about the things that are cut back in this model especially compared to the thousand-dollar the $1,300 versions the second rear camera is gone on the 10r the screen resolution is cut down by 25% Super AMOLED is swapped for an arguably inferior IPS display bezels are thicker HDR is absent heck even the waterproof rating is slightly lower for the 10r but this is the price we pay or rather the price we save for a more affordable Apple smartphone if you want the 10s you'll need to pay at least 250 bucks more for a model with equivalent storage that's insane but it's the trend all across the board not just with Apple I mean the pixel 3 cost 800 bucks and that's why I'm a bit confused as to how to conclude this video I don't really know I mean I know the pixel threes are close competitor the 10 RS right especially with respect to price so I don't really know where to go from here how about answering the fundamental question do I recommend it actually yeah more so than the 10s and 10's max simply from a price perspective paying over $1300 for a fully loaded smartphone it's absolutely ludicrous in my opinion that that's my opinion and look even the basic iPhone 10s will set you back $1,000 so these are my parting words if you must buy an iPhone make it the iPhone 10 R and choose the color that fits you best and feel good about it in the end of the day despite its drawbacks and compromises I still find it to be an impressive and highly usable phone I'm still not giving up my pixel 3 though so what do you guys think which would you choose and let me know what your sporting currently down below and why and if you 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