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hey this is the iPhone 10 are its apples you mainstream iPhone which starts at $750 excuse me are you already typing are you already leaving a comment about display resolution and pricing and OLED versus else can you just stop we can do that later we'll have a great time down there for now just hang out a second and ask yourself how much do you really really care about the display on a phone I know a lot of people have questions about the 10r size this weird not huge and not small 6.1 inches and I'll get to that but I'm telling you the deciding factor between the 10s and the 10r is the screen like if you could put a dollar amount on how much you care about the screen with that dollar amount be two hundred and fifty dollars because that is exactly how much you need to care in order to buy an iPhone tennis instead of the 10 or let me explain and then you can all do your thing okay so last month I review the iPhone 10s and 10's max which are Apple's new flagship phones they have new h-12 processors edge to edge OLED displays Apple's latest camera system that does smart HDR essentially everything Apple can fit into a phone and the iPhone 10 R is basically the iPhone 10 s with a slightly worse display that's it that's the whole thing it's got the same a 12 ionic processor the same main camera with smart HDR the same iOS 12 but instead of that edge to edge OLED there's a 6.1 inch liquid retina LCD and the display is fine it's lower resolution and pixel density than the OLED 's and new flagship phones like the 10s and galaxy s 9 and pixel 3 but if you're upgrading from a previous LCD iPhone it's gonna look really familiar I do think it's a little worse than previous LCD iPhones when you look at it off axis it shifts a tiny bit pink and the brightness drops quickly which means it can sometimes look a little shimmery but honestly you have to be a huge display nerd to really notice that what you will definitely notice is the larger bezel around the entire display in Apple's notch the notch is the same deal as the iPhone 10 and acid house is a face ID system and the front-facing camera but the thicker bezel is there because Apple had to fit the backlight for the LCD panel somewhere don't get me wrong that bezel looks gigantic and especially silly next to the 10s but the backlight engineering is actually really clever you don't see a lot of LCD phones with perfectly rounded corners and no Chin's out there and Apple did a bunch of crazy Apple stuff here one of the major differences between LCD and OLED screens is how they produce light OLED pixels are their own light source and you can turn them on and off individually you can't do that with an LCD because there's just one backlight for the entire display so you can round off LCD corners by shutting out the pixels but it's super tough to get it perfect because the backlight will still shine through but check out the 10r we literally put it under a microscope so you can see this see how some of those pixels look smaller that's true this Apple built little apertures to the pixels around the corners to mask some of the light coming through on top of anti-aliasing the curve in software it looks great is any of this necessary no but it's super cool and it's super Apple all of that screen reengineering means that Apple had to take out 3d touch and says there's something called a haptic touch which is a fancy way of saying long press with haptic feedback now there's only two places I ever use 3d touch on my other iPhones and I didn't really miss it here I use it to scroll around a text field which works with a long press on the spacebar and turning on the camera and flashlight from the lock screen which you can do by just holding on those buttons Apple has the best haptic feedback in the industry and all of this sort of feels very convincing I did miss previewing links and Twitter and Safari but Apple tells me that haptic touch will come to more in more places in iOS over time hopefully that gets added back in overall I've always been a fan of how accurate and balanced Apple's LCDs are compared to the ol Ed's and most Android phones and the 10r is definitely another Apple LCD if you're coming for an iPhone 6 7 8 it's gonna look very familiar but after spending here with ya phone 10 I'm gonna tell you it's not as good as Apple's Oh heads it doesn't have the deep black levels or infinite contrast to the iPhone 10s it doesn't support HDR or Dolby vision video playback and in general that back light means you can always see the border between the bezel and the edge of the display even when you have a dark background the display does have true tone but it's always a little warmer than my 10s again I think you have to go really looking for some of this stuff and if it bothers you you can just spend more money in a better screen which I am definitely going to do okay so that's this fight what about the rest size-wise the 10r sits right between the old iPhone 6 7 8 sized phones and the bigger plus models now I have pretty big hands so this feels like a nice size compromise but if you've been using one of the smaller phones the 10r is definitely going to feel bigger and it's a taller screen and a narrower body than the old plus phones I would definitely recommend going to the store and holding this thing before you buy it because it's a totally new size of iPhone and it's different than anything you might be familiar with if you're a small phone person you're basically going to be stuck with last year's iPhone 8 or paying more for an iPhone 10s I kind of hope Apple fixes that next year and does small and large and both models of thumb there's a glass back in aluminum border that comes in a bunch of colors I love how mean our black review unit looks but I got to see the other colors and they're really nice I like the blue and the coral the best but the Projekt RED is striking and I know people are excited about the yellow just keep in mind that while the screen on the 10r is made of the same glass on the 10s that Apple says is the most durable ever the 10 ARS back is not the same glass it's the glass used on last year's iPhone 10 and the back of my iPhone 10 shattered even though I keep it in a case all the time so you know be careful up there the phone supports wireless charging with the same redesigned coil for faster charging as a 10 s and it has ip67 water resistance which is a little worse than the ip68 of the 10s but it's fine for the occasional splash you've also got Apple's new wide stereo speakers which are much louder than before not quite as loud as the tennis backs around the back there's the single wide-angle camera which is basically the same as the iPhone 10's wide-angle this is our third shot at reviewing Apple's new smart HDR camera system after the iPhone 10's review and the pixel 3 review and we wanted to see something a little bit different so verge video producer mario abdul cough and i ran around brooklyn and took a bunch of photos that look a lot like what you'd see everyday in instagram using the pixel 3d in the iphone 10 arm and while I think Apple smart HDR still isn't quite as good as the pixel 3 I think I finally understand what Apple's trying to do it flattens highlights and lifts shadows so aggressively that everything looks evenly lit and that can sometimes reduce detail and make photos look a little bit artificial here's a good example of the iPhone doing better than the pixel shooting out over the waterfront these photos both look really good even quite similar at a glance but the iPhone is a little bit warmer and all the shadows by the fountain and in the skyline have been lifted resulting in a less contrast image with more detail the pixel 3 is more dramatic but the iPhone 10 R is more even but Apple Smart is always get it right this photo of Mario against a bright backlight would be challenging for any camera and you can see how the iPhone 10 are brought down the highlights in the background lifted the shadows on right his face and warmed everything up while the pixel exposed Maria correctly and let the background highlights blow out way more naturally the pixel also captured more detail on why his face I much prefer the pixel later it's the same thing with selfies the iPhone brought it the shadow so much that it made the black jacket turned gray it almost looks like we shot this photo with a fill flash and there's far less detail in why his face again I really prefer the contrast II look of the pixel 3 photo there was a bunch of controversy here on the front camera on the iPhone 10 s which people claimed was smoothing out and beautifying skin but Apple tells me that was all above and that iOS 12.1 will improve selfies on the 10 Arendt and s by picking a sharper base frame instead of a blurry or long exposure I don't have iOS 12.1 yet so we'll just have to see how it works out ok here's a really hard one low light with weird lighting in a bar I think most people will prefer the iPhone here but it also doesn't actually look like reality the iPhone found Mario's face exposed it correctly with the right skin tone and then flattened all the highlights and lifted all the shadows to make the scene look even again it almost looks like we run lights to the bar and lit the photo the pixel three on the other hand does a much better job of capturing the strange red light in this room even if the photos a lot darker and weird Matt do you want a photo that's more accurate to reality or more pleasant to look at I cannot tell you it's a really subjective decision the 10r only has a single lens in the back and I'm just gonna come out and say that I don't miss having the second lens from the 10s at all it never really took zoom photos of the 10s and the 10 our single lens portrait mode is actually really good in fact I prefer the 10 hours portrait mode to the 10s because shooting using the brighter wide angle lens means it works better in low light and takes more interesting photos check out this photo we took on the river front where I was able to capture the sign in the background it just wasn't possible to get this shot in portrait mode on the 10s or the pixel 3 which crops in for portrait mode and in low-light the 10r is obviously better than the tennis this photo in a bar it looks like a grainy dark mess using the 10s telephoto compared to the 10r which did a half way reasonable job the 10 horas portrait mode also has apples nice fall-off blur which looks more like a real bokeh than the sort of bad cut out blur you see from the pixel 3 now I don't really use portrait mode on any of these cameras I don't think any of it looks terrific or perfectly cut out but the 10 hours portrait mode is kind of the most flexible and useful of the bunch after three rounds of testing apples smart HDR I'm beginning to understand what it can and can't do and I'm starting at better photos out of it it can definitely take photos no camera has ever really taken before but it still crushes detail and produces artificial looking images way more often than I'd like while the pixel 3 just produces winners consistently as always I can't possibly tell you what to like better but I know that I prefer the consistency and naturalness of the pixel 3 over the 10r and this is all just the first stages of computational photography so I would expect the competition between Apple and Google to be fierce over time right now I would pick the pixel 3 the iPhone 10 R has the same video capture as the iPhone 10 s it can shoot 4k 60 when you shoot in 24 it adds frames to create greater dynamic range and it records stereo audio if you want to record video on your smartphone you should get an iPhone in terms of performance that 10r was essentially identical to the 10s as I used it day to day and even hit basically the same benchmark numbers and some quick tests it has slightly less RAM than the 10s it's three gigs instead of four but it's pushing like half as many pixels and honestly I think the RAM spec matters away less with iOS than it doesn't Android phones apples chips are so far ahead of the industry that it's clear the hol Bionic has tons of headroom to spare I think 10 hours going to feel fast for at least a few years the 10r also has a larger battery than the ten in the 10s and it ran for about 13 hours my everyday use of browsing and email and slack in apps with about six hours of screen on time that's slightly more than 10s and even more than the 8 plus from last year the only major performance difference between the 10r and the 10s is LTE the 10s supports the faster gigabit LTE speeds and the 10r does not now I don't live in a city with gigabit LTE but maybe you do and it's something to be aware so there's a lot of iPhone 6's is out in the world like more than you think and I think a lot of people are going to upgrade to the 10r from the success so I have to mention there's no headphone jack which I think will prompt another round of annoyance and are also basically no accessories for 10r yet Apple is even have its own 10 are cases ready which is a little strange and there have never been official battery cases for any iPhone 10 which is a shame there's also no third party headphone adapters there's just a bunch of stuff missing so if you're upgrading right away it's worth noting that the accessory ecosystem there's a little thin right now but I would expect that to get a lot bigger fast if one thing is clear about the iPhone 10 are it's an apple is going to sell tons of these there are huge upgrades from the iPhone 6 7 8 generation with Apple's latest processors and cameras a big screen and updated design and a competitive opening price of $750 and honestly when we first started making this video it felt like the big question would be what is the 10 are missing compared to the 10s but now that I've used this thing for a while its flipped in my mind the real question for iPhone buyers is whether spending two hundred and fifty dollars more on the 10s is really worth it over the 10r because the 10r offers almost everything you would want in a 20-18 phone - an OLED display I would pay that extra money in a heartbeat because I am really really picky about screens but I think most people aren't I think most people can find way better ways to spend $250 than infinite black levels and 60% wider dynamic range in photos for all of those people the iPhone 10 R is a no-brainer the real question is whether you yeah you think the better screen on the 10s is worth $250 now you can leave a comment everybody thank you so much for watching we talked a lot about the iPhone 10s and the pixel three in this review those reviews in full are up on the channel go check them out subscribe if you haven't and if you like the wallpaper we used as much as I do check out the link in the description it's right there all of our wallpapers are there they're great thanks so much