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so here it is the iPhone tennis wait that's the tin here is the iPhone tennis now there's gonna be a lot of that in this video but just go with me I think it's to make this review better so this is a weird year for iPhones usually Apple puts out the new iPhone in September it drops the price the old model and keep selling it for a few more years this year Apple dint to any of them the iPhone 10 which came out last year in a flurry of hype is gone instead there's the iPhone 10s and the new mid-range iPhone 10 are Apple really wants I phone tend to be its new brand of phones the letters s are are telling the models part but let's be honest these are horrible names especially iPhone 10s Mac's which looks ridiculous no matter how you write it and to be perfectly honest steals name of my child for which I will never forgive Apple anyway if you're shopping for a phone this year that means you have to Apple phones so that not just one we don't have a 10 R yet but we'll review it when it comes out and about a month so the iPhone 10s it comes in two sizes the five-point eight inch regular size the news 6.8 inch 10 s max the two phones are identical apart from the size the same a 12 Bionic processor same cameras same basic design same OLED display tech with 458 pixels per inch the max also has a larger battery but I think the only real reason you should get the max is if you really really want a big screen and that's really main question I got how big is the max is it too big is it worth it and I think the answer is that it's both bigger and smaller than you expect it's gonna be wrong it's big as big as the iPhone 8 plus and the pixel - from the back it shares the same surfboard quality as Apple's previous plus size phones for the front is a totally different story because the edge to edge screen fills the entire front of the phone it doesn't seem as huge as the plus phones and when watching a video it's killer a huge gorgeous display it's great but the max of size also gets away from it the older plus iPhones you never really had to reach the very top or bottom of the phone because of those huge bezels but to pull down notifications or Control Center on the max you have to reach the very top of the device I've big hands and I basically can't do it I end up having to use two hands every time you can use apples reach ability feature to pull down the UI and then swipe but that's two swipes for one thing and it just kind of makes me sad the max also doesn't really do anything in software to take advantage of that big display no there's not an extra row of icons no you can't watch video and picture-in-picture apps have to be updated for new display Instagram just looks broken right now and apps like slack and Gmail and Twitter show you the exact same amount of information just bigger in fact everything is mostly just bigger check out how huge the status bar is in control center it's huge so yes if you want a really big screen get a max it's a beautiful display and I've enjoyed looking at it a lot nothing about it is easier to handle than the old plus phones and in some cases it's harder in every other way the max is identical to the 10s which is almost identical to the 10 from the outside you would never know the difference except that you can get the 10s in this interesting gold color which has cool coppery iridescent effects in the light here's our only to go with me the iPhone 10 introduced so much new stuff into the phone world that reviewing the 10s gives us the chance to check in on it a year later since so much of it is the same take the display the 10s has the same OLED display is the 10 with curved corners and the knotch it's still one of the best displays out there with excellent color reproduction brightness and touch response last year we were wondering how Apple would handle burnin on this display and this year we know there are basically no problems with burnin on the iPhone 10 display and I'd expect the 10s to keep it up it's also been a full year of this physical design and well it's beautiful I can tell you the iPhone 10 scratches way more easily than you'd expect Apple says the front and back glass on more durable this year so we'll see I can also tell you that getting rid of the home button and moving the screenshot feature to wake plus volume up means I've taken 10,000 accidental screenshots Apple please change this to wait plus power down so they're not directly across from each other or have the knurl engine detect that it's 7:00 a.m. and I've accidentally taken another photo of my lockscreen just do something I'm begging you it's also been a full year since Apple introduced face ID and know that it works pretty well most of the time face ID on the 10s is ever so slightly faster than the 10 it's noticeable side-by-side but it's really just an extra beat it still won't work with glasses that block IR light and it doesn't work in landscape or upside down or anything like that you still have to adapt to it instead of it adapting to you but overall for most people I think it's easier to turn on face ID and forget about it than it is touch ID and that is a very good thing so what's really new here you're basically looking at two things the camera and the processor let's start with the processor since that's pretty simple last year there is the a11 Bionic and this year there's the a12 way on it pure cpu performance wise the a12 isn't really that much faster Apple only quotes a 15% performance improvement and I don't see a noticeable speed-up over my iPhone 10 the GPU is 50 percent faster but as usual that feels like Headroom for the future since these devices tend to stick around for so long last year's a11 GPA was 30% faster than the a10 and thought like we're maxing that out after a year the big change the a12 is really the vastly bigger neural engine which accelerates machine learning there's more and more apps rely on machine learning that's gonna be a huge deal but right now you're looking at a bunch of AR demos and some new camera features speaking of those new camera features the camera upgrades on the 10s over the 10 are significant but I'm just gonna come out and say it I don't think the iPhone 10s has a better camera than the pixel 2 and the pixel 3 comes out in just a few weeks it's not gonna be wrong it's a really good camera and I think people are gonna like the photos it takes but the pixel 2 is the standard to beat and the iPhone 10s doesn't really do it for me let's dig in the iPhone 10s has three cameras two in the back and one in the front that front camera is the same as the iPhone 10 a 7 megapixel sensor with an f2 points you lens of the two rear cameras the telephoto camera is the same as the iPhone 10 it's an optically stabilized F 2.4 lens with the same 12 megapixel sensor is last year but the wide-angle that you'll use most often has been seriously updated it's still an F 1.8 lens with a 12 megapixel sensor but each of those 12 megapixels is physically bigger now which means they can collect more light there's also twice as many focus pixels which is what Apple calls at autofocus system the cameras and sensors work in tandem with a new a12 processor its integrated image processor and the knurl engine in a new system Apple calls smart HDR the iPhone 10 also did HDR but with the 10s the effect is way more obvious it works similarly to what Google does on the pixel - it takes a series of images at different exposures and combines them like the pixel to the iPhone 10s starts a rolling buffer of four images the second you open the camera app which allows your zero shutter lag the image has already been captured the second you push the shutter button but unlike the pixel two which combines several underexposed frames the iPhone 10s also captures an overexposed image for each shot in the buffer which picks up additional details and the shadows of your image then it looks at all of the other frames in the buffer to see if they can add additional detail merging at least three images together to generate the final picture that you see but side-by-side with a pixel to the iPhone 10s still doesn't quite hold up you can see it pretty clearly in this photo when you zoom in the iPhone aggressively smoothes images the whole thing is just way softer this loss of detail is the thing that bothered me the most about the iPhone 10 camera and while the iPhone 10 S is better the smoothing still disappoints me every time I see it Apple used to talk a big game about having a more accurate camera than Samsung which has done these aggressive smoothing tricks for years but I think those days are over Apple knows that most of these images will only ever be viewed on mobile displays and it feels like it's really starting to compete with Samsung's tricks because it knows that no one's really looking that closely loss of detail is one thing but there are some subjective things I prefer about the pixel - as well the 10s shoots really warm photos while the pixel is more true to life if a little muddy or in the reds pixel - photos are also extremely contrasting and evocative which I like but some people find harsh I can't tell you what style of images to prefer but I can tell you that these cameras are very different and I can also definitely tell you that you want more detail in your images not less the other big new feature on the iPhone 10's camera is a new portrait mode which lets you adjust the blur after you take the shot samsung's phones will let you do this for a while now but I think the iPhone looks a lot better because the phone is doing a lot more work when you pick up an iPhone 10s and shoot a portrait mode photo a number of things happen first the phone is facial recognition and splits apart the foreground from the background then it creates a depth map of the entire scene particularly the subject in the foreground then it progressively applies blur from foreground to background simulating how a real lens on a full-frame camera would smoothly transition from front to back I think it's nicer than phones with a pixel and s9 can do although it still struggles around the edges and sometimes it makes big mistakes like cutting these glasses off entirely apple says it modeled the portrait mode blur against prime lenses on full-frame cameras which we happen to have a lot of in our studio and it looks really different to be honest here's a 50ml lens on a Canon 5d Mark 4 on the left and the iPhone 10 s on the right the big cameras and real lenses produce different shapes inside the blur because of the way the physical aperture in the lens closes the iPhone doesn't really do that it just looks like a pretty standard blurred of course most people don't have full-frame cameras and expensive lenses and portrait mode will do a lot for all of those people but in the past a year of having the iPhone 10 I've shot nearly 5,000 photos and just 207 of them have been in portrait mode I don't think this new version is gonna make me use it much more there's also a bunch of updates to video recording the front camera which I'm using right now has all these stabilization the rear cameras of all new software stabilization and you can record in stereo audio which is cool so those are the two main upgrades the processor in the camera let's talk about some of the little stuff first battery life I mostly tested the Macs and it did great better than even apples claim of ninety minutes more than the ten in fact I got a full twelve hours of battery life out of the max without using low power mode and that's even under my pretty heavy daily use the smaller 10s is rated to get thirty minutes more than the ten which has run about eight hours for me this past year its solid second the iPhone 10's chips running iOS twelve I didn't dive into iOS 12 too much in this video because we already made another whole video about it but here's the quick version it's a lot like iOS 11 but a little faster if there's momochi and those neat screen time limits that get you off your phone when you used it too much and needing two taps to send photos and the camera rollin messages is a huge pain please please go back to the old way how about late a big deal out of Wide Stereo during the keynote and some of you asked me about it so here's the deal the iPhone 10 also had stereo speakers but really it was just making the earpiece speaker super loud to serve as the other channel this year both speakers are more evenly matched so Apple can do more signal processing to achieve a wide stereo field is it super noticeable the only kind of is it really loud and clear yes Apple's also improved wireless charging times I'm told the 10s will get to a full charge around 30 minutes faster and that it's less sensitive to placement you don't need to get a new charging pad or anything the internals of the iPhone 10s are just improved that's cool yes the iPhone 10's has 3d touch support so use it while you still can I guess there is gigabit LTE support which is carry dependent so we weren't able to test it there's that top-of-the-line 512 gigabyte model and there's new ip68 water and dust resistance which is better than ip67 on the iPhone 10 and the iPhone 10 or so let's talk about price and whether you should buy one first these aren't expensive phones the 10s starts at $9.99 in the top-of-the-line 10s Maxx with 512 gigs of storage is 1449 that's a lot of money and just like last year some of you are gonna find that ridiculous and others of you have already pre-ordered for those of you that already pre-ordered I think you're gonna be really happy with this phone it is indeed more iPhone it's Apple's top of the line with everything the company can put into it and I think it's gonna hold up for years to come Apple's falling behind the camera rates but not by much and that camera is still a significant improvement over previous iPhones I'm sure all of you are gonna let me know how you feel about that in the comments for everyone who hasn't pre-ordered I think it's worth waiting to see how the iPhone 10 are turns out it's got the same processor the same main camera and a big screen for 750 dollars in fact that was the biggest question I got is the iPhone 10s worth the premium over the 10r and right now I just don't know we're gonna have to review the phone when it comes out next month but for right now I can tell you that the iPhone 10 s is an update to the iPhone 10 and if you like the iPhone 10 you're gonna really like the tennis hey so there's one big feature we were not able to test which is dual SIM support that won't arrive until a software update later this fall so we'll be on it when it comes out in the meantime we're gonna be working on a big camera deep dive when the pixel 3 comes out so let us know what you want us to test and we'll get right on