all right it's iPhone time Apple,released three new iPhones all at once,this year the iPhone 11 the iPhone 11,pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Macs,now I honestly think the iPhone 11 is,the phone most people in the iOS,ecosystem should get if they're,upgrading so we've got a whole other,review of that phone you should check,out too but this this is the pro review,the dark mode cash money review for,professionals who use their phones to do,pro stuff taking telephoto photos,actually I have no idea why Apple called,these phones Pro they're basically just,nice updates the iPhone 10s but I also,think it's a waste of time to argue,about names iPhone 11 Pro max is a bad,name but you know what it's a great,phone and I think Apple might have done,it this is the best camera I've ever,seen on a phone let's get into it the,iPhone 11 pro looks almost exactly like,the iPhone 10s from the front it's a,little heavier and thicker but unless,you're comparing them directly you,probably won't notice I certainly didn't,you do get a much bigger battery in,exchange for that extra size which apple,says leads to a four hour battery life,increase on the regular pro and a five,hour jump for the pro max but it's,surprisingly hard to check that number,I'll get into why in a minute,the big difference when the 10s comes on,the back where Apple says the rear glass,is now stronger and it comes in this,frosted matte finish it also integrates,a glossy camera bump with three cameras,the whole back and the bump is a single,piece of glass it's milled out the,iPhone 11 is the reverse that has a,glossy back and the camera bump is matte,now you know I got a lot of questions,about this matte finish and I think it's,really nice especially in this new,midnight green color it didn't really,pick up any fingerprints but it does,seem a tiny bit more slippery than the,gloss back of the previous phones and,the iPhone 11 but I also think most,people are just gonna stick this thing,in a case so it doesn't seem like a huge,issue a lot of people also asked me if,this matte finish will scratch easily,similar to the back of the pixel 3 and,so far the answer seems to be no but,we're gonna have to keep an eye on it,over time,babbles finally relented and included an,18 watt USB see fast charger with the,pro phones so you get a USB C to,lightning cable as well,now apples USB C charger is not the,smallest or prettiest charger out there,but anything is better than the slow 5,watt brick it's been including for years,so I'll take it so let's get into these,cameras Apple has a lot at stake here,Google and Samsung's cameras have been,outperforming the iPhone for a couple,years now and Chinese phone makers in,particular have been racing each other,to add an endless array of photography,features if you're in the u.s. you're,probably locked into iMessage and no,camera is good enough to make you switch,but Apple doesn't have that advantage in,big markets like Europe and China,everyone uses whatsapp and WeChat and,switching from iOS to Android is much,easier so apples added a bunch of,features that first appeared on Android,phones there are three cameras on the,iPhone 11 Pro the telephoto camera has,the same basic sensor but a faster F 2.0,lens the main camera has the same F 1.8,lens and a slightly better sensor and,there's the new super fun ultra ride,camera which is basically twice as wide,as the main lens and f 2.4 and the F 2.2,front camera is now 12 megapixels up,from 7 and as a wider 24 millimeter,focal length so it can pull out to a,slightly wider angle in landscape for,selfies apples also updated its smart,HDR processing system which I was not,very impressed with when I reviewed the,iPhone 10 s and 10 are the iPhone 11,cameras are an enormous provement over,the 10s and beat the pixel and galaxy,note 10 and most of our tests this shot,of verge video producer Mario a blue,calf outside in bright sunlight,shouldn't be too hard for any camera to,do a good job with and all these photos,look basically fine but zoom in to 100%,crop and the improvement from the iPhone,10 s to the iPhone 11 main camera is,stunning the iPhone 11 is way sharper,with way more detail I also think the,iPhone 11 does a way better job than the,note 10 and it's a little better to my,eye than the pixel 3 this improvement is,due to something Apple's calling,semantic rendering basically smart HDR,recognizes what's in the image and,renders it appropriately,I asked Apple to break down how it works,for me and it basically goes like this,first the iPhone starts taking photos to,a buffer the instant you open the camera,app,so by the time you actually press the,button it's captured for underexposed,frame and the photo you want then it,grabs one overexposed frame this is all,basically the same as the iPhone 10s and,the pixel three except the pixel doesn't,grab that overexposed frame second smart,HDR and semantic rendering then start,looking for things in the photos it,understands faces hair the sky things,like that then it uses additional detail,from the under and overexposed frames to,selectively process the areas of the,image that's recognized hair gets,sharpened but the sky doesn't it just,gets denoise faces get relighted to make,them look more even and the iphone knows,to sharpen up your facial hair smart HDR,is also less aggressive in flattening,the photos highlights and faces aren't,corrective as aggressively as before,because those highlights make photos,looks more natural but other highlights,and shadows are corrected to regain,detail finally the whole image is saved,and you've got a photo this all happens,instantly every time you take a photo,which is a testament to how powerful,Apple's a13 processor really is,here's that final image we just took you,can see how the iPhone 11 preserves more,detail than the pixel and note in the,shadows and highlights and just blows,the iPhone 10s away in sharpness the,improvements to smart HD are applicable,across cameras here's a quick comparison,of the ultra wide z' in the 11pro and,the note 10 the note 10 did a better job,exposing the sky but that 11 is just a,much sharper photo with more detail you,can see the same thing with selfies the,10x max has pulled up shadows so much,that it looks a little hazy while the,iPhone 11 evenly pulls up shadows and,Maria's face but preserves the contrast,with the background the note 10 did all,kinds of goofy skin smoothing and a,pixel 3 looks great but it has less,detail than the iPhone just look at our,eyelashes now there are places where the,iPhone 11 didn't win in our tests the,10s historically struggled with back,with subjects and while the 11 is a,definite improvement,this photo is really blue and there's,basically no detail and Mario's face I,think the note actually did the best,overall job here and I think the pixel,does the best job in low-light but the,iPhone isn't bad it's a lot better than,the 10s was last year,Apple's promised a new mode for these,situations called deep fusion which is,supposed to ship later this year but I,wasn't able to test it if it improves,photos taken in this kind of light then,the iPhone will basically pull ahead in,every situation,apple also added a knight mode this year,and it's really impressive it preserves,a ton more detail than the pixel it,comes on automatically in the dark and,suggests an exposure time which you can,tweak or turn off if you want the pixel,photo here looks more dramatic but look,a little closer the iPhone is preserved,all of the detail in the brick and,graffiti which is basically gone in the,pixel shop both of these night mode,photos look pretty similar but look at,all the extra detail in the bushes in,the iPhone shot same with this shot,you'd never know that fence was even,there in the pixel photo,I think the pixel produces more dramatic,looking shots out of the camera but I,would rather have the extra detail from,the - all in all I think the iPhone 11,camera is better in bright light than,the pixel 3 in note 10 and the night,mode beats the pixel 3 more often than,not if this promised deep fusion update,improves medium to low light performance,as much as Apple says it will the iPhone,11 will once again be the smartphone,camera to beat Apple's also made video,on the iPhone 11 better with improved,stabilization exposure and the ability,to record 4k 60 video from any of the,three cameras but is it really that good,all right so we're gonna head out in New,York City and we're gonna test against,the note 10 the pixel 3 and the 10s to,see who does video best we started out,the water and immediately you can see,the color differences between the,cameras the pixel leaned into the warm,tones while Samsung muddied the,mid-tones and the iPhone tennis leaned,into the Blues of the sky while the,11pro,balanced the warm and cool tones out the,most with the subject closer to the lens,the note 10 kept the flowers the,sharpest while the iPhone 10s blurred,the background the most okay we got,adjust the audio on all these phones,I'll let you guys be the judge do I,sound like the beautiful angel voice,that I have,angelic voice of course the answer is,yes but on these phones,who's to say in low-light Apple isn't,afraid of underexposing the blacks,whereas in Samsung and Google we'll,bring them up now the 11pro does do a,lot more smoothing to compensate for all,the noise this typically creates the,front-facing camera on the iPhone 11 Pro,did a great job of balancing my skin,tone and just the exposure in general,even against this large neon light,source but it wasn't as sharp as the,note 10 now all these comparisons are,great but chances are you won't be,recording on all of these zones side by,side at the same exact time so let's,just talk about the iPhone 11 Pro the,front-facing camera now records in 4k,and the slow P is exactly how you would,imagine it you'll use it once and,probably never touch it again the video,from the rear cameras though is really,good like in perfect flight it's,honestly just impressive switching,between lenses is pretty seamless in,terms of color accuracy and exposure and,you can use the dial method or just tap,the lenses on the screen to switch now,you can switch between lenses when you,shoot in 4k 60 so make sure you set 4k,30 or lower if you're gonna be doing,that the ultra wide-angle lens looks,super cool even with the crazy,distortion but there is no image,stabilization which shouldn't be a,problem because naturally the wider the,lens the less need for that,both the telephoto and wide lens keep,your shot stable and pretty sharp for a,sensor their size the color is punchy,and pretty saturated and in perfect,lighting you too can have that shot an,iPhone look but in low-light even the,iPhone 11 pro when viewed on a screen,larger than its own to come so noisy,blacks and haloed highlights my big,issue though why do I have to leave the,camera app to change the frame rates,it's not intuitive and it's just time,consuming Apple just put it in the app,iPhones have always had great video but,the video on the 11pro is the best I've,seen on a smartphone to date and the gap,is only getting bigger enough of me back,to anyway the screen on the iPhone 11,Pro is a new OLED that Apple is calling,the super Retina xtr display there's,still a notch and Apple is still doing,fancy rounded corners and uniform bezels,which no one else the industry has,really managed to match those bezels are,still,pretty big though especially compared to,something like the Galaxy Note 10 is the,third year of the basic iPhone 10 design,and Apple's competitors haven't been,sitting still and trying to beat it the,big upgrades to the screen are around,brightness and power efficiency,basically the screen can get a lot,brighter than before,and it also uses up to 15 percent less,power according to Apple now in typical,situations apple says the iPhone 11 pro,display can go up to 800 nits of,brightness and that when you're watching,HDR content the highlights will peak at,1200 bits in normal situations I don't,think you're gonna notice it I've never,had a problem looking at my iPhone 10s,display outside but it's a huge and,obvious improvement when you're watching,HDR movies I never really bought the,idea that previous iPhone displays we're,dolby vision but the iPhone 11 pro,displayed kind of pulls it off it's hard,to capture this on video but it's just a,lot brighter and punchy err on the 11pro,display compared to the 10s the note 10,display definitely looks as bright but,the iPhones color processing looks way,more natural to me especially with,apples true tone system turned on of,course Apple and Google are still in a,fight over video codecs so you can't,watch any 4k or HDR content on the,iPhone 11 Pro from YouTube so this video,is not in 4k for watching an iPhone,sorry about that Apple is also updated,the audio on the iPhone 11 an iPhone 11,Pro is something they're calling spatial,audio it's basically a surround decoder,if you're watching a Netflix movie of,Dolby 5.1 sound or game encoded in 7.1,you'll get Virtual Surround from the,stereo speakers the iPhone 11s also,support Dolby Atmos which is a little,silly for stereo speakers but it's there,there's also standard wide stereo,support like last year for everything,else all in all the iPhone speakers,sound really loud and generally better,than ever,there's no more 3d touch on the iPhone,11 Pro it's been replaced by what Apple,calls haptic touch which is basically,just long pressing on things with haptic,feedback in most places you won't really,notice it's gone and some things are,actually a little easier to figure out,opening the camera from the lockscreen,feels the same to me rearranging icons,on the home screen is a little simpler,to figure out since there's a context,menu that pops up now peeking at links,in Safari is a little different in,iowa's 13 but it's also a little simpler,the only place I truly missed 3d touch,was the keyboard you could press down,anywhere on the keyboard to move the,cursor around on the 10s but with haptic,touch on the iPhone 11 Pro you can only,press and hold on the spacebar now I,never really realized how many times a,day I used that one specific 3d touch,feature and I missed it but if the,trade-off is that there's more ruins I,the case for a bigger battery I'm fine,apple claims the iPhone 11 Pro lasts for,hours longer than the iPhone 10 s and,that the iPhone 11 pro max lasts 5 hours,longer than the 10 s max as I mentioned,earlier it's really hard to test those,claims Apple doesn't run as strict,battery test that we can just repeat,instead it's getting that number by,taking its huge data set of iPhone usage,and applying it to a model of the new,phone so you'll notice that the only,hard numbers Apple publishes or like,hours of video playback simple tests of,a single task which isn't how anyone,uses a phone all that said the battery,life on the iPhone 11 Pro has been,impressive I've been using an 11 Pro Max,as my primary phone for the past week,and it has consistently run for 12 to 14,hours on a single charge and about 10,hours of screen on time off the charger,as reported in battery settings that is,a huge improvement over my 10s max which,generally runs for eight to nine hours,on a single charge,the smaller 11 Pro has been just as,impressive that's the phone Becca used,for her testing and it still had 50% of,its battery left the morning after she,shot her part of the review it turns out,a slightly thicker phone with a bigger,battery was the right move after all,inside the new iPhone 11 pro there's the,new a 13 Bionic processor which as usual,benchmarks far above the competition,there's a lot of headroom here for,things like a our games and high-end,photo and video apps but it's not like,the a12 biotic and the iPhone 10s is,slow most of this extra power will be,useful towards the end of this phone's,life not at the beginning face ID is a,little bit faster and works at more,angles but it's not particularly,dramatic it just works a little bit,better I think this is the best kind of,iterative update it made a thing that,was already pretty good a little bit,better and anything that makes securing,your phone a little bit better is great,and most intriguingly there's a new chip,inside the iPhone 11s called the u1,which does precise positioning using an,ultra wideband radio apple says the,forthcoming iOS 13.1 update will allow,you to just point the,and another t1 device to put it at the,top of your airdrop list but none of,that works yet so we'll just have to see,[Music],obviously the iPhone 11 pro runs iOS 13,and I have to tell you,iOS 13 is pretty buggy I saw all kinds,of glitches and crashes during my week,of testing and iOS 13 point 1 is already,in beta and scheduled for wide release,by the end of this month so it really,seems like Apple just squeak this thing,out the door is racing to fix bugs,I asked Apple about some of those,glitches and they told me they're always,fixing bugs and iPhone owners generally,auto-update but if you're on the fence,about upgrading you might want to wait,until some of these bug fix updates,actually ship assuming all the bugs get,fixed the biggest new feature in iOS 13,is dark mode which is very nice but,otherwise this is a lot of tiny little,updates there's a swiping keyboard now,reminders is a much better app there are,better photo editing tools and you can,edit videos as well Apple Maps keeps,getting a tiny bit better every year,series voice is slightly smoother it's a,lot of little things that add up into a,big update but if you handed this phone,to someone using iOS 12 they might not,even notice unless dark mode,[Music],the iPhone 11 Pro starts at $9.99 with,64 gigs of storage which doesn't seem,like quite enough for that price and the,11pro Mac starts at 1099 you can spec,the pro max all the way up to 14 49 with,512 gigs of storage which means that you,can pay an awful lot of money for this,phone if you want to if you're in the,iOS ecosystem and it's time to upgrade,it's a pretty tough choice this year the,standard iPhone 11 offers almost,everything you get from the pro for,$6.99 and I think most people should get,the iPhone 11 you'll still get the,improved main camera the fun new ultra,wide lens the a 13 processor and iOS 13,and all the rest the extra money for the,pro basically buys you a far superior,display a telephoto camera and improved,LTE performance if you want a smaller,phone the iPhone 11 pro is a little bit,smaller than the iPhone 11 which seems a,tiny bit unfair to people who want a,smaller phone the entire lineup is still,pretty big though so if you're hoping,for something you're a place that aging,iPhone SC you're not gonna love any of,these options I'm very picky about,displays and cameras so I'm gonna get a,knife on a lot in pro in fact the,cameras on the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro are,so improved that I think they're worth,the year-over-year upgrade from last,year's models for the first time in a,long time,add in the improved battery life and the,iPhone 11 Pro stands out is a major step,forward from the 10s and one of the best,flagship phones of the year or it will,be when Apple fixes iOS 13 hey everybody,this was obviously the iPhone 11 Pro,review we also reviewed the iPhone 11,that was a fun clap we did with Teeter,bone watch both videos are both on the,channel and then let me know which of,these phones you think you're gonna buy,or if you're waiting for the pixel for
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