Iphone 11
pro max review
Remind me in three minutes to make a point to our viewers. I
spent the last three weeks exclusively using the iPhone 11 Pro max. Apple watch series 5 and the 2nd gen air pods to immerse myself in the ecosystem as much as I could and I was constantly frustrated by the clear and obvious problems that Apple has
had years to fix and just hasn't
bothered with however for the Android fans that are foaming at the mouth right now. About a 10-minute hate speech about how bad . Apple
is you guys can chill ax because there's
lots of good stuff here - along with
some strange stuff like what is so pro
about a phone so it's with this question
in mind that our journey begins. right
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so the setup process was awesome as
usual Apple finally dropped the sim
requirement to activate your new device
and they moved iOS 13s new dark mode
front and center on the setup screen now
some third-party apps don't respect that
setting but otherwise it's great and I
never switched it off again and there's
a lot of other smaller things that add
up to stuff you might not notice at
first but when you do you'll wonder how
you lived without it like offline
dictation which I immediately enabled
when I saw it and I also enjoyed that
series voice responses sound more
natural than ever before tell me a bad
joke I was they just gave me the cold
shoulder wow that one was good hard
pressing Wi-Fi in the control center now
gives you a list of nearby access points
which makes all the sense in the world
and what about the fact that you can
attach a photo to a reminder that's
freaking awesome actually the new
reminders app overall just makes androids
handling of reminders look stupid unlike Android you can set any ringtone you want even a longer ringtone style one that won't shut up until you deal with it for stuff that oh I don't know you might actually want to notice and be reminded about anyone else noticed the reminder from my Android phone nope me neither
also managing your tasks is straightforward
with easy ways to both mark completed
and delete outright and my only
complaint about it is that reminders can
be easily swiped away with no way to
restore them and so parents who lend
their phones to their kids will know why
this could be a problem another nice to
have is that Apple now provides what
looks like a way more accurate set of
battery stats than their competition and
even made it easier to replace the
battery with convenient pull tabs that
contributed to I fix its six repairability
score so good job Apple is what I would
say if they hadn't gone an added DRM to
their batteries at the same time as
saying that they consider them to be
consumable guys it's called right to
repair for a reason not privilege to
repair which I guess brings me to some
of the low points of iOS 13 for me
compared to previous versions apps are
prompting me constantly on privacy and
security permissions this used to be an
Android problem not an Apple problem and
there are a lot of other little things
that they've had generations to fix now
I will complain about the lack of t9 dialing on the iPhone until I am old and gray and the fact that your home screen always ends up looking like that one relative's desktop you've just got everything on there why is it all there furthermore I still need to swipe from the very bottom to fully unlock the phone and the frosted glass back can make large hand shifts like the one to get down there and then back up here very dangerous why don't they just use hepatic touch to scroll through notifications and then a flick to unlock or vice versa also carp lay is still bad even compared to the horrendous recent Android auto update navigate to Subway Series as this major delay between activation and when she actually starts listening Apple naps needs manual input for most navigation and when I dared go outside the ecosystem with my Google Play music subscription I only got music playing about half the time and then never with the screen actually working so I could see what track was playing though in fairness Google should probably be shouldering some of the blame here and actually I guess it's kind of an aside but I need to get inside of my system both Apple and Google need to grow the up and start treating the users of another platform as what they are you're paying customers I'm not the only one complaining about this Google Play Music Issue on the iPhone and it has been months and this childish app kneecapping even carries over to the Apple watch where you still straight-up cannot interact with a gmail message seriously you your multi-billion dollar companies put your heads together and figure out how I can scroll through as much of the email as I download please then mark it red if it's not important I've said this before but here it comes again I am your customer and I am one of many people out there who pays for your service but might not always use your operating system as for the Apple watch itself I actually love the hardware it finally has an always-on display making it the first Apple smart bracelet that also functions as a competent watch Wow dictation is great but with a great big asterisk there's no way to make quick corrections you need to press the digital crown to cancel and try again from scratch so if whatever you're trying to say is kind of jargon a year full of acronyms then good freaking luck honestly the thing is full of these kinds of simple user experience gulches Siri can't understand how to mute my notifications so I have to do that manually hey Siri mute my notifications longer emails often cut off after the first paragraph which misses the point of a SmartWatch entirely for me and some apps have no way to click through and then throw the app up on your phone even if they do give you full read and reply function I mean how is this still acceptable to Apple how is this still acceptable to apples users why am i dictating to this right now stop it just feels like Apple is backwards in a lot of ways here and the one way where that's a good thing is that the Apple watch is actually the only place where 3d touch still exists on a current generation Apple device 3d touch was one of my favorite features that Apple introduced with the iPhone 6s unfortunately it wasn't a success I guess so they killed it I had said before that was a hard press on the Wi-Fi thing no it's just a fake Oh hard press it's a long press that buzzes so yeah ten are didn't have it and now the entire 11 Series Pro included dropped it and I'm really I really wanted to take off but instead we're left with haptic touch which is just long pressing with a nice vibration it's only a little bit slower but I do still miss it
for what it's worth they did make good
use of its removal the 11 pro's battery
is a full point six five millimeters
thicker than before and only point four
millimeters of that is from thickening
the phone up right actually maybe
Apple has been listening to me all along
in a backhanded sort of way and what
that culminates in is a worst case
scenario of over six hours and twenty
minutes for the pro in Geekbench 4s
battery life with the pro max even
better than that and that's at a half
screen brightness not bad at all as for
the rest of the guts there are a lot of
adhesive seals yeah but that's kind of
par for the course for a phone that is
rated for such an impressive to the
point of honestly being kind of overkill
level of ingress protection for meters
of water is deeper than most swimming
pools go so you would have a hard time
killing this phone with submersion alone
and if something did die virtually
everything inside the phone is a
detachable module even the face ID
sensor and selfie camera are separate
from the display in case you need to
replace that some day which you might because
the screen online scuffed the first time
I put it in my pocket with nothing else
in it the front and back glass may have
proven to be every bit as shatter
resistant as Apple says but the hardness
at least from my experience doesn't seem
to have followed suit so I would
recommend a case and a screen protector
because guys you do not want to break
this thing dumb super Retina display XD
our name aside the screen really is
great not only is it incredibly sharp and
bright at any given time thanks to its
sustained brightness of 800 nits it can
even hit 1,200 minutes while viewing HDR
photos and videos that is a 20% higher
brightness than even most high-end
monitors and TVs and get this the
display HDR spec only actually calls for
500 nits on tree black displays like
this AMOLED one to put it in a mobile
perspective it's nearly double with the
iPhone 10's Macs and most competitors
are capable of so it's great for showing
off those next-gen smart HDR photos that
you can take with the three rear cameras
it looks great from any angle love this thing all right cameras yes cameras plural I'm starting a movement where we don't call these lenses anymore because that isn't what they are it's like me like jumping from my minivan over to my motorbike and saying I'm changing my tires slow fees are irrelevant I hope but the front-facing camera is a lot better than previous generations and I am all for that the stock camera app while still lacking professional shooting modes even on the pro models is still very simple very usable and they've added a bunch of features including a much more mature edit mode in the Photos app and and Samsung I hope you're taking notes they added the ability to quickly capture video while you are in photo capture mode this is such a useful feature and I can't even begin to imagine through what convoluted process Samsung managed to pioneer it only to abandon it later and then let Apple take the lead I guess I'm just glad to see it coming back because once Apple does it everyone's gonna have to do it when shooting photos Apple's new semantic rendering engine makes extensive use of the a 13's Bionic machine-learning accelerator to quickly identify what's in the image and optimize for it it works in two parts the first is similar to traditional HDR and that's a buffer of underexposed frames which is used to reconstruct detail in bright areas and then a single overexposed frame that's taken for reconstructing darker areas then the engine scans for things that recognizes the sky gets the noise while hair is sharpened and faces are given subtler highlights and shadows processing from the previous step to retain a more striking true-to-life effect this is also how Apple manages to pull off their high key light mono portrait effect ltd store.com by the way all of this has helped even further by a combination of optical image stabilization and software image stabilization that makes for a ridiculously stable shot both while shooting still and obviously it's especially noticeable while shooting video the ultra wide camera doesn't get OIS but with that wide of an angle it's pretty tough to notice just like it's tough to notice any significant difference in image quality between the three cameras they all look great as we saw in our non Pro iPhone 11 review though not everything is perfect and compared to the likes of the pixel line results can sometimes be below par in terms of clarity and color accuracy but I don't think anyone's gonna complain about the image quality overall here what I'll complain about is that in spite of all the good in the cameras the hype train made it seem as though you could switch between them seamlessly and there is definitely a delay when you do it I mean it's not a huge deal like being able to do it with a delay is better than not being able to do it at all but well Apple didn't exactly go out of their way to temper expectations during their demos and zooming isn't as smooth as I was expecting and I guess that's really what this all boils down to expectations there are so many things that are missing that would lend the iPhone 11 pro some pro street cred like a high refresh rate display USB type-c bi-directional wireless charging professional shooting modes a high quality analog output or a reduced or remove knotch
but if we take a step back from telephoto
and have a look at the ultra wide
picture the whole thing comes together
in a way that's still really positive
even if I think it costs more than it
should and everyone should just buy the
iPhone 11 non Pro so stupid name stupid
camera bump and decidedly last generation
looking display knotch but it's the most
premium iPhone experience and long gone
is the time when iOS vs. Android is some
kind of black and white this one is better
decision and anyone who says otherwise
is frankly a pathetic fanboy now to be clear I've preferred Android for quite some time now and as of filming this I am already back enjoying the widely varied if sometimes buggy Hardware ecosystem on the Android side of things
time in the form of the galaxy fold
review to come by the way subscribe so
you don't miss it but I actually
planned to keep wearing the Apple watch
if for no reason other than to make a
point about the deplorable state of
Android smartwatches so thanks for
watching guys check out our 10 ways i OS
is better and our 10 ways Android is
better videos for more of my thoughts on
the two ecosystems as a whole massive
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