hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone 11 has been out just a little
bit over six months and has been with me this entire time I carry it alongside my
iPhone 11 Pro max and I did a durability follow-up and sits a month later video
on this not too long ago and many of you asked me to do one on the iPhone 11 and
so this phone is with me all the time and this one is kept in a case regularly
so I use the Apple silicon case and this is what it's normally kept in but it
does not have a screen protector on it and this phone is basically a follow up
to the iPhone 10 are while you can still buy the iPhone 10 are this is only about
50 dollars more or so based on where you get it and maybe even less than the
iPhone 10 are depending on if you get a sale of buy one get one free or anything
like that through your carrier now I wanted to talk about the durability of
it how its held up as far as scratches reception software issues the
controversial display battery life camera and more and if you want to jump
to any specific point of the video I'll link those in the description below now
the first thing is overall durability now like I said this has been kept in a
case regularly and has held up really well the phone does have some scratches
on the display I'll talk about in just a moment but the phone being made of
aluminum even though that's softer than stainless steel makes it feel a little
bit lighter and in general has held up well being in a case it has zero dings
on it whatsoever even though the bottom of the case exposes the bottom of the
iPhone there's no dings or dents or anything like that I've never dropped it
and I don't generally drop phones my hands are big enough that they just stay
put so I don't really have that issue now as
far as the back being glass it's held up well it doesn't have any scratches on it
that are visible the front display does have a few scratches on it if I turn the
lights up here like I did on the 11pro Maxx video you may be able to see a few
of them along with some of my finger prints but there might be a few light
scratches on it not really a whole lot it's held up incredibly well and I've
not really had any issues with it now that being said the lip on the case has
helped prevent scratches when setting it down on surfaces but this is only set on
things like tables or a soft cloth surface it's not really anything that's
a problem so in general it holds up well you can expect it to hold up
better obviously if you have a screen protector for example now aside from
scratches and things it's design is one that I think is right for most people
it's in between the size of the 11pro and the 11pro max so if you need that in
between size of a 6.1 inch display it's a really good size for most people and
the price obviously makes it a little bit more reasonable for most people now
when it comes to the iPhone 11s display that's where the most controversy
arrives because this is a fairly expensive phone that does not have an
OLED display and a super-high resolution but it's arguable that this display
looks just as good as the OLED displays with the exception of maybe super bright
lights or super bright colors and very dark blacks that's going to be the
difference between these displays other than that there's another advantage to
the iPhone 11 LCD display and that has to do with PWM or pulse width modulation
and what I mean by that is the iPhone 11 uses an LCD panel so it doesn't control
its brightness by pulsing the screen on and off so many people about 1 in 10 are
affected by this and it can give them headaches and things like that but you
don't get that with the iPhone 11 because it's an LCD display so when you
adjust brightness it's not flickering you can't see the flicker but it's
actually flickering on an iPhone 11 Pro and Promax so OLED displays control
brightness differently and they can really give you headaches so if you have
an iPhone 10 and iPhone 10 s 10 s max 11 or 11 Pro max that could be giving you
headaches these phones won't be giving you headaches because they don't work
the same way the other thing is iPhone 11 s LCD or liquid Retina display is the
same sort of display technology that's used on Apple as a pro display XDR and
Apple could have gone with an OLED display but the reason they didn't is
LCDs especially as they get larger tend to be much more color accurate and have
less color shift over time than OLED displays and so that's why you don't see
those in larger displays from Apple so there's much more saturation sometimes
with an OLED but with an LCD that like you've got on the iPhone 11 you tend to
have more accurate colors and there just seemed to last a little bit longer over
time with less color shift now for a phone that may not be as
of a deal but it's something that I think is less of a big deal than people
make of it you can't see the pixels and if you look at the iPhone 11 Pro Macs
and the iPhone 11 side-by-side if I could hide the phones and not tell you
what they were chances are you wouldn't be able to differentiate between the two
other than maybe the very vibrant areas or the dark blacks otherwise most people
wouldn't be able to tell the difference even though they think they can I would
almost guarantee they can't and I've tested this among many many people to
prove that point now as far as people saying you can't even watch 1080p videos
on YouTube well that's just not accurate at all the one thing you can't do is
watch an HDR like you can on an OLED display you don't have the option for it
but you do have the option for 1080p but you don't want to watch in 720p because
that's not accurate either so what it's doing is scaling that display down and
you're still going to get 1080p no problem it will look fine and most
people will really appreciate the screen in the quality of it and going along
with the screen is the speakers the speakers are basically the same as the
11 Pro and Pro max if I play it here and turn it up
they sound nice and clear they're vibrant at high volumes they go really
loud and they do a great job of giving you a nice stereo sound you've got a
speaker at the top one at the bottom and they sound fantastic so there's no
complaints in the speaker Department you've got basically the same speakers
it's the higher end phones so no issues there now as far as software with the
iPhone 11 when it launched the software was not ready in fact it had many issues
until recently some people still have a few bugs here and there and iOS 13 in
general has not been up to the quality of iOS 12 and it seems like Apple does
this every other year lately and so recently iOS 13 has finally gotten to
the point where I would say it's fairly stable most of the time as stable as any
other phone the problem is is for six months you had to endure issues with
everything from crashes to something as simple as 3d pressing or haptic pressing
on the display and going to bluetooth having that crash now it seems to be
much better now other than the software bugs I mentioned the phone in general is
just super fast you'll have no problems as far as scrolling everything's nice
and smooth and no it doesn't have a hundred and twenty Hertz screen maybe
that'll come next year or later this year but in general it's just nice and
smooth and fast all the time you have enough RAM to do what you need it's got
four gigabytes of RAM you've got apples a 13 processor and
everything's just nice and fast unlike Android phones where they've got
12 and 16 gigs of RAM more RAM might be nice but you really won't notice it here
apps don't tend to reload that much or anything like that
like I said scrolling is fast if you want to use it for games you'll have no
issue in fact you'll have no issue with games on older phones either just
everything in general seems to be nice and fast editing video on this phone is
nice and fast so if I go into iMovie and go into this movie and we go to edit we
can edit through a video no problem this is a 4k 60 video and it's flying through
it without any hiccups you can edit it export it and it looks as good as
anything else out there so I'm really impressed with this processor and maybe
Apple add more RAM in the future but it doesn't seem needed it seems plenty fast
in general reception on this phone tends to be really really good in fact in many
cases I find it to be better than the iPhone
11 Pro and Promax I've had less issues with phone calls and I've had good
connection in general the bars on the signal strength aren't really a good way
to measure this because those can vary based on settings that Apple presets
within their settings to say 1 bar equals this range of decimals and they
can change that from software to software so without seeing the actual
numbers I can't tell you the true reception of it compared to an 11 Pro
but just people in general tend to say that it has better reception or in
general just as good if not better Wi-Fi speeds supposedly are a little bit less
but I really see no difference whatsoever and keep in mind if you're
streaming a 4k video you only need 15 megabits per second so as long as you've
got that you should be fine but in general you'll have no problems with
Wi-Fi except for maybe through an update that messes something up so hopefully
Apple fixes that with iOS 14 and this will get updates for the next five years
or so or four and a half years or so at minimum so that's why this is a pretty
decent phone for its price you've got all these different things such as
reception in long term software updates and that leads me to battery life most
people get really good battery life on this phone and I've only recently put my
sim card back in this phone and you can see it's been on for a few days now
battery health on my iPhone 11 pro max went down to 99 percent just after 6
months this one has not been used as much as that phone so it's still at 100%
and that's charging it every night and leaving it on the charger and a wireless
charger and charging it when I'm driving so that's how it's usually used you'll
see that over the last four days it has not had a huge amount of usage however I
reached out to a bunch of people that follow this channel and follow me on
Twitter and things like that to see what kind of battery life they were getting
to because there are a lot of people that will experience a different battery
life depending on how they use it and I've seen as bad as 3 to 4 hours and as
much as 10 hours plus so depending on what you're doing
you can expect really decent battery life with this phone in general the only
one you're going to get much better with is the 11pro max because the battery is
much larger so the battery sizes vary between these phones on
enough that the 11pro max will get more but this is still a very decent option
for battery life and of course you could add a battery case or you could just
charge it whenever you need to fast charge but it does not include a fast
charger but you can use one with it if you want to pick one up separately so if
you have one of the new iPad you could use that charger for example now the
camera is great you've only got two lenses on this one and so after using it
for six months on and off I use this as a video camera just like I did with the
ten are a lot I use this as a video camera most of the time you're going to
get the same photo quality that you do out of the 11pro and Promax just minus
the telephoto lens so you've got the wide and ultra wide but the video
quality is fantastic you've got 4k 60 you've got 4k 60 there you can change it
right here on the newest phones so 4k 60 quality it records great and in fact you
won't notice the difference between me recording this video with a Panasonic
gh2 the time verse one of these except for in different situations where it's a
little bit darker otherwise most people can't even tell the difference in fact
let me just switch over to the video here and now we're fully recording with
the iPhone 11 so the video quality is quite good you'll see that it looks
similar as far as colors the quality is good the resolution looks great the
detail is great and I wouldn't say it's a cinema camera but there's enough
quality in this camera that most people wouldn't even be able to tell the
difference so it's definitely worth picking up and I would say the video
camera is the best on the market along with the 11pro and Promax compared to
any other phone photos it's very subjective but video quality is
top-notch now the forward facing camera is great
and it's the same 12 megapixel camera that you get on the 11pro and Promax
it's got the depth sensor from the face ID sensor as well and if we scroll over
here you can use the clips app to do these sort of comic overlays or whatever
you'd like black and white or atomic mono and it's got face tracking for an
emoji all sorts of things and it's good enough that you can record in 4k and you
can record in 4k 60 as well so if I spin the camera around here go to video
you've got 4k 30 now we've got 4k 60 so it does a great job and if you want to
use it for just selfies or maybe you vlog with it it's going to
do a great job as long as you have good light now what is not as good as the
rear-facing camera but it's definitely the best forward-facing camera and an
iPhone and its really good enough that most people won't even notice the
difference unless you're used to a cinema camera or something like that so
what I still recommend 1 after 6 months of use and having only about 6 months
left to pick up the next version of iPhone whenever that is absolutely I
would pick one of these up in fact this is the number one recommendation I give
to people as far as looking for iPhone so if they're looking for an iPhone and
they don't care about the latest and greatest most expensive iPhone in
largest screen out there this is the one I recommend most because it's durable
it's proven it's it's time it's got ip68 certification and
everything else I've already mentioned about it so yes I definitely pick one of
these up still it's super fast it has a great camera great speakers and most
people will be very happy with it so let me know your thoughts about it
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time