Apple will start from tomorrow, Friday, October 19, to receive pre-order requests for the iPhone XR, and it will be available for direct sale from the following Friday, October 26. This phone, although some mocked it, is the black horse winning for Apple, and expectations differ about its percentage of sales compared to its XS brothers. Some say it will control a 50% share, and others see it will reach 60%. In this article, we will tell you who is talking to Apple with this phone and who we recommend to buy.
Important clarification
In this article, we will seek to present advice in a different and practical way, i.e. how you will actually feel from use and not theoretically in numbers how you are supposed to feel. Sometimes the numbers say that you will find a clear improvement in photography, but in practice you do not feel it and the same thing in performance. It should be noted that we relied in the article on what Apple explained in terms of data, as well as our personal experience with Apple products, because the device has not yet been released.
Buy the iPhone XR
If the following points apply to you, you will feel a clear difference when using the iPhone XR, and these points are:
◉ Never try OLED: The iPhone XR comes with a Liquid Retina screen and we talked about it in Previous article. Apple explained that it is the best LCD screen placed in any phone, but to clarify this, it is not an OLED screen. If you are dealing with any previous iPhone except the X, you will feel a noticeable improvement in the quality of the screen and you will not face any problem; But if you have a previous X with a problem and do not want to own an XS and you are thinking about the XR, then here you may notice a difference in the quality of the screen in favor of OLED. Remember that a person knows the differences only by experience, so you will not notice that LCD screens are not of the required quality unless you try OLED, but if you do not try you will not notice anything.
◉ Regular 4G network in your country: The iPhone XS includes an advanced communications chip that allows it to access LTE networks at ultra-fast speeds of up to 1024/150 Mbps. The iPhone XR comes with the previous generation, which supports networks up to 600/150 Mbps. Of course, theoretically, the improvement is noticeable, but most countries in the world do not have highly advanced and fast XNUMXG networks, so you are not expected to feel a difference. If you live in a developed country and your phone does not provide you with full speed and you need more, we do not recommend the XR. But for most of us, the problem is not with the phone's support for ultra-fast speeds, but with the support and quality of the telecom company itself.
◉ Natural photographyMost of us are not professional photographers and take the best pose, zoom and use the Depth Effect featurethis link- Even if the advantages are in his phone. Usually we open the camera and take a photo. If you are one of those and you own a previous iPhone (not 8 Plus or X of course) then you should see an improvement in photography. (Note this point on casual photography, but the best experience you'll find in the "do not buy" paragraph).
You don't want to pay + $ 1000: Until this moment, I don't feel that I can pay more than a thousand dollars for a phone of any type. Thousands of these pay for the acquisition of a personal computer, I do not mind that, but buying a phone? Apple is targeting this huge sector, which represents half of its customers who were previously buying the iPhone years ago, at a price starting at $ 650, and Apple increased it two years ago to $ 700, and often it buys the second storage capacity, which means it pays $ 800. Apple still offers him a phone with the same price of $ 750-800 and an acceptable storage capacity of 64-128 GB, respectively, and there is a 256GB option for $ 900. If you want 256 GB in the XS, you will pay 1150 $, and for Max you will pay 1250 $. What do you think to buy the 256 GB XR, and with the remaining $ 350, you buy the 2018 iPad, for example.
◉ More color options: If you do not like the traditional "gray, silver and gold" colors, Apple provides you with 6 colors with XR, which are white, black, blue, yellow, red, and Coral. The XS comes in the old traditional colors.
Don't buy the iPhone XR
If the following points are important to you, we do not recommend the acquisition of the iPhone XR:
◉ Photography firstIf you are a dual-camera iPhone user like the 8 Plus, remember that the XR only comes with a single camera. Yes, Apple boasted that it had made a lot of efforts in developing this camera and using the processor to improve photography and things similar to the difference what Google offers in the pixel camera, but it remains a single camera, meaning it will lose a number of advantages, on top of which is the 3x optical zoom. The above does not mean that the XR is a bad camera but rather a great one, but you will not feel any change if you have an 8 Plus. If you switch to video shooting, you will miss the "stereo" sound recording feature.
◉ 512 GB capacityApple has made 512GB exclusively available on the XS while the XR is available in up to 256GB.
◉ XNUMXD Touch: If you like XNUMXD Touch and rely on it a lot, it has been canceled in the XR so keep this in mind before you buy.
◉ Cinematic screen: If you like watching movies in the highest quality and we mean here not the movies that are downloaded from the sites but rather the high quality such as HDR support in the movie as well as the highest pixel density PPI, then your choice will not be XR. Remember that the XR will give you a better experience than the 8 Plus, for example, but not the best experience possible.
Performance between XR and XS
It is not expected that there will be a difference between the performance of the XR and the XS, although the latter comes with a higher memory, which is 4 GB compared to 3 GB in the XR, but the screen in the first is of lower quality and thus compensates for the memory difference significantly. So don't expect there to be a noticeable performance and speed difference between the XR and the XS. For more, see our article on the differences between the two devices this link
Conclusion
If you want a new phone with a bigger screen, higher performance, and a better battery than your phone, and you do not want to pay a huge amount, your choice is the XR, but if you want to get the absolute best, then here the XR is not your choice.
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