![]() ![]() It’s so much more intuitive than swiping through settings to find a dedicated night mode. Samsung, Huawei, Google, and others already have wide-angle front camera options on their premium phones, so it’s about time Apple caught up.īoth the iPhone 11 and the new Pro phones have a new “Night Mode,” which is automatically activated in dark environments and tells you how long you’ll have to hold the phone steady for to capture an optimal shot. Wide-angle selfie modes are the software equivalent of selfie sticks, and when done well, they’re great. The front-facing camera has been upgraded to a 12-megapixel camera from a 7-megapixel one, and has a new wide-angle option as well. The Pro phones add a third option of a 2x zoom from the telephoto lens. On the iPhone 11, you have two optical zoom options, the native 1x view of the camera, or the 0.5x zoom out from the ultrawide-angle lens. The wide-angle lens has an f/1.8 aperture, the ultra-wide has a f/2.4 aperture, and the telephoto has an f/2.0 aperture. The iPhone 11 Pro and Pro max have both of those lenses and a telephoto lens. The iPhone 11 has two lenses, a wide-angle and ultrawide-angle lens with a 120-degree field of view. It’s one of the biggest differentiators between the iPhone 11 Pro phones and the more modest iPhone 11. The more critical thing is what the camera can do. The iPhone 11 has an LCD, and while it’s also a high-resolution display and has the same True Tone color technology, it’s not nearly as luminous or rich as the Pro displays. It also happens to be the brightest screen in an iPhone, with up to 1,200 nits of maximum brightness. Apple is calling the display on the Pro iPhones "Super Retina XDR," which is a way of saying it's an OLED display with an extremely high resolution. One of the key differences between the pro models and the regular, nonpro iPhone 11 is the display technology that Apple uses in each. The Pro phones also come in colors that are more understated than the iPhone 11’s pastels, contributing to the gravitas of the Pro’s. However, the back of the Pro phones have a textured and less slippery matte finish, and it’s one that I prefer, given my track record for shattering phones. It’s unfortunate that Apple’s solution for people with smaller hands is a small-ish phone that also happens to be one of the more expensive models-unlike the fan favorite iPhone SE, which was both small and inexpensive.Īll three new iPhones have what Apple claims is the most durable glass on any iPhone. The iPhone 11, meanwhile, falls between the two, with a 6.1-inch display. It has a 6.5-inch diagonal display, while the iPhone 11 Pro has a more reasonable 5.8-inch diagonal display, same as last year’s iPhone XS. I personally would not buy the iPhone 11 Pro Max. ![]() The iPhone 11 Pro Max, in particular, is a chonk of a phone, to use the internet’s current parlance for fat cats. All three new iPhones this year are thicker and heavier than their predecessors (iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR). The iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max have stainless steel frames, while the cheaper iPhone 11 is made of aluminum. But Apple’s website indicates that your old phone is only worth something if the “body is free of dents and scratches” and “the touchscreen and back glass are undamaged.” Good luck with that, ye owners of fragile phones. The $999 iPhone 11 Pro, for example, goes down to $599 if you have a working iPhone X that you’re ready to unload. For comparison’s sake, Samsung’s most expensive phone, the Galaxy Note 10+ with 5G, tops off at $1,399.Īpple is accepting handset trade-ins, which might reduce the cost if you have an older iPhone that’s in good condition. Anyway you slice the pie, it’s a lot of dough. There are all kinds of justifications for this price, including but not limited to a) Apple’s mobile processors now perform better than some desktop processors, and b) a person’s smartphone might be the most important device in their life. The iPhone 11 Pro Max caps at $1,449, for the maximum amount of storage. Bump up to 256 GB or 512 GB and you’ll end up paying $1,249 or $1,349, respectively. The iPhone 11 Pro costs $999 for a model with 64 gigabytes of internal storage, which is barely enough for anyone considered a “pro” user. With these Pro model phones, Apple is maintaining the same pricing it had last year.
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