Apple Highlights iPhone XR Reviews

[AdonisSMU]

I'll buy a new iPhone when they get rid off the stupid and ugly notch.

Like you were in the market in the first place.

 

[2GoldFish]

While geeks who hang out on tech forums have fun comparing and analyzing specs, most users don’t. Even so, many, many tech-savvy customers will buy the XR, precisely because they know 828 vs. 1080 lines of vertical resolution is not a meaningful difference. The 6/6S/7/8 have 750p displays and are well known to be of extremely good quality.

Yes, agree.

 

[AvisDeene]

You are wasting your lifetime...

How so? I am not waiting on the new phone, I am just stating that the phone I have is perfectly capable for everything I need it to do. I just find no need to upgrade yearly or every other year like many people do. Most of the new features on any smartphones that have been released in the last 5 years are not must haves.

 

[MacBram]

The XR has bezels. Larger ones than any phone for the same price, and many cheaper ones. That's all.

But maybe Phil has decided that 79% is "full screen enough" and people can't notice the massive black borders.

If you are comparing to OLE screen, sure. If you want OLE, get XS or XS Max.
For an LCD, though, XR has bezels, but NO chin or forehead, which is pretty unique for an LCD screen. Apple got the LCD screen right up into the corners, and rounded; not squared off a half inch from the top and bottom of the phone, like every other LCD.

 

[robotphood]

I can do it. I can even do it on my 7 Plus and I don’t have the biggest hands. Now I’ll admit that I sometimes get cramps after using the 7 Plus one handed too much. The iPhone X on the other hand was as comfortable as the non Plus phones whenever I’ve had one in my hand. Everyone’s hands are different though so I probably shouldn’t generalize.

I believe GoodWheaties probably meant going from a 1 handed typing position to invoking Notification Center without moving your hand position. If you can pull this off then you do have big hands. Personally I can use my Plus one handed but it takes some shifting around. I think users that are resistant to bigger devices are approaching them like they would a smaller one. They simply aren’t and how you use them will need modifications.

 

[bookcase]

The only reason that actually matters with the 2nd lens is portrait mode; which they found another way to do and it’s a better quality picture on the XR for portrait shots because it’s not shooting on the 2X Sensor. The only “caveat” is no portrait on non-humans and that’s something they could actually do with software. Pixel does it already so it’s not the camera, it’s Apple’s programming.

I consider that a pretty big caveat because I've used portrait mode on my X countless times over the year and only with my dogs. But I'll probably go for it anyway and hope a software update will add non-human figures since other phones can do it.

 

[MrXiro]

I consider that a pretty big caveat because I've used portrait mode on my X countless times over the year and only with my dogs. But I'll probably go for it anyway and hope a software update will add non-human figures since other phones can do it.

I take lots of pics of my dog too. And a few of them in Portrait but it’s something they can add in hardware so I hope Apple adds it. I got my Xr case in and I really like the size.

Here’s my most recent. I was in a dark living room.

 

[Substance90]

The iPhone 8/8 Plus was affordable at $699/$799, but the XR at $749 isn’t?

That's exactly my point – no one was calling 8/8 Plus affordable and now suddenly everyone is calling the XR a "low-cost affordable iPhone". That's how they slowly shift the meaning of these words.

 

[PickUrPoison]

That's exactly my point – no one was calling 8/8 Plus affordable and now suddenly everyone is calling the XR a "low-cost affordable iPhone". That's how they slowly shift the meaning of these words.

You’re over-generalizing. “Everyone” isn’t saying the same thing, let alone calling the XR a “low-cost affordable iPhone”, and the meaning of the words isn’t shifting, slowly or otherwise. Few are calling the XR low-cost, as far as I see.