The last time Apple launched a colorful fuselage was in 2013. After five years, the colorful back cover finally came back to life. Although the price of the iPhone XR was much higher than that of the iPhone 5c, it also had a quasi flagship configuration. It is a silhouette killer. The colorful back cover is very beautiful (especially blue and red), and the front face's sturdy frame has a sense of gap. Can its performance and price make you tolerate these minor problems? Let's take a look now.
Parameters and prices
The starting price of the 6499 iPhone XR is 1200 and 3100 cheaper than the beggar version of XS/XS Max, respectively. If you add 500, you can get the 128G version that is "enough but not too expensive". For the XS series, the next higher version is the 256G version, and you need to add 1400, which is painful. In addition, the iPhone XR is now broken in all channels and can be cheaper by about 500, which is good news for users (Cook: black question mark).
This difference, The main castration points are:
The only 3G memory of this generation (the XS series is 4G memory, and the previous generation of 8 Plus/X is also 3G, and the applications of the latter two have begun to reload more)
No telephoto sub camera, no 3D Touch
1792 * 828 "HD screen"
The LCD banger screen has a thicker frame and a thicker body
No 4 * 4 MIMO LTE
Waterproof is also the IP67 level of the previous generation
The good news is:
A12 Full blood retention
The main camera whose unit pixel has soared to 1.4 μ m has not been castrated
Both the Bank of China and the Hong Kong version have physical dual card slots, which support telecommunications (telecommunications users shed tears)
Colorful special treatment, "white/black/blue/yellow/coral red/red", a total of six kinds of color matching, blue, yellow, coral red are the first time on the glass body of Apple
The only LCD iPhone of this generation
Extracurricular instructions:
Kaiann Drance, director of Apple iPhone product marketing (who explained the A12 bionic chip at the press conference), explained the meaning of "R" in the name of XR. Because S and R are suffixes often used in the automotive industry to represent performance, these two letters are used. This usage is similar to that of Porsche 911 Carrera S and Honda Type R (in fact, "GT" is probably the most famous suffix of model name).
Appearance and accessories: "cut" heartstrings
It is also the classic packaging design of Apple. The only special thing is that the logo and iPhone font on the side of this year's six color matching packaging have corresponding colors. The accessories are insincere. The headset and clip of the lightning interface and the ancestral 5V/1A charging head have also canceled the adapter of the lightning to 3.5mm headphone interface. But after all, even the 10000 yuan iPhone is just these accessories, which is not a big problem (if you can fool yourself like this, you will feel better).
The microphone under the camera is protected by a metal mesh, which is very exquisite
Front details and interface distribution
iPhone X、iPhone XR、iPhone XS Max
Both the blue iPhone XR and Xiaomi 8 SE
iPhone 6s、iPhone X、iPhone XR、iPhone XS Max
The appearance of the iPhone XR can be described as a "silhouette killer". The colorful back cover with a shape similar to that of the iPhone 8 has a very good appearance, but the side frame on the front is really funny. The material of the glass back cover is the same as that of the previous generation. It is not as scratch resistant as the XS series, but it has little impact. It is estimated that few people will notice. The side frame is round and frosted. The screen edge has a plastic washer, and the back glass has no washer. The border and glass are well connected, and the touch is good.
The bangs are a little wider than those of the iPhone X/XS series (the bangs of these three sets are the same size). IPhone XR's The lower border control is actually very good. It should be the narrowest LCD chin, It is narrower than 99.9% of Android phones. In addition to my own bangs iPhone and Find X, there are few chins that can be compared with it.
XR vs. Nokia 8810 Border
However, in order to achieve the same width of four frames, the side frame has been sacrificed seriously. It is recommended that users who are particularly concerned should choose the light color version or wear the light color mobile phone case, which will make the frame look less thick
This magnificent frame can lift all your worries about false touch. How thick is it? Apart from the fact that there are no rivals in modern mobile phones, its width can even be 50% of that of Nokia's non smart phones.
When I first got it, I always felt that the two chins on both sides of the screen were not the side frames. Because of the thickness of the side frame, iPhone XR requires iPhone X/XS to be more flat and square. so to speak, This frame makes the iPhone XR feel cheap by itself, It will make you wonder if you have made too many mistakes.
Other colors
Yellow and white (like iPhone 8)
Love to play computer games My colleagues have always considered the ugliest yellow iPhone XR, and the main problem is the border.
Red iPhone XR and red iPhone 8 Plus (the back cover also has the PRODUCT RED logo)
Coral red color matching
Apple has 6 color borders for 6 colors, all of which are made of frosted materials. In addition to the yellow version of Phnom Penh, which is considered to be very incompatible by all computer lovers, other colors are not a big problem. The newly launched coral red, in fact, is a highly saturated orange, which looks very good. The red version is still the PRODUCT RED series, and the back cover has the exclusive word PRODUCT RED.
Hand&Face Recognition&3D Touch&IP67
feel: Because of the border, it has the largest horizontal width in the smartphone with the same screen width, and the radian of the back cover is not large enough, which makes it a little hand holding. For users with small hands, The wide border like the Strait of Gibraltar will even affect the sideslip return movement.
Another factor that affects the feel is thickness. The thickness of the iPhone XR body is 8.3mm, which is not far from 7.7mm of the iPhone XS/XS Max, but the moment I got hold of it, I really decided.
Finally, there is a small disadvantage that this camera is very prominent, and it is single shot. The high and small protrusion makes it tilt more seriously than the X/XS series when placed flat on the desktop. In addition, when buying a shell, you should pay special attention to whether the shell can be higher than the camera, otherwise it will be very sad to wear the shell and grind it to the desktop.
Face recognition: It was mentioned in the Apple press conference that XR uses the same Face ID as the XS series. After the disassembly of ifixit, the 3D structured light element of XR is different from that of the XS series, but not different from that of the iPhone X. In other words, they may be the same in hardware.
According to the press conference, the algorithm and security zone are upgraded this time. After upgrading iOS 12.0.1, the face unlocking speed difference of X/XS/XR has become very small. The three machines have won or lost each other after several comparisons. XR and XS have very little advantage. Before upgrading, it should be slightly slower than the iPhone X of XS Max. After upgrading, it also shows a similar performance. The A12 bionic method is not as strong as expected in face ID.
XR has the largest bangs of Apple (the bangs of other sets are the same size)
3D Touch: iPhone XR canceled 3D Touch 。 The "hard press" operation on the lock screen and in the control center has been changed to "long press". Because long press requires a longer response time, the illusion of one beat slower than the iPhone X/XS series will always occur. Although these Liuhai iPhones do not have side pressing to access multi task settings, 3D Touch is still very useful in calling out WeChat, Alipay QR code and other functions, and can only adapt to XR.
The protection level maintains the same IP67 as iPhone X (30 minutes in 1 meter water depth), and IP68 for iPhone XS series (30 minutes in 2 meters water depth). To be honest, most people can ignore this difference. Their differences can only be seen in the swimming pool or in the sea or river.
Screen and display content
The arc at the upper right corner of the iPhone XR screen is enlarged (pixels on the edge have masks of different lengths)
This 6.1 inch 1792 * 828 LCD high-definition display called "Liquid Retina" by Apple is one of the largest slots on the iPhone XR. The most special feature of its technology is that it has the largest edge arc in the history of LCD screen, and the pixel points on the edge are also specially masked to make the arc edge transition look more smooth and natural.
But it is essentially a LCD screen that maintains the 326 PPI of the 4.7 inch iPhone:
There is no setting of brightness surge under strong light under automatic brightness. The maximum brightness in the center of the screen is 605 nits, and the performance is OK;
The full white minimum brightness is 1.6 nits, which is not as good as 1.2 nits of the XS Max, but lower than 1.8 nits of the iPhone 8 Plus, and it is an LCD without low-frequency PWM dimming, It is suitable for hiding in bed;
Uniformity performance is satisfactory The brightness of the four corners of our set is 570/558/552/575 nits, and there is a very slight shadow on the left edge of the fringe.
This screen also supports P3 color gamut, but there is no HDR. The visual impression is like that of Apple, very comfortable and pleasing. If time can go back, this is definitely the best screen in 2013.
Enlarge iPhone XR screen
Apple's positioning for the iPhone XR is to replace the original iPhone 8 series, so maintaining the 326 PPI of the smartphone is actually a very logical operation. However, Apple had the 1080P screen of the iPhone 6 Plus in 2014 and the P3 color gamut screen of the iPhone 7 series in 2016. People in 8102 who are used to seeing high split screens are most dissatisfied not with PPI itself, but with 8102, It's really mean for Apple to maintain 326 PPI for a mobile phone starting from 6499.
Partial enlarged text of 5 mobile phones
Is it enough?
For users who already use the iPhone 6/7/8 minicomputer, the accuracy is the same;
For users who have used Android or big iPhones, this precision can be detected when they look closely (see the figure above)
Viewing angle: In the picture below The largest screen is XS Max, the middle is XR, and the smallest screen is iPhone 8:
The three units are all 100 nits bright, but the color temperature of the XS Max AMOLED screen in front of the camera is slightly different, and it looks more bright. Even so, it is obvious that, The viewing angle of XS Max crushes the iPhone XR, and the viewing angle of the iPhone XR is similar to that of the previous LCD screen iPhone.
Left XR, right XS Max
Touch delay: The touch of XR seems to be slightly slower than that of XS Max, but both of them have a touch refresh rate of 120Hz, which may be the pot of the LCD touch chip? But if it is not in slow motion, it is difficult for the naked eye to detect the difference, which can only be found in the fierce game.
IPhone XR and iPhone 8 Plus
Display content: The horizontal width of the iPhone XR screen is less than 8 Plus, but they display the same amount of content, so each element is smaller than 8 Plus. Smaller elements will make PPI even more inadequate. Smaller fonts can also make users unconsciously look closer and make things worse. However, Liu Haiping has a very long vertical height, and you can watch one or two more microblogs and web information streams.
photograph
IPhone XR and XS series cameras, The biggest difference is the sub camera, The main imaging is the same in theory. This year, the unit pixel of the sensor has soared to 1.4 μ m, which will significantly improve the tolerance and weak light performance. In addition, This year, the new algorithm on the XS series has brought powerful HDR highlight suppression, and the light scene will have a more crushing improvement.
Daytime scene
Daytime Scenario 1
Daytime scene 1 central zoom in
Daytime scenario 2
Daytime scene 2 central zoom in
Light scene
Light Scene 2
Light Scene 2 Center Enlarged
Light Scene 3
Light Scene 3 Center Enlarged
Light Scene 6
Light Scene 6 Center Enlarged
Light Scene 7
Light Scene 7 Center Enlarged
Weak light/extremely weak light scene
Weak light scene 1
Weak light scene 1 central amplification
Weak light scene 2
Weak light scene 2 central amplification
Weak light scene 4
Weak light scene 4 central amplification
Extremely weak light scene
Central amplification of extremely weak light scene
"Long focus" sample comparison
Zoom contrast 1
Zoom contrast 2
Zoom contrast 3
Zoom contrast 4
Phantom pattern virtualization
Shoot at the same location, pay attention to the field of view and the depth of field compression effect behind (XR is the wide-angle camera for virtualization)
Complex edge matting effect
Simple edge matting effect (matting edge is not as accurate as dual camera iPhone)
Summary
iPhone X： The strength is Apple's consistent accurate white balance and excellent photographic experience, but in front of the new flagship, highlight suppression, weak light tolerance, weak light color saturation, and noise control have fallen behind. Especially for highlight suppression, the gap is really too obvious
Huawei Mate 20 Pro: The basic characteristics and P20 Pro have not changed much. High light suppression, low light tolerance, and noise control are very strong. Only the two brothers can fight each other. Other products are not in the same gradient at all, and the discrimination power of three times the focal length is also difficult to meet competitors. Its weakness is the discrimination under the default situation. Both the default state and the dim light night scene are 10 million pixels, and the sharpening and smearing are too hard, resulting in the drying of the picture and the details like oil painting. Although triple telephoto is strong, it will sacrifice vision. Therefore, when the light difference in the daytime is not large, it is recommended to manually change it to 40 million pixels.
iPhone XR： Apple gives XR and XS Max different metering bias. Although ISO is the same scenario, their performance is very close. However, in the light and weak light scenes, XR's metering is more likely to be lower than XS Max's. The lower ISO makes XR slightly better than XS Max in terms of highlight suppression, noise and discrimination (the gap is very small). Previously, the dual camera iPhone would use the sub camera to participate in light metering (blocking the sub camera during shooting would cause light metering changes), but XS Max has no such phenomenon. Therefore, it is impossible to confirm whether the difference in photometry is due to the lack of sub photography or the difference in algorithm.
Because the XS series HDR is too hard and the dark part brightness is too high, the contrast is low. The XR slightly darker metering makes its image contrast slightly higher. This is impressive news for users who buy XR. Apple did not specifically castrate XR's main camera because of positioning differences. XR's Tolerance and low light performance should crush the previous generation of iPhone X. It's very easy and fragrant.
But after all, there is no sub camera. Even though the advantage of double telephoto in the light scene is not too great, the iPhone XR is crying on the spot by the double telephoto of iPhone X and XS Max in the daytime. Another problem is that, Now the portrait mode has to use a wide-angle camera. There are several restrictions ：
First of all, there are only 3 portrait lighting effects left (there are 5 dual camera iPhones);
Secondly, it can only be effective when the face can be recognized, and can't be used to shoot objects;
Finally, it has the use distance limit, the maximum distance is more than 1 meter.
Although the main camera is used for visualization, it will have a larger field of vision, and the low light film quality will exceed that of the dual camera iPhone (under low light, the main camera effect will be significantly better than the telephoto lens), the iPhone XR is quite different from the dual camera iPhone in terms of depth compression or matting effect brought by the focal section.
performance
We won't repeat the performance of Apple A12 bionics. If you are interested, you can check the official website and WeChat 。
Here is a brief summary: Comprehensively crack the whole Android camp. Now on the Android side, it really looks like all the people will play boss. A12's CPU single core performance has left Android for more than two generations, and its multi-core performance has left Android's strongest voice Snapdragon 845 or so. (The GPU of Kirin 980 is even worse), and the Snapdragon 8150 is the best choice.
CPU computing performance
GPU graphics performance test
High pressure GPU graphics performance test
In detail, the iPhone XR CPU performance is similar to XS Max, but GPU is relatively conservative , I don't know whether it is the physical problem of our XR or whether Apple uses different GPU controls.
If the XR's "HD screen" resolution (1792 * 828) is taken into consideration, when playing games, its load is far lower than that of the iPhone XS (2436 * 1125) and XS Max (2688 * 1242), and its heat and smoothness will be better (although there are few games that let XS Max get stuck now). If the fineness of the actual display is not considered, Yes, the iPhone XR is one of the strongest game phones in the world.
Endurance&Heating&Charging&Signal
Comparison of iPhone XR and flagship endurance
The iPhone XR is equipped with a 2942mAh battery, ranking the second in the active iPhone, after the XS Max. After 30 minutes of wild drag racing 8, 30 minutes of wifi and 4G Internet access and 30 minutes of local video playback, and a total of 2 hours of endurance testing, 85% of the remaining power mercilessly crushed all the flagship, and pulled away from the second place. "High definition screen" can really do whatever you want. There are also 4200mAh battery players in the Android camp.
Pixel's fast charging head can also be more than 17W
Like the previous generation, the iPhone XR supports PD fast charging (but you need to purchase additional fast charging lines and heads). The maximum power is 18W, even with Pixel's PD fast charging head, it is 17W. It also has 7.5W wireless fast charging. Ironically, the power of wireless charging is higher than the official 5V/1A head.
Charging curve of 18W fast charging head (self purchase required)
Although the battery capacity is slightly smaller than that of the iPhone XS Max, the coincidence degree of the charging curve is very high, which starts to slow down after 70% of the power, and enters into obvious trickle charging after 80% of the power. 26% in 10 minutes, 34% in 15 minutes, 60% in 30 minutes, and 86% in 1 hour. Although the trickle time is long, it seems to charge slowly, But it has caught up with the normal Android level. However, Android has started to charge towards 40W and 50W, and Qualcomm QC5 is coming out. Alas, I won't mention these unlucky things.
IPhone XR heats up after 30 minutes of wild drag racing 8
The highest score in the front appeared in the center of the chin, about 36.3 degrees; The highest score on the back appears at the bottom left of the Apple logo (A12 is below), which is about 37.8 degrees.
The iPhone XR has the same fever as the XS Max , the fever condition is much better than that of iPhone X. A12 is also a very hot electric tiger. In the high load test, as long as you run hard for ten seconds, you can feel the local obvious heat. However, because of the huge performance margin, it is impossible to run for a long time with high load at ordinary times. Even during wild racing, the fuselage is only slightly warm.
The upper and lower frames of the iPhone XR are not equipped with new antenna partition strips like those of the iPhone XS series. Although there is no 4 * 4 MIMO LTE, the reason for the signal rollover of the latter is probably because of the new antenna design, which is a blessing in disguise.
When the iPhone XR went on sale, there was iOS 12.0.1, and many bugs in dual card and WiFi were solved. Our daily use of dual cards (one for China Unicom and one for China Telecom) does not result in the pattern disconnection and no signal problems of the early XS Max, which belongs to the normal iPhone level.
summary
IOS is a closed platform, and it is troublesome to transfer the data and applications accumulated by many Apple users to Android (of course, there are also many Apple fans who don't bother to transfer). And after getting used to a set of ecology, it is really difficult to get used to new logic and tools. After all, for most people, the mobile phone is a tool and a tool to reflect their taste, not a toy to debug all day long.
Summarize a wave of iPhone XRs:
It is the game phone with the most performance margin and the flagship with the strongest endurance
Screen size/fineness and single shot are derived from the previous small iPhone
The glass material of the back cover and the waterproof protection grade are derived from the iPhone X
A12 performance, initiative and wireless charging are all the latest products with full blood (although Liu Hai also inherited them)
6 kinds of color matching, Hong Kong version and mainland are both physical dual cards and support telecommunications
So who is XR suitable for? First of all, you have to be a user of previous generations of iPhones, I think the iPhone 8 Plus can be replaced next year 。 Your 401ppi top LCD is still strong. Then there are those who don't want to spend a lot of money to experience Apple A12 SoC, or you like mobile phones with lively colors.
What is the charm of XR? It is the whole rich ecological environment of iOS, It can be linked with Apple Watch, iPad or MacBook. If you want to spend the least money to experience Apple's strongest device this year, iPhone XR is not your best choice, but your only choice. Moreover, XR has also broken its hair. After a while, it should be suitable for starting.
There is no need to avoid the eyes of the money party and Guo Hei, and make your own choice!
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