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our guys johnathan here welcome to my

review of the iPhone at 10 s max so this

review will primarily be focused on the

10s max reviews for exactly a week as

the court in this video everything for

the most part will apply to the 10s but

if want to see a more in-depth

comparison in side-by-side look at those

two I covered that pretty thoroughly on

my unboxing video which you can check

out up here or down below or there's

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iPhone 10s or 10s max your choice

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to preface this video for the most part

I try to find a positive and fun in tech

because we seem to live in this super

toxic world where everyone just wants to

hate on everything with that said though

I also want to present this as balanced

as possible so along with the good I

also want to point out the bad starting

with the fact that is 2018 Tim Cook

Timothy Tim bow the fact that there is

not a fast charging option in the box

let's talk about it Apple does a lot of

really good things but oftentimes I

think it gets negated or overlooked

because people have this mindset that

Apple's trying to nickel and dime will

rip them off and it's hard to argue with

that you are a trillion dollar company

so go the extra mile include a fast

charging solution in the box and it's

gonna make people feel nice warm and

fuzzy inside especially when they are

paying upwards of fifteen hundred

dollars for a smartphone now for you

guys watching there are two major points

I want to get across one this is an S

upgrade so yeah it's going to look very

similar to last year's iPhone and two I

read a comment a line saying that Apple

did not make the iPhone 10s for those

that own an iPhone 10 and I think that

hit the nail on the head

so last week if you walked into the

Apple Store on one of the pick of knife

110 it would cost this much fast forward

to this Friday if you wanted to grab an

iPhone 10s it would cost exactly the

same so we didn't know an iPhone 10 or

you're coming from a 7 or 7 plus or

anything prior to that and you could pay

the exact same price and get a better

phone

 

now that doesn't negate the stupid stuff

like the lack of fast charger in the box

the fact that you can't control camera

settings within the app the fact that

you can't see your battery percentage at

a quick glance without going to control

center but with that said the iPhone 10s

and 10's max does make a really sought

upgrade for most people not iPhone 10

owners so now that we got that dance out

the way let's talk about the phone so

the phone yeah again it's an S upgrade

so it's going to look very similar to

that from 10 and this year of course we

do have that fancy new gold color which

my opinion out of the three sorry

marques I think looks the best and for

that one guy out there I'm gonna wait

for you I know you're drooling chomping

at the bit waiting to say but that

speaker grille it's not symmetrical yeah

that is technically different and also

amongst the dumb things I'm not sure why

Apple did that they're usually all about

symmetry and that just doesn't look that

good actually

breaking news Gloria Borger pew news the

iPhone 10s camera is slightly different

so those iPhone 10 cases won't work damn

it Tim back to the phone you got a

stainless steel frame that complements

the glass very well speaking of that

glass wireless charging it's faster this

year again not a reason to go upgrade

and sell your iPhone 10 but it's welcome

also also speaking of glass I'm not sure

if I'm crazy this year but it seems less

slippery English is fine regardless

though even though I'm using the large

tennis max I found myself not

accidentally almost dropping the thing

like every six seconds now as my guide

eight TV would say the iPhone 10's max

is a thick boy and thick boys have thick

screens this is a 6.5 inch super retina

HD OLED display and fancy Apple talk

aside you got a resolution of 2688 by

1242 so that way when your Android

friends say bro what you know about that

1440p display cuz at 12:42 p action

pixels aside though it is a really nice

display honestly I was a little

apprehensive going up to the 10s max

I've always thought at a 5.8 inch iPhone

10 or in this case 10s form-factor was

the perfect size but I gotta admit the

extra screen real estate is nice

unfortunately though that notch is still

there and what's interesting is last

year Apple's seemed to embrace it with

their marketing and this year that kind

of pulled it backwards and reverted

probably because everyone and their

mother copied it on smartphones this

year but the gun as far as to try and

hide it with this fancy pants live

wallpaper that is exclusive to the

iPhone 10s and 10's Mac so if you were

hoping for a notch reduction that did

not happen this year I would bank on

that happening next year now a new thing

on there from tennis and tennis max is a

wider stereo sound they're still using

the earpiece to kind of get that but

there is a noticeable difference now I

am reviewing tennis max but because I

know if I compare the 10s max against

the 10 someone's can say yo that's a

bigger foam Pro it's gonna give a bigger

sound what you doing so for the sake of

this test I will use the iPhone 10s

stack side by side against the iPhone 10

 

now I get it

that's totally hard to portray through

video that was recorded in stereo so

hopefully could hear a little bit of

that difference I will say it's

noticeable but again it's not like crazy

better than the iPhone 10 and again

Apple did not make the iPhone 10s for

those that own the iPhone 10 it's gonna

sound a hell of a lot better than your

iPhone 7 or 7 plus or maybe you got a

poco phone and didn't really like it

come at me bro I'm sorry now something I

don't like with the display see what

we're doing here is I don't think Apple

is taking full advantage of the screen

real estate on the 10s max what they do

with the iPad pro and iOS 12 is awesome

and I wish they would take a thing or

two from that and bring that over to the

10s max yes certain applications take

advantage of landscape but it's limited

and again you just really aren't getting

the most out of that giant display with

that said though after using the 10 s

max for about a week now going back to

the - 10 s or 10 I feel like Drax and

I'm using a baby phone shifting gears

going back to the iPad pro if you watch

front page tech on a daily and you live

breathe and die by those rumors one

thing that we heard was the iPad pro is

going to incorporate USBC and

unfortunately that didn't happen on this

year's iPhone for better or for worse

we're stuck with that light and

important if your hopes were up that

Apple maybe might change that one day

bring those suckers down because if

anything Apple is just gonna shove that

port all together on a body bag and

throw it in the ocean because they want

everything Wireless thanked hurrying

Jesus know that that day is not today

because that would be one more thing

people would be freaking out in the

comments over now the inside is Apple's

a 12 Bionic chip which is actually the

same across the iPhone 10 s and 10 R as

well this is a 6 core CPU to high

performance cores paired with four low

power high efficiency cores

now one thing I want to address if you

just looked at Geekbench which you

absolutely shouldn't do if you stacked

an iPhone 10 at next to an iPhone 10 s

the numbers aren't that drastic Apple's

only claimed that about a 10 to 15

percent performance boost on this year's

CPU where the performance gains happen

though is on the GPU this year there's

actually an additional GPU core so it

last year where we saw three this year

there is

four and that's where that juice happens

so if you look at something like a

computation or antutu which I honestly

didn't think I would be doing as part of

my day-to-day you can see the

performance gains from the iPhone 10s

compared to the ten are huge and again

the iPhone 10s is not made for the

iPhone 10 owner if you're coming from

anything prior it's gonna be even bigger

the other huge thing with that a 12 on

of chip is that it's now on a seven

nanometer process and yeah that sounds

like fancy tech talk but it's actually a

big deal while at 10 to 15 percent

performance boost on the CPU might not

seem like that much it's doing all that

with about 50 percent less power so more

than anything this chip is kind of like

that forefront and step into the future

for iPhone chips so what do all those

cores and nanometers and gigawatts mean

unfortunately for the average person not

a whole lot yeah the iPhone 10s Macs and

10s for that matter pair with iOS 12 is

a really fast phone but the iPhone 10

was as well again though we got to stop

comparing the iPhone 10s next to the

temp you were coming from absolutely

anything other than the iPhone 8 the 8

plus or the 10 the iPhone 10s is going

to scream what I think it comes down to

though I think the iPhone today is in a

very similar situation as the iPad pro

there's a ton of power but there's not

really a ton of things in terms of like

everyday tasks that you do that really

utilize that it's kind of the same thing

with face ID this year yeah it's faster

it's snappy especially with iOS 12 but I

never found myself having problems or

feeling like it's slow on the iPhone 10

but again if you had anything prior if

you had an iPhone 8 you didn't have face

ID whether it's in direct sunlight or

complete darkness face ID just works for

me by now

I am 100% used to not having a home

button and honestly anytime I go back to

a smartphone that has one I feel a

little weird one thing I want to point

out that's more Iowa's 12 related as

opposed to iPhone Tenace specific is now

you don't have to stupidly pause swipe

up to X out of apps you just simply

swipe up so on the topic of no home

button it is just a much smoother and

more enjoyable experience this year all

around speaking of that front facing

camera I think we naturally got to talk

about MIMO G and ahead emoji

and there's not too much to say about it

except I know you guys out there you use

it you don't want to admit it but it's

fun and now you can track your tongue

better than ever

keep it clean now what I was most

excited for and honestly what I think

might be the biggest change on this

year's iPhone is the camera so the

sensor it's actually larger this year

and that helps with low light you have

twin 12 megapixel shooters a wide-angle

and then a telephoto lens in that pair

with the processing really impressed me

this shot in particular here out in

Venice at a skate park really stood out

to me one I finally felt like I took one

of those shots that asshole throw up on

a billboard and to the fact that you

have that kind of dynamic range and you

are freezing that moment in time is

amazing this shot here as well is

beautiful it's colorful it pops its rich

but if you look closely we are freezing

that little burden time now from their

portrait mode which is so much better

this shot here with the super handsome

jared leto aka

Kevin Kenton was one of the first shots

that really wowed me for starters were

indoors this is all natural light and

what was most impressive is that outdoor

window should be blown out to all hell

but it's retaining the shadows the

highlights it's just a really great

image now hopping back to the skate park

my buddy Leandre who's an amazing

boarder make sure you guys check out his

Instagram this shot really kind of

captures portrait mode in all its glory

what are the new things with the iPhone

10s and 10's max this year is the

ability to adjust aperture and I know

people are gonna say Samsung had that 16

years ago but it's a little different

here on these iPhones yeah it still

software base but it's doing more than

just blurring out the entire background

it's actually reacting to how you open

up that f-stop you can definitely overdo

it like in this shot if you just go

balls to the wall wide open it looks a

little fake but if you dial it down kind

of go in the middle it looks super nice

we can really start to see it take

effect though is when you have those

beautiful bokeh balls like these guys

you can see those bokeh balls get bigger

more beautiful and just more pleasing to

the eye so to say that this is exactly

the same as every other smartphone I

don't think is entirely accurate from

there let's go to talk about video now I

don't upload in 60 frames per second

because 24 for life but if you want to

see this iPhone 10 s in its full 4k 6

the FPS glory check out this video up

here or down below now where the 60fps

is useful for me is if you actually slow

those down you get some really cinematic

footage you can of course go all the way

up to 240 frames per second so check

this stuff out

but it is

if you like common choppy on

let's take

right now

I can fly in the sky now it is worth

noting that a 60 FPS 4k you don't get

smart HDR if you want to take advantage

of that you're gonna make sure you want

to shoot 30 frames per second or if

you're a decent human being

switch to 24 from there hopping over to

the portrait camera oh my goodness

portrait selfies are so much better just

like you have the ability on the rear

facing camera you can also adjust the

aperture on the front-facing selfies as

well so again you can't overdo it but if

you find that sweet spot in the middle

you can get some really pleasing results

now in addition to those porker selfies

just flat-out being better the dynamic

range is also much improved like this

shot Here I am looking directly into the

Sun and it's holding everything together

for so it's the iPhone 10 is straight up

says fu is too bright I'm not taking

that shots also what's kind of cool is

portrait selfie with two people in the

frame so one shout-out to mr. Joshi oh

he's a super talented creator makes you

guys check him out but - you actually

got two people in there and is doing a

really nice job one thing that's also

new with the front-facing camera is

1080p at 60 frames per second so if

you're all about that 60fps life you

might like the iPhone 10 s one thing I

want to point out though because it kind

of goes back to the infuriating part of

Apple not allowing you to change

settings within the camera app you might

be looking like how do I change the

front-facing camera to record 1080 60

what you have to do is actually set the

rear-facing camera at 60 frames per

second with its 4k or 1080 and that will

automatically trigger the front-facing

camera to also shoot 60 frames per

second now I know the theme of this

video has been if you own an iPhone 10

you probably shouldn't upgrade to that

from 10s but I'm willing to bet after a

lot of you see that camera you're gonna

be really tempted but honestly I think

if that's the sole reason I would hold

off because everything that's great

about the cameras this year is gonna be

even better next year other things that

might be a big deal to some of you out

there is the addition of dual SIM and

the way that works is you have one

physical sim paired with

1e sim the only actual location that's

getting to physical sims is in China as

far as battery life I always found the

iPhone 10 batter to be pretty solid but

if you found yourself just coming up a

little short at the end of the day the

10s max is gonna get you over the hump

because battery life for me has been

pretty fantastic I think overall the

battery life King crowns still gots to

go to the galaxy note 9 if you want to

see a full comparison of that against

the 10s max let me know by dropping a

like down below as far as water

resistance that has also been improved

this year on the 10s and 10's max Apple

is claiming that in addition to water if

you drop it in salt water soda coffee Oh

J kool-aid Capri Sun don't worry

don't sweat rinse it off let it dry for

about five hours and you should be good

to go

overall the iPhone 10 and tennis max are

really well-rounded phones the problem

is they are expensive as all hell with

the iPhone 10's max going up to nearly

$1,500 I think for the average person

most people don't need that much storage

for me I live for the most part in the

clouds so I don't need 512 gigabytes of

storage my one complete my final

complaint to Apple along with the price

is hey it is 2018 let's get rid of that

64 gigabyte based option you don't do

microSD card expansion you have to sell

your third son to afford these things

bring 128 gigabytes as the base option

and again it's those small things that's

gonna go a long way and make people feel

warm and fuzzy aside from that that is

my iPhone 10's max review holy video

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