Of course, just like last year, it is small incremental changes. Actually, I shouldn’t say that, last year the phones were basically the same as the X, only we got the Max version and the budget XR.
This year, the Pro versions are upgraded a little more. The camera upgrades are the biggest differences and it seems Iphone really went all out hardware and software wise for the cameras. I have only taken food and outdoor shots so far as I really don’t take watch pics with my phone, but going to try it out in studio later today so I will upload some pics later.
The glass back on the Pro versions is now frosted, and it creates a nice look, it’s still slippery, but maybe a little more grippy than the polished glass. Otherwise, besides new colors, it has a brighter screen and “Super Retina HDR” and Dolby Audio. There is a difference when looking at last years model in both the screen and the audio, but nothing that will blow you away. It’s better, but marginally better.
IOS 13 of course adds a lot of new features and as far as I know, there are only two real features that the new phones will get over an older phone running IOS13-Deep Fusion for the cameras, which comes out tomorrow in the 13.1 update, and Night Mode. Deep Fusion is supposed to make the photos even better by taking a few pics before you even hit the shutter button, a few after, takes the best one, and then reduces noise, over exposure, adds more detail etc, all within a second. I’ll test that out tomorrow I guess.
Night Mode Photos.
This is a great feature and in my limited testing, really does work well. Keep in mind, in complete darkness, photos will still look blurry and like shit. Night Mode basically lightens it up with software and does a longer exposure to help bring in any light into the photo. If there is no light at all, it doesn’t work. Makes sense. If you are in pretty low light, it will do a 3 second exposure. That’s hand held. If you put it on a tripod, it will do a 5-6 second exposure. Basically, if you are at a concert or a game, or at a restaurant with dim lighting, in a room of your house at night that doesn’t have lights on but light is still coming from another room, this will be a nice feature to take a good photo without having to use the flash.
Otherwise, it still works like any other iPhone. The build quality is nice, the new colors are nice, (I got midnight green), and some of the new features in IOS13 are nice as well.
I had an XR, so getting a pro was an upgrade. I went with the regular Pro because I hate carrying around the massive 6.5 inch max around. I like the screen size of the Max, but hate it in the pocket. I do miss the size of the XR, especially being able to have zoomed view on the home-screen, just made all the app icons a little larger and easier to read, but this phone is great to pocket and the OLED display with the increased brightness is a good trade off.
Here’s a pic of the midnight green with the pine green apple silicone case. As you can see, lying down and next to that case, it doesn’t look that green, it looks more space grey. When the light hits it right though, you can see it is a nice shade of green.
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