iPhone Xs Max Unboxing and Review

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eeny meeny miny moe catch a tiger by his toe if he hollers let him go i picked this one hello ladies and gentlemen welcome back to another video today we're going to be looking at some of the new iphones now right here i have an iphone 6. right here i have an iphone x which was of course previous year's iphone and then over here i have an xs and an xs max where to check out both of them today and i've actually been using the xs max for uh like a day now or so i wish um so i'm gonna do a little review on the new phone and i'm of course gonna do a little unboxing experience so the reason i actually have these two older phones here is because i wanted to compare them to the xs and xs max um without further ado i guess we're going to start with the xs of course apple is known as that clean company that company that makes everything kind of clean perfect sharp and beautiful so of course their unboxing experience is uh no different and wow of course we have the design by apple in california the typical stuff and right here is the new phone the xs max it's actually kind of hard to get out of its case here can you shout out please apple i get you want to be all clean and everything uh but this is this is hard to get out of how am i supposed to take this phone i got to tip it like that and then everything falls out this is not the unboxing experience so right here is the new iphone of course you get earbuds and you're charging cables and stuff like that we're going to move that to the side we we care about the phone so the new phone has a beautiful oled display just like the original x as far as i can tell it's the same oled display they used on the x as you can see both phones look super similar like like very very similar like they're pretty much exactly the same i mean i think you would have a very hard time telling them apart i don't know if the top camera can see that but uh there's actually a little difference there's like three dots instead of all the dots over here so i don't know why that's not uniform anymore um but again the backs are super similar the cameras look a little bit different because there actually are two new cameras but other than that it really just looks like an updated x and that's pretty much what it is and of course comparing it to the six which is like all aluminum versus the glass back like in comparison to the xs the uh six just feels dirty and kind of old um the phones are just similar in size too they haven't really uh upped the size since the six so that's something to kind of note we are missing the headphone jack though rip headphone jack still we're not gonna get that back ever they still have 3d touch on these phones probably the least useful of anything apple ever put on their smartphones so in this thing we have the new a12 bionic chip uh bionic doesn't really mean anything it just means that it has like a neural engine in it one really big notable thing about this device is it has a seven nanometer processor in it which is really small if you're not a techie might not know what that means uh this is 14 nanometers the x is 14 nanometers this is seven the one i run in my computer is a fourteen two it just means that the transistors themselves are actually smaller or the at least the silicon um so that you know is a pretty big leap though to go from 14 to seven seven is like very very new stuff um but yeah they have an updated kind of little camera thing here with a notch of course they're keeping the notch don't really know how i feel about the notch i mean i guess it's fine rather have the notch than not have a camera and all that stuff in there and face id works really well super fast it basically is like your iphone is unlocked all the time but it is locked that's the whole kind of point now let's take a look at the xs max this is the one i've been using for a little bit same exact unboxing experience the phone's just right here all right now when you pull out that iphone xs max man this is like the really new device we have a new form factor much bigger than the x much bigger than the uh xs basically the same phone but larger and uh yeah we haven't really gotten a fat boy yet for the uh x so now we got a fatboy for it like it's great when you look at it on the x but when you look at it on the xs max man it really stands out it's really uh something to behold here so of course face id i already have it set up i've been using this phone for a day like i said so this is how fast the new face id is on the phones swipe up and you're done super quick super easy i like it a lot i didn't use face id on the x this isn't my x camera is just gorgeous the detail picks up is pretty nice it's not super sharp though a lot of people are talking about how the iphone cameras just aren't sharp or as sharp as the google cameras and i think that's true definitely they're still sharp don't get me wrong they're just a little bit softer of course you can edit your photos to make them look a little bit sharper um but you know it's definitely not picking up as much detail as the google's another thing everyone's talking about is you can actually go into edit and change the aperture of your photos can make it blurry or sharp that's as sharp as it goes f16 all the way to f 1.4 and it looks pretty decent it really does look like it could have been taken um with you know a portrait lens or something like that and you can even change the uh portrait lighting mode and stuff after the fact so a great job apple on your uh you know portrait mode everyone was first coming out was a little bit finicky but it looks great now they've really improved it and of course let's talk about that dynamic range because man is it looking good lots of dynamic range on these new photos that's kind of their main thing is you get nice dynamic range on your videos and photos i'm going to be doing a full uh camera walk through and uh kind of how to shoot an iphone video coming soon so uh if you're a little photo photographer iphone photographer be looking out for that one the video as well is just absolutely fantastic you zoom in and get like the entire phone in there lots of detail shoots in 4k 60 fps which is pretty nuts so you can actually do slight slow motion in 4k and of course 1080p slow motion up to 240fps one thing i've i have been noticing though which really is annoying me is it's using this top camera for the two times zoom sometimes on the photos and i don't understand why so if i cover it there then zoom in two times it's still using the top camera and not that bottom camera uh again i don't know why is it doing that apple is that a glitch one thing that i did notice is lots of glitches now with the new form factor on the max i noticed that my messages were getting all screwed up all sorts of messed up again that new processor is super fast i actually got that new fishing go app that they uh showcased so if you you can actually scan surfaces in it and stuff that you can actually place your own aquarium i know you guys can't see that but you probably can't see that really but there's an aquarium there an ar so lots of ar apps and stuff they're kind of advertising ar a little bit more but yeah it's uh it's looking pretty good i mean i think the phones lived up to their hype a little bit a lot of people are saying they're not doing good enough but both of them are over a thousand bucks which is pretty steep let's be honest i mean i think it's a pretty big step up compared to the old x i mean they're not selling the x anymore so if you want to get an iphone it's going to end up being one of these and uh your pricing is steep on it i'll say that the pricing is definitely steep i bought it but i still think it's super steep guys you're gonna get out competed apple's kind of known as that luxury brand anyways though they'll get people to buy these things i know they'll sell well um but at least you know i think you are getting what you pay for a little bit i mean like look at this old iphone compared to these new ones it's just there's no competition here they're definitely better and they're definitely higher priced all right anyways guys thank you for watching i'm going to do that full uh kind of camera tutorial video soon so um yeah i hope you enjoyed this video i'm at v productions i'll see you next time subscribe and goodbye [Music]