What is worth buying in this article? Original by users: Liu Benpao
Believe me, it doesn’t make sense to discuss whether iPhone XR is worth buying at this stage. Because, no matter whether it is the current hot topic in the mobile phone circle or the recent relevant information reports, this phone released in September last year is out of date no matter how you look at it.
Why do I still write such an article under such a premise? Because the price of iPhone XR is really good recently.
Before the article begins, we must first know:
iPhone XR and iPhone XS Max are two products with completely different positionings. Their price difference is 3,000 yuan, so we cannot ask for it from the perspective of the latter. In addition, the iPhone XR is not a cheap version of the iPhone, because it is a flagship that is positioned as a mid-to-high-end one in terms of pricing, performance or workmanship, and it is not the successor of the iPhone 5C.
3 months ago, I wrote an article titled "60 days of deep use of iPhone XR, I want to recommend it to everyone". The article describes my first image and experience of iPhone XR, so today I will not repeat its appearance and performance. Let me briefly talk about the points that netizens are more concerned about, that is, the several issues listed at the beginning of the article. Will the
screen affect the visual experience?
I think that any display device gives people the most intuitive experience of using it depends on the screen quality. After Apple released the iPhone XR, my inner OS, like many people, was "Well, this is very Apple". The screen, resolution, and charger that should be changed have not changed, but the price that should not be changed has been raised a lot.
won’t talk about the actual appearance. The starting price is as high as 6499 yuan and a 1792*828 pixel resolution is not conscientious. Even if you have excellent screen tuning, you can at least use 1080P to make consumers more psychologically comfortable when purchasing. (When it comes to this, I can praise Samsung next door)
After getting the iPhone XR, I found that the problems mentioned on the Internet such as poor screen resolution and strong graininess do exist, but the premise is to look at the phone close to your eyes, but imagine who would use the phone like this. So in daily use, you don’t have to worry about it affecting the visual experience at all.
In other words, among all mobile phone products, the least you have to worry about is the screen quality of the iPhone. iPhones before iPhone X have never used OLED screens, and the resolution has never reached 1080P. But in the situation at that time, did you feel that their display effect was poor?
In addition to Apple's excellent screen tuning, it also comes from the natural advantages of LCD. First of all, let’s briefly talk about the working principle of OLED and LCD. The luminescence principle of OLED screen is to directly project the light of red, green and blue three primary colors through the organic light emitting secondary body, while the LCD screen relies on the backlight layer to emit light, which is commonly known as LED backlight . However, these backlights can only emit white light. If you want to project three primary colors, you also need to use a layer of red, green and blue filters to color them.
Simply put, their light sources are different. OLEDs have self-luminous properties, while LCDs emit light through backlights, so there is an essential difference between them. The advantage of
LCD screen is that it is arranged differently from the OLED screen. LCD adopts three-color standard arrangement, so it is not easy to experience visual fatigue when used, and the clarity will be higher under the same resolution. This is also the main reason why "LCD will never be a slave".
But even so, we still cannot change the objective fact that LCD will eventually be replaced by OLED. There are two main reasons. The first is that LCD adopts a multi-layer structure, and feedback requires a progressive process, so the response time is slightly longer than that of OLED screens. Don’t underestimate the gap between the slightest. In a fast-paced living environment, people always hope to obtain more and useful information in a shorter time, and the accumulation of this information takes time to settle. At the moment when everything is fast, if you slow down for a second, you may miss a useful information.
On the other hand, it is inevitable that the development of mobile phones will be caused. Looking at the entire history of mobile phone development, we can find that one information is that the main size and screen size of the mobile phone are always changing, but it has never been separated from it is mobile portability. This is mainly due to people's desire for information acquisition efficiency brought by a larger screen, and at the same time, they also hope to have better mobile portability. For example, a full screen is to further expand the screen display area while solving mobile portability.
But this path will always reach its limit. No matter how big the screen is, it will not be larger than the size of the phone. At this time, if you want to expand the screen, you can only increase the body size. However, this will violate the original intention of the mobile phone as a mobile device. Therefore, folding screen is a very good solution, and we can also see that more and more mobile phone manufacturers are starting to make efforts in the folding screen.
However, it requires a prerequisite for making folding screen phones, which must be a flexible screen, so you can only use OLED. Will there be a big discount on the
without 3D Touch experience? Many people have many speculations about the cancellation of
3D Touch. Some say it is for cost considerations, and some say it is to open the gap with the iPhone XS series. However, in my opinion, it is more likely to be based on the weight and thickness of the body. The body thickness of the iPhone XR is 8.3mm and weighs 194g. Although it has not reached "half a catty", you can clearly feel a heavy feeling of heaviness in your hand.
In this case, if you still have to strengthen the 3D Touch module, it will inevitably increase the thickness and weight of the phone, and the result is that you sacrifice the feel of holding.
has good and bad online discussions about the usability of 3D Touch, but more people think it is not practical, and some people even don’t know that the iPhone has such a function at all. My previous iPhone was an iPhone 7. After using it for a year, I have become accustomed to pressing the WeChat Alipay icon to call out and scan the code to pay when I spend. I am also used to pressing the notification bar to quickly browse information when I come to notify me. I am also used to pressing the keyboard to move the cursor when I modify text.
On iPhone XR, the alternative given by Apple is to long press, press and press the key on the lock screen interface to open the flashlight/camera, and press the control page to the option bar to call out the secondary menu. It felt okay to experience it a few times, but when I long pressed the application icon on the desktop, my thoughts changed because it feedbacked me to the icons floating on the screen. Then I quickly opened the keyboard again, pressed the keyboard once and didn't respond, pressed the keyboard twice and didn't respond, and pressed the space bar for the third time and finally saw the cursor symbol. Then I tried it again, and this time my finger accidentally slid, but it turned out that there was no response.
So the cancellation of 3D Touch has been much less experienced for users who have long been accustomed to this function. Although Apple has given an alternative to long press, there are few applicable scenarios. For example, the scenarios mentioned above, the one with higher frequency of use is obviously the latter two, but one of these two has poor user experience and the other cannot be used directly.
Another thing that may not have been noticed is that 3D Touch and Taptic Engine on iPhone have a linkage relationship, and the vibration feedback of Taptic Engine will be triggered in every 3D Touch application scenario. But on the iPhone XR, due to the cancellation of 3D Touch, Apple's proud feature has become fewer scenes. Can
single camera really bring an excellent shooting experience?
In terms of mobile phone photography, we often follow the manufacturers' routine. This routine is that almost all mobile phone manufacturers use numbers to stimulate consumers' judgment of their mobile phone shooting ability. For example, the number of lenses, or the height of pixels.
But the fact is that the higher the number, the better? Friends who like photography should have heard this saying: A higher level of bottom crushes people to death. This sentence mainly means that camera sensors with larger photosensitive areas can bring more light inflow, thereby capturing a larger dynamic range, so the quality of the photos taken will be better.
However, the internal space of the mobile phone is very limited, and it cannot plug the camera-like photosensitive element. If the quality is not enough, you can only use quantity to make up. Therefore, more and more mobile phone manufacturers have successively launched dual-camera, triple-camera mobile phones, and even five-camera.
multi-lens can indeed improve the quality of the film, but in our daily use, the frequency of single lenses is much higher than that of dual lenses. This is not to say that multiple lenses are not necessary, because in the current mobile phone market, the increase in the number of lenses has become a helping force for overtaking on the mobile phone camera curve. As for the extra lenses, I can’t use them, but you can’t.
Of course, good photos are not only achieved by relying on the bottom, but there are many examples of small bottoms that counterattack the bottom, such as Google Pixel 3 and iPhone X series. Their COMS size is certainly not the largest in the industry, but they use excellent software algorithms to synthesize multiple photos and then get very excellent performances such as super night scenes and smart HDR.
Let’s talk about the iPhone XR. The difference between it and the iPhone XS series is that it only has one camera on the back. In today’s era of dual camera standard and triple camera mainstream, every time I pick it up, I always feel that it is not very similar to the product of this era. Fortunately, Apple did not perform performance castration on this only lens. It uses the same main lens on the iPhone XS series, so there is no difference in daily shooting.
Below are several straight samples:
Obviously, it is no point in discussing the camera performance of iPhone XR at this stage. It does not have a telephoto lens and the main camera does not support 2x lossless zoom. So Smart HDR is its biggest advantage. As for the above sample shots, the overall performance of the film is pretty good. It can still be maintained in the second echelon, right?
Although the iPhone XR does not have a second lens, it still supports portrait mode. However, the way to implement portrait mode is different from the dual-camera XS series. The XS series uses the dual-lens depth of field algorithm to cut pictures, while the iPhone XR uses neural network to learn to recognize cut pictures. So essentially, there is still a difference between them, which also leads to a phenomenon, as shown in the figure below:
It is okay to photograph people when using portrait mode, but it is difficult to recognize objects, or it is not possible to recognize them.
Is it appropriate to buy iPhone XR at this stage?
Recently, due to the 618 event, iPhone XR has different price cuts on major e-commerce platforms, and some platforms even directly reduce the price by 1,000 yuan, so the online discussion has started again. But I personally think this is a relatively embarrassing question at the moment. It is not worth buying. The recent price is too exciting. It may be the most cost-effective and comprehensive quality A12 device that can be bought at present; it is worth buying, but it has many small shortcomings that are hard to ignore. At the same time, the price is not enough to make money without any pain, and September is coming again.
There are many people on the Internet saying that if you don’t change your phone for two years, the iPhone is the best choice. Based on the iOS closed source ecosystem, the iPhone can indeed be free from being stuck for two years. But in fact, Android flagships are also OK, but many people have not tried it. The reason is that everything will have a shelf life, and people's freshness about new things is very short-lived. When new products and new technologies appear, it will be difficult for people to control their inner desire for consumption.
See this If you are still preparing to buy iPhone XR, then there is a bigger question in front of you, that is, can you accept its big black edge.
As for why the border of iPhone XR is so wide? The reason is this, because the iPhone XR uses an LCD screen, which means it cannot use the COP screen package. If you don’t use the COP, it means that its chin cannot be as narrow as the iPhone XS Max. However, Apple wants to make it look more unified visually, so it simply makes the remaining three sides as wide as the chin, so there is a visual big black edge, so it is ultimately because you are poor.
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Wikipedia - Organic light emitting diode
Aifu Technology - iPad mini5 review
People's Attack Photo Xiaobei - Zhihu - Why are there more and more cameras on mobile phones?
