Of course, this does mean that your phone should feel a bit fresher and faster for longer, which is undoubtedly a good thing. To date, the Razer Phone is the only smartphone in the world which supports 120Hz. You see the onscreen framerate of 59fps? That’s not because of a higher resolution screen, but because the refresh rate is capped at 60Hz. Bluntly, all flagship phones feel ‘fast enough’ at this point, and even the extra frame rate won’t translate to a better real world experience. It’s just no contest – and past form suggests it will be unbeaten until the iPhone XI, iPhone 9 or whatever Apple comes up with emerges in September 2019.īut – and this is a big but – you probably won’t notice this much power. ![]() Our GFXBench tests show a phone that eats polygons for breakfast.Īs you can see, the performance (probably helped by the differing requirements of iOS) crushes processors by Qualcomm, Samsung and Huawei. The difference gets even starker when you get to 3D performance. Here are the Geekbench 4 stats to prove it: In short, the iPhone Xs Max wipes the floor with everything else out there, be it iOS or Android-based. The company’s True Tone screen technology makes a welcome return here, for example, which makes things easier on the eyes by matching the whites of the screen to the environmental light.Īnd Holy Moly, the results are impressive. On paper, those may not be the biggest numbers we’ve seen, but it does Apple a disservice to just focus on them when there are other factors at play. Colour reproduction is very good indeed with superb accuracy, and sRGB coverage at 92.6%. So across the diagonal, you have a screen size of 6.5in, with a resolution of 1,242 x 2,688 for a pixel density of 458ppi. You can forgive Apple not feeling the need to innovate here, mind: this is only the second generation of OLED screens after all, and there was nothing wrong with the first one. Our tests found the display got significantly brighter than the iPhone X, peaking at a brightness of 628cd/m2 compared to the X’s 502cd/m2, but that’s about the only real improvement. On paper, it’s the same as the iPhone X, only a bit bigger. The modest improvements continue with the screen. More importantly, Apple now claims the iPhone Xs Max will cope better when facing the triple threat of tea, coffee or soda. What this means is that it’ll survive a half-hour dip in two metres of fresh water, which is twice as deep as before. The iPhone X was IP67 water and dust resistant, and the Xs Max is IP68. The chemical composition of the glass, Apple says, has improved and is now the “most durable glass in the industry.” Yes, that’s vague, but if it means your new expensive toy is a bit more hardy then it’s certainly a good thing. ![]() There are a few minor design improvements on the iPhone X which aren’t visible to the naked eye. Alternatively, you can add multiple people to it, which might be handy if you decide the only way you can justify a £1,099 phone is to buy it as a timeshare. You can add multiple faces, which is handy for filling out the use cases where the phone fails to recognise you: wearing a hat, or sunglasses, say. On the bright side, with the arrival of iOS 12, Apple has made Face ID a bit more flexible. ![]() It looks beautiful but loses something in utility: to unlock, you have to pick up the phone, stare at it intently, wait a second, and then swipe to unlock. There’s simply no room for a fingerprint reader underneath the screen, as the phone has no chin. The latter especially, as it means you’re stuck with Face ID for security. Others are newer, and they still sting a bit: the thick notch and removal of Touch ID.
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