**iPhone 10s and 10s Max Review: A Step Up in Photography and Audio**

The new iPhone 10s and 10s Max have been released, bringing several notable upgrades to the table. One of the most significant improvements is in photography. The camera on the 10s Max appears to be more aggressive in its smoothing, which can sometimes result in a slightly less natural look. However, this effect is particularly noticeable when examining close-up shots or details, such as the texture of a wall. In contrast, the iPhone 10's camera exhibits slightly less smoothing around the edges.

Despite these minor differences, both devices deliver excellent portrait mode photos, with the iPhone 10's offering being slightly preferred by our reviewer. The focus on the subject is quick and responsive, with minimal shutter lag. However, there are some limitations to the portrait mode, particularly when it comes to capturing abstract objects or hair in certain lighting conditions.

In low-light photography, both devices perform admirably, with minimal blur and pixelation evident in the dark areas of the image. When it comes to close-up photography, the focus is quicker than ever before, making these phones ideal for capturing intimate moments. However, it's worth noting that neither device can match the iPhone 10s Max's superior camera capabilities.

Another notable aspect of the new iPhones is their improved speakers. The 10s Max features two sets of speakers, one on the bottom and one on the top, which provides a more balanced sound experience. When watching videos or movies, the left side speaker can sometimes struggle to produce clear audio, but the 10s Max's design improves this issue significantly. Additionally, the overall volume and clarity of the speakers are enhanced, creating a more immersive listening experience.

**Wireless Charging and Battery Life**

The iPhone 10s Max supports wireless charging, which is faster than previous models due to a new tighter coil on the inside. However, the input power limit remains unchanged at 5 watts. This is where Apple's decision to stick with the old USB-C wall adapter falls short, as it fails to provide a fast and modern charging solution. The inclusion of a 5-year-old wall adapter in the box is also disappointing.

**Gigabit LTE and Carrier Support**

Both devices support Gigabit LTE, which offers faster data speeds than traditional 4G networks. However, this feature's effectiveness varies depending on your carrier and location. In our testing with Verizon in Columbus, Ohio, we saw average download speeds of around 60 Mbps and upload speeds of approximately 9 Mbps. These speeds may differ significantly depending on where you live and which carrier you use.

**Additional Features**

The iPhone 10s Max has several feature parities compared to the standard iPhone 10. While there are no groundbreaking new features, the larger screen provides a more enjoyable experience for certain users. The phone's weight and glossy finish make it easier to hold in the hand than previous plus-sized devices. Ultimately, the choice between these two models comes down to your personal preferences regarding display size.

**Verdict**

The iPhone 10s Max is undoubtedly one of the best phones Apple has ever produced. Its camera capabilities, improved speakers, and faster wireless charging make it an excellent choice for anyone looking for a top-notch smartphone experience. However, the inclusion of a slow wall adapter and limited feature upgrades compared to the standard iPhone 10 may deter some potential buyers.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe iPhone 10 grew up this year we're gonna do an extensive hands-on review of the iPhone 10's max welcome everyone it is either here from Apple Insider after months of rumors and speculation the 10s max is here we're going to break it down check out what's going on on the inside do some performance comparisons and take a look at some of those photos from the new cameras so first up here's the phone it is pretty much the exact same size maybe a little bit smaller than any of the Plus Size versions before the iPhone 8 plus 7 plus any of those but obviously that screen goes full edge to edge here it is compared to the iPhone 10s you can see it's definitely larger at the same time it's still keeping that big beautiful display this is an HDR 6.5 inch super Retina display 2688 by 1242 pixels which gives you a PPI of 458 same is the iPhone 10s it supports the P 3 wide color gamut and has a 1 million to one typical contrast ratio all of that is pretty much same with the iPhone 10 and of course the 10s but what is new this year we have this brand new color so aside from the black and the silver the white we have gold now it's not just your normal yellow gaudy gold it's kind of more subtle it's got that kind of off-white back and the gold in the outside is a little bit so the copper a little bit rose gold it's not gonna really offend anyone so people who don't usually like that bright yellow gold they still might be in to this version it looks really nice on that glossy stainless steel band and even accented around the camera module moving from the outside to the inside is the brand-new a12 Bionic processor with a brand new eight choral neural engine that is paired with four gigs of LP ddr4 ram now those specs are identical here on the iPhone 10's max as they are on the iPhone 10 s and then we have the iPhone 10 on the far left so we're gonna run a bunch of different Geekbench tests here with the iPhone 10 on the Left the 10s in the center in the 10s Mac on that right hand side so as I eat bench for is finishing up we test several several times just we get kind of an average of what these results actually are so let's go ahead and take a look first at the iPhone 10 you can see we've run it a few times here and you can see the CPU test is giving us around 4200 average on the Smeal core and multi-core is coming in around 10,500 ish the graphics test is giving us a score just around 15,000 just above about 15 and a quarter if we move on to our iPhone 10s and give those a comparison on the multi in single core cpu tests we're getting a round of 4,800 on that single core and multi-core has spiked to about 11 and a half thousand those are pretty good games but we got even better gains on the graphics portion it actually jumped up about 30% to roughly around 20,000 moving on to the iPhone 10s max which has these same internals as the iPhone 10s our scores are a little bit lower than we expected about 4,800 and about 10,500 for the single and multi-core scores respectively on the graphics portion we got quite similar results actually coming in above 21,000 which should be great to see on such as large beautiful display next up we travel outdoors to test out those brand new cameras we still have the dual 12 megapixel camera system except there are a few improvements that should lead to better low-light photos in contrast the cameras are largely the same but that top wide-angle camera has actually increased the sensor size and pixel pitch has gone from 1.2 to micrometers to 1.4 that extra depth should allow more low-light to come in Apple has also paired the camera system with that new really fast neural Engine that should allow for better portrait photography image segmentation facial landmarks and facial recognition the 10s and the 10s max also have this awesome depth control feature where you can adjust the amount of blur by increasing or increasing the F value as that F value decreases it is theoretically widening the aperture allowing more light in in blurring the background more gives us some really nice bokeh effects and it even gives you kind of distortion around the edges the same as you would see with a DSLR you saw a first with that iPhone pic now you're here seeing with an actual portrait mode photo of a person we know some of this has been done with apps but they do a really good job here natively we shot a bunch other photo so let's go ahead and take a look at them some lowlights I'm not and we'll compare them to the iPhone 10 starting out with those comparison shots taking a close-up of a tree you can see there's definite little bit more warmth in contrast on the iPhone 10's max similar shots here they're a little bit more bright with the 10s and 10's max you can see there's more aggressive smoothing when you get into the details of the actual wall this is a 10x shot and you can see the iPhone 10's max they're just a little bit more aggressive smoothing around the edges I slightly prefer the actual iPhone 10 shot when we actually look at the picture of the tank portrait mode photos they look great and they lock on in Factor than ever with the iPhone 10's max and with all of our shots the shutter lag is almost non-existent there is a little bit of issues with the portrait mode around kind of more abstract objects you can see in the top of the tank here we're kind of blurred the actual spout happens with kind of abstract objects as well as with hair around the fringe low-light photos were pretty solid with very minimal blur and pixelation going on in the dark areas for a close-up photography we found that the focus was quicker than it had been in the past overall we'd say that the photos are definitely better than the iPhone 10 but it's not necessarily enough to warrant the upgrade all on its own another new aspect of the iPhone 10s and 10's max is improved speakers there are two sets of speakers on the iPhone 10's max the bottom and the top this actual part that you use when talking on the phone is made really loud to use as a natural speakerphone when watching something like a movie it was pretty clear that that left side speaker was not up to the task this year it should be much more balanced so let's go ahead and listen to that 3d soundscape and just overall volume when watching a movie such as Independence Day we'd say not a huge difference in overall quality but the speaker's themselves sound more balanced which should as appala says create a more robust and filling soundstage basically that top speaker just louder and more clear there's less crackle when the valley volume is turned up all the way sometimes you may not notice it other times you certainly will we also have improved LTE their support for gigabit LTE which has varying use in the u.s. depending on where you live additionally it's the first iPhone to support t-mobile 600 megahertz band 71 LTE to help manage this you can see there's a couple new antenna bands one on the bottom which gives you kind of offset speaker grilles and then another one here at the top when we actually did some speed test again this is going to vary completely based on where you are we saw pretty solid results just running on Verizon here in Columbus Ohio we are easily averaging around 60 on the down and nine ish on the upload depending on your carrier and where you live these could be completely different results but for us 63 Mbps down and 8.9 3 up are definitely improvements over our iPhone 10 of course the 10s Mac supports wireless charging and it's actually faster than it was in the past thanks to a new tighter coil on the inside it doesn't really allow for more wattage on the input so just take seven and a half watts but with that new tighter coil it charges a little bit quicker it also has better placement wouldn't put any on the mat you don't have to be as specific and as exact in our testing we notice that it charged faster but not significantly so the one thing that we really have to knock Apple on is the inclusion of this thing this 5y wall adapter it is one not USB C and two it's still only five watts the iPhone 10's max has the largest battery ever in an iPhone and yet we're still stuck with this dinky slow charger this is unacceptable we don't need to switch to USB C necessarily on the iPhone itself but the cord should be a USBC lightning cable and we need to have a faster wall adapter this year the iPhone 10's Macs and the iPhone 10s have feature parity there's no big features that you get by going with the larger iPhone other than the larger screen so when it comes down to choosing which model to get that's really up to you those glossy signs and the heavier weight make this a little bit easier to hold in the hand than previous plus-sized handsets but if you don't need that large display you can go with the iPhone 10s and get just as an amazing phone as it is every year this is the best phone that Apple has ever made if you enjoyed this video like it and hit that subscribe button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily be sure to follow us on social media and we'll see you in the next videothe iPhone 10 grew up this year we're gonna do an extensive hands-on review of the iPhone 10's max welcome everyone it is either here from Apple Insider after months of rumors and speculation the 10s max is here we're going to break it down check out what's going on on the inside do some performance comparisons and take a look at some of those photos from the new cameras so first up here's the phone it is pretty much the exact same size maybe a little bit smaller than any of the Plus Size versions before the iPhone 8 plus 7 plus any of those but obviously that screen goes full edge to edge here it is compared to the iPhone 10s you can see it's definitely larger at the same time it's still keeping that big beautiful display this is an HDR 6.5 inch super Retina display 2688 by 1242 pixels which gives you a PPI of 458 same is the iPhone 10s it supports the P 3 wide color gamut and has a 1 million to one typical contrast ratio all of that is pretty much same with the iPhone 10 and of course the 10s but what is new this year we have this brand new color so aside from the black and the silver the white we have gold now it's not just your normal yellow gaudy gold it's kind of more subtle it's got that kind of off-white back and the gold in the outside is a little bit so the copper a little bit rose gold it's not gonna really offend anyone so people who don't usually like that bright yellow gold they still might be in to this version it looks really nice on that glossy stainless steel band and even accented around the camera module moving from the outside to the inside is the brand-new a12 Bionic processor with a brand new eight choral neural engine that is paired with four gigs of LP ddr4 ram now those specs are identical here on the iPhone 10's max as they are on the iPhone 10 s and then we have the iPhone 10 on the far left so we're gonna run a bunch of different Geekbench tests here with the iPhone 10 on the Left the 10s in the center in the 10s Mac on that right hand side so as I eat bench for is finishing up we test several several times just we get kind of an average of what these results actually are so let's go ahead and take a look first at the iPhone 10 you can see we've run it a few times here and you can see the CPU test is giving us around 4200 average on the Smeal core and multi-core is coming in around 10,500 ish the graphics test is giving us a score just around 15,000 just above about 15 and a quarter if we move on to our iPhone 10s and give those a comparison on the multi in single core cpu tests we're getting a round of 4,800 on that single core and multi-core has spiked to about 11 and a half thousand those are pretty good games but we got even better gains on the graphics portion it actually jumped up about 30% to roughly around 20,000 moving on to the iPhone 10s max which has these same internals as the iPhone 10s our scores are a little bit lower than we expected about 4,800 and about 10,500 for the single and multi-core scores respectively on the graphics portion we got quite similar results actually coming in above 21,000 which should be great to see on such as large beautiful display next up we travel outdoors to test out those brand new cameras we still have the dual 12 megapixel camera system except there are a few improvements that should lead to better low-light photos in contrast the cameras are largely the same but that top wide-angle camera has actually increased the sensor size and pixel pitch has gone from 1.2 to micrometers to 1.4 that extra depth should allow more low-light to come in Apple has also paired the camera system with that new really fast neural Engine that should allow for better portrait photography image segmentation facial landmarks and facial recognition the 10s and the 10s max also have this awesome depth control feature where you can adjust the amount of blur by increasing or increasing the F value as that F value decreases it is theoretically widening the aperture allowing more light in in blurring the background more gives us some really nice bokeh effects and it even gives you kind of distortion around the edges the same as you would see with a DSLR you saw a first with that iPhone pic now you're here seeing with an actual portrait mode photo of a person we know some of this has been done with apps but they do a really good job here natively we shot a bunch other photo so let's go ahead and take a look at them some lowlights I'm not and we'll compare them to the iPhone 10 starting out with those comparison shots taking a close-up of a tree you can see there's definite little bit more warmth in contrast on the iPhone 10's max similar shots here they're a little bit more bright with the 10s and 10's max you can see there's more aggressive smoothing when you get into the details of the actual wall this is a 10x shot and you can see the iPhone 10's max they're just a little bit more aggressive smoothing around the edges I slightly prefer the actual iPhone 10 shot when we actually look at the picture of the tank portrait mode photos they look great and they lock on in Factor than ever with the iPhone 10's max and with all of our shots the shutter lag is almost non-existent there is a little bit of issues with the portrait mode around kind of more abstract objects you can see in the top of the tank here we're kind of blurred the actual spout happens with kind of abstract objects as well as with hair around the fringe low-light photos were pretty solid with very minimal blur and pixelation going on in the dark areas for a close-up photography we found that the focus was quicker than it had been in the past overall we'd say that the photos are definitely better than the iPhone 10 but it's not necessarily enough to warrant the upgrade all on its own another new aspect of the iPhone 10s and 10's max is improved speakers there are two sets of speakers on the iPhone 10's max the bottom and the top this actual part that you use when talking on the phone is made really loud to use as a natural speakerphone when watching something like a movie it was pretty clear that that left side speaker was not up to the task this year it should be much more balanced so let's go ahead and listen to that 3d soundscape and just overall volume when watching a movie such as Independence Day we'd say not a huge difference in overall quality but the speaker's themselves sound more balanced which should as appala says create a more robust and filling soundstage basically that top speaker just louder and more clear there's less crackle when the valley volume is turned up all the way sometimes you may not notice it other times you certainly will we also have improved LTE their support for gigabit LTE which has varying use in the u.s. depending on where you live additionally it's the first iPhone to support t-mobile 600 megahertz band 71 LTE to help manage this you can see there's a couple new antenna bands one on the bottom which gives you kind of offset speaker grilles and then another one here at the top when we actually did some speed test again this is going to vary completely based on where you are we saw pretty solid results just running on Verizon here in Columbus Ohio we are easily averaging around 60 on the down and nine ish on the upload depending on your carrier and where you live these could be completely different results but for us 63 Mbps down and 8.9 3 up are definitely improvements over our iPhone 10 of course the 10s Mac supports wireless charging and it's actually faster than it was in the past thanks to a new tighter coil on the inside it doesn't really allow for more wattage on the input so just take seven and a half watts but with that new tighter coil it charges a little bit quicker it also has better placement wouldn't put any on the mat you don't have to be as specific and as exact in our testing we notice that it charged faster but not significantly so the one thing that we really have to knock Apple on is the inclusion of this thing this 5y wall adapter it is one not USB C and two it's still only five watts the iPhone 10's max has the largest battery ever in an iPhone and yet we're still stuck with this dinky slow charger this is unacceptable we don't need to switch to USB C necessarily on the iPhone itself but the cord should be a USBC lightning cable and we need to have a faster wall adapter this year the iPhone 10's Macs and the iPhone 10s have feature parity there's no big features that you get by going with the larger iPhone other than the larger screen so when it comes down to choosing which model to get that's really up to you those glossy signs and the heavier weight make this a little bit easier to hold in the hand than previous plus-sized handsets but if you don't need that large display you can go with the iPhone 10s and get just as an amazing phone as it is every year this is the best phone that Apple has ever made if you enjoyed this video like it and hit that subscribe button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily be sure to follow us on social media and we'll see you in the next video\n"