Speaker 1: Not one, but three new iPhones. What's going on. I'm
Speaker 1: rich Demiro. This is rich on Tech. Apple held it's
Speaker 1: yearly iPhone event today in Kooper Tino, and I was there.
Speaker 1: The company got right down to business. They didn't really
Speaker 1: do much housekeeping or give many updates on various product lines,
Speaker 1: except to say that they are about to ship their
Speaker 1: two billionth iOS device. And they said that the Apple
Speaker 1: Watch is the number one watch in the world. And
Speaker 1: they also started this presentation with the Apple Watch. I'll
Speaker 1: have more on that in a future podcast, but let's
Speaker 1: break down what's new with iPhone. There are three new
Speaker 1: models of the iPhone. Let's start with these successors to
Speaker 1: the iPhone ten, which are called the iPhone ten S
Speaker 1: and the iPhone tens Max. Yep, PEPSI had it first.
Speaker 1: Remember that highly caffeinated cola that came in a black can.
Speaker 1: Let's go over those two versions of the iPhone ten S.
Speaker 1: The first is nearly identical to the iPhone ten in
Speaker 1: size and look. It has a five point eight inch screen,
Speaker 1: but the iPhone tens Max has a six point five
Speaker 1: inch screen, which is the largest ever on an iPhone.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, it's not a bigger phone than
Speaker 1: the iPhone eight plus. It's basically the same size, it's
Speaker 1: just that this time the screen takes up the entire
Speaker 1: front of the face. There are no bezels, no home button,
Speaker 1: but yes, there is still that notch. The screens on
Speaker 1: both of these high end devices are Apple's very best
Speaker 1: o lead displays. They look great. They're very brilliant, very bright.
Speaker 1: Now we move inside the phones. They have a similar
Speaker 1: camera setup as before, with dual twelve megapixel cameras. Nothing's
Speaker 1: been improved really as far as I can tell, on
Speaker 1: the front facing camera, which is kind of a bummer
Speaker 1: since iPhone takes some of the worst front facing shots
Speaker 1: in low light. But what can you do. Cameras now
Speaker 1: have a feature called smart HDR, which I really like.
Speaker 1: It blends information from a bunch of frames all at once,
Speaker 1: so this gives you a really nice shot using information
Speaker 1: that the camera gets from all different aspects of what
Speaker 1: you take a picture of. It kind of sounds like
Speaker 1: what Google has been doing with the pixel, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna wait to see how good Apples tech is compared
Speaker 1: to Google's. Once we get one of these phones in hand,
Speaker 1: the pixel is still in my opinion the king of
Speaker 1: smartphone cameras. The pictures that come out of that thing
Speaker 1: are just amazing and you literally have to do zero work. Now.
Speaker 1: Portrait mode is still represented on these cameras on the
Speaker 1: iPhone ten S, but there is a new trick. You
Speaker 1: can now adjust the depth of field even after you
Speaker 1: take a photo. So there's a little slider in the
Speaker 1: edit function and you can slide it up or down
Speaker 1: to make the background blurrier or less blurry. And yes,
Speaker 1: Samsung has had this feature for several phone models, but
Speaker 1: it's new to Apple and it's really cool. After that,
Speaker 1: you have a new A twelve bionic chip inside these phones.
Speaker 1: The processor can handle more transactions at once. Apple says
Speaker 1: it can help open apps thirty percent faster. Plus it
Speaker 1: can now support up to five hundred and twelve gigabytes
Speaker 1: of on board storage. I'll talk more about that in
Speaker 1: a second. Battery life is improved on both of these models.
Speaker 1: The iPhone ten S has thirty minutes longer. iPhone tens
Speaker 1: Max has the biggest battery they ever put in an iPhone,
Speaker 1: although they did not say just how big it is,
Speaker 1: but it does offer up to an hour and a
Speaker 1: half extra time on the phone. The phones also have
Speaker 1: Gigabit Class LTE. Now this is something that Samsung has
Speaker 1: been touting on their devices, so now Apple is in
Speaker 1: line with those and you can take advantage of T
Speaker 1: Mobile's improved six hundred megahertz spectrum, so that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: There's also this really neat dual sim functionality, and this
Speaker 1: is made possible through the use of an e SIM. See,
Speaker 1: you pop your regular SIM in, but there's also an
Speaker 1: e SIM inside, and that means you can have two
Speaker 1: lines on one device. So if you carry a work
Speaker 1: and a personal phone, you might be able to consolidate
Speaker 1: them into one iPhone ten S both lines ring you
Speaker 1: can send text from both lines, and Apple has done
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff with software to make it as
Speaker 1: easy as possible for folks. Because this is kind of
Speaker 1: a foreign concept here in the US, some phones have
Speaker 1: had it, but other phones, especially outside the US, have
Speaker 1: had it for a while. Now, now let's talk pricing
Speaker 1: for the ten s. It starts at nine hundred ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars for the sixty four gig model, eleven hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars for the two hundred and fifty six
Speaker 1: gigabyte model, and thirteen hundred and fifty dollars for the
Speaker 1: five hundred and twelve gigabyte model. But if we go
Speaker 1: down the line, Apple is still kind of playing these
Speaker 1: little pricing games when it comes to the price and
Speaker 1: the storage, especially on the low end. So the way
Speaker 1: I figure it, you're really paying two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars more for the least amount of storage on this lineup.
Speaker 1: So if we follow the pricing down, which means we
Speaker 1: subtract two hundred dollars for half the storage, it would
Speaker 1: be five hundred and twelve gigs for thirteen fifty, two
Speaker 1: fifty six for eleven fifty one, twenty eight for nine
Speaker 1: to fifty, which by the way doesn't exist, and sixty
Speaker 1: four gigs for seven hundred and fifty. That's just simple
Speaker 1: pattern math. But you're paying nine ninety nine for sixty
Speaker 1: four gigs, So realistically nine ninety nine minus seven fifty
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars premium to get that sixty
Speaker 1: four gigabyte model, you might as well go for the
Speaker 1: two fifty six at eleven fifty. Pricing on the iPhone
Speaker 1: ten S max is as fallou sixty four gigs for
Speaker 1: one ninety nine dollars, two hundred and fifty six gigs
Speaker 1: is twelve hundred and fifty dollars, and five hundred and
Speaker 1: twelve gigs is a whopping fourteen hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: The phones are on pre order September fourteenth. They're in
Speaker 1: store September twenty first in gold, gray, and silver. All right, now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the iPhone ten R. This is basically
Speaker 1: an iPhone eight plus, but without a home button. It
Speaker 1: does have an LCD screen, which is less expensive, plus
Speaker 1: a less expensive aluminum housing. It feels super light in
Speaker 1: the hand, but it does not feel cheap. It just
Speaker 1: feels like a nice light phone. It has a big
Speaker 1: six point one inch screen that doesn't go quite edge
Speaker 1: to edge. It does, but there is some black between
Speaker 1: the screen and the edges. I don't think many people
Speaker 1: will notice unless they're looking at it side by side
Speaker 1: with one of the iPhone ten s's. This is going
Speaker 1: to be the phone that I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people are going to gravitate towards because it's got that
Speaker 1: price tag of seven hundred and fifty dollars for a
Speaker 1: sixty four gigabyte model and Apple actually did a pretty
Speaker 1: good job of packing this device with good specs. It's
Speaker 1: not like a phone that has last year's specs. It
Speaker 1: has the same A twelve bionic processor, the same twelve
Speaker 1: megapixel wide angle camera as you get in the ten s,
Speaker 1: but it only has one lens instead of two, but
Speaker 1: it can do the same or a very similar Boca
Speaker 1: effect with the software on the camera instead of hardware.
Speaker 1: And no, it does not have three D touch, but
Speaker 1: it does come in a bunch of fun colors, including yellow, white, coral, black, blue,
Speaker 1: and product red. Overall, this is a very full feature device.
Speaker 1: You just don't get all of Apple's flagship features, and
Speaker 1: the screen resolution isn't as high, but again, most users
Speaker 1: are not going to notice unless it's placed next to
Speaker 1: one of the higher end devices. So the pricing for
Speaker 1: this one seven point fifty for sixty four gigs, seven
Speaker 1: ninety nine for one hundred and twenty eight gigs, or
Speaker 1: eight ninety nine for two hundred and fifty six gigs.
Speaker 1: If we look at that another way, put it in
Speaker 1: a column eight ninety nine for two fifty six, seven
Speaker 1: ninety nine for one twenty eight, and then it would
Speaker 1: be six ninety nine for sixty four because you're having
Speaker 1: the storage and you're taking one hundred bucks off. In
Speaker 1: this case, that sixty four gigabyte model should really be
Speaker 1: six ninety nine and for following the pattern, so your
Speaker 1: best bet would be to spring for these seven ninety nine,
Speaker 1: one and twenty eight gig model. Here, there's really no
Speaker 1: benefit in getting the two fifty six unless you need
Speaker 1: the storage because double the storage is not being offered
Speaker 1: at a discount. The iPhone ten R is on pre
Speaker 1: order October nineteenth. It's in stores on October twenty six.
Speaker 1: There you have it, all the basics on the new iPhones. Overall,
Speaker 1: these are a great evolution. There's not one revolutionary feature
Speaker 1: in any of them. But I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people are going to go with the ten R because
Speaker 1: you get a lot for your money. You get that
Speaker 1: big screen, you get sixty four gigabytes of storage for
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty dollars, and yes, you get a
Speaker 1: very capable camera, so overall it's a pretty good deal.
Speaker 1: You can find links to my video coverage at richontech
Speaker 1: dot tv, including a hands on first look at both phones.
Speaker 1: I'm Rich Dimiro. Thanks so much for listening. I'll talk
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