Apple iPhone XR review, advantages, disadvantages and specifications

Apple iPhone XR comes with IP67 dust/water resistant (up to 1m for 30 mins), It has Apple Pay (Visa, MasterCard, AMEX certified), It offers IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, It has a size of 6.1 inches, 90.3 cm2 (~79.0% screen-to-body ratio) that is very suitable for playing games, browsing the internet & watching videos.

Apple iPhone XR advantages

Apple iPhone XR comes with a resolution of 828 x 1792 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio (~326 ppi density), It includes multitouch feature, It has scratch-resistant glass, oleophobic coating for the screen protection, It presents True-tone display, It has wide color gamut display and it provides you with 120 Hz touch-sensing.

Apple iPhone XR offers the latest operating system of iOS 12, It comes with Apple A12 Bionic, It offers a fast CPU, It is powered by a hexa-core processor, It offers Apple GPU (4-core graphics) and it offers superb performance without any lags.

Apple iPhone XR comes with a high internal memory of 64/128/256 GB, 3 GB RAM that is very suitable for multitasking performance, It gives you lots of RAM & a large memory, It offers a high resolution, It presents a high pixel density that makes the display very clear & bright.

Apple iPhone XR has the main camera of single 12 MP, f/1.8, 28mm, 1/2.55″, 1.4µm, OIS, PDAF, It offers features such as Quad-LED dual-tone flash, HDR (photo/panorama), It takes amazing photos with high quality and it comes with 4K video recording.

Apple iPhone XR has video of 2160p@24/30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/120/240fps, HDR, stereo sound rec., It has a selfie camera of single 7 MP, f/2.2, 32mm, It offers features such as HDR, and video of 1080p@60fps, It presents superb selfies and it offers a flash that enables you to take amazing photos in low light conditions.

Apple iPhone XR has 2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, CDMA 800 / 1900, It offers 3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, It offers 4G bands LTE, Speed is HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A, It has GPRS and it presents EDGE.

Apple iPhone XR was announced in 2018, September, It was released in 2018, October 26th, The body dimensions are 150.9 x 75.7 x 8.3 mm (5.94 x 2.98 x 0.33 in), It includes front/rear glass, aluminum frame (7000 series) and it offers Nano-SIM and e-SIM.

Apple iPhone XR has Sound Alert types such as vibration, and proprietary ringtones, It has a loudspeaker, with stereo speakers, It comes with active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic, It presents Comms WLAN such as Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, hotspot and it offers a high build quality.

Apple iPhone XR comes with Bluetooth 5.0, A2DP, LE, It has GPS, with A-GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, and QZSS, It offers an NFC feature, It contains USB 2.0, proprietary reversible connector, It comes with a rich number of superb sensors such as Face ID, accelerometer, gyro, ambient light sensor, proximity, compass & barometer.

Apple iPhone XR offers messaging methods such as iMessage, SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, and Push Email, It supports Browser HTML5 (Safari), It brings you fast battery charging: 50% in 30 min, It has Qi wireless charging, It provides you with Siri natural language commands and dictation.

Apple iPhone XR has iCloud cloud service, it offers MP3/WAV/AAX+/AIFF/Apple Lossless player, It comes with MP4/H.265 player, It has audio/video/photo editor, It has a document editor, It comes with a non-removable Li-Ion battery, Talk time is up to 25 h (3G) & Music play is up to 65 h.

Apple iPhone XR offers misc colours such as Black, Red, Yellow, Blue, and Coral, It has a premium & impressive design, It is a dual SIM (GSM and GSM) smartphone that accepts Nano-SIM & e-SIM, Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, Lightning, Active 4G on both SIM cards, 3G and 4G (with support for Band 40 used by some LTE networks in India).

Apple iPhone XR disadvantages

Apple iPhone XR does not have expandable memory via card slot, It is a bit heavyweight at 194 g (6.84 oz), It does not offer a 3.5 mm jack, It does not have FM Radio, It offers a non-removable battery, It does not support Wi-Fi Direct, It does not have a Temperature sensor or Fingerprint sensor and it does not have Infrared.