Tuesday, December 11, 2018

XS vs XR iPhone: Which one should you buy?


Zachary Meixler
Staff Writer

Apple has returned to launching a colorful and affordable update to last year’s iPhone X. While the iPhone XS, XS Max appears to be more expensive, the XR seems to maintain Apple’s highly acclaimed features for a much lower selling price. Feasibly the most remarkable difference between the iPhone XS and the iPhone XR is the display. The iPhone XS has a 5.8 inch OLED, along with 458 pixels per inch , while the XR holds a 6.1 inch LCD with a 326 pixels per inch. Equally important, the iPhone XR downgrades from OLED to LCD ultimately lessened native resolution, which means that the iPhone XR is not capable of displaying full 1080p content.
    The iPhone XR is inadequate in pressure sensitive 3D technology. Although the iPhone XS and the iPhone XR may look similar, they aren’t. The iPhone XS is approximately 5% larger display than the iPhone XS, and it is 10% heavier. Both products feature a 25% louder outward speaker, and an internal eSIM so owners can run work and home, or home and travel sims in a single device.
    Generally speaking, the iPhone XR comes in a more broad range of colors featuring:hite, black, blue, yellow, coral, and (Product) red. On the other hand, the iPhone XS is limited to silver, space grey, and gold, looking almost identical to the last year iPhone X. Another difference between the two products is that the iPhone XS comes with 4GB of RAM as opposed to the iPhone XS which comes with just 3GB.
    This will contribute to a minor improvement in terms of multitasking, due to the fact that more apps can be held in the iPhone’s memory without requiring a proper reload. With the iPhone sales doubtlessly exceeding every other brand it seems that both the iPhone XS, and the XR are the two most interesting phones that Apple has made in years.
    “I like that the screen is a full screen, the face id.” Alexandra Mangano said.  “It has better quality.”