All you need to know about the iPhone XR

Design

As part of the XR iPhone design combines the best of the X iPhone and iPhone 8. From the first novelty was frameless screen the entire front panel, the second - a frame made of durable aluminum 7000-series and a back cover made of glass.

For the abundance of available colors smartphone can also be called the ideological follower iPhone 5C. For the second time in the history of Apple offers so many bright colors. iPhone XR will be available in classic white and black versions, as well as blue, yellow, coral and even red (PRODUCT) RED, which usually appears no earlier than six months after the official announcement.

Dimensions & Weight

By the size of iPhone XR - is a happy medium between the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. He is greater than the first, but not so with the 6.5-inch screen is huge, as the flagship. As with all current iPhone, at XR have moisture protection standard IP67, which means the ability to withstand a 30-minute immersion in water to a depth of 1 m.

Display

Thanks to the new backlight technology and precision grinding of glass Apple was able to achieve the perfect respective bending body and the minimum framework around the display - it takes about 80% of the surface front panel.

The smartphone uses Liquid Retina, and Apple calls it the best LCD-display ever installed in the iPhone. When the diagonal of 6.1 inches and a resolution of 1792 × 828 pixels it has a density of 326 ppi. By supporting True Tone picture on the screen always looks natural.

To reduce the cost of the iPhone XR company removed gesture support 3D Touch, but instead it now uses a new feature touch with tactile feedback, which also allows you to instantly select the still image mode from the desktop and use the quick action in other applications.

Specifications

Unlike the iPhone XS and XS Max, from iPhone XR only 3 GB of RAM, but it is equipped with the same processor A12 Bionic, which is currently the most productive and energy efficient.

The latest chip is clocked at 2.49 GHz and, in addition to six processing cores, has quad-core graphics accelerator, which is 50% faster than the previous generation. All this works in conjunction with an improved system of Neural Engine, supporting machine learning.

Apple does not mention the exact capacity of the XR iPhone battery, but says that he works for 1.5 hours longer than the iPhone 8 Plus. This, in turn, makes the iPhone XR most tenacious of the entire line of smartphones. Available flag supports wireless charging and the presence of 8-watt adapter can recharge half in 30 minutes.

The main camera

Despite the single camera module, iPhone XR is able to do the same sharp images as well as older models. The smartphone supports portrait mode photo studio with lighting effects and a new function "Depth", allows you to adjust the depth of field, not only in the time of recording, but also after.

Front-camera

As with last year's iPhone X, the new iPhone XR is equipped with a 7-megapixel camera with TrueDepth depth detection technology. Due to the acceleration of work Module Secure Enclave and software optimization Face ID on the iPhone XR is much faster.

With the front camera, you can shoot portrait photo studio with lighting effects, burn video to 1080p-60 frames per second, as well as the use and Animoji Memoji.

Speakers and microphones

iPhone XR boasts stereo sound, as well as older models. This year, Apple has equipped all of its smartphones in stereo speakers, adding to the standard speaker of the lower part of another one located next to the front-facing camera.

Unlike the iPhone XS and XS Max, microphones available from the flagship of all three: in polyphonic speaker and one near each camera. In this iPhone XR can record video with stereo sound.

Ports and wireless interfaces

As with all current iPhone, new items on the housing was only one connector - Lightning. It serves to connect the charger, and wired headset brand. To connect other headphones have to use the Bluetooth adapter or with Lightning 3.5 mm audio jack. The latter, incidentally, is no longer included.

iPhone XR wireless modules Wi-Fi 802.11ac MIMO technology with 2 × 2, Bluetooth, and NFC-enabled reader mode. Also, the smartphone provides a higher data transfer rate of the network due to the 4G LTE Advanced module.

The volume of storage

iPhone XR will be available in three versions. Basic module will get 64 GB, while you can also choose the version with 128 and 256 GB. The maximum date in the amount of 512 GB is available only to iPhone XS and XS Max.

Pricing and Availability

iPhone XR will be in stores later on older models. Pre-orders available on the flagship will start on October 19 and buy it in retail will be exactly one week - from October 26. Such a decision the company took, probably, not to spoil the sale iPhone XS and XS Max.

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