Considering an iPhone 11 Pro for a performance boost over the iPhone 11? Think again. According to Geekbench scores for the new devices (currently in the hands of reviewers), the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro will both feature 4GB of memory. That’s the same amount of memory found in the iPhone XS. All devices will also have the same A13 Bionic chip, Apple didn’t even give the Pro model a slight boost. Therefore, all iPhones will have identical performance.
Actually, that’s not entirely true. Because the iPhone 11 has the fewest pixels on the display, the GPU needs to support a lower resolution. That means it won’t heat up as quickly and you won’t run into throttling problems as quickly. Your apps and games won’t have to store as much in memory either. Basically? The cheapest iPhone 11 will be the fastest iPhone 11.
The iPhone 11: Your Best Bet
Apple might have dropped the ball on this one. The iPhone 11 will likely be the fastest iPhone, due to its lower resolution screen and identical hardware specs. It’s also the cheapest and most colorful iPhone. It has fantastic battery life, a dual camera, and few downsides. Sure, the screen isn’t as colorful and it doesn’t have the same contrast as the iPhone 11 Pro, but you likely won’t notice that often. The resolution is lower, but it’s still retina quality, which means, once again, you won’t notice it unless you look very closely. And it’s an LCD screen instead of an OLED screen, so if you suffer from headaches while looking at OLED displays, you’ll feel fine using it.
So why get an iPhone 11 Pro over an iPhone 11?
That’s a tough question to answer (especially since I didn’t). The iPhone 11 Pro has a 2x zoom lens, so if you want to halve the distance between you and a subject, you can use it. It’s improved over the iPhone XS, so it won’t be as useless anymore. In a future update, the iPhone 11 Pro will get a super resolution mode that uses machine learning to add details to your photos where it thinks they should go. If you’re incredibly picky about contrast, perhaps you watch movies with your phone frequently and just need the darkest blacks on your display, you could choose the iPhone 11 Pro for that.
Or maybe you just really like frosted glass and that Midnight Green color?
Those are all small reasons to get an iPhone 11 Pro. If the $300+ difference isn’t a big deal to you, you could just buy a point and shoot camera that will be far better than the zoom camera on the iPhone 11 Pro. Or buy a nice interchangeable lens mirrorless, if money truly is no object to you.
Really? The best reason I can think of is to look like you’re wealthy. Maybe you’re dating and you don’t mind attracting shallow people. If that’s the case, leave the case off your iPhone 11 Pro Max, put it on the table, and really impress the kind of people who believe a person’s most attractive quality is their bank account.
Otherwise? Just get the iPhone 11 and hope that Apple eventually figures out that no one wants a $1,000-$1,500 phone with the features of a phone only slightly more than half the price.
This is getting ridiculous.
Source: AppleInsider