Is iPhone XR really cost-effective? Here are 3 reasons to give it up

This week, the iPhone XR, which is known as the "cheap version of iPhone" this year (not really a cheap version), will be officially launched. To be honest, when this product was launched, it was controversial and reminded us of the colorful iPhone 5C a few years ago.

Of course, the iPhone XR is not without merits. After all, its low price and excellent processor are also its major selling points. So is this iPhone XR with 6 colors worth buying? You will have the answer in your mind after reading this article.

Colorful and a bit non-mainstream

Many people may not know that Apple is actually a brand that likes to play with colors. As early as the Mac era, it launched the colorful iMac G3 personal computer. It can be said that the appearance of iMac G3 completely subverted people's imagination of personal computers.

Later, Apple brought color to its fullest in the iPod. But interestingly, since the advent of the iPhone era, most users seem to be unimpressed by Apple's use of color in mobile phones. Especially after the launch of the iPhone 5C, the definition of "more colors, cheaper" has been deeply engraved on the iPhone.

However, Apple seems to like to do things its own way, and launched as many as 6 colors of iPhone XR at once. So many people translated the "R" this time into Rainbow.

Personally, if the iPhone XR only had four colors, black, white, blue, and red, I would be more or less okay with it. But I really don’t understand the purpose of the yellow and the so-called coral red. Especially the yellow, please forgive my aesthetic taste, I really can’t accept it.

I would like to predict that the yellow version of iPhone XR will definitely be the first one to be reduced in price on third-party e-commerce platforms. Therefore, color should be one of the biggest factors affecting the iPhone XR.

Flagship chip castration configuration

As the saying goes, there is no harm without comparison. If the iPhone XR was born before the two XS brothers, this phone can be regarded as a qualified flagship. After all, it has A12 and Face ID.

If you have watched the press conference, you must have some understanding of the performance of the A12 Bionic chip. It is a combination of 2 large cores and 4 small cores. The performance of the large core is 15% higher than the previous generation, which can save 40% of power consumption and improve GPU performance by 50%. In short, A12 can do what A11 cannot do, and it is more power-efficient.

However, if you compare the iPhone XR to the iPhone XS, you will find that the iPhone XR not only has the 3D Touch function castrated, but the screen also uses LCD material, the resolution is only 1792 x 828, and the PPI is 326, so you can still see the "big fruit grains" if you look closely.

In addition, it is worth noting that the iPhone XR is also castrated to IP67 in terms of waterproof level. I think there is no need to elaborate on what this means.

LCD will never be a slave, but the black border is a bit touching

First of all, it should be emphasized that LCD and OLED are two different materials, so there is no subjective good or bad. However, both materials have different advantages, but they will show different effects when used on mobile phones of the same size.

I believe that the display effect of the LCD screen on the iPhone XR should not be much different from that of the iPhone XS with an OLED screen, but due to the characteristics of the material, the COP packaging process cannot be used. Therefore, the iPhone XR can intuitively see the black borders on the top, bottom, left and right.

In fact, because there was no concept of full screen on iPhone before, we often overlooked the importance of borders, but iPhone XR adopts the same notch full screen design as iPhone XS, and the thick black width will appear very abrupt.

It’s not that it affects daily use, but it still looks a bit weird.

Of course, the reason why Apple allows the existence of black borders and uses LCD screens is nothing more than cost control. After all, as a company that is always profit-oriented, investing less money and making the most money is the top priority.

Final Thoughts

Maybe for most people, iPhone XR should be the most suitable one. After all, its low price and excellent performance will attract many consumers.

But this does not mean that this phone has a high cost-effectiveness. To be honest, for users who can afford Apple, why not add a few thousand yuan to the XS at a price of 6499 yuan?

In addition, the iPhone XR has also cut back on the rear camera and LTE modem, but we haven’t gotten the real machine to test it yet, so we can’t test these features in detail, but what is certain is that this is nothing more than cost control.

To be honest, I really don't understand why Apple would launch such a product. Instead of continuing to launch iPhones with LCD screens, it would be better to continue with the appearance of the 8th generation and let the Home button continue to be passed down.

Of course, maybe everyone has their own opinions about this product. So what do you think of this iPhone XR? Feel free to leave a message below and let’s discuss it together.