iPhone XR Review

The iPhone XR is the 3rd best iPhone you can buy right now. It adds a creative touch to the better, more powerful XS line and will save you some money if you can live with not having the absolute best.  It’s a lovely phone with a beautiful display, excellent cameras and all the features you’d expect from an iPhone. Color options include blue, yellow, coral, white, black, and red.  The best part? – it only costs $750 which is much less than it’s high end competitors on the Android side.

No, that’s not cheap by any measure – but cheaper than the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, Samsung Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy S9 and S9+ while still providing an extremely high quality product.

iPhone XR Specifications

• Screen size: 6.1-inch
• Dimensions: 150.9 x 75.7 x 8.3mm
• OS: iOS 12
• Resolution: 1792 x 828
• CPU: A12 Bionic
• Rear camera: 12MP
• Front camera: 7MP
• Storage: 64/128/256
• Colors: Blue, White, Black, Yellow, Coral, Red
• Resistance: IP67
• Weight: 194g

A Quick Overview of iPhone XR Features

The iPhone XR is cheaper than the iPhone XS, so it cannot be expected to have all the features that the XS and XS Max have. But it still has more than 90 percent of the features that you will get from the more expensive iPhone model, at 75 percent of the price.  Not a bad deal at all!  It has the iOS 12, the latest operating system from Apple and is powered by the A12 Bionic chipset, perhaps the most powerful processor out there.  It has a lovely design and comes in many colors – blue, yellow, coral, white, black and red. It is one of the most stylish looking phones out there, the sort of phone you want to be seen with. In other words, the iPhone XR is perfection personified.  The Liquid Retina screen is spectacular – a new type of LCD screen, very colorful and sharp.  This display is a lower resolution and not quite as nice as the OLED in the XS and XS Max but it still impresses.  The display is of size 6.1 inches – not as big as the iPhone XS Max at 6.5″ but larger than the XS’s 5.8″.  The iPhone XR has only one camera but it’s great, even better than the one that came with the iPhone X. The rear camera has the same lens as the iPhone XS, but lacks additional features such as the telephoto second sensor and 2x optical zoom.  The XR is also slightly thicker and heavier than the XS.

How Much Does the iPhone XR Cost?

The iPhone XR is priced at $750 for the 64GB model and $899 for the 256GB model.

Pros and Cons of iPhone XR

Pros

• Best value in iPhone line
• Color choices
• Fastest mobile processor

Cons

• Screen, camera, ram, weight, thickness all slightly worse than the XS
• Price still starts at $750

Conclusion

If you are ready to upgrade and want a quality product at a somewhat reasonable choice, the iPhone XR is a great choice.  If you are looking for more of a bargain it maybe worth trying to find an iPhone X or 8 for sale for less.