IPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro review roundup: buy the cheapest one
The early reviews of Apple’s iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max are in from publications with early access to the three models.
While the iPhone 11 Pro is the most impressive technically, with a new triple camera system catching up to the competition, it is the iPhone 11, the cheapest of the bunch, that is winning the majority of people over. Questions remain as to whether it’s worth upgrading at all, however, if your iPhone is less than five years old.
The Guardian will have its own reviews of the new iPhones in the next week or so once they have gone on sale, but in the meantime here’s what those given early access by Apple had to say.
iPhone 11
Costing from £729, the iPhone 11 has a 6.1in LCD screen, two cameras on the back but the same processor and storage sizes as the more expensive iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max.
Nilay Patel from the Verge praised the iPhone 11’s battery, but wasn’t so happy about the included charger: Britta O’Boyle and Stuart Miles from Pocket-lint said most will be happy with the LCD display of the iPhone 11, but corners had been cut: The iPhone 11’s improved selfie camera now with slow-motion selfies was a magnet for Cnet’s Scott Stein’s kids: Wired’s Lauren Goode was impressed by the new dual camera on the iPhone 11: Rhiannon Williams from the i predicts the splash of colour on the new iPhone 11 models will be a big draw, as the smartphone industry moves away from dull black and grey: Gareth Beavis from TechRadar was won over by the iPhone 11: Brian X Chen from the New York Times has a slightly different view, asking whether it’s still worth upgrading your iPhone every two years: iPhone 11 Pro
The £1,049 iPhone 11 Pro and £1,149 11 Pro Max top the iPhone 11 with higher resolution 5.8in and 6.5in OLED screens respectively. They also have a new triple camera system on the back – their main differentiator over the significantly cheaper model.
Patel was less complimentary about the battery life on the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max. It’s better but not quite enough to prevent battery anxiety: Williams could see the Super Retina XDR making an excellent screen better in a small but meaningful way: Stein says there are essentially two reasons to pick the iPhone 11 Pro Max over the smaller 11 Pro: Beavis felt that the expense of the iPhone 11 Pro was difficult to justify: Goode found the all-important camera on the iPhone 11 Pro Max to be a mixed bag:
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