22 16 - 29 October 2019A
pple recently launched
three new iPhones: the
iPhone 11we’re
reviewing here, the iPhone 11
Pro (with a better screen and
camera) and the larger
iPhone 11 Pro Max. It’s the
‘basic’ model that has piqued
our interest, though, with an
affordable price (for an
iPhone,at least) and an
overall package that’s only
slightly behind its more
expensive siblings.At £729
for the 64GB model, it’s not
only £320 cheaper than the
basic iPhone 11 Pro but £7 0
less than lastyear’s iPhone
XR was when it launched.Build and screen
At first glance, the iPhone 11
looks no differentto its
higher-powered siblings.
It has a square camera plinth
at the rear, which is integrated
into the single sheet of glass
that makes up the back of the
case.This modelcomes in
a choice of black, green,
yellow, purple,red and white,
with an anodised aluminium
trim running around its
perimeter. It’s robust,too –
the case’swaterproofing can
withstand being submerged
in upto 2m ofwater for 30
minutes before it risks taking
damage.
From the front, it’s barely
distinguishable from the other
models, with a slightly thicker
border around the display
than the Pro models but no
difference in the size of the
notchat the top of the screen.
The display uses IPS
technology, whichwe
measured with ourApple iPhone 11colorimeterto have a peak
brightness of 567cd/m^2
(candles per square metre)
and acontrastratio of 1,563:1.
Its colour reproduction is
exceptional,too, with highly
accurate representation of the
sRGBcolour standard.
All in all, this is a superb IPS
screen but it’s noticeably less
impressive than the OLED
screen on the iPhone 11 Pro,
and it’s likely that this
accounts for much of the
price difference between the
two models.Performance and
battery
There’scertainly no scrimping
on the iPhone 11’s
performance – in our
benchmarktests, this iPhone
proved faster than any other
phonewe’ve tested to date,
with the same new A13 Bionic
processor and 4GB of RAM as
the other new models.For
reference, it scored 1,334 in
the Geekbench 5 single-core
benchmark and 3,417 in the
multi-coreversion. In the
GFXBench GL Car Chase
benchmark, it achieved frame
rates of 60fps onscreen and
77fps offscreen.
This phenomenal
performance is putto good
use, even beyond its abilityto
run 3D games.For example,
the phone has a 4K video
camera withextended
dynamicrange, which shoots
fully stabilised 4K videoat
120fps, capturing each
alternate frameat different
exposure levels and
combining themfor a pseudo-
HDR video effectat 60fps.Apple fights back against Android with a more affordable iPhoneProduct TestWe test and compare the latest productsThis iPhone provedfaster than any other
phonewe’ve tested to date