Once upon a time, the iPhone was the best camera you had with you. Now, Apple flat out wants to make it the best camera, period. What they can’t do physically with enormous lenses and sensors, they’re doing computationally with ridiculously optimized silicon and machine learning. And not just by taking the iPhone to 11, but by making it pro: The iPhone 11 Pro.
Everything that’s already packed into the 6.1-inch iPhone 11 is here as well, but escalated significantly: 5.8- and 6.5-inch higher-density, higher contrast, higher brightness, and extreme dynamic range OLED displays; a triple imaging system with ultra wide-angle, wide-angle, and telephoto cameras; 4×4 MIMO LTE; a full 4 meters of water resistance; up to 512 GB of storage; textured finishes that look more like metal than glass; and battery life that’s boosted by a jaw-dropping 4 and 5 hours respectively…
So, if you want the best of the best, the ultimate expression of the iPhone technology and experience today, you can reach for the absolute rafters with the iPhone 11 Pro or iPhone 11 Pro Max.
MacDailyNews Take: iPhone 11 Pro Max is the best iPhone we’ve ever used by a significant margin.
Too bad the screen on the 11 Pro Max scratches worse than any iPhone I’ve had. Looks like a cheap Android screen after only a month of use.
The base model 11 I have for my work phone doesn’t seem to have that issue and I’ve always carried both with me at the same time.
And no, I don’t have a screen protector on either of them. I haven’t used one of those since my 3G/3GS days.
I’ve not heard complaints about phone screen scratching anywhere.
And I have not gotten even the very slightest scratch on any of my iPhones’ screens in the last 10 years. That’s with having the top flagship iPhone for each of those years
Just wondering. Do you not use a dedicated pants pocket for your phone like most everyone else?
Mine has nary a scratch. Still beautiful after all these weeks.
“What they can’t do physically with enormous lenses and sensors, they’re doing computationally with ridiculously optimized silicon and machine learning”
I wonder what the optimized silicon and ML could do for a DSLR
Well, there’s a point where the old eyes take over. Ehehehehehee, take mine for example. Heck, I can barely see anyway. All this camera mess won’t mean much to me. And, wha’, a human can only see so good anyway.
Have you stopped reading also?…
I got the iPhone 11 Pro for the camera but I have surprised at how good the rest of the computer is. Everything is fast and butter smooth. The display is beautiful. The radios are more sensitive. I have a 6s for work. Last week at a client site the 6s got no signal at all but the 11
Pro got 2 bars.
No scratches on this one. The last scratch I had was the iPhone 4.
I’ve done microscopic analysis of cell phone glass. The iPhone should be at least as scratch resistant as any other phone. Scratch resistance is a coating applied to the glass. It’s not proprietary. Apple’s is probably better quality than you find elsewhere, it’s just how they roll.
Sorry Rene – re “Now, Apple flat out wants to make it the best camera, period. What they can’t do physically with enormous lenses and sensors, they’re doing computationally with ridiculously optimized silicon and machine learning.”
My nephew’s a professor of photography and he analyzed some perfectly nice iPhone 11 pro Pics for me – showing me all the digital artifacts, compressions, etc. and then we compared them to some of the 500 MB files from the scans of his 6×6 Cm film camera, where we could just zoom in (and in and in) and still have tack sharp details. No comparison.
It’s amazing what Apple’s accomplishing in computational photography – and the instrument (the phone) does AI tricks his camera never thought of. But not the “best” images period. By a long shot.
OTOH if Apple ever decided there was a reason for them to go after a real professional hardware segment of the photography world (not that I think that’s even slightly likely in the near term, but roll with me a sec just for blue skying purposes) – maybe by teaming up with a company like Sony or Fuji, etc., well, then watch out because all bets would be off.
I can only imagine what tech tricks like fusion and others could accomplish in a DSLR full-frame (or even larger) sensor. Although it would require a huge investment in scaling up A-series chip technology to handle all of those pixels with the same alacrity it can handle phone sized captures…
But an imager can dream, right…??