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The camera design is a divisive issue. Personally, I really like it, but some have compared it to a stove top or Philips shaver. The lenses are certainly unmissable, but the design is much less dominant than if the area around the cameras was black, as on previous iPhones.
Water resistance, a handy regular feature on many phones now, is especially good here, able to survive a depth of up to 4 metres depth for half an hour. Oh, and donโt imagine that the Pro addition to the title means thereโs a USB-C charging socket as there is on the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro. No, Apple has stuck with the Lightning connector which will frankly please all those people who have a bunch of Lightning cables at home. Still, there is a more powerful charging plug in the box, an 18W charger instead of the 5W charger found in every other iPhone box up to this point. It means the phone charges quickly, which is a bonus.
Display
The OLED display on the iPhone 11 Pro (and iPhone 11 Pro Max) looks tremendous. It is pin-sharp, with a resolution of 458 pixels per inch (ppi), much more than the 326ppi on the less expensive iPhone 11. The brightness levels are the highest yet on an iPhone, 800 nits for reading outdoors easily and up to 1200 nits for viewing HDR content.
Statistics apart, what makes this display really sing is the fidelity, offering astonishing colour accuracy so what you see on the display is recognisable as what you see in the real world. It is compatible with HDR10 and Dolby Vision.
The screen has amazing contrast levels โ Apple says itโs 2 million to 1. Whatever the figures, the result is what matters and this display looks pretty great. Video playback is butter-smooth, strikingly bright - and those contrast levels look amazing.
A big change over last yearโs iPhone XS is the removal of 3D Touch. This is the clever Apple system that recognised whether you were pressing lightly or more heavily and delivered extra effects as required. Last yearโs iPhone XR introduced a similar but not quite the same effect, called Haptic Touch, though this was only available for a limited range of situations.
Now, Haptic Touch has replaced 3D Touch on all the new iPhones. There is very little difference between the two experiences in use, except that I find the response time is a little slower now, so youโre pressing for very slightly longer before the extra menus appear, for instance. Itโs not a big deal, but 3D Touch was better.