๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐…๐ซ๐ข๐๐š๐ฒ! ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐‚๐š๐ง๐š๐๐š ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐œ๐ซ๐š๐ณ๐ฒ! ๐‡๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ,๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐ข๐๐ก๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐…๐‘๐„๐„โ—๏ธ ๐‡๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฉ, ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐ž!

Performance


The A13 Bionic chip is amazingly fast so thereโ€™s no hanging around โ€“ for anything. Apps open at lightning speed, video playback is great and apps do their business without hesitation. Only in the last few weeks of the A12 Bionic, last yearโ€™s processor, was Apple overtaken and then only by a handset or two. Expect the A13 to be the fastest processor in a smartphone for months to come.

Itโ€™s helped along by a new version of iOS which is nimble, effective and fun, with new features (such as an elegant dark mode which looks classy and saves energy) and greater efficiency.

Oh, what about 5G?

Although none of this yearโ€™s crop of iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max has 5G connectivity, I havenโ€™t really noticed its absence. The 5G networks in the UK are fast and reliable, but they are only just taking shape. Until they are widespread and there are killer apps that make the most of the new speeds, like Uber, Deliveroo and other apps exploited 4G, the absence of the latest speeds may not matter.

Battery


I am regularly struck by the importance of battery life to phone users. Quite right, too. But sometimes I wonder if phone manufacturers wouldnโ€™t be more successful if they just concentrated on super-powerful battery life and didnโ€™t bother with anything else.

Well, this phone has a lot more features but has such improved battery life itโ€™s hard to get your head round. Itโ€™s brilliant.

Nightly recharges are still recommended, but the iPhone 11 Pro has four hours more juice in it than the iPhone XS it replaces, while the bigger Max version outdoes the iPhone XS Max by a remarkable five hours.

These are Appleโ€™s figures. In practice, neither phone ever ran out on me, however much I was doing in a day. The Max had the better battery life consistently, but both went to bed with battery levels usually well above 20 per cent.