๐ณ๐ฟ ๐๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐ฐ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ! ๐ฅ ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ! ๐๐ก๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐๐!
While Apple isnโt shouting about the iPhone 11 Proโs screen, it has been quietly but usefully improved. The headline is that โtypicalโ peak brightness has increased to 800 nits from 625 nits on the iPhone XS and that the iPhone 11 Pro is now able to deploy 1200 nits with appropriate HDR content (Dolby Vision and HDR10 are both supported).
So, it comes as an initial surprise that bright spots in dark movie scenes look brighter on the iPhone XS than on the iPhone 11 Pro. We play the first sewer scene of It and the beams of torchlight are brighter on the XS. On closer inspection, itโs clear that the highlights on the 11 Pro are vastly more nuanced and detailed.ย
When the camera inside the tunnel looks back at the two boys in the bright entrance, the XS blows it out a little, over-exposing the background light to a bloom.
The 11 Pro, by comparison, is just a touch less bright but offers colours, shades and definition that the XS canโt match. And thereโs a good deal more in the way of dark detail, with blacks slightly less dramatic but significantly more insightful. And the OLED display is still capable of going perfectly black when it needs to.
When the action switches to a scene of overwhelming brightness, the 11 Pro shows that it is capable of going brighter than its predecessor. Colours have been subtly improved, initially looking a little less vibrant but proving more nuanced and natural over time. Skin tones are particularly good โ more naturally balanced, organically shaded and with more obvious freckles and blemishes.
Despite the iPhone 11 Pro having the same resolution and pixel density as the iPhone XS (2436 x 1125 and 458 ppi), the edges are crisper and better defined, making the image more three-dimensional. Motion handling is also significantly better, with the image almost entirely free of judder and blur but without any ugly over-processing.
Overall, this is an excellent device on which to watch movies and TV shows, with a cinematic level of refinement.