the cheapest of the three iPhones released this year the normal iPhone 11 is different enough that it warrants its own durability test video you do save three hundred dollars by not buying the thousand dollar iPhone 11 Perot and today we’re gonna find out what we lose from that price drop but let’s be real all iPhones kind of do the same thing anyway in front of us we have the yellow version which looks like Pikachu and a block of cheese had a baby the first thing I noticed about this iPhone is it doesn’t have the frosted textured back glass panel interesting this video is sponsored by Ankur let’s get started [Music] [Applause] [Music] so the cool thing about this phone is that it is capable of 18 watt fast charging just like the rest of the iPhone the uncool thing about this phone is that Apple is still not including a fast charger in the box they only include the ancient five watt slow charger that they’ve been using since basically the dawn of time you can check the wattage of your charger by just multiplying the volts in the amps I’m sure Apple only does this so that you’ll drop extra cash on the 18 watt charger that they sell for $30 personally I’m not a big fan of that especially when there’s a cheaper 18 watt charger from anchor that has the same form factor as the stock wall adapter but has the specs of the new iPhone 11 pro charger and only costs 15 19 EIN using that discount code in the description Ankur’s charger is basically half the price of Apple’s it has the same USB C power delivery port for the high speed charging just like Apple’s $30 version and spits out three times the power is the one that comes inside the iPhone 11 box I’ll leave a link for Ankur’s fast charger down in the video description and thanks to anchor for sponsoring this video and saving us from expensive chargers now let’s get back to the phone I’m getting kind of a pastel sunflower vibe from this yellow or maybe a slightly dead dandelion it’s got two cameras instead of the three we saw in the pro but I’ll get to those in a minute let’s start with the scratch test today we’re gonna spice things up a bit you know how this works the most scratch test differentiates between different materials levels 2 or 3 would be plastic like on the Galaxy fold level 6 and 7 would be tempered glass like on well every other smartphone and levels 8 or 9 would be sapphire sapphire is a super hard Neron scratch Abul crystal use on premium watches and this iPhone 11 scratches at level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7 pretty normal to spice things up a bit I got a $70 screen protector off Amazon that’s claiming to be a Mohs hardness level 9 with 99.99% pure sapphire that’s a pretty bold claim and the only way to find out for sure is by scratching it now this screen protector isn’t made for this phone specifically so let’s not worry too much about it neat and pretty installation I’ll make a much longer in depth video about sapphire here soon since I think it’s a pretty incredible substance putting my scale back up again and grabbing my pics we work our way up through the entire scale scratching at level six and seven and moving my way on up towards level eight and only at levels eight do we start seeing marks on the glass I thought for a second that I was also seeing marks at level six and seven but it turns out I was just seeing scratches from the screen underneath showing up through the Sapphire screen protector once I pulled off the Sapphire from the phone it was pretty easy to tell that there was no marks or scratches on the surface until we hit level eight which is rather incredible considering how difficult it is to make sapphire sapphire is premium and cost quite a bit and the protector was $70 but I’ll put a link in the description because there’s a lot of fake sapphire out there speaking of which let’s get back to the iPhone 11 even though it’s 2019 and big notches were last year’s thing Apple is still notching strong acrost author new phones this has a metal earpiece grille and has the front facing 12 megapixel camera tucked up inside here as well still has those slow fees and 4k camera that the pros have so that’s a definite improvement over last year’s phone there’s the same plastic border as well which makes a good cushion between the glass and the aluminum aluminum kind of complains a lot more than steel does when I scratch it another difference between the 11 and the 11 Pro besides the slow charger is the water resistance this phone is still ip68 but only rated to two meters instead of four I talk more about that IP rating in the 11pro max teardown video if you want to know more the iPhone 11 is still water resistant of course just not as water-resistant as the pro the top of this rubber ducky coloured phone is made from metal along with the left side and all of its buttons still has the mute switch which I’m jealous of I think all phone should have one of these the bottom of the phone has the loudspeaker and proprietary lightning port the back glass panel a big bird here is a bit different than the glass we saw in the pro instead of being the frosting material that would sand down metal objects it’s a smooth slab of glass that does nothing to my razor blade still costs about 319 nine dollars to replace if you happen to crack it though if you don’t have insurance which is definitely a shame on Apple’s part you’ve probably noticed as well that this banana colored iPhone 11 is missing a camera Apple dropped the telephoto camera and left us with the normal 12 megapixel camera up top with the 12 megapixel ultra-white camera down at the bottom each of them is still covered with the scratch resistant material the dual LED flash is covered with plastic previously Apple was calling this circular lens material sapphire but now there is no mention of sapphire on the iPhone spec list which is good because real sapphire would be scratching at a level 8 or 9 now one thing that is slightly annoying about the iPhone 11 screen is that it’s basically the same screen as last year’s iPhone 10 our same size at six point one inches same resolution and same pixels per inch 1080p has been the resolution standard for like the last four years now this phone is sitting closer to 720p flagship or not a sub 1080p display is just kind of taken advantage of people who don’t understand the numbers it’s a good LCD display don’t get me wrong I am being nitpicky but at $700 1080p should be a thing the iPhone 11 cannot scroll Instagram at full quality it lasted about 12 seconds before the pixels went black and turned off but then came back and recovered when the heat went away enough for the bin test it’s time to see if Apple’s cheapest phone this year can structurally handle a bin test the stainless steel pro version survived just fine and this aluminum iPhone 11 so far is no different it’s extremely solid $700 is still quite a bit to spend on a smart phone I feel like this is the phone we should have gotten last year in place of the 10r and this year we should have progressed a bit farther and gotten something better Apple’s pro phones are finally competing with the flagships but their budget phones are not quite competing in price or specs with other budget phones you could say the iPhone 11 is a step in the same direction for Apple either way don’t give Apple any more money by buying their fast charger the a 10 watt anchor charger is linked in the description and a fraction of the cost let me know what other phones you want to see tests in the comments and coming out with me on Instagram and Twitter thanks ton for watching I’ll see you around
