Water-resistance has been upped from IP67 to IP68 (giving you 30 extra minutes of resistance), and Apple has said it has tested the device against beer – a welcome addition if you’re clumsy after a few bevvies. The way the gold colouring has been applied to the stainless steel sides makes them a little harder to grip than the silver version. It has a 70s vibe and wouldn’t look out of place at a disco. After a week with the phone, I can’t decide whether it’s classy or tasteless. It’s different to any gold product Apple has shipped before, with a softer, almost salmon-look on the rear and super-bright, shiny sides. The review unit I was testing was of the gold hue – an addition that joins the Silver and Space Grey options. It remains glass, however, and if you were to drop this device on a hard surface it will almost certainly crack. The XS Max is bulkier than the already weighty iPhone 8 Plus (202g), Samsung Galaxy Note 9 (201g) and OnePlus 6T (185g).Īpple claims the glass that features on both the front and back of the handset is the strongest ever. While it’s no bigger than previous Plus-sized iPhones, the larger screen and lack of bezel makes it much trickier to get to parts of the screen. Holding it one-handed has proved an impossible feat for me, and reaching up to pull down the notification panel constantly leaves me with the feeling that I’m going to drop the device. The iPhone XS Max takes no such tack, and as a result feels thicker and more difficult to manage. For example, with the Galaxy Note 9, Samsung has used curves to almost disguise the size of the device and make it feel smaller. This is a big phone and I feel that Apple should have done more to better deal with its size. If someone stretched out an iPhone X then this would be the result. The iPhone XS Max packs all the design tweaks and material choices that debuted with the X: a stainless steel rim, glass back and the near edge-to-edge display. Where the iPhone XS feels like the smallest jump between new iPhones, the Max version genuinely offers something different. The most significant update to the iPhone line this year is the iPhone XS Max. There’s also the OnePlus 6T, a phone that’s half the price of the XS Max. The Samsung Galaxy S10 arguably does more with the big screen as does the Huawei P30 Pro. It’s not the only exciting large phone we’ve seen this year and it has some strong competition. In short, this is the device that many wanted last year. This is because it offers users an iPhone X design in a ‘Plus’ size. Despite this being the case, the iPhone XS Max feels like a more significant revision than the smaller iPhone XS. That means instead of complete redesigns, refinements and spec-bumps are the order of the day.
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