iPhone 11 Pro: Review

                                                        Iphone 11 Pro
                                       Is it the best phone on the market?

Iphone 11 Pro

In reality, although important in its own right, the design of the iPhone 11 Pro plays second fiddle to the tangible improvements Apple has made to rest of the iPhone 11 Pro. And the big feature upgrade for 2019/20 is to the cameras, with one additional ultrawide shooter adding to the primary and 2x telephoto of last year’s S-series iPhones Xs and Xs Max.

Aside from its controversial camera housing, the Apple iPhone 11 Pro’s design is nigh on identical to the iPhone Xs. The glass is tougher, says Apple, but the materials on show are the same, with a polished, colour-matched stainless steel frame surrounding the edges of the phone and hardened sapphire crystal topping each of the phone’s cameras.

As ever, video quality is fantastic. Footage from the main camera is crisp, neutral in colour and packed with details, and video stabilisation works beautifully at 4K and 60fps. Apple has now extended the ability to switch the camera as you zoom in as well, which is a feature that would previously only work at up to 30fps at 4K. As before, though, it hasn’t been perfectly implemented. There’s a clear jump-step as the view transitions from one camera to the next, with an obvious change in colour balance and quality.

This is a small negative point, however, and it is possible to stop it from jumping between cameras by using the Lock Camera mode. This is hidden in the camera settings, under the Record Video menu option; simply turn on Lock Camera to zoom digitally. Otherwise, video recording on the iPhone 11 Pro remains the best you can get on a smartphone, especially now that Apple’s extended dynamic range feature is available in the 60fps 4K video mode as well as at 30fps.

There is, however, no getting around the fact that the iPhone 11 Pro is a very good phone; a brilliant one, in fact. It looks a lot nicer than you think, and its cameras are beyond compare in all conditions. It shoots amazing video, and its battery life, while a long way from being the best, is a huge improvement on last year’s flagship iPhones.