So, you will need a Lightning to 3.5mm headphone jack adapter if you are wanting to listen through wired headphones. With Apple having dropped the port on the release of the iPhone 7, there is no 3.5mm headphone jack on the iPhone 11. Although, it is there for very good reasons. This stuck out module has divided opinions, with some stating that it looks like an ‘ugly camera bump’. On the rear of the device, there is a large module to house the new dual-camera system. So if do you happen to drop your phone in the bath or sink, it will survive. The phone exhibits an anodized 100% recycled aluminium frame and is water-resistant up to 2-meter depths for up to 30 minutes. It comes with a 6.1-inch LED Liquid Retina display which, just like last years models, houses a notch at the top of the screen. With a fresh pallet, there are six colours to choose from, including purple, green, yellow, white, black and red. However, it does include a collection of new features and physical upgrades. As the ‘cheaper’ iPhone out of the new lineup, the iPhone 11 is lacking some specs available on the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max. Design and display:ĭuring the keynote, Apple officially unveiled the iPhone 11 as the follow up to the iPhone XR. Customers with an iPhone XS Max, for example, could receive a total of up to £470 off the iPhone 11. The company is also offering customers the option to trade in their current iPhone model for money off the new flagship. The 11 is available in storage capacities of 64GB, 128GB and 256GB. All-day battery life (1 hour more battery life than the iPhone XR)Īpple has confirmed that the iPhone 11 will be available for pre-order on Friday 13th September and released on Friday 20th September, with prices starting at £729 for 64GB of storage.Two rear cameras 12-megapixel wide camera (26-mm, f1.8, 6-element) and 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera (13-mm, f2.4, 5-element, 120-degree view).Throw in Apple’s iPhone Battery Exchange program that gave millions of handsets a new life courtesy of a $29 battery and the available audience for the iPhone XS and XS Max was diminished.Apple iPhone 11 colours at Apple Keynote | Photo: Nikkei Asian Review iPhone 11 specs and features: If the new handsets are not offering significant advantages over the previous handsets (and there’s not much between the iPhone X and the iPhone XS) then there will be little appetite to upgrade. If Apple is trading on prestige alone, then who would buy the lower status handset?įinally, the market for a large-screened high-priced smartphone is not infinite - there comes a point when it is saturated and the adoption curve will fall away into a ‘one for one’ replacement cycle. Just as the iPhone 5S and 6S failed to light up the Chinese market, the iPhone XS also failed.Īpple’s plan was for the iPhone XR to take up the slack at a lower price point, but China’s love of flagships and luxury handsets meant the XR was never going to be a major hit. While they were the ‘latest’ devices there was little to differentiate the hardware from the previous year’s flagships. That wasn’t the case with the iPhone XS and XS Plus. In that sense the iPhone X was a strong handset in 2017 - it was clearly the flagship, there was no other ‘X’ device and the lower-ranged iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus were easy to pass over. The Chinese market loves flagships, but doesn’t really do sequels or lower-priced versions of a leading handset. And with Apple’s technology and design generally being a year or two behind Chinese manufacturers, the iPhone XS family looks tired and identikit. Stripped of its iOS superpowers, Apple fights on a mix of raw specifications and how attractive the hardware is. That means Apple is in the same dog-fight as everyone else. And as the service is cross-platform switching between Android and iOS is far less of a burden that many think it is. The real lock-in belongs to WeChat - if your phone does not have WeChat nobody is buying your phone. It’s important to realise that Apple does not have the same lock-in with iOS apps and IM through the iMessage platform in China that it has in Western territories.
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