Apple iPhone XS Review

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What We Like

Robust build

Speedy performance

Awesome camera

What We Don't Like

Expensive

Have to be into the Apple ecosystem

The iPhone XS is one of the best phones on the market right now, featuring a beautiful display, fantastic sound quality, and one of the best cameras in the game. But the premium price tag creates a high barrier to entry.

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We purchased the Apple iPhone XS so our expert reviewer could thoroughly test and assess it. Keep reading for our full product review.

Love them or hate them, iPhones have been around for more than 11 years now, and so much has changed since the beginning. With the iPhone XS, the home button is gone, your face is now your passcode, and you can make awesome “Memojis” that let you truly express yourself in text messages.

We recently got our hands on the new iPhone XS for testing, to see if it’s a worthy successor to the game-changing iPhone X (released in 2017). For a phone that has such a steep asking price, the features, battery life, and experience have a lot to live up to.

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Design: Luxurious and heavy

For years, maybe since the original iPhone 3G hit the market way back in 2007, the iPhone has had a certain luxury appeal. It’s one of the reasons Apple has historically been able to get away with charging so much for its products, and this is definitely true for the iPhone XS, too.

Coated in glass—front and back—and bordered by stainless steel, the iPhone XS definitely has a premium design. Right out of the box it felt substantial in our hands, more so than other similarly sized phones. It has some heft to it, but rather than feeling taxing, it just feels right.

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This all-glass design allows for one of the iPhone XS’s primary selling points: wireless charging. We wouldn’t trade that glass back for the world.

We didn’t actually drop-test the device, but seeing how the entire thing is made of glass, we’d advise purchasing a case for it. Thankfully, the iPhone XS carries an IP68 water resistance rating so you don’t have to worry about a spill or even a drop in the pool ruining your phone.

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Setup Process: Well, that was easy

If you already have other Apple devices, the setup for a new iPhone XS is incredibly easy. All we had to do once we turned on the phone was point our iPad’s camera at a little ball-shaped graphic on the display and it did most of the setup automatically.

The rest of the setup involved following a few button prompts, scanning our face for Face ID, setting up Apple Pay, and then we were done. Even updating to the newest build of iOS was a breeze. Apple has made its name by having an easy-to-understand operating system, and it certainly didn’t disappoint here. The fact that such a powerful device is so user friendly is part of what makes this phone feel so cutting-edge.

Performance: Absolute power

The iPhone XS is Apple’s flagship, and it definitely performs like one.

Apple’s A12 Bionic chip is an eight-core monster backed by a four-core dedicated GPU and 4GB of RAM. This might not sound like a lot (especially compared to the Snapdragon 845), but you have to consider that Apple designs both the hardware and the software. The iPhone XS is able to extract every drop of performance out of this chip, making it easily one of the fastest smartphones you can buy right now.

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We installed both GeekBench and GFXBench to measure the performance of this phone, and the results are jaw-dropping. The iPhone XS managed a whopping 11,392 in the GeekBench Multi-Core test, and 59 fps and 49fps in the T-Rex and Car Chase GFXBench tests respectively. These results place the iPhone XS among the fastest phones out there.

And based on our testing, those numbers translated into tangible performance. We downloaded “Asphalt 9” and played a few games. There wasn’t a single hiccup or drop in frame rate—just smooth racing from start to finish. We’ve played this game on some lower-end devices before, and seeing “Asphalt 9” in all its glory was a sight to behold.

And when it comes to handling everyday workloads, the iPhone XS is a champ. We never had to wait more than half a second for this phone to load Facebook or our email app.