一個偉大的相機, 屏幕和性能無法保存人體工程學可怕, but at least it’ll last two days on battery
The biggest, most expensive new smartphone from Apple is the iPhone 11 Pro Max, and you’ll need a small fortune to buy it.
The new 6.5in iPhone 11 Pro Max costs from £1,149 and is in effect its smaller 5.8in iPhone 11 Pro sibling put in a photocopier with a 12% magnification applied.
It has the exact same aluminium and glass design, the same notched screen with Face ID, the same camera arrangement on the back and the same Lightning port in the bottom. It is the same phone. Except that enlarging everything (apart from thickness) 由 10%-12% creates a very different experience.
像 iPhone XS最大 it replaces, 在iPhone 11 Pro Max is really difficult to use with one hand. At 77.8mm it is hand-stretchingly wide, wider still than the already massive OnePlus 7 臨 (75.9毫米) and even the positively gigantic 三星銀河注 10+ (75.9毫米), and at 226g it is heavier than competitors by a full 20g. But more than that, the rounded stainless steel sides provide no grip at all, meaning your fingers simply slip off them when you stretch across to reach the other side of the screen or the top left corner, which you frequently need to do in iOS.
It’s a combination that either results in hand pain or wallet pain, as it slips out of your fingers and plummets on to the unforgiving floor below. You then stick it in a case, which makes it even bigger. If there was ever a phone to benefit from a grip accessory of some kind, 就是這個.
So unless you have giant hands, 在iPhone 11 Pro Max is exclusively a two-handed phone. But I’d argue that there are always times when you need to use a phone one-handed: public transport, carrying a bag, taking a selfie and so on.
The 6.5in Super Retina XDR “Pro level” OLED screen is just as wonderful as the one on the smaller iPhone 11 臨, although it isn’t a massive leap over that fitted to significantly cheaper rivals such as the OnePlus 7 臨. Flip it over and the frosted, almost metallic-like glass and square camera lump with three lenses poking out is new.
技術指標
- 屏幕: 6.5in Super Retina XDR (OLED) (458PPI)
- 處理器: Apple A13 Bionic
- 內存: 4GB的RAM
- 存儲: 64GB, 256GB or 512GB
- 操作系統: iOS 13
- 相機: Triple 12MP rear cameras with OIS, 12MP前置攝像頭
- 連接: LTE, 無線上網 6, NFC, 藍牙 5, Lightning, Ultra Wideband and GPS
- 尺寸: 158 X 77.8 X 8.1 毫米
- 重量: 226克
A13 Bionic
在iPhone 11 Pro Max has the same A13 Bionic chip, 4GB of RAM and at least 64GB of storage as the rest of the iPhone 11 line, 並執行類似. Everything happens promptly, including intensive tasks such as video editing and gaming, and it should be a top performer for years to come.
The use of Lightning over the newer, more adaptable and useful USB-C is disappointing, as is the 64GB of starting storage. If you want to use your massive phone screen to watch video or play games, or you shoot any number of photos or 4K videos, you’re going to fill that up in no time.
Apple says it has managed to make the iPhone 11 Pro last five hours longer between charges than the iPhone XS Max, 哪一個 managed 27 小時 在我的測試.
在iPhone 11 Pro Max beats that estimate by some margin, lasting just minutes shy of a full 48 收費小時之間. That means the phone lasts from 7am on day one until about 6.50am on day three, propelling the iPhone 11 Pro Max into the two-day battery club previously only populated by a variety of Huawei’s top phones.
That was after the iOS 13.1.2 更新, while using it as my primary device without a smartwatch attached, sending and receiving 100 emails and messages, 80 push notifications, 聆聽到五個小時的音樂藍牙耳機, Netflix的觀看一小時, 和射擊有關 10 一天的照片.
在iPhone 11 Pro Max ships with an 18W USB-C fast charger and a USB-C to Lightning cable in the box. A full charge from flat took two hours 20 分鐘, but hit 50% 在 31 分 70% 在 46 分鐘, slowing charging to a trickle above 95%.
The phone also gets pretty hot when fast charging. It can wirelessly charge too, but can’t charge other devices.
It’s also worth noting that iOS 13 includes a battery optimisation feature, which is designed to learn your habits and only charge the battery past 80% when it thinks you need it to extend its longevity.
iOS 13.1.2
在iPhone 11 Pro shipped with iOS 13 but was quickly updated three times to iOS 13.1.2, following the same issues suffered with the iPhone 11.
Dark mode, swipe typing on the Apple keyboard, improved quick setting access and menstrual cycle tracking are all new highlights of iOS 13.
在iPhone 11 Pro Max also has a few additions for the large screen such as a split-screen view in Mail, Calendar, Messages and others that aren’t present on the smaller iPhone 11 臨. It also supports a few tricks to help with one-handed use such as bringing the top of the screen down or moving the keyboard to one of the sides, which itself is difficult to do with your right hand as the button to activate it is in the bottom left corner of the screen.
It’s the back gesture, which is a swipe in from the left edge of the screen, that’s a killer for a right-handed user. Trying to do that with one hand is equal parts frustration and dread.
Apple leads the industry in software updates, providing at least five years of support from release, where other manufacturers cap out at about three years, and has recently shown a surprising ability to rapidly push out bug fix updates in quick succession.
相機
在iPhone 11 Pro Max has Apple’s new triple 12-megapixel camera setup – the same as the smaller iPhone 11 臨. The combination of ultrawide, wide and telephoto cameras gives you the ability to shoot at 0.5x, 1x or 2x optical zoom, then up to 10x digital zoom.
整體, it’s a massive step up on previous iPhone cameras, and better still than the cheaper iPhone 11. Apple’s new night mode brings it up to par with the best rivals on very low-light photography, while the new deep fusion technology rolling out with iOS 13.2 is getting closer than ever to the clarity of fine detail of an SLR with a large lens.
The photos used for this review were all shot on an iPhone 11 Pro running iOS 13.2 beta.
After lagging the ultra-competitive camera competition for some time, Apple is firmly up with the best with the iPhone 11 Pro line.
意見
- 在iPhone 11 Pro Max is water resistant to IP68 standards of up to 4m for 30 minutes – which is 2m deeper last year’s iPhone XS Max
- Bluetooth performance is much improved, with stronger connections to even the weakest of headphones
- Face ID is still best-in-class, now slightly faster and working at slightly wider angles
- The new U1 chip enables enhanced location abilities, but so far it’s only used for directional AirDrop file sharing
- The highly polished stainless steel is easy to mark and dull in even careful general use
- The pressure sensitive screen of previous iPhones is gone and with it 3D Touch, so you can’t press harder on things any more
價格
在iPhone 11 Pro Max costs £1149 存儲64GB的, £1299 為256GB或 £1,499 for 512GB in black, 綠色, 銀或金.
為比較, 在iPhone 11 臨成本 £1,049, 該 iPhone 11 成本 £729 和 iPhone XR 成本 £629.
該 OnePlus 7 成本 £499, 該 三星Galaxy S10 成本 £799 和 華為P30專業版 成本 £799.
判決書
There’s an excellent super-sized smartphone within Apple’s grasp, but unfortunately the iPhone 11 Pro Max isn’t it.
A design that works at the much smaller size of the 5.8in iPhone 11 Pro simply doesn’t at the gargantuan 6.5in iPhone 11 Pro Max, meaning Apple’s biggest phone suffers from terrible ergonomics.
I get that uniformity is Apple’s schtick, but in this case it actively makes the product worse. Of all the massive phones I’ve used across the years, the heavy, slippery iPhone 11 Pro Max and iPhone XS Max before it are the only ones to give me serious hand pain. It’s literally a crying shame, because everything else about it – from the camera, the screen and the performance – is great.
When it comes down to it, only the genuinely epic Huawei-level battery life salvages the iPhone 11 Pro Max from being a three-star product, and even then this is a four-star phone that is extremely expensive.
There are certainly better, easier-to-use big-screen smartphones available that cost significantly less than the jaw-dropping £1,149 and up Apple wants for the iPhone 11 Pro Max.
But if you must have an iPhone and the wonderful 5.8in iPhone 11 臨 doesn’t quite cut it, do yourself a favour and save £420 and buy the 6.1in iPhone 11. Only those that genuinely need two-day battery life should buy the iPhone 11 Pro Max, and even then I wouldn’t.
優點: 輝煌相機, night mode, 耐水, 無線充電, 面部識別, 好的電池壽命, 很好的表現, 絢麗屏, long software support
缺點: hard to hold, 重, super expensive, 沒有耳機插孔, 沒有指紋掃描儀, 沒有耳機適配器在框中, low starting storage
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