Display & Design
Both iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max sport with an OLED Super Retina display that removes the top and bottom bezels and integrates with the front-facing camera. In this way, the new iPhone usable area of display is expanded to 102.5 cm² for iPhone Xs Max and 84 cm² for iPhone Xs. On top of this 5.8-inch iPhone Xs model, there are another two models, 6.1-inch iPhone XR and 6.5-inch iPhone Xs Max with rounded corner design, LCD/OLED Retina display featured. Comparing iPhone Xs with iPhone 8, you will find new iPhone has bigger screen and higher resolution, up to 2436×1125 pixels, 458ppi.
- Display & Design
- 3D Facial Scanning
- Qi Wireless Charging
- Enhanced Water/Dust Resistant
- TrueDepth Camera System
- Dual SIM Cards Standby
- Next-gen A12 Bionic Chip
Face ID Facial Recognition
Among high-profile iPhone Xs tips and tricks, 3D facial recognition tech is especially attractive. Now Apple keeps the Touch ID on iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus while it ditches away Touch ID fingerprint recognition tech on iPhone Xs. Instead, it adopts facial scanning tech (Face ID) to unlock your iPhone Xs in "millionths of a second" even in an all black space. To recognize your face, iPhone Xs packs up to 8 modules like front camera, infrared camera, flood illuminator, etc. to fetch your facial features immediately.
- Display & Design
- 3D Facial Scanning
- Qi Wireless Charging
- Enhanced Water/Dust Resistant
- TrueDepth Camera System
- Dual SIM Cards Standby
- Next-gen A12 Bionic Chip
Qi Wireless Charging
In this iPhone Xs tips and tricks article, one of the most amazing iPhone feature is the Wi-Fi wireless charging, for it's a breakthrough technology and none of other smartphones sports such feature. Though it still can't
extend iPhone Xs battery life, it's very fast to charge your iPhone Xs/Xs Max/XR from 0% to 100%. Of course, wireless charging works with the established Qi ecosystem, two new wireless charging mats called AirPower needed.
- Display & Design
- 3D Facial Scanning
- Qi Wireless Charging
- Enhanced Water/Dust Resistant
- TrueDepth Camera System
- Dual SIM Cards Standby
- Next-gen A12 Bionic Chip
Enhanced Water/Dust Resistant
Both iPhone X and iPhone 8/Plus feature IP67 dust/water resistant (up to 1m for 30 mins). Certain improvements of water/dust resistant happen on 2018 iPhone Xs Max/Xs/XR with IP68 (maximum depth of 2 meters up to 30 minutes) under IEC standard 60529.
- Display & Design
- 3D Facial Scanning
- Qi Wireless Charging
- Enhanced Water/Dust Resistant
- TrueDepth Camera System
- Dual SIM Cards Standby
- Next-gen A12 Bionic Chip
TrueDepth Camera System
iPhone Xs is tipped to have a vertical dual camera setup. Compared with iPhone 7 Plus dual-lens camera, iPhone Xs's dual-lens camera has two differences: locating orientation and improved ability. Honestly, the iPhone Xs back side looks very weird and ugly. Actually, the vertical design of iPhone Xs TrueDepth dual-lens camera is mainly used to support AR (Augmented Reality) capability. As for the improved camera ability on iPhone Xs/Xs Max and iPhone XR, it supports users to record 4K video at 24/30/60 FPS and 1080p video at 240 FPS.
- Display & Design
- 3D Facial Scanning
- Qi Wireless Charging
- Enhanced Water/Dust Resistant
- TrueDepth Camera System
- Dual SIM Cards Standby
- Next-gen A12 Bionic Chip
Dual SIM Cards Standby
Is ther any attractive point for iPhone Xs/Xs Max? Dual SIM cards standby would be definitely at the top of the list. Getting closer to Android-style feature, Apple adds the Android's feature - Dual SIM to iPhone Xs/Xs Max. Yet, the dual-SIM version is only available for China mainland.
- Display & Design
- 3D Facial Scanning
- Qi Wireless Charging
- Enhanced Water/Dust Resistant
- TrueDepth Camera System
- Dual SIM Cards Standby
- Next-gen A12 Bionic Chip
Next-gen A12 Bionic Chip with Neural Engine
iPhone Xs/Xs Max hidden secrets that Apple doesn't tell you is the high-power Hexa-core 2.49GHz A12 bionic chip with 2x Vortex that is 15% faster and 4x Tempest that is 50% faster than the Hexa-core 2.39GHz A11 Bionic chip in iPhone X/8/Plus. And the Apple GPU in A12 bionic chip is also improved from 3-core graphics to 4-core graphics, getting 50% stronger in performance. This is a really effective solution to dramatically
speed up iPhone Xs/Max.
- Display & Design
- 3D Facial Scanning
- Qi Wireless Charging
- Enhanced Water/Dust Resistant
- TrueDepth Camera System
- Dual SIM Cards Standby
- Next-gen A12 Bionic Chip