
The OLED panel is just more vibrant, and blacks can look more gray on an LCD. I noticed the difference when I put the iPhone XR and iPhone XS side by side with an aquarium screen saver.

What you don't get on the iPhone XR's screen are the perfect blacks and ultrawide viewing angles that OLED displays offer.

That beats results from the Pixel 3 XL (0.35) and Note 9 (0.34) and is comparable to the iPhone XS' showing (0.25). The color accuracy is great, too, as the iPhone XR turned in a Delta-E score of 0.28 (0 is perfect). The iPhone XR's screen registered a good 123.4 percent of the sRGB color gamut, which is on par with the iPhone XS's result (123 percent) but is behind showings from the Pixel 3 XL (170.2 percent) and Galaxy Note 9 (224 percent). The iPhone XS (606 nits) and Galaxy Note 9 (604 nits) are even brighter, though. That number blows away the Pixel 3 XL's 362 nits. It registered an excellent 589 nits of brightness, and I had no trouble reading this screen in direct sunlight. This LCD fared well in our lab tests as well.
IPHONE XR COLORS FULL
(Yes, even though this panel is not technically full HD.) And the laser beams being shot at Amber Heard were an intense blue.
IPHONE XR COLORS PLUS
On the plus side, the 1792 x 828-pixel screen delivered excellent detail when I watched the trailer for Aquaman, as I could make out every scale in his superhero uniform. The iPhone XR's 6.1-inch Liquid Retina LCD is one of the brighter and more colorful smartphone displays out there. It's worth noting that the Galaxy S10e delivers a colorful design in a more compact package, as it sports a smaller 5.8-inch display. Google's Pixel 3 XL (6.5 ounces, 6.2 x 3 x 0.3 inches), with its 6.3-inch screen, is a bit lighter but noticeably taller than the iPhone XR. That's because Apple squeezed a bigger display into a design about the same size as the iPhone 7 Plus by banishing the Home button.Īs you might expect, the iPhone XR's size and weight (6.8 ounces, 5.9 x 3 x 0.3 inches) is in between that of the iPhone XS (6.2 ounces, 5.7 x 2.8 x 0.3 inches) and that of the XS Max (7.3 ounces, 6.2 x 3.1 x 0.3 inches). The design will take some adjustment for those stepping up from a puny, 4.7-inch iPhone 7 but not those stepping up from an iPhone 7 Plus.

The iPhone XR gives you pretty much everything you could want in an affordable phone with minimal trade-offs. Some may want to wait for the iPhone 13 (opens in new tab) to see what Apple has to offer this fall, but those phones will likely have a much more premium price.
