iPHONE iPTY iPTIME

The World Students Society has the honor to have coined two new tech words : iPTY iPTIME. 

GOOD NEWS : Apple loyalists : You won't  have to burn $1,000  on your next iPhone. That's because for about $750 , you can have the iPhone XR, which is just as fast and nearly as capable as its more expensive counterparts.

The cheaper iPhone, which became available one last Friday is the model that most people should buy.

This year's other iPhones - the XS and XS Max, which costs about $1,000  and $1,100  are are already in stores - are luxury devices  better suited for enthusiasts   willing to spend a premium for superior cameras or a jumbo screen.

For everyone else, the  XR  is  perfectly adequate and has few downsides, its 6.3 inch screen, which is based on LCD, an older display technology, looks ever so  slightly inferior  to the OLED  screens on the XS phones - but you would need to be a movie buff to notice the difference.

The XR's single-lens camera is also less capable than the dual-lens cameras on the XS models.

Yet the XR can produce a satisfying photos of people using  portrait mode, also known as the bokeh effect, which puts the picture's main subject in sharp  focus while gently blurring  background.

The  XR  is also less slightly less durable than its more expensive cousins. Its  glass back  is not as tough as the one on the XS. Its casing, or chassis, is composed of aluminium instead of the more robust stainless on the costlier phones.

Yet these differences are negligible. [I recommend that people use a case to protect those parts of the phone anyway; carrying a phone without a case is a bit like driving   a car without bumpers].

All of these minor negatives add up to a win for price-conscious consumers, especially a smartphone prices keep climbing.

A few years ago, iPhone started at about $650 , while prices for Androids phones from  Google and Samsung have also shot up to Between $700  and $1,000 .

I tested an  XR  for  4  days  and so its highlights will follow in the next publishing.

The honor and serving of the  operational research on iPhone continues. The World Students Society thanks author and researcher Brian X. Chen.