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iPhone XR In 2022! (Still Worth It?) (Review)

Simple Alpaca
3 min readJan 3, 2022

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So, it’s finally time to talk about one of my favorite iPhones of all time, it’s the iPhone XR, and let’s see how it holds up in 2022. First off, Apple is no longer selling this iPhone brand new, but that doesn’t mean you can’t buy it, they are available on Amazon and many different websites as well. First of all, the front of this iPhone still looks completely up to date, almost every iPhone after this (including the iPhone 13’s) looks almost exactly like this iPhone on the front. However, it’s not perfect, the display is an IPS panel (not an OLED), and it doesn’t have promotion like the latest iPhone 13 Pro’s, is it a big deal? Not really, but it is something to keep in mind. We have a glass back on this device, wireless charging, IP certification, and overall, a very premium feeling body.

Now let’s talk about the camera, it was a single 12-megapixel camera on the back, and a 7-megapixel camera on the front, you can do 4k videos at 60 frames per second, front can do 1080p at 60 frames per second. Here’s the thing, this camera is still fairly good, it’s a single sensor which is unfortunate, but it’s a pretty decent single lens. You still have things like portrait mode, and the camera quality is…

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