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Thanks for the info. Have you run iOS13 on the XS? I found that it sped up my faceID a lot, so just want to confirm that the speed is from hardware, not software. Seems to be a lot of conflicting information on this.
I was on iOS 13 beta for a while on my xs max and it was fast already.
iOS 13 with pro max seems even faster.
But hard to discern the difference when it’s already so fast.
 
Just been to my local Apple Store in Abu Dhabi and made a comparison with the 4 available colors for the 11 PRO:

Silver
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Midnight green
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Gold
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Space grey
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I must admit that the greenish one is not my preferred and same is for the gold one.

I eventually came to the conclusion that it’s worth for me to take advantage of the great improvement in the PRO’s camera (I’m a pretty active iphoneographer) and step up from my current 7Plus (great camera BTW).

Planning to buy my 11 PRO MAX 256GB in a couple of weeks from now and after having seen all the colors my choice goes to Silver: simple, elegant, love the steel color effect on the edges.
 
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Thanks for the info. Have you run iOS13 on the XS? I found that it sped up my faceID a lot, so just want to confirm that the speed is from hardware, not software. Seems to be a lot of conflicting information on this.

FaceID is insanely fast on my XS Max now so it’s definitely influenced by software! Can’t wait to see it on my 11 Pro Max tomorrow.
 
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I really like that tri-camera setup, I think it looks great. The green colour with the matte glass finish looks amazing too. I really wish I was getting one, but I’ve decided to hold out till next year.
 
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Just been to my local Apple Store in Abu Dhabi and made a comparison with the 4 available colors for the 11 PRO:

2018afd3f4dc7e7b9cea4a04cc449730.jpg
273daf038bc4a453ae1032c691d83d49.jpg
5bf51330c28a618b0d6867ab2b419443.jpg
d6ffec1a353093965c264e50896b6736.jpg


I must admit that the greenish one is not my preferred and same is for the gold one.

I eventually came to the conclusion that it’s worth for me to take advantage of the great improvement in the PRO’s camera (I’m a pretty active iphoneographer) and step up from my current 7Plus (great camera BTW).

Planning to buy my 11 PRO MAX 256GB in a couple of weeks from now and after having seen all the colors my choice goes to Silver: simple, elegant, love the steel color effect on the edges.
Omg I’m drooling over silver 😭
 
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Is the charger as fugly in person as it is in photos?
Yeah it's fairly clunky-looking.

Just picked up my iPhone 11 Pro Max, Silver 256GB and it's beautiful. Big and heavy, but gorgeous. The camera bump, to my surprise, was not exactly a mirror finish as it appeared in the Vietnamese unboxing photos from earlier this week, but is simply non-matte glass over a white background (exactly like the iPhone X in silver, looked) ... So it's not quite the fingerprint magnet I was afraid it would be. Still, it would've looked SO MUCH better if the whole thing had been matte. The back of the phone is great.
 
It's basically the same one as the iPad Pro.

It's a pity Apple doesn't use components like Anker did for their 30W USB-C charger, that one is almost as small as Apple's 5W USB-A charger.

Yea I was looking at that anker one on amazon the other day. Might have to grab it
 
Just been to my local Apple Store in Abu Dhabi and made a comparison with the 4 available colors for the 11 PRO:

Silver
2018afd3f4dc7e7b9cea4a04cc449730.jpg

Midnight green
273daf038bc4a453ae1032c691d83d49.jpg

Gold
5bf51330c28a618b0d6867ab2b419443.jpg

Space grey
d6ffec1a353093965c264e50896b6736.jpg


I must admit that the greenish one is not my preferred and same is for the gold one.

I eventually came to the conclusion that it’s worth for me to take advantage of the great improvement in the PRO’s camera (I’m a pretty active iphoneographer) and step up from my current 7Plus (great camera BTW).

Planning to buy my 11 PRO MAX 256GB in a couple of weeks from now and after having seen all the colors my choice goes to Silver: simple, elegant, love the steel color effect on the edges.
The silver is honestly the best looking one, to me. I chose midnight green but might reconsider lol
 
Just been to my local Apple Store in Abu Dhabi and made a comparison with the 4 available colors for the 11 PRO:

Silver
2018afd3f4dc7e7b9cea4a04cc449730.jpg

Midnight green
273daf038bc4a453ae1032c691d83d49.jpg

Gold
5bf51330c28a618b0d6867ab2b419443.jpg

Space grey
d6ffec1a353093965c264e50896b6736.jpg


I must admit that the greenish one is not my preferred and same is for the gold one.

I eventually came to the conclusion that it’s worth for me to take advantage of the great improvement in the PRO’s camera (I’m a pretty active iphoneographer) and step up from my current 7Plus (great camera BTW).

Planning to buy my 11 PRO MAX 256GB in a couple of weeks from now and after having seen all the colors my choice goes to Silver: simple, elegant, love the steel color effect on the edges.

Damn. I have the green and the silver coming. But the gold looks so much better than I thought in those pictures.
 
Just got mine in midnight green. Really impressed with the colour. Under indoor lighting conditions it’s quite similar to space grey but with a slight greenish or teal tinge depending on the angle. Outdoors, it’s visibly green.

Very impressed so far. The new side-by-side transfer from my previous iPhone worked a charm and only took about ten minutes. Camera is stunning. Display is noticeably brighter, yet warmer, than my XS. Battery is too early to say - it was on 82% when I took it out of the box about two hours ago and is currently on 70%. Screen has virtually never been off, lots of camera tinkering and about 20 minutes of video streaming.

Favourite change so far is the matte glass on the back. Feels nothing like I expected.
 
Just been to my local Apple Store in Abu Dhabi and made a comparison with the 4 available colors for the 11 PRO:

I must admit that the greenish one is not my preferred and same is for the gold one.

I eventually came to the conclusion that it’s worth for me to take advantage of the great improvement in the PRO’s camera (I’m a pretty active iphoneographer) and step up from my current 7Plus (great camera BTW).

Planning to buy my 11 PRO MAX 256GB in a couple of weeks from now and after having seen all the colors my choice goes to Silver: simple, elegant, love the steel color effect on the edges.

Silver's the nicest I think.
 
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