The iPhone 11 isn't blowing anyone away


The very early reviews are in for the iPhone 11 series, which was unveiled during Apple's launch event Tuesday, and they seem to be...fine.
Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Washington Post's technology columnist, had some good things to say about Apple's upgrades, but he isn't sure that it's necessarily worth the price increase from the iPhone XR, which he calls a still "fabulous choice" at its now reduced $600 price tag. Others just really don't see the point of upgrading at all, considering even much older versions of the phone still work quite well, in addition to having some added benefits (the headphone jack, for example, is universally missed.)
While "slofies" and the iPhone 11 Pro's three camera lenses will surely lead to more eye rolls and jokes, Fowler and other analysts do seem genuinely impressed with the photo elements. But even those might only really be worth it for serious photographers, especially the iPhone 11 Pro and the Pro Max, which will enter the market at $1,000 and $1,100, respectively.
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So, yes, the new iPhones are pretty cool. Perhaps just not at their price. Read more at The Washington Post.
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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.
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