My iPhone 16 Plus has arrived.
This is a bigger version of the iPhone 16.
And I have here is the white variant.
We've bought this from Beyond the Box.
And at the end of this video, you'll find out
if this iPhone 16 Plus is worth it to buy
or you should go for the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max.
So let's start.
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This iPhone 16 Plus that has 128GB of storage
would come at a price point of Php62,000.
Its 256GB variant would come at a price point
of Php69,000.
And its 512GB would come at a price of Php81,000.
I've bought this from Beyond the Box.
I'll post the link on the description box below.
First things first, what I like about it
is that its back is matte finish.
And I love the feel here.
Probably one of the good things here
is that it's smudge-free.
You won't find any fingerprints here,
except if your fingers are dirty,
you'll see it here especially since we have
the color white.
This iPhone 16 Plus comes in five colors:
black, white, ultramarine, pink, and teal.
What's your favorite color? Let me know in the comments.
One thing I noticed on the sides is that it feels great
to hold it.
And I feel really good when I'm holding this phone,
it has kind of a grip on the side
so it gives me a good feel on this phone.
What I like here is that its bezels
are symmetrical all throughout the phone
and the notch is here.
If you're coming from the iPhone 15 series,
you'll see that the orientation of the camera module
has changed.
It's not slanted anymore.
It's straight this time around.
It's like changed back to the old one.
And you'll also notice there's an additional button here
which is the camera control button which we'll discuss
a little bit further later.
This iPhone 16 Plus comes with an Apple A18 chip
which is a 3nm chip.
When I tried testing it on AnTuTu Benchmark,
it got 1.56 million points which is quite not bad.
This is the result that we got on the 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite.
And it has a 4,000 loop score on Wild Life Extreme
with a 71% stability on Wild Life Extreme.
This is the score that we got on Geekbench
CPU benchmarking.
And this is the one on the GPU benchmarking.
The scores that we got here are quite impressive.
This phone comes running on IOS 18
and you can upgrade it to IOS 18.1
which is the current version.
What's the difference?
I noticed on its photos, the menu on the bottom
becomes many.
It's kind of confusing in a way if you're not used to it
because if you're upgrading from the IOS 17 to 18,
you'll really be confused.
Can you see this button on the bottom,
customize and restore?
You can customize and remove things
that you don't want here to make it more simpler,
much like IOS 17.
You just really need to change it up a bit
so you can organize it properly.
One improvement here is definitely its battery.
It now has a 4,674mAh of battery
which is sometimes puzzling.
iPhone doesn't want to fully make it 5,000mAh
so it'll be an industry standard.
And this one supports PD 2.0 which is roughly 25W charging,
25W wireless charging, 15W Qi2 wireless charging,
and 4.5W reverse wireless charging.
Like always, you won't get a charging brick
so one of my recommended is definitely the Anker.
This is a 25W charging brick from Anker
which they call it the Anker 312 charger.
It is very fast for iPhones.
The Anker brand is very reliable
so I trust nothing but the best.
Link on the description.
Now guys, if you'll ask me if the iPhone 16 Plus
can last on a day-to-day basis, honestly, it can last
one whole day as long as no heavy usage.
I used it normally for one whole day.
It can last it.
Maybe at the end of the day, there's still 20% left.
It's kind of battery hungry but it's manageable
as long as you don't do heavy gaming
or video taking all day long, for sure it'll be drained.
One of the things that I really like on Apple devices
is their display.
This one has a 6.7-inch Super Retina XDR OLED display,
supporting HDR 10, Dolby Vision,
and it has a maximum brightness of 2,000 nits.
It's being protected by Ceramic Shield Glass 2024
which is definitely scratch resistant up to a certain level.
One of my favorite things to do here is browsing
through social media,
like Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram,
it can handle those.
It's very smooth on every single swipe.
And probably one of the best experience
while browsing through social media
is definitely on the iPhone.
Why? Because it always loads HD content for you.
Unlike on Android where most of the time
it's compressed.
If you watch your favorite shows
on Netflix, YouTube, expect a really good experience
because its display is very good, the black is rich,
and of course, the details are very sharp
when you're watching your favorite shows here.
Now we know this phone has stereo speakers.
I just want to test, let's listen to how good
its sound is.
(APT by ROSÉ & Bruno Mars)
I would say that it's great to sound trip here.
If you're putting the loudspeaker to the maximum,
this is a winner.
Listening to Spotify, playing your favorite game,
and watching your favorite movie, it's good.
I was able to play three games here,
Farlight 84, Genshin Impact, and Call of Duty Mobile.
On Farlight 84, expect a really good
gaming experience here.
I was able to set to all high settings
and the gameplay was quite good.
And honestly, probably one of the best phones
to play the Farlight 84 is definitely on the iPhone
because its graphics are good, the gameplay is good,
its controls are great, its sounds are great,
and you won't have any problem.
Except one thing.
After 30 minutes of gameplay, it's hot at 50°C.
Moving on to Genshin Impact, probably another phone
that greatly handles Genshin Impact is an iPhone.
I was able to set to 120 FPS on this phone
and it gave me a really good satisfying experience.
Playing for 30 minutes on this game,
when were fighting bosses, on some other phones
even on flagship level, there are some skips or lags
that you'll feel, but here, there's almost zero lags.
I didn't feel any lags here.
Except another thing, it's also hot at around 51°C.
So I would recommend you to buy a cooler.
On Call of Duty Mobile, you can also set it
to all high settings, both max.
And the gameplay is definitely smooth.
You won't feel any lags, its gameplay is so great.
It's so snappy.
The sounds are also great coming from the left
and right speaker.
Expect to give you a good gaming experience.
And after 30 minutes, its maximum heat is 45°C.
Let's talk about the camera on the back.
48MP main camera sensor with sensor-shift OIS.
12MP ultra wide lens with 120° FoV.
Can let you shoot up to 4K and 60 FPS.
The front-facing camera is a 12MP with PDAF.
It also acts as a depth and biometric sensor.
It can also shoot up to 4K and 60 FPS.
Now guys, I'll show you quickly how to use
its camera control button.
One of the things that I don't like about it
is that when we're holding it like this,
the button is kind of far from my finger.
If you want to use this button, you normally need
to hold it like this just to take a photo
which is very unusual.
I like to hold it like this better.
The button should have been here,
like the shoulder triggers of REDMAGIC
so that you can easily snap very easily.
Unlike here, it's kind of far, my finger can't reach it.
Except if your finger is longer, maybe you'll reach it.
But the shutter button is kind of far for me.
There's a lot of things that you can do here.
Basically if you want to call your camera,
which I set to double press so I won't accidentally press
and open my camera.
So double press to activate my camera.
If you activate it, this would be the last menu.
What I set here is its zooming capability.
You can use it like this or what others do
is light press, two press,
you'll see all of the different functions.
Like you can adjust the depth, the exposure,
or you can use the zoom, then cameras,
its different lenses like ultra wide and zoom lens,
styles, and you can also use tone.
For me, the best feature to use is either the depth
or zoom.
On cameras, I don't think it's very useful
but I feel that it's better on zoom,
zooming like this, rather than pinching.
Probably that's the most useful for me.
What about you guys? Let me know what you think.
Now guys, let's talk about some of the shots
that we got on my iPhone 16 Plus.
One of the things that's great here is that
it snaps fast, it focuses fast.
It was able to capture some really nice
stunning photos outdoors.
As long as your lighting on outdoors is good,
you won't have any problems here
on the iPhone 16 Plus.
Taking some photos of the flowers
and taking some photos of the greens,
expect some really good shots.
On indoor condition, I was able to gather
some of this really nice snaps that we got.
And really I would say that the quality is really different
when it comes to iPhone.
It was able to give me some really nice snaps.
You'll see that the photos are really sharp,
rich in details.
That's something that you'll love in iPhones.
I was able to capture some of these Korean snacks.
I think this is fish cake.
And the food shots that I got here are great.
And capturing some stuffed dolls
like Labubu, expect it to be also really good.
Even signages, it's also good.
As well as some of these shots, very simple
but you'll really notice that it's beautiful.
If you focus on lighted signage,
you'll see that it's okay, the shot is great,
the colors aren't overexposed which is good.
And we've captured some Christmas tree shots,
expect that the shots that we got would be great.
When I played with its ultra wide lens,
this is how it looks like.
This is a normal shot and this is a 2x zoom shot.
When you zoom it in, you'll know that
they're selling jewelries.
At dawn, I was able to take some of these snaps
on outdoors on lowlight and it was good.
This is an ultra wide shot,
this is a normal,
and this is a 2x zoom shot.
This cell site is very clear after 2x zooming.
On night shot, you expect to get
some really good snaps on iPhone 16 Plus.
And when I was strolling around taking some quick snaps here,
expect that the photos are bright and good,
iPhone really enhances your shots during nighttime.
I'm really happy with my snaps here.
Using the front-facing camera, it was able to get me
some really nice, good shots here.
Expect that when it comes to iPhone,
it'll give you a natural tone.
And it's a little bit more of a warmer tone
as compared to Android smartphones
that have a brighter approach.
But overall, the snaps are quite good.
Taking this video on outdoors while walking,
it's almost nighttime, I would say
that its video is very stable and the quality is great.
Equally said on rear camera while nearing nighttime.
It's very stable while walking.
And taking a 4K video, I would say that
it's very smooth even if you don't have
a gimbal on the iPhone 16 Plus.
Now guys, what can I say about the new iPhone 16 Plus.
Honestly, its performance is great.
Probably even if you don't buy the Pro and Pro Max level,
its performance is already great.
This is probably a little bit more of a nerf
or carried over from the iPhone 15 Pro Max.
And some of the features that the 15 Pro Max are put here.
Like this action button on the side
which is customizable.
You can use it as a silent button
or other functions that you can set
on its settings.
It's useful for some people and it's useless
for some people.
There are mixed reviews on its camera control button.
For me, I find it a little bit useless
because how I hold it is like this when I shoot
and it's kind of far from my index finger
if I'm going to use it as a shutter button.
So I'll really reach out for it which is kind
of inconvenient.
I'd prefer it to be somewhere here
like shoulder triggers like REDMAGIC gaming phones.
But having it here, it's a little bit far.
The only thing I find useful is its zooming
which is definitely useful because it's more sensitive
rather than pinching it on the screen.
Overall, the form factor is good,
I have no problem with it.
Its battery life is just average,
not the best from an iPhone.
They said that the battery life of the iPhone 16 Pro Max
is better.
So guys, don't forget to subscribe to my channel
so that once I upload an iPhone 16 Pro Max review,
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So what do you think about this guys?
Would you buy the iPhone 16 Plus?
Would you upgrade from the iPhone 16 Plus
if you're coming from the iPhone 12, 13?
I would say it's a good upgrade.
But if you're coming from the iPhone 15 or 15 Plus,
I would say you keep your iPhone 15 Plus.
You should probably wait for the 17 series
before you upgrade.
Now guys, if you want to know where I bought this,
I bought it from Beyond the Box.
I'll be posting the link on the description box below.
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