iPhone XR測評:適合我們大多數人的實惠機型

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.

果粉們，好消息：你們不必在下一部iPhone上花費1000美元了。因爲用大約750美元，你就可以獲得一部iPhone XR，和對應的iPhone相比，它一樣快，幾乎一樣強大，但要便宜一些。

The cheaper iPhone, which becomes available Friday, is the model that most people should buy. This year’s other iPhones — namely the XS and XS Max devices, which cost about $1,000 and $1,100 and are already in stores — are luxury devices better suited for enthusiasts willing to spend a premium for superior cameras or a jumbo screen.

週五上市的這款更便宜的iPhone，是大多數人應該購買的型號。今年的其他iPhone——即已在商店中銷售的XS和XS MAX設備，售價約1000美元和1100美元——是面向願爲高級相機或巨型屏幕花費高價的狂熱愛好者的豪華設備。

For everyone else, the XR is perfectly adequate and has few downsides. Its 6.1-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.

對於其他人來說，XR已經完全足夠，而且幾乎沒有缺點。它的6.1英寸屏幕基於LCD，這是一種較舊的顯示技術，看起來比XS手機上的OLED屏幕略遜一籌——但只有電影行家纔看得出區別。

The XR’s single-lens camera is also less capable than the dual-lens cameras on the XS models. Yet the XR can still produce very 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 the background.

XR的單鏡頭攝像頭也不如XS的雙鏡頭。然而，XR仍可以使用人像模式——又稱散景效果——拍出非常令人滿意的人物照片，它將照片的主要拍攝對象置於清晰的焦內，同時對背景做少量模糊。

The XR is 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 aluminum instead of the more robust stainless steel 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.)

XR的耐用度略低於其較貴的同類。它的玻璃機背不像XS那樣堅硬。它的鋁製邊框或機殼沒有采用更貴型號上的那種更堅固的不鏽鋼。然而，這些差異都可以忽略不計。（總之我建議人們用手機殼來保護手機的這些部分；攜帶沒有外殼的手機有點像開沒有保險槓的車。）

All of these minor negatives add up to a win for price-conscious consumers, especially as smartphone prices keep climbing — iPhones a few years ago started at about $650, while prices for Android phones from Google and Samsung have also shot up to between $700 and $1,000.

所有這些輕微的缺陷加起來，意味着價格敏感的消費者賺到了，特別是隨着智能手機的價格持續攀升——數年前iPhone的價格是650美元起，而谷歌和三星的安卓手機價格也漲到了700美元至1000美元之間。

After I tested an XR for four days, here are the highlights.

在我試用XR手機四天後，我發現了以下亮點。

Apple developed a new kind of LCD to improve color accuracy and squeeze the XR’s screen into the corners of the phone. The result is what Apple calls a Liquid Retina display, which looks better — brighter and more vibrant — than past iPhone LCD screens.

蘋果研發了一種新型LCD屏來提高色彩準確度，並將XR的屏幕擴大到了手機的邊角。結果就是蘋果稱爲“液體視網膜”的屏幕，它看起來比過去的iPhone LCD屏幕更好——更亮、更鮮豔。

I confess that I struggled to see a difference between the Liquid Retina screen and the OLED on an iPhone XS. The distinction is most evident in blacks: If you look at a photo taken in the dark, you will notice that the blacks on the XR’s screen have a faint blue glow, which is coming from the backlight used to illuminate the screen, while the blacks on the XS look darker and more realistic because the OLED technology turns off individual pixels to make them black.

我承認我很難分辨出液體視網膜屏和iPhone XS上的OLED屏有什麼區別。最明顯的跡象出現在黑色區域：如果你查看一張在黑暗中拍攝的照片，你會注意到XR屏幕上的黑色區域閃着微弱的藍色光芒，這來自於照亮屏幕的背光，而XS上的黑色區域看起來則更暗更真實，因爲OLED技術關閉了個別像素使其變黑。

While browsing Instagram on the XR and the XS, I came across a few photos that clearly looked better on the XS’ OLED screen. One example was a professional photo for a New York Times Cooking article about cherry season. In the photo, which shows a variety of cherries in colorful baskets, the reds and cyans looked more accurate on the XS than on the XR, and some of the red stains on the wood table were more visible on the XS.

在用XR和XS瀏覽Instagram的過程中，我偶然發現一些在XS的OLED屏幕上看起來更好的照片。一個例子是一篇“紐約時報烹飪”版塊文章中的一幅關於櫻桃季的專業照片。照片展示了彩色籃子中的各種櫻桃，紅色和青色部分在XS上看起來比在XR上更準確，並且XS上木桌上的一些紅色污漬更加明顯。

These downsides were trivial. The vast majority of your time on a phone will probably be spent looking at amateur photos taken by friends and family anyway, so it’s worth saving $250 to have this slightly less vibrant screen.

這些缺點是微不足道的。反正你花在你手機上的大部分時間可能用於查看朋友和家人拍攝的業餘照片，所以值得節省250美元用這款略微不那麼鮮豔的屏幕。

If you are debating between an XS and XR, your buying decision will probably come down to the camera. The XR’s single-lens camera takes excellent, clear photos with lifelike colors, but because it lacks a second lens, it is less capable at taking those DSLR-like portrait mode shots, which are a lot of fun.

如果你在XS和XR之間進行考慮，你的購買決定可能會取決於攝像頭。XR的單鏡頭能拍出色彩逼真的優質而清晰的照片，但由於它沒有第二個鏡頭，因此它不太能夠拍攝類似數碼單反相機的肖像模式照片，那種模式還是很有趣的。

To do portrait mode with the XR’s single lens, Apple used machine learning, which involves computers analyzing images to recognize people in the photo and properly sharpen them while blurring the background. Apple decided to limit its machine-assisted image processing on the device specifically to human subjects.

爲了用XR的單鏡頭進行肖像模式拍攝，蘋果使用了機器學習，這涉及計算機分析圖像以識別照片中的人，並在模糊背景的同時正確地銳化它們。蘋果決定將其在設備上的機器輔助圖像處理技術專門限制在人類對象身上。

In contrast, the second lens on the XS camera helped the device do portrait shots of a wider variety of subjects, like dogs and objects. In addition to the help of machine learning, the two lenses worked together to create a depth-of-field effect that kept the main subject in sharp focus while blurring the background.

相比之下，XS相機上的第二個鏡頭可以幫助設備拍攝各種對象的肖像照片，包括狗和物體。除了機器學習的幫助之外，兩個鏡頭一起工作以創建景深效果，使主要拍攝對象在清晰焦內，同時模糊背景。

When you attempt to take a portrait photo of a nonhuman, the XR camera will display the message “No person detected.” This was the biggest downer to me as a dog owner and foodie (and what ultimately drove me to buy an XS).

當你嘗試拍攝不是人類的肖像照片時，XR相機會顯示“未檢測到人臉”的信息。這對我這個養狗人士及美食愛好者來說是最大的缺陷（以及最終驅使我買XS的最大動力）。

In contrast, Google’s $800 Pixel 3 also has a single lens and, with the help of machine learning, did a fantastic job in my tests producing portrait mode photos featuring dogs, food and people.

相比之下，800美元的谷歌Pixel 3也只有一個鏡頭，在機器學習的幫助下，在我嘗試爲狗、食物和人拍攝肖像模式照片時出色地完成了工作。

Let’s speed through what else you need to know about the XR:

我們來快速瞭解一下你需要知道的關於XR的其他信息：

Apple said the XR had the longest battery life among the new iPhones. It gets 16 hours of video playback, compared with 15 hours on the XS Max. In my tests, I didn’t notice a meaningful difference. Both iPhones had long enough battery life to get me through the day.

Apple表示XR在新款iPhone中續航時間最長。它可以播放16小時的視頻，而XS Max能播放15小時。在我的測試中，我沒有注意到有意義的差別。兩款iPhone都有足夠長的電池續航時間讓我度過一天。

In speed tests measuring a single computing core with a benchmarking app, the XR was just as fast as the XS, 49 percent faster than Google’s Pixel 3 and 45 percent faster than Samsung’s Galaxy S9.

在跑分應用中測試單個處理器核心的速度時，XR與XS一樣快，比谷歌的Pixel 3快49％，比三星的Galaxy S9快45％。

The body of the XR is about half a millimeter thicker than the XS partly because the cheaper phone had to make room for the backlighting used to illuminate its LCD screen. In addition, the XR’s 6.1-inch screen is a bit bigger than the XS with a 5.8-inch screen. As a result, it felt bulkier in the pocket than the XS. (Of course, the XS Max with a 6.5-inch screen felt the bulkiest.)

XR的機身比XS厚約半毫米，部分原因是便宜的手機必須爲用於照亮LCD屏幕的背光騰出空間。此外，XR的6.1英寸屏幕比配有5.8英寸屏幕的XS略大。結果，它放在口袋裏時感覺比XS更笨重（當然，配備6.5英寸屏幕的XS Max感覺最笨重）。

The XR lacks 3D Touch, the iPhone feature that lets users control some of the software by exerting pressure on the touch screen. Instead, placing your finger over a button, like the camera shortcut on the lock screen, and holding it down results in haptic feedback. This is a negligible omission: I forgot that 3D Touch even existed because I rarely use it.

XR沒有3D Touch功能，這項iPhone特色功能可讓用戶通過在觸摸屏上施加壓力來控制某些軟件。相反，將手指放在按鈕上，如鎖定屏幕上的相機快捷方式，並按住它會產生觸覺反饋。這是一個可以忽略不計的缺失：我甚至忘了3D Touch的存在，因爲我很少使用它。

The XR comes in six colors: white, black, blue, yellow, coral and red. The XS phones come in three: gold, white and black.

XR有六種顏色：白、黑、藍、黃、珊瑚和紅。XS手機有三種：金、白和黑。

As is often the case for new gadgets, good things come to those who wait. If you resisted splurging on the XS to wait for the XR, you will be rewarded with a great phone — and some extra cash lying around.

正如新產品經常會有的情況，耐心等待的人會得到好報。如果你拒絕在XS上揮霍以等待XR，你將獲得一個很棒的手機——另外還多出些餘錢。