First look at the iPhone XR: Pretty colors, big screen, and an impressive selfie camera

It's 95% of the iPhone XS experience for 75% of the price.
By Pete Pachal  on 
First look at the iPhone XR: Pretty colors, big screen, and an impressive selfie camera
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Apple isn't done releasing iPhones this year. The colorful, kinda-sorta affordable iPhone XR is launching on Oct. 26, starting at $749, which follows the OMG-so-expensive iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, which infamously start at $999 and go all the way up to $1,449.

In advance of the iPhone XR's debut, Mashable got an extended hands-on with the device, in all six of the new colors, in a 45-minute meeting with Apple. Check out the video for our first impressions, and watch for our full review coming soon.

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Pete Pachal

Pete Pachal was Mashable’s Tech Editor and had been at the company from 2011 to 2019. He covered the technology industry, from self-driving cars to self-destructing smartphones.Pete has covered consumer technology in print and online for more than a decade. Originally from Edmonton, Canada, Pete first uploaded himself into technology journalism at Sound & Vision magazine in 1999. Pete also served as Technology Editor at Syfy, creating the channel's technology site, DVICE (now Blastr), out of some rusty HTML code and a decompiled coat hanger. He then moved on to PCMag, where he served as the site's News Director.Pete has been featured on Fox News, the Today Show, Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC and CBC.Pete holds degrees in journalism from the University of King's College in Halifax and engineering from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. His favorite Doctor Who monsters are the Cybermen.


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