If you want read a good overview, John Gruber at Daring Fireball does it best. For examples of the new camera in action, Matthew Panzarino at TechCrunch has great examples of Night Mode and other new camera features. For even more camera coverage check out Nilay Patel at The Verge. If reading long articles isn’t your bag, Joanna Stern at WSJ continues to have some of the best tech review videos around. If you want a long in-depth video discussing all things iPhone 11 or iPhone 11 Pro, Rene Ritchie’s YouTube channel is where you should look.

I agree with nearly everything these reviewers say, especially Joanna Stern’s bottom line recommendation of the iPhone 11 (non-pro) or the iPhone XR. I currently own an iPhone XR and it really is a fantastic phone. It misses out on the battery life and camera improvements of the 11 and 11 Pro models, but retains nearly all the other features of home-button-less iPhone design Apple has been pushing since the X was released in 2017. I personally would never want to go back to having a home button. Once you get used to FaceID and the gesture navigation, the home button seems like an anachronism. It really is that good.

The iPhone 11 and 11 Pro are best thought of as the 3rd version of the iPhone X. Just like how Apple went from iPhone 6 to 6S to 7, the X, XS and 11 can be seen as a series. The iPhone 6 introduced a new industrial design. The 6S focused on performance improvements. The iPhone 7 focused on new finishes and the camera, especially with the introduction of the dual cameras on the iPhone 7 Plus. The same story played out with the iPhone X line. The original X in 2017 was a new design (and price) in the lineup. The XS focused on performance and refinement. Clunky naming aside, the iPhone 11 is following the same strategy as the iPhone 7. Camera improvements, new finishes and other nice-to-haves, but nothing as earth shattering as a new design like the iPhone 6 or X were.

This focus on refinement might lead some people to see theses phones as boring or iterative - they’re not wrong. But modern smartphone design is mostly a solved problem. Most phones are going to look like a rectangular slab for the foreseeable future. Sure, foldable phones, AR glasses and other innovations may be on the horizon, but I would argue they are not here yet. Foldables come with big compromises, even if their potential is exciting. AR glasses may be just around the corner, but they aren’t here yet. The iPhone 11 Pro is.