That's cool. As long as u tell it like it is...like I've done from day one.
[Official] Apple iPhone X:OUT NOW!
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Ayooo something wrong with these Samsung heads lmao they more obsessed over Apple than apple fan boys. I bet if you could without looking crazy you would stand outside the Apple store just to argue. I bet when you see an X in person your eyes get big like there it is
I'm not white
:guccilool:I bet when you see an X in person your eyes get big like there it is
even tho i preordered 10 min after midnight
Me too. Just pays itself off. I'l be getting a 500 dollar phone soon enough after the process works itself out . The s8 plus is just 515. Essential is 500. Etc.
Dorian Breh
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Samsung.com had the Note 7 program that basically sold it for 515. T mobile had the buy one get one free deal. Swappa would have great prices these days. Warranty deals? I mess with Jump insurance so I won't get fukked over.
So I ended up getting one of these yesterday from an Apple store to judge it for myself instead of just having an opinion but hardly using it. This is my one day review.
I been using it all day and I'll say this right off the bat. Its not worth $1150 or even $1000. It's just not that different from what we already had and a lot of the changes they made make the user experience worse for them instead of better. A lot of user experience quality was sacrificed to make the screen larger.
The main sacrifice was getting rid of the home button. The problem is the home button was central to how the OS ran. It did so many things and instead of finding a way to streamline what it did they took it and split it up multiple different ways. Now the power button has to activate Siri and to power the damn thing off you have to hold volume and power and if it freezes you have to press like a sequence of power and volume buttons in order Siri should be buttonless since you have to talk to it anyway it should have been "hey Siri" or nothing. I still feel like the best compromise would have been to keep TouchID and put the sensor in the Apple logo and make that double as a home button but also have the gesture controls to give users more options.
The gesture controls are trash. Too many things have been needlessly complicated by them. You used to be able to double tap the home button and flick away apps now you have to drag up pause and then long press then you can flick away. Half the top bringing down the notification shade and the other half the control center is weird. Speaking of that it's a bit annoying to have to pull down the control center to see the exact battery percentage. Why can't I just replace the battery icon with a percentage?
The TouchID vs FaceID points are all irrelevant because FaceID works at the OS level where ever TouchID worked. It's a bit slower and it's weird to be used to have to actively do something to activate a login or unlock the phone and now you don't do anything but I can see adjusting.
The iPhone X is definitely or people who like the size of the standard iPhone but want a bigger screen. It's kinda like how the Galaxy S8 is comparable to the Note7's size and if you liked that size the S8 is perfect for you. This isn't a iPhone Plus user's phone. The OLED screen I barely notice that it's OLED doesn't look that much different from any other iPhone screen really. Maybe it's the true tone.
As for the dreaded notch it's an eye sore but at the same time if you treat this phone as a larger screened regular iPhone then most of the time it doesn't really come into play. That area wouldn't have been usable on the normal iPhone because it would have been for the status bar anyway. As long as you don't try to make stuff completely full screen and just accept the fact that it's a larger normal iPhone it's manageable. With the right wallpaper you can minimize it's appearance as well.
All in all this phone is worse for losing the home button because Apple would rather stubbornly sacrifice user experience than put a button on the back of the phone. Now there's all these different gestures and actions to remember because of the spill over of losing that button. Can they be memorized? Yeah but do they and the removal of the home button make the iOS user experiences better? No. This used to be an easy phone you could buy a grandparent and they could quickly adjust to it. Now they gotta remember all this crap and many of them won't they'd be calling you left and right asking "how do I do this again?"
I been using it all day and I'll say this right off the bat. Its not worth $1150 or even $1000. It's just not that different from what we already had and a lot of the changes they made make the user experience worse for them instead of better. A lot of user experience quality was sacrificed to make the screen larger.
The main sacrifice was getting rid of the home button. The problem is the home button was central to how the OS ran. It did so many things and instead of finding a way to streamline what it did they took it and split it up multiple different ways. Now the power button has to activate Siri and to power the damn thing off you have to hold volume and power and if it freezes you have to press like a sequence of power and volume buttons in order Siri should be buttonless since you have to talk to it anyway it should have been "hey Siri" or nothing. I still feel like the best compromise would have been to keep TouchID and put the sensor in the Apple logo and make that double as a home button but also have the gesture controls to give users more options.
The gesture controls are trash. Too many things have been needlessly complicated by them. You used to be able to double tap the home button and flick away apps now you have to drag up pause and then long press then you can flick away. Half the top bringing down the notification shade and the other half the control center is weird. Speaking of that it's a bit annoying to have to pull down the control center to see the exact battery percentage. Why can't I just replace the battery icon with a percentage?
The TouchID vs FaceID points are all irrelevant because FaceID works at the OS level where ever TouchID worked. It's a bit slower and it's weird to be used to have to actively do something to activate a login or unlock the phone and now you don't do anything but I can see adjusting.
The iPhone X is definitely or people who like the size of the standard iPhone but want a bigger screen. It's kinda like how the Galaxy S8 is comparable to the Note7's size and if you liked that size the S8 is perfect for you. This isn't a iPhone Plus user's phone. The OLED screen I barely notice that it's OLED doesn't look that much different from any other iPhone screen really. Maybe it's the true tone.
As for the dreaded notch it's an eye sore but at the same time if you treat this phone as a larger screened regular iPhone then most of the time it doesn't really come into play. That area wouldn't have been usable on the normal iPhone because it would have been for the status bar anyway. As long as you don't try to make stuff completely full screen and just accept the fact that it's a larger normal iPhone it's manageable. With the right wallpaper you can minimize it's appearance as well.
All in all this phone is worse for losing the home button because Apple would rather stubbornly sacrifice user experience than put a button on the back of the phone. Now there's all these different gestures and actions to remember because of the spill over of losing that button. Can they be memorized? Yeah but do they and the removal of the home button make the iOS user experiences better? No. This used to be an easy phone you could buy a grandparent and they could quickly adjust to it. Now they gotta remember all this crap and many of them won't they'd be calling you left and right asking "how do I do this again?"
Yup the new iPhone X is trash with all the gestures. I hope the iPhone 9 comes out next year with a home button.
the gestures are easy to learn, you'll be confused the first day because it's something new. Now that I've adjusted I find myself trying to swipe up from the bottom on my other phones to get to the home screen, but yeah if 3 or 4 gestures are too much for you to learn than this is not the phone for you. What you think of the feature where your messages on the lock screen is hidden until you look at it using face id?
but yeah I respect your review, I like that you actually USED the phone.. 
let us know what you think of it a week later of using if you do keep it for that long.
Y’all got it like that. I’m not spending 1000$ on something just to see how it is
