[Official] Apple iPhone X:OUT NOW!

[RapExpert]

Y’all got it like that. I’m not spending 1000$ on something just to see how it is

lmao shlt is crazy right, I tried using the note 7 and s7 edge as a replacement for my phone (using it for month) but it was straight trash. I returned it and didn't even bother to review it online or slander it. I just moved on to the iphone 7 and called it a day, haven't looked back since.

 

[Ciggavelli]

my X comes today

 

[RapExpert]

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?"

Wait , How'd you pick it up that easy.... Isn't it sold out everywhere?

 

[winb83]

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.

I'm a tech geek. I'll have this memorized in a day or two but what about the average user? Part of the reason the Galaxy phones can drop a physical home button is because Android was made to be used with software buttons. iOS is not that. Removing the home button fragmented everything it did across multiple gestures and button presses. It's not simplifying how things work. It's kinda sloppy really because now people will have to Google how to turn the phone off or reset it from a freeze as well as other things.

Like it or not that physical home button was central to how iOS operated and the OS doesn't operate more efficiently losing it. This is an OS designed around having that physical button and they ripped it out all at once instead of even gradually migrating people by adding gestures years ago. Losing the physical button should have been as seamless as going from TouchID to FaceID.

Wait , How'd you pick it up that easy.... Isn't it sold out everywhere?

The last 2 Sundays our Apple stores have had them available online for a few hours. Check at about 7:30am and you can buy one for in store pickup. After the store opened they sold out again.

I just bought it outright on a credit card and picked it up. Silver 256GB but they had all of them. Wanted to trade in my 7 but they wanted me to finance or take the trade in value in monthly credits from my carrier.

 

[RapExpert]

I'm a tech geek. I'll have this memorized in a day or two but what about the average user? Part of the reason the Galaxy phones can drop a physical home button is because Android was made to be used with software buttons. iOS is not that. Removing the home button fragmented everything it did across multiple gestures and button presses. It's not simplifying how things work. It's kinda sloppy really because now people will have to Google how to turn the phone off or reset it from a freeze as well as other things.

Like it or not that physical home button was central to how iOS operated and the OS doesn't operate more efficiently losing it. This is an OS designed around having that physical button and they ripped it out all at once instead of even gradually migrating people by adding gestures years ago. Losing the physical button should have been as seamless as going from TouchID to FaceID.

The last 2 Sundays our Apple stores have had them available online for a few hours. Check at about 7:30am and you can buy one for in store pickup. After the store opened they sold out again.

I just bought it outright on a credit card and picked it up. Silver 256GB but they had all of them. Wanted to trade in my 7 but they wanted me to finance or take the trade in value in monthly credits from my carrier.

You're a tech geek? that don't mean shlt... X owners you see this?!? Samsung Nikkas making up fake reviews to slander the phone ..

1st you was complaining about the price tag and said you copped the note 8 because you was able to sell your soul and the s7 for a cheaper price now all of a sudden you paying for the iphone flat out?

2nd you magically picked up an X on the fly when shlts is sold out for 3-4 weeks and nikkas out here still waiting on theirs to be delivered
3rd you been giving negative reviews on the phone before lying about picking it up ... ayoooo shlt is getting spooky round here
We need receipts or take ya ass back to the woat 8 thread

 

[Krazy]

Tbf in his defence like he said you can check stock early in the morning on the Apple site or istocknow and you’ll probably get one if you’re quick.

You’ll only be waiting 3-4 weeks if you don’t try, or are getting it through your carrier on a contract.

But outright keep checking and you’ll probably get one sooner, if your fast on the mark.

Not guaranteed but yeah.

 

[MustafaSTL]

I ordered it like at 2pm on the 27th I believe. So like 12 hours after it went on sale

Damn I ordered a day later, hopefully it ships out this week with the 11/17 date.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

You're a tech geek? that don't mean shlt... X owners you see this?!? Samsung Nikkas making up fake reviews to slander the phone ..

1st you was complaining about the price tag and said you copped the note 8 because you was able to sell your soul and the s7 for a cheaper price now all of a sudden you paying for the iphone flat out?

2nd you magically picked up an X on the fly when shlts is sold out for 3-4 weeks and nikkas out here still waiting on theirs to be delivered
3rd you been giving negative reviews on the phone before lying about picking it up ... ayoooo shlt is getting spooky round here
We need receipts or take ya ass back to the woat 8 thread

Winb literally does nothing but buy tech and watch anime porn. I believe him

 

[winb83]

You're a tech geek? that don't mean shlt... X owners you see this?!? Samsung Nikkas making up fake reviews to slander the phone ..

1st you was complaining about the price tag and said you copped the note 8 because you was able to sell your soul and the s7 for a cheaper price now all of a sudden you paying for the iphone flat out?

2nd you magically picked up an X on the fly when shlts is sold out for 3-4 weeks and nikkas out here still waiting on theirs to be delivered
3rd you been giving negative reviews on the phone before lying about picking it up ... ayoooo shlt is getting spooky round here
We need receipts or take ya ass back to the woat 8 thread

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Y’all got it like that. I’m not spending 1000$ on something just to see how it is

He has no children and refuses to be in relationships with women. Plus his rent is like $500. He has mad paper to blow...

 

[Joe Sixpack]

You're a tech geek? that don't mean shlt... X owners you see this?!? Samsung Nikkas making up fake reviews to slander the phone ..

1st you was complaining about the price tag and said you copped the note 8 because you was able to sell your soul and the s7 for a cheaper price now all of a sudden you paying for the iphone flat out?

2nd you magically picked up an X on the fly when shlts is sold out for 3-4 weeks and nikkas out here still waiting on theirs to be delivered
3rd you been giving negative reviews on the phone before lying about picking it up ... ayoooo shlt is getting spooky round here
We need receipts or take ya ass back to the woat 8 thread

Winb83 birthday party

 

[RapExpert]

My version was funnier

 

[VladTheImpaler]

There is already talk of Apple planning to release a "full screen" phone next year....
It is being said that this new phone will be "notchless" and not have that block cutting into the top half of the screen

that notch-less Iphone will be

 

[Krazy]

That notch staying ya'll gonna be dissapointed.

There is already talk of Apple planning to release a "full screen" phone next year....
It is being said that this new phone will be "notchless" and not have that block cutting into the top half of the screen

that notch-less Iphone will be

And if its the rumour I read i.e. https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/13/kuo-three-new-ip

Then it says next years iPhones will include the notch.

Man the notch isnt a big deal

 

[VladTheImpaler]

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?"

very good and honest review!