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The iPhone X - What's you take?

GameBoy27

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So is anyone going to line up for the newest iPhone? It just seems like the evolution of the iPhone 7 Plus rather than a game changer to me. If you have an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus, will you upgrade? I for one will be hanging onto my 7 Plus for another year or two anyway. It does everything well IMHO.



The long-awaited and extensively leaked special edition iPhone is finally upon us, and it’s called the iPhone X (pronounced “iPhone 10”). This new super flagship phone from Apple features an edge-to-edge screen with a notch at the top to accommodate the front-facing camera and new Face ID sensors. Apple CEO Tim Cook teased the introduction of the new device with the following words:

“Over the past decade, we've pushed forward with innovation after innovation, bringing us to this moment, when we can create devices that are far more intelligent, far more capable, and far more creative than ever before.”

The iPhone X has glass on both the front and the back, and it has “surgical-grade” stainless steel around the sides. It is water-resistant and comes in two colors: space gray and silver. It also has the highest pixel density (458ppi) display ever in an iPhone, with Apple calling it a Super Retina display. It measures 5.8 inches in diagonal size and has a resolution of 2436 x 1125. It’s the first OLED display in an iPhone, which Phil Schiller explains bluntly: it’s “the first OLED display great enough to be in an iPhone.” Like the iPhone 8, the iPhone X also has True Tone display technology.

Apple has omitted the home button for the first time, replacing it with an upward swipe from the bottom of the phone. Along with the home button, which used to house the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, Apple is also moving away from fingerprint authentication. The method that replaces it is called Face ID and does what the name suggests: it unlocks the phone just by having you look at it. It’s based on the tech in the notch at the top of the phone: it combines an IR system with the front camera and a so-called flood illuminator that beams a light at your face to help it be recognized even in the dark. Apple even went to the extra step of building a dedicated neural engine — based on a dual-core custom chip design — to process face recognition in real time.

Face ID, according to Apple, is orders of magnitude more secure than Touch ID. The company claims a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of another person being able to look at your phone and unlock it through Face ID (with that chance increasing for people that share genetic lineage with the user, so, as usual, be wary of your twin). The new face authentication will also work with Apple Pay and all third-party apps that already supported Touch ID.

Photos and video playback on this new iPhone will both wrap around the notch at the top of the device, which is liable to grow irritating over time. Multitasking will also be something people will need time to adapt to: opening the iOS Control Center, for instance, requires a swipe down from the screen’s top right corner. All the swipe-based interactions have been tried by other phone companies before, with varying degrees of success.

The iPhone X has dual 12-megapixel rear cameras, and it’s equipped with dual optical image stabilization. The sensors are both larger and faster, according to Apple, and the main camera has an f/1.8 aperture while the telephoto lens has an f/2.4 aperture. In between the two cameras is a quad-LED True Tone flash with a supposedly twice the uniformity of light. The new phone also has stereo speakers.

The A11 processor that was introduced with the iPhone 8 earlier in the event is, of course, present inside the iPhone X. It has two performance cores, four high-efficiency cores, and the first Apple-designed GPU. Apple has now announced a wireless charging pad to unify the wireless charging of all its mobile devices and calls the overall system AirPower. The AirPower charging pad will be available next year.

Also on the wireless front, the iPhone X supports LTE Advanced and the incoming Bluetooth 5.0 standard. There are still no real gadgets or accessories that you can use with a Bluetooth 5 phone, but the more phones there are, the more impetus there will be for compatible peripherals.

The iPhone X is priced from $999 (USD) with 64GB of storage and there’s an upgraded option with 256GB of storage. Preorders open on October 27th, shipping begins November 3rd.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/12/16288806/apple-iphone-x-price-release-date-features-announced
 

Terminator2000

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they advance the phones pretty nicely but how much can you improve on a phone, really? a phone is a phone not a cash grab.

they can make it be able to turn into a screen projector and a video game console but what else can you make a phone do, really?
 

james t kirk

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No.

Phones have plateaued out.

Unless they come out with something revolutionary, which I severely doubt, I'm just going to ride mine into the ground.
 

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it's going to sell like crazy I won't be buying one, but it will sell even @1000$+.
 

IM469

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Android Phones are better.
They have stolen so many features from each other, I can barely tell them apart. Although I currently use an Android, I still recommend iPhone for people/ kids easily confused by technology.
 

Terminator2000

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They have stolen so many features from each other, I can barely tell them apart. Although I currently use an Android, I still recommend iPhone for people/ kids easily confused by technology.
every company steals from each other.

marvel steals from dc and dc steals from marvel.

every character in marvel, theres a very similar character in dc

marvel came out with avengers and now dc is trying to put together the justice league in movies.
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same thing with most products out there.
 

Terminator2000

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No.

Phones have plateaued out.

Unless they come out with something revolutionary, which I severely doubt, I'm just going to ride mine into the ground.
its business.

theyll keep spitting out cellphones with new features until theyre like that speaker that can reply back to you...siri or alexa or whatever. like k.i.t.t the car from the 80s...until the damn cellphones have their own artificial intelligence or until theyre a motherbox. where they can pretty much do anything with 8 cpus in them.
 

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I'm unsure. I have a 7plus and it's an awesome phone/camera.

The face detection is cool, the Screen looks amazing.

I might wait a year and see where they take the facial recognition and AR before I make the jump.

I'm more excited about B&H fulfilling my Nikon D850 pre-order (still waiting).
 

jcpro

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I don't know. I have an iPhone as my work phone and an Android as my personal and I find my personal device more user friendly. In the end, both are just mostly communication devices, for me. What I really dislike is changing them as often as we do, these days.
 

Phil C. McNasty

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My Samsung S7 does everything I want it to.
If I need a new phone I wont even buy an S8, I'll just buy another S7 for $450.

There's no fucking way I'm paying $1,000 for an iPhone
 

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It's about time Apple invented wireless charging, and face recognition ...
Wait...they didn't invent this ?

That being said... the camera looks pretty good. Though, if I was looking for a good camera on a phone, I'd be inclined to buy the latest Sony.
 

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Pretty underwhelmed by the iPhone X except for that camera and the scene understanding/relighting features integrated into portrait mode. I’ll probably never consider it until at least version 2 of the face scanning/recognition thing.

That being said, I do like the direction Apple is going overall. The iPad Pro with iOS 11 is frickin amazing once you’ve spent some time with it. If anyone remembers the legendary “Courier” prototype video Microsoft circulated a few years ago, most of the interactions and features shown in that video are actually now baked in. And the whole thing is wicked fast.

In that vein, I love that the watch now lets you leave your phone at home and still receive calls on your cell number while you’re out and about. I’ve never been interested in the watch before, but I can see myself quite possibly never upgrading my phone again, leaving it at home, and just getting by with a watch and the iPad.
 

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As a creative person working in the field I do, this new iPhone X looks amazing. The power apparently packed in that little thing is unmatched right now and many competitors will be playing catch up.

As with anything new though - I will personally wait for the second version as well most likely.
 

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Pretty underwhelmed by the iPhone X except for that camera and the scene understanding/relighting features integrated into portrait mode. I’ll probably never consider it until at least version 2 of the face scanning/recognition thing.

That being said, I do like the direction Apple is going overall. The iPad Pro with iOS 11 is frickin amazing once you’ve spent some time with it. If anyone remembers the legendary “Courier” prototype video Microsoft circulated a few years ago, most of the interactions and features shown in that video are actually now baked in. And the whole thing is wicked fast.

In that vein, I love that the watch now lets you leave your phone at home and still receive calls on your cell number while you’re out and about. I’ve never been interested in the watch before, but I can see myself quite possibly never upgrading my phone again, leaving it at home, and just getting by with a watch and the iPad.
I would agree on the iPad, I got one of the 10.5" models and it's amazing. The pen has zero lag. I've not yet downloaded iOS 11, I'm not a beta guy.
 

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I personally won't be buying one as I find the iPhone 6's and 7's just not a form factor that feels right in my hand. I love my iPhone SE.

It is an incredible device. It's design, materials, and functions are really mind boggling when you compare it to where mobile phones were just ten years ago.

As to who will buy and when, the following TED Talk clip on Simon Sinek's "Law of Innovation and Diffusion" is quite profound and helps to understand why these leaps in technology are important to keep a business vital.

 

GameBoy27

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I'm unsure. I have a 7plus and it's an awesome phone/camera.

The face detection is cool, the Screen looks amazing.

I might wait a year and see where they take the facial recognition and AR before I make the jump.

I'm more excited about B&H fulfilling my Nikon D850 pre-order (still waiting).
I have the 7 Plus and I have to agree, it's an amazing phone and the camera is outstanding. It makes sense to upgrade from a 5 to the 10, but if you've already got a 6 or 7 Plus, the 10 isn't that big a leap in technology. Wireless charging and face recognition technology is not a game changer in my mind. It supposedly has a better screen, camera and battery life, but again, I'm sure they're not night and day improvements over the 7 Plus.

What's funny is now that they've eliminated the home button, you'll have to get used to new swipe gestures and actions to operate the phone. Now there's a throwback to the 4 year old BlackBerry Z30. lol
 

Phil C. McNasty

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By the way, its not $1,000 its $1,130 when you add HST.

Sorry, its just way too much money for a communication device
 
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