iPhone X

[danny la rouge]

I've got a 5c. It still does everything I need. In fact it does far more than I need.

It's currently running out of space, but I intend to delete stuff. This will hopefully make more space.

Can't imagine spending a grand on a phone. (I got this handset cheap as it was a couple of upgrades out of date when I bought it online).

 

[EastEnder]

Can't imagine spending a grand on a phone. (I got this handset cheap as it was a couple of upgrades out of date when I bought it online).

A grand for the base model, some peeps will be shelling out nearer 1200 for the upgraded ones.

 

[mwgdrwg]

A grand for the base model, some peeps will be shelling out nearer 1200 for the upgraded ones.

Plus a case, the "game-changing" wireless charger, earpods, a charging-box to charge your earpods wirelessly (fucking lol), and a new Apple Watch!

 

[Magnus McGinty]

The lack of a back button is very annoying. Things like going back a page on Safari - this should be a piece of pisss, but I had to scroll the page up a few times to get the nav bar to appear, and only then could I browse backwards.

You just need to flick downwards for it to appear. Hardly a major hassle.

I recently upgraded to a 7 and that was because I lost my 6 in a cab. Not planning to upgrade for a loooooooooooong time.

 

[Gromit]

You just need to flick downwards for it to appear. Hardly a major hassle.

I recently upgraded to a 7 and that was because I lost my 6 in a cab. Not planning to upgrade for a loooooooooooong time.

Or tap the top of the screen and the page scrolls to the top and reveals the nav as well.

I miss the autoscroll to top feature when using my Samsung tablet.

 

[EastEnder]

Plus a case, the "game-changing" wireless charger, earpods, a charging-box to charge your earpods wirelessly (fucking lol), and a new Apple Watch!

Shame it's all so massively expensive, I guess that means that in these austere times no one will be able to afford it!

Oh hang on, it's Apple stuff.... the faithful are already clamouring.... wait for it....

 

[peterkro]

Off topic post, if anyone is interested dosdude1's hack for sierra appears to work fine with high sierra.For MacBookPro's that goes back to 5.2 which is early 2009.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Or tap the top of the screen and the page scrolls to the top and reveals the nav as well.

No that just highlights the nav bar and brings up bookmarks.

E2a: actually that does work.

 

[skyscraper101]

Off topic post, if anyone is interested dosdude1's hack for sierra appears to work fine with high sierra.For MacBookPro's that goes back to 5.2 which is early 2009.

I literally don't know what any of this means.

 

[Gromit]

Apple are upping the price massively because people are no longer shouting shut up and take my money.

People are stretching out their phone life longer as they currently do everything they want them to do. See the thread about this.

Less projected sales = higher price point.

 

[skyscraper101]

There is no WAY the phone is worth that much money £999 ffs? I'm glad I got my (still expensive, but cheaper) iPhone 7 Plus last year instead. Now I've seen that there are hardly any reasons to get this phone 8 or X.

Face recognition? Great so instead of a convenient finger press, you now have to hold the thing at a specific angle to your face. I had this briefly on my Samsung Galaxy and it was such a pain in the arse every time I wanted to unlock the phone I switched it off. Did anyone actually have a problem with the home button either? Everyone goes on about edge to edge displays like its some kind of massive deal everyone has been moaning about. The home button has never bothered me in the slightest. I actually like its reassuring presence and feel on my thumb.

Talking emoji? LOL this is MSN Chat era webcam technology. It'll be the new 'Live Photos' in terms of its popularity.

I'm out.

 

[editor]

100% this. Check the benchmarks for this phone...it absolutely destroys the S8.

It's a meaningless stat. You'll never notice this supposed speed 'destruction' because high end phones already go pretty much as fast as anyone needs in normal use. I can't say I'm ever bothered by any slowdowns on my S7 - in fact the only real bottleneck is the network connection.

The iPhone X is basically Samsung's Note 8 plus Animojis | ZDNet

 

[editor]

lol editor on apple threads is like that thing on youtube where the first few comments are FIRST!!!!! trying to be the first comment on the video

thats a sign of a proper anti product crusader such an inspiration.

I was 'first' because I happened to be up, you attention seeking twerp.

 

[peterkro]

I literally don't know what any of this means.

A new version of OSX "high sierra" is due to be released on the 25th for Mac computers.Because of Apples (and others) habit of updating minimum requirements for their OS's people with perfectly capable computers can't run the latest OS.The hack I mentioned means people can run the latest OS with so-called "legacy hardware" this exposes the lie you need to update every couple of years to have a modern OS (mine is an early 2009).

 

[Magnus McGinty]

It's a meaningless stat. You'll never notice this supposed speed 'destruction' because high end phones already go pretty much as fast as anyone needs in normal use.

So if they all go as fast as anyone needs then why bother saying:

Worse specs than the Samsung Galaxy S8

 

[editor]

Wireless charging. Meh. I'll be interested when there's a universal standard, time will tell if what they mentioned at the end of the presentation ever happens..

The wireless charging on the S7 is brilliant, a real step forward in convenience and the charging pads are as cheap as fuck too. I won't buy a phone without wireless charging now. No doubt Apple will dream us some stupidly high price for their own chargers too, but thankfully they're using the Qi standard (unless Apple work out a way to stop people using affordable third party chargers, which wouldn't surprise me).,

 

[editor]

So if they all go as fast as anyone needs then why bother saying:

You could start with the display resolution and brightness, microSD card, headphone jack etc etc ....

 

[Fez909]

It's a meaningless stat. You'll never notice this supposed speed 'destruction' because high end phones already go pretty much as fast as anyone needs in normal use. I can't say I'm ever bothered by any slowdowns on my S7 - in fact the only real bottleneck is the network connection.

The iPhone X is basically Samsung's Note 8 plus Animojis | ZDNet

And in three years time when the latest version of iOS uses double the processing power? The iPhone will still be nippy. Check a 3yo Samsung...

 

[Magnus McGinty]

You could start with the display resolution and brightness, microSD card, headphone jack etc etc ....

Not sure why I need more than 120gb storage on a phone.

 

[editor]

Not sure why I need more than 120gb storage on a phone.

You may not need it, but there's plenty of people who do.

And in three years time when the latest version of iOS uses double the processing power? The iPhone will still be nippy. Check a 3yo Samsung...

I'll try to check in 2020 to see if you're right.

 

[Fez909]

You may not need it, but there's plenty of people who do.
I'll try to check in 2020 to see if you're right.

Or you could try with a Galaxy S5, today...vs an iPhone 5S

 

[editor]

Or you could try with a Galaxy S5, today...vs an iPhone 5S

Except that wouldn't even be slightly meaningful given the huge leaps in Samsung's tech which has seen the company leapahead of Apple in terms of innovation, sales, looks etc.

e.g. 12 Reasons the Galaxy Note 8 Beats the iPhone X

 

[Winot]

Not sure why I need more than 120gb storage on a phone.

I like having my entire music collection on there. Even with high res compressed my current iPhone uses 106GB, and that's with classical music missing.

 

[Fez909]

Except that wouldn't even be slightly meaningful given the huge leaps in Samsung's tech which has seen the company leapahead of Apple in terms of innovation, sales, looks etc.

It's 100% relevant. We're discussing raw power of the devices. Apple were ahead 3 years ago, and they're miles ahead now

 

[editor]

It's 100% relevant. We're discussing raw power of the devices. Apple were ahead 3 years ago, and they're miles ahead now

I don't buy a phone for its 'raw power' capabilities, whatever they are.

If my phone goes plenty fast then I'm more than happy. I don't give a toss how much extra massive colossal reserve power is there if I never ever use it or need it. As I said, the only slowdowns I ever notice on my phone are because of the network connection.

Everything else it does supper snappily and I'm not sure it can go any faster and me notice anything, to be honest.

 

[2hats]

One thing Apple do do well (or used to) is to make sure everything works perfectly.

Like their face recognition demo?

 

[Fez909]

Like their face recognition demo?

Apparently that was user error. If you've restarted your phone, you need to put the password in on the first unlock (like Android and its fingerprint scanner), and then you can use the Face ID. The password hadn't been used on the demo device.

Intern getting sacked for that

 

[skyscraper101]

Has anyone ever used face recognition? It massively sucked on the Galaxy Nexus. Not only because it barely worked and when it did it took ages, but more specifically because who wants to keep holding their phone to their face to unlock it. Huge inconvenience Vs putting a finger or thumb on the device at any angle.

I've no doubt the technology and reliability has improved in the years since. But it was literally the constant arm lifting that did it for me in the end with fucking off face recognition.

 

[Gromit]

Except that wouldn't even be slightly meaningful given the huge leaps in Samsung's tech which has seen the company leapahead of Apple in terms of innovation, sales, looks etc.

e.g. 12 Reasons the Galaxy Note 8 Beats the iPhone X

I disagree with reason 11. Lightning jack is not a negative. I wish it would become a standard.
Being able to plug it in either way round is really great.
USB jacks have a habit of losing fit so eventually you have wiggle to get the phone to charge then you discover later it stopped charging grr. Never had this problem with my lightning cable.

 

[editor]

I disagree with reason 11. Lightning jack is not a negative. I wish it would become a standard.
Being able to plug it in either way round is really great.
USB jacks have a habit of losing fit so eventually you have wiggle to get the phone to charge then you discover later it stopped charging grr. Never had this problem with my lightning cable.

For the record, you can buy USB leads that can be plugged in either way around (at both ends) and if you use wireless charging you never have the problem of non charging leads anyway (not that I've ever suffered that problem).