Anyone plan to move from Pixel to iPhone X?

[vzwuser76]

Well, apparently the best of Android can't even compete with the iPhone X. Sorry, I only made it a little ways into the article before I couldn't take anymore, but give it a try yourself. Most people can agree that while one phone is better than the other, the difference is in inches, not miles, but not so here, the iPhone X has no match in the Android world.

https://www.macworld.com/article/3237145/android/iphone-x-vs-androids-best.html

 

[Almeuit]

Well, apparently the best of Android can't even compete with the iPhone X. Sorry, I only made it a little ways into the article before I couldn't take anymore, but give it a try yourself. Most people can agree that while one phone is better than the other, the difference is in inches, not miles, but not so here, the iPhone X has no match in the Android world.

https://www.macworld.com/article/3237145/android/iphone-x-vs-androids-best.html

Yeah "Mac World" isn't exactly a non-biased site. Some writers can try to look at it from a different stance. I like how Bader did with his article.. especially the end. https://www.androidcentral.com/iphone-x?utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign=navigation&utm_source=ac

And while I know it's gauche to want us all to live in harmony, in my ideal world I'd have every devoted Android user try the iPhone X for a few days, and every devout iPhone addict use, say, a Galaxy Note 8 or Pixel 2 for the same amount of time. There are lessons to be learned from exploring the differences between the two and, in the end, realizing that they're not so different.

 

[vzwuser76]

Yeah "Mac World" isn't exactly a non-biased site. Some writers can try to look at it from a different stance. I like how Bader did with his article.. especially the end. https://www.androidcentral.com/iphone-x?utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign=navigation&utm_source=ac

I saw that article a few days ago. I actually saved the selfie portrait mode images Bader did. Correct me if I'm wrong, but one where his jacket logo was blurred was the iPhone X right? That's what I understood, and that right there really says something about Google's implementation if true. The one where the logo wasn't blurred (I'm assuming Pixel 2) looked more natural and less processed, it even looked like the other one blurred his face a bit.

 

[Almeuit]

I saw that article a few days ago. I actually saved the selfie portrait mode images Bader did. Correct me if I'm wrong, but one where his jacket logo was blurred was the iPhone X right? That's what I understood, and that right there really says something about Google's implementation if true. The one where the logo wasn't blurred (I'm assuming Pixel 2) looked more natural and less processed, it even looked like the other one blurred his face a bit.

It could have just been a bad shot. I have fooled the Pixel 2 on Portrait mode (front and back) so far in various lighting... especially when I go to the pool hall for league at night. It isn't perfect .. It works majority of the time but still a hiccup or two here or there. I bet if I tried an iPhone X I could trick it as well. They will all learn to be better with more time.

 

[vzwuser76]

It could have just been a bad shot. I have fooled the Pixel 2 on Portrait mode (front and back) so far in various lighting... especially when I go to the pool hall for league at night. It isn't perfect .. It works majority of the time but still a hiccup or two here or there. I bet if I tried an iPhone X I could trick it as well. They will all learn to be better with more time.

I don't doubt that either can have issues, and I've got a portrait where my sunglasses (up on my cap) got partially blurred out. But the way some of these places make it seem is that Google's attempt to do portrait mode with only one camera and software "tricks" is no comparison to having two camera modules. But in reality, it doesn't matter how many cameras you have on your phone, they all have to use software to make those shots happen. IMO Google just did it without having to use a second camera.

Would they have been helped with another camera? Who knows? Maybe if they went the LG route and put a wide angle 2nd camera in there or the Essential route with a B&W 2nd camera they could've done some different effects they can't do now. But so far, I don't think a single camera is detrimental.

P.S. Something we also don't have enabled yet is the dedicated camera chip. I don't know if it actually allows for better shots or just faster processing, but we still have that to look forward to as well.

 

[anon(10271520)]

I had to laugh when that article from macworld ended with this gem:
"Even if you could somehow combine the Note 8, Pixel 2 XL, and V30 into a superphone mashup, iPhone X would still come out ahead.
The bottom line is we’re going to see a lot of iPhone X influence on next year’s crop of Android flagships. So much so that I wouldn’t be surprised to see a couple of them adopt camera notches too."

Talk about dilusiuonal. I would bet that must be the guy with the notch in his hairline that wrote this article.

However, I have been contemplating the iPhone X, and while I agree its build is simply gorgeous, once you start using it for a while, you realize its still just another iPhone, with the same old bland and boring UI and the inferior Siri.

 

[Almeuit]

P.S. Something we also don't have enabled yet is the dedicated camera chip. I don't know if it actually allows for better shots or just faster processing, but we still have that to look forward to as well.

Yeah I can't wait until they flip the switch on it. Curious to see how it will all turn out .

 

[ottscay]

I really dislike iOS and the Apple ecosystem, so there's no way. For those who like it though, the iPhone X is a nice (if pricey) bit of hardware.

 

[JaneGL]

I've noticed a few posts are criticizing the elimination of the home button and introduction of a swipe gesture UI. The first I find funny after so many years of everyone hating on Apple for having a home button...
As for the swipes, once upon a time a briefly had a Blackberry 10 device (It was for work don't laugh!) and let me tell you something, the button-less swipe UI was waaay ahead of it's time. Actually WebOS and others before WebOS had it before BB did just to nitpick but that's not really relevant. If you have never used a swipe UI OS, you're in for a treat, it's much nicer than finger-pecking. Apple's version of it isn't very fleshed out and feels more like the beginning on what I'm sure will be more evolved as time goes on, but don't be too hasty to knock swipe gestures as a UI.

That being said, underneath all that, iOS is still iOS and I'm not a fan of it. It is a lovely device that's for sure. Personally I would never be able to get past that price tag for a phone though.

 

[TANDC]

I got both the day they came out so no real drama.

I had both and took the iPhone back no comparison after day two...iPhone x is still a iphone just like every iphone locked in to the apple ecosystem.

 

[bsannes]

I got both the day they came out so no real drama.

I had both and took the iPhone back no comparison after day two...iPhone x is still a iphone just like every iphone locked in to the apple ecosystem.

this was my take away . i am an android fan but always liked the design of apple products. Looked at the X just to play and found nothing really to play with cause I couldn't set up the face ID ......so I was like yeah same Iphone as always. Which for me is the biggest let down , was hoping with the gestures it would feel new and something android might take.....but not so much.

 

[yujinn]

Double post

 

[yujinn]

Ended up getting the 2XL (using it now). I've invested too much in Google's ecosystem that it's just too much work to move everything and get used to the new (and closed) system.
One great advantage of being on Android is choices. I can't imagine myself being tied to Apple and be powerless over what Apple dictates I should do and buy.
Another is how Google is moving forward faster with AI and the great knowledge that they have accumulated and made accessible to us.