Thoughts on Iphone X? Are you jumping ship?

[Emily 1]

I haven't read much about the iPhone unveiling, but if this thread is an indicator I am not impressed. I'll admit I'm not an Apple fan anyway. I don't mind their mac products (used them a lot in college, but never owned one) but I really dislike the way you use an iPhone. I guess I'm just naturally more inclined to use controls the way they are set up on Android. I also hate the lack of customization on iPhone. The fact you can't even move icons around really bugs me.

Aside from that, even these new features aren't very exciting and seem a rehash of already available products. I think Samsung has been way more exciting and innovative this year with their phones. The Note 8 is far more appealing to me than the iPhone X. I do get annoyed by some apple fanboys too. My brother has been waiting for months for the new iPhone to upgrade, and basically just talks about the wireless charging like it's so amazing. It's nice to have but not that big of a deal to me. OLED is definitely nice, but my Galaxy S7 already has an AMOLED screen; for iPhone users I guess they will appreciate that though. The removal of the FPS is very odd to me (is that only for the X? that alone would make me choose the iPhone 8). I guess apple didn't want to put it onto the back, but having no option for it at all really sucks. I wouldn't want to be using facial recognition as my unlock method, an iris scanner would have been preferable. Also I am not a fan of the looks of the iPhone X either with that weird black bar at top. The S8 and Note 8 look so much better, as do even the LG G6 and other competitors. Not sure if the iPhone 8 looks like that. Anyway sounds like the iPhone X is very underwhelming and not worthy of that price tag. I think the iPhone 8 would be more worthwhile to get. The camera and video does seem really good though, so that is a positive.

Anyway, if I were upgrading this year I would definitely be buying a Samsung. Honestly if you don't upgrade frequently, it's nice to upgrade and actually have some new, truly unique features. I moved from the HTC M8 to the Galaxy S7 and I was so happy and excited with the new phone for months. That is what I want to feel when I upgrade phones, not underwhelmed or like not much has changed.

Also I know everyone praises apple and iOS as just working well, but I've had friends with iPhones that still have issues too. I don't think any of these phones are perfect.

 

[callihan_44]

The notch at the top is one thing that kinda bothers me, and the price....at this point the x is the only apple phone I would consider....I still think the samsung s8 does not get enough attention it deserves

 

[Golfdriver97]

Siri is a long press on the power button, Apple Pay is a double press of the power button and Accessibility is a triple press.

A lot of presses. Wonder how the power button will hold up after a year.

 

[uncaged74]

Re: Apple's iPhone X does not compare to the Note 8

If the iphone died, Samsung wouldn't have any reason to provide cutting edge features/specs on their flagship phones...they would do just enough to increase sales...

Competition between apple and samsung is the reason why phones have advanced as much as they have....

If that were the case then why is it IPhone has yet really done anything impressive in the last several years? These "new" features on the IPhone that they so wanted to point out already exists pn S8 & Note8? So in short what is that they did that is so impressive? Also, they yet to embrace USB-C on their phones which IMHO kind of dumb considering their new laptops you find at the Apple stores are coming with USB-C and people at the stores are saying that is the present and future yet they still have the lightning port on the IPhone; doesn't make sense. Also, if ones argument is an adapter that is even more dumb.

If anything I would have them use USB-C and then provide an adapter that allows people to utilize their existing Lightning cables so you don't have an angry mob about how their existing equipment is now useless.

 

[uncaged74]

Re: Apple's iPhone X does not compare to the Note 8

@TechnologyTwitt

Oh please. IPhone has their history of issues for instance the very first IPhone with diconnects due to the antenna being around the phone and then my experience (plus many others if you Google it) with the lack of call quality on the IPhone 7 which resulted me going back to Androids. Perfected...my *** they perfected. They just keep it simple so even the clueless tech can use it. But perfected, far from it.

 

[uncaged74]

Re: Apple's iPhone X does not compare to the Note 8

To be fair, their wireless charging is said to charge 3 things at the same time. If I read the report correctly.

And if it it did, the selling point would be? Maybe that is a selling point with a family all having IPhones but short of that, who cares? Just my opinion.

 

[chanchan05]

Re: Apple's iPhone X does not compare to the Note 8

And if it it did, the selling point would be? Maybe that is a selling point with a family all having IPhones but short of that, who cares? Just my opinion.

Because it's Qi tech and potentially could work on Androids?

 

[uncaged74]

Re: Apple's iPhone X does not compare to the Note 8

If I am not mistaken the wireless pad is able to wireless charge at least two things. But not that's really innovative. You are just making a pad bigger. Then he made it sound like it is so innovative and the future....that has been out for a long time.

Exactly. It's as innovative as my new USB hub that I can charge multiple devices at once.

 

[LeoRex]

Wait.... we all missed the biggest thing here....

wait for it...

animated poopmojis, yo

 

[uncaged74]

Wait.... we all missed the biggest thing here....

wait for it...

animated poopmojis, yo

At 43 years old I still would like to see that but not spending $999 to do so.

 

[dsignori]

I like this one ...

 

[Toddki13]

I eat apples, not use them. Never have had one and never will. I'm a Samsung girl, although the Pixel is drawing my attention. Just got my Note 8, though, so it'll be awhile before I look at anything else seriously.

How is battery life on note 8, probably getting one tomorrow?

 

[garak0410]

How is battery life on note 8, probably getting one tomorrow?

Not bad. When the Note 7 recall came, I lived with a Pixel XL and Moto Z Force Droid and they both had excellent battery life, especially the Moto Z. I'm charging once a day with moderate use on the Note 8.

 

[Isaiah Peterson]

Apple really flubbed it with the face recognition/no fingerprint sensor thing. Before it was touch your phone to open it. One easy quick step. Now its grab your phone point it at your face and swipe up. They've slowed the opening process and that's a bad choice that runs counter to their history of streamlining things for their users. Before you could pull it out of your pocket and have it open before you could see the screen, not so now.

It is also odd to me that Samsung takes advantage of the hard press to go to homescreen and Apple which debuted that function didn't use it. They could have simulated what users are already conditioned to do but went another route instead. It's odd.

I've seen critiques (Don't remember if on this thread or elsewhere) about face ID being dangerous when people are driving. That shouldn't be a problem if you just keep a navigation app open to keep the phone from sleeping. I use Waze when driving to keep the phone from locking and talk to Bixby to switch around apps as desired. I would think iPhone users could do the same with Suri right?

 

[bnice]

iPhone x should of been the iPhone 8. However I think their testing people reactions to the new changes they had to make. The iPhone look out dated compared to the competition.They have not been blowing out the sale like in the pass and Apple knows this.

 

[gendo667]

My brain doesn't know whether to be insulted or entertained.

 

[Ten Four]

One thing I really, really like about Apple is they keep making quality phones that are reasonably small, and even the iPhone SE that is very compact. I'm sorely tempted by the $140 SE you can get right now. I wish there were a few quality small Android phones, and yes I know about the Sony's but I have been underwhelmed. The things that really tick me off about Apple are removing important features like the headphone jack and fingerprint sensors, and the seeming never ending quest to force people to purchase proprietary cords and adaptors in order to achieve basic functionality.

 

[phelme]

not thinking of jumping myself, but (maybe not surprisingly) Apple's new A11 chip apparently trounced the 835:

iPhone X's A11 crushes top Android competition in Geekbench - GSMArena.com news

 

[103Softail]

not thinking of jumping myself, but (maybe not surprisingly) Apple's new A11 chip apparently trounced the 835:

iPhone X's A11 crushes top Android competition in Geekbench - GSMArena.com news

Good on apple....but micro seconds (in real terms) are micro seconds and there's no way I'm going back to closed ecosystem. I pay mega bucks, I want control!

 

[Mahender Shahani]

Any Note 8 customers switching to iPhone X

Anyone switching from note 8 to iPhone X