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50 New Features in iPhone X
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Anyone know if the homescreen rotates landscape like the Plus series? If so, I assume it would expand to show more data on the status bar that is going to be truncated with new notch limitation on the X. I wonder how norml portait view of hoie sll handle the "back to previous app" if the clock is to left of notch -- maybe it replaces clock in those cases?
I don't like the name "iPhone X." Sounds like all those crappy Android phones with "X" in the name, e.g. Moto X. And anyway, that letter hasn't been cool since 1999.
I love the X and honestly don't see much of a difference between the 6 Plus I have and the 6s, 7, or 8, so the X may be my new phone since it's SOMETHING NEW as opposed to an incremental update.
But you can't list individual tech specs for ONE aspect of the phone and call each one a "feature" e.g. it's still to say: it has a bigger screen, more resolution, an OLED screen, a brighter screen, and screen that has a wider color gamut, a screen which has TrueTone, and a screen that's edge to edge; aren't all separate features in and of themselves.
It's just one bloody screen, and no average user is going to notice the benefits of 80% of those enhancements. TrueTone, and a brighter bigger screen is all you can really say.
But you can't list individual tech specs for ONE aspect of the phone and call each one a "feature" e.g. it's still to say: it has a bigger screen, more resolution, an OLED screen, a brighter screen, and screen that has a wider color gamut, a screen which has TrueTone, and a screen that's edge to edge; aren't all separate features in and of themselves.
It's just one bloody screen, and no average user is going to notice the benefits of 80% of those enhancements. TrueTone, and a brighter bigger screen is all you can really say.
FYI, "Deeper Pixels" means one of two things:
1.) Deeper "deep trench isoation," OR MORE LIKELY,
2.) 10-bit (& possibly deeper) color (depth) !
I of course, assume it's #2.
1.) Deeper "deep trench isoation," OR MORE LIKELY,
2.) 10-bit (& possibly deeper) color (depth) !
I of course, assume it's #2.
Wireless charging definitely feels like "me too" but not sure about the rest. You can tell they dropped the ball on wireless charging and fast charging because they don't even have an accessory ready to sell you (much like the LG 5k display) and nothing is included in the box. I was really hoping for long range wireless charging but it seems the tech just isn't there yet so they threw these features in to hold everyone off.
I am doing my best to withhold judgement too much until I have one in my hands as it seems to have the same effect on reviewers as every other Apple device over the past 10 years. No one wanted an iPhone or iPad until they interacted with one.
Things actually look smaller on the new iPhone X, there is less space for content because of the new screen aspect ratio, this is magnified by the design limitations introduced by the notch. Check out the video at 3:54m for the examples.
That X is the Roman Numeral for 10. It's called the iPhone X pronounced iPhone 10.
He's wrong. Check out Apple's HIG. It's the same point width for the UI as the iPhone 6/6s/7 (375 points, link here). My comparison was to the iPhone 7, not the 7 Plus, for this very reason. It will look like an approximately 7% blown up iPhone 7 display, at higher PPI, and taller. What happens if you have the same UI scale, but at a wider width? It gets bigger. He's right that you get no Plus benefits, such as landscape home screen, special landscape app features, as I've said before in the past couple days. The comparison here is the iPhone 7. The iPhone X Plus is rumored for next year.
The iPhone 8 will be replaced by the iPhone 9 which will look about the same, with a starting price $50 higher than the 8, still at 64GB. The iPhone X will be replaced by the iPhone 11, not XI because Apple will realize that would be dumb. It will also look about the same and might bring back TouchID (integrated into the display like according to that discovered Apple patent). All of this is subject to change of course.
Ok, so I already responded to you, but I was looking through HIG some more and noticed the graphics looked scaled to proportion. So I overlaid them in photoshop. The first one is the display aligned at the top, with the iPhone 7 display at 50% opacity. I then increased the size by 7%, lined up the title at the top, and it lines up perfectly. No way that's a coincidence. NOTE: Apple has designed the iPhone X interface with more white space, so padding for each contact has increased by a small amount to make the interface feel less cramped.
One of the features of OLED screens are the nice black colours but Apple didn't update the UI with any dark theme. Watch, later there will be a "dark theme" released with an update. That is the evidence.
Everyone at Apple is calling it iPhone TEN. I doubt we'll see the iPhone XI next year and probably just iPhone 11.
Yet almost everyone that has actually seen and used the device in person disagrees with you.
Don't forget that rumored 6.26" display size, which is what I'm interested in, and some attractive new color.
I don’t care what “everyone else” thinks. There’s always the 75% of people who will defend/fawn over Apple no matter what. I love Apple but I also don’t have blind loyalty.
