So I've had my new X for roughly a day now. So far, so good, and I'm really enjoying the phone overall. I'm coming from an iPhone 7 for reference.
Out of the box I really like the look, feel and weight of the unit. (64GB Silver). I proceeded to activate it, and do a full restore from my 7 onto it. Went perfectly smooth with zero issues. (Did the restore from iTunes).
My initial thoughts and impressions:
- Overall - the best built and looking iPhone since the original and 5 series
- Size - perfect. Seems no bigger than my 7 but having the extra screen size is very nice.
- Face ID - Works far better than I anticipated. So far I've used it indoors, outdoors bright sunlight, dark room, glasses, sunglasses etc. with zero issues. It's fast and frankly far better than Touch ID at this point.
- Speed - very good. No lag, delays on anything.
- Screen - very, very good. Gorgeous to say the least.
- Gestures. Took me maybe 20 minutes to get used to them and I'm already wondering how I ever even dealt with the home button let along thought I would miss it.
- Camera - very good. I'm coming from a standard sized 7 which I thought was OK. This appears to be much better overall. No, it won't replace my stand alone camera just yet, but I feel more confidence in using it for more things now. The portrait stuff is just cool and fun to play with at this point.
- Animoji - lol - cool, fun, but more a novelty that I'm sure I'll get bored with.
- Apple Pay with FaceID - Love it. Really. Double click, look at phone and place over reader. Much better implementation than the touch interface which I always had to screw with. This just seems to work without really thinking about it.
I guess that's it for now. Overall, I think this is a fantastic device and I can't wait to see what Apple does with it over time.
Out of the box I really like the look, feel and weight of the unit. (64GB Silver). I proceeded to activate it, and do a full restore from my 7 onto it. Went perfectly smooth with zero issues. (Did the restore from iTunes).
My initial thoughts and impressions:
- Overall - the best built and looking iPhone since the original and 5 series
- Size - perfect. Seems no bigger than my 7 but having the extra screen size is very nice.
- Face ID - Works far better than I anticipated. So far I've used it indoors, outdoors bright sunlight, dark room, glasses, sunglasses etc. with zero issues. It's fast and frankly far better than Touch ID at this point.
- Speed - very good. No lag, delays on anything.
- Screen - very, very good. Gorgeous to say the least.
- Gestures. Took me maybe 20 minutes to get used to them and I'm already wondering how I ever even dealt with the home button let along thought I would miss it.
- Camera - very good. I'm coming from a standard sized 7 which I thought was OK. This appears to be much better overall. No, it won't replace my stand alone camera just yet, but I feel more confidence in using it for more things now. The portrait stuff is just cool and fun to play with at this point.
- Animoji - lol - cool, fun, but more a novelty that I'm sure I'll get bored with.
- Apple Pay with FaceID - Love it. Really. Double click, look at phone and place over reader. Much better implementation than the touch interface which I always had to screw with. This just seems to work without really thinking about it.
I guess that's it for now. Overall, I think this is a fantastic device and I can't wait to see what Apple does with it over time.
