iPhone X Anyone else feeling bored with their X

[MBHockey]

I'm not bored with it, but after a few days I have stopped 'noticing' it. Which i think is great, and I think is the entire point. You want to be immersed in the content of what you're actually doing on the phone. You don't want to be constantly thinking about the device itself. The screen just sucks you in, and your attention gets focused on what you're reading. For this reason, I love the X. It's the first iPhone i've felt this way about.

 

[Donoban]

I think I solved my problem. I got so used to the Plus size footprint that when I touch the X it feels weird. I can’t wait for the X Plus next year. That would really touch the spot.

As long as they don't delay your order right? Otherwise its massive boycott time baby!!!! Remember those days? Oh lordy, many lulz were had.

 

[5105973]

I buy a lot of cases for my phones. Switching up cases seems sufficient to keep me entertained about the phone as an object. A case can change the whole look of it.

But the phone is functional and we buy them to use them. I don’t understand how using such a powerful sophisticated pocket computer could be boring unless the user interface makes interacting with the device tedious.

That happened to me once with a Timex Sinclair computer my aunt and uncle bought me one Christmas. I was raised to be grateful and appreciative of any gift. And I did appreciate that my aunt and uncle thought of me and was careful to express my gratitude for their generosity and thoughtfulness in my thank you note.

Unfortunately, it had the worst keyboard I’ve ever seen or used in my life. It took me all day to input a simple program, because the keyboard was that horribly designed. I used it exactly once and wrapped it back up and never looked at it again. I did keep it; it’s in my basement. That day I attempted to program it was the most mind numbing, tedious day I have spent in my life, which is saying something, considering the hours of my life spent waiting on kids to be done at practices or elders to be done with appointments or procedures at the doctors or hospital.

That’s the one time a piece of tech managed to actually bore me. Because I couldn’t easily make it do what it was designed to do because of a poor user interface.

I’ve used an iPhone X for a few hours. It’s not poorly designed from what I can see.

 

[Gathomblipoob]

That happened to me once with a Timex Sinclair computer my aunt and uncle bought me one Christmas.

Was it the little black one with the membrane keyboard or was it the 2068?

 

[bushman4]

Best IPhone I’ve ever seen and remember there’s plenty of bells and whistles Apple will tell you about as time goes on

 

[biscuitsxluv]

Bored? Nope. 😎 Took me 2.5 years before I decided to update to a new phone. I don’t chase after material things. I have family, friends and faith to fill my void.

 

[44267547]

I'm not bored with it, but after a few days I have stopped 'noticing' it. Which i think is great, and I think is the entire point. You want to be immersed in the content of what you're actually doing on the phone. You don't want to be constantly thinking about the device itself. The screen just sucks you in, and your attention gets focused on what you're reading. For this reason, I love the X. It's the first iPhone i've felt this way about.

I agree. There is always that initial phase when you use a new piece of technology that you appreciate the design and form factor. But then eventually fades away and it's all about the experience with iOS and being more immersed in that aspect.

 

[bruinsrme]

I'm not bored with it, but after a few days I have stopped 'noticing' it. Which i think is great, and I think is the entire point. You want to be immersed in the content of what you're actually doing on the phone. You don't want to be constantly thinking about the device itself. The screen just sucks you in, and your attention gets focused on what you're reading. For this reason, I love the X. It's the first iPhone i've felt this way about.

Yes indeed.

The X has a (good) strange feel to it.
I pick it up and it is ready to use. Swiping has allowed for more one handed use.
The double click to purchase or use Apple Pay is not very natural.
I think you’re spot on about the immersion. My focus is on the screen and isn’t pulled away or hand repositioned to operate the button.
It’s a different experience and based on my frustration of using an iPad now I can only conclude Apple didn’t just say, let’s do this. They spend a lot of money studying how we use phones and how we could be using phones.
Then again, apple has been the king of gestures with the macs and track pads for sometime. They took that and applied to the iPhone.
So in one way they are innovative and reshaping how we use our screens and the other way they simply repurposed already had technology.
Either way I really enjoy using the phone and do not miss the home button at all.

 

[Ralfi]

i don’t know, i love phone and it’s everything I’ve expected and more. I guess feeling a lil weird because I’m craving for something now, is the novelty gone? The chase is gone and I got the phone... what’s next? Now i can’t wait for the next iPhone release which is next year. . Anyone else feel the same way?

You probably didn't mean to, but this comes across as shallow.

What do you use a smart phone for, primarily?

 

[Appl3FTW]

You probably didn't mean to, but this comes across as shallow.

What do you use a smart phone for, primarily?

I know, when it comes to my tech gadgets... it’s like my adult toy lol
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Bored? Nope. 😎 Took me 2.5 years before I decided to update to a new phone. I don’t chase after material things. I have family, friends and faith to fill my void.

You go girl
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As long as they don't delay your order right? Otherwise its massive boycott time baby!!!! Remember those days? Oh lordy, many lulz were had.

Bahahah yea. I mean I have no patience for screw ups.

 

[democracyrules]

Wanting is sometimes way more intense that having.

It definitely is. Chasing is more fun of having. It applies to many things 🙂
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After the novelty of the gesture swipes or Animoji, it becomes that way. You realize it's like using another iPhone with the same UI scheme for a decade but with gestures. It's like that way for ANY phone. Boredom always sinks in.

Well said. I am experiencing as well but I appreciate of having the iPhone X, the best iPhone in the iPhone history to date and of getting it on the launch day smoothly. I also appreciate of the X technology like Face ID. Appreciation of having the best iPhone would level out the boredom.

 

[Treyhunna]

you guys are crazy. its just a phone. u got it. showed it off lifes back to normal.

 

[democracyrules]

you guys are crazy. its just a phone. u got it. showed it off lifes back to normal.

I have been showing off my phone by putting it on my shirt pocket. The gorgeous and stunning silver color has always been attracting people attention. Sweet.

 

[Vanilla35]

Hahaha no thank u
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I’m not disappointed, I am satisfied with the phone it’s just I want something else now for some reason. Lols
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The notch doesn’t bother me at all. I prefer it even because it’s actually bezel less. Samsung has bezels... pshhh

Jailbreak whenever it becomes available. It'll be like a brand new phone plus much more. It will relieve the stale feeling of iOS. Changing the theme and animations, lock screen capabilities etc makes it a new phone experience. Fixing/adjusting gestures and oddities will allow you to get rid of many of the irks that come with iOS.

Not much you can do now (I've never liked iOS 7 style, however I would say it got somewhat stale/boring/routine around iOS 9). CC update was nice, but doesn't fix how bloated yet still stale the software has become. Widgets swipe left, lockscreen swipe down, control center swipe down top right, swipe up for home, swipe up somewhat for multi tasking. It's just too convoluted, android is actually a cleaner experience at this point. iOS is still my preferred OS, but the things I mentioned above are accurate.

So you can look forward to jailbreaking at some point.

 

[5105973]

Was it the little black one with the membrane keyboard or was it the 2068?

It was (and still is) the black one with the membrane keyboard. I’ve moved it from house to house for all these years. I couldn’t bring myself to part with it. It was my first home computer. My aunt and uncle even splurged for some sort of expansion module or add on of some kind, I don’t remember exactly what that was.

My high school friends all had Commodore 64s to start with. Then they got Apple computers. My family couldn’t afford any good computers until the Atari 800XL finally ended up in a bargain bin at a local store called Zayre (later Ames). I used the Atari all through college. But I collected articles on the Apple IIe and IIc. I used to like to think someday I’d get to choose between them. I never was able to afford one but I ended up dating a guy who had a IIe. Then I married him and that’s how I ended up with an Apple IIe to my name. 😛 (Lol, no I didn’t really date or marry him for the computer). The IIe is all set up and fully operational in my husband’s home office. It’s like a shrine. 😱

 

[Appl3FTW]

Jailbreak whenever it becomes available. It'll be like a brand new phone plus much more. It will relieve the stale feeling of iOS. Changing the theme and animations, lock screen capabilities etc makes it a new phone experience. Fixing/adjusting gestures and oddities will allow you to get rid of many of the irks that come with iOS.

Not much you can do now (I've never liked iOS 7 style, however I would say it got somewhat stale/boring/routine around iOS 9). CC update was nice, but doesn't fix how bloated yet still stale the software has become. Widgets swipe left, lockscreen swipe down, control center swipe down top right, swipe up for home, swipe up somewhat for multi tasking. It's just too convoluted, android is actually a cleaner experience at this point. iOS is still my preferred OS, but the things I mentioned above are accurate.

So you can look forward to jailbreaking at some point.

I’m over jail breaking tho. That was so iPhone 4s lols

 

[5105973]

I’m over jail breaking tho. That was so iPhone 4s lols

You can come to my house and do my laundry if you’re hopelessly bored! 😛

I just finally got the kitchen back to normal after serving a monster Thanksgiving feast on Thursday. I wanted to go ice skating but I’m too tired after a morning of chores. Now it’s laundry. I think if you had to be me you would go bonkers. The kids know better than to say they are bored in front of me. I’m liable to hand them a shovel and tell them to go pick up all the dog poo in the back yard and scrub out the cat boxes. At school the teachers make them clean chicken poo out of the hen houses. Ah...fine country living! 😀

 

[Appl3FTW]

You can come to my house and do my laundry if you’re hopelessly bored! 😛

I just finally got the kitchen back to normal after serving a monster Thanksgiving feast on Thursday. I wanted to go ice skating but I’m too tired after a morning of chores. Now it’s laundry. I think if you had to be me you would go bonkers. The kids know better than to say they are bored in front of me. I’m liable to hand them a shovel and tell them to go pick up all the dog poo in the back yard and scrub out the cat boxes. At school the teachers make them clean chicken poo out of the hen houses. Ah...fine country living! 😀

No thank you haha. I will take the phone. Lol

 

[Klyster]

It was (and still is) the black one with the membrane keyboard. I’ve moved it from house to house for all these years. I couldn’t bring myself to part with it. It was my first home computer. My aunt and uncle even splurged for some sort of expansion module or add on of some kind, I don’t remember exactly what that was.

My high school friends all had Commodore 64s to start with. Then they got Apple computers. My family couldn’t afford any good computers until the Atari 800XL finally ended up in a bargain bin at a local store called Zayre (later Ames). I used the Atari all through college. But I collected articles on the Apple IIe and IIc. I used to like to think someday I’d get to choose between them. I never was able to afford one but I ended up dating a guy who had a IIe. Then I married him and that’s how I ended up with an Apple IIe to my name. 😛 (Lol, no I didn’t really date or marry him for the computer). The IIe is all set up and fully operational in my husband’s home office. It’s like a shrine. 😱

I had a ZX81 (pal version, basically identical), I couldn't wait to be rid of the thing.
I remember writing programmes from an Usborne books but not being able to save them, the graphics limitations and the horrible keyboard…
My friends had Vic 20's, C64's and the ZX spectrum...
I still have a Commodore 128D in the garage 🙂

 

[Pez555]

If you’re bored of it, you use it too much.

 

[5105973]

No thank you haha. I will take the phone. Lol

Darn! I tried! 😀 Now I’m busy putting up Christmas decorations. We go big, too. This will take a few days.

I did find out I got an X for Christmas! My husband already got it and I’m typing on it now! Lol! 😱 He picked it up at one of the Apple Stores last week. He was going to wait until Christmas but he wants me to have it to use the camera for some holiday events before Christmas! So he presented it to me a little while ago as we were looking at old photos of past holidays when we were young and adorable. 😀 It’s all set up and it’s perfect! It doesn’t even have a blue shift to speak of. Actually none at all that I can see. No weird sounds on full volume or anything odd yet.

Wow, I’m not sure how you can be bored with this! At the very least make some Animoji karaoke! 😉

 

[GBlansten]

I never expected this phone to make my life fulfilling. I just wanted a new iPhone and figured the X would be a great replacement for my 6. It has. Life is fantastic for other reasons. Mainly from my positive interactions with real people.

 

[Vanilla35]

I’m over jail breaking tho. That was so iPhone 4s lols

Well that's what keeps me satisfied. Otherwise it's too stale and boring for me. Just a suggestion! If you're looking for something new, start getting into VR gaming, or VR in general. Great experience, if you game at all.

 

[MartyCan]

i don’t know, i love phone and it’s everything I’ve expected and more. I guess feeling a lil weird because I’m craving for something now, is the novelty gone? The chase is gone and I got the phone... what’s next? Now i can’t wait for the next iPhone release which is next year. . Anyone else feel the same way?

Heck no. This is for sure the best iPhone ever. Took me seconds to adapt to the new ways and I love the form factor and non-existent bezel. I can stay with this one for a long time.

 

[Donoban]

Bahahah yea. I mean I have no patience for screw ups.

Bruh. Or just no patience? Let’s not ******** each other here.