No one except tech geeks care about this. The display of the XR is stunning.
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Apple Begins Selling Refurbished iPhone X Models Starting at $769
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The only thing that would hold me back from the XR is the lack of 3D Touch. Haptic Touch that the XR has is no comparison to 3D Touch unfortunately. I heavily use 3D Touch, I’d miss it a lot.
The X is a great device even now. I think for Someone who has an iPhone 6S or older, this is a good deal.
Why would the X affect the XR sales? If you think about it, how many average consumers are even aware that Apple is offering a refurbished iPhone X at this point? Likely not many. Still, you have to consider Apple only has so many of these units available, where the XR is far more in stock then a refurbished 2017 iPhone X would be.
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it has the same ppi as my iphone 7 which is to say that yeah its pixel density is sub par for the cost and for being a phone released in 2018
Definitely good Apple is offering these again. Should've NEVER stopped selling these due to the XS model; I'm sure a lot of revenue was lost. These could've got highly incentive contractural upgrade agreements locked in.
[doublepost=1549323395][/doublepost]Curious if these Refurbs will be allowed as part of the trade-in upgrade program recently been offered?
I owned a 7 Plus and a XR and really cannot tell the difference between the two in terms of screen quality.
I have then shown my friends and none could tell the difference.
And if it’s garbage of a screen, then that makes the iPhone 6,7,8 garbage too in your terms no?
No, they didn’t. But it was quite obvious why they did. The 2017 X would have been direct competition with the 2018 X, and the 2017 X would detracted sales from the 2018 X, because it would have been discounted, which the consumer would opted for the cheaper X, hurting Apple’s sales of the 2018 X.
I think they’re trying really hard not to sell any new XSes with this price difference.
Don't waste your time this has been going on for months regarding Xr screen. Most naysayers haven't even seen it and are just parroting what others are saying or reading numbers on a spec sheet while taking nothing else into consideration. You can go on until you're blue in the face but it's ultimately futile. They're everywhere. They come out of the woodwork, mutter something about ppi and iPhone 4 screen, and then disappear never be to heard from again.
(or until the next new Xr thread)Don't waste your time this has been going on for months regarding Xr screen. Most naysayers haven't even seen it and are just parroting what others are saying or reading numbers on a spec sheet while taking nothing else into consideration. You can go on until you're blue in the face but it's ultimately futile. They come out of the woodwork, mutter something about ppi and iPhone 4 screen, and scurry back to their lairso never be heard from again.
According to these people, my 2017 MBP’s keyboard doesn’t work and my iPhone XR’s screen has a lower resolution than the original Macintosh.
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Apple refurbs get a new case, screen and battery. Really they’re as good as new.
If you believe in ghosts, it is possible the motherboard has processed some seriously questionable video for the previous owner. Some people might find this disturbing. In this case refurbs are not for you.
Yes because components are free and shareholders will stop worrying about silly things like margin.
I'd take the X for the smaller size alone. The Xr's size makes it a non-starter, period.
That aside: 3D Touch, OLED, dual camera, higher resolution - just to name the big ones.
Well one could say the same for the 7, when the 8 came out, or the 6s, when the 7 came out, and so on.
They killed it because they introduced the Xr. There's really nowhere to price it with the lineup as it is, and in particular, with the Xr priced where it is.
So I guess one could ask why they introduced the Xr at all, which is a fair question. The only good comparison is how they killed the 5 when the 5s and 5c came out, and given how poorly the 5c was received, I'm not sure why they wanted to repeat that experiment.
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A brand new, faster Xr vs. a used, first-gen rough draft of a phone? Not the the X is bad, but it’d have to be $700 new for me to consider it on par with the Xr. The Xr’s facial recognition is much quicker, the CPU and COU are much snappier, the rear camera is better overall (IMO) unless you’re also into the first gen, sorta believable grainy portrait mode.
With all the fuss about OLED screens having issues (as overblown as that might be) Is still feel a lot better off with a second gen OLED than the first.
Just my two cents though.
A 720p display is actually the literal definition of “HD,” 1080 is referred to commercially as “full HD” sometimes though
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It actually doesn’t. They kept the same pixel density, but apple’s lcd panels today now have darker blacks and wide color, so they’re actually very nice. Not as good as OLED, but factually better than your 6+ display
XR will be great bargain (it is priced wat too high is another matter) for those who don't care about OLED or resolution. This is like buying i7 8gen laptop with 720p display. Lack of 3D touch is definitely a major blow for the price it asking.
Main difference or selling point is XR is Dual SIM device though iOS hasn't implemented many things like App Twins, considering 2 Years OLD iPhone X, XR is rather good.
what are you doing with your iphone that there could be something like image burn?
as long as i know it switches the screen of automatically