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Apple Reveals 'iPhone XR' With 6.1-Inch Liquid Retina LCD Display and Six Color Options Starting at $749
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No more original X at a reduced price. SE removed from sale. And only the 8 and 7 still available. At least the line-up is starting to become a little cleaner haha
That was one of the worst Apple events I have ever seen... and not even a , " oh and one more thing"???? That tells you how crappy it was.. I have no reason to even think about updating, glad I just sold my X, face ID IS HORRIBLE... glad to be back to my 6S plus with Touch ID WITH BETTER BATTERY LIFE than the X.... maybe next year Apple !!
Love this phone. Prefer the 6.1 size and aluminum back for sure. $749 no problem with me
For that perfect match with the brown Volvo V90
Source: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/0...y-a-brown-station-wagon-for-the-21st-century/
I'm going to sit this year out and wait for the "t" series
Prices are absolutely ridiculous here in Canada! Done with the iPhone.
Agree, the iPhone X was £1000 and it’s the most popular smartphone. They’d be mad not to make more hay whilst they can. I feel the Xr will have the same fate as the 5c.
And the beloved SE is gone from Apple’s website now...
Because they didn't have much new to reveal and they knew the pricing would garner mute response.
So they padded the whole event out with fluff. Its like a sandwich packed with lettuce.
I wasn't expecting much to begin with and i still ended up being unimpressed.
It may or may not be indicative of where they're going. They had to create a new type of LCD display for a corner to corner screen all while making a less expensive iPhone X with very few other compromises. 3D Touch was left out on this model but it's been kept in the OLED models.
The language Phil used does say something about the future of 3D Touch though: "like we do on the iPad". They probably don't have any plans to bring 3D Touch to the iPad. I wonder if the Apple Watch Series 4 has 3D Touch. It's another all new display. If they left 3D Touch out there too, then I think we can assume that 3D Touch will be killed off the next time the OLED iPhones get a newly engineered display.
It's too bad, I think it had a lot of potential and really suffered from lack of discoverability — a solvable UI challenge.
It's an s-series phone with the A12, so they didn't cripple the performance. I really expected an A11, which is typically how it goes with these sort of things. And engineering that LCD is actually impressive. I understand there's give and take, and it is still a step below the flagships, but it's also priced below the flagships accordingly.
And don't act like 1080p on a phone is the same as 1080p on a big screen TV. They are fundamentally different viewing experiences and form factors. Don't be disingenuous. You know PPI is what actually tells the story, and ~330ppi is plenty respectable — same as the iPhone 8.
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Priced above even the higher end of Ming's estimates. He really blew it this time with absolutely none of his predicted price points in the ballpark.
Oh well, the Xs isn't worth $250 more than the Xr to me and I need a new device to replace my iPhone 6 Plus so the Xr it is.
Oh well, the Xs isn't worth $250 more than the Xr to me and I need a new device to replace my iPhone 6 Plus so the Xr it is.
Larger, better quality screen in a smaller form factor, better battery life, faster processor, Face ID, wireless charging capability, and other changes aren't improvements? It loses the 2nd camera with the 2x optical zoom but other than that hasn't lost anything vital. The loss of 3D Touch is disappointing but honestly, a lot of people don't use it. I do but I could manage without it.
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326 on the iPhone 8.
on the pixel count - I put the OLED and LCD in front of my wife and she couldn't tell the difference and will NOT pay $250 more - since we are tekkies we can definitely tell the difference but Apple LCD displays are first class.
Ah so coming from a 6S, this phone will have the same sharpness? I can live with that!
