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The 8/8+ is definitely the way to go folks. No need to wait another month or more for the X. Leave that to us early adopters... we'll make sure to identify all the bugs for you. :D
 
If push came to shove, I would buy the 8+. I have a 6+ currently. I would prefer the X. We will see how Oct 27 looks and decide then. Till then the only positive I see in the 8 and 8+ is the chip...other than that, it is a 7 series turned to freak.
 
Apple is really losing it. This just stinks of desperation, I think Timmy is panicking, especially if X production is as bad as rumours say, Timmy could be in a lot of trouble here.

- Most durable glass in a smartphone

It's not like the iPhone 7 is all that fragile and a bit more durable really doesn't mean much.

- Portrait Lighting (the new Portrait Mode feature)

Cheap gimmick and early hands on reports aren't that positive. Also, a simple software feature, there's no reason the can't 7 do this. Apple was just desperate for something to distinguish the 8.

- Wireless charging with Qi inductive chargers

Literally 5 years behind on that one and just adopting someone else's tech late. Hardly something you should brag about.

- The A11, the smartest most powerful chip in a smartphone

Anyone find the 7 slow? I'm sure there's a few people who do, but not many.

- The world's most popular camera

Not yet since you haven't sold as many iPhone 8's as 7's. And just because you sell 80 million iPhones doesn't mean 80 million people love the camera.

- Water resistant

Others beat you to that punch by over a year and didn't have to take away the headphone jack to do it.

- New Retina HD display with True Tone

Marketing doubletalk. Much cheaper phones have far superior 1440p OLED displays in a smaller form factor than your non-plus model.

- Augmented Reality support

Another software gimmick you're pretending has something to do with the 8 when you're just desperate for a distinguishing feature. And it doesn't do much yet, wake me up when there's a killer app for AR.
 
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Apple is really losing it. This just stinks of desperation, I think Timmy is panicking, especially if X production is as bad as rumours say, Timmy could be in a lot of trouble here.

It's not like the iPhone 7 is all that fragile and a bit more durable really doesn't mean much.

Anyone find the 7 slow? I'm sure there's a few people who do, but not many.
I'm more than happy with my 6S, doesn't seem slow to me and right now if I broke it, I would probably replace it with another. I think the 6S is the best value Vs spec smartphone Apple sells right now. I'd probably of stretched to an X if at 999 it came with 128GB of storage.

They can poke it if they think I'll drop 1k for a woeful 64GB device though. It shows how much they want to milk their customers for every cent/penny, by pushing them towards the £1150 model.
 
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It also took them 5 years to adopt OLED. I suppose having the "courage" to jack up the price $350 for such ancient tech is some kind of business innovation even if it's not technical innovation.

With your comment, you're basically saying the OLED screen is new, and nothing else in the X is different from the 8/8+. That's a lie. If you're so bothered by Apple's decisions, why use their products?
 
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With your comment, you're basically saying the OLED screen is new, and nothing else in the X is different from the 8/8+. That's a lie. If you're so bothered by Apple's decisions, why use their products?

Sorry...besides the OLED and the bandage of FaceID because they couldn't pull off TouchID, what is different about the X compared to the 8? Gimmicky software for kids like the animojis?

If there actually is new tech in there, I must have missed it during the keynote when I was laughing at Timmy and the animojiacs.
 
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MacRumors gets an email with an attachment labeled "Post to web with title '8 things to love about iPhone 8' ".

MacRumors posts "8 things to love about iPhone 8" - You guys MUST be on the payroll by now. Where are the car rumors? The other things Apple works on? Not relevant at the moment because the checks coming in are paying for these blog posts?
 
My co-worker got Apple spam this morning pushing the iPhone 8, so their sales forecasts must not be all that great.

Frankly, the iPhone X sucked all the air out of the room, I didn't even bother to review the 8, maybe they can rename it "iPhone VIII" and get a lot of Romans more interested.
 
Apple is really losing it. This just stinks of desperation, I think Timmy is panicking, especially if X production is as bad as rumours say, Timmy could be in a lot of trouble here.



It's not like the iPhone 7 is all that fragile and a bit more durable really doesn't mean much.



Cheap gimmick and early hands on reports aren't that positive. Also, a simple software feature, there's no reason the can't 7 do this. Apple was just desperate for something to distinguish the 8.



Literally 5 years behind on that one and just adopting someone else's tech late. Hardly something you should brag about.



Anyone find the 7 slow? I'm sure there's a few people who do, but not many.



Not yet since you haven't sold as many iPhone 8's as 7's. And just because you sell 80 million iPhones doesn't mean 80 million people love the camera.



Others beat you to that punch by over a year and didn't have to take away the headphone jack to do it.



Marketing doubletalk. Much cheaper phones have far superior 1440p OLED displays in a smaller form factor than your non-plus model.



Another software gimmick you're pretending has something to do with the 8 when you're just desperate for a distinguishing feature. And it doesn't do much yet, wake me up when there's a killer app for AR.
So I asume you hate the iPhone X too, right? Since it is pretty much the same as the 8 Plus aside from the screen, stainless steel and 2 hours of battery life.
 
Cheap gimmick and early hands on reports aren't that positive. Also, a simple software feature, there's no reason the can't 7 do this. Apple was just desperate for something to distinguish the 8.

Early reports are extremely positive with some reviewers blown away by it. Some acknowledged it's not perfect but I didn't see that detracting from their overall enthusiasm, and they noted it's a beta feature.

You don't know if the 7 can do it. Maybe it can, maybe it can't, but what everyone acknowledges is that it takes some serious processing power to do it in real time like the 8. Apple said that they built special functions in the silicon to enable this feature and there's no reason not to believe them.
 
What is it about this portrait lighting thing being a big deal? (A genuine question). I am not much into photography, but I thought there was all sorts of software to edit images in this way?
 
Nice video. 8 things about iPhone 8:
Meh
Meh
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Meh
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Yay, gotta go buy one! Oh wait, no I don't.
 
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I especially love how it took Apple MORE than 5 years to adopt Qi standard. Just on the forefront of innovation on this one.

Apple do not innovate much. I enjoy owning a lot of Apple products, but they are simply not at the forefront of embracing/designing new technology. It amuses me that Samsung are accused endlessly of copying Apple, and here they are now talking about OLED displays, which Samsung innovated ages ago, and now make for Apple. That's one of the reasons my footnote thing will be as it is for a bit.
 
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I'm more than happy with my 6S, doesn't seem slow to me and right now if I broke it, I would probably replace it with another. I think the 6S is the best value Vs spec smartphone Apple sells right now. I'd probably of stretched to an X if at 999 it came with 128GB of storage.

They can poke it if they think I'll drop 1k for a woeful 64GB device though. It shows how much they want to milk their customers for every cent/penny, by pushing them towards the £1150 model.

I'm sticking with my 6s as well. Does everything I need it to do. Of course I don't have a phone fetish unlike almost everyone else on this forum.
 
I get the sense that the iPhone 8 isn't selling as well as expected.
 
The 8 is here because they didn't want to put all their eggs in one basket. The X with it's missing home button and Face ID is a global experiment. If people don't really like the design they can get an 8.

It's too risky doing radical changes to a device that millions of people rely on without having a Plan B: The iPhone 8 is Plan B.

That is exactly what they did. The home button is iPhones signature look, and used a lot. But i am curious how they will name their phones in the future. iPhone 9 9lus then what?
 
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