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Comparison screenshots (i8+ vs. iX / i8 vs. iX)
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Yup....beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Wow.look at all that wasted space on the right and left. That's horrendous.
Apple ruined the notch. Back in my day the more notches you had the better 
It's not the people like the bezels it's just they feel Apple could have done a better job with the X. Apple is telling developers not the black out the "ears" the the left and right and to embrace the notch. It would look so much better if they had done that. One thing I don't like is the rounded corners on the screen. It's yet another thing that cuts into the real estate of the screen, especially with the ears which barely have room for the status icons as it is.
I love the feel the x has, like it ius always in full screen, I'm dying to get my hands on one.
Regarding status bar in landscape, can't we have a vertical status bar that still goes in the ears to the left instead of the top, when in portrait? Like when the phone is in landscape, the icons and date don't move, just turn 45 degrees in their same positions, given the ears have plenty of height space.
Regarding status bar in landscape, can't we have a vertical status bar that still goes in the ears to the left instead of the top, when in portrait? Like when the phone is in landscape, the icons and date don't move, just turn 45 degrees in their same positions, given the ears have plenty of height space.
Really??
The 8 comparison looks like almost the same size!
The + real estate is quite bigger!
Exactly. Many Plus owners are understandably not interested as they obviously don't mind having a larger form factor & want the biggest screen screen possible. It'd only be the minority Plus owners who regret buying into a larger form factor & who don't mind a slight decrease in screen size that'll want the X.
But yeah, the X is more for those using non-plus models, so long as they don't mind the slight evolution in user interface.
Not physically.
The X is wider. They are only the same virtual width in that they have the same number of UI points across the screen. But because the X is physically lager, UI elements will appear slightly larger.
One other thing that is getting no mention: the resolution! The X may have the same virtual width as the 7 and 8, but it will be the first iPhone to support 3x assets at native resolution! It will look much sharper and much finer detail compared to all other iPhone models.
I cannot understand how they claim the X screen is larger than the + ..
You watch them side by side and the + definitely looks bigger.
Only when i’ll hold i’ll figure it out.
Maybe i could live with the x weird ratio.
Why couldn’t they made also a bigger X?
Or at least match the same width of the +?
You watch them side by side and the + definitely looks bigger.
Only when i’ll hold i’ll figure it out.
Maybe i could live with the x weird ratio.
Why couldn’t they made also a bigger X?
Or at least match the same width of the +?
Only if all your contacts have short names. What about if you know Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff?
I think the people who were always complaining about the bezels are the same people who used to complain about movies on DVD not filling the entire screen of their old 4:3 TV. And the iPhone X is the same flawed solution to an imagined problem like the Pan&Scan versions of movies were, which cut off the sides of the movies just to give the people their "full screen" experience. I hope that when people actually get their devices and realize what a compromised experience it provides, the outcry will change Apple's mind.
It's barely "notch"able?
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Apple HCI guidelines suggest auto layouts that use 'safe areas' with margins. Have a look at 4.53min of their video for developers here.
As someone who uses their phone 99% of the time (outside of shooting videos) in portrait mode, these screenshots just confirmed I will like the x.
Kudos to the OP for providing those images because they do a really good job of contrasting the differences between devices.
I just wanted to point out that there are only four apps shown, of which, are developed by the Apple team, thus they have had literally months to years (depending on how long this has been in the works) to perfect them.
Edit: Fixed Kudos from Kudus.
I just wanted to point out that there are only four apps shown, of which, are developed by the Apple team, thus they have had literally months to years (depending on how long this has been in the works) to perfect them.
- Safari
- Calendar
- iMessage
- News
Edit: Fixed Kudos from Kudus.
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why would i buy a prototype phone with beta software when i can wait a year and get the finished product?