From + to x and then holding a + again

[djrm]

To all the people saying they are going back to a + after using an X, all I can say is, wow! 9 days with the X and I held a + today (which I had been using for 2 years) and seriously, what are people thinking? Is it just me but it looks and feels old fashioned and HUGE!

Dumbfounded anyone would want to 'go back'

 

[jakontil]

You might be right when talking about holding

But i believe some might find more comfortable typing on a +

Not to mention viewing movies

Many reasons why they go back

 

[PBz]

Holding, scrolling & reading this one-handed on 8+

Typed with 2 hands. Great width of keyboard.

 

[Suspenders]

How about, people should be allowed to buy what they want, without being judged...?

 

[CjonesHouston]

Some people aren’t ready to evolve into today’s tech. They like the look of chin thick bezel phones. Pixel, Note, iPhone 8 and others. I’m a X user. Embracing the Notch and loving the size of this edge to edge screen design. X is the future. Other phone makers will copy and follow.

 

[PBz]

And some have had every iPhone, tested phones for a living and just aren’t impressed enough by X to buy it.

 

[saltd]

As much as I enjoy the X, I can definitely see where the buttonless interface will seem unintuitive to some older and more casual users. A lot of people feel comfortable with the old status quo, and see no reason to have to relearn certain aspects of using their device.

I’m not one of those people though

 

[PBz]

I love the gestures. I don’t love the hardware.

 

[bambooshots]

I’m having to readjust the way I hold the phone when I’m typing.

 

[kre62]

Some people aren’t ready to evolve into today’s tech. They like the look of chin thick bezel phones. Pixel, Note, iPhone 8 and others. I’m a X user. Embracing the Notch and loving the size of this edge to edge screen design. X is the future. Other phone makers will copy and follow.

I personally have no trouble adapting to new tech, and love changing things up. Thought the X was trash. It doesn't do things better than a plus, in fact most stuff is a compromise or worse. New tech should improve the experience and usability, not go the other direction just for the sake of being new tech. Face ID is slower and less useful than TouchID. OLED screens suffer poor viewing angles and burn in like old plasma TVs from over 20 years ago. The X brings back decades-ago-solved problems, changes something that wasnt broken to something worse, and is such an odd aspect ratio that vidoes run with giant software bezels anyway. In other words - the X isn't it. I went from an X to an 8+ and the 8+ is definitely the better phone - and I can turn the brightness all the way up without risking permanent damage! How novel!

 

[haruhiko]

The forehead and chin are so large. And I keep swiping up instead of pressing the home button on the 7+.

I definitely don't want to go back after using the X.

 

[djrm]

How about, people should be allowed to buy what they want, without being judged...?

But come on, 14 day return period, its day 9 and loads have returned them after just hours/days, why aren't people keeping and using them for 14 days before making their minds up? Bizarre. As every day goes by the more antique the old design iPhones look and feel.

 

[CjonesHouston]

I personally have no trouble adapting to new tech, and love changing things up. Thought the X was trash. It doesn't do things better than a plus, in fact most stuff is a compromise or worse. New tech should improve the experience and usability, not go the other direction just for the sake of being new tech. Face ID is slower and less useful than TouchID. OLED screens suffer poor viewing angles and burn in like old plasma TVs from over 20 years ago. The X brings back decades-ago-solved problems, changes something that wasnt broken to something worse, and is such an odd aspect ratio that vidoes run with giant software bezels anyway. In other words - the X isn't it. I went from an X to an 8+ and the 8+ is definitely the better phone - and I can turn the brightness all the way up without risking permanent damage! How novel!

OLED screens when calibrated are superior to LCD displays. Face ID for me. Is more convenient for logging into apps and websites. For password entry. When unlocking my phone. Face ID is quick. As soon as I lift the device it opens. I’m unlocked and ready to go. I have large hands but even typing one handed in my 7 Plus was slower. Now I type one hand non stop. Watching videos on this HDR OLED is Amazing. I use the X in full screen landscape mode. No chins. Apps are updating every day. To improve the look of there app on this display. In a couple of years. You will be able to adapt because you won’t have a choice. For now enjoy the chins.

 

[djrm]

Holding, scrolling & reading this one-handed on 8+

Typed with 2 hands. Great width of keyboard.

Forgot to mention, my post was done holding, scrolling & reading this one-handed on X

Typed with 2 hands. Normal width of keyboard.

 

[kre62]

But come on, 14 day return period, its day 9 and loads have returned them after just hours/days, why aren't people keeping and using them for 14 days before making their minds up? Bizarre. As every day goes by the more antique the old design iPhones look and feel.

I'll agree the 8 and 8+ arent the freshest designs by a long shot, but at the end of the day its about usability. The 8 and 8+ are the best iPhones you can buy right now from a pure usability standoint. If a person isn't locked into iOS there are a ton of really stylish and usable phones out, like the Essential phone. That phone is truly premium, titanium, ceramic, edge to edge LCD vs OLED crap...if it had better cameras and iMessage i'd be all over it. Until then I'll stick with the 8+, unless Apple can come out with something better next year.
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OLED screens when calibrated are superior to LCD displays. Face ID for me. Is more convenient for logging into apps and websites. For password entry. When unlocking my phone. Face ID is quick. As soon as I lift the device it opens. I’m unlocked and ready to go. I have large hands but even typing one handed in my 7 Plus was slower. Now I type one hand non stop. Watching videos on this HDR OLED is Amazing. I use the X in full screen landscape mode. No chins. Apps are updating every day. To improve the look of there app on this display. In a couple of years. You will be able to adapt because you won’t have a choice. For now enjoy the chins.

Like I said it has nothing to do with adapting, this is about picking the best phone thats currently in market, and that phone is the 8+. And all the calibration in the world doesn't solve the color shifting and burn-in problems I mentioned. Enjoy your ultra deep blacks while worrying about image retention, I'll be over here enjoying my super deep blacks, probably 99% as black, with no risk of burn in.

 

[bgro]

Not loving the Xmainly because of the screen size. Plus is much more comfortable imo. Just not blown away by the overall package of the X. If it did alot of things better than the 8+ then I’d reconsider but really just the FFC and the OLED screen which I don’t find that much different from the LCD in the Plus. Probably gonna return and get the 8+ this week

 

[Applejuiced]

Some people aren’t ready to evolve into today’s tech. They like the look of chin thick bezel phones. Pixel, Note, iPhone 8 and others. I’m a X user. Embracing the Notch and loving the size of this edge to edge screen design. X is the future. Other phone makers will copy and follow.

Some people dont have any problems with the "chin thick" bezels but they do with the notch and many other things with the iphone X.
Imagine that people out there have personal preferences and dont just "embrace" and pay up $1000 for whatever Apple puts out as "magical" and "evolutionary".
Yes, people like that exist outside this forum

 

[QCassidy352]

People act so outraged that someone else would choose a different model (all on iOS no less!), but let's be honest: you essentially can do the exact same things with every phone in Apple's lineup, from the $350 SE to the $1150 X. Is it really so shocking that someone else would see a different model as being a better value proposition?

 

[EdMan]

These threads kill me. Just came back from weekend in Chicago and finally saw an X in the wild. Nice phone for sure but in a city of 3 million people I saw one and tons of older iPhones. People on this forum have a warped sense that everyone ran out and bought the X and hate the older style phone. Still tons of people using the “chins” and not losing sleep about it.

 

[pdxmatts]

Forgot to mention, my post was done holding, scrolling & reading this one-handed on X

Typed with 2 hands. Normal width of keyboard.

It feels like you are just trolling Plus users

 

[Applejuiced]

These threads kill me. Just came back from weekend in Chicago and finally say an X in the wild. Nice phone for sure but in a city of 3 million people I saw one and lots of older iPhones. People on this forum have a warped sense that everyone ran out and bought the X and hate the older style phone. Still tons of people using the “chins” and not losing sleep about it.

Lol
Pretty much, now all of a sudden some cannot live with bezels and they are not sure how they coped with "chins" for all these prior years.
We all just have to get rid off them and buy the new bezel-less iPhone now...

 

[CKtoph]

Personally, I’m a big fan of the X. I’ve always actually thought my Plus iterations were just a little bigger than what I wanted in a phone, but I still preferred it over the “regular” models. I agree that the aspect ratio is odd when full screening videos, but now it just makes me want to use my iPad to watch content for an extended period of time - which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

At the end of the day, it comes down to what you want out of your phone, and to each their own. It’s simply a matter of preference now.

I find it mildly entertaining to hear people try to put down someone else’s choice for phone to justify their own purchase. Just be confident in what you got and why you got it.

 

[Technarchy]

After I gave my wife the X I was actually happy to return to my 8+.

The user experience and presentation of content is just better.

 

[Peanut207]

How about, people should be allowed to buy what they want, without being judged...?

I believe he was just giving his opinion which is what a message board is for no?

As for myself, I can never go back to the plus. The ONLY way is if and when Apple makes the plus model bezel-less. Then it would be very tempting to hold that beast of a phone in my hands with all that screen. Until then, the X is perfect.

 

[CjonesHouston]

I'll agree the 8 and 8+ arent the freshest designs by a long shot, but at the end of the day its about usability. The 8 and 8+ are the best iPhones you can buy right now from a pure usability standoint. If a person isn't locked into iOS there are a ton of really stylish and usable phones out, like the Essential phone. That phone is truly premium, titanium, ceramic, edge to edge LCD vs OLED crap...if it had better cameras and iMessage i'd be all over it. Until then I'll stick with the 8+, unless Apple can come out with something better next year.
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Like I said it has nothing to do with adapting, this is about picking the best phone thats currently in market, and that phone is the 8+. And all the calibration in the world doesn't solve the color shifting and burn-in problems I mentioned. Enjoy your ultra deep blacks while worrying about image retention, I'll be over here enjoying my super deep blacks, probably 99% as black, with no risk of burn in.

I have a Note 4. I used at a prior job. No burn in. Not every OLED gets burn in. As fast as the Pixel phones do. It might be 3 or 4 years before it happens. I’ll be in to the next iPhone by then. Enjoy the iPhone 8. It’s a wonderful device I’m sure. Just like my 7 Plus is. It’s not Super Retina. It’s the past.