You wouldn't have to, just trade in your phone like I did my 6.
My payment for the 256 8+ is 17.50 a month...well worth it.
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iPhone 8 and 8 Plus Review Roundup: Powerful Devices With Great Cameras Set Stage for iPhone X
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My payment for the 256 8+ is 17.50 a month...well worth it.
If the 8 got everything the X has minus the OLED screen what would be the point of the X?
Does the phone actually take advantage of the extra CPU performance? If not, thats whats the point?
Wow, even the lowly iPhone 8 blows about the Samsung G8+ in CPU performance.
I think this is where it comes to down to the person, I can count the number of times I have used my plus in landscape on one hand (excluding games). So for me the extra vertical space is more important. Additionally, the addition of OIS on the telephoto and the extra f-stop will be a welcome addition. So the argument over landscape orientation for me is irrelevant but for some people who use their phone very differently this may be a game changer. Some people just need to recognize that people use their phones very differently.
I think with implementation of ARKit, that’s when we will see the difference..
Future-proofing, overhead is nice, in a few months, some apps will definitely take advantage of every bit of performance it can get.
Keep telling him that. You haven't seen any battery life tests, but that's a "MAJOR negative "???
Even in portrait the keyboard will have the same width as the one in iPhone 7, while the plus can take advantage of the larger screen. Keyboard is something everyone use constantly, I have a 6s now and I'm not happy about the keyboard, I wish it was bigger and that's one advantage of the + size phones.
I think iPhone 8+ has the best aspect ratio and I'm confident they'll make a plus version of X next year or in 2019
So what makes a phone worthwhile upgrading to then? Smartphones are kind of peaking in terms of their abilities more or less, so what killer feature is worthwhile shelling out big bucks to upgrade? Almost every new phone new has "a better camera speck" or a "better screen" but nothing revolutionary when you really think about it... If you're in the market to get a new phone, to spend a few hundred more on a non-so-great OLED display (compared to other OLED displays on the market) on the iPhone X to me doesn't make sense....
in fact it follow the phrase "But, as seen below, the results aren't always perfect."
Were do you read that that looks good?
I think what Sunny is trying to say is that yes components have been upgraded but to speeds that aren't going to make a huge impact to running the current version of ios or any third party apps running much faster than the components in the iphone 7. Obviously the iphone 8 is more future proof than the iphone 7 so unless you are someone that keeps their iphone 3-4 years and owns at least a 6S or lower you are probably just as well off keeping your iphone 7 and probably even iphone 6S one more year which I think makes sense. If you are going to upgrade from a 6S or 7 you should probably pony up for the iphone X. As someone upgrading from a cough cough 5S I have a trickier decision. Get a good deal on a 7? iPhone 8? (probably not) iPhone X? probably I mean that screen, even with its weird notches.
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Glass back could also stop it being as slippery as a bar of soap which could be reason enough for some to upgrade
"Powerful devices with great cameras"
same can be said about 7 and 7 Plus..very generic.
bring on the X.
Until then.
same can be said about 7 and 7 Plus..very generic.
bring on the X.
Until then.
I'm wondering why Apple didn't rotate the dual camera lens 90 degrees on the 8 Plus, like it will be on the X (the dual lens orientation now matches the device orientation). AFAIK, rotating helps better facilitate AVR, yet isn't AVR enabled on all the A11 Bionic model iPhones?
Still has a protruding camera, so I'd use a cover anyway, but I prefer glass over aluminium
Any chance the X keyboard has a row of number keys? I really wish the Iphone had a row of number keys.. iOS 11 swipe keys are pretty good though
The Yields in the iPhone X display are apparently so low due to the Notch. without the notch, with a standard shape AMOLED panel, the yields would be far higher and would be more likely to meet demand. I believe I read a rumour earlier on here that said Samsung is only getting around a 60% yield on the iPhoneX, which is significantly lower than the estimate 80%+ for Samsung's normal AMOLED panels.
8+ has a dual camera, but is wider than iPhone 8 with a single camera.
It may also be possibile that they could face problems putting the dual camera horizontally since there is less space there. We'll find out more after the first teardown.
It is also possible they're planning to release something AR related in the future and they started to design the X model with a vertical camera.
Uhm that would be nice, I'll have a look at the simulator and see how the keyboard looks like.